acetone | (noun) the simplest ketone; a highly flammable liquid widely used as an organic solvent and as material for making plastics | Synonyms: dimethyl ketone, propanone |
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acetonemia | (noun) an abnormal increase of ketone bodies in the blood as in diabetes mellitus | Synonyms: ketonemia, ketosis |
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acetonuria | (noun) excessive amounts of ketone bodies in the urine as in diabetes mellitus or starvation | Synonyms: ketoaciduria, ketonuria |
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acromyotonia | (noun) myotonia of the extremities only; causes spastic deformity of the hand or foot | - |
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alcapton | (noun) an acid formed as an intermediate product of the metabolism of tyrosine and phenylalanine | Synonyms: alkapton, homogentisic acid |
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alcaptonuria | (noun) a rare recessive metabolic anomaly marked by ochronosis and the presence of alkapton in the urine | Synonyms: alkaptonuria |
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alkapton | (noun) an acid formed as an intermediate product of the metabolism of tyrosine and phenylalanine | Synonyms: alcapton, homogentisic acid |
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alkaptonuria | (noun) a rare recessive metabolic anomaly marked by ochronosis and the presence of alkapton in the urine | Synonyms: alcaptonuria |
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amyotonia | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: atonia, atonicity, atony |
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angiotonin | (noun) any of several vasoconstrictor substances (trade name Hypertensin) that cause narrowing of blood vessels | Synonyms: angiotensin, Hypertensin |
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antilepton | (noun) the antiparticle of a lepton | - |
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antiproton | (noun) an unstable negatively charged proton; the antiparticle of a proton | - |
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antonym | (noun) a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other | Synonyms: opposite, opposite word |
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antonymy | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express opposite meanings | - |
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architectonics | (noun) the science of architecture | Synonyms: tectonics |
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astonishment | (noun) the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising | Synonyms: amazement |
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asyndeton | (noun) the omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used | - |
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atonalism | (noun) the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system | Synonyms: atonality |
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atonality | (noun) the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system | Synonyms: atonalism |
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atonement | (noun) the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity) | Synonyms: expiation, propitiation |
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(noun) compensation for a wrong | Synonyms: expiation, satisfaction |
atonia | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: amyotonia, atonicity, atony |
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atonicity | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: amyotonia, atonia, atony |
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atony | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: amyotonia, atonia, atonicity |
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automaton | (noun) a mechanism that can move automatically | Synonyms: golem, robot |
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(noun) a machine that operates on its own without the need for human control | - |
(noun) someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way | Synonyms: zombi, zombie |
autonomy | (noun) immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence | Synonyms: liberty |
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(noun) personal independence | Synonyms: self-direction, self-reliance, self-sufficiency |
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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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 |
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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bentonite | (noun) an absorbent aluminum silicate clay formed from volcanic ash | - |
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bettong | (noun) short-nosed rat kangaroo | - |
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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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bloodstone | (noun) green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood | Synonyms: heliotrope |
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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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boutonniere | (noun) a flower that is worn in a buttonhole | - |
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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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brownstone | (noun) a row house built of brownstone; reddish brown in color | - |
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(noun) a reddish brown sandstone; used in buildings | - |
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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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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canton | (noun) a small administrative division of a country | - |
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cantonment | (noun) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers | Synonyms: bivouac, camp, encampment |
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capstone | (noun) a stone that forms the top of wall or building | Synonyms: copestone, coping stone, stretcher |
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(noun) a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination | Synonyms: copestone, finishing touch |
carton | (noun) a box made of cardboard; opens by flaps on top | - |
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(noun) the quantity contained in a carton | Synonyms: cartonful |
cartonful | (noun) the quantity contained in a carton | Synonyms: carton |
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catatonia | (noun) a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way to short periods of extreme excitement | Synonyms: catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophrenia |
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(noun) extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia | - |
chalkstone | (noun) a deposit of urates around a joint or in the external ear; diagnostic of advanced or chronic gout | Synonyms: tophus |
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cherrystone | (noun) a half-grown quahog | Synonyms: cherrystone clam |
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(noun) small quahog larger than a littleneck; eaten raw or cooked as in e.g. clams casino | Synonyms: cherrystone clam |
chiton | (noun) primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates | Synonyms: coat-of-mail shell, polyplacophore, sea cradle |
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(noun) a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece | - |
claystone | (noun) fine-grained rock consisting of compacted clay particles | - |
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clingstone | (noun) fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit | Synonyms: cling |
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clintonia | (noun) any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries | Synonyms: Clinton's lily |
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cobblestone | (noun) rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads | Synonyms: cobble, sett |
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copestone | (noun) a stone that forms the top of wall or building | Synonyms: capstone, coping stone, stretcher |
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(noun) a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination | Synonyms: capstone, finishing touch |
cornerstone | (noun) a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls | - |
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(noun) a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies | - |
(noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, foundation, fundament, groundwork |
cotoneaster | (noun) any shrub of the genus Cotoneaster: erect or creeping shrubs having richly colored autumn foliage and many small white to pinkish flowers followed by tiny red or black fruits | - |
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cotton | (noun) fabric woven from cotton fibers | - |
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(noun) thread made of cotton fibers | - |
(noun) erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers | Synonyms: cotton plant |
(noun) soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state | Synonyms: cotton fiber, cotton wool |
cottonmouth | (noun) venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States | Synonyms: Agkistrodon piscivorus, cottonmouth moccasin, water moccasin |
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cottonseed | (noun) seed of cotton plants; source of cottonseed oil | - |
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cottontail | (noun) common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) | Synonyms: cottontail rabbit, wood rabbit |
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cottonweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Froelichia found in sandy soils and on rocky slopes in warmer regions of America; grown for their spikes of woolly white flowers | - |
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(noun) an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts | Synonyms: Anaphalis margaritacea, pearly everlasting |
cottonwick | (noun) of warm Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Haemulon malanurum |
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cottonwood | (noun) any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed | - |
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(noun) American basswood of the Allegheny region | Synonyms: Tilia heterophylla, white basswood |
craton | (noun) the part of a continent that is stable and forms the central mass of the continent; typically Precambrian | - |
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cretonne | (noun) an unglazed heavy fabric; brightly printed; used for slipcovers and draperies | - |
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croton | (noun) tropical Asiatic shrub; source of croton oil | Synonyms: Croton tiglium |
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(noun) grown in many varieties for their brightly colored foliage; widely cultivated as a houseplant | Synonyms: Codiaeum variegatum |
crotonbug | (noun) small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe; a common household pest | Synonyms: Blattella germanica, Croton bug, German cockroach, water bug |
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crouton | (noun) a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads | - |
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curbstone | (noun) a paving stone forming part of a curb | Synonyms: kerbstone |
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cytoarchitectonics | (noun) the cellular composition of a bodily structure | Synonyms: cytoarchitecture |
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cytoskeleton | (noun) a microscopic network of actin filaments and microtubules in the cytoplasm of many living cells that gives the cell shape and coherence | - |
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detonation | (noun) the act of detonating an explosive | - |
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(noun) a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction | Synonyms: blowup, explosion |
detonator | (noun) a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive | Synonyms: cap, detonating device |
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doubleton | (noun) (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player | - |
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dripstone | (noun) a protective drip that is made of stone | Synonyms: hoodmold, hoodmould |
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(noun) the form of calcium carbonate found in stalactites and stalagmites | - |
earthtongue | (noun) any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum | Synonyms: earth-tongue |
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endoskeleton | (noun) the internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates) | - |
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eschaton | (noun) (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives | Synonyms: crack of doom, Day of Judgement, Day of Judgment, day of reckoning, Doomsday, doomsday, end of the world, Judgement Day, Judgment Day, Last Day, Last Judgement, Last Judgment |
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exoskeleton | (noun) the exterior protective or supporting structure or shell of many animals (especially invertebrates) including bony or horny parts such as nails or scales or hoofs | - |
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fieldstone | (noun) stone that occurs naturally in fields; often used as building material | - |
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firestone | (noun) a sandstone that withstands intense heat; used to line fireplaces and furnaces and kilns | - |
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(noun) a piece of flint that is struck to light a fire | - |
flagstone | (noun) stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones | Synonyms: flag |
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flintstone | (noun) pebbles of flint used in masonry construction | - |
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freestone | (noun) fruit (especially peach) whose flesh does not adhere to the pit | - |
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futon | (noun) mattress consisting of a pad of cotton batting that is used for sleeping on the floor or on a raised frame | - |
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gallstone | (noun) a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts | Synonyms: bilestone |
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gemstone | (noun) a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry | Synonyms: gem, stone |
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gigatonne | (noun) a unit of weight equivalent to 1 billion tonnes. | Synonyms: Gt |
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glutton | (noun) musteline mammal of northern Eurasia | Synonyms: Gulo gulo, wolverine |
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(noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman |
gluttony | (noun) eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: gula, overeating |
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(noun) habitual eating to excess | - |
goldstone | (noun) aventurine spangled densely with fine gold-colored particles | - |
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gravestone | (noun) a stone that is used to mark a grave | Synonyms: headstone, tombstone |
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