| pounce | (noun) the act of pouncing | - |
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| pronouncement | (noun) an authoritative declaration | Synonyms: dictum, say-so |
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| pronunciamento | (noun) a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government) | Synonyms: manifesto |
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| pronunciation | (noun) the manner in which someone utters a word | - |
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| (noun) the way a word or a language is customarily spoken | Synonyms: orthoepy |
| punch | (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: biff, clout, lick, poke, slug |
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| (noun) a tool for making holes or indentations | Synonyms: puncher |
| (noun) an iced mixed drink usually containing alcohol and prepared for multiple servings; normally served in a punch bowl | - |
| punchayet | (noun) a village council in India or southern Pakistan | Synonyms: panchayat, panchayet |
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| punchball | (noun) an inflated ball or bag that is suspended and punched for training in boxing | Synonyms: punch bag, punching bag, punching ball |
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| punchboard | (noun) a small board full of holes; each hole contains a slip of paper with symbols printed on it; a gambler pays a small sum for the privilege of pushing out a slip in the hope of obtaining one that entitles him to a prize | - |
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| puncher | (noun) a tool for making holes or indentations | Synonyms: punch |
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| (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowherd, cowpoke, cowpuncher |
| (noun) someone who delivers punches | - |
| punctilio | (noun) strict observance of formalities | - |
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| (noun) a fine point of etiquette or petty formality | - |
| punctiliousness | (noun) strict attention to minute details | Synonyms: meticulosity, meticulousness, scrupulousness |
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| punctuality | (noun) the quality or habit of adhering to an appointed time | Synonyms: promptness |
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| punctuation | (noun) the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases | - |
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| (noun) the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases | Synonyms: punctuation mark |
| (noun) something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions | - |
| punctum | (noun) (anatomy) a point or small area | - |
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| puncture | (noun) the act of puncturing or perforating | - |
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| (noun) a small hole made by a sharp object | - |
| (noun) loss of air pressure in a tire when a hole is made by some sharp object | - |
| quidnunc | (noun) a person who meddles in the affairs of others | Synonyms: busybody, nosey-parker, nosy-parker |
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| raunch | (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarism, vulgarity |
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| renouncement | (noun) an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned | Synonyms: renunciation |
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| renunciation | (noun) the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.) | Synonyms: forgoing, forswearing |
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| (noun) an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned | Synonyms: renouncement |
| (noun) rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid | Synonyms: repudiation |
| (noun) the state of having rejected your religious beliefs for your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) | Synonyms: apostasy, defection |
| runch | (noun) Eurasian weed having yellow or mauve or white flowers and podlike fruits | Synonyms: jointed charlock, Raphanus raphanistrum, wild radish, wild rape |
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| scrunch | (noun) a crunching noise | - |
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| sipunculid | (noun) small unsegmented marine worm that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body giving the appearance of a peanut | Synonyms: peanut worm |
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| staunchness | (noun) loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty | Synonyms: steadfastness |
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| subjunction | (noun) the act of supplementing | Synonyms: subjoining, supplementation |
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| subjunctive | (noun) a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible | Synonyms: subjunctive mood |
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| sunchoke | (noun) sunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried as Saratoga chips | Synonyms: Jerusalem artichoke |
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| thermojunction | (noun) a junction between two dissimilar metals across which a voltage appears | - |
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| trouncing | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, whacking |
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| (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, walloping, whipping |
| truncation | (noun) the act of cutting short | - |
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| (noun) the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces) | - |
| (noun) the property of being truncated or short | Synonyms: shortness |
| truncheon | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, billystick, nightstick |
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| unceremoniousness | (noun) an unceremonial manner | - |
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| uncertainness | (noun) being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance | Synonyms: precariousness, uncertainty |
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| uncertainty | (noun) being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance | Synonyms: precariousness, uncertainness |
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| (noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude |
| unchangeability | (noun) the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged | Synonyms: changelessness, unchangeableness, unchangingness |
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| unchangeableness | (noun) the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged | Synonyms: changelessness, unchangeability, unchangingness |
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| unchangingness | (noun) the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged | Synonyms: changelessness, unchangeability, unchangeableness |
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| uncheerfulness | (noun) not conducive to cheer or good spirits | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness | Synonyms: cheerlessness |
| uncial | (noun) a style of orthography characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; found especially in Greek and Latin manuscripts of the 4th to 8th centuries | - |
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| uncle | (noun) the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt | - |
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| (noun) a source of help and advice and encouragement | - |
| uncleanliness | (noun) lack of cleanly habits | - |
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| uncleanness | (noun) the state of being unsanitary | Synonyms: dirtiness |
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| unclearness | (noun) incomprehensibility as a result of not being clear | - |
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| uncloudedness | (noun) the quality of clear water | Synonyms: clarity, clearness |
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| uncomfortableness | (noun) embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you | Synonyms: self-consciousness, uneasiness |
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| (noun) the state of being tense and feeling pain | Synonyms: discomfort |
| uncommonness | (noun) extraordinariness as a consequence of being rare and seldom encountered | - |
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| (noun) extraordinariness as a consequence of being marked by an uncommon or superlative quality | - |
| uncommunicativeness | (noun) the trait of being uncommunicative | - |
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| uncompetitiveness | (noun) The quality of not being good enough to compete successfully with others. | - |
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| unconcern | (noun) the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern | Synonyms: indifference, nonchalance |
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| (noun) a feeling of lack of concern | - |
| unconditionality | (noun) The quality or state of being absolute; of being without conditions, limitations, reservations or qualifications. | - |
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| unconfessed | (noun) people who have not confessed | - |
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| uncongeniality | (noun) a disposition not to be congenial | - |
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| (noun) The quality of not being pleasing; of being disagreeable. | - |
| unconnectedness | (noun) the lack of a connection between things | - |
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| unconscientiousness | (noun) the quality of being willing to ignore the dictates of conscience | - |
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| (noun) the trait of not being painstaking or careful | - |
| unconscious | (noun) that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware | Synonyms: unconscious mind |
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| unconsciousness | (noun) a state lacking normal awareness of the self or environment | - |
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| unconstitutionality | (noun) The status of being unconstitutional; of not being in accord with the provisions of the appropriate constitution. | - |
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| unconstraint | (noun) the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry | Synonyms: abandon, wantonness |
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| unconventionality | (noun) unorthodoxy by virtue of being unconventional | - |
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| (noun) originality by virtue of being unconventional | - |
| uncouthness | (noun) inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor | Synonyms: boorishness |
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| uncovering | (noun) the act of discovering something | Synonyms: discovery, find |
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| (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, denudation, husking, stripping |
| uncreativeness | (noun) a lack of creativity | - |
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| unction | (noun) anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual | Synonyms: inunction |
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| (noun) semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation | Synonyms: balm, ointment, salve, unguent |
| (noun) smug self-serving earnestness | Synonyms: fulsomeness, oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unctuousness |
| (noun) excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm | Synonyms: fulsomeness, smarm |
| unctuousness | (noun) smug self-serving earnestness | Synonyms: fulsomeness, oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unction |
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| uncus | (noun) (biology) any hook-shaped process or part | - |
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| venipuncture | (noun) (medicine) puncture of a vein through the skin in order to withdraw blood for analysis or to start an intravenous drip or to inject medication or a radiopaque dye | - |
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