bagatelle | (noun) a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over | Synonyms: bar billiards |
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(noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: fluff, frippery, frivolity |
(noun) a light piece of music for piano | - |
christella | (noun) any of several tropical ferns of the genus Christella having thin brittle fronds | - |
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constellation | (noun) an arrangement of parts or elements | Synonyms: configuration |
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(noun) a configuration of stars as seen from the earth | - |
counterintelligence | (noun) intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism | - |
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entellus | (noun) langur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India | Synonyms: hanuman, Presbytes entellus, Semnopithecus entellus |
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fenestella | (noun) oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault | Synonyms: lunette |
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foretelling | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: divination, fortune telling, soothsaying |
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(noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, prediction, prognostication |
fortuneteller | (noun) a person who foretells your personal future | Synonyms: fortune teller |
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fortunetelling | (noun) the practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment) | - |
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hosteller | (noun) a traveler who lodges in hostels | - |
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(noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hotel manager, hotelier, hotelkeeper, hotelman |
hyperintelligence | (noun) Remarkable intelligence, intelligence at or above and beyond the level of a genius. | Synonyms: superintelligence |
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immortelle | (noun) mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere | Synonyms: Xeranthemum annuum |
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intellect | (noun) the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination | Synonyms: reason, understanding |
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(noun) knowledge and intellectual ability | Synonyms: mind |
(noun) a person who uses the mind creatively | Synonyms: intellectual |
intellection | (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: cerebration, mentation, thinking, thought, thought process |
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intellectual | (noun) a person who uses the mind creatively | Synonyms: intellect |
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intellectualisation | (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict | Synonyms: intellectualization |
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intellectualization | (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict | Synonyms: intellectualisation |
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intelligence | (noun) the operation of gathering information about an enemy | Synonyms: intelligence activity, intelligence operation |
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(noun) the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience | - |
(noun) information about recent and important events | Synonyms: news, tidings, word |
(noun) secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy) | Synonyms: intelligence information |
(noun) a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy | Synonyms: intelligence agency, intelligence service |
intelligentsia | (noun) an educated and intellectual elite | Synonyms: clerisy |
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intelligibility | (noun) the quality of language that is comprehensible | - |
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panetella | (noun) a long slender cigar | Synonyms: panatela, panetela |
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patella | (noun) a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint | Synonyms: kneecap, kneepan |
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satellite | (noun) man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon | Synonyms: artificial satellite, orbiter |
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(noun) any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star | - |
(noun) a person who follows or serves another | Synonyms: planet |
storyteller | (noun) someone who tells a story | Synonyms: narrator, teller |
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(noun) someone who tells lies | Synonyms: fabricator, fibber |
superintelligence | (noun) Remarkable intelligence, intelligence at or above and beyond the level of a genius. | Synonyms: hyperintelligence |
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tagliatelle | (noun) pasta cut in narrow ribbons | - |
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taleteller | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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tarantella | (noun) a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons | Synonyms: tarantelle |
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(noun) music composed in six-eight time for dancing the tarantella | - |
tarantelle | (noun) a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons | Synonyms: tarantella |
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teller | (noun) an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money | Synonyms: bank clerk, cashier |
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(noun) an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly) | Synonyms: vote counter |
(noun) someone who tells a story | Synonyms: narrator, storyteller |
telling | (noun) informing by words | Synonyms: apprisal, notification |
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(noun) an act of narration | Synonyms: recounting, relation |
(noun) disclosing information or giving evidence about another | Synonyms: singing, tattle |
telltale | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale |
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tellurian | (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthling, earthman, worldling |
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telluride | (noun) any binary compound of tellurium with other more electropositive elements | - |
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tellurium | (noun) a brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur; it is used in alloys and as a semiconductor; occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of copper and nickel and silver and gold | Synonyms: atomic number 52, Te |
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telly | (noun) an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen | Synonyms: boob tube, goggle box, idiot box, television, television receiver, television set, tv, tv set |
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tortellini | (noun) small ring-shaped stuffed pasta | - |
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unintelligibility | (noun) incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible | - |
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(noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherence, incoherency |
vitellarium | (noun) A modified part of the ovary that in many flatworms and rotifers produces yolk-filled cells serving to nourish the true eggs. | - |
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vitellus | (noun) nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg) | Synonyms: yolk |
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