| assortment | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
| averting | (noun) the act of preventing something from occurring | - |
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| (noun) the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away | Synonyms: aversion |
| awlwort | (noun) small aquatic plant having tufted awl-shaped leaves in a basal rosette and minute white flowers; circumboreal | Synonyms: Subularia aquatica |
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| barrenwort | (noun) slow-growing creeping plant with semi-evergreen leaves on erect wiry stems; used as ground cover | Synonyms: bishop's hat, Epimedium grandiflorum |
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| bartender | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, barkeeper, mixologist |
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| barter | (noun) an equal exchange | Synonyms: swap, swop, trade |
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| barterer | (noun) a trader who exchanges goods and not money | - |
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| bartlett | (noun) juicy yellow pear | Synonyms: bartlett pear |
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| bartonia | (noun) annual grown especially for its fragrant golden nocturnal flowers | Synonyms: Mentzelia lindleyi |
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| bellwort | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Uvularia having yellowish drooping bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: merry bells, wild oats |
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| berth | (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: office, place, position, post, situation |
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| (noun) a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers | Synonyms: built in bed, bunk |
| (noun) a place where a craft can be made fast | Synonyms: moorage, mooring, slip |
| bigheartedness | (noun) the quality of being kind and generous | - |
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| birth | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: nascence, nascency, nativity |
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| (noun) a baby born; an offspring | - |
| (noun) the process of giving birth | Synonyms: birthing, giving birth, parturition |
| (noun) the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents | Synonyms: parentage |
| (noun) the time when something begins (especially life) | - |
| birthday | (noun) an anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the celebration of it) | - |
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| (noun) the date on which a person was born | Synonyms: natal day |
| birthing | (noun) the process of giving birth | Synonyms: birth, giving birth, parturition |
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| birthmark | (noun) a blemish on the skin that is formed before birth | Synonyms: nevus |
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| birthplace | (noun) the place where someone was born | Synonyms: place of birth |
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| (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience |
| birthrate | (noun) the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year | Synonyms: birth rate, fertility, fertility rate, natality |
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| birthright | (noun) a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth | - |
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| (noun) an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) | Synonyms: patrimony |
| 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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| birthwort | (noun) creeping plant having curving flowers thought to resemble fetuses; native to Europe; naturalized Great Britain and eastern North America | Synonyms: Aristolochia clematitis |
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| bitartrate | (noun) an acid tartrate; a hydrogen tartrate | - |
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| blackheart | (noun) heart cherry with dark flesh and skin | Synonyms: blackheart cherry |
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| (noun) any of various diseases in which the central tissues blacken | - |
| bladderwort | (noun) any of numerous aquatic carnivorous plants of the genus Utricularia some of whose leaves are modified as small urn-shaped bladders that trap minute aquatic animals | - |
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| blameworthiness | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: culpability, culpableness |
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| bloodwort | (noun) any of various plants of the family Haemodoraceae; roots contain a deep red coloring matter | - |
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| bortsch | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borsh, borshch, borsht |
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| bourtree | (noun) a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies | Synonyms: black elder, common elder, elderberry, European elder, Sambucus nigra |
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| boxershorts | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, drawers, shorts, underdrawers |
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| braggart | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, boaster, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
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| brokenheartedness | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: grief, heartache, heartbreak |
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| burthen | (noun) a variant of `burden' | - |
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| butterwort | (noun) any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects | - |
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| carport | (noun) garage for one or two cars consisting of a flat roof supported on poles | Synonyms: car port |
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| cart | (noun) a heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal | - |
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| (noun) wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels | Synonyms: go-cart, handcart, pushcart |
| cartage | (noun) the work of taking something away in a cart or truck and disposing of it | Synonyms: carting |
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| carte | (noun) a list of dishes available at a restaurant | Synonyms: bill of fare, card, carte du jour, menu |
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| cartel | (noun) a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service | Synonyms: combine, corporate trust, trust |
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| cartelization | (noun) the process of cartelizing, usually occuring in oligopolistic industry. | - |
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| carter | (noun) someone whose work is driving carts | - |
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| carthorse | (noun) draft horse kept for pulling carts | Synonyms: cart horse, drayhorse |
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| cartilage | (noun) tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults | Synonyms: gristle |
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| cartilaginification | (noun) abnormal formation of cartilage from other tissues; observed in some Asians | - |
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| carting | (noun) the work of taking something away in a cart or truck and disposing of it | Synonyms: cartage |
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| cartload | (noun) the quantity that a cart holds | - |
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| cartographer | (noun) a person who makes maps | Synonyms: map maker |
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| cartography | (noun) the making of maps and charts | Synonyms: mapmaking |
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| carton | (noun) a box made of cardboard; opens by flaps on top | - |
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| (noun) the quantity contained in a carton | Synonyms: cartonful |
| cartonful | (noun) the quantity contained in a carton | Synonyms: carton |
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| cartoon | (noun) a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: sketch |
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| (noun) a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence | Synonyms: animated cartoon, toon |
| cartoonist | (noun) a person who draws cartoons | - |
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| cartouch | (noun) a cartridge (usually with paper casing) | Synonyms: cartouche |
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| cartouche | (noun) a cartridge (usually with paper casing) | Synonyms: cartouch |
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| cartridge | (noun) ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun | - |
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| (noun) an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable | Synonyms: pickup |
| (noun) a module designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment | - |
| (noun) a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required | Synonyms: magazine |
| cartroad | (noun) any road or path affording passage especially a rough one | Synonyms: cart track, track |
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| cartwheel | (noun) acrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheel | - |
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| (noun) a wheel that has wooden spokes and a metal rim | - |
| (noun) a dollar made of silver | Synonyms: silver dollar |
| cartwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons | - |
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| cathartic | (noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: aperient, physic, purgative |
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| cathartid | (noun) large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures | Synonyms: New World vulture |
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| cert | (noun) an absolute certainty | - |
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| certainty | (noun) something that is certain | Synonyms: foregone conclusion, sure thing |
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| (noun) the state of being certain | - |
| certificate | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certification, credential, credentials |
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| (noun) a formal declaration that documents a fact of relevance to finance and investment; the holder has a right to receive interest or dividends | Synonyms: security |
| certification | (noun) the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on | Synonyms: enfranchisement |
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| (noun) validating the authenticity of something or someone | Synonyms: authentication |
| (noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: corroboration, documentation |
| (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, credential, credentials |
| certiorari | (noun) a common law writ issued by a superior court to one of inferior jurisdiction demanding the record of a particular case | Synonyms: writ of certiorari |
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| certitude | (noun) total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | Synonyms: cocksureness, overconfidence |
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| champerty | (noun) an unethical agreement between an attorney and client that the attorney would sue and pay the costs of the client's suit in return for a portion of the damages awarded | - |
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| chart | (noun) a map designed to assist navigation by air or sea | - |
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| (noun) a visual display of information | Synonyms: graph |
| (noun) (usually plural) a listing of best-selling recorded music | - |
| charter | (noun) a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation | - |
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| (noun) a contract to hire or lease transportation | - |
| charterhouse | (noun) a Carthusian monastery | - |
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| chartist | (noun) a stock market analyst who tries to predict market trends from graphs of recent prices of securities | Synonyms: technical analyst |
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| chartreuse | (noun) a shade of green tinged with yellow | Synonyms: Paris green, pea green, yellow green, yellowish green |
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| chert | (noun) variety of silica containing microcrystalline quartz | - |
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| childbirth | (noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: accouchement, childbearing, vaginal birth |
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| chlortetracycline | (noun) a yellow crystalline antibiotic (trade name Aureomycin) used to treat certain bacterial and rickettsial diseases | Synonyms: Aureomycin |
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| chlorthalidone | (noun) a diuretic (trade names Hygroton and Thalidone) used to control hypertension and conditions that cause edema; effective in lowering blood pressure to prevent heart attacks | Synonyms: Hygroton, Thalidone |
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| chortle | (noun) a soft partly suppressed laugh | Synonyms: chuckle |
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| cohort | (noun) a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion) | - |
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| (noun) a company of companions or supporters | - |
| (noun) a group of people having approximately the same age | Synonyms: age bracket, age group |
| coldheartedness | (noun) an absence of concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: hardheartedness, heartlessness |
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| colewort | (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: borecole, Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, kail, kale |
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| comfort | (noun) the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction | Synonyms: consolation, solace |
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| (noun) assistance, such as that provided to an enemy or to a known criminal | - |
| (noun) bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together | Synonyms: comforter, puff, quilt |
| (noun) a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment | - |
| (noun) a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain | Synonyms: comfortableness |
| (noun) a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state | Synonyms: ease |
| (noun) satisfaction or physical well-being provided by a person or thing | - |
| comfortableness | (noun) a feeling of being at ease in a relationship | - |
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| (noun) a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain | Synonyms: comfort |
| comforter | (noun) bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together | Synonyms: comfort, puff, quilt |
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| (noun) device used for an infant to suck or bite on | Synonyms: baby's dummy, pacifier, teething ring |
| (noun) a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune | Synonyms: sympathiser, sympathizer |
| (noun) a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies | Synonyms: allayer, reliever |
| comforts | (noun) things that make you comfortable and at ease | Synonyms: amenities, conveniences, creature comforts |
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| compartment | (noun) a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area | - |
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| (noun) a space into which an area is subdivided | - |
| compartmentalisation | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalization |
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| (noun) a mild state of dissociation | Synonyms: compartmentalization |
| compartmentalization | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation |
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| (noun) a mild state of dissociation | Synonyms: compartmentalisation |
| comportment | (noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: bearing, mien, presence |
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| concert | (noun) a performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging | - |
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| concertina | (noun) free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds | - |
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| (noun) coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle | - |
| concertinist | (noun) a person who plays the concertina | - |
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| concerto | (noun) a composition for orchestra and a soloist | - |
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| consort | (noun) a family of similar musical instrument playing together | Synonyms: choir |
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| (noun) the husband or wife of a reigning monarch | - |
| consortium | (noun) an association of companies for some definite purpose | Synonyms: pool, syndicate |
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| contortion | (noun) the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself) | Synonyms: deformation |
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| (noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: crookedness, torsion, tortuosity, tortuousness |
| contortionist | (noun) an acrobat able to twist into unusual positions | - |
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| convert | (noun) a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief | - |
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| convertase | (noun) any of several enzymes that convert a compound into smaller, biologically-active compounds. | - |
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| converter | (noun) a device for changing one substance or form or state into another | Synonyms: convertor |
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| convertibility | (noun) the quality of being exchangeable (especially the ability to convert a currency into gold or other currencies without restriction) | - |
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| convertible | (noun) a car that has top that can be folded or removed | - |
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| (noun) a sofa that can be converted into a bed | Synonyms: sofa bed |
| (noun) a corporate security (usually bonds or preferred stock) that can be exchanged for another form of security (usually common stock) | Synonyms: convertible security |