boudoir | (noun) a lady's bedroom or private sitting room | - |
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escudo | (noun) the basic unit of money on Cape Verde; equal to 100 centavos | Synonyms: Cape Verde escudo |
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(noun) formerly the basic monetary unit of Portugal; equal to 100 centavo | Synonyms: Portuguese escudo |
hudood | (noun) Islamic laws stating the limits ordained by Allah and including the deterrent punishments for serious crimes | Synonyms: hudud |
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judo | (noun) a sport adapted from jujitsu (using principles of not resisting) and similar to wrestling; developed in Japan | - |
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koudou | (noun) either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush | Synonyms: koodoo, kudu |
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kudos | (noun) an expression of approval and commendation | Synonyms: congratulations, extolment, praise |
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ludo | (noun) a simple board game in which players move counters according to the throw of dice | - |
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ludology | (noun) The study of games and gaming, especially video games. | Synonyms: game studies |
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peludo | (noun) Argentine armadillo with six movable bands and hairy underparts | Synonyms: Euphractus sexcinctus, poyou |
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pseudo | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, role player, sham, shammer |
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pseudobulb | (noun) a solid bulblike enlargement of the stem of some orchids | - |
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pseudocarp | (noun) fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry | Synonyms: accessory fruit |
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pseudocyesis | (noun) physiological state in which a woman exhibits symptoms of pregnancy but is not pregnant | Synonyms: false pregnancy |
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pseudoephedrine | (noun) poisonous crystalline alkaloid occurring with ephedrine and isomorphic with it | - |
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pseudohallucination | (noun) an image vivid enough to be a hallucination but recognized as unreal | - |
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pseudohermaphrodite | (noun) someone having external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex; not a true hermaphrodite because there is no ambiguity in the sex of the external genitalia and hence no question about gender at birth | - |
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pseudohermaphroditism | (noun) congenital condition in which a person has external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex | - |
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pseudomonad | (noun) bacteria usually producing greenish fluorescent water-soluble pigment; some pathogenic for plants and animals | - |
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pseudonym | (noun) a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role | Synonyms: anonym, nom de guerre |
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pseudophloem | (noun) false phloem | - |
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pseudopod | (noun) temporary outgrowth used by some microorganisms as an organ of feeding or locomotion | Synonyms: pseudopodium |
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pseudopodium | (noun) temporary outgrowth used by some microorganisms as an organ of feeding or locomotion | Synonyms: pseudopod |
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pseudorubella | (noun) a viral disease of infants and young children; characterized by abrupt high fever and mild sore throat; a few days later there is a faint pinkish rash that lasts for a few hours to a few days | Synonyms: exanthema subitum, roseola infantilis, roseola infantum |
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pseudoscience | (noun) an activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions | - |
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pseudoscorpion | (noun) small nonvenomous arachnid resembling a tailless scorpion | Synonyms: false scorpion |
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pseudosmallpox | (noun) a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus | Synonyms: alastrim, Cuban itch, Kaffir pox, milk pox, pseudovariola, variola minor, West Indian smallpox, white pox |
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pseudovariola | (noun) a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus | Synonyms: alastrim, Cuban itch, Kaffir pox, milk pox, pseudosmallpox, variola minor, West Indian smallpox, white pox |
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sudoku | (noun) a number puzzle in which the numbers 1 through 9 must be placed into a grid of cells so that each row or column contains only one of each number | - |
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sudor | (noun) salty fluid secreted by sweat glands | Synonyms: perspiration, sweat |
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sudorific | (noun) a medicine that causes or increases sweating | Synonyms: sudatory |
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testudo | (noun) a movable protective covering that provided protection from above; used by Roman troops when approaching the walls of a besieged fortification | - |
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udometer | (noun) gauge consisting of an instrument to measure the quantity of precipitation | Synonyms: pluviometer, rain gage, rain gauge |
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