| advent | (noun) arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous) | Synonyms: coming |
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| adventitia | (noun) an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue | Synonyms: tunic, tunica |
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| adventure | (noun) a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful) | Synonyms: dangerous undertaking, escapade, risky venture |
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| adventurer | (noun) a person who enjoys taking risks | Synonyms: venturer |
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| (noun) someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose) | Synonyms: explorer |
| adventuress | (noun) a woman adventurer | - |
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| adventurism | (noun) recklessness in politics or foreign affairs | - |
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| adventurousness | (noun) the trait of being adventurous | Synonyms: venturesomeness |
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| aventail | (noun) a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | Synonyms: camail, ventail |
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| aventurine | (noun) a translucent quartz spangled with bits of mica or other minerals | Synonyms: sunstone |
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| circumvention | (noun) the act of evading by going around | - |
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| contravention | (noun) coming into conflict with | Synonyms: dispute |
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| convent | (noun) a religious residence especially for nuns | - |
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| (noun) a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together | - |
| conventicle | (noun) a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers) | Synonyms: meetinghouse |
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| (noun) a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship | - |
| convention | (noun) the act of convening | Synonyms: convening |
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| (noun) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional | Synonyms: conventionalism, conventionality |
| (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: formula, normal, pattern, rule |
| (noun) (diplomacy) an international agreement | - |
| (noun) a large formal assembly | - |
| conventionalisation | (noun) the act of conventionalizing; conforming to a conventional style | Synonyms: conventionalization |
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| conventionalism | (noun) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional | Synonyms: convention, conventionality |
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| conventionality | (noun) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional | Synonyms: convention, conventionalism |
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| (noun) unoriginality as a result of being too conventional | - |
| (noun) conformity with conventional thought and behavior | - |
| conventionalization | (noun) the act of conventionalizing; conforming to a conventional style | Synonyms: conventionalisation |
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| conventioneer | (noun) someone who attends a convention | - |
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| dissolvent | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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| eleventh | (noun) position 11 in a countable series of things | - |
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| event | (noun) something that happens at a given place and time | - |
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| (noun) a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory | - |
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, issue, outcome, result, upshot |
| (noun) a special set of circumstances | Synonyms: case |
| eventide | (noun) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) | Synonyms: eve, even, evening |
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| eventration | (noun) protrusion of the intestine through the abdominal wall | - |
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| eventuality | (noun) a possible event or occurrence or result | Synonyms: contingence, contingency |
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| hyperventilation | (noun) an increased depth and rate of breathing greater than demanded by the body needs; can cause dizziness and tingling of the fingers and toes and chest pain if continued | - |
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| insolvent | (noun) someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts | Synonyms: bankrupt |
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| intervention | (noun) the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.) | Synonyms: intercession |
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| (noun) (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings | - |
| (noun) care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) | Synonyms: treatment |
| (noun) the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others | Synonyms: interposition |
| (noun) a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries | Synonyms: interference |
| invention | (noun) the act of inventing | - |
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| (noun) a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation | Synonyms: innovation |
| (noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: conception, design, excogitation, innovation |
| inventiveness | (noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: cleverness, ingeniousness, ingenuity |
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| inventor | (noun) someone who is the first to think of or make something | Synonyms: artificer, discoverer |
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| inventory | (noun) making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand | Synonyms: inventorying, stock-taking, stocktaking |
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| (noun) the merchandise that a shop has on hand | Synonyms: stock |
| (noun) a collection of resources | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
| (noun) a detailed list of all the items in stock | Synonyms: stock list |
| (noun) (accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods | - |
| inventorying | (noun) making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand | Synonyms: inventory, stock-taking, stocktaking |
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| misadventure | (noun) an instance of misfortune | Synonyms: mischance, mishap |
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| nonevent | (noun) an anticipated event that turns out to be far less significant than was expected | - |
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| nonintervention | (noun) a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes | Synonyms: noninterference |
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| peradventure | (noun) doubt or uncertainty as to whether something is the case | - |
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| preventative | (noun) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease | Synonyms: preventive, prophylactic |
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| (noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive, contraceptive device, preventive, prophylactic device |
| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventive |
| prevention | (noun) the act of preventing | Synonyms: bar |
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| preventive | (noun) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease | Synonyms: preventative, prophylactic |
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| (noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive, contraceptive device, preventative, prophylactic device |
| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative |
| preventiveness | (noun) The property of preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to something. | - |
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| resolvent | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, solvent |
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| seventeen | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one | Synonyms: 17, XVII |
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| seventeenth | (noun) position 17 in a countable series of things | - |
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| seventh | (noun) the musical interval between one note and another seven notes away from it | - |
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| (noun) one part in seven equal parts | Synonyms: one-seventh |
| (noun) position seven in a countable series of things | - |
| seventies | (noun) the time of life between 70 and 80 | Synonyms: mid-seventies |
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| (noun) the decade from 1970 to 1979 | Synonyms: 1970s |
| seventieth | (noun) position 70 in a countable series of things | - |
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| seventy | (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven | Synonyms: 70, LXX |
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| solvent | (noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: answer, resolution, result, solution |
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| (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent |
| subvention | (noun) the act or process of providing aid or help of any sort | - |
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| (noun) grant of financial aid as from a government to an educational institution | - |
| supervention | (noun) a following on in addition | - |
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| unconventionality | (noun) unorthodoxy by virtue of being unconventional | - |
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| (noun) originality by virtue of being unconventional | - |
| vent | (noun) activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion | Synonyms: outlet, release |
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| (noun) external opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate | - |
| (noun) a hole for the escape of gas or air | Synonyms: blowhole, vent-hole, venthole |
| (noun) a slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket) | - |
| (noun) a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt | Synonyms: volcano |
| ventail | (noun) a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | Synonyms: aventail, camail |
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| venter | (noun) the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis | Synonyms: abdomen, belly, stomach |
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| (noun) a bulging body part (as the belly of a muscle) | - |
| (noun) the womb | - |
| (noun) a speaker who expresses or gives vent to a personal opinion or grievance | - |
| venthole | (noun) a hole for the escape of gas or air | Synonyms: blowhole, vent-hole, vent |
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| ventilation | (noun) the act of supplying fresh air and getting rid of foul air | Synonyms: airing |
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| (noun) the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation | Synonyms: breathing, external respiration, respiration |
| (noun) a mechanical system in a building that provides fresh air | Synonyms: ventilating system, ventilation system |
| (noun) free and open discussion of (or debate on) some question of public interest | Synonyms: public discussion |
| ventilator | (noun) a device (such as a fan) that introduces fresh air or expels foul air | - |
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| (noun) a device that facilitates breathing in cases of respiratory failure | Synonyms: breathing apparatus, breathing device, breathing machine |
| venting | (noun) the act of venting | Synonyms: discharge |
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| ventricle | (noun) a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries | Synonyms: heart ventricle |
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| (noun) one of four connected cavities in the brain; is continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord and contains cerebrospinal fluid | - |
| ventriculus | (noun) thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food | Synonyms: gastric mill, gizzard |
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| ventriloquism | (noun) the art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy) | Synonyms: ventriloquy |
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| ventriloquist | (noun) a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy | - |
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| ventriloquy | (noun) the art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy) | Synonyms: ventriloquism |
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| venture | (noun) any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome | - |
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| (noun) a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit | - |
| (noun) an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits | Synonyms: speculation |
| venturer | (noun) a person who enjoys taking risks | Synonyms: adventurer |
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| (noun) a merchant who undertakes a trading venture (especially a venture that sends goods overseas) | Synonyms: merchant-venturer |
| venturesomeness | (noun) the trait of being adventurous | Synonyms: adventurousness |
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| venturi | (noun) a tube with a constriction; used to control fluid flow (as in the air inlet of a carburetor) | - |
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