| antiperspirant | (noun) an astringent substance applied to the skin to reduce perspiration | - |
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| aspirant | (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirer, hopeful, wannabe, wannabee |
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| aspirate | (noun) a consonant pronounced with aspiration | - |
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| (noun) a speech sound having as an obvious concomitant an audible puff of breath, as initial stop consonants or initial h -sounds. | - |
| aspiration | (noun) the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing | Synonyms: breathing in, inhalation, inspiration, intake |
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| (noun) a will to succeed | - |
| (noun) a manner of articulation involving an audible release of breath | - |
| (noun) a cherished desire | Synonyms: ambition, dream |
| aspirator | (noun) a pump that draws air or another gas through a liquid | - |
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| aspirer | (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirant, hopeful, wannabe, wannabee |
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| aspirin | (noun) the acetylated derivative of salicylic acid; used as an analgesic anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Bayer, Empirin, and St. Joseph) usually taken in tablet form; used as an antipyretic; slows clotting of the blood by poisoning platelets | Synonyms: acetylsalicylic acid, Bayer, Empirin, St. Joseph |
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| buspirone | (noun) a drug (trade name BuSpar) designed specifically for anxiety | Synonyms: BuSpar |
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| coconspirator | (noun) a member of a conspiracy | Synonyms: conspirator, machinator, plotter |
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| conspiracy | (noun) a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot) | Synonyms: cabal |
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| (noun) a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act | Synonyms: confederacy |
| (noun) a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose | Synonyms: confederacy |
| conspirator | (noun) a member of a conspiracy | Synonyms: coconspirator, machinator, plotter |
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| dispiritedness | (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dejectedness, downheartedness, low-spiritedness, lowness |
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| fitspiration | (noun) something that inspires you to exercise | - |
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| inspiration | (noun) the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing | Synonyms: aspiration, breathing in, inhalation, intake |
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| (noun) arousing to a particular emotion or action | Synonyms: stirring |
| (noun) a product of your creative thinking and work | Synonyms: brainchild |
| (noun) (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings | Synonyms: divine guidance |
| (noun) a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem | - |
| (noun) arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity | - |
| inspirer | (noun) a leader who stimulates and excites people to action | Synonyms: galvaniser, galvanizer |
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| leptospira | (noun) important pathogens causing Weil's disease or canicola fever | - |
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| leptospirosis | (noun) an infectious disease cause by leptospira and transmitted to humans from domestic animals; characterized by jaundice and fever | Synonyms: swamp fever |
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| perspiration | (noun) salty fluid secreted by sweat glands | Synonyms: sudor, sweat |
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| (noun) the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid | Synonyms: diaphoresis, hidrosis, sudation, sweating |
| perspirer | (noun) a person who perspires | Synonyms: sweater |
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| respiration | (noun) the metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules; processes that take place in the cells and tissues during which energy is released and carbon dioxide is produced and absorbed by the blood to be transported to the lungs | Synonyms: cellular respiration, internal respiration |
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| (noun) the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation | Synonyms: breathing, external respiration, ventilation |
| (noun) a single complete act of breathing in and out | - |
| respirator | (noun) a breathing device for administering long-term artificial respiration | Synonyms: inhalator |
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| (noun) a protective mask with a filter; protects the face and lungs against poisonous gases | Synonyms: gas helmet, gasmask |
| spiracle | (noun) a breathing orifice | - |
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| spiraea | (noun) any rosaceous plant of the genus Spiraea; has sprays of small white or pink flowers | Synonyms: spirea |
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| (noun) a Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea; widely cultivated in many varieties for its dense panicles of flowers in many colors; often forced by florists for Easter blooming | Synonyms: Astilbe japonica, spirea |
| spiral | (noun) flying downward in a helical path with a large radius | - |
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| (noun) a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops | Synonyms: coil, helix, volute, whorl |
| (noun) ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center | Synonyms: volute |
| (noun) a continuously accelerating change in the economy | - |
| (noun) a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center | - |
| (noun) a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle | Synonyms: helix |
| spirant | (noun) a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract | Synonyms: fricative, fricative consonant |
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| spire | (noun) a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top | Synonyms: steeple |
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| spirea | (noun) any rosaceous plant of the genus Spiraea; has sprays of small white or pink flowers | Synonyms: spiraea |
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| (noun) a Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea; widely cultivated in many varieties for its dense panicles of flowers in many colors; often forced by florists for Easter blooming | Synonyms: Astilbe japonica, spiraea |
| spirilla | (noun) any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form | Synonyms: spirillum |
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| spirillum | (noun) any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form | Synonyms: spirilla |
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| (noun) spirally twisted elongate rodlike bacteria usually living in stagnant water | - |
| spirit | (noun) a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character | - |
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| (noun) animation and energy in action or expression | Synonyms: life, liveliness, sprightliness |
| (noun) an inclination or tendency of a certain kind | Synonyms: heart |
| (noun) the intended meaning of a communication | Synonyms: intent, purport |
| (noun) any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings | Synonyms: disembodied spirit |
| (noun) the vital principle or animating force within living things | - |
| (noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell, tone |
| (noun) the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection) | Synonyms: emotional state |
| spiritedness | (noun) quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous | Synonyms: animation, brio, invigoration, vivification |
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| spiritism | (noun) concern with things of the spirit | Synonyms: otherworldliness, spiritualism, spirituality |
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| spiritlessness | (noun) the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally | Synonyms: apathy, indifference, numbness |
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| spirits | (noun) an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented | Synonyms: booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, liquor, strong drink |
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| spiritual | (noun) a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States | Synonyms: Negro spiritual |
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| spiritualisation | (noun) the act of making something spiritual; infusing it with spiritual content | Synonyms: spiritualization |
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| spiritualism | (noun) concern with things of the spirit | Synonyms: otherworldliness, spiritism, spirituality |
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| (noun) the belief that the spirits of dead people can communicate with people who are still alive (especially via a medium) | - |
| (noun) (theology) any doctrine that asserts the separate existence of God | - |
| spiritualist | (noun) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead | Synonyms: medium, sensitive |
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| spirituality | (noun) concern with things of the spirit | Synonyms: otherworldliness, spiritism, spiritualism |
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| (noun) property or income owned by a church | Synonyms: church property, spiritualty |
| spiritualization | (noun) the act of making something spiritual; infusing it with spiritual content | Synonyms: spiritualisation |
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| spiritualty | (noun) property or income owned by a church | Synonyms: church property, spirituality |
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| spirochaete | (noun) parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals | Synonyms: spirochete |
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| spirochete | (noun) parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals | Synonyms: spirochaete |
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| spirogram | (noun) a recording of breathing made with a spirograph | - |
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| spirograph | (noun) a measuring instrument for recording the depth and rapidity of breathing movements | - |
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| spirogyra | (noun) freshwater algae consisting of minute filaments containing spiral chlorophyll bands | - |
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| spirometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the vital capacity of the lungs | - |
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| spirometry | (noun) the use of a spirometer to measure vital capacity | - |
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| spironolactone | (noun) a synthetic corticosteroid (trade name Aldactone) used to treat hypertension | Synonyms: Aldactone |
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| spirt | (noun) the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) | Synonyms: jet, spurt, squirt |
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| spirula | (noun) a small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral | Synonyms: Spirula peronii |
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| suspiration | (noun) an utterance made by exhaling audibly | Synonyms: sigh |
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| transpiration | (noun) the emission of water vapor from the leaves of plants | - |
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| (noun) the passage of gases through fine tubes because of differences in pressure or temperature | - |
| (noun) the process of giving off or exhaling water vapor through the skin or mucous membranes | - |