| briefness | (noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting | Synonyms: brevity, transience |
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| (noun) the temporal property of being very short | - |
| brightness | (noun) the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness level, light, luminance, luminosity, luminousness |
| (noun) intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty | Synonyms: cleverness, smartness |
| brininess | (noun) the relative proportion of salt in a solution | Synonyms: salinity |
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| briskness | (noun) liveliness and eagerness | Synonyms: alacrity, smartness |
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| bristlegrass | (noun) grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet | Synonyms: bristle grass |
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| bristliness | (noun) the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines | Synonyms: prickliness, spininess, thorniness |
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| brittleness | (noun) firm but easily broken | Synonyms: crispiness, crispness |
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| broadness | (noun) the property of being wide; having great width | Synonyms: wideness |
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| brokenheartedness | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: grief, heartache, heartbreak |
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| bromegrass | (noun) any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions | Synonyms: brome |
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| brownness | (noun) an orange of low brightness and saturation | Synonyms: brown |
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| brusqueness | (noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: abruptness, curtness, gruffness, shortness |
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| bubbliness | (noun) the property of giving off bubbles | Synonyms: effervescence, frothiness |
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| bugginess | (noun) the state of having bugs | - |
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| bugloss | (noun) perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers | Synonyms: alkanet, Anchusa officinalis |
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| (noun) widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: bitterweed, bristly oxtongue, oxtongue, Picris echioides |
| bulginess | (noun) the property possessed by a rounded convexity | Synonyms: roundedness |
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| bulkiness | (noun) an unwieldy largeness | Synonyms: massiveness |
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| bullheadedness | (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: obstinacy, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
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| bumpiness | (noun) the texture of a surface that has many bumps | - |
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| bumptiousness | (noun) offensive boldness and assertiveness | Synonyms: cockiness, forwardness, pushiness |
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| bunchgrass | (noun) any of various grasses of many genera that grow in tufts or clumps rather than forming a sod or mat; chiefly of western United States | Synonyms: bunch grass |
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| burdensomeness | (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness |
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| burgess | (noun) a citizen of an English borough | Synonyms: burgher |
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| burgrass | (noun) a grass of the genus Cenchrus | Synonyms: bur grass |
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| business | (noun) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money | Synonyms: job, line, line of work, occupation |
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| (noun) the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects | Synonyms: business enterprise, commercial enterprise |
| (noun) the volume of commercial activity | - |
| (noun) incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect | Synonyms: byplay, stage business |
| (noun) an immediate objective | - |
| (noun) a rightful concern or responsibility | - |
| (noun) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | Synonyms: business concern, business organisation, business organization, concern |
| (noun) customers collectively | Synonyms: clientele, patronage |
| (noun) business concerns collectively | Synonyms: business sector |
| businessman | (noun) a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) | Synonyms: man of affairs |
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| businessmen | (noun) the body of individuals who manage businesses | Synonyms: business community |
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| businesspeople | (noun) people who transact business (especially business executives) | Synonyms: business people |
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| businessperson | (noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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| businesswoman | (noun) a female businessperson | - |
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| buss | (noun) the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: kiss, osculation |
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| busyness | (noun) the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity | Synonyms: hum |
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| buttress | (noun) a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building | Synonyms: buttressing |
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| buttressing | (noun) a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building | Synonyms: buttress |
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| buxomness | (noun) the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full-bosomed | - |
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| bypass | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: beltway, ring road, ringway |
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| (noun) a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current | Synonyms: electrical shunt, shunt |
| (noun) a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part) | - |
| byssus | (noun) tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface | Synonyms: beard |
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| cabasset | (noun) a metal helmet worn by common soldiers in the 16th century | Synonyms: morion |
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| cabassous | (noun) naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America | Synonyms: Cabassous unicinctus, tatouay |
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| caisson | (noun) large watertight chamber used for construction under water | Synonyms: cofferdam, pneumatic caisson |
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| (noun) an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome | Synonyms: coffer, lacunar |
| (noun) a chest to hold ammunition | Synonyms: ammunition chest |
| (noun) a two-wheeled military vehicle carrying artillery ammunition | - |
| callousness | (noun) devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness | Synonyms: callosity, hardness, insensibility, unfeelingness |
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| callowness | (noun) lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life | Synonyms: jejuneness, juvenility |
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| calmness | (noun) steadiness of mind under stress | Synonyms: calm, composure, equanimity |
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| (noun) a feeling of calm; an absence of agitation or excitement | - |
| (noun) an absence of strong winds or rain | - |
| camass | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America | Synonyms: camas, camash, camosh, quamash |
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| candidness | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candor, candour, directness, forthrightness, frankness |
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| candyfloss | (noun) a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature | Synonyms: cotton candy, spun sugar |
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| canvass | (noun) a heavy, closely woven fabric | Synonyms: canvas |
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| (noun) the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete | Synonyms: canvas |
| (noun) a tent made of canvas fabric | Synonyms: canvas, canvas tent |
| (noun) a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel | Synonyms: canvas, sail, sheet |
| (noun) an oil painting on canvas fabric | Synonyms: canvas |
| (noun) an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people | Synonyms: opinion poll, poll, public opinion poll |
| (noun) the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account | Synonyms: canvas |
| canvasser | (noun) someone who conducts surveys of public opinion | Synonyms: headcounter, poll taker, pollster |
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| (noun) someone who examines votes at an election | Synonyms: scrutineer |
| (noun) a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes | Synonyms: solicitor |
| (noun) a person who takes or counts votes | - |
| canvassing | (noun) persuasion of voters in a political campaign | Synonyms: bell ringing, electioneering |
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| capableness | (noun) the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally | Synonyms: capability |
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| (noun) an aptitude that may be developed | Synonyms: capability, potentiality |
| capaciousness | (noun) spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building) | Synonyms: commodiousness, roominess, spaciousness |
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| (noun) intellectual breadth | Synonyms: roominess |
| capriciousness | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy |
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| (noun) the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses | Synonyms: unpredictability |
| carcass | (noun) the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food | Synonyms: carcase |
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| carefreeness | (noun) the trait of being without worry or responsibility | - |
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| (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: insouciance, lightheartedness, lightsomeness |
| carefulness | (noun) the quality of being careful and painstaking | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger | Synonyms: caution, cautiousness |
| carelessness | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: neglect, negligence, nonperformance |
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| (noun) the quality of not being careful or taking pains | Synonyms: sloppiness |
| caress | (noun) a gentle affectionate stroking (or something resembling it) | - |
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| caressing | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| carissa | (noun) a shrub of the genus Carissa having fragrant white flowers and plumlike red to purple-black fruits | - |
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| carnivorousness | (noun) The quality of being an animal that eats meat as the main part of its diet. | Synonyms: zoophagy |
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| cassareep | (noun) a flavoring made by boiling down the juice of the bitter cassava; used in West Indian cooking | - |
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| cassava | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch | Synonyms: casava |
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| (noun) cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca | Synonyms: manioc |
| (noun) a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics | Synonyms: cassava starch, manioc, manioca |
| casserole | (noun) large deep dish in which food can be cooked and served | - |
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| (noun) food cooked and served in a casserole | - |
| cassette | (noun) a container that holds a magnetic tape used for recording or playing sound or video | - |
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| cassia | (noun) any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods | - |
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| (noun) Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon | Synonyms: cassia-bark tree, Cinnamomum cassia |
| 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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| cassino | (noun) a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand | Synonyms: casino |
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| cassiri | (noun) a drink resembling beer; made from fermented cassava juice | - |
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| cassiterite | (noun) a hard heavy dark mineral that is the chief source of tin | - |
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| cassock | (noun) a black garment reaching down to the ankles; worn by priests or choristers | - |
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| cassowary | (noun) large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest | - |
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| casualness | (noun) a casual manner | Synonyms: familiarity |
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| (noun) The state of coming without regularity; of being occasional or incidental. | - |
| cattiness | (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: bitchiness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness |
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| cautiousness | (noun) the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger | Synonyms: carefulness, caution |
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| ceaselessness | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: continuousness, incessancy, incessantness |
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| ceremoniousness | (noun) a ceremonial manner | - |
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| cerussite | (noun) a mineral consisting of lead carbonate that is an important source of lead | Synonyms: white lead ore |
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| cessation | (noun) a stopping | Synonyms: surcease |
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| cession | (noun) the act of ceding | Synonyms: ceding |
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| cesspit | (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspool, sink, sump |
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| cesspool | (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspit, sink, sump |
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| changeableness | (noun) the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change | Synonyms: changeability |
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| changefulness | (noun) the quality of being changeable and variable | Synonyms: inconstancy |
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| changelessness | (noun) the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged | Synonyms: unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness |
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| (noun) the property of remaining unchanged | - |
| characteristicness | (noun) The quality or state of being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing. | - |
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| chariness | (noun) the trait of being cautious and watchful | Synonyms: wariness |
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| charitableness | (noun) generosity as manifested by practicing charity (as for the poor or unfortunate) | - |
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| chasse | (noun) (ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading | Synonyms: sashay |
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| chassis | (noun) the skeleton of a motor vehicle consisting of a steel frame supported on springs that holds the body and motor | - |
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| (noun) a metal mounting for the circuit components of an electronic device | - |
| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| chasteness | (noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: restraint, simpleness, simplicity |
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| cheapness | (noun) a price below the standard price | Synonyms: bargain rate, cut price, cut rate |
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| (noun) tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar | Synonyms: sleaze, tackiness, tat |
| cheatgrass | (noun) annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean | Synonyms: Bromus tectorum, downy brome, downy bromegrass, downy cheat, downy chess, drooping brome |
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| cheekiness | (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence |
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| cheerfulness | (noun) the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom | Synonyms: cheer, sunniness, sunshine |
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| (noun) a feeling of spontaneous good spirits | Synonyms: blitheness |
| cheerlessness | (noun) a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness | Synonyms: uncheerfulness |
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| chess | (noun) a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king | Synonyms: chess game |
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| (noun) weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat | Synonyms: Bromus secalinus, cheat |
| chessboard | (noun) a checkerboard used to play chess | Synonyms: chess board |
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| chessman | (noun) any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess | Synonyms: chess piece |
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| chicness | (noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chic, chichi, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank |
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| childishness | (noun) a property characteristic of a child | Synonyms: puerility |
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