| aisle | (noun) passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores | Synonyms: gangway |
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| (noun) part of a church divided laterally from the nave proper by rows of pillars or columns | - |
| (noun) a long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods) | - |
| backslapper | (noun) someone who demonstrates enthusiastic or excessive cordiality | - |
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| backslider | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: recidivist, reversionist |
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| backsliding | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
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| bobsled | (noun) a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism | Synonyms: bob, bobsleigh |
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| (noun) formerly two short sleds coupled together | Synonyms: bobsleigh |
| bobsledding | (noun) riding on a bobsled | - |
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| bobsleigh | (noun) a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism | Synonyms: bob, bobsled |
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| (noun) formerly two short sleds coupled together | Synonyms: bobsled |
| brisling | (noun) small herring processed like a sardine | Synonyms: Clupea sprattus, sprat |
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| (noun) small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines | Synonyms: sprat |
| busload | (noun) the quantity of cargo or the number of passengers that a bus can carry | - |
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| clothesline | (noun) a cord on which clothes are hung to dry | - |
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| coleslaw | (noun) basically shredded cabbage | Synonyms: slaw |
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| corslet | (noun) a piece of body armor for the trunk; usually consists of a breastplate and back piece | Synonyms: corselet |
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| cowslip | (noun) early spring flower common in British isles having fragrant yellow or sometimes purple flowers | Synonyms: paigle, Primula veris |
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| (noun) swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups | Synonyms: Caltha palustris, kingcup, marsh marigold, May blob, meadow bright, water dragon |
| dislike | (noun) an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group | Synonyms: disapproval, disfavor, disfavour |
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| (noun) a feeling of aversion or antipathy | - |
| dislocation | (noun) the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue | Synonyms: breakdown |
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| (noun) an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity | Synonyms: disruption |
| (noun) a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column) | - |
| dislodgement | (noun) forced removal from a position of advantage | Synonyms: dislodgment |
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| dislodgment | (noun) forced removal from a position of advantage | Synonyms: dislodgement |
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| disloyalty | (noun) the quality of being disloyal | - |
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| dogsled | (noun) a sled pulled by dogs | Synonyms: dog sled, dog sleigh |
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| downslope | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, fall |
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| dyslectic | (noun) a person who has dyslexia | Synonyms: dyslexic |
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| dyslexia | (noun) impaired ability to learn to read | - |
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| dyslexic | (noun) a person who has dyslexia | Synonyms: dyslectic |
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| dyslogia | (noun) impaired ability to express ideas verbally; usually resulting from difficulties of reasoning (as in feeblemindedness or certain psychoses) | - |
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| electrosleep | (noun) unconsciousness brought about by the passage of a low voltage electric current through the brain | - |
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| enslavement | (noun) the act of making slaves of your captives | - |
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| (noun) the state of being a slave | Synonyms: captivity |
| footslogger | (noun) fights on foot with small arms | Synonyms: foot soldier, infantryman, marcher |
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| gaslight | (noun) light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas | - |
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| gosling | (noun) young goose | - |
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| grassland | (noun) land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life | - |
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| gunslinger | (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman |
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| gymslip | (noun) a sleeveless tunic worn by English girls as part of a school uniform | - |
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| haslet | (noun) heart and liver and other edible viscera especially of hogs; usually chopped and formed into a loaf and braised | - |
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| hassle | (noun) disorderly fighting | Synonyms: dogfight, rough-and-tumble, scuffle, tussle |
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| (noun) an angry disturbance | Synonyms: bother, fuss, trouble |
| island | (noun) a zone or area resembling an island | - |
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| (noun) a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water | - |
| islander | (noun) an inhabitant of an island | Synonyms: island-dweller |
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| islay | (noun) California evergreen wild plum with spiny leathery leaves and white flowers | Synonyms: evergreen cherry, holly-leaf cherry, holly-leaved cherry, Prunus ilicifolia |
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| isle | (noun) a small island | Synonyms: islet |
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| islet | (noun) a small island | Synonyms: isle |
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| landslide | (noun) a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff | Synonyms: landslip |
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| (noun) an overwhelming electoral victory | - |
| landslip | (noun) a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff | Synonyms: landslide |
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| legislating | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: lawmaking, legislation |
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| legislation | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: lawmaking, legislating |
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| (noun) law enacted by a legislative body | Synonyms: statute law |
| legislator | (noun) someone who makes or enacts laws | - |
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| legislatorship | (noun) the office of legislator | - |
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| legislature | (noun) persons who make or amend or repeal laws | Synonyms: general assembly, law-makers, legislative assembly, legislative body |
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| lisle | (noun) a strong tightly twisted cotton thread (usually made of long-staple cotton) | Synonyms: lisle thread |
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| (noun) a fabric woven with lisle thread | - |
| lotusland | (noun) an idyllic realm of contentment and self-indulgence | Synonyms: lotus land |
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| manslaughter | (noun) homicide without malice aforethought | - |
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| manslayer | (noun) a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) | Synonyms: liquidator, murderer |
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| measles | (noun) an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children | Synonyms: morbilli, rubeola |
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| misleader | (noun) someone who leads astray (often deliberately) | - |
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| misleadingness | (noun) The quality of being deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression. | - |
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| mistranslation | (noun) an incorrect translation | - |
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| mudslide | (noun) a landslide of mud | - |
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| mudslinger | (noun) one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) | Synonyms: muckraker |
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| muesli | (noun) mixture of untoasted dry cereals and fruits | - |
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| muslin | (noun) plain-woven cotton fabric | - |
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| newsletter | (noun) report or open letter giving informal or confidential news of interest to a special group | Synonyms: newssheet |
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| nursling | (noun) an infant considered in relation to its nurse | Synonyms: nurseling, suckling |
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| onslaught | (noun) (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Synonyms: attack, onrush, onset |
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| (noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: barrage, bombardment, outpouring |
| (noun) a sudden and severe onset of trouble | - |
| paisley | (noun) a soft wool fabric with a colorful swirled pattern of curved shapes | - |
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| parsley | (noun) aromatic herb with flat or crinkly leaves that are cut finely and used to garnish food | - |
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| (noun) annual or perennial herb with aromatic leaves | Synonyms: Petroselinum crispum |
| payslip | (noun) a slip of paper included with your pay that records how much money you have earned and how much tax or insurance etc. has been taken out | - |
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| purslane | (noun) a plant of the family Portulacaceae having fleshy succulent obovate leaves often grown as a potherb or salad herb; a weed in some areas | - |
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| pussley | (noun) weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: common purslane, Portulaca oleracea, pussly, verdolagas |
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| pussly | (noun) weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: common purslane, Portulaca oleracea, pussley, verdolagas |
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| quisling | (noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborationist, collaborator |
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| quislingism | (noun) act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | Synonyms: collaboration, collaborationism |
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| rassling | (noun) the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down | Synonyms: grappling, wrestling |
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| rockslide | (noun) a landslide of rocks | - |
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| saleslady | (noun) a woman salesperson | Synonyms: salesgirl, saleswoman |
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| shirtsleeve | (noun) the sleeve of a shirt | - |
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| shirtsleeves | (noun) not wearing a jacket | - |
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| sideslip | (noun) an unexpected slide | Synonyms: skid, slip |
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| (noun) a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air | Synonyms: slip |
| slab | (noun) block consisting of a thick piece of something | - |
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| slack | (noun) a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being loose (not taut) | Synonyms: slackness |
| (noun) a stretch of water without current or movement | Synonyms: slack water |
| (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | Synonyms: mire, morass, quag, quagmire |
| (noun) a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality | Synonyms: drop-off, falling off, falloff, slump |
| (noun) dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve | - |
| slackening | (noun) an occurrence of control or strength weakening | Synonyms: loosening, relaxation |
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| slacker | (noun) a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) | Synonyms: shirker |
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| slacking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, shirking, soldiering |
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| slackline | (noun) a partially tensioned line for balance or walking | - |
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| slackness | (noun) the quality of being loose (not taut) | Synonyms: slack |
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| (noun) the quality of being lax and neglectful | Synonyms: laxity, laxness, remissness |
| (noun) weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy | Synonyms: inanition, lassitude, lethargy |
| slacks | (noun) (used in the plural) pants for casual wear | - |
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| slag | (noun) the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals | Synonyms: dross, scoria |
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| slagheap | (noun) pile of waste matter from coal mining etc | - |
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| slain | (noun) people who have been slain (as in battle) | - |
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| slalom | (noun) a downhill race over a winding course defined by upright poles | - |
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| slam | (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot |
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| (noun) winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge | Synonyms: sweep |
| (noun) a forceful impact that makes a loud noise | - |
| (noun) the noise made by the forceful impact of two objects | - |
| slammer | (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: clink, gaol, jail, jailhouse, pokey, poky |
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| (noun) a person who closes things violently | - |
| slander | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, calumny, defamation, denigration |
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| (noun) words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another | - |
| slanderer | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, maligner, traducer, vilifier |
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| slanderousness | (noun) The property of being both untrue and harmful to a reputation. | - |
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| slang | (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, vernacular |
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| (noun) informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar | Synonyms: slang expression, slang term |
| slanginess | (noun) casualness in use of language | - |
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| slanguage | (noun) language characterized by excessive use of slang or cant | - |
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| slant | (noun) degree of deviation from a horizontal plane | Synonyms: pitch, rake |
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| (noun) a biased way of looking at or presenting something | Synonyms: angle |
| slap | (noun) the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand | Synonyms: smack, smacking |
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| (noun) a blow from a flat object (as an open hand) | Synonyms: smack |
| slapper | (noun) a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand | Synonyms: spanker |
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| slapshot | (noun) a fast shot made with a short powerful swing of the hockey stick | - |
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| slapstick | (noun) acoustic device consisting of two paddles hinged together; used by an actor to make a loud noise without inflicting injury when striking someone | - |
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| (noun) a boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes | - |