| aculea | (noun) small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects | - |
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| aculeus | (noun) a sharp-pointed process especially a sting of a hymenopterous insect | - |
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| (noun) a stiff sharp-pointed plant process | - |
| ampoule | (noun) a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle) | Synonyms: ampul, ampule, phial, vial |
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| ampule | (noun) a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle) | Synonyms: ampoule, ampul, phial, vial |
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| amulet | (noun) a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease | Synonyms: talisman |
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| animalcule | (noun) microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium | Synonyms: animalculum |
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| annulet | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: bandelet, bandelette, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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| (noun) (heraldry) a charge in the shape of a small ring | - |
| antiflatulent | (noun) any agent that reduces intestinal gas | - |
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| bascule | (noun) a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw) | - |
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| boule | (noun) an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork | Synonyms: boulle, buhl |
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| boulevard | (noun) a wide street or thoroughfare | Synonyms: avenue |
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| boulevardier | (noun) a visitor of a city boulevard (especially in Paris) | - |
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| cagoule | (noun) lightweight parka; waterproof | - |
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| canicule | (noun) the hot period between early July and early September; a period of inactivity | Synonyms: canicular days, dog days |
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| capsule | (noun) a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside | - |
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| (noun) a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space | Synonyms: space capsule |
| (noun) a small container | - |
| (noun) a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute | Synonyms: ejection seat, ejector seat |
| (noun) a structure that encloses a body part | - |
| (noun) a shortened version of a written work | Synonyms: abridgement, abridgment, condensation |
| (noun) a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses | - |
| cerulean | (noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: azure, lazuline, sapphire, sky-blue |
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| chondrule | (noun) small granule (of e.g. chrysolite) found in some meteoric rocks | - |
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| corpulence | (noun) the property of excessive fatness | Synonyms: adiposis, overweight, stoutness |
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| corpulency | (noun) more than average fatness | Synonyms: fleshiness, obesity |
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| crapulence | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, drink, drinking, drunkenness |
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| crepuscule | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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| cupule | (noun) a sucker on the feet of certain flies | - |
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| (noun) cup-shaped structure of hardened bracts at the base of an acorn | Synonyms: acorn cup |
| cymule | (noun) a small cyme, generally with few flowers | - |
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| ductule | (noun) a very small duct | Synonyms: ductulus |
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| epaulet | (noun) adornment consisting of an ornamental cloth pad worn on the shoulder | Synonyms: epaulette |
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| epaulette | (noun) adornment consisting of an ornamental cloth pad worn on the shoulder | Synonyms: epaulet |
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| fascicule | (noun) an installment of a printed work | Synonyms: fascicle |
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| feculence | (noun) something that is feculent | - |
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| ferrule | (noun) a metal cap or band placed on a wooden pole to prevent splitting | Synonyms: collet |
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| ferule | (noun) a switch (a stick or cane or flat paddle) used to punish children | - |
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| flatulence | (noun) pompously embellished language | Synonyms: turgidity, turgidness |
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| (noun) a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: flatulency, gas |
| flatulency | (noun) a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: flatulence, gas |
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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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| 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 |
| 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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| gemmule | (noun) the physically discrete element that Darwin proposed as responsible for heredity | - |
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| globule | (noun) a small globe or ball | - |
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| glomerule | (noun) a compacted or sessile cyme | - |
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| granule | (noun) a tiny grain | - |
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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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| 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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| hauler | (noun) a haulage contractor | Synonyms: haulier |
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| joule | (noun) a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second | Synonyms: J, watt second |
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| julep | (noun) bourbon and sugar and mint over crushed ice | Synonyms: mint julep |
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| ligule | (noun) (botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap | - |
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| lobule | (noun) a small lobe or subdivision of a lobe | - |
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| locule | (noun) a small cavity or space within an organ or in a plant or animal | Synonyms: loculus |
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| lunule | (noun) the crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail | Synonyms: half-moon, lunula |
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| macromolecule | (noun) any very large complex molecule; found only in plants and animals | Synonyms: supermolecule |
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| macule | (noun) a patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated; caused by various diseases | Synonyms: macula |
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| majuscule | (noun) one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis | Synonyms: capital, capital letter, upper-case letter, uppercase |
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| mauler | (noun) a fighter who batters the opponent | - |
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| maulers | (noun) large strong hand (as of a fighter) | Synonyms: hooks, meat hooks |
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| metarule | (noun) a rule that describes how other rules should be used (as in AI) | - |
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| microtubule | (noun) a microscopically small tubule | - |
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| minuscule | (noun) a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts | - |
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| (noun) the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case | Synonyms: lower-case letter, lowercase, small letter |
| misrule | (noun) government that is inefficient or dishonest | Synonyms: misgovernment |
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| module | (noun) a self-contained component (unit or item) that is used in combination with other components | - |
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| (noun) computer circuit consisting of an assembly of electronic components (as of computer hardware) | - |
| (noun) detachable compartment of a spacecraft | - |
| (noun) one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind | Synonyms: faculty, mental faculty |
| molecule | (noun) (physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound | - |
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| (noun) (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything | Synonyms: atom, corpuscle, mote, particle, speck |
| mule | (noun) hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse; usually sterile | - |
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| (noun) a slipper that has no fitting around the heel | Synonyms: scuff |
| muleteer | (noun) a worker who drives mules | Synonyms: mule driver, mule skinner, skinner |
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| nebule | (noun) a small cloud | - |
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| nodule | (noun) a small node | - |
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| (noun) (mineralogy) a small rounded lump of mineral substance (usually harder than the surrounding rock or sediment) | - |
| (noun) small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant | Synonyms: tubercle |
| opulence | (noun) wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living | Synonyms: luxuriousness, luxury, sumptuousness |
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| ovule | (noun) a small or immature ovum | - |
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| (noun) a small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant; develops into a seed after fertilization | - |
| papule | (noun) a small inflamed elevation of skin that is nonsuppurative (as in chicken pox) | - |
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| petiolule | (noun) the stalk of a leaflet | - |
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| piculet | (noun) small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers | - |
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| pinnule | (noun) division of a usually pinnately divided leaf | Synonyms: pinna |
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| plumule | (noun) down feather of young birds; persists in some adult birds | - |
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| poulet | (noun) the flesh of a chicken used for food | Synonyms: chicken, volaille |
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| poulette | (noun) allemande sauce with chopped parsley | - |
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| purulence | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: festering, ichor, pus, sanies, suppuration |
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| (noun) symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus) | Synonyms: purulency |
| purulency | (noun) symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus) | Synonyms: purulence |
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| pustule | (noun) a small inflamed elevation of skin containing pus; a blister filled with pus | - |
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| reticule | (noun) a woman's drawstring handbag; usually made of net or beading or brocade; used in 18th and 19th centuries | - |
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| (noun) a network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument | Synonyms: graticule, reticle |
| ridicule | (noun) the act of deriding or treating with contempt | Synonyms: derision |
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| (noun) language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate | - |
| ridiculer | (noun) a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm | Synonyms: ironist, satirist |
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| rivulet | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, run, runnel, streamlet |
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| rouleau | (noun) a roll of coins wrapped in paper | - |
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| (noun) a roll of ribbon | - |
| roulette | (noun) a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in | - |
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| (noun) a wheel with teeth for making a row of perforations | Synonyms: toothed wheel |
| (noun) a line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure | Synonyms: line roulette |
| rule | (noun) measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths | Synonyms: ruler |
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| (noun) a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior | Synonyms: regulation |
| (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, formula, normal, pattern |
| (noun) a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system | Synonyms: principle |
| (noun) a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct | Synonyms: principle |
| (noun) (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems | Synonyms: formula |
| (noun) prescribed guide for conduct or action | Synonyms: prescript |
| (noun) (linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice | Synonyms: linguistic rule |
| (noun) directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted | - |
| (noun) any one of a systematic body of regulations defining the way of life of members of a religious order | - |
| (noun) dominance or power through legal authority | Synonyms: dominion |
| (noun) the duration of a monarch's or government's power | - |
| ruler | (noun) measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths | Synonyms: rule |
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| (noun) a person who rules or commands | Synonyms: swayer |
| rulership | (noun) the position of ruler | - |
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| saccule | (noun) a small sac or pouch (especially the smaller chamber of the membranous labyrinth) | Synonyms: sacculus |
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| schedule | (noun) a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to | Synonyms: agenda, docket |
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| (noun) an ordered list of times at which things are planned to occur | - |
| scheduler | (noun) computer hardware that arranges jobs to be done by the computer in an appropriate order | - |
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| spherule | (noun) a small sphere | - |
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| spicule | (noun) small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals | Synonyms: spiculum |
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| squamule | (noun) a minute scale | - |
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| stipule | (noun) a small leafy outgrowth at the base of a leaf or its stalk; usually occurring in pairs and soon shed | - |
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| succulence | (noun) a juicy appetizingness | Synonyms: juiciness, succulency |
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| succulency | (noun) a juicy appetizingness | Synonyms: juiciness, succulence |
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| succulent | (noun) a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs | - |
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| supermolecule | (noun) any very large complex molecule; found only in plants and animals | Synonyms: macromolecule |
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| tabbouleh | (noun) a finely chopped salad with tomatoes and parsley and mint and scallions and bulgur wheat | Synonyms: tabooli |
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| truculence | (noun) obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness | Synonyms: truculency |
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| truculency | (noun) obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness | Synonyms: truculence |
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| tubule | (noun) a small tube | - |
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| turbulence | (noun) unstable flow of a liquid or gas | Synonyms: turbulency |
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| (noun) a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally) | Synonyms: Sturm und Drang, upheaval |
| (noun) instability in the atmosphere | - |