besieger | (noun) an enemy who lays siege to your position | - |
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(noun) an energetic petitioner | - |
besieging | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: beleaguering, military blockade, siege |
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booboisie | (noun) class consisting of all those who are considered boobs | - |
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bosie | (noun) a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way | Synonyms: bosie ball, googly, wrong 'un |
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bourgeoisie | (noun) the social class between the lower and upper classes | Synonyms: middle class |
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brasier | (noun) large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times | Synonyms: brazier |
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brassie | (noun) (formerly) a golfing wood with a face more elevated than a driver but less than a spoon | - |
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brassiere | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bandeau, bra |
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cassie | (noun) tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery | Synonyms: Acacia farnesiana, flame tree, huisache, mimosa bush, scented wattle, sweet acacia, sweet wattle |
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crosier | (noun) a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office | Synonyms: crozier |
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cuirassier | (noun) a cavalryman equipped with a cuirass | - |
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dachsie | (noun) small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows | Synonyms: badger dog, dachshund |
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dassie | (noun) any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes | Synonyms: coney, cony, das, hyrax |
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dossier | (noun) a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record) | - |
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falsie | (noun) padding that is worn inside a brassiere | - |
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(noun) artificial eyelashes | - |
hosier | (noun) a tradesman who sells hosiery and (in England) knitwear | - |
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hosiery | (noun) socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear) | Synonyms: hose |
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jalousie | (noun) a shutter made of angled slats | - |
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(noun) a window with glass louvers | Synonyms: louvered window |
klebsiella | (noun) a genus of nonmotile rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some cause respiratory and other infections | - |
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lassie | (noun) a girl or young woman who is unmarried | Synonyms: jeune fille, lass, young girl |
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osier | (noun) any of various willows having pliable twigs used in basketry and furniture | - |
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(noun) flexible twig of a willow tree | - |
prophesier | (noun) an authoritative person who divines the future | Synonyms: oracle, prophet, seer, vaticinator |
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siege | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: beleaguering, besieging, military blockade |
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siemens | (noun) a unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm | Synonyms: mho, reciprocal ohm, S |
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sienna | (noun) an earth color containing ferric oxides; used as a pigment | - |
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sierra | (noun) a Spanish mackerel of western North America | Synonyms: Scomberomorus sierra |
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(noun) a range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline) | - |
siesta | (noun) a nap in the early afternoon (especially in hot countries) | - |
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sieve | (noun) a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles | Synonyms: screen |
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tarsier | (noun) nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing; the only primate that spurns all plant material as food living entirely on insects and small vertebrates | - |
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transience | (noun) an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying | Synonyms: transiency, transitoriness |
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(noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting | Synonyms: brevity, briefness |
transiency | (noun) an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying | Synonyms: transience, transitoriness |
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transient | (noun) (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load | - |
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(noun) one who stays for only a short time | - |