| abattis | (noun) a line of defense consisting of a barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) pointed toward the enemy | Synonyms: abatis |
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| attic | (noun) floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage | Synonyms: garret, loft |
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| (noun) (architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof | - |
| (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: bean, bonce, dome, noggin, noodle |
| attire | (noun) clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion | Synonyms: dress, garb |
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| attitude | (noun) a theatrical pose created for effect | - |
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| (noun) the arrangement of the body and its limbs | Synonyms: position, posture |
| (noun) a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways | Synonyms: mental attitude |
| (noun) position of aircraft or spacecraft relative to a frame of reference (the horizon or direction of motion) | - |
| babbitting | (noun) lining a surface or bearing with Babbitt metal | - |
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| babysitting | (noun) the work of a baby sitter; caring for children when their parents are not home | Synonyms: baby sitting |
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| batting | (noun) (baseball) the batter's attempt to get on base | - |
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| (noun) stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: batten |
| 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 |
| 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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| buttinsky | (noun) a meddler who tends to butt in | - |
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| cappelletti | (noun) small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings | Synonyms: ravioli |
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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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| chapatti | (noun) flat pancake-like bread cooked on a griddle | Synonyms: chapati |
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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 |
| clarinettist | (noun) a musician who plays the clarinet | Synonyms: clarinetist |
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| clotting | (noun) the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid | Synonyms: coagulation, curdling |
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| confetti | (noun) small pieces or streamers of colored paper that are thrown around on festive occasions (as at a wedding) | - |
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| cottier | (noun) a medieval English villein | Synonyms: cotter |
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| cutting | (noun) the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends | Synonyms: cut, cutting off |
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| (noun) the act of cutting something into parts | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film | Synonyms: film editing |
| (noun) the act of diluting something | Synonyms: thinning |
| (noun) removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape | Synonyms: carving |
| (noun) the division of a deck of cards before dealing | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: clipping, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting |
| (noun) a piece cut off from the main part of something | - |
| (noun) a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting | Synonyms: slip |
| epiglottis | (noun) a flap of cartilage that covers the windpipe while swallowing | - |
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| epiglottitis | (noun) inflammation of the epiglottis; characterized by fever and a severe sore throat and difficulty in swallowing | - |
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| fattiness | (noun) having the property of containing fat | Synonyms: adiposeness, adiposity |
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| fattism | (noun) discrimination against people who are overweight | Synonyms: fatism |
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| fitting | (noun) putting clothes on to see whether they fit | Synonyms: try-on, trying on |
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| (noun) a small and often standardized accessory to a larger system | - |
| (noun) (usually in the plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel) | Synonyms: appointment |
| (noun) making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances | Synonyms: accommodation, adjustment |
| fittingness | (noun) the quality of being suitable | Synonyms: fitness |
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| formatting | (noun) the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing) | Synonyms: data format, data formatting, format |
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| getting | (noun) the act of acquiring something | Synonyms: acquiring |
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| ghatti | (noun) an Indian gum from the dhawa tree; used as a substitute for gum arabic | Synonyms: ghatti gum |
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| glottis | (noun) the vocal apparatus of the larynx; the true vocal folds and the space between them where the voice tone is generated | - |
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| hairsplitting | (noun) making too fine distinctions of little importance | Synonyms: word-splitting |
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| hitting | (noun) the act of contacting one thing with another | Synonyms: hit, striking |
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| jotting | (noun) a brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note | Synonyms: jot |
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| jutting | (noun) the act of projecting out from something | Synonyms: jut, projection, protrusion |
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| kittiwake | (noun) small pearl-grey gull of northern regions; nests on cliffs and has a rudimentary hind toe | - |
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| knitting | (noun) creating knitted wear | - |
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| (noun) needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine | Synonyms: knit, knitwork |
| knottiness | (noun) puzzling complexity | Synonyms: complicatedness, complication, tortuousness |
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| lattice | (noun) framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal | Synonyms: fretwork, latticework |
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| (noun) small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted | Synonyms: grille, wicket |
| (noun) an arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern in 2 or 3 dimensions | - |
| latticework | (noun) framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal | Synonyms: fretwork, lattice |
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| letting | (noun) property that is leased or rented out or let | Synonyms: lease, rental |
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| librettist | (noun) author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta | - |
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| manicotti | (noun) large pasta tubes stuffed with chopped meat or mild cheese and baked in tomato sauce | - |
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| matting | (noun) a covering of coarse fabric (usually of straw or hemp) | - |
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| (noun) mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture | Synonyms: mat |
| millettia | (noun) any of several tropical trees or shrubs yielding showy streaked dark reddish or chocolate-colored wood | - |
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| nattiness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: dapperness, jauntiness, rakishness |
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| netting | (noun) creating nets | - |
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| (noun) a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave | Synonyms: gauze, veiling |
| nighttime | (noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: dark, night |
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| outfitting | (noun) the act of renovating and fitting out a ship | - |
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| pargetting | (noun) ornamental plastering | Synonyms: pargeting |
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| (noun) ornamental plasterwork | Synonyms: pargeting, pargetry |
| (noun) plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys | Synonyms: parget, pargeting |
| petticoat | (noun) undergarment worn under a skirt | Synonyms: half-slip, underskirt |
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| pettifogger | (noun) a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods | Synonyms: shyster |
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| (noun) a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections | Synonyms: caviler, caviller, quibbler |
| pettifoggery | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, bickering, fuss, spat, squabble, tiff |
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| pettiness | (noun) the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous | Synonyms: puniness, slightness, triviality |
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| (noun) lack of generosity in trifling matters | Synonyms: littleness, smallness |
| (noun) narrowness of mind or ideas or views | - |
| petting | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, smooching, snuggling |
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| pettishness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, peevishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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| pipefitting | (noun) fitting consisting of threaded pieces of pipe for joining pipes together | Synonyms: pipe fitting |
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| pitting | (noun) the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion | Synonyms: indentation, roughness |
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| poinsettia | (noun) tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Christmas flower, Christmas star, Euphorbia pulcherrima, lobster plant, Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf |
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| prettiness | (noun) the quality of being appealing in a delicate or graceful way (of a girl or young woman) | Synonyms: cuteness |
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| putting | (noun) hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter | Synonyms: putt |
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| ratting | (noun) to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors) | Synonyms: informing |
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| rotting | (noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: breakdown, decomposition, putrefaction, rot |
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| schottische | (noun) a German round dance resembling a slow polka | - |
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| (noun) music performed for dancing the schottische | - |
| setting | (noun) a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place | Synonyms: mount |
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| (noun) arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted | Synonyms: mise en scene, stage setting |
| (noun) a table service for one person | Synonyms: place setting |
| (noun) the context and environment in which something is set | Synonyms: scene |
| (noun) the physical position of something | - |
| (noun) the state of the environment in which a situation exists | Synonyms: background, scope |
| (noun) the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event | Synonyms: circumstance, context |
| shittim | (noun) shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit | Synonyms: Bumelia lycioides, mock orange, shittimwood, southern buckthorn |
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| shittimwood | (noun) wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle | - |
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| (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittamwood, chittimwood, false buckthorn |
| (noun) shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit | Synonyms: Bumelia lycioides, mock orange, shittim, southern buckthorn |
| shittiness | (noun) (vulgar, colloquial) The state or condition of being very bad; unpleasant; miserable; insignificant. | - |
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| shitting | (noun) the elimination of fecal waste through the anus | Synonyms: defecation, laxation |
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| shutting | (noun) the act of closing something | Synonyms: closing |
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| sitting | (noun) the act of assuming or maintaining a seated position | - |
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| (noun) (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait) | Synonyms: posing |
| (noun) a session as of a legislature or court | - |
| (noun) a meeting of spiritualists | Synonyms: seance, session |
| skittishness | (noun) characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright | Synonyms: restiveness |
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| sluttishness | (noun) in the manner of a slattern | Synonyms: slatternliness |
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| smuttiness | (noun) obscenity in speech or writing | Synonyms: dirtiness |
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| (noun) the state of being dirty with soot | Synonyms: sootiness |
| sottishness | (noun) lack of restraint in use of alcohol | - |
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| (noun) stupefaction from drink | - |
| spaghetti | (noun) pasta in the form of long strings | - |
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| (noun) spaghetti served with a tomato sauce | - |
| spaghettini | (noun) thin spaghetti | - |
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| spitting | (noun) the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva) | Synonyms: expectoration, spit |
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| spotting | (noun) the act of detecting something; catching sight of something | Synonyms: catching, detection, espial, spying |
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| (noun) the act of spotting or staining something | Synonyms: maculation, staining |
| squattiness | (noun) a short and stout physique | Synonyms: dumpiness |
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| squatting | (noun) the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels | Synonyms: squat |
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| (noun) exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles | Synonyms: knee bend, squat |
| tatting | (noun) the act or art of making handmade lace | Synonyms: lace making |
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| (noun) needlework consisting of handmade lace made by looping and knotting a single thread on a small shuttle | - |
| tettigoniid | (noun) grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male | Synonyms: long-horned grasshopper |
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| tittivation | (noun) sprucing up; making decorative additions to | Synonyms: titivation |
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| transmitting | (noun) the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted | Synonyms: transmission, transmittal |
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| wainscotting | (noun) wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room | Synonyms: wainscot, wainscoting |
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| (noun) a wainscoted wall (or wainscoted walls collectively) | Synonyms: wainscoting |
| wetting | (noun) the act of making something wet | - |
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| (noun) a euphemism for urination | Synonyms: leak, making water, passing water |
| witticism | (noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humor, humour, wit, wittiness |
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| wittiness | (noun) The quality of being clever, amusingly ingenious. | - |
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| (noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humor, humour, wit, witticism |