| birretta | (noun) a stiff cap with ridges across the crown; worn by Roman Catholic clergy | Synonyms: berretta, biretta |
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| bitt | (noun) a strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines) | Synonyms: bollard |
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| bitter | (noun) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste | Synonyms: bitterness |
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| (noun) the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: bitterness |
| (noun) English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft) | - |
| bittercress | (noun) any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic | Synonyms: bitter cress |
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| bittern | (noun) relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry; found in marshes | - |
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| bitterness | (noun) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste | Synonyms: bitter |
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| (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
| (noun) the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: bitter |
| (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: gall, rancor, rancour, resentment |
| bitternut | (noun) hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts | Synonyms: bitter hickory, bitter pignut, bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, swamp hickory |
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| bitterroot | (noun) showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower | Synonyms: Lewisia rediviva |
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| bitters | (noun) alcoholic liquor flavored with bitter herbs and roots | - |
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| bittersweet | (noun) twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds | Synonyms: American bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, shrubby bittersweet, staff vine, waxwork |
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| (noun) poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America | Synonyms: bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, poisonous nightshade, Solanum dulcamara, woody nightshade |
| bitterweed | (noun) any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma | Synonyms: ambrosia, ragweed |
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| (noun) widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: bristly oxtongue, bugloss, oxtongue, Picris echioides |
| bitterwood | (noun) handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark | Synonyms: quassia, Quassia amara |
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| (noun) West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia | Synonyms: Jamaica quassia, Picrasma excelsa, Picrasma excelsum |
| (noun) medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits | Synonyms: paradise tree, Simarouba glauca |
| bitthead | (noun) the upper end of a bitt | - |
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| bloodletting | (noun) formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) | - |
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| (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodbath, bloodshed |
| blotter | (noun) the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station | Synonyms: charge sheet, day book, police blotter, rap sheet |
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| (noun) absorbent paper used to dry ink | Synonyms: blotting paper |
| bluebottle | (noun) blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight | Synonyms: Calliphora vicina |
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| (noun) an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: bachelor's button, Centaurea cyanus, cornflower |
| bonesetter | (noun) someone (not necessarily a licensed physician) who sets broken bones | - |
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| bottle | (noun) a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped | - |
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| (noun) a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children | Synonyms: feeding bottle, nursing bottle |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a bottle | Synonyms: bottleful |
| bottlebrush | (noun) a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles | - |
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| bottlecap | (noun) a cap that seals a bottle | - |
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| bottleful | (noun) the quantity contained in a bottle | Synonyms: bottle |
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| bottleneck | (noun) the narrow part of a bottle near the top | - |
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| (noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: chokepoint, constriction |
| bottlenose | (noun) northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead | Synonyms: bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus |
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| (noun) any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean | Synonyms: bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose dolphin |
| bottler | (noun) a manufacturer that makes and bottles beverages | - |
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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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| boycott | (noun) a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies | - |
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| brattice | (noun) a partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine | - |
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| brattiness | (noun) The state or condition of acting like a brat, being unruly and impolite. | - |
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| briquette | (noun) a block made from charcoal or coal dust and burned as fuel | Synonyms: briquet |
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| britt | (noun) the young of a herring or sprat or similar fish | Synonyms: brit |
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| (noun) minute crustaceans forming food for right whales | Synonyms: brit |
| brittle | (noun) caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets | Synonyms: toffee, toffy |
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| brittlebush | (noun) fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine | Synonyms: brittle bush, Encelia farinosa, incienso |
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| brittleness | (noun) firm but easily broken | Synonyms: crispiness, crispness |
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| brochette | (noun) a small spit or skewer | - |
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| brunette | (noun) a person with dark (brown) hair | Synonyms: brunet |
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| burette | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube with a tap at the bottom; used for titration | Synonyms: buret |
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| butt | (noun) thick end of the handle | Synonyms: butt end |
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| (noun) the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking) | Synonyms: stub |
| (noun) a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons) | - |
| (noun) sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at | Synonyms: target |
| (noun) finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking | Synonyms: cigaret, cigarette, coffin nail, fag |
| (noun) a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping | Synonyms: butt joint |
| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: goat, laughingstock, stooge |
| (noun) the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots | - |
| butte | (noun) a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides | - |
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| butter | (noun) an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use | - |
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| (noun) a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head | - |
| butterball | (noun) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, bufflehead, dipper |
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| (noun) a rotund individual | Synonyms: fat person, fatso, fatty, roly-poly |
| butterbean | (noun) small flat green bean similar to lima beans | Synonyms: butter bean, civet bean, sieva bean |
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| butterbur | (noun) small Eurasian herb having broad leaves and lilac-pink rayless flowers; found in moist areas | Synonyms: bog rhubarb, Petasites hybridus, Petasites vulgaris |
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| buttercrunch | (noun) lettuce with delicate and relatively crunchy leaves | - |
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| buttercup | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, butterflower, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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| butterfat | (noun) the fatty substance of milk from which butter is made | - |
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| butterfingers | (noun) someone who drops things (especially one who cannot catch a ball) | - |
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| butterfish | (noun) small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines | Synonyms: stromateid, stromateid fish |
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| (noun) slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: Pholis gunnellus, rock gunnel |
| (noun) any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin | - |
| butterflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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| butterfly | (noun) a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down | Synonyms: butterfly stroke |
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| (noun) diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings | - |
| butterflyfish | (noun) tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins | Synonyms: flying gurnard, flying robin |
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| buttermilk | (noun) residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture | - |
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| butternut | (noun) oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family | - |
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| (noun) North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye | Synonyms: butternut tree, Juglans cinerea, white walnut |
| butterscotch | (noun) a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar | - |
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| butterweed | (noun) any of several yellow-flowered plants of the genus Packera; often placed in genus Senecio | - |
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| (noun) American ragwort with yellow flowers | Synonyms: ragwort, Senecio glabellus |
| butterwort | (noun) any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects | - |
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| buttery | (noun) a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals | - |
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| (noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | Synonyms: larder, pantry |
| buttinsky | (noun) a meddler who tends to butt in | - |
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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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| buttress | (noun) a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building | Synonyms: buttressing |
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| buttressing | (noun) a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building | Synonyms: buttress |
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| butty | (noun) a sandwich | - |
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| canecutter | (noun) a wood rabbit of southeastern United States swamps and lowlands | Synonyms: swamp hare, swamp rabbit, Sylvilagus aquaticus |
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| cappelletti | (noun) small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings | Synonyms: ravioli |
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| carburettor | (noun) mixes air with gasoline vapor prior to explosion | Synonyms: carburetor |
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| carrottop | (noun) someone who has red hair | Synonyms: red-header, redhead, redheader |
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| cassette | (noun) a container that holds a magnetic tape used for recording or playing sound or video | - |
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| cattail | (noun) tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes | - |
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| cattalo | (noun) hardy breed of cattle resulting from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo; yields leaner beef than conventional breeds | Synonyms: beefalo |
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| cattie | (noun) any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams) | Synonyms: catty |
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| cattiness | (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: bitchiness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness |
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| cattle | (noun) domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age | Synonyms: Bos taurus, cows, kine, oxen |
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| cattleman | (noun) a man who raises (or tends) cattle | Synonyms: beef man, cow man |
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| (noun) a male hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowboy, cowman |
| cattleship | (noun) a cargo ship for the transport of livestock | Synonyms: cattle boat |
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| cattleya | (noun) any orchid of the genus Cattleya characterized by a three-lobed lip enclosing the column; among the most popular and most extravagantly beautiful orchids known | - |
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| catty | (noun) any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams) | Synonyms: cattie |
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| cavetto | (noun) a concave molding shaped like a quarter circle in cross section | - |
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| chapatti | (noun) flat pancake-like bread cooked on a griddle | Synonyms: chapati |
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| charlotte | (noun) a mold lined with cake or crumbs and filled with fruit or whipped cream or custard | - |
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| chattel | (noun) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) | Synonyms: movable, personal chattel |
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| chatter | (noun) noisy talk | Synonyms: cackle, yack, yak, yakety-yak |
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| (noun) the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys) | Synonyms: chattering |
| (noun) the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine | Synonyms: chattering |
| chatterbox | (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter |
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| (noun) orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf | Synonyms: Epipactis gigantea, giant helleborine, stream orchid |
| chatterer | (noun) passerine bird of New World tropics | Synonyms: cotinga |
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| (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterbox, magpie, prater, spouter |
| chattering | (noun) the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys) | Synonyms: chatter |
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| (noun) the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine | Synonyms: chatter |
| chemoattractant | (noun) a substance inducing positive chemotaxis in motile cells. | - |
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| chittamwood | (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittimwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood |
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| (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
| (noun) shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke | Synonyms: American smokewood, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus obovatus |
| chitterlings | (noun) small intestines of hogs prepared as food | Synonyms: chitlings, chitlins |
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| chittimwood | (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittamwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood |
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| (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
| cigarette | (noun) finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking | Synonyms: butt, cigaret, coffin nail, fag |
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| cittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, gittern |
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| clarinettist | (noun) a musician who plays the clarinet | Synonyms: clarinetist |
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| clatter | (noun) a rattling noise (often produced by rapid movement) | - |
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| clotting | (noun) the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid | Synonyms: coagulation, curdling |
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| clutter | (noun) unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen | - |
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| (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter |