| dairying | (noun) the business of a dairy | Synonyms: dairy farming |
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| dairymaid | (noun) a woman who works in a dairy | Synonyms: milkmaid |
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| dairyman | (noun) the owner or manager of a dairy | Synonyms: dairy farmer |
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| (noun) a man who works in a dairy | - |
| dangleberry | (noun) huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit | Synonyms: dangle-berry, Gaylussacia frondosa |
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| daredevilry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredeviltry |
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| daredeviltry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredevilry |
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| deanery | (noun) the position or office of a dean | Synonyms: deanship |
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| (noun) the official residence of a dean | - |
| deary | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
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| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| debauchery | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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| decennary | (noun) a period of 10 years | Synonyms: decade, decennium |
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| decryption | (noun) the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text | Synonyms: decipherment, decoding |
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| decumary | (noun) woody climber of southeastern United States having white flowers in compound terminal clusters | Synonyms: Decumaria barbara, Decumaria barbata |
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| deerberry | (noun) small branching blueberry common in marshy areas of the eastern United States having greenish or yellowish unpalatable berries reputedly eaten by deer | Synonyms: squaw huckleberry, Vaccinium stamineum |
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| delivery | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: deliverance, rescue, saving |
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| (noun) the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another | Synonyms: legal transfer, livery |
| (noun) the act of delivering a child | Synonyms: obstetrical delivery |
| (noun) the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it | Synonyms: pitch |
| (noun) the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail) | Synonyms: bringing |
| (noun) your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally | Synonyms: manner of speaking, speech |
| (noun) the event of giving birth | - |
| deliveryman | (noun) someone employed to make deliveries | Synonyms: deliverer, delivery boy |
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| demagoguery | (noun) impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace | Synonyms: demagogy |
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| demonolatry | (noun) the acts or rites of worshiping devils | Synonyms: devil-worship, diabolatry |
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| densitometry | (noun) measuring the optical density of a substance by shining light on it and measuring its transmission | - |
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| dentistry | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the anatomy and development and diseases of the teeth | Synonyms: dental medicine, odontology |
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| depilatory | (noun) a cosmetic for temporary removal of undesired hair | Synonyms: depilator, epilator |
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| (noun) a chemical (usually a sulfide) used to remove hair or wool or bristles from hides | - |
| depositary | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depository, repository |
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| depository | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depositary, repository |
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| devilry | (noun) wicked and cruel behavior | Synonyms: deviltry |
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| (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
| deviltry | (noun) wicked and cruel behavior | Synonyms: devilry |
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| (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
| dewberry | (noun) blackberry-like fruits of any of several trailing blackberry bushes | - |
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| (noun) any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America | Synonyms: dewberry bush, running blackberry |
| diabolatry | (noun) the acts or rites of worshiping devils | Synonyms: demonolatry, devil-worship |
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| diary | (noun) a personal journal (as a physical object) | - |
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| (noun) a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations | Synonyms: journal |
| dictionary | (noun) a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them | Synonyms: lexicon |
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| dietary | (noun) a regulated daily food allowance | - |
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| dignitary | (noun) an important or influential (and often overbearing) person | Synonyms: high-up, high muckamuck, panjandrum, very important person, VIP |
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| directory | (noun) an alphabetical list of names and addresses | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk) | - |
| discovery | (noun) the act of discovering something | Synonyms: find, uncovering |
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| (noun) a productive insight | Synonyms: breakthrough, find |
| (noun) something that is discovered | - |
| (noun) (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case | - |
| dispensary | (noun) clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed | - |
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| dissymmetry | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: disproportion, imbalance |
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| distillery | (noun) a plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation | Synonyms: still |
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| distributary | (noun) a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it | - |
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| documentary | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: docudrama, documentary film, infotainment |
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| dooryard | (noun) a yard outside the front or rear door of a house | - |
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| dormitory | (noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students | Synonyms: dorm, hall, residence hall, student residence |
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| (noun) a large sleeping room containing several beds | Synonyms: dorm room, dormitory room |
| dory | (noun) marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters | - |
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| (noun) pike-like freshwater perches | Synonyms: jack salmon, Stizostedion vitreum, walleye, walleyed pike |
| (noun) a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled | Synonyms: dinghy, rowboat |
| dosimetry | (noun) measuring the dose of radiation emitted by a radioactive source | - |
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| dowery | (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dower, dowry, portion |
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| dowry | (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dower, dowery, portion |
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| drapery | (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: curtain, drape, mantle, pall |
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| (noun) cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds | - |
| drollery | (noun) a quaint and amusing jest | Synonyms: waggery |
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| (noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: clowning, comedy, funniness |
| dromedary | (noun) one-humped camel of the hot deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia | Synonyms: Arabian camel, Camelus dromedarius |
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| drudgery | (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: donkeywork, grind, plodding |
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| dry | (noun) a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: prohibitionist |
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| dryad | (noun) a deity or nymph of the woods | Synonyms: wood nymph |
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| drydock | (noun) a large dock from which water can be pumped out; used for building ships or for repairing a ship below its waterline | Synonyms: dry dock, graving dock |
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| dryer | (noun) an appliance that removes moisture | Synonyms: drier |
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| drygoods | (noun) textiles or clothing and related merchandise | Synonyms: soft goods |
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| dryness | (noun) objectivity and detachment | Synonyms: dispassion, dispassionateness |
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| (noun) moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or other drugs | Synonyms: sobriety |
| (noun) the condition of not containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water) | Synonyms: waterlessness, xerotes |
| dryopithecine | (noun) considered a possible ancestor to both anthropoid apes and humans | - |
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| drypis | (noun) spiny-leaved perennial herb of southern Europe having terminal clusters of small flowers | - |
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| drywall | (noun) a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses | Synonyms: dry wall, wallboard |
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| dupery | (noun) something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage | Synonyms: fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, put-on |
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| dysentery | (noun) an infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea | - |
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| eatery | (noun) a building where people go to eat | Synonyms: eating house, eating place, restaurant |
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| effrontery | (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: assumption, presumption, presumptuousness |
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| elderberry | (noun) berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies | - |
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| (noun) a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies | Synonyms: black elder, bourtree, common elder, European elder, Sambucus nigra |
| electrocautery | (noun) application of a needle heated by an electric current to destroy tissue (as to remove warts) | - |
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| electrochemistry | (noun) branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of electricity and the production of electricity by chemical reactions | - |
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| electrosurgery | (noun) surgery performed with electrical devices (as in electrocautery) | - |
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| embroidery | (noun) decorative needlework | Synonyms: fancywork |
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| (noun) elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail | Synonyms: embellishment |
| embryo | (noun) an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life | Synonyms: conceptus, fertilized egg |
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| (noun) (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium | - |
| embryologist | (noun) a physician who specializes in embryology | - |
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| embryology | (noun) the branch of biology that studies the formation and early development of living organisms | - |
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| emery | (noun) a hard grey-black mineral consisting of corundum and either hematite or magnetite; used as an abrasive (especially as a coating on paper) | - |
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| emissary | (noun) someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else | Synonyms: envoy |
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| encryption | (noun) the activity of converting data or information into code | Synonyms: encoding |
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| enginery | (noun) machinery consisting of engines collectively | - |
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| enquiry | (noun) a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest | Synonyms: inquiry |
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| (noun) a search for knowledge | Synonyms: inquiry, research |
| (noun) an instance of questioning | Synonyms: inquiry, interrogation, query, question |
| entry | (noun) the act of entering | Synonyms: entering, entrance, incoming, ingress |
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| (noun) the act of beginning something new | Synonyms: debut, first appearance, introduction, launching, unveiling |
| (noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entrance, entranceway, entree, entryway |
| (noun) something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition) | Synonyms: submission |
| (noun) an item inserted in a written record | - |
| (noun) a written record of a commercial transaction | Synonyms: accounting entry, ledger entry |
| entryphone | (noun) An intercom system which enables someone, without opening the door, to converse with the person who has rung the doorbell. | - |
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| entryway | (noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entrance, entranceway, entree, entry |
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| equerry | (noun) an official charged with the care of the horses of princes or nobles | - |
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| (noun) a personal attendant of the British royal family | - |
| eryngo | (noun) any plant of the genus Eryngium | Synonyms: eringo |
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| erysipelas | (noun) an acute streptococcal infection characterized by deep-red inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes | - |
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| erythema | (noun) abnormal redness of the skin resulting from dilation of blood vessels (as in sunburn or inflammation) | - |
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| erythrina | (noun) any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds; cultivated as an ornamental | Synonyms: coral tree |
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| erythrite | (noun) a reddish mineral consisting of hydrated cobalt arsenate in monoclinic crystalline form and used in coloring glass; usually found in veins bearing cobalt and arsenic | Synonyms: cobalt bloom |
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| erythroblast | (noun) a nucleated cell in bone marrow from which red blood cells develop | - |
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| erythroblastosis | (noun) a blood disease characterized by the abnormal presence of erythroblasts in the blood | - |
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| erythrocyte | (noun) a mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues; a biconcave disc that has no nucleus | Synonyms: RBC, red blood cell |
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| erythrocytolysin | (noun) any substance that can cause lysis (destruction) of erythrocytes (red blood cells) and the release of their hemoglobin | Synonyms: erythrolysin, haemolysin, hemolysin |
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| erythroderma | (noun) any skin disorder involving abnormal redness | - |
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| erythrolysin | (noun) any substance that can cause lysis (destruction) of erythrocytes (red blood cells) and the release of their hemoglobin | Synonyms: erythrocytolysin, haemolysin, hemolysin |
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| erythromycin | (noun) an antibiotic (trade name Erythrocin or E-Mycin or Ethril or Ilosone or Pediamycin) obtained from the actinomycete Streptomyces erythreus; effective against many Gram-positive bacteria and some Gram-negative | Synonyms: E-Mycin, Erythrocin, Ethril, Ilosone, Pediamycin |
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| erythropoiesis | (noun) the process of producing red blood cells by the stem cells in the bone marrow | - |
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| erythropoietin | (noun) a glycoprotein secreted by the kidneys that stimulates the production of red blood cells | - |
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| estuary | (noun) the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix | - |
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| eucaryote | (noun) an organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria; i.e. an organism with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei in its cells | Synonyms: eukaryote |
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| eukaryote | (noun) an organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria; i.e. an organism with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei in its cells | Synonyms: eucaryote |
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| euphory | (noun) a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation | Synonyms: euphoria |
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| eurypterid | (noun) large extinct scorpion-like arthropod considered related to horseshoe crabs | - |
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| eurythmics | (noun) the interpretation in harmonious bodily movements of the rhythm of musical compositions; used to teach musical understanding | Synonyms: eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmy |
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| eurythmy | (noun) the interpretation in harmonious bodily movements of the rhythm of musical compositions; used to teach musical understanding | Synonyms: eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmics |
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| everydayness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonness, commonplaceness |
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| everyman | (noun) the ordinary person | - |
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