everything | (noun) all things that are of importance to a person | - |
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expiry | (noun) the event of dying or departure from life | Synonyms: death, decease |
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(noun) a coming to an end of a contract period | Synonyms: expiration, termination |
eyry | (noun) any habitation at a high altitude | Synonyms: aerie, aery, eyrie |
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(noun) the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle) | Synonyms: aerie, aery, eyrie |
factory | (noun) a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing | Synonyms: manufactory, manufacturing plant, mill |
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faery | (noun) the enchanted realm of fairies | Synonyms: faerie, fairyland |
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(noun) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers | Synonyms: faerie, fairy, fay, sprite |
fairy | (noun) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers | Synonyms: faerie, faery, fay, sprite |
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(noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
fairyland | (noun) something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality) | Synonyms: fantasy world, phantasy world |
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(noun) the enchanted realm of fairies | Synonyms: faerie, faery |
fairytale | (noun) a story about fairies; told to amuse children | Synonyms: fairy story, fairy tale |
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(noun) an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse | Synonyms: cock-and-bull story, fairy story, fairy tale, song and dance |
fakery | (noun) the act of faking (or the product of faking) | - |
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falconry | (noun) the art of training falcons to hunt and return | - |
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farkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: sparkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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femtochemistry | (noun) the branch of chemistry that studies elementary (often very fast) chemical reactions as they occur; the experimental methods are often based on the use of femtosecond laser pulses | - |
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ferry | (noun) transport by boat or aircraft | Synonyms: ferrying |
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(noun) a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule | Synonyms: ferryboat |
ferryboat | (noun) a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule | Synonyms: ferry |
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ferrying | (noun) transport by boat or aircraft | Synonyms: ferry |
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ferryman | (noun) a man who operates a ferry | - |
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feryaz | (noun) a broad kaftan with long sleeves, worn by the nobility in Russia in the 16th and 17th centuries. | - |
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festoonery | (noun) flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration | Synonyms: festoon |
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fetometry | (noun) measurement of a fetus (especially the diameter of the head) | Synonyms: foetometry |
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feudatory | (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: liege, liege subject, liegeman, vassal |
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fiduciary | (noun) a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary | - |
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finery | (noun) elaborate or showy attire and accessories | - |
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fishery | (noun) a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold | Synonyms: piscary |
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flattery | (noun) excessive or insincere praise | - |
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flummery | (noun) meaningless ceremonies and flattery | Synonyms: mummery |
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(noun) a bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal | - |
flurry | (noun) a rapid active commotion | Synonyms: ado, bustle, fuss, hustle, stir |
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(noun) a light brief snowfall and gust of wind (or something resembling that) | Synonyms: snow flurry |
foetometry | (noun) measurement of a fetus (especially the diameter of the head) | Synonyms: fetometry |
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foolery | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, indulgence, lunacy, tomfoolery |
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forestry | (noun) the science of planting and caring for forests and the management of growing timber | - |
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forgery | (noun) criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud | - |
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(noun) a copy that is represented as the original | Synonyms: counterfeit |
formicary | (noun) a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest | Synonyms: anthill |
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formulary | (noun) (pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation | Synonyms: pharmacopeia |
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foryml | (noun) (chemistry) the negative univalent acyl radical CHO that occurs in aldehydes | - |
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foundry | (noun) factory where metal castings are produced | Synonyms: metalworks |
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foxberry | (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, lingberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
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freemasonry | (noun) a natural or instinctive fellowship between people of similar interests | - |
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friary | (noun) a monastery of friars | - |
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frippery | (noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: bagatelle, fluff, frivolity |
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fritillary | (noun) butterfly with brownish wings marked with black and silver | - |
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(noun) any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria having nodding variously colored flowers | Synonyms: checkered lily |
fry | (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
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fryer | (noun) A kitchen appliance for deep frying; its size depends on intended use. | Synonyms: deep fat fryer, deep fryer, frier, fryolator |
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(noun) flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying | Synonyms: frier, pullet |
frying | (noun) cooking in fat or oil in a pan or griddle | Synonyms: sauteing |
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fryolator | (noun) A kitchen appliance for deep frying; its size depends on intended use. | Synonyms: deep fat fryer, deep fryer, frier, fryer |
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frypan | (noun) a pan used for frying foods | Synonyms: frying pan, skillet |
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fumitory | (noun) delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: Fumaria officinalis, fumeroot, fumewort |
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functionary | (noun) a worker who holds or is invested with an office | Synonyms: official |
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fury | (noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, vehemence, violence, wildness |
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(noun) a feeling of intense anger | Synonyms: madness, rage |
(noun) state of violent mental agitation | Synonyms: craze, delirium, frenzy, hysteria |
gadgetry | (noun) appliances collectively | - |
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gallantry | (noun) polite attentiveness to women | - |
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(noun) the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle) | Synonyms: heroism, valiance, valiancy, valor, valorousness, valour |
(noun) courtesy towards women | Synonyms: chivalry, politesse |
gallberry | (noun) evergreen holly of eastern North America with oblong leathery leaves and small black berries | Synonyms: evergreen winterberry, gall-berry, Ilex glabra, inkberry |
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gallery | (noun) narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade | - |
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(noun) a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns) | - |
(noun) a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose | - |
(noun) a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited | Synonyms: art gallery, picture gallery |
(noun) a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) | Synonyms: veranda, verandah |
(noun) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine | Synonyms: drift, heading |
(noun) spectators at a golf or tennis match | - |
gallimaufry | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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gantry | (noun) a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc. | Synonyms: gauntry |
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gaudery | (noun) cheap or pretentious or vain display | Synonyms: pomp |
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gauntry | (noun) a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc. | Synonyms: gantry |
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gendarmery | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmerie |
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gentry | (noun) the most powerful members of a society | Synonyms: aristocracy |
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geochemistry | (noun) the chemistry of the earth's crust | - |
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geometry | (noun) the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces | - |
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gerrymander | (noun) an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage) | - |
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gharry | (noun) a horse-drawn carriage in India | - |
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gimcrackery | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery |
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gimmickry | (noun) a collection of gimmicks | - |
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glory | (noun) brilliant radiant beauty | Synonyms: resplendence, resplendency |
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(noun) an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint | Synonyms: aura, aureole, gloriole, halo, nimbus |
(noun) a state of high honor | Synonyms: glorification |
glossary | (noun) an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field | Synonyms: gloss |
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glyceryl | (noun) a trivalent radical derived from glycerol by removing the three hydroxyl radicals | - |
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goldsmithery | (noun) the work, art, or trade of a one who makes or deals in articles of gold. | - |
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gooseberry | (noun) currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies | - |
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(noun) spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries | Synonyms: gooseberry bush, Ribes grossularia, Ribes uva-crispa |
grammatolatry | (noun) the worship of words | Synonyms: verbolatry, word-worship |
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granary | (noun) a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed | Synonyms: garner |
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gravimetry | (noun) the measurement of specific gravity | Synonyms: hydrometry |
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greenery | (noun) green foliage | Synonyms: verdure |
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greengrocery | (noun) a greengrocer's grocery store | - |
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(noun) groceries sold by a greengrocer | - |
grocery | (noun) a marketplace where groceries are sold | Synonyms: food market, grocery store, market |
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(noun) (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer | Synonyms: foodstuff |
grotesquery | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesqueness, grotesquerie |
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groundberry | (noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen |
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(noun) small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia | Synonyms: Astroloma humifusum, cranberry heath, ground-berry, native cranberry, Styphelia humifusum |
grouseberry | (noun) shrub of northwestern North America bearing red berries | Synonyms: grouse-berry, grouse whortleberry, Vaccinium scoparium |
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gryphon | (noun) winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion | Synonyms: griffin, griffon |
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gunnery | (noun) guns collectively | - |
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gynaeolatry | (noun) the worship of women | Synonyms: gyneolatry, woman-worship |
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gyneolatry | (noun) the worship of women | Synonyms: gynaeolatry, woman-worship |
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haberdashery | (noun) the drygoods sold by a haberdasher | Synonyms: men's furnishings |
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(noun) a store where men's clothes are sold | Synonyms: clothing store, haberdashery store, mens store |
hackberry | (noun) small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States | Synonyms: sugarberry |
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(noun) any of various trees of the genus Celtis having inconspicuous flowers and small berrylike fruits | Synonyms: nettle tree |
hagberry | (noun) small cherry much liked by birds | - |
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hagiolatry | (noun) the worship of saints | Synonyms: hierolatry |
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hamadryad | (noun) large cobra of southeastern Asia and the East Indies; the largest venomous snake; sometimes placed in genus Naja | Synonyms: king cobra, Naja hannah, Ophiophagus hannah |
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(noun) the nymph or spirit of a particular tree | - |
harlotry | (noun) offering sexual intercourse for pay | Synonyms: prostitution, whoredom |
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hatchery | (noun) a place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions (especially fish eggs) | - |
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heliolatry | (noun) the worship of the sun | Synonyms: sun-worship |
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henry | (noun) a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second | Synonyms: H |
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heraldry | (noun) emblem indicating the right of a person to bear arms | - |
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(noun) the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies | - |
heronry | (noun) a breeding ground for herons; a heron rookery | - |
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heterospory | (noun) the development of both microspores and megaspores | - |
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hickory | (noun) American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts | Synonyms: hickory tree |
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(noun) valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees | - |
hierolatry | (noun) the worship of saints | Synonyms: hagiolatry |
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history | (noun) the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings | - |
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(noun) all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge | - |
(noun) a record or narrative description of past events | Synonyms: account, chronicle, story |
(noun) the aggregate of past events | - |
(noun) the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future | - |
homospory | (noun) the development of a single kind of asexual spores | - |
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hosiery | (noun) socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear) | Synonyms: hose |
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hostelry | (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: auberge, hostel, inn, lodge |
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housewifery | (noun) the work of a housewife | - |
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