flocculator | (noun) An apparatus used in the process of flocculation. | - |
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floccule | (noun) a small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid | Synonyms: floc |
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floriculture | (noun) the cultivation of flowering plants | Synonyms: flower gardening |
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folliculitis | (noun) inflammation of a hair follicle | - |
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footfault | (noun) a fault that occurs when the server in tennis fails to keep both feet behind the baseline | - |
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forcefulness | (noun) physical energy or intensity | Synonyms: force, strength |
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foresightfulness | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresight, foresightedness |
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forgetfulness | (noun) tendency to forget | - |
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(noun) unawareness caused by neglectful or heedless failure to remember | - |
formula | (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, normal, pattern, rule |
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(noun) (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems | Synonyms: rule |
(noun) a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement | Synonyms: expression |
(noun) a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle | - |
(noun) directions for making something | Synonyms: recipe |
(noun) a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements | Synonyms: chemical formula |
(noun) a liquid food for infants | - |
formulary | (noun) (pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation | Synonyms: pharmacopeia |
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formulation | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptualization |
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(noun) the style of expressing yourself | Synonyms: expression |
(noun) a substance prepared according to a formula | Synonyms: preparation |
foul | (noun) an act that violates the rules of a sport | - |
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foulard | (noun) a light plain-weave or twill-weave silk or silklike fabric (usually with a printed design) | - |
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foulmart | (noun) dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened | Synonyms: fitch, foumart, Mustela putorius, polecat |
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foulness | (noun) the attribute of having a strong offensive smell | Synonyms: fetidness, malodorousness, rankness, stinkiness |
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(noun) (of weather) the badness of the weather | Synonyms: raininess |
(noun) a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse | Synonyms: filth, filthiness, nastiness |
(noun) disgusting wickedness and immorality | - |
fraudulence | (noun) something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage | Synonyms: dupery, fraud, hoax, humbug, put-on |
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(noun) the quality of being fraudulent | Synonyms: deceit |
(noun) a fraudulent or duplicitous representation | Synonyms: duplicity |
fretfulness | (noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness, petulance |
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frightfulness | (noun) the quality of being frightful | - |
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fruitfulness | (noun) the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth | Synonyms: fecundity |
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(noun) the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination | Synonyms: fecundity |
fulcrum | (noun) the pivot about which a lever turns | - |
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fulfillment | (noun) the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc) | Synonyms: fulfilment |
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(noun) a feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires | Synonyms: fulfilment |
fulfilment | (noun) the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc) | Synonyms: fulfillment |
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(noun) a feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires | Synonyms: fulfillment |
full | (noun) the time when the Moon is fully illuminated | Synonyms: full-of-the-moon, full moon, full phase of the moon |
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fullback | (noun) (American football) the position of a back on a football team, generally larger in size than halfbacks | - |
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(noun) (football) the running back who plays the fullback position on the offensive team | - |
fuller | (noun) a workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a living | - |
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fullerene | (noun) a form of carbon having a large molecule consisting of an empty cage of sixty or more carbon atoms | - |
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fullness | (noun) greatness of volume | Synonyms: voluminosity, voluminousness |
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(noun) the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing | Synonyms: mellowness, richness |
(noun) the condition of being filled to capacity | - |
(noun) completeness over a broad scope | Synonyms: comprehensiveness |
fulmar | (noun) heavy short-tailed oceanic bird of polar regions | Synonyms: fulmar petrel, Fulmarus glacialis |
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fulminate | (noun) a salt or ester of fulminic acid | - |
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fulmination | (noun) the act of exploding with noise and violence | - |
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(noun) thunderous verbal attack | Synonyms: diatribe |
fulsomeness | (noun) smug self-serving earnestness | Synonyms: oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unction, unctuousness |
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(noun) excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm | Synonyms: smarm, unction |
funambulism | (noun) walking on a tightrope or slack rope | Synonyms: tightrope walking |
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funambulist | (noun) an acrobat who performs on a tightrope or slack rope | Synonyms: tightrope walker |
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funicular | (noun) a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars | Synonyms: cable railway, funicular railway |
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funiculitis | (noun) inflammation of a funiculus (especially an inflammation of the spermatic cord) | - |
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funiculus | (noun) any of several body structure resembling a cord | - |
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(noun) the stalk of a plant ovule or seed | Synonyms: funicle |
furcula | (noun) a forked bone formed by the fusion of the clavicles of most birds | - |
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furunculosis | (noun) acute skin disease characterized by the presence of many furuncles | - |
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gainfulness | (noun) the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit | Synonyms: lucrativeness, profitability, profitableness |
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galbulus | (noun) the seed-producing cone of a cypress tree | - |
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gallinule | (noun) any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens | Synonyms: marsh hen, swamphen, water hen |
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garambulla | (noun) small berrylike fruit | - |
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(noun) arborescent cactus of western Mexico bearing a small oblong edible berrylike fruit | Synonyms: garambulla cactus, Myrtillocactus geometrizans |
garrulity | (noun) the quality of being wordy and talkative | Synonyms: garrulousness, loquaciousness, loquacity, talkativeness |
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garrulousness | (noun) the quality of being wordy and talkative | Synonyms: garrulity, loquaciousness, loquacity, talkativeness |
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gastrula | (noun) double-walled stage of the embryo resulting from invagination of the blastula; the outer layer of cells is the ectoderm and the inner layer differentiates into the mesoderm and endoderm | - |
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gastrulation | (noun) the process in which a gastrula develops from a blastula by the inward migration of cells | - |
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gemmule | (noun) the physically discrete element that Darwin proposed as responsible for heredity | - |
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gesticulation | (noun) a deliberate and vigorous gesture or motion | - |
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ghoul | (noun) an evil spirit or ghost | - |
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(noun) someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection | Synonyms: body snatcher, graverobber |
gladfulness | (noun) experiencing joy and pleasure | Synonyms: gladness, gladsomeness |
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glassful | (noun) the quantity a glass will hold | Synonyms: glass |
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gleefulness | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: glee, hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness |
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globularness | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object | Synonyms: globosity, rotundity, rotundness, sphericalness, sphericity |
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globule | (noun) a small globe or ball | - |
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globulin | (noun) a family of proteins found in blood and milk and muscle and in plant seed | - |
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glomerule | (noun) a compacted or sessile cyme | - |
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glomerulonephritis | (noun) nephritis marked by inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney; characterized by decreased production of urine and by the presence of blood and protein in the urine and by edema | - |
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glomerulus | (noun) a small intertwined group of capillaries in the malpighian body; it filters the blood during urine formation | - |
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goulash | (noun) a rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika | Synonyms: gulyas, Hungarian goulash |
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gracefulness | (noun) beautiful carriage | - |
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granularity | (noun) the quality of being composed of relatively large particles | Synonyms: coarseness, graininess |
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granulation | (noun) the act of forming something into granules or grains | - |
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(noun) new connective tissue and tiny blood vessels that form on the surfaces of a wound during the healing process | Synonyms: granulation tissue |
granulator | (noun) a machine that forms material (such as plastics, bottles, organics, etc.) into granules. | Synonyms: granulator machine |
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granule | (noun) a tiny grain | - |
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granulocyte | (noun) a leukocyte that has granules in its cytoplasm | - |
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granulocytopenia | (noun) an acute blood disorder (often caused by radiation or drug therapy) characterized by severe reduction in granulocytes | Synonyms: agranulocytosis, agranulosis |
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granuloma | (noun) a tumor composed of granulation tissue resulting from injury or inflammation or infection | - |
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gratefulness | (noun) warm friendly feelings of gratitude | Synonyms: appreciativeness, thankfulness |
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graticule | (noun) a network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument | Synonyms: reticle, reticule |
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griseofulvin | (noun) a kind of penicillin (a fungicidal antibiotic with the trade name Fulvicin) produced by molds of the genus Penicillium | Synonyms: Fulvicin |
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guayule | (noun) much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber | Synonyms: Parthenium argentatum |
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gula | (noun) eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: gluttony, overeating |
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gulag | (noun) a Russian prison camp for political prisoners | - |
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gulch | (noun) a narrow gorge with a stream running through it | Synonyms: flume |
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gulden | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Dutch florin, florin, guilder |
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(noun) the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: florin, guilder |
gulf | (noun) an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding) | Synonyms: disconnect, disconnection |
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(noun) a deep wide chasm | - |
(noun) an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay | - |
gulfweed | (noun) brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea | Synonyms: sargasso, sargassum, Sargassum bacciferum |
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gull | (noun) mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs | Synonyms: sea gull, seagull |
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(noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker |
gullet | (noun) the passage between the pharynx and the stomach | Synonyms: esophagus, gorge, oesophagus |
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gullibility | (noun) tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived | Synonyms: credulousness |
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gully | (noun) deep ditch cut by running water (especially after a prolonged downpour) | - |
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gulp | (noun) a large and hurried swallow | Synonyms: draft, draught, swig |
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(noun) a spasmodic reflex of the throat made as if in swallowing | Synonyms: gulping |
gulper | (noun) a drinker who swallows large amounts greedily | Synonyms: guzzler |
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gulping | (noun) the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly | Synonyms: guzzling, swilling |
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(noun) a spasmodic reflex of the throat made as if in swallowing | Synonyms: gulp |
gulyas | (noun) a rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika | Synonyms: goulash, Hungarian goulash |
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handful | (noun) the quantity that can be held in the hand | Synonyms: fistful |
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(noun) a small number or amount | Synonyms: smattering |
harmfulness | (noun) destructiveness that causes harm or injury | Synonyms: injuriousness |
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(noun) the quality of being noxious | Synonyms: noisomeness, noxiousness |
harpulla | (noun) fast-growing tree of India and East Indies yielding a wood used especially for building | Synonyms: Harpullia cupanioides |
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harpullia | (noun) any of various tree of the genus Harpullia | - |
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hatefulness | (noun) the quality of being hateful | Synonyms: objectionableness, obnoxiousness |
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hatful | (noun) as many or as much as a hat will hold | - |
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(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
haul | (noun) the act of drawing or hauling something | Synonyms: draw, haulage |
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(noun) the quantity that was caught | Synonyms: catch |
haulage | (noun) the act of drawing or hauling something | Synonyms: draw, haul |
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hauler | (noun) a haulage contractor | Synonyms: haulier |
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haulier | (noun) a haulage contractor | Synonyms: hauler |
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hauling | (noun) the activity of transporting goods by truck | Synonyms: truckage, trucking |
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haulm | (noun) stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding | Synonyms: halm |
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headful | (noun) a covering over the surface of your head | - |
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(noun) the quantity of information that a head will hold | - |
healthfulness | (noun) the quality of promoting good health | - |
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heedfulness | (noun) the trait of staying aware of (paying close attention to) your responsibilities | Synonyms: mindfulness |
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