| counterplot | (noun) a plot intended to subvert another plot | Synonyms: counterplan |
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| counterpoint | (noun) a musical form involving the simultaneous sound of two or more melodies | - |
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| counterpoise | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterweight, equaliser, equalizer |
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| counterpoison | (noun) a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison | Synonyms: antidote |
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| counterproject | (noun) a project, scheme, or proposal brought forward in opposition to another, as in the negotiation of a treaty. | - |
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| counterproposal | (noun) a proposal offered as an alternative to an earlier proposal | - |
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| counterpunch | (noun) a return punch (especially by a boxer) | Synonyms: counter, parry |
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| counterreformation | (noun) a reformation intended to counter the results of a prior reformation | - |
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| counterrevolution | (noun) a revolution whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by a previous revolution | - |
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| counterrevolutionary | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionist |
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| counterrevolutionist | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionary |
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| countershot | (noun) a return shot; a retaliatory shot | - |
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| countersign | (noun) a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed | Synonyms: countersignature |
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| (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: parole, password, watchword, word |
| countersignature | (noun) a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed | Synonyms: countersign |
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| countersink | (noun) a bit for enlarging the upper part of a hole | Synonyms: counterbore, countersink bit |
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| (noun) a hole (usually in wood) with the top part enlarged so that a screw or bolt will fit into it and lie below the surface | - |
| counterspy | (noun) a spy who works against enemy espionage | Synonyms: mole |
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| counterstain | (noun) a stain of contrasting color that is used when the principal stain does not show the structure clearly | - |
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| countersubversion | (noun) the aspect of counterintelligence designed to detect and prevent subversive activities | - |
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| countersuit | (noun) a suit brought against someone who has sued you | - |
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| countertenor | (noun) the highest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: alto |
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| (noun) a male singer with a voice above that of a tenor | - |
| counterterrorism | (noun) a strategy intended to prevent or counter terrorism | - |
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| counterterrorist | (noun) someone who attempts to prevent terrorism | - |
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| countertop | (noun) the top side of a counter | - |
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| countertransference | (noun) the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction | - |
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| counterweight | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, equaliser, equalizer |
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| counterwoman | (noun) a female who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
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| countess | (noun) female equivalent of a count or earl | - |
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| counting | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, enumeration, numeration, reckoning, tally |
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| countinghouse | (noun) office used by the accountants of a business | - |
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| countlessness | (noun) a number beyond counting | Synonyms: innumerableness |
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| country | (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, commonwealth, land, nation, res publica, state |
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| (noun) the people who live in a nation or country | Synonyms: land, nation |
| (noun) the territory occupied by a nation | Synonyms: land, state |
| (noun) an area outside of cities and towns | Synonyms: rural area |
| (noun) a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography) | Synonyms: area |
| countryfolk | (noun) people raised in or living in a rural environment; rustics | Synonyms: country people |
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| (noun) people living in the same country; compatriots | Synonyms: country people |
| countryman | (noun) a man from your own country | - |
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| (noun) a man who lives in the country and has country ways | Synonyms: ruralist |
| countryseat | (noun) an estate in the country | - |
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| countryside | (noun) rural regions | - |
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| countrywoman | (noun) a woman from your own country | - |
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| (noun) a woman who lives in the country and has country ways | - |
| county | (noun) (United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government | - |
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| (noun) (United States) the largest administrative district within a state | - |
| cowpuncher | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowherd, cowpoke, puncher |
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| crowdfunding | (noun) Funding from a large number of small backers | - |
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| crunch | (noun) the act of crushing | Synonyms: compaction, crush |
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| (noun) the sound of something crunching | - |
| (noun) a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources) | - |
| cummerbund | (noun) a broad pleated sash worn as formal dress with a tuxedo | - |
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| cunctation | (noun) the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time | Synonyms: procrastination, shillyshally |
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| cunctator | (noun) someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness) | Synonyms: postponer, procrastinator |
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| cuneiform | (noun) an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | - |
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| cuneus | (noun) any shape that is triangular in cross section | Synonyms: wedge, wedge shape |
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| cunner | (noun) common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States | Synonyms: bergall, Tautogolabrus adspersus |
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| cunnilinctus | (noun) oral stimulation of the vulva or clitoris | Synonyms: cunnilingus |
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| cunnilingus | (noun) oral stimulation of the vulva or clitoris | Synonyms: cunnilinctus |
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| cunning | (noun) crafty artfulness (especially in deception) | - |
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| (noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craft, craftiness, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness |
| cunt | (noun) obscene terms for female genitals | Synonyms: puss, pussy, slit, snatch, twat |
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| (noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked | Synonyms: bitch |
| cyberpunk | (noun) a genre of fast-paced science fiction involving oppressive futuristic computerized societies | - |
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| (noun) a writer of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology | - |
| (noun) a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism | Synonyms: cyber-terrorist |
| dachshund | (noun) small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows | Synonyms: badger dog, dachsie |
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| dauntlessness | (noun) resolute courageousness | Synonyms: intrepidity |
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| debunking | (noun) the exposure of falseness or pretensions | Synonyms: repudiation |
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| deerhound | (noun) very large and tall rough-coated dog bred for hunting deer; known as the royal dog of Scotland | Synonyms: Scottish deerhound |
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| defunctness | (noun) no longer in existence | Synonyms: extinction |
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| dejeuner | (noun) a midday meal | Synonyms: lunch, luncheon, tiffin |
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| denouncement | (noun) a public act of denouncing | Synonyms: denunciation |
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| denunciation | (noun) a public act of denouncing | Synonyms: denouncement |
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| diflunisal | (noun) nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (trade name Dolobid) used to treat arthritis and other inflammatory conditions | Synonyms: Dolobid |
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| discount | (noun) the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise | Synonyms: deduction, price reduction |
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| (noun) an amount or percentage deducted | Synonyms: deduction |
| (noun) interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan | Synonyms: bank discount, discount rate |
| (noun) a refund of some fraction of the amount paid | Synonyms: rebate |
| discounter | (noun) a sales outlet offering goods at a discounted price | Synonyms: discount house, discount store, wholesale house |
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| disfunction | (noun) (medicine) any disturbance in the functioning of an organ or body part or a disturbance in the functioning of a social group | Synonyms: dysfunction |
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| disgruntlement | (noun) a feeling of sulky discontent | - |
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| disjunction | (noun) the act of breaking a connection | Synonyms: disconnection |
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| (noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnectedness, disconnection, disjuncture |
| disjuncture | (noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnectedness, disconnection, disjunction |
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| dismount | (noun) the act of dismounting (a horse or bike etc.) | - |
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| disunion | (noun) the termination or destruction of union | - |
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| disunity | (noun) lack of unity (usually resulting from dissension) | - |
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| dracunculiasis | (noun) a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin | Synonyms: Guinea worm, Guinea worm disease |
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| drunk | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunkard, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino |
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| (noun) someone who is intoxicated | - |
| drunkard | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino |
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| drunkenness | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drinking |
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| (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
| (noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms | Synonyms: alcohol addiction, alcoholism, inebriation |
| dun | (noun) horse of a dull brownish grey color | - |
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| (noun) a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color | Synonyms: fawn, grayish brown, greyish brown |
| dunce | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| dunderhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| dune | (noun) a ridge of sand created by the wind; found in deserts or near lakes and oceans | Synonyms: sand dune |
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| dung | (noun) fecal matter of animals | Synonyms: droppings, muck |
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| dungaree | (noun) a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric | Synonyms: denim, jean |
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| dungeon | (noun) the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress | Synonyms: donjon, keep |
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| (noun) a dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be confined | - |
| dunghill | (noun) a heap of dung or refuse | Synonyms: midden, muckheap, muckhill |
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| (noun) a foul or degraded condition | - |
| dunk | (noun) a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket | Synonyms: dunk shot, stuff shot |
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| dunker | (noun) a basketball player who is able to make dunk shots | - |
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| (noun) an eater who dips food into a liquid before eating it | - |
| dunlin | (noun) small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions | Synonyms: Erolia alpina, red-backed sandpiper |
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| dunnock | (noun) small brownish European songbird | Synonyms: hedge sparrow, Prunella modularis, sparrow |
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| dysfunction | (noun) (medicine) any disturbance in the functioning of an organ or body part or a disturbance in the functioning of a social group | Synonyms: disfunction |
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| dysfunctionality | (noun) The condition of functioning incorrectly or abnormally. | - |
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| elkhound | (noun) breed of compact medium-sized dog with a heavy grey coat developed in Norway for hunting elk | Synonyms: Norwegian elkhound |
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| emunctorium | (noun) a white linen cloth which is used to wipe the chalice after each communicant partakes. | Synonyms: purificator, purificatorium |
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| encounter | (noun) a minor short-term fight | Synonyms: brush, clash, skirmish |
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| (noun) a casual meeting with a person or thing | Synonyms: coming upon |
| (noun) a hostile disagreement face-to-face | Synonyms: confrontation, face-off, showdown |
| (noun) a casual or unexpected convergence | Synonyms: meeting |
| enunciation | (noun) the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience | Synonyms: diction |
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| eunuch | (noun) a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction | Synonyms: castrate |
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| eunuchoidism | (noun) the state of being a eunuch (either because of lacking testicles or because they failed to develop) | Synonyms: male hypogonadism |
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| excommunication | (noun) the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society | Synonyms: excision |
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| (noun) the state of being excommunicated | Synonyms: censure, exclusion |
| expounder | (noun) a person who explains | Synonyms: expositor |
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| expounding | (noun) a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic | Synonyms: exposition |
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| expunction | (noun) deletion by an act of expunging or erasing | Synonyms: erasure, expunging |
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| expunging | (noun) deletion by an act of expunging or erasing | Synonyms: erasure, expunction |
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| fairground | (noun) an open area for holding fairs or exhibitions or circuses | - |
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| faun | (noun) ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail; equivalent to Greek satyr | - |
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