| cancan | (noun) a high-kicking dance of French origin performed by a female chorus line | - |
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| capelan | (noun) very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes | Synonyms: capelin, caplin |
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| capstan | (noun) a windlass rotated in a horizontal plane around a vertical axis; used on ships for weighing anchor or raising heavy sails | - |
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| caravan | (noun) a camper equipped with living quarters | Synonyms: van |
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| (noun) a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file | Synonyms: train, wagon train |
| cardigan | (noun) knitted jacket that is fastened up the front with buttons or a zipper | - |
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| carnelian | (noun) a translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: cornelian |
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| carrageenan | (noun) a colloidal extract from carrageen seaweed and other red algae | Synonyms: carrageenin |
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| catamaran | (noun) a boat with two parallel hulls held together by single deck | - |
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| cattleman | (noun) a man who raises (or tends) cattle | Synonyms: beef man, cow man |
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| (noun) a male hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowboy, cowman |
| cavalryman | (noun) a soldier mounted on horseback | Synonyms: trooper |
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| (noun) a soldier in a motorized army unit | Synonyms: trooper |
| caveman | (noun) someone who lives in a cave | Synonyms: cave dweller, cave man, troglodyte |
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| cayman | (noun) a semiaquatic reptile of Central and South America that resembles an alligator but has a more heavily armored belly | Synonyms: caiman |
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| centenarian | (noun) someone who is at least 100 years old | - |
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| ceratopsian | (noun) any of several four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls; of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia | Synonyms: horned dinosaur |
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| ceriman | (noun) tropical cylindrical fruit resembling a pinecone with pineapple-banana flavor | Synonyms: monstera |
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| (noun) tropical American vine having roots that hang like cords and cylindrical fruit with a pineapple and banana flavor | Synonyms: Monstera deliciosa |
| cerulean | (noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: azure, lazuline, sapphire, sky-blue |
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| cesarean | (noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
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| cesarian | (noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian section |
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| cetacean | (noun) large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales, dolphins, porpoises, narwhals | Synonyms: blower, cetacean mammal |
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| chairman | (noun) the male officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | - |
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| chairwoman | (noun) the female officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | - |
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| chapman | (noun) archaic term for an itinerant peddler | - |
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| chargeman | (noun) a workman employed to blast with explosives | Synonyms: blaster |
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| charlatan | (noun) a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes | Synonyms: mountebank |
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| charman | (noun) a human male employed to do housework | - |
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| charwoman | (noun) a human female employed to do housework | Synonyms: char, cleaning lady, cleaning woman |
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| chelonian | (noun) a reptile of the order Chelonia | Synonyms: chelonian reptile |
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| chessman | (noun) any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess | Synonyms: chess piece |
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| chiropteran | (noun) nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate | Synonyms: bat |
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| chondrichthian | (noun) fishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified | Synonyms: cartilaginous fish |
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| churchman | (noun) a clergyman or other person in religious orders | Synonyms: cleric, divine, ecclesiastic |
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| ciliophoran | (noun) a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell | Synonyms: ciliate, ciliated protozoan |
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| civilian | (noun) a nonmilitary citizen | - |
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| clan | (noun) group of people related by blood or marriage | Synonyms: kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group, tribe |
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| clansman | (noun) a male member of a clan | - |
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| clanswoman | (noun) a female member of a clan | - |
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| clean | (noun) a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead | Synonyms: clean and jerk |
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| clergyman | (noun) a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church | Synonyms: man of the cloth, reverend |
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| clinician | (noun) a practitioner (of medicine or psychology) who does clinical work instead of laboratory experiments | - |
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| cnidarian | (noun) radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms | Synonyms: coelenterate |
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| coachman | (noun) a man who drives a coach (or carriage) | - |
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| coalman | (noun) someone who delivers coal | - |
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| coastguardsman | (noun) a member of a coastguard | - |
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| collegian | (noun) a student (or former student) at a college or university | Synonyms: college boy, college man |
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| collembolan | (noun) any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special abdominal appendage that allows the characteristic nearly perpetual springing pattern; found in soil rich in organic debris or on the surface of snow or water | Synonyms: springtail |
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| coltan | (noun) a valuable black mineral combining niobite and tantalite; used in cell phones and computer chips | Synonyms: columbite-tantalite |
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| comedian | (noun) a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts | Synonyms: comic |
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| (noun) an actor in a comedy | - |
| committeeman | (noun) a man who is a member of committee | - |
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| committeewoman | (noun) a woman who is a member of a committee | - |
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| congressman | (noun) a male member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
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| congresswoman | (noun) a female member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
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| constantan | (noun) an alloy of copper and nickel with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient; used as resistance wire | Synonyms: Eureka |
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| contrarian | (noun) an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors | - |
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| coracan | (noun) East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient | Synonyms: African millet, corakan, Eleusine coracana, finger millet, kurakkan, ragee, ragi |
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| corakan | (noun) East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient | Synonyms: African millet, coracan, Eleusine coracana, finger millet, kurakkan, ragee, ragi |
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| cordovan | (noun) a fine leather originally made in Cordoba, Spain | - |
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| cornelian | (noun) a translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: carnelian |
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| cosmetician | (noun) someone who sells or applies cosmetics | - |
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| (noun) someone who works in a beauty parlor | Synonyms: beautician |
| cosmopolitan | (noun) a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries | Synonyms: cosmopolite |
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| cotan | (noun) ratio of the adjacent to the opposite side of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: cotangent |
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| councilman | (noun) a man who is a council member | - |
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| councilwoman | (noun) a woman who is a council member | - |
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| counterman | (noun) a male who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
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| counterplan | (noun) a plot intended to subvert another plot | Synonyms: counterplot |
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| counterwoman | (noun) a female who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
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| countryman | (noun) a man from your own country | - |
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| (noun) a man who lives in the country and has country ways | Synonyms: ruralist |
| countrywoman | (noun) a woman from your own country | - |
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| (noun) a woman who lives in the country and has country ways | - |
| courlan | (noun) wading bird of South America and Central America | Synonyms: Aramus guarauna |
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| courtesan | (noun) a woman who cohabits with an important man | Synonyms: concubine, doxy, paramour |
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| cowman | (noun) a male hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cattleman, cowboy |
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| cracksman | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: safebreaker, safecracker |
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| craftsman | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, artisan, journeyman |
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| (noun) a creator of great skill in the manual arts | Synonyms: crafter |
| (noun) a professional whose work is consistently of high quality | - |
| cragsman | (noun) a climber of vertical rock faces | Synonyms: rock climber |
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| cran | (noun) a capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring | - |
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| crewman | (noun) a member of a work crew | - |
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| (noun) a member of a flight crew | Synonyms: crew member |
| (noun) any member of a ship's crew | Synonyms: sailor |
| crocodilian | (noun) extant archosaurian reptile | Synonyms: crocodilian reptile |
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| crossopterygian | (noun) any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form | Synonyms: lobe-finned fish, lobefin |
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| crustacean | (noun) any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton | - |
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| custodian | (noun) one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals | Synonyms: keeper, steward |
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| cyan | (noun) a primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green color | - |
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| cyprian | (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
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| dairyman | (noun) the owner or manager of a dairy | Synonyms: dairy farmer |
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| (noun) a man who works in a dairy | - |
| dalesman | (noun) a person who lives in the dales of northern England | - |
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| dalmatian | (noun) a large breed having a smooth white coat with black or brown spots; originated in Dalmatia | Synonyms: carriage dog, coach dog |
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| dean | (noun) an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college | - |
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| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals | - |
| (noun) a man who is the senior member of a group | Synonyms: doyen |
| deciban | (noun) a unit of information, one tenth of a ban. | - |
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| deliveryman | (noun) someone employed to make deliveries | Synonyms: deliverer, delivery boy |
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| deskman | (noun) the police sergeant on duty in a police station | Synonyms: desk sergeant, station keeper |
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| diagnostician | (noun) a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis | Synonyms: pathologist |
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| dialectician | (noun) a logician skilled in dialectic | - |
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| dietician | (noun) a specialist in the study of diet and nutrition | Synonyms: dietitian |
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| dietitian | (noun) a specialist in the study of diet and nutrition | Synonyms: dietician |
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| diocesan | (noun) a bishop having jurisdiction over a diocese | - |
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| dipteran | (noun) insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing | Synonyms: dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects |
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| disciplinarian | (noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | Synonyms: martinet, moralist |
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| dishpan | (noun) large pan for washing dishes | - |
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| divan | (noun) a long backless sofa (usually with pillows against a wall) | - |
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| (noun) a Muslim council chamber or law court | Synonyms: diwan |
| (noun) a collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one author) | Synonyms: diwan |
| (noun) a Muslim council of state | Synonyms: diwan |
| 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 |
| dolman | (noun) a woman's cloak with dolman sleeves | - |
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| (noun) a hussar's jacket worn over the shoulders | Synonyms: dolman jacket |
| doorman | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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