| allowance | (noun) the act of allowing | - |
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| (noun) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits | Synonyms: leeway, margin, tolerance |
| (noun) an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period) | - |
| (noun) an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances | Synonyms: adjustment |
| (noun) a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses | - |
| (noun) a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets | Synonyms: allowance account, valuation account, valuation reserve |
| angwantibo | (noun) a kind of yellow or golden lemur (Arctocebus calabarensis) | Synonyms: Arctocebus calabarensis, golden potto |
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| diwan | (noun) a Muslim council chamber or law court | Synonyms: divan |
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| (noun) a collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one author) | Synonyms: divan |
| (noun) a Muslim council of state | Synonyms: divan |
| ellwand | (noun) a rod an ell long, used for official measurement. | Synonyms: ell-wand |
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| jawan | (noun) (India) a private soldier or male constable | - |
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| kiwano | (noun) a fruit that has orange skin and lime green, jelly-like flesh with a refreshingly fruity taste, and texture similar to a passionfruit or pomegranate; grows on the annual vine Cucumis metuliferus. | - |
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| kwanza | (noun) the basic unit of money in Angola | - |
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| lowan | (noun) Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds | Synonyms: leipoa, Leipoa ocellata, mallee fowl |
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| rowan | (noun) Eurasian tree with orange-red berrylike fruits | Synonyms: European mountain ash, rowan tree, Sorbus aucuparia |
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| rowanberry | (noun) decorative red berrylike fruit of a rowan tree | - |
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| swan | (noun) stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult | - |
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| swanflower | (noun) any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan | Synonyms: swan-flower, swan-neck, swan orchid, swanneck |
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| swank | (noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chic, chichi, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness |
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| swanneck | (noun) any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan | Synonyms: swan-flower, swan-neck, swan orchid, swanflower |
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| twang | (noun) exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects) | Synonyms: nasal twang |
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| (noun) a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string) | - |
| wand | (noun) a rod used by a magician or water diviner | - |
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| (noun) a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir | Synonyms: baton |
| (noun) a ceremonial or emblematic staff | Synonyms: scepter, sceptre, verge |
| (noun) a thin supple twig or rod | - |
| wanderer | (noun) a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine | Synonyms: spider |
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| (noun) someone who leads a wandering unsettled life | Synonyms: bird of passage, roamer, rover |
| wandering | (noun) travelling about without any clear destination | Synonyms: roving, vagabondage |
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| wanderlust | (noun) very strong or irresistible impulse to travel | Synonyms: itchy feet |
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| wandflower | (noun) tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall | Synonyms: beetleweed, coltsfoot, galax, Galax urceolata, galaxy |
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| (noun) a showy often-cultivated plant with tawny yellow often purple-spotted flowers | Synonyms: Sparaxis tricolor |
| wane | (noun) a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) | Synonyms: ebb, ebbing |
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| wangle | (noun) an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery | Synonyms: wangling |
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| wangler | (noun) a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods | Synonyms: finagler |
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| wangling | (noun) an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery | Synonyms: wangle |
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| waning | (noun) a gradual decrease in magnitude or extent | - |
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| wank | (noun) slang for masturbation | Synonyms: hand job, jacking off, jerking off |
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| wanker | (noun) terms of abuse for a masturbator | Synonyms: jerk-off, tosser |
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| wannabe | (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirant, aspirer, hopeful, wannabee |
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| wannabee | (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirant, aspirer, hopeful, wannabe |
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| wanness | (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: achromasia, lividity, lividness, luridness, paleness, pallidness, pallor |
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| want | (noun) a specific feeling of desire | Synonyms: wish, wishing |
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| (noun) anything that is necessary but lacking | Synonyms: need |
| (noun) a state of extreme poverty | Synonyms: deprivation, neediness, privation |
| (noun) the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Synonyms: deficiency, lack |
| wanter | (noun) a person who wants or needs something | Synonyms: needer |
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| wanton | (noun) lewd or lascivious woman | - |
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| wantonness | (noun) the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry | Synonyms: abandon, unconstraint |
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| (noun) the quality of being lewd and lascivious | Synonyms: licentiousness |