| overnighter | (noun) a small traveling bag to carry clothing and accessories for staying overnight | Synonyms: overnight bag, overnight case |
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| (noun) a guest who stays overnight | - |
| overturn | (noun) the act of upsetting something | Synonyms: turnover, upset |
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| (noun) an improbable and unexpected victory | Synonyms: upset |
| palaeornithology | (noun) the paleobiology of birds | Synonyms: paleornithology |
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| paleornithology | (noun) the paleobiology of birds | Synonyms: palaeornithology |
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| paraphernalia | (noun) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. | Synonyms: appurtenance, gear |
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| parnassia | (noun) any of various usually evergreen bog plants of the genus Parnassia having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale flower resembling a buttercup | Synonyms: grass-of-Parnassus |
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| pastern | (noun) the part between the fetlock and the hoof | Synonyms: fetter bone |
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| paternalism | (noun) the attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good | - |
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| paternity | (noun) the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing | Synonyms: authorship |
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| (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the father | Synonyms: fatherhood |
| (noun) the state of being a father | - |
| paternoster | (noun) a type of lift having a chain of open compartments that move continually in an endless loop so that (agile) passengers can step on or off at each floor | - |
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| pattern | (noun) a customary way of operation or behavior | Synonyms: practice |
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| (noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: design, figure |
| (noun) a perceptual structure | Synonyms: form, shape |
| (noun) a model considered worthy of imitation | - |
| (noun) something intended as a guide for making something else | Synonyms: blueprint, design |
| (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, formula, normal, rule |
| (noun) graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle | Synonyms: radiation diagram, radiation pattern |
| (noun) the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport | Synonyms: approach pattern, traffic pattern |
| patternmaker | (noun) someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentry or metalworking) | - |
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| peppercorn | (noun) pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground | Synonyms: pepper |
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| perniciousness | (noun) grave harmfulness or deadliness | Synonyms: toxicity |
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| pernio | (noun) inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture | Synonyms: chilblain, chilblains |
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| photojournalism | (noun) journalism that presents a story primarily through the use of pictures | - |
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| photojournalist | (noun) a journalist who presents a story primarily through the use of photographs | - |
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| pibgorn | (noun) an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone | Synonyms: hornpipe, stockhorn |
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| picornavirus | (noun) a group of single-strand RNA viruses with a protein coat | - |
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| pimpernel | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Anagallis | - |
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| (noun) European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads | Synonyms: burnet bloodwort, Poterium sanguisorba, salad burnet |
| poorness | (noun) the quality of being poorly made or maintained | - |
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| (noun) less than adequate | - |
| (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness |
| (noun) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | Synonyms: impoverishment, poverty |
| popcorn | (noun) small kernels of corn exploded by heat | - |
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| (noun) corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat | Synonyms: Zea mays everta |
| porn | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: erotica, porno, pornography, smut |
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| porno | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: erotica, porn, pornography, smut |
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| pornographer | (noun) someone who presents shows or sells writing or pictures that are sexually explicit in violation of the community mores | Synonyms: porn merchant |
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| pornography | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: erotica, porn, porno, smut |
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| postern | (noun) a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle | - |
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| postmodernism | (noun) genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism | - |
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| pronghorn | (noun) fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns | Synonyms: American antelope, Antilocapra americana, prongbuck, pronghorn antelope |
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| properness | (noun) correct or appropriate behavior | Synonyms: correctitude, propriety |
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| pumpernickel | (noun) bread made of coarse rye flour | Synonyms: black bread |
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| quartern | (noun) one of four equal parts | Synonyms: fourth, fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, quarter, twenty-five percent |
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| quatern | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
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| quaternary | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
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| quaternion | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternity, tetrad |
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| quaternity | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, tetrad |
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| queerness | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gayness, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality |
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| (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, oddity, quirk, quirkiness |
| quern | (noun) a primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand | - |
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| reincarnation | (noun) the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that a person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of Hell) depending on the person's own actions | - |
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| (noun) a second or new birth | Synonyms: rebirth, renascence |
| (noun) embodiment in a new form (especially the reappearance or a person in another form) | - |
| reincarnationism | (noun) a doctrine that on the death of the body the soul migrates to or is born again in another body | - |
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| return | (noun) the act of going back to a prior location | - |
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| (noun) a coming to or returning home | Synonyms: homecoming |
| (noun) getting something back again | Synonyms: regaining, restitution, restoration |
| (noun) a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player | - |
| (noun) (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble | - |
| (noun) a reciprocal group action | Synonyms: getting even, paying back |
| (noun) the act of someone appearing again | Synonyms: reappearance |
| (noun) the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed | Synonyms: return key |
| (noun) document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability | Synonyms: income tax return, tax return |
| (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, rejoinder, replication, retort, riposte |
| (noun) happening again (especially at regular intervals) | Synonyms: recurrence |
| (noun) the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction | Synonyms: coming back |
| (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, take, takings, yield |
| rubberneck | (noun) a person who stares inquisitively | Synonyms: rubbernecker |
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| (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: excursionist, sightseer, tripper |
| rubbernecker | (noun) a person who stares inquisitively | Synonyms: rubberneck |
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| saturnalia | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot |
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| saturniid | (noun) large brightly colored and usually tropical moth; larvae spin silken cocoons | Synonyms: saturniid moth |
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| saturnism | (noun) toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system | Synonyms: lead poisoning, plumbism |
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| saxhorn | (noun) any of a family of brass wind instruments that resemble a bugle with valves | - |
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| scorn | (noun) open disrespect for a person or thing | Synonyms: contempt |
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| (noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: contempt, despite, disdain |
| scorner | (noun) a person who expresses contempt by remarks or facial expression | Synonyms: sneerer |
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| scuppernong | (noun) amber-green muscadine grape of southeastern United States | - |
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| secernment | (noun) the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished | Synonyms: discrimination |
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| (noun) the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance | Synonyms: secretion |
| sempiternity | (noun) the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless) | Synonyms: perpetuity |
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| shoehorn | (noun) a device used for easing the foot into a shoe | - |
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| shorthorn | (noun) English breed of short-horned cattle | Synonyms: Durham |
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| sideburn | (noun) facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off) | Synonyms: burnside, mutton chop, side-whiskers |
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| slattern | (noun) a dirty untidy woman | Synonyms: slovenly woman, slut, trollop |
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| (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, street girl, streetwalker |
| slatternliness | (noun) in the manner of a slattern | Synonyms: sluttishness |
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| slenderness | (noun) the quality of being slight or inadequate | - |
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| (noun) the property of an attractively thin person | Synonyms: slightness, slimness |
| (noun) relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width | Synonyms: tenuity, thinness |
| soberness | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, gravity, sobriety, somberness, sombreness |
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| (noun) the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol | Synonyms: sobriety |
| sojourn | (noun) a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest) | Synonyms: visit |
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| sojourner | (noun) a temporary resident | - |
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| somberness | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, gravity, soberness, sobriety, sombreness |
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| (noun) a feeling of melancholy apprehension | Synonyms: gloom, gloominess, sombreness |
| (noun) a state of partial or total darkness | Synonyms: gloom, sombreness |
| sourness | (noun) the property of being acidic | Synonyms: acidity, sour |
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| (noun) a sullen moody resentful disposition | Synonyms: moroseness, sulkiness, sullenness |
| (noun) the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: sour, tartness |
| southernism | (noun) an attitude characteristic of Southerners (especially in the US) | - |
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| (noun) a locution or pronunciation peculiar to the southern United States | - |
| southernness | (noun) the property of being to the south | - |
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| southernwood | (noun) shrubby European wormwood naturalized in North America; sometimes used in brewing beer | Synonyms: Artemisia abrotanum |
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| spurner | (noun) a person who rejects (someone or something) with contempt | - |
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| stern | (noun) the rear part of a ship | Synonyms: after part, poop, quarter, tail |
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| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| sternness | (noun) uncompromising resolution | Synonyms: strictness |
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| (noun) the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding | - |
| sternocleidomastoid | (noun) one of two thick muscles running from the sternum and clavicle to the mastoid and occipital bone; turns head obliquely to the opposite side; when acting together they flex the neck and extend the head | Synonyms: musculus sternocleidomastoideus, sternocleido mastoideus, sternocleidomastoid muscle |
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| sternpost | (noun) (nautical) the principal upright timber at the stern of a vessel | - |
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| sternum | (noun) the flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs | Synonyms: breastbone |
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| sternutation | (noun) a symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose | Synonyms: sneeze, sneezing |
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| sternutator | (noun) a chemical substance that causes sneezing and coughing and crying | Synonyms: sternutatory |
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| sternutatory | (noun) a chemical substance that causes sneezing and coughing and crying | Synonyms: sternutator |
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| sternwheeler | (noun) a paddle steamer having the paddle wheel in the stern | - |
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| stinkhorn | (noun) any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales | Synonyms: carrion fungus |
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| stockhorn | (noun) an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone | Synonyms: hornpipe, pibgorn |
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| streptodornase | (noun) an enzyme produced by some hemolytic strains of streptococcus that dissolves fibrinous secretions from infections; used medicinally (often in combination with streptokinase) | - |
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| stubbornness | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: mulishness, obstinacy, obstinance |
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| (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinacy, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will |
| subaltern | (noun) a British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain | - |
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| subornation | (noun) underhandedly or improperly inducing someone to do something improper or unlawful | - |
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| (noun) perjured testimony that someone was persuaded to give | - |
| suborner | (noun) someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act | Synonyms: briber |
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| sunburn | (noun) redness of the skin caused by exposure to the rays of the sun | Synonyms: erythema solare |
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| supernatant | (noun) the clear liquid that lies above a sediment or precipitate | - |
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| supernatural | (noun) supernatural forces and events and beings collectively | Synonyms: occult |
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| supernaturalism | (noun) the quality of being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces | Synonyms: supernaturalness |
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| (noun) a belief in forces beyond ordinary human understanding | - |
| supernaturalness | (noun) the quality of being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces | Synonyms: supernaturalism |
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| supernova | (noun) a star that explodes and becomes extremely luminous in the process | - |
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| supernumerary | (noun) a minor actor in crowd scenes | Synonyms: extra, spear carrier |
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| (noun) a person serving no apparent function | - |
| surname | (noun) the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) | Synonyms: cognomen, family name, last name |
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| tabernacle | (noun) (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation | Synonyms: synagogue, temple |
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| taciturnity | (noun) the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary | Synonyms: reserve, reticence |
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| tarn | (noun) a mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers) | - |
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| tarnish | (noun) discoloration of metal surface caused by oxidation | - |
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| tavern | (noun) a building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks | Synonyms: tap house |
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| tenderness | (noun) a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless) | Synonyms: softheartedness |
| (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, warmheartedness, warmness |
| (noun) warm compassionate feelings | Synonyms: tenderheartedness |
| (noun) a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched) | Synonyms: rawness, soreness |
| tern | (noun) small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail | - |
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| ternary | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
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| ternion | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
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