advertizement | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advert, advertisement, advertising, advertizing |
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advertizer | (noun) someone whose business is advertising | Synonyms: adman, advertiser |
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adze | (noun) an edge tool used to cut and shape wood | Synonyms: adz |
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aggrandizement | (noun) the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something | Synonyms: aggrandisement, elevation |
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alkalizer | (noun) an agent that counteracts or neutralizes acidity (especially in the stomach) | Synonyms: alkaliser, antacid, antiacid, gastric antacid |
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alkylbenzene | (noun) organic compound that has an alkyl group bound to a benzene ring | - |
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alkylbenzenesulfonate | (noun) sulfonate of alkyl benzene | - |
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allegorizer | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegoriser |
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alphabetizer | (noun) a literate person who can arrange items in alphabetical order | Synonyms: alphabetiser |
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amazement | (noun) the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising | Synonyms: astonishment |
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analyzer | (noun) an instrument that performs analyses | Synonyms: analyser |
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angledozer | (noun) a bulldozer with an angled moldboard to push earth to one side | - |
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antifreeze | (noun) a liquid added to the water in a cooling system to lower its freezing point | - |
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appetizer | (noun) food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) | Synonyms: appetiser, starter |
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assize | (noun) an ancient writ issued by a court of assize to the sheriff for the recovery of property | - |
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(noun) the regulation of weights and measures of articles offered for sale | - |
assizes | (noun) the county courts of England (replaced in 1971 by Crown courts) | Synonyms: court of assize, court of assize and nisi prius |
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atomizer | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray, sprayer |
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authorizer | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authoriser |
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azedarach | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azederach, China tree, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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azederach | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azedarach, China tree, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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baize | (noun) a bright green fabric napped to resemble felt; used to cover gaming tables | - |
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benzene | (noun) a colorless liquid hydrocarbon; highly flammable; carcinogenic; the simplest of the aromatic compounds | Synonyms: benzine, benzol |
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benzodiazepine | (noun) any of several similar lipophilic amines used as tranquilizers or sedatives or hypnotics or muscle relaxants; chronic use can lead to dependency | - |
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bezel | (noun) a sloping edge on a cutting tool | - |
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bize | (noun) a dry cold north wind in southeastern France | Synonyms: bise |
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blaze | (noun) noisy and unrestrained mischief | Synonyms: hell |
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(noun) a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted | Synonyms: brilliance, glare |
(noun) a light-colored marking | - |
(noun) a cause of difficulty and suffering | Synonyms: hell |
(noun) a strong flame that burns brightly | Synonyms: blazing |
blazer | (noun) lightweight single-breasted jacket; often striped in the colors of a club or school | Synonyms: sport coat, sport jacket, sports coat, sports jacket |
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blintze | (noun) (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked | Synonyms: blintz |
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booze | (noun) an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented | Synonyms: hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, liquor, spirits, strong drink |
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boozer | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker, souse |
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bowdlerizer | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdleriser, expurgator |
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brazenness | (noun) behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame | Synonyms: shamelessness |
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breathalyzer | (noun) a device that measures chemicals (especially the alcohol content) in a person's expired breath | Synonyms: breathalyser |
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breeze | (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover |
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(noun) a slight wind (usually refreshing) | Synonyms: air, gentle wind, zephyr |
bronze | (noun) a sculpture made of bronze | - |
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(noun) an alloy of copper and tin and sometimes other elements; also any copper-base alloy containing other elements in place of tin | - |
bronzer | (noun) A cosmetic powder that comes in various shades of brown, meant to create an impression of tanned skin. | Synonyms: bronzing powder |
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bulldozer | (noun) large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground | Synonyms: dozer |
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buzzer | (noun) a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed | Synonyms: bell, doorbell |
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(noun) a signaling device that makes a buzzing sound | - |
chimpanzee | (noun) intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests | Synonyms: chimp, Pan troglodytes |
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chlordiazepoxide | (noun) a tranquilizer (trade names Librium and Libritabs) used in the treatment of alcoholism | Synonyms: Libritabs, Librium |
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chlorobenzene | (noun) a colorless volatile flammable liquid with an almond odor that is made from chlorine and benzene; used as a solvent and in the production of phenol and DDT and other organic compounds | - |
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citizen | (noun) a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community | - |
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citizenry | (noun) the body of citizens of a state or country | Synonyms: people |
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citizenship | (noun) conduct as a citizen | - |
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(noun) the status of a citizen with rights and duties | - |
cocozelle | (noun) squash resembling zucchini | - |
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(noun) squash plant having dark green fruit with skin mottled with light green or yellow | Synonyms: Italian vegetable marrow |
colonizer | (noun) someone who helps to found a colony | Synonyms: coloniser |
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cozenage | (noun) a fraudulent business scheme | Synonyms: scam |
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craze | (noun) a fine crack in a glaze or other surface | - |
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(noun) an interest followed with exaggerated zeal | Synonyms: cult, fad, furor, furore, rage |
(noun) state of violent mental agitation | Synonyms: delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria |
damozel | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damosel, damsel, demoiselle |
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daze | (noun) confusion characterized by lack of clarity | Synonyms: fog, haze |
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(noun) the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally | Synonyms: shock, stupor |
denizen | (noun) a plant or animal naturalized in a region | - |
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(noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: dweller, habitant, indweller, inhabitant |
dialyzer | (noun) a medical instrument for separating substances in solution by unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes | Synonyms: dialysis machine |
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diazepam | (noun) a tranquilizer (trade name Valium) used to relieve anxiety and relax muscles; acts by enhancing the inhibitory actions of the neurotransmitter GABA; can also be used as an anticonvulsant drug in cases of nerve agent poisoning | Synonyms: Valium |
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digitizer | (noun) device for converting analogue signals into digital signals | Synonyms: analog-digital converter, analog-to-digital converter, digitiser |
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diltiazem | (noun) a calcium blocker (trade name Cardizem) used in treating hypertension or angina or heart failure | Synonyms: Cardizem |
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doppelzentner | (noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: centner, hundredweight, metric hundredweight |
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doze | (noun) a light fitful sleep | Synonyms: drowse |
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dozen | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one | Synonyms: 12, twelve, XII |
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dozens | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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dozer | (noun) large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground | Synonyms: bulldozer |
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economizer | (noun) a frugal person who limits spending and avoids waste | Synonyms: economiser |
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eczema | (noun) generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin; particularly with vesiculation in the acute stages | - |
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energizer | (noun) a device that supplies electrical energy | Synonyms: energiser |
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(noun) someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | Synonyms: animator, energiser, vitaliser, vitalizer |
equalizer | (noun) a score that makes the match even | - |
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(noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser |
(noun) electronic equipment that reduces frequency distortion | Synonyms: equaliser |
ezed | (noun) the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: izzard, Z, z, zed, zee |
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fertilizer | (noun) any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile | Synonyms: fertiliser, plant food |
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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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flurazepam | (noun) tranquilizer (trade name Dalmane) used to treat insomnia | Synonyms: Dalmane, flurazepam hydrochloride |
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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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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 | - |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 | - |
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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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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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 | - |
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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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 |
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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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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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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hydroisopieze | (noun) a line on a map connecting points of identical pressures in the water bearing stratum. | - |
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hydroxybenzene | (noun) a toxic white soluble crystalline acidic derivative of benzene; used in manufacturing and as a disinfectant and antiseptic; poisonous if taken internally | Synonyms: carbolic acid, oxybenzene, phenol, phenylic acid |
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hypnotizer | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotist, mesmerist, mesmerizer |
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hypozeugma | (noun) use of a series of subjects with a single predicate | - |
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hypozeuxis | (noun) use of a series of parallel clauses (as in `I came, I saw, I conquered') | - |
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