| matter | (noun) that which has mass and occupies space | - |
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| (noun) (used with negation) having consequence | - |
| (noun) some situation or event that is thought about | Synonyms: issue, subject, topic |
| (noun) a vaguely specified concern | Synonyms: affair, thing |
| (noun) a problem | - |
| (noun) written works (especially in books or magazines) | - |
| mutter | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, muttering |
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| (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, muttering |
| mutterer | (noun) a person who speaks softly and indistinctly | Synonyms: mumbler, murmurer |
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| muttering | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, mutter |
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| (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, mutter |
| natterjack | (noun) common brownish-yellow short-legged toad of western Europe; runs rather than hops | Synonyms: Bufo calamita |
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| neurotransmitter | (noun) a neurochemical that transmits nerve impulses across a synapse | - |
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| newsletter | (noun) report or open letter giving informal or confidential news of interest to a special group | Synonyms: newssheet |
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| nutter | (noun) a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad | Synonyms: wacko, whacko |
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| otter | (noun) freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur | - |
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| (noun) the fur of an otter | - |
| otterhound | (noun) hardy British hound having long pendulous ears and a thick coarse shaggy coat with an oily undercoat; bred for hunting otters | Synonyms: otter hound |
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| outfitter | (noun) a shop that provides equipment for some specific purpose | - |
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| (noun) someone who sells men's clothes | - |
| pacesetter | (noun) a horse used to set the pace in racing | Synonyms: pacemaker, pacer |
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| (noun) a leading instance in its field | Synonyms: pacemaker |
| patter | (noun) plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson) | Synonyms: line of gab, spiel |
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| (noun) a quick succession of light rapid sounds | - |
| pattern | (noun) a customary way of operation or behavior | Synonyms: practice |
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| (noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: design, figure |
| (noun) a perceptual structure | Synonyms: form, shape |
| (noun) a model considered worthy of imitation | - |
| (noun) something intended as a guide for making something else | Synonyms: blueprint, design |
| (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, formula, normal, rule |
| (noun) graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle | Synonyms: radiation diagram, radiation pattern |
| (noun) the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport | Synonyms: approach pattern, traffic pattern |
| patternmaker | (noun) someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentry or metalworking) | - |
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| petter | (noun) a lover who gently fondles and caresses the loved one | Synonyms: fondler |
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| platter | (noun) a large shallow dish used for serving food | - |
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| (noun) sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove | Synonyms: disc, disk, phonograph record, phonograph recording, record |
| plotter | (noun) an instrument (usually driven by a computer) for drawing graphs or pictures | - |
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| (noun) a member of a conspiracy | Synonyms: coconspirator, conspirator, machinator |
| (noun) a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action | Synonyms: schemer |
| (noun) a clerk who marks data on a chart | Synonyms: mapper |
| potter | (noun) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln | Synonyms: ceramicist, ceramist, thrower |
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| potterer | (noun) a person who putters about | Synonyms: putterer |
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| pottery | (noun) the craft of making earthenware | - |
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| (noun) ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln | Synonyms: clayware |
| (noun) a workshop where clayware is made | - |
| putter | (noun) the iron normally used on the putting green | Synonyms: putting iron |
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| (noun) a golfer who is putting | - |
| putterer | (noun) a person who putters about | Synonyms: potterer |
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| quitter | (noun) a person who gives up too easily | - |
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| ratter | (noun) any of several breeds of terrier developed to catch rats | Synonyms: rat terrier |
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| (noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: apostate, deserter, recreant, renegade, turncoat |
| rebutter | (noun) (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder | Synonyms: rebuttal |
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| (noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: confuter, disprover, refuter |
| rettery | (noun) a place or establishment where flax is retted. | - |
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| rivetter | (noun) a machine for driving rivets | Synonyms: riveter, riveting machine |
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| (noun) a worker who inserts and hammers rivets | Synonyms: riveter |
| rotter | (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
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| scatter | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scattering, strewing |
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| (noun) a haphazard distribution in all directions | Synonyms: spread |
| scatterbrain | (noun) a flighty and disorganized person | Synonyms: forgetful person |
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| scattergood | (noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: spend-all, spender, spendthrift |
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| scattergun | (noun) firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges | Synonyms: shotgun |
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| scattering | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scatter, strewing |
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| (noun) spreading widely or driving off | Synonyms: dispersion |
| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: sprinkle, sprinkling |
| (noun) the physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions | - |
| (noun) a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly | Synonyms: sprinkling |
| setter | (noun) a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point | - |
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| (noun) one who sets written material into type | Synonyms: compositor, typesetter, typographer |
| setterwort | (noun) digitate-leaved hellebore with an offensive odor and irritant qualities when taken internally | Synonyms: bear's foot, Helleborus foetidus, stinking hellebore |
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| shattering | (noun) the act of breaking something into small pieces | Synonyms: smashing |
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| shitter | (noun) a person who defecates | Synonyms: defecator, voider |
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| shutter | (noun) a hinged blind for a window | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure | - |
| shutterbug | (noun) a photography enthusiast | - |
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| sidesplitter | (noun) a joke that seems extremely funny | Synonyms: belly laugh, howler, riot, scream, thigh-slapper, wow |
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| sitter | (noun) a domestic hen ready to brood | Synonyms: brood hen, broody, broody hen, setting hen |
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| (noun) a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home | Synonyms: baby-sitter, babysitter |
| (noun) an organism (person or animal) that sits | - |
| (noun) a person who poses for a painter or sculptor | Synonyms: artist's model |
| slattern | (noun) a dirty untidy woman | Synonyms: slovenly woman, slut, trollop |
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| (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, street girl, streetwalker |
| slatternliness | (noun) in the manner of a slattern | Synonyms: sluttishness |
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| smattering | (noun) a slight or superficial understanding of a subject | - |
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| (noun) a small number or amount | Synonyms: handful |
| spatter | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spattering, splash, splashing, splattering |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spattering, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputter, sputtering |
| spatterdock | (noun) common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers; in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water | Synonyms: cow lily, Nuphar advena, yellow pond lily |
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| spattering | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spatter, splash, splashing, splattering |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputter, sputtering |
| spitter | (noun) an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it | Synonyms: spitball |
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| (noun) a person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth) | Synonyms: expectorator |
| splatter | (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splattering, splutter, sputter, sputtering |
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| (noun) a small quantity of something moist or liquid | Synonyms: dab, splash |
| splattering | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splash, splashing |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splutter, sputter, sputtering |
| splitter | (noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics | Synonyms: divider |
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| (noun) a worker who splits fish and removes the backbone | - |
| (noun) a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences | Synonyms: rail-splitter |
| splutter | (noun) an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage) | Synonyms: sputter |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, sputter, sputtering |
| spotter | (noun) someone who is the first to observe something | Synonyms: discoverer, finder |
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| (noun) a worker employed to apply spots (as markers or identifiers) | - |
| (noun) a worker employed at a dry-cleaning establishment to remove spots | - |
| (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, sentry, watch |
| sputter | (noun) an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage) | Synonyms: splutter |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputtering |
| sputtering | (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputter |
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| squatter | (noun) someone who settles on land without right or title | - |
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| (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: homesteader, nester |
| steamfitter | (noun) a craftsman who installs and maintains equipment for ventilating or heating or refrigerating | - |
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| stonecutter | (noun) someone who cuts or carves stone | Synonyms: cutter |
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| stutter | (noun) a speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds | Synonyms: stammer |
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| stutterer | (noun) someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions | Synonyms: stammerer |
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| submitter | (noun) someone who submits something (as an application for a job or a manuscript for publication etc.) for the judgment of others | - |
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| (noun) someone who yields to the will of another person or force | - |
| surrebutter | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rebutter | Synonyms: surrebuttal |
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| swatter | (noun) an implement with a flat part (of mesh or plastic) and a long handle; used to kill insects | Synonyms: flyswat, flyswatter |
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| tatter | (noun) a small piece of cloth | Synonyms: rag, shred, tag, tag end |
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| tatterdemalion | (noun) a dirty shabbily clothed urchin | Synonyms: ragamuffin |
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| teetertotter | (noun) a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end | Synonyms: dandle board, seesaw, teeter-totter, teeter, teeterboard, tilting board |
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| tetterwort | (noun) perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant | Synonyms: bloodroot, puccoon, redroot, Sanguinaria canadensis |
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| titter | (noun) a nervous restrained laugh | - |
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| titterer | (noun) a person who laughs nervously | Synonyms: giggler |
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| totterer | (noun) someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall | Synonyms: reeler, staggerer |
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| transmitter | (noun) set used to broadcast radio or tv signals | Synonyms: sender |
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| (noun) any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease | Synonyms: vector |
| (noun) someone who transmits a message | Synonyms: sender |
| trotter | (noun) a horse trained to trot; especially a horse trained for harness racing | Synonyms: trotting horse |
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| (noun) foot of a pig or sheep especially one used as food | - |
| twitter | (noun) a series of chirps | Synonyms: chirrup |
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| twitterer | (noun) a bird that twitters | - |
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| twitterverse | (noun) the social sphere of the Twitter service | - |
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| typesetter | (noun) one who sets written material into type | Synonyms: compositor, setter, typographer |
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| upsetter | (noun) an unexpected winner; someone who defeats the favorite competitor | - |
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| utterance | (noun) the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication | Synonyms: vocalization |
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| utterer | (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: speaker, talker, verbaliser, verbalizer |
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| (noun) someone who circulates forged banknotes or counterfeit coins | - |
| (noun) an organism that can utter vocal sounds | Synonyms: vocaliser, vocalizer |
| uttermost | (noun) the greatest possible degree | Synonyms: level best, maximum, utmost |
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| utterness | (noun) the quality of being complete or utter or extreme | Synonyms: absoluteness, starkness |
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| wetter | (noun) a workman who wets the work in a manufacturing process | - |
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| (noun) someone suffering from enuresis; someone who urinates while asleep in bed | Synonyms: bed wetter, bedwetter |
| (noun) a chemical agent capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved | Synonyms: surface-active agent, surfactant, wetting agent |
| wildcatter | (noun) an oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not known to be an oil field | - |
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| woodcutter | (noun) cuts down trees and chops wood as a job | - |
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| ytterbite | (noun) a mineral that is a source of rare earths; consists of silicates of iron and beryllium and cerium and yttrium and erbium | Synonyms: gadolinite |
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| ytterbium | (noun) a soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite and xenotime | Synonyms: atomic number 70, Yb |
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