caoutchouc | (noun) an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products | Synonyms: gum elastic, India rubber, natural rubber, rubber |
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caput | (noun) the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains | Synonyms: head |
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(noun) a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure | - |
catgut | (noun) a strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in surgery | Synonyms: gut |
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(noun) perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers and; source of rotenone | Synonyms: goat's rue, Tephrosia virginiana, wild sweet pea |
cauterant | (noun) an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (e.g., removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it | Synonyms: cautery |
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cauterisation | (noun) the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing | Synonyms: cauterization, cautery |
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cauterization | (noun) the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing | Synonyms: cauterisation, cautery |
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cautery | (noun) the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing | Synonyms: cauterisation, cauterization |
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(noun) an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (e.g., removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it | Synonyms: cauterant |
caution | (noun) the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger | Synonyms: carefulness, cautiousness |
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(noun) the trait of being circumspect and prudent | Synonyms: circumspection |
(noun) judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger | Synonyms: care, forethought, precaution |
(noun) a warning against certain acts | Synonyms: caveat |
cautious | (noun) people who are fearful and cautious | Synonyms: timid |
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cautiousness | (noun) the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger | Synonyms: carefulness, caution |
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charcuterie | (noun) a delicatessen that specializes in meats | - |
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checkout | (noun) the act of inspecting or verifying | Synonyms: check-out procedure, check |
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(noun) a counter in a supermarket where you pay for your purchases | Synonyms: checkout counter |
(noun) the latest time for vacating a hotel room | Synonyms: checkout time |
chemoautotroph | (noun) An organism that depends on chemicals for its energy and principally on carbon dioxide for its carbon. | Synonyms: chemotrophic autotroph |
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chestnut | (noun) a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse | - |
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(noun) a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg | - |
(noun) the brown color of chestnuts | - |
(noun) edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea | - |
(noun) any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur | Synonyms: chestnut tree |
(noun) wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea | - |
chute | (noun) sloping channel through which things can descend | Synonyms: slide, slideway, sloping trough |
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(noun) rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall | Synonyms: parachute |
chutney | (noun) a spicy condiment made of chopped fruits or vegetables cooked in vinegar and sugar with ginger and spices | Synonyms: Indian relish |
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chutzpa | (noun) (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity | Synonyms: chutzpah, hutzpah |
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chutzpah | (noun) (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity | Synonyms: chutzpa, hutzpah |
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chutzpanik | (noun) (Yiddish) a person characterized by chutzpa | - |
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circumlocution | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: ambage, periphrasis |
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(noun) an indirect way of expressing something | Synonyms: indirect expression |
circumvolution | (noun) the act of turning or winding or folding around a central axis | - |
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clearcutness | (noun) clarity as a consequence of precision | Synonyms: preciseness |
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closeout | (noun) a sale intended to dispose of all remaining stock | - |
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clout | (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: biff, lick, poke, punch, slug |
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(noun) a short nail with a flat head; used to attach sheet metal to wood | Synonyms: clout nail |
(noun) special advantage or influence | Synonyms: pull |
(noun) a target used in archery | - |
clutch | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutches, grasp, grip, hold |
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(noun) a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism | - |
(noun) a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism | Synonyms: clutch pedal |
(noun) a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand | Synonyms: clutch bag |
(noun) a collection of things or persons to be handled together | Synonyms: batch |
(noun) a number of birds hatched at the same time | - |
(noun) a tense critical situation | - |
clutches | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutch, grasp, grip, hold |
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clutter | (noun) unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen | - |
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(noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter |
coadjutor | (noun) an assistant to a bishop | - |
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coauthor | (noun) a writer who collaborates with others in writing something | Synonyms: joint author |
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cobnut | (noun) nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus | Synonyms: cob, filbert, hazelnut |
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(noun) small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe | Synonyms: Corylus avellana, Corylus avellana grandis, filbert |
cocoanut | (noun) large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk | Synonyms: coconut |
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coconut | (noun) large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk | Synonyms: cocoanut |
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(noun) the edible white meat of a coconut; often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries | Synonyms: coconut meat |
(noun) tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics | Synonyms: coco, coco palm, cocoa palm, coconut palm, coconut tree, Cocos nucifera |
commutability | (noun) the quality of being commutable | Synonyms: transmutability |
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(noun) exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable | Synonyms: replaceability, substitutability |
commutation | (noun) the travel of a commuter | Synonyms: commuting |
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(noun) (law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law | Synonyms: re-sentencing |
(noun) the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: | Synonyms: exchange, substitution |
(noun) a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one | - |
commutator | (noun) switch for reversing the direction of an electric current | - |
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commute | (noun) a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work | - |
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commuter | (noun) a passenger train that is ridden primarily by passengers who travel regularly from one place to another | Synonyms: commuter train |
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(noun) someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city | - |
commuting | (noun) the travel of a commuter | Synonyms: commutation |
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computation | (noun) the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods | Synonyms: calculation, computing |
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(noun) problem solving that involves numbers or quantities | Synonyms: calculation, figuring, reckoning |
computer | (noun) a machine for performing calculations automatically | Synonyms: computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system |
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(noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: calculator, estimator, figurer, reckoner |
computerization | (noun) the control of processes by computer | Synonyms: cybernation |
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computing | (noun) the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods | Synonyms: calculation, computation |
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(noun) the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures | Synonyms: computer science |
confutation | (noun) evidence that refutes conclusively | - |
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(noun) the speech act of refuting conclusively | - |
confuter | (noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: disprover, rebutter, refuter |
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conglutination | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion |
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(noun) healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones | Synonyms: union |
constitution | (noun) the act of forming or establishing something | Synonyms: establishment, formation, organisation, organization |
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(noun) the way in which someone or something is composed | Synonyms: composition, make-up, makeup, physical composition |
(noun) law determining the fundamental political principles of a government | Synonyms: fundamental law, organic law |
constitutional | (noun) a regular walk taken as a form of exercise | - |
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constitutionalism | (noun) advocacy of a system of government according to constitutional principles | - |
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(noun) a constitutional system of government (usually with a written constitution) | - |
constitutionalist | (noun) an advocate of constitutional government | - |
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contribution | (noun) act of giving in common with others for a common purpose especially to a charity | Synonyms: donation |
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(noun) a writing for publication especially one of a collection of writings as an article or story | - |
(noun) the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result | Synonyms: part, share |
(noun) a voluntary gift (as of money or service or ideas) made to some worthwhile cause | Synonyms: donation |
(noun) an amount of money contributed | - |
contributor | (noun) someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money | Synonyms: subscriber |
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(noun) a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book | - |
convolution | (noun) the action of coiling or twisting or winding together | - |
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(noun) a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain | Synonyms: gyrus |
(noun) the shape of something rotating rapidly | Synonyms: swirl, vortex, whirl |
cookout | (noun) an informal meal cooked and eaten outdoors | - |
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copout | (noun) a failure to face some difficulty squarely | - |
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cornsmut | (noun) a smut fungus attacking Indian corn | Synonyms: corn smut |
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cosmonaut | (noun) a person trained to travel in a spacecraft | Synonyms: astronaut, spaceman |
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cottonmouth | (noun) venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States | Synonyms: Agkistrodon piscivorus, cottonmouth moccasin, water moccasin |
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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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couth | (noun) (used facetiously) refinement | - |
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couture | (noun) high fashion designing and dressmaking | - |
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couturier | (noun) someone who designs clothing | Synonyms: clothes designer, designer, fashion designer |
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crosscut | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: cutoff, shortcut |
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(noun) a diagonal path | - |
crouton | (noun) a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads | - |
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crutch | (noun) anything that serves as an expedient | - |
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(noun) a wooden or metal staff that fits under the armpit and reaches to the ground; used by disabled person while walking | - |
cryocautery | (noun) application of a substance that destroys tissue by freezing it | - |
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(noun) an instrument for destroying tissue by freezing it | - |
cut | (noun) the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends | Synonyms: cutting, cutting off |
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(noun) the act of cutting something into parts | Synonyms: cutting |
(noun) the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge | Synonyms: cutting |
(noun) a refusal to recognize someone you know | Synonyms: cold shoulder, snub |
(noun) the act of reducing the amount or number | - |
(noun) an unexcused absence from class | - |
(noun) in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball | Synonyms: baseball swing, swing |
(noun) (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball | Synonyms: undercut |
(noun) the division of a deck of cards before dealing | Synonyms: cutting |
(noun) a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation | Synonyms: gash |
(noun) a canal made by erosion or excavation | - |
(noun) the style in which a garment is cut | - |
(noun) (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next | - |
(noun) the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage | Synonyms: deletion, excision |
(noun) a remark capable of wounding mentally | Synonyms: stinger |
(noun) a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc | Synonyms: track |
(noun) a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass | Synonyms: cut of meat |
(noun) a share of the profits | - |
(noun) a wound made by cutting | Synonyms: gash, slash, slice |
(noun) a step on some scale | - |
cutaway | (noun) a man's coat cut diagonally from the waist to the back of the knees | - |
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(noun) a representation (drawing or model) of something in which the outside is omitted to reveal the inner parts | Synonyms: cutaway drawing, cutaway model |
cutback | (noun) a reduction in quantity or rate | - |
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cutch | (noun) tannin extract derived from any of several mangrove barks of Pacific areas | Synonyms: kutch |
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cuteness | (noun) the quality of being appealing in a delicate or graceful way (of a girl or young woman) | Synonyms: prettiness |
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cuticle | (noun) hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles | Synonyms: carapace, shell, shield |
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(noun) the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates | Synonyms: epidermis |
(noun) the dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail | - |
cuticula | (noun) the outer body wall of an insect | - |
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cutin | (noun) (biochemistry) a waxy transparent material that occurs in the cuticle of plants and consists of highly polymerized esters of fatty acids | - |
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cutis | (noun) a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch | Synonyms: skin, tegument |
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cutlas | (noun) a short heavy curved sword with one edge; formerly used by sailors | Synonyms: cutlass |
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cutlass | (noun) a short heavy curved sword with one edge; formerly used by sailors | Synonyms: cutlas |
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cutlassfish | (noun) long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel | Synonyms: frost fish, hairtail |
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cutler | (noun) a dealer in cutlery | - |
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cutlery | (noun) tableware implements for cutting and eating food | Synonyms: eating utensil |
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(noun) a cutting implement; a tool for cutting | Synonyms: cutter, cutting tool |
cutlet | (noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: escallop, scallop, scollop |
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cutoff | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: crosscut, shortcut |
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(noun) a device that terminates the flow in a pipe | - |
(noun) a designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated | - |
cutout | (noun) a part that is cut out or is intended to be cut out | - |
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(noun) a photograph from which the background has been cut away | - |
(noun) a switch that interrupts an electric circuit in the event of an overload | - |
cutpurse | (noun) a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places | Synonyms: dip, pickpocket |
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cutter | (noun) a cutting implement; a tool for cutting | Synonyms: cutlery, cutting tool |
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(noun) a boat for communication between ship and shore | Synonyms: pinnace, ship's boat, tender |
(noun) a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop | - |
(noun) someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments) | - |
(noun) someone who carves the meat | Synonyms: carver |
(noun) someone who cuts or carves stone | Synonyms: stonecutter |
cutthroat | (noun) someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat | - |
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cutting | (noun) the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends | Synonyms: cut, cutting off |
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(noun) the act of cutting something into parts | Synonyms: cut |
(noun) the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge | Synonyms: cut |
(noun) the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film | Synonyms: film editing |
(noun) the act of diluting something | Synonyms: thinning |
(noun) removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape | Synonyms: carving |
(noun) the division of a deck of cards before dealing | Synonyms: cut |
(noun) an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: clipping, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting |
(noun) a piece cut off from the main part of something | - |
(noun) a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting | Synonyms: slip |
cuttle | (noun) ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell | Synonyms: cuttlefish |
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cuttlefish | (noun) ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell | Synonyms: cuttle |
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cutwork | (noun) embroidery in which the design is outlined in a buttonhole stitch and the intervening material is cut away | - |
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cutworm | (noun) North American moth whose larvae feed on young plant stems cutting them off at the ground | - |
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cybernaut | (noun) a computer user who uses the internet; someone who explores cyberspace | - |
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debut | (noun) the act of beginning something new | Synonyms: entry, first appearance, introduction, launching, unveiling |
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(noun) the presentation of a debutante in society | - |
debutante | (noun) a young woman making her debut into society | Synonyms: deb |
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deglutition | (noun) the act of swallowing | Synonyms: drink, swallow |
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deputation | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegating, delegation, relegating, relegation |
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(noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: commission, delegacy, delegation, mission |
deputy | (noun) an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent | Synonyms: lieutenant |
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(noun) someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies | Synonyms: deputy sheriff |
(noun) a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others | Synonyms: surrogate |
(noun) a member of the lower chamber of a legislative assembly (such as in France) | - |
destitution | (noun) a state without friends or money or prospects | - |
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deuteranopia | (noun) dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to green light resulting in an inability to distinguish green and purplish-red | Synonyms: Daltonism, green-blindness |
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