abattoir | (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse |
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abettor | (noun) one who helps or encourages or incites another | Synonyms: abetter |
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allegretto | (noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed at a somewhat quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro | - |
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(noun) a quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro | - |
amaretto | (noun) an Italian almond liqueur | - |
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attorney | (noun) a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice | Synonyms: lawyer |
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attorneyship | (noun) the position of attorney | - |
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attosecond | (noun) one quintillionth (10^-18) of a second; one thousandth of a femtosecond | - |
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bellybutton | (noun) a scar where the umbilical cord was attached | Synonyms: belly button, navel, omphalos, omphalus, umbilicus |
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bettong | (noun) short-nosed rat kangaroo | - |
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bettor | (noun) someone who bets | Synonyms: better, punter, wagerer |
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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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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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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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cavetto | (noun) a concave molding shaped like a quarter circle in cross section | - |
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contrafagotto | (noun) the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family | Synonyms: contrabassoon, double bassoon |
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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 |
ditto | (noun) a mark used to indicate the word above it should be repeated | Synonyms: ditto mark |
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falsetto | (noun) a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register | - |
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flattop | (noun) a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings | Synonyms: aircraft carrier, attack aircraft carrier, carrier |
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(noun) a closely cropped haircut; usually for men or boys | Synonyms: butch, crew cut |
ghetto | (noun) formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live | - |
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(noun) a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions | - |
(noun) any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping | - |
glottochronology | (noun) the determination of how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language | - |
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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 | - |
grotto | (noun) a small cave (usually with attractive features) | Synonyms: grot |
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guncotton | (noun) a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives | Synonyms: cellulose nitrate, nitrocellulose, nitrocotton |
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larghetto | (noun) (music) a composition or passage played in a slow tempo slightly faster than largo but slower than adagio | - |
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lazaretto | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazaret, lazarette, pesthouse |
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(noun) a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship | Synonyms: glory hole |
libretto | (noun) the words of an opera or musical play | - |
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littoral | (noun) the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean | Synonyms: litoral, littoral zone, sands |
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lotto | (noun) a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | Synonyms: beano, bingo, keno |
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mattock | (noun) a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat blade set at right angles to the handle | - |
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motto | (noun) a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual | Synonyms: catchword, shibboleth, slogan |
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mulatto | (noun) an offspring of a black and a white parent | - |
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mutton | (noun) meat from a mature domestic sheep | Synonyms: mouton |
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muttonfish | (noun) similar to and often marketed as `red snapper' | Synonyms: Lutjanus analis, mutton snapper |
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muttonhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, numskull, shithead |
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nitrocotton | (noun) a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives | Synonyms: cellulose nitrate, guncotton, nitrocellulose |
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ottoman | (noun) thick cushion used as a seat | Synonyms: hassock, pouf, pouffe, puff |
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(noun) a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person | Synonyms: footrest, footstool, tuffet |
palmetto | (noun) any of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves | - |
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potto | (noun) a kind of gray-brown lemur (Perodicticus potto) | Synonyms: kinkajou, Perodicticus potto |
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(noun) arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail | Synonyms: honey bear, kinkajou, Potos caudivolvulus, Potos flavus |
prosciutto | (noun) Italian salt-cured ham usually sliced paper thin | - |
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risotto | (noun) rice cooked with broth and sprinkled with grated cheese | Synonyms: Italian rice |
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spittoon | (noun) a receptacle for spit (usually in a public place) | Synonyms: cuspidor |
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stiletto | (noun) a small dagger with a tapered blade | - |
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tattoo | (noun) the practice of making a design on the skin by pricking and staining | - |
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(noun) a design on the skin made by tattooing | - |
(noun) a drumbeat or bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters | - |
terzetto | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
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wittol | (noun) an archaic term for a cuckold who knows about his wife's infidelity but tolerates it | - |
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