| feryaz | (noun) a broad kaftan with long sleeves, worn by the nobility in Russia in the 16th and 17th centuries. | - |
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| fez | (noun) a felt cap (usually red) for a man; shaped like a flat-topped cone with a tassel that hangs from the crown | Synonyms: tarboosh |
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| fictionalization | (noun) writing in a fictional form | Synonyms: fabrication, fictionalisation |
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| (noun) a literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction | Synonyms: fictionalisation |
| finalization | (noun) the act of finalizing | Synonyms: finalisation |
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| fizgig | (noun) a firework that fizzes as it moves | - |
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| (noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish | Synonyms: fishgig, gig, lance, spear |
| fizz | (noun) an effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic) | - |
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| fizzle | (noun) a complete failure | Synonyms: bust, flop |
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| (noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval) | Synonyms: hiss, hissing, hushing, sibilation |
| floozie | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozy, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker |
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| floozy | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker |
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| flunitrazepam | (noun) a depressant and tranquilizer (trade name Rohypnol) often used in the commission of sexual assault; legally available in Europe and Mexico and Colombia | Synonyms: Rohypnol |
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| fluoridization | (noun) the addition of a fluoride to the water supply (to prevent dental decay) | Synonyms: fluoridation, fluoridisation |
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| fluphenazine | (noun) tranquilizer used to treat psychotic disorders | - |
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| flurazepam | (noun) tranquilizer (trade name Dalmane) used to treat insomnia | Synonyms: Dalmane, flurazepam hydrochloride |
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| focalization | (noun) the act of bringing into focus | Synonyms: focalisation, focusing |
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| (noun) the confinement of an infection to a limited area | Synonyms: focalisation |
| formalization | (noun) the act of making formal (as by stating formal rules governing classes of expressions) | Synonyms: formalisation |
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| fossilization | (noun) becoming inflexible or out of date | Synonyms: fossilisation |
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| (noun) the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone | Synonyms: fossilisation |
| fraternization | (noun) associating with others in a brotherly or friendly way; especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternisation |
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| frazzle | (noun) a state of extreme exhaustion | - |
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| freeze | (noun) an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement | Synonyms: halt |
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| (noun) fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level | - |
| (noun) weather cold enough to cause freezing | Synonyms: frost |
| (noun) the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid | Synonyms: freezing |
| freezer | (noun) electric refrigerator (trade name Deepfreeze) in which food is frozen and stored for long periods of time | Synonyms: deep-freeze, deep freezer, Deepfreeze |
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| freezing | (noun) the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid | Synonyms: freeze |
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| frenzy | (noun) state of violent mental agitation | Synonyms: craze, delirium, fury, hysteria |
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| frieze | (noun) a heavy woolen fabric with a long nap | - |
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| (noun) an architectural ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band between the architrave and the cornice | - |
| frizz | (noun) the condition of being formed into small tight curls | - |
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| furze | (noun) very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe | Synonyms: gorse, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus, whin |
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| fuze | (noun) any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant | Synonyms: fuse, fusee, fuzee, primer, priming |
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| fuzee | (noun) any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant | Synonyms: fuse, fusee, fuze, primer, priming |
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| (noun) a friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind | Synonyms: fusee |
| (noun) a colored flare used as a warning signal by trucks and trains | Synonyms: fusee |
| fuzz | (noun) the first beard of an adolescent boy | - |
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| (noun) a hazy or indistinct representation | Synonyms: blur |
| (noun) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman | Synonyms: bull, cop, copper, pig |
| (noun) filamentous hairlike growth on a plant | Synonyms: hair, tomentum |
| fuzziness | (noun) the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines | Synonyms: blurriness, fogginess, indistinctness, softness |
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| galvanization | (noun) either the work of covering with metal by the use of a galvanic current or the coating of iron with zinc to protect it from rusting | Synonyms: galvanisation |
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| (noun) stimulation that arouses a person to lively action | Synonyms: galvanisation |
| (noun) stimulation with a galvanic current | Synonyms: galvanisation |
| galvanizer | (noun) a leader who stimulates and excites people to action | Synonyms: galvaniser, inspirer |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who coats iron or steel with zinc | Synonyms: galvaniser |
| garbanzo | (noun) large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried | Synonyms: chickpea |
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| (noun) the seed of the chickpea plant | Synonyms: chickpea |
| gauze | (noun) a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave | Synonyms: netting, veiling |
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| (noun) (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings | Synonyms: gauze bandage |
| gazania | (noun) any plant of the genus Gazania valued for their showy daisy flowers | - |
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| gaze | (noun) a long fixed look | Synonyms: regard |
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| gazebo | (noun) a small roofed building affording shade and rest | Synonyms: summerhouse |
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| gazelle | (noun) small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes | - |
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| gazette | (noun) a newspaper or official journal | - |
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| gazetteer | (noun) a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas) | - |
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| (noun) a journalist who writes for a gazette | - |
| gazillion | (noun) a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) | Synonyms: bazillion, billion, jillion, million, trillion, zillion |
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| gazpacho | (noun) a soup made with chopped tomatoes and onions and cucumbers and peppers and herbs; served cold | - |
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| geezer | (noun) a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric | - |
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| geezerhood | (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: age, eld, old age, years |
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| gemfibrozil | (noun) medication (trade name Lopid) used to lower the levels of triglyceride in the blood | Synonyms: Lopid |
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| generalization | (noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generalisation, generality |
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| (noun) reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | Synonyms: generalisation, induction, inductive reasoning |
| (noun) (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus | Synonyms: generalisation, stimulus generalisation, stimulus generalization |
| (noun) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | Synonyms: abstraction, generalisation |
| gigahertz | (noun) 1,000,000,000 periods per second | Synonyms: Gc, GHz, gigacycle, gigacycle per second |
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| ginzo | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: dago, greaseball, Guinea, wop |
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| gizmo | (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gismo, widget |
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| (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
| gizzard | (noun) thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food | Synonyms: gastric mill, ventriculus |
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| glamorization | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorisation, glamourisation, glamourization |
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| glamourization | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorisation, glamorization, glamourisation |
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| glaze | (noun) a coating for ceramics, metal, etc. | - |
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| (noun) a glossy finish on a fabric | - |
| (noun) any of various thin shiny (savory or sweet) coatings applied to foods | - |
| glazer | (noun) someone who cuts flat glass to size | Synonyms: glass-cutter, glass cutter, glassworker, glazier |
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| glazier | (noun) someone who cuts flat glass to size | Synonyms: glass-cutter, glass cutter, glassworker, glazer |
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| glipizide | (noun) an oral antidiabetic drug (trade name Glucotrol) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas | Synonyms: Glucotrol |
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| glitz | (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
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| globalization | (noun) growth to a global or worldwide scale | Synonyms: globalisation |
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| gorgonzola | (noun) Italian blue cheese | - |
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| gourmandizer | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmand, trencherman |
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| graze | (noun) the act of grazing | Synonyms: grazing |
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| (noun) a superficial abrasion | - |
| grazier | (noun) a rancher who grazes cattle or sheep for market | - |
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| grazing | (noun) the act of brushing against while passing | Synonyms: shaving, skimming |
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| (noun) the act of grazing | Synonyms: graze |
| grizzle | (noun) a grey wig | - |
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| grizzly | (noun) powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America | Synonyms: grizzly bear, silver-tip, silvertip, Ursus arctos horribilis, Ursus horribilis |
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| grosz | (noun) 100 groszy equal 1 zloty in Poland | - |
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| guanabenz | (noun) antihypertensive drug (trade name Wytensin) that reduces blood pressure by its effect on the central nervous system | Synonyms: Wytensin |
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| guereza | (noun) a colobus monkey with a reddish brown coat and white silky fringes down both sides of the body | Synonyms: Colobus guereza |
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| guzzler | (noun) someone who drinks heavily (especially alcoholic beverages) | - |
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| (noun) a drinker who swallows large amounts greedily | Synonyms: gulper |
| guzzling | (noun) the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly | Synonyms: gulping, swilling |
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| gyrostabilizer | (noun) a stabilizer consisting of a heavy gyroscope that spins on a vertical axis; reduces side-to-side rolling of a ship or plane | Synonyms: gyrostabiliser |
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| haematochezia | (noun) passage of stools containing blood (as from diverticulosis or colon cancer or peptic ulcer) | Synonyms: hematochezia |
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| haphazardness | (noun) the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan | Synonyms: noise, randomness, stochasticity |
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| harmonization | (noun) singing in harmony | Synonyms: harmonisation |
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| (noun) a piece of harmonized music | Synonyms: harmonisation |
| harmonizer | (noun) a mediator who brings one thing into harmonious agreement with another | Synonyms: harmoniser |
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| (noun) a musician who sings or plays in harmony | Synonyms: harmoniser |
| hazan | (noun) the official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos | Synonyms: cantor |
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| hazard | (noun) an obstacle on a golf course | - |
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| (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: chance, fortune, luck |
| (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: endangerment, jeopardy, peril, risk |
| hazardousness | (noun) the state of being dangerous | Synonyms: perilousness |
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| haze | (noun) confusion characterized by lack of clarity | Synonyms: daze, fog |
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| (noun) atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility | - |
| hazel | (noun) a shade of brown that is yellowish or reddish; it is a greenish shade of brown when used to describe the color of someone's eyes | - |
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| (noun) any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk | Synonyms: hazelnut, hazelnut tree |
| (noun) Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts | Synonyms: hazel tree, Pomaderris apetala |
| (noun) the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris) | - |
| hazelnut | (noun) nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus | Synonyms: cob, cobnut, filbert |
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| (noun) any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk | Synonyms: hazel, hazelnut tree |
| hazelwood | (noun) reddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet gum tree used to make furniture | Synonyms: red gum, satin walnut, sweet gum |
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| haziness | (noun) cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor | Synonyms: mistiness, steaminess, vaporousness, vapourousness |
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| (noun) vagueness attributable to being not clearly defined | - |
| heliozoan | (noun) protozoa with spherical bodies and stiff radiating pseudopods | - |
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| hematochezia | (noun) passage of stools containing blood (as from diverticulosis or colon cancer or peptic ulcer) | Synonyms: haematochezia |
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| hemodialyzer | (noun) a machine that uses dialysis to remove impurities and waste products from the bloodstream before returning the blood to the patient's body | Synonyms: artificial kidney |
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| heroization | (noun) the act, or the result, of making someone into a hero. | - |
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| hertz | (noun) the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz) | Synonyms: cps, cycle, cycle per second, cycles/second, Hz |
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| heterozygosity | (noun) the state of being heterozygous; having two different alleles of the same gene | - |
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| heterozygote | (noun) (genetics) an organism having two different alleles of a particular gene and so giving rise to varying offspring | - |
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| hierarchization | (noun) The act or result of hierarchizing; the establishment of a hierarchy. | Synonyms: hierarchisation |
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| hoactzin | (noun) crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings | Synonyms: hoatzin, Opisthocomus hoazin, stinkbird |
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| hoatzin | (noun) crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings | Synonyms: hoactzin, Opisthocomus hoazin, stinkbird |
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| homogenization | (noun) the act of making something homogeneous or uniform in composition | Synonyms: homogenisation |
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| homozygosity | (noun) the state of being homozygous; having two identical alleles of the same gene | - |
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| homozygote | (noun) (genetics) an organism having two identical alleles of a particular gene and so breeding true for the particular characteristic | - |
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| horizon | (noun) the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated | Synonyms: purview, view |
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| (noun) the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet | Synonyms: apparent horizon, sensible horizon, skyline, visible horizon |
| (noun) a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land | - |
| (noun) the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth | Synonyms: celestial horizon |
| horizontal | (noun) something that is oriented horizontally | - |
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| horizontality | (noun) the quality of being parallel to the horizon | - |
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| hospitalization | (noun) placing in medical care in a hospital | Synonyms: hospital care, hospitalisation |
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| (noun) insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital expense | Synonyms: hospitalization insurance |
| (noun) the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital | - |
| (noun) a period of time when you are confined to a hospital | - |
| howitzer | (noun) a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range | Synonyms: mortar, trench mortar |
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