| commuting | (noun) the travel of a commuter | Synonyms: commutation |
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| computing | (noun) the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods | Synonyms: calculation, computation |
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| (noun) the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures | Synonyms: computer science |
| concertina | (noun) free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds | - |
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| (noun) coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle | - |
| concertinist | (noun) a person who plays the concertina | - |
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| conducting | (noun) the way of administering a business | - |
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| (noun) the direction of an orchestra or choir | - |
| conglutination | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion |
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| (noun) healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones | Synonyms: union |
| congregating | (noun) the act of congregating | Synonyms: congregation |
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| continence | (noun) the exercise of self constraint in sexual matters | Synonyms: continency |
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| (noun) voluntary control over urinary and fecal discharge | - |
| continency | (noun) the exercise of self constraint in sexual matters | Synonyms: continence |
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| continent | (noun) one of the large landmasses of the earth | - |
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| contingence | (noun) a possible event or occurrence or result | Synonyms: contingency, eventuality |
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| contingency | (noun) a possible event or occurrence or result | Synonyms: contingence, eventuality |
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| (noun) the state of being contingent on something | - |
| contingent | (noun) a temporary military unit | Synonyms: detail |
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| (noun) a gathering of persons representative of some larger group | - |
| continuance | (noun) the act of continuing an activity without interruption | Synonyms: continuation |
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| (noun) the property of enduring or continuing in time | Synonyms: duration |
| (noun) the period of time during which something continues | Synonyms: duration |
| continuant | (noun) consonant articulated by constricting (but not closing) the vocal tract | Synonyms: continuant consonant |
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| continuation | (noun) the act of continuing an activity without interruption | Synonyms: continuance |
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| (noun) the consequence of being lengthened in duration | Synonyms: lengthiness, prolongation, protraction |
| (noun) a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established direction | Synonyms: good continuation, law of continuation |
| (noun) a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it | Synonyms: sequel |
| continuative | (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, connective |
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| continuity | (noun) the property of a continuous and connected period of time | Synonyms: persistence |
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| (noun) a detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot | - |
| (noun) uninterrupted connection or union | - |
| continuo | (noun) a bass part written out in full and accompanied by numbers to indicate the chords to be played | Synonyms: basso continuo, figured bass, thorough bass |
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| continuousness | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, incessancy, incessantness |
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| continuum | (noun) a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct or distinguishable from adjacent parts | - |
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| contracting | (noun) becoming infected | Synonyms: catching |
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| contradistinction | (noun) a distinction drawn on the basis of contrast | - |
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| cortina | (noun) a cobwebby partial veil consisting of silky fibrils | - |
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| costing | (noun) cost accounting | - |
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| cothromboplastin | (noun) a coagulation factor formed in the kidney under the influence of vitamin K | Synonyms: factor VII, proconvertin, stable factor |
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| cotinga | (noun) passerine bird of New World tropics | Synonyms: chatterer |
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| counting | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, enumeration, numeration, reckoning, tally |
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| countinghouse | (noun) office used by the accountants of a business | - |
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| courting | (noun) a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage) | Synonyms: courtship, suit, wooing |
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| craftiness | (noun) the quality of being crafty | Synonyms: guile |
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| (noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craft, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness |
| creatin | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine; supplies energy for muscle contraction | Synonyms: creatine |
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| creatine | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine; supplies energy for muscle contraction | Synonyms: creatin |
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| cretin | (noun) a person of subnormal intelligence | Synonyms: changeling, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, moron, retard |
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| cretinism | (noun) severe hypothyroidism resulting in physical and mental stunting | - |
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| crocheting | (noun) creating a garment of needlework | - |
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| (noun) needlework done by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle | Synonyms: crochet |
| crotchetiness | (noun) a fussy and eccentric disposition | Synonyms: contrariness, crankiness, grumpiness |
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| cutin | (noun) (biochemistry) a waxy transparent material that occurs in the cuticle of plants and consists of highly polymerized esters of fatty acids | - |
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| cutting | (noun) the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends | Synonyms: cut, cutting off |
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| (noun) the act of cutting something into parts | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film | Synonyms: film editing |
| (noun) the act of diluting something | Synonyms: thinning |
| (noun) removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape | Synonyms: carving |
| (noun) the division of a deck of cards before dealing | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: clipping, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting |
| (noun) a piece cut off from the main part of something | - |
| (noun) a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting | Synonyms: slip |
| cystine | (noun) a crystalline amino acid found in proteins (especially keratin); discovered in bladder stones | - |
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| daintiness | (noun) the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance | Synonyms: delicacy, fineness |
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| dating | (noun) use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens | Synonyms: geological dating |
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| dehydroretinol | (noun) a viscous alcohol that is less active in mammals than is vitamin A1 | Synonyms: vitamin A2 |
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| delegating | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegation, deputation, relegating, relegation |
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| dentin | (noun) bone (calcified tissue) surrounding the pulp cavity of a tooth | Synonyms: dentine |
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| (noun) a calcareous material harder and denser than bone that comprises the bulk of a tooth | Synonyms: dentine |
| dentine | (noun) bone (calcified tissue) surrounding the pulp cavity of a tooth | Synonyms: dentin |
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| (noun) a calcareous material harder and denser than bone that comprises the bulk of a tooth | Synonyms: dentin |
| depicting | (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depiction, portrayal, portraying |
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| deregulating | (noun) the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations) | Synonyms: deregulation |
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| dessiatine | (noun) a former Russian unit of area equal to 2.7 acres | - |
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| destination | (noun) the ultimate goal for which something is done | Synonyms: terminus |
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| (noun) written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location | Synonyms: address, name and address |
| (noun) the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey) | Synonyms: finish, goal |
| destiny | (noun) an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future | Synonyms: fate |
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| (noun) the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events | Synonyms: fate |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion |
| detecting | (noun) a police investigation to determine the perpetrator | Synonyms: detection, detective work, sleuthing |
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| diablotin | (noun) a thin round slice of bread usually served with soup, especially consomme. | - |
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| dieting | (noun) the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods) | Synonyms: diet |
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| dirtiness | (noun) obscenity in speech or writing | Synonyms: smuttiness |
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| (noun) the state of being unsanitary | Synonyms: uncleanness |
| (noun) the state of containing dirty impurities | - |
| discontinuance | (noun) the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) | Synonyms: discontinuation |
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| discontinuation | (noun) the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) | Synonyms: discontinuance |
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| discontinuity | (noun) lack of connection or continuity | - |
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| disgustingness | (noun) extreme unpalatability to the mouth | Synonyms: distastefulness, nauseatingness, sickeningness, unsavoriness |
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| (noun) the property of being extremely unacceptable to the mind | Synonyms: unsavoriness |
| distinction | (noun) a distinguishing difference between similar things or people | - |
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| (noun) a discrimination between things as different and distinct on the basis of their characteristics or attributes | Synonyms: differentiation |
| (noun) an honor awarded to someone in recognition of achievement or superiority | - |
| (noun) high status importance owing to marked superiority | Synonyms: eminence, note, preeminence |
| distinctiveness | (noun) utter dissimilarity | Synonyms: disparateness |
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| (noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: peculiarity, speciality, specialness, specialty |
| distinctness | (noun) the quality of being sharp and clear | Synonyms: sharpness |
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| (noun) the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known | Synonyms: otherness, separateness |
| (noun) the state of being several and distinct | Synonyms: discreteness, separateness, severalty |
| distinguishability | (noun) Capability of being perceived as different or distinct. | - |
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| drafting | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: draftsmanship, drawing |
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| (noun) writing a first version to be filled out and polished later | - |
| (noun) the craft of drawing blueprints | Synonyms: mechanical drawing |
| drifting | (noun) aimless wandering from place to place | - |
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| dustiness | (noun) the state of being covered with dust | - |
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| eating | (noun) the act of consuming food | Synonyms: feeding |
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| editing | (noun) putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form | Synonyms: redaction |
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| eglantine | (noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | Synonyms: briar, brier, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier |
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| elastin | (noun) a fibrous scleroprotein found in elastic tissues such as the walls of arteries | - |
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| electroretinogram | (noun) a graphical recording of the electrical activity of the retina that results when light is flashed into the eye | - |
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| emptiness | (noun) the quality of being valueless or futile | Synonyms: vanity |
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| (noun) an empty area or space | Synonyms: vacancy, vacuum, void |
| (noun) the state of containing nothing | - |
| (noun) having an empty stomach | - |
| enchantingness | (noun) Quality of having the ability to enchant; being charming, delightful. | - |
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| enlisting | (noun) the act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.) | Synonyms: recruitment |
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| equating | (noun) the act of regarding as equal | Synonyms: equation |
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| erecting | (noun) the act of building or putting up | Synonyms: erection |
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| ergotine | (noun) a powerful astringent alkaloid extracted from ergot as a brown, amorphous, bitter substance, used to produce contraction of the uterus. | - |
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| erythropoietin | (noun) a glycoprotein secreted by the kidneys that stimulates the production of red blood cells | - |
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| everlasting | (noun) any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color | Synonyms: everlasting flower |
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| everlastingness | (noun) the property of lasting forever | - |
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| everting | (noun) the act of turning inside out | Synonyms: eversion, inversion |
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| exactingness | (noun) the quality or state of being demanding or unyielding. | - |
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| excreting | (noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter | Synonyms: elimination, evacuation, excretion, voiding |
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| executing | (noun) putting a condemned person to death | Synonyms: capital punishment, death penalty, execution |
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| exporting | (noun) the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country | Synonyms: exportation |
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| extinction | (noun) the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning | Synonyms: extinguishing, quenching |
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| (noun) a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus | Synonyms: experimental extinction |
| (noun) complete annihilation | Synonyms: extermination |
| (noun) the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation | - |
| (noun) no longer in existence | Synonyms: defunctness |
| (noun) no longer active; extinguished | - |
| extinguisher | (noun) a manually operated device for extinguishing small fires | Synonyms: asphyxiator, fire extinguisher |
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| extinguishing | (noun) the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning | Synonyms: extinction, quenching |
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| faggoting | (noun) embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches | Synonyms: fagoting |
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| fagoting | (noun) embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches | Synonyms: faggoting |
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| farting | (noun) a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus | Synonyms: breaking wind, fart, flatus, wind |
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| fasting | (noun) abstaining from food | Synonyms: fast |
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| fattiness | (noun) having the property of containing fat | Synonyms: adiposeness, adiposity |
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| faultiness | (noun) the state of being defective | Synonyms: defectiveness |
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| faulting | (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, fault, fracture, geological fault, shift |
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| feasting | (noun) eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment) | Synonyms: banqueting |
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| feistiness | (noun) The quality or state of being tenacious, energetic, spunky. | Synonyms: scrappiness |
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| fermenting | (noun) a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol | Synonyms: ferment, fermentation, zymolysis, zymosis |
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| ferritin | (noun) a protein containing 20% iron that is found in the intestines and liver and spleen; it is one of the chief forms in which iron is stored in the body | - |
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| festination | (noun) involuntary shortening of stride and quickening of gait that occurs in some diseases (e.g., Parkinson's disease) | - |
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