| temporizer | (noun) someone who temporizes; someone who tries to gain time or who waits for a favorable time | Synonyms: temporiser |
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| tenderizer | (noun) a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender | Synonyms: tenderiser |
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| terzetto | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
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| theologizer | (noun) someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology | Synonyms: theologian, theologiser, theologist |
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| theorizer | (noun) someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) | Synonyms: idealogue, theoretician, theoriser, theorist |
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| totalizer | (noun) a calculator that performs simple arithmetic functions | Synonyms: adding machine, totaliser |
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| (noun) computer that registers bets and divides the total amount bet among those who won | Synonyms: pari-mutuel machine, totalisator, totaliser, totalizator |
| trailblazer | (noun) someone who marks a trail by leaving blazes on trees | - |
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| (noun) someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art | Synonyms: groundbreaker, innovator, pioneer |
| tranquilizer | (noun) a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity | Synonyms: antianxiety agent, ataractic, ataractic agent, ataractic drug, tranquilliser, tranquillizer |
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| tranquillizer | (noun) a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity | Synonyms: antianxiety agent, ataractic, ataractic agent, ataractic drug, tranquilizer, tranquilliser |
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| trapeze | (noun) a swing used by circus acrobats | - |
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| tweezer | (noun) a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping | Synonyms: pair of pincers, pair of tweezers, pincer |
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| tzetze | (noun) bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc. | Synonyms: glossina, tsetse, tsetse fly, tzetze fly |
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| utilizer | (noun) someone who puts to good use | Synonyms: utiliser |
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| vaporizer | (noun) a device that puts out a substance in the form of a vapor (especially for medicinal inhalation) | Synonyms: vaporiser |
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| verbalizer | (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser |
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| victimizer | (noun) a person who victimizes others | Synonyms: victimiser |
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| vinylbenzene | (noun) a colorless oily liquid; the monomer for polystyrene | Synonyms: cinnamene, phenylethylene, styrene |
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| visualizer | (noun) one whose prevailing mental imagery is visual | Synonyms: visualiser |
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| vitalizer | (noun) someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | Synonyms: animator, energiser, energizer, vitaliser |
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| vocalizer | (noun) a person who sings | Synonyms: singer, vocaliser, vocalist |
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| (noun) an organism that can utter vocal sounds | Synonyms: utterer, vocaliser |
| vulcanizer | (noun) a device used for the vulcanization of rubber. | Synonyms: vulcaniser |
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| (noun) someone who vulcanizes rubber to improve its strength and resiliency | Synonyms: vulcaniser |
| vulgarizer | (noun) someone who makes something vulgar | Synonyms: vulgariser |
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| (noun) someone who makes something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: populariser, popularizer, vulgariser |
| waltzer | (noun) a dancer who waltzes | - |
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| wheeze | (noun) breathing with a husky or whistling sound | - |
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| (noun) (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick | - |
| womanizer | (noun) a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them | Synonyms: philanderer, womaniser |
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| zeal | (noun) prompt willingness | Synonyms: eagerness, forwardness, readiness |
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| (noun) a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause) | Synonyms: ardor, ardour, elan |
| (noun) excessive fervor to do something or accomplish some end | - |
| zealot | (noun) a fervent and even militant proponent of something | Synonyms: drumbeater, partisan |
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| zealotry | (noun) excessive intolerance of opposing views | Synonyms: fanaticism, fanatism |
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| zeaxanthin | (noun) yellow carotenoid (isomeric with lutein and occurs widely with it) that is the main pigment in yellow Indian corn | - |
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| zebibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 exbibits or 2^70 bits | Synonyms: Zibit |
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| zebibyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 exbibytes or 2^70 bytes | Synonyms: ZB, zettabyte, ZiB |
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| zebra | (noun) any of several fleet black-and-white striped African equines | - |
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| zebrawood | (noun) any of various trees or shrubs having mottled or striped wood | Synonyms: zebrawood tree |
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| (noun) handsomely striped or mottled wood of the zebrawood tree; used especially for cabinetwork | - |
| zebu | (noun) domesticated ox having a humped back and long horns and a large dewlap; used chiefly as a draft animal in India and east Asia | - |
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| zed | (noun) the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: ezed, izzard, Z, z, zee |
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| zee | (noun) the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: ezed, izzard, Z, z, zed |
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| zenerdiode | (noun) a semiconductor diode that exhibits a sharp increase in reverse current at a well-defined reverse voltage: used as a voltage regulator | Synonyms: stabilitron |
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| zenith | (noun) the point above the observer that is directly opposite the nadir on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected | - |
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| zeolite | (noun) any of a family of glassy minerals analogous to feldspar containing hydrated aluminum silicates of calcium or sodium or potassium; formed in cavities in lava flows and in plutonic rocks | - |
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| zep | (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge |
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| zephyr | (noun) a slight wind (usually refreshing) | Synonyms: air, breeze, gentle wind |
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| zeppelin | (noun) a large rigid dirigible designed to carry passengers or bombs | Synonyms: Graf Zeppelin |
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| zero | (noun) the sight setting that will cause a projectile to hit the center of the target with no wind blowing | - |
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| (noun) the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured | Synonyms: zero point |
| (noun) a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number | Synonyms: 0, cipher, cypher, nought |
| (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zilch, zip, zippo |
| zest | (noun) a tart spicy quality | Synonyms: nip, piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tang, tanginess |
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| (noun) vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment | Synonyms: gusto, relish, zestfulness |
| zestfulness | (noun) vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment | Synonyms: gusto, relish, zest |
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| zeta | (noun) the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| zettabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 exabits or 10^21 bits | Synonyms: Zb, Zbit |
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| zettabyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 exbibytes or 2^70 bytes | Synonyms: ZB, zebibyte, ZiB |
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| (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 exabytes or 10^21 bytes | Synonyms: ZB |
| zettaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one sextillion floating-point operations a second. | Synonyms: ZFLOPS |
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| zeugma | (noun) use of a verb with two or more complements, playing on the verb's polysemy, for humorous effect | - |
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