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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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 |
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 |
barytone | (noun) a male singer | Synonyms: baritone |
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bilestone | (noun) a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts | Synonyms: gallstone |
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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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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 | - |
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 |
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 |
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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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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curbstone | (noun) a paving stone forming part of a curb | Synonyms: kerbstone |
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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 | - |
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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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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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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grindstone | (noun) a revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or sharpen or polish edge tools | - |
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gritstone | (noun) a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone | Synonyms: grit, gritrock |
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hailstone | (noun) small pellet of ice that falls during a hailstorm | - |
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halftone | (noun) an engraving used to reproduce an illustration | Synonyms: halftone engraving, photoengraving |
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(noun) a print obtained from photoengraving | - |
headstone | (noun) the central building block at the top of an arch or vault | Synonyms: key, keystone |
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(noun) a stone that is used to mark a grave | Synonyms: gravestone, tombstone |
hearthstone | (noun) a stone that forms a hearth | - |
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histone | (noun) a simple protein containing mainly basic amino acids; present in cell nuclei in association with nucleic acids | - |
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holystone | (noun) a soft sandstone used for scrubbing the decks of a ship | - |
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hornstone | (noun) a fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of heat on clay rocks | Synonyms: hornfels |
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jackstones | (noun) a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball | Synonyms: jacks, knucklebones |
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(noun) game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks | Synonyms: jack |
jadestone | (noun) a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite | Synonyms: jade |
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kerbstone | (noun) a paving stone forming part of a curb | Synonyms: curbstone |
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ketone | (noun) any of a class of organic compounds having a carbonyl group linked to a carbon atom in each of two hydrocarbon radicals | - |
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ketonemia | (noun) an abnormal increase of ketone bodies in the blood as in diabetes mellitus | Synonyms: acetonemia, ketosis |
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keystone | (noun) the central building block at the top of an arch or vault | Synonyms: headstone, key |
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(noun) a central cohesive source of support and stability | Synonyms: anchor, backbone, linchpin, lynchpin, mainstay |
lactone | (noun) a cyclic intramolecular ester derived from a hydroxy acid. | - |
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limestone | (noun) a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals | - |
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loadstone | (noun) a permanent magnet consisting of magnetite that possess polarity and has the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically | Synonyms: lodestone |
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lodestone | (noun) a permanent magnet consisting of magnetite that possess polarity and has the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically | Synonyms: loadstone |
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marlstone | (noun) metamorphic rock with approximately the same composition as marl | Synonyms: marlite |
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mearstone | (noun) an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab | Synonyms: meerestone, merestone |
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meerestone | (noun) an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab | Synonyms: mearstone, merestone |
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merestone | (noun) an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab | Synonyms: mearstone, meerestone |
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mifepristone | (noun) an abortion-inducing drug (trade name RU 486) developed in France; when taken during the first five weeks of pregnancy it blocks the action of progesterone so that the uterus sloughs off the embryo | Synonyms: abortion pill, RU 486 |
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milestone | (noun) stone post at side of a road to show distances | Synonyms: milepost |
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(noun) a significant event in your life (or in a project) | - |
millstone | (noun) one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain | - |
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(noun) any load that is difficult to carry | - |
(noun) (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps | Synonyms: albatross |
monotone | (noun) an unchanging intonation | Synonyms: drone, droning |
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(noun) a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts) | - |
moonstone | (noun) a transparent or translucent gemstone with a pearly luster; some specimens are orthoclase feldspar and others are plagioclase feldspar | - |
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motoneuron | (noun) a neuron conducting impulses outwards from the brain or spinal cord | Synonyms: efferent neuron, motor nerve fiber, motor neuron |
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nabumetone | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Relafen) | Synonyms: Relafen |
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oilstone | (noun) a whetstone for use with oil | - |
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overtone | (noun) a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency | Synonyms: partial, partial tone |
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(noun) (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality | - |
oxytone | (noun) word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable | - |
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paroxytone | (noun) word having stress or acute accent on the next to last syllable | - |
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pentatone | (noun) a gapped scale with five notes; usually the fourth and seventh notes of the diatonic scale are omitted | Synonyms: pentatonic scale |
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peptone | (noun) any of various water-soluble compounds that form by hydrolysis in the digestion of proteins to amino acids | - |
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peritoneum | (noun) a transparent membrane that lines the abdominal cavity in mammals and covers most of the viscera | - |
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phenobarbitone | (noun) a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative | Synonyms: Luminal, phenobarbital, purple heart, sodium thiopental |
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pitchstone | (noun) dark acid granitic glass | - |
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proparoxytone | (noun) word having stress or acute accent on the antepenult | - |
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rhinestone | (noun) an imitation diamond made from rock crystal or glass or paste | - |
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rottenstone | (noun) a weathered and decomposed siliceous limestone; in powdered form it is used in polishing | Synonyms: tripoli |
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sandstone | (noun) a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.) | - |
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semitone | (noun) the musical interval between adjacent keys on a keyboard instrument | Synonyms: half step |
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siltstone | (noun) a fine-grained sandstone of consolidated silt | - |
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soapstone | (noun) a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments | Synonyms: soap-rock, soaprock, steatite |
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spironolactone | (noun) a synthetic corticosteroid (trade name Aldactone) used to treat hypertension | Synonyms: Aldactone |
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stone | (noun) building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose | - |
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(noun) a lack of feeling or expression or movement | - |
(noun) a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter | Synonyms: rock |
(noun) the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed | Synonyms: endocarp, pit |
(noun) an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds | - |
(noun) material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust | Synonyms: rock |
(noun) a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry | Synonyms: gem, gemstone |
stonechat | (noun) common European chat with black plumage and a reddish-brown breast | Synonyms: Saxicola torquata |
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stonecress | (noun) any Old World herb of the genus Aethionema; native of sunny limestone habitats | Synonyms: stone cress |
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stonecrop | (noun) any of various northern temperate plants of the genus Sedum having fleshy leaves and red or yellow or white flowers | - |
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stonecutter | (noun) someone who cuts or carves stone | Synonyms: cutter |
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stoneface | (noun) any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones | Synonyms: flowering stone, lithops, living stone, stone-face, stone life face, stone plant |
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stonefish | (noun) venomous tropical marine fish resembling a piece of rock | Synonyms: Synanceja verrucosa |
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stonefly | (noun) primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones | Synonyms: plecopteran, stone fly |
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stonemason | (noun) a craftsman who works with stone or brick | Synonyms: mason |
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stoner | (noun) an attacker who pelts the victim with stones (especially with intent to kill) | Synonyms: lapidator |
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stoneroot | (noun) erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States | Synonyms: Collinsonia canadensis, horse balm, horseweed, richweed, stone-root, stone root |
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stonewaller | (noun) one who stonewalls or refuses to answer or cooperate; someone who delays by lengthy speeches etc. | - |
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stonewalling | (noun) stalling or delaying especially by refusing to answer questions or cooperate | - |
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stoneware | (noun) ceramic ware that is fired in high heat and vitrified and nonporous | - |
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stonework | (noun) masonry done with stone | - |
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stonewort | (noun) any of various submerged aquatic algae of the genus Chara having nodes with whorled filamentlike branches; usually encrusted with calcium carbonate deposits | - |
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sunstone | (noun) a translucent quartz spangled with bits of mica or other minerals | Synonyms: aventurine |
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tombstone | (noun) a stone that is used to mark a grave | Synonyms: gravestone, headstone |
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tone | (noun) a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color | Synonyms: shade, tincture, tint |
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(noun) (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) | Synonyms: quality, timber, timbre |
(noun) (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages | - |
(noun) the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author | - |
(noun) a steady sound without overtones | Synonyms: pure tone |
(noun) a musical interval of two semitones | Synonyms: step, whole step, whole tone |
(noun) the quality of a person's voice | Synonyms: tone of voice |
(noun) a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound | Synonyms: musical note, note |
(noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit |
(noun) the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli | Synonyms: tonicity, tonus |
toner | (noun) a lotion for cleansing the skin and contracting the pores | - |
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(noun) a black or colored powder used in a printer to develop a xerographic image | - |
(noun) a solution containing chemicals that can change the color of a photographic print | - |
touchstone | (noun) a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated | Synonyms: criterion, measure, standard |
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