bagasse | (noun) the dry dusty pulp that remains after juice is extracted from sugar cane or similar plants | - |
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bagassosis | (noun) alveolitis caused by inhaling bagasse (sugarcane dust) | Synonyms: bagascosis |
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baldness | (noun) the condition of having no hair on the top of the head | Synonyms: phalacrosis |
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balefulness | (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: maleficence, mischief |
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balkiness | (noun) likely to stop abruptly and unexpectedly | - |
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balldress | (noun) a suit or dress for formal occasions | - |
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balminess | (noun) the quality of weather that is deliciously mild and soothing | Synonyms: softness |
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barbarousness | (noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, heinousness |
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bareness | (noun) an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation | Synonyms: starkness |
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(noun) the state of being unclothed and exposed (especially of a part of the body) | - |
(noun) a bleak and desolate atmosphere | Synonyms: bleakness, desolation, nakedness |
baroness | (noun) a noblewoman who holds the rank of baron or who is the wife or widow of a baron | - |
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baroqueness | (noun) elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century | Synonyms: baroque |
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barrenness | (noun) the quality of yielding nothing of value | Synonyms: aridity, fruitlessness |
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(noun) the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children | - |
baseness | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: contemptibility, despicability, despicableness, sordidness |
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bashfulness | (noun) feeling embarrassed due to modesty | Synonyms: abashment |
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bass | (noun) the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments | - |
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(noun) the lowest part of the musical range | - |
(noun) the lowest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: bass voice, basso |
(noun) the lowest part in polyphonic music | Synonyms: bass part |
(noun) an adult male singer with the lowest voice | Synonyms: basso |
(noun) nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes | - |
(noun) any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus) | Synonyms: freshwater bass |
(noun) the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae | Synonyms: sea bass |
bassarisk | (noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings | Synonyms: Bassariscus astutus, cacomistle, cacomixle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat, ringtail |
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basset | (noun) smooth-haired breed of hound with short legs and long ears | Synonyms: basset hound |
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bassine | (noun) coarse leaf fiber from palmyra palms used in making brushes and brooms | - |
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bassinet | (noun) a basket (usually hooded) used as a baby's bed | - |
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(noun) a perambulator that resembles a bassinet | - |
bassist | (noun) a musician who play the bass viol | - |
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basso | (noun) the lowest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: bass, bass voice |
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(noun) an adult male singer with the lowest voice | Synonyms: bass |
bassoon | (noun) a double-reed instrument; the tenor of the oboe family | - |
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bassoonist | (noun) a musician who plays the bassoon | - |
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basswood | (noun) any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber | Synonyms: lime, lime tree, linden, linden tree |
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(noun) soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork | Synonyms: linden |
bawdiness | (noun) the trait of behaving in an obscene manner | Synonyms: lewdness, obscenity, salaciousness, salacity |
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beardedness | (noun) The quality of having a beard. | - |
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beastliness | (noun) unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather | - |
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(noun) the quality of being deliberately mean | Synonyms: meanness |
beauteousness | (noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: comeliness, fairness, loveliness |
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becomingness | (noun) the quality of being becoming | - |
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beingness | (noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: being, existence, face of the earth |
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bellicoseness | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicosity |
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benefactress | (noun) a woman benefactor | - |
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beseechingness | (noun) The state or quality of one who begs or implores. | - |
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bigheartedness | (noun) the quality of being kind and generous | - |
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bigness | (noun) the property of having a relatively great size | Synonyms: largeness |
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biliousness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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(noun) gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gall bladder | - |
bioassay | (noun) appraisal of the biological activity of a substance by testing its effect on an organism and comparing the result with some agreed standard | Synonyms: bio-assay |
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biomass | (noun) the total mass of living matter in a given unit area | - |
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(noun) plant materials and animal waste used as fuel | - |
bitchiness | (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: cattiness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness |
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bittercress | (noun) any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic | Synonyms: bitter cress |
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bitterness | (noun) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste | Synonyms: bitter |
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(noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
(noun) the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: bitter |
(noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: gall, rancor, rancour, resentment |
bizarreness | (noun) strikingly out of the ordinary | Synonyms: outlandishness, weirdness |
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blackness | (noun) the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) | Synonyms: black, inkiness |
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(noun) total absence of light | Synonyms: black, lightlessness, pitch blackness, total darkness |
blamelessness | (noun) a state of innocence | Synonyms: guiltlessness, inculpability, inculpableness |
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blameworthiness | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: culpability, culpableness |
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blandness | (noun) lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property | Synonyms: insipidity, insipidness |
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(noun) the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner | Synonyms: smoothness, suaveness, suavity |
(noun) the trait of exhibiting no personal embarrassment or concern | - |
blankness | (noun) the state of being blank; void; emptiness | - |
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bleakness | (noun) a bleak and desolate atmosphere | Synonyms: bareness, desolation, nakedness |
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blessedness | (noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatification, beatitude |
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blessing | (noun) the act of praying for divine protection | Synonyms: benediction |
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(noun) the formal act of approving | Synonyms: approval, approving |
(noun) a ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection | Synonyms: benediction |
(noun) a short prayer of thanks before a meal | Synonyms: grace, thanksgiving |
(noun) a desirable state | Synonyms: boon |
blindness | (noun) the state of being blind or lacking sight | Synonyms: cecity, sightlessness |
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bliss | (noun) a state of extreme happiness | Synonyms: blissfulness, cloud nine, seventh heaven, walking on air |
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blissfulness | (noun) a state of extreme happiness | Synonyms: bliss, cloud nine, seventh heaven, walking on air |
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blitheness | (noun) a feeling of spontaneous good spirits | Synonyms: cheerfulness |
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blondness | (noun) the property of having a naturally light complexion | Synonyms: fairness, paleness |
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bloodiness | (noun) a disposition to shed blood | Synonyms: bloodthirstiness |
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(noun) the state of being bloody | - |
bloodthirstiness | (noun) a disposition to shed blood | Synonyms: bloodiness |
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blossom | (noun) reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts | Synonyms: bloom, flower |
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(noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
blossoming | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
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bluegrass | (noun) a type of country music played at a rapid tempo on banjos and guitars | - |
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(noun) any of various grasses of the genus Poa | Synonyms: blue grass |
blueness | (noun) blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime | Synonyms: blue |
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bluffness | (noun) good-natured frankness | - |
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bluishness | (noun) The quality of being somewhat blue or having a tinge of blue. | - |
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blunderbuss | (noun) a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle | - |
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bluntness | (noun) without sharpness or clearness of edge or point | Synonyms: dullness |
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(noun) the quality of being direct and outspoken | - |
blurriness | (noun) the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines | Synonyms: fogginess, fuzziness, indistinctness, softness |
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boastfulness | (noun) outspoken conceit | Synonyms: vainglory |
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bogginess | (noun) The state or quality of being too wet and muddy to be easily walked on. | - |
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boisterousness | (noun) the property of being noisy and lively and unrestrained | - |
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(noun) a turbulent and stormy state of the sea | - |
boldness | (noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: daring, hardihood, hardiness |
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(noun) the quality of standing out strongly and distinctly | Synonyms: strikingness |
(noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: brass, cheek, face, nerve |
boniness | (noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | Synonyms: bonyness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration |
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bonyness | (noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | Synonyms: boniness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration |
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bookishness | (noun) exaggerated studiousness | - |
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boorishness | (noun) inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor | Synonyms: uncouthness |
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(noun) the manner of a rude or insensitive person | - |
boringness | (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: dreariness, insipidity, insipidness |
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boss | (noun) a circular rounded projection or protuberance | Synonyms: knob |
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(noun) a person responsible for hiring workers | Synonyms: hirer |
(noun) a person who exercises control over workers | Synonyms: chief, foreman, gaffer, honcho |
(noun) a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments | Synonyms: party boss, political boss |
(noun) a person who exercises control and makes decisions | - |
bossism | (noun) domination of a political organization by a party boss | - |
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bottomlessness | (noun) the property of being very deep; without limit | - |
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bouillabaisse | (noun) highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs | - |
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bounciness | (noun) the quality of a substance that is able to rebound | Synonyms: bounce |
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boundedness | (noun) the quality of being finite | Synonyms: finiteness, finitude |
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boundlessness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: infiniteness, infinitude, limitlessness, unboundedness |
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bounteousness | (noun) (literary) generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely | Synonyms: bounty |
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bountifulness | (noun) the property of copious abundance | Synonyms: amplitude, bounty |
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boyishness | (noun) being characteristic of a boy | - |
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brackishness | (noun) the quality of being salty, as the saltiness of water | - |
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brashness | (noun) the trait of being rash and hasty | - |
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(noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
brass | (noun) a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece | Synonyms: brass instrument |
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(noun) a memorial made of brass | Synonyms: memorial tablet, plaque |
(noun) an ornament or utensil made of brass | - |
(noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: boldness, cheek, face, nerve |
(noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
(noun) the section of a band or orchestra that plays brass instruments | Synonyms: brass section |
(noun) an alloy of copper and zinc | - |
brassard | (noun) armor plate that protects the arm | - |
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brassavola | (noun) any of various tropical American orchids with usually solitary fleshy leaves and showy white to green nocturnally fragrant blossoms solitary or in racemes of up to 7 | - |
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brasserie | (noun) a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap | - |
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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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brattiness | (noun) The state or condition of acting like a brat, being unruly and impolite. | - |
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braveness | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: bravery, courage, courageousness |
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brawniness | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, heftiness, muscle, muscularity, sinew |
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brazenness | (noun) behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame | Synonyms: shamelessness |
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breakableness | (noun) the consistency of something that breaks under pressure | - |
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breathlessness | (noun) a dyspneic condition | Synonyms: shortness of breath, SOB |
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breeziness | (noun) a breezy liveliness | Synonyms: jauntiness |
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(noun) a mildly windy state of the air | Synonyms: windiness |