autoregulation | (noun) (physiology) processes that maintain a generally constant physiological state in a cell or organism | - |
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autosexing | (noun) (especially of domestic fowl) breeding to reveal differential sex characteristics at hatching | - |
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autosome | (noun) any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome; appear in pairs in body cells but as single chromosomes in spermatozoa | Synonyms: somatic chromosome |
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autostereotype | (noun) the standardized mental picture held in common by members of a cultural group depicting an oversimplified image of themselves and their behaviour. | - |
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autostrada | (noun) an expressway in an Italian-speaking country | - |
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autosuggestion | (noun) a system for self-improvement developed by Emile Coue which was popular in the 1920s and 1930s | Synonyms: auto-suggestion, self-suggestion |
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autotelism | (noun) belief that a work of art is an end in itself or its own justification | - |
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autotomy | (noun) spontaneous removal or casting off of a body part (as the tail of a lizard or claw of a lobster) especially when the organism is injured or under attack | - |
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autotroph | (noun) plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances | Synonyms: autophyte, autophytic plant, autotrophic organism |
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autotype | (noun) an exact copy or reproduction | Synonyms: facsimile |
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(noun) process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment | Synonyms: autotypy |
autotypy | (noun) process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment | Synonyms: autotype |
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aviator | (noun) someone who operates an aircraft | Synonyms: aeronaut, flier, flyer |
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ayatollah | (noun) a high-ranking Shiite religious leader who is regarded as an authority on religious law and its interpretation and who has political power as well | - |
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backstop | (noun) a precaution in case of an emergency | - |
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(noun) (baseball) a fence or screen (as behind home plate) to prevent the ball from traveling out of the playing field | - |
(noun) (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher | Synonyms: catcher |
badminton | (noun) a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net | - |
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balletomane | (noun) a ballet enthusiast | - |
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balletomania | (noun) extraordinary enthusiasm for ballets | - |
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ballistocardiogram | (noun) a graphical recording made by a ballistocardiograph | - |
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ballistocardiograph | (noun) a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles | Synonyms: cardiograph |
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barbitone | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, diethylbarbituric acid, diethylmalonylurea, veronal |
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baritone | (noun) the second lowest brass wind instrument | Synonyms: baritone horn |
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(noun) the second lowest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: baritone voice |
(noun) a male singer | Synonyms: barytone |
barnstormer | (noun) a pilot who travels around the country giving exhibits of stunt flying and parachuting | Synonyms: stunt flier, stunt pilot |
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(noun) an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | Synonyms: play-actor, playactor, trouper |
baroreceptor | (noun) a sensory receptor that responds to pressure | - |
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barrator | (noun) someone guilty of barratry | Synonyms: barrater |
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bartonia | (noun) annual grown especially for its fragrant golden nocturnal flowers | Synonyms: Mentzelia lindleyi |
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barytone | (noun) a male singer | Synonyms: baritone |
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baton | (noun) a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir | Synonyms: wand |
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(noun) a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race | - |
(noun) a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette | - |
(noun) a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority | - |
(noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: billy, billy club, billystick, nightstick, truncheon |
bellybutton | (noun) a scar where the umbilical cord was attached | Synonyms: belly button, navel, omphalos, omphalus, umbilicus |
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benefactor | (noun) a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help) | Synonyms: helper |
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bentonite | (noun) an absorbent aluminum silicate clay formed from volcanic ash | - |
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bestowal | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowment, conferment, conferral |
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(noun) a gift that is bestowed or conferred | Synonyms: bestowment |
bestower | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: conferrer, donor, giver, presenter |
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bestowment | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowal, conferment, conferral |
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(noun) a gift that is bestowed or conferred | Synonyms: bestowal |
bettong | (noun) short-nosed rat kangaroo | - |
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bettor | (noun) someone who bets | Synonyms: better, punter, wagerer |
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bialystoker | (noun) flat crusty-bottomed onion roll | Synonyms: bialy |
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bilestone | (noun) a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts | Synonyms: gallstone |
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biltong | (noun) meat that is salted and cut into strips and dried in the sun | - |
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bioclimatology | (noun) the study of effects of climate on living organisms | - |
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bitok | (noun) a Russian dish made with patties of ground meat (mixed with onions and bread and milk) and served with a sauce of sour cream | - |
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bitstock | (noun) a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring | Synonyms: brace |
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blacktop | (noun) a black bituminous material used for paving roads or other areas; usually spread over crushed rock | Synonyms: blacktopping |
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blacktopping | (noun) a black bituminous material used for paving roads or other areas; usually spread over crushed rock | Synonyms: blacktop |
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blastocele | (noun) the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula | Synonyms: blastocoel, blastocoele, cleavage cavity, segmentation cavity |
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blastocoel | (noun) the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula | Synonyms: blastocele, blastocoele, cleavage cavity, segmentation cavity |
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blastocoele | (noun) the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula | Synonyms: blastocele, blastocoel, cleavage cavity, segmentation cavity |
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blastocyst | (noun) the blastula of a placental mammal in which some differentiation of cells has occurred | Synonyms: blastodermic vessicle |
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blastocyte | (noun) an undifferentiated embryonic cell | - |
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blastocytoma | (noun) a tumor composed of immature undifferentiated cells | Synonyms: blastoma, embryonal carcinosarcoma |
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blastoderm | (noun) a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula | Synonyms: blastodisc, germinal area, germinal disc |
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blastodisc | (noun) a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula | Synonyms: blastoderm, germinal area, germinal disc |
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blastoff | (noun) the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination | Synonyms: shot |
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blastogenesis | (noun) theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted by germ plasm | - |
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(noun) asexual reproduction by budding | - |
blastoma | (noun) a tumor composed of immature undifferentiated cells | Synonyms: blastocytoma, embryonal carcinosarcoma |
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blastomere | (noun) any cell resulting from cleavage of a fertilized egg | - |
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blastomycete | (noun) any of various yeastlike budding fungi of the genus Blastomyces; cause disease in humans and other animals | - |
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blastomycosis | (noun) any of several infections of the skin or mucous membrane caused by Blastomyces | - |
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blastopore | (noun) the opening into the archenteron | - |
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blastosphere | (noun) early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; during this stage (about eight days after fertilization) implantation in the wall of the uterus occurs | Synonyms: blastula |
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bloodstock | (noun) thoroughbred horses (collectively) | - |
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bloodstone | (noun) green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood | Synonyms: heliotrope |
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blowtorch | (noun) a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame | Synonyms: blowlamp, torch |
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bluestocking | (noun) a woman having literary or intellectual interests | Synonyms: bas bleu |
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bluestone | (noun) bluish-grey sandstone used for paving and building | - |
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bluetongue | (noun) a viral disease of sheep and cattle that is transmitted by biting midges | - |
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bonito | (noun) any of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics between mackerels and tunas | - |
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(noun) fish whose flesh is dried and flaked for Japanese cookery; may be same species as skipjack tuna | Synonyms: Katsuwonus pelamis, oceanic bonito |
(noun) flesh of mostly Pacific food fishes of the genus Sarda of the family Scombridae; related to but smaller than tuna | - |
bookstore | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookshop, bookstall |
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bottom | (noun) a cargo ship | Synonyms: freighter, merchant ship, merchantman |
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(noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
(noun) the lower side of anything | Synonyms: underside, undersurface |
(noun) the lowest part of anything | - |
(noun) a depression forming the ground under a body of water | Synonyms: bed |
(noun) low-lying alluvial land near a river | Synonyms: bottomland |
(noun) the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat | Synonyms: bottom of the inning |
bottomland | (noun) low-lying alluvial land near a river | Synonyms: bottom |
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bottomlessness | (noun) the property of being very deep; without limit | - |
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botulismotoxin | (noun) potent bacterial toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum that causes botulism; can be used as a bioweapon | Synonyms: botulin, botulinus toxin |
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boutonniere | (noun) a flower that is worn in a buttonhole | - |
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brachistochrone | (noun) a curve between two points along which a body can move under gravity in a shorter time than for any other curve. | - |
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brainstorm | (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainwave, insight |
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brainstorming | (noun) a group problem-solving technique in which members spontaneously share ideas and solutions | - |
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breakstone | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga | Synonyms: rockfoil, saxifrage |
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brimstone | (noun) an old name for sulfur | Synonyms: native sulfur, native sulphur |
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bronchodilator | (noun) a drug that relaxes and dilates the bronchial passageways and improves the passages of air into the lungs | - |
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brontosaur | (noun) huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic | Synonyms: apatosaur, apatosaurus, Apatosaurus excelsus, brontosaurus, thunder lizard |
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brontosaurus | (noun) huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic | Synonyms: apatosaur, apatosaurus, Apatosaurus excelsus, brontosaur, thunder lizard |
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brownstone | (noun) a row house built of brownstone; reddish brown in color | - |
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(noun) a reddish brown sandstone; used in buildings | - |
bucktooth | (noun) a large projecting front tooth | - |
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burrito | (noun) a flour tortilla folded around a filling | - |
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buttock | (noun) either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump | Synonyms: cheek |
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buttocks | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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button | (noun) a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes | - |
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(noun) an electrical switch operated by pressing | Synonyms: push, push button |
(noun) a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism | Synonyms: release |
(noun) any artifact that resembles a button | - |
(noun) a specific area or icon in graphical user interface systems that is clicked or pressed in order to select a command or perform an action | - |
(noun) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | Synonyms: clit, clitoris |
(noun) a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment | - |
(noun) any of various plant parts that resemble buttons | - |
buttonhole | (noun) a hole through which buttons are pushed | Synonyms: button hole |
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buttonhook | (noun) a hook for pulling a button through a buttonhole | - |
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buttonwood | (noun) very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico | Synonyms: American plane, American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis |
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caimito | (noun) evergreen tree of West Indies and Central America having edible purple fruit star-shaped in cross section and dark green leaves with golden silky undersides | Synonyms: Chrysophyllum cainito, star apple |
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calcitonin | (noun) thyroid hormone that tends to lower the level of calcium in the blood plasma and inhibit resorption of bone | Synonyms: thyrocalcitonin |
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calculator | (noun) a small machine that is used for mathematical calculations; can be mechanical or electronic | Synonyms: calculating machine |
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(noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: computer, estimator, figurer, reckoner |
callosectomy | (noun) severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy) | Synonyms: callosotomy |
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callosotomy | (noun) severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy) | Synonyms: callosectomy |
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calorisator | (noun) an apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion. | Synonyms: calorizator |
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calorizator | (noun) an apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion. | Synonyms: calorisator |
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campstool | (noun) a folding stool | - |
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canafistola | (noun) deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia | Synonyms: canafistula, Cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia |
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canto | (noun) a major division of a long poem | - |
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(noun) the highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music | - |
canton | (noun) a small administrative division of a country | - |
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