alumroot | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Heuchera | Synonyms: alumbloom |
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anteroom | (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: antechamber, entrance hall, foyer, hall, lobby, vestibule |
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arrowroot | (noun) white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch | Synonyms: American arrowroot, Maranta arundinaceae, obedience plant |
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(noun) canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained | Synonyms: achira, Canna edulis, Canna indica, indian shot |
(noun) a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant | - |
backroom | (noun) the meeting place of a group of leaders who make their decisions via private negotiations | - |
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ballroom | (noun) large room used mainly for dancing | Synonyms: dance hall, dance palace |
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balsamroot | (noun) a plant of the genus Balsamorhiza having downy leaves in a basal rosette and yellow flowers and long balsam-scented taproots | - |
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barroom | (noun) a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter | Synonyms: bar, ginmill, saloon, taproom |
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bathroom | (noun) a room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet | - |
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(noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: can, john, lav, lavatory, privy, toilet |
bedroom | (noun) a room used primarily for sleeping | Synonyms: bedchamber, chamber, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room |
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beetroot | (noun) round red root vegetable | Synonyms: beet |
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(noun) beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption | Synonyms: Beta vulgaris rubra |
birthroot | (noun) trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth | Synonyms: purple trillium, red trillium, Trillium erectum |
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bitterroot | (noun) showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower | Synonyms: Lewisia rediviva |
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bloodroot | (noun) perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant | Synonyms: puccoon, redroot, Sanguinaria canadensis, tetterwort |
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boardroom | (noun) a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company) | Synonyms: council chamber |
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bombproof | (noun) a chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raids | Synonyms: air-raid shelter, bomb shelter |
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breadroot | (noun) densely hairy perennial of central North America having edible tuberous roots | Synonyms: Indian breadroot, pomme blanche, pomme de prairie, Psoralea esculenta |
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briarroot | (noun) hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea | - |
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bridegroom | (noun) a man who has recently been married | Synonyms: groom |
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(noun) a man participant in his own marriage ceremony | Synonyms: groom |
brooch | (noun) a decorative pin worn by women | Synonyms: breastpin, broach |
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brood | (noun) the young of an animal cared for at one time | - |
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brooder | (noun) apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants | Synonyms: incubator |
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brooding | (noun) persistent morbid meditation on a problem | Synonyms: pensiveness |
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(noun) sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body | Synonyms: incubation |
broodmare | (noun) a female horse used for breeding | Synonyms: stud mare |
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broody | (noun) a domestic hen ready to brood | Synonyms: brood hen, broody hen, setting hen, sitter |
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brook | (noun) a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) | Synonyms: creek |
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brooklet | (noun) a small brook | - |
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brooklime | (noun) plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers | Synonyms: American brooklime, Veronica americana |
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(noun) European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers; sparsely naturalized in North America | Synonyms: European brooklime, Veronica beccabunga |
brookweed | (noun) water pimpernel of Europe to China | Synonyms: Samolus valerandii |
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(noun) American water pimpernel | Synonyms: Samolus floribundus, Samolus parviflorus |
broom | (noun) a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle | - |
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(noun) any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers | - |
(noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: Calluna vulgaris, heather, ling, Scots heather |
broomcorn | (noun) tall grasses grown for the elongated stiff-branched panicle used for brooms and brushes | Synonyms: Sorghum vulgare technicum |
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broomstick | (noun) the handle of a broom | Synonyms: broom handle |
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broomweed | (noun) annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers | Synonyms: broom-weed, Gutierrezia texana |
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buckaroo | (noun) local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California) | Synonyms: buckeroo, vaquero |
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buckeroo | (noun) local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California) | Synonyms: buckaroo, vaquero |
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cardroom | (noun) a room for gambling on card games | - |
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chatroom | (noun) a site on the internet where a number of users can communicate in real time (typically one dedicated to a particular topic) | Synonyms: chat room |
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checkroom | (noun) a room where baggage or parcels are checked | Synonyms: left-luggage office |
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cheroot | (noun) a cigar with both ends cut flat | - |
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classroom | (noun) a room in a school where lessons take place | Synonyms: schoolroom |
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cloakroom | (noun) a room where coats and other articles can be left temporarily | Synonyms: coatroom |
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(noun) a private lounge off of a legislative chamber | - |
cloveroot | (noun) hairy Eurasian plant with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: clover-root, Geum urbanum, herb bennet, wood avens |
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clubroom | (noun) a room used for the activities of a club | - |
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coatroom | (noun) a room where coats and other articles can be left temporarily | Synonyms: cloakroom |
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colicroot | (noun) any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic | Synonyms: colic root, crow corn, star grass, unicorn root |
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coralroot | (noun) European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock | Synonyms: Cardamine bulbifera, coral-root bittercress, coralwort, Dentaria bulbifera |
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costusroot | (noun) annual herb of the eastern Himalayas (Kashmir) having purple florets and a fragrant root that yields a volatile oil used in perfumery and for preserving furs | Synonyms: Saussurea costus, Saussurea lappa |
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courtroom | (noun) a room in which a law court sits | Synonyms: court |
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crinkleroot | (noun) North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots | Synonyms: Cardamine diphylla, crinkle-root, crinkle root, Dentaria diphylla, pepper root, toothwort |
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crook | (noun) a long staff with one end being hook shaped | Synonyms: shepherd's crook |
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(noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: criminal, felon, malefactor, outlaw |
(noun) a circular segment of a curve | Synonyms: bend, turn, twist |
crookback | (noun) a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine | Synonyms: humpback, hunchback |
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crookedness | (noun) having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles | - |
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(noun) the quality of being deceitful and underhanded | Synonyms: deviousness |
(noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: contortion, torsion, tortuosity, tortuousness |
crookneck | (noun) yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin | Synonyms: crookneck squash, summer crookneck |
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crooner | (noun) a singer of popular ballads | Synonyms: balladeer |
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crooning | (noun) the act of singing popular songs in a sentimental manner | - |
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(noun) singing in a soft low tone | - |
darkroom | (noun) a room in which photographs are developed | - |
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disproof | (noun) the act of determining that something is false | Synonyms: falsification, falsifying, refutal, refutation |
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(noun) any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something | Synonyms: falsification, refutation |
drool | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, slobber |
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(noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
drooler | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, driveller, slobberer |
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droop | (noun) a shape that sags | Synonyms: sag |
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feverroot | (noun) coarse weedy American perennial herb with large usually perfoliate leaves and purple or dull red flowers | Synonyms: horse gentian, tinker's root, Triostium perfoliatum, wild coffee |
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fingerroot | (noun) tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, fairy bell, finger-flower, finger-root, fingerflower |
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fireroom | (noun) (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired | Synonyms: stokehold, stokehole |
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flagroot | (noun) perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots | Synonyms: Acorus calamus, calamus, myrtle flag, sweet calamus, sweet flag |
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fumeroot | (noun) delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: Fumaria officinalis, fumewort, fumitory |
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(noun) herb of northern Europe and Asia having erect racemes of red flowers | Synonyms: Corydalis solida, fumewort |
gingerroot | (noun) pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery | Synonyms: ginger |
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greenroom | (noun) a backstage room in a theater where performers rest or have visitors | - |
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grillroom | (noun) a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill | Synonyms: grill |
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groom | (noun) a man who has recently been married | Synonyms: bridegroom |
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(noun) someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses | Synonyms: hostler, ostler, stableboy, stableman |
(noun) a man participant in his own marriage ceremony | Synonyms: bridegroom |
grooming | (noun) the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes | Synonyms: dressing |
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(noun) activity leading to skilled behavior | Synonyms: preparation, training |
groomsman | (noun) a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding | - |
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groove | (noun) a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape | Synonyms: rut |
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(noun) (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part | Synonyms: vallecula |
(noun) a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) | Synonyms: channel |
groover | (noun) a device that makes grooves by cutting or punching | - |
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grooving | (noun) the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm | Synonyms: rifling |
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guardroom | (noun) a room used by soldiers on guard | - |
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(noun) a cell in which soldiers who are prisoners are confined | - |
guestroom | (noun) a bedroom that is kept for the use of guests | - |
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headroom | (noun) the capacity of a system to reproduce loud sounds without distortion | Synonyms: dynamic headroom |
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(noun) vertical space available to allow easy passage under something | Synonyms: clearance, headway |
henroost | (noun) a roost for hens at night | - |
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homeroom | (noun) a classroom in which all students in a particular grade (or in a division of a grade) meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher who takes attendance and does other administrative business | Synonyms: home room |
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houseroom | (noun) space for accommodation in a house | - |
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kangaroo | (noun) any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail | - |
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kroon | (noun) the basic unit of money in Estonia | - |
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longroot | (noun) deep-rooted perennial of southeastern United States | Synonyms: Arenaria caroliniana, pine-barren sandwort |
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lunchroom | (noun) a restaurant (in a facility) where lunch can be purchased | - |
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macaroon | (noun) chewy cookie usually containing almond paste | - |
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manroot | (noun) tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato | Synonyms: Ipomoea fastigiata, Ipomoea panurata, man-of-the-earth, scammonyroot, wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine |
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maroon | (noun) an exploding firework used as a warning signal | - |
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(noun) a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color | - |
(noun) a person who is stranded (as on an island) | - |
microorganism | (noun) any organism of microscopic size | Synonyms: micro-organism |
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mushroom | (noun) fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi | - |
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(noun) a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb) | Synonyms: mushroom-shaped cloud, mushroom cloud |
(noun) common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool) | - |
(noun) mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.) | - |
(noun) any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium | - |
nerveroot | (noun) once common rose pink woodland orchid of eastern North America | Synonyms: Cypripedium acaule, moccasin flower |
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newsroom | (noun) a reading room (in a library or club) where newspapers and other periodicals can be read | - |
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(noun) an office in which news is processed by a newspaper or news agency or television or radio station | - |
(noun) the staff of a newspaper or the news department of a periodical | - |
octoroon | (noun) an offspring of a quadroon and a white parent; a person who is one-eighth black | - |
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orrisroot | (noun) fragrant rootstock of various irises especially Florentine iris; used in perfumes and medicines | Synonyms: orris |
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papooseroot | (noun) tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: blue cohosh, blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, squaw root, squawroot |
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paratrooper | (noun) a soldier in the paratroops | Synonyms: para |
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paratroops | (noun) infantry trained and equipped to parachute | - |
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pinkroot | (noun) a fungal disease of onions | - |
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playroom | (noun) a recreation room for noisy activities (parties or children's play etc) | Synonyms: game room, rumpus room |
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poltroon | (noun) an abject coward | Synonyms: craven, recreant |
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poltroonery | (noun) abject pusillanimity | - |
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poolroom | (noun) a room with pool tables where pool is played | - |
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