| bevel | (noun) a hand tool consisting of two rules that are hinged together so you can draw or measure angles of any size | Synonyms: bevel square |
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| (noun) two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees | Synonyms: cant, chamfer |
| denivelation | (noun) the difference in level (depth) between two parts of a cave system, usually the highest and lowest known point. | - |
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| developer | (noun) photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film | - |
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| (noun) someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use) | - |
| developing | (noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: development |
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| development | (noun) act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining | - |
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| (noun) the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful | Synonyms: exploitation |
| (noun) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated | - |
| (noun) a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation | - |
| (noun) a district that has been developed to serve some purpose | - |
| (noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: developing |
| (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
| (noun) a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | Synonyms: evolution |
| (noun) a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess) | - |
| drivel | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drool, slobber |
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| (noun) a worthless message | Synonyms: garbage |
| driveller | (noun) someone whose talk is trivial drivel | Synonyms: jabberer |
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| (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, drooler, slobberer |
| envelope | (noun) any wrapper or covering | - |
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| (noun) a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc. | - |
| (noun) the bag containing the gas in a balloon | Synonyms: gasbag |
| (noun) the maximum operating capability of a system (especially an aircraft) | - |
| (noun) a natural covering (as by a fluid) | - |
| (noun) a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves | - |
| envelopment | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosing, enclosure, inclosure |
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| gavel | (noun) a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge | - |
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| gravel | (noun) rock fragments and pebbles | Synonyms: crushed rock |
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| gravelweed | (noun) perennial herb with yellow flowers; southern and south central United States | Synonyms: Verbesina helianthoides |
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| groveler | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveller, truckler |
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| groveller | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveler, truckler |
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| havelock | (noun) a cloth covering for a service cap with a flap extending over the back of the neck to protect the neck from direct rays of the sun | - |
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| helvella | (noun) any fungus of the genus Helvella having the ascocarps stalked or pleated or often in folds | - |
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| hovel | (noun) small crude shelter used as a dwelling | Synonyms: hut, hutch, shack, shanty |
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| hypervelocity | (noun) excessive velocity | - |
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| javelin | (noun) a spear thrown as a weapon or in competitive field events | - |
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| (noun) an athletic competition in which a javelin is thrown as far as possible | - |
| javelina | (noun) dark grey peccary with an indistinct white collar; of semi desert areas of Mexico and southwestern United States | Synonyms: collared peccary, Peccari angulatus, Tayassu angulatus, Tayassu tajacu |
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| level | (noun) indicator that establishes the horizontal when a bubble is centered in a tube of liquid | Synonyms: spirit level |
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| (noun) a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale | Synonyms: floor, storey, story |
| (noun) a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line | Synonyms: horizontal surface |
| (noun) a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality | Synonyms: degree, grade |
| (noun) height above ground | - |
| (noun) an abstract place usually conceived as having depth | Synonyms: layer, stratum |
| (noun) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | Synonyms: degree, point, stage |
| (noun) a relative position or degree of value in a graded group | Synonyms: grade, tier |
| leveler | (noun) a radical who advocates the abolition of social distinctions | Synonyms: leveller |
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| levelheadedness | (noun) the property of having or showing sound judgment. | - |
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| leveling | (noun) the act of making equal or uniform | Synonyms: equalisation, equalization |
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| (noun) complete destruction of a building | Synonyms: demolishing, razing, tearing down |
| (noun) changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface | Synonyms: grading |
| leveller | (noun) a radical who advocates the abolition of social distinctions | Synonyms: leveler |
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| levelness | (noun) The property of being the same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground. | - |
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| livelihood | (noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, keep, living, support, sustenance |
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| liveliness | (noun) general activity and motion | Synonyms: animation |
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| (noun) animation and energy in action or expression | Synonyms: life, spirit, sprightliness |
| livelong | (noun) perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers | Synonyms: live-forever, orpin, orpine, Sedum telephium |
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| loveliness | (noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: beauteousness, comeliness, fairness |
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| lovely | (noun) a very pretty girl who works as a photographer's model | Synonyms: cover girl, pin-up |
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| marvel | (noun) something that causes feelings of wonder | Synonyms: wonder |
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| marveller | (noun) someone filled with admiration and awe; someone who wonders at something | Synonyms: wonderer |
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| navel | (noun) a scar where the umbilical cord was attached | Synonyms: belly button, bellybutton, omphalos, omphalus, umbilicus |
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| (noun) the center point or middle of something | Synonyms: navel point |
| nervelessness | (noun) fearless self-possession in the face of danger | Synonyms: coolness |
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| nondevelopment | (noun) failure of normal development to occur | - |
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| novel | (noun) a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction | - |
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| (noun) an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story | - |
| novelette | (noun) a short novel | Synonyms: novella |
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| novelisation | (noun) converting something into the form of a novel | Synonyms: novelization |
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| novelist | (noun) one who writes novels | - |
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| novelization | (noun) converting something into the form of a novel | Synonyms: novelisation |
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| novella | (noun) a short novel | Synonyms: novelette |
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| novelty | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, bauble, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, trinket |
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| (noun) a small inexpensive mass-produced article | Synonyms: knickknack |
| (noun) originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel | Synonyms: freshness |
| (noun) originality by virtue of being new and surprising | Synonyms: freshness |
| ravel | (noun) a row of unravelled stitches | Synonyms: ladder, run |
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| raveling | (noun) a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric | Synonyms: ravelling |
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| ravelling | (noun) a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric | Synonyms: raveling |
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| redevelopment | (noun) the act of improving by renewing and restoring | Synonyms: overhaul, renovation |
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| revel | (noun) unrestrained merrymaking | Synonyms: revelry |
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| revelation | (noun) an enlightening or astonishing disclosure | - |
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| (noun) communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency | Synonyms: divine revelation |
| (noun) the speech act of making something evident | Synonyms: disclosure, revealing |
| reveler | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: merrymaker, reveller |
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| reveller | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: merrymaker, reveler |
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| revelry | (noun) unrestrained merrymaking | Synonyms: revel |
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| saveloy | (noun) a ready-cooked and highly seasoned pork sausage | - |
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| shovel | (noun) a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle | - |
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| (noun) a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace | - |
| (noun) a machine for excavating | Synonyms: digger, excavator, power shovel |
| (noun) the quantity a shovel can hold | Synonyms: shovelful, spadeful |
| shovelboard | (noun) a game in which players use long sticks to shove wooden disks onto the scoring area marked on a smooth surface | Synonyms: shuffleboard |
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| shoveler | (noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, broadbill, shoveller |
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| (noun) a worker who shovels | Synonyms: shoveller |
| shovelful | (noun) the quantity a shovel can hold | Synonyms: shovel, spadeful |
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| shovelhead | (noun) small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries | Synonyms: bonnet shark, bonnethead, Sphyrna tiburo |
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| shoveller | (noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, broadbill, shoveler |
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| (noun) a worker who shovels | Synonyms: shoveler |
| snivel | (noun) whining in a tearful manner | Synonyms: sniveling |
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| (noun) the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested) | Synonyms: sniffle, snuffle |
| sniveler | (noun) a person who breathes audibly through a congested nose | Synonyms: sniffler |
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| sniveling | (noun) whining in a tearful manner | Synonyms: snivel |
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| sniveller | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, squawker, whiner |
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| starveling | (noun) someone who is starving (or being starved) | - |
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| swivel | (noun) a coupling (as in a chain) that has one end that turns on a headed pin | - |
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| travel | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: traveling, travelling |
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| (noun) self-propelled movement | Synonyms: locomotion |
| (noun) a movement through space that changes the location of something | Synonyms: change of location |
| traveler | (noun) a person who changes location | Synonyms: traveller |
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| traveling | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: travel, travelling |
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| traveller | (noun) a person who changes location | Synonyms: traveler |
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| travelling | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: travel, traveling |
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| travelog | (noun) a film or illustrated lecture on traveling | Synonyms: travelogue |
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| travelogue | (noun) a film or illustrated lecture on traveling | Synonyms: travelog |
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| underdevelopment | (noun) (photography) inadequate processing of film resulting in inadequate contrast | - |
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| (noun) state of inadequate development | - |
| unraveler | (noun) a person who removes tangles; someone who takes something out of a tangled state | Synonyms: disentangler, unraveller |
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| unraveller | (noun) a person who removes tangles; someone who takes something out of a tangled state | Synonyms: disentangler, unraveler |
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| valvelet | (noun) a small valve | Synonyms: valvula, valvule |
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| velar | (noun) a consonant produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate | Synonyms: velar consonant |
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| veld | (noun) elevated open grassland in southern Africa | Synonyms: veldt |
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| veldt | (noun) elevated open grassland in southern Africa | Synonyms: veld |
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| velleity | (noun) volition in its weakest form | - |
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| (noun) a mere wish, unaccompanied by effort to obtain | - |
| vellication | (noun) a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition | Synonyms: twitch, twitching |
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| vellum | (noun) fine parchment prepared from the skin of a young animal e.g. a calf or lamb | - |
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| (noun) a heavy creamy-colored paper resembling parchment | - |
| velocipede | (noun) a vehicle with three wheels that is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: tricycle, trike |
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| (noun) any of several early bicycles with pedals on the front wheel | - |
| velociraptor | (noun) small active carnivore that probably fed on protoceratops; possibly related more closely to birds than to other dinosaurs | - |
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| velocity | (noun) distance travelled per unit time | Synonyms: speed |
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| velodrome | (noun) a banked oval track for bicycle or motorcycle racing | - |
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| velour | (noun) heavy fabric that resembles velvet | Synonyms: velours |
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| velours | (noun) heavy fabric that resembles velvet | Synonyms: velour |
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| veloute | (noun) white sauce made with stock instead of milk | - |
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| velum | (noun) a muscular flap that closes off the nasopharynx during swallowing or speaking | Synonyms: soft palate |
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| (noun) a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms | Synonyms: veil |
| velvet | (noun) a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back | - |
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| velveteen | (noun) a usually cotton fabric with a short pile imitating velvet | - |
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| velvetiness | (noun) Quality of velvet: velvety appearance, feeling, or taste. | - |
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| velvetleaf | (noun) tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States | Synonyms: Abutilon theophrasti, butter-print, China jute, Indian mallow, velvet-leaf, velvetweed |
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| (noun) arborescent perennial shrub having palmately lobed furry leaves and showy red-purple flowers; southwestern United States | Synonyms: Lavatera arborea, tree mallow, velvet-leaf |
| velvetweed | (noun) tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States | Synonyms: Abutilon theophrasti, butter-print, China jute, Indian mallow, velvet-leaf, velvetleaf |
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| volvelle | (noun) a circular slide chart having rotating parts | Synonyms: wheel chart |
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| wavelength | (noun) the distance (measured in the direction of propagation) between two points in the same phase in consecutive cycles of a wave | - |
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| (noun) a shared orientation leading to mutual understanding | - |
| wavelet | (noun) a small wave on the surface of a liquid | Synonyms: riffle, ripple, rippling |
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