aberrant | (noun) one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group | - |
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abradant | (noun) a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing | Synonyms: abrader |
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(noun) a substance that abrades or wears down | Synonyms: abrasive, abrasive material |
accountant | (noun) someone who maintains and audits business accounts | Synonyms: comptroller, controller |
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adamant | (noun) very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem | Synonyms: diamond |
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adjutant | (noun) large Indian stork with a military gait | Synonyms: adjutant bird, adjutant stork, Leptoptilus dubius |
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(noun) an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer | Synonyms: aide-de-camp, aide |
adjuvant | (noun) an additive that enhances the effectiveness of medical treatment | - |
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adulterant | (noun) any substance that lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance | Synonyms: adulterator |
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affiant | (noun) a person who makes an affidavit | - |
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aliquant | (noun) an integer that is not an exact divisor of some quantity | Synonyms: aliquant part |
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alleviant | (noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing | Synonyms: alleviator, palliative |
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annuitant | (noun) the recipient of an annuity | - |
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anovulant | (noun) a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception | Synonyms: anovulatory drug, birth control pill, contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive, oral contraceptive pill, pill |
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ant | (noun) social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers | Synonyms: emmet, pismire |
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anticipant | (noun) one who anticipates | Synonyms: anticipator |
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anticoagulant | (noun) medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood | Synonyms: anticoagulant medication, decoagulant |
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anticonvulsant | (noun) a drug used to treat or prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy) | Synonyms: anticonvulsant drug, antiepileptic, antiepileptic drug |
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antidepressant | (noun) any of a class of drugs used to treat depression; often have undesirable side effects | Synonyms: antidepressant drug |
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antioxidant | (noun) substance that inhibits oxidation or inhibits reactions promoted by oxygen or peroxides | - |
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antiperspirant | (noun) an astringent substance applied to the skin to reduce perspiration | - |
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appellant | (noun) the party who appeals a decision of a lower court | Synonyms: plaintiff in error |
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applicant | (noun) a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission | Synonyms: applier |
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arccosecant | (noun) the angle that has a cosecant equal to a given number | Synonyms: arc cosecant, inverse cosecant |
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arcsecant | (noun) the inverse function of the secant; the angle that has a secant equal to a given number | Synonyms: arc secant, arcsec, inverse secant |
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ascendant | (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendent, root |
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(noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendent |
aspirant | (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirer, hopeful, wannabe, wannabee |
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assailant | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: aggressor, assaulter, attacker |
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assistant | (noun) a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose | Synonyms: help, helper, supporter |
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attendant | (noun) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another | Synonyms: accompaniment, co-occurrence, concomitant |
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(noun) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another | Synonyms: attender, tender |
(noun) a person who is present and participates in a meeting | Synonyms: attendee, attender, meeter |
attestant | (noun) (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature | Synonyms: attestator, attestor, witness |
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(noun) someone who affirms or vouches for the correctness or truth or genuineness of something | Synonyms: attester |
bacchant | (noun) (classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus | - |
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(noun) a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus | Synonyms: bacchanal |
(noun) someone who engages in drinking bouts | Synonyms: bacchanal, drunken reveler, drunken reveller |
bezant | (noun) a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: bezzant, byzant, solidus |
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bezzant | (noun) a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: bezant, byzant, solidus |
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bouffant | (noun) a woman's hairstyle in which the hair gives a puffy appearance | - |
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brant | (noun) small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward | Synonyms: brant goose, brent, brent goose |
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byzant | (noun) a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: bezant, bezzant, solidus |
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cant | (noun) two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees | Synonyms: bevel, chamfer |
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(noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular |
(noun) stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition | Synonyms: buzzword |
(noun) insincere talk about religion or morals | Synonyms: pious platitude |
(noun) a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force | Synonyms: bank, camber |
cauterant | (noun) an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (e.g., removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it | Synonyms: cautery |
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celebrant | (noun) an officiating priest celebrating the Eucharist | - |
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(noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrater, celebrator |
chant | (noun) a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone | - |
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chemoattractant | (noun) a substance inducing positive chemotaxis in motile cells. | - |
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claimant | (noun) someone who claims a benefit or right or title | - |
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clairvoyant | (noun) someone who has the power of clairvoyance | - |
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coagulant | (noun) an agent that produces coagulation | Synonyms: coagulator |
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codefendant | (noun) a defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single action | Synonyms: co-defendant |
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combatant | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper |
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commandant | (noun) an officer in command of a military unit | Synonyms: commander, commanding officer |
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communicant | (noun) a person entitled to receive Communion | - |
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complainant | (noun) a person who brings an action in a court of law | Synonyms: plaintiff |
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concomitant | (noun) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another | Synonyms: accompaniment, attendant, co-occurrence |
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confidant | (noun) someone to whom private matters are confided | Synonyms: intimate |
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congregant | (noun) a member of a congregation (especially that of a church or synagogue) | - |
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consonant | (noun) a speech sound that is not a vowel | - |
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(noun) a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant | - |
constant | (noun) a quantity that does not vary | Synonyms: constant quantity, invariable |
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(noun) a number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context | - |
consultant | (noun) an expert who gives advice | Synonyms: adviser, advisor |
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contaminant | (noun) a substance that contaminates | Synonyms: contamination |
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contestant | (noun) a person who participates in competitions | - |
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(noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: dissenter, dissident, objector, protester |
continuant | (noun) consonant articulated by constricting (but not closing) the vocal tract | Synonyms: continuant consonant |
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coolant | (noun) a fluid agent (gas or liquid) that produces cooling; especially one used to cool a system by transferring heat away from one part to another | - |
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cormorant | (noun) large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish | Synonyms: Phalacrocorax carbo |
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corposant | (noun) an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere | Synonyms: corona, corona discharge, electric glow, Saint Elmo's fire, Saint Elmo's light, Saint Ulmo's fire, Saint Ulmo's light, St. Elmo's fire |
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cosecant | (noun) ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: cosec |
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cotenant | (noun) one of two or more tenants holding title to the same property | - |
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counterirritant | (noun) a medicine applied locally to produce superficial inflammation in order to reduce deeper inflammation | - |
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covenant | (noun) a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action | Synonyms: compact, concordat |
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(noun) (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return | - |
croissant | (noun) very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll | Synonyms: crescent roll |
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currant | (noun) any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams | - |
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(noun) small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking | - |
(noun) any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants | Synonyms: currant bush |
decoagulant | (noun) medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood | Synonyms: anticoagulant, anticoagulant medication |
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decongestant | (noun) a drug that decreases pulmonary congestion | - |
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defendant | (noun) a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused | Synonyms: suspect |
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defoliant | (noun) a chemical that is sprayed on plants and causes their leaves to fall off | - |
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denaturant | (noun) any substance that serves as a denaturing agent | - |
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deodorant | (noun) a toiletry applied to the skin in order to mask unpleasant odors | Synonyms: deodourant |
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deodourant | (noun) a toiletry applied to the skin in order to mask unpleasant odors | Synonyms: deodorant |
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dependant | (noun) a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) | Synonyms: dependent |
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depressant | (noun) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person | Synonyms: downer, sedative, sedative drug |
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descant | (noun) a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody | Synonyms: discant |
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descendant | (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
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desiccant | (noun) a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture) | Synonyms: drier, drying agent, siccative |
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determinant | (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinative, determiner, determining factor |
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(noun) a square matrix used to solve simultaneous equations | - |
(noun) the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself | Synonyms: antigenic determinant, epitope |
deviant | (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviate, perv, perve, pervert |
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dilutant | (noun) a diluting agent | Synonyms: diluent, thinner |
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discant | (noun) a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody | Synonyms: descant |
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discussant | (noun) a participant in a formal discussion | - |
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disinfectant | (noun) an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease | Synonyms: antimicrobial, antimicrobic, germicide |
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disputant | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: controversialist, eristic |
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dominant | (noun) an allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different | Synonyms: dominant allele |
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(noun) (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale | - |
eggplant | (noun) egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow | Synonyms: aubergine, mad apple |
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(noun) hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable | Synonyms: aubergine, brinjal, eggplant bush, garden egg, mad apple, Solanum melongena |
elephant | (noun) five-toed pachyderm | - |
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(noun) the symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874 | - |
emigrant | (noun) someone who leaves one country to settle in another | Synonyms: emigre, emigree, outgoer |
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entrant | (noun) a commodity that enters competition with established merchandise | - |
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(noun) one who enters a competition | - |
(noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: fledgeling, fledgling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter |
(noun) someone who enters | - |
euphoriant | (noun) a psychoactive drug that tends to produce elation and euphoria | - |
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excitant | (noun) a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process | Synonyms: stimulant, stimulant drug |
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executant | (noun) a performer (usually of musical works) | - |
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expectorant | (noun) a medicine promoting expectoration | Synonyms: expectorator |
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extractant | (noun) an immiscible liquid used to extract a substance from another liquid. | - |
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flagellant | (noun) a person who whips himself as a religious penance | - |
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(noun) a person who is whipped or whips himself for sexual gratification | - |
flamboyant | (noun) showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana | Synonyms: Delonix regia, flame tree, peacock flower, Poinciana regia, royal poinciana |
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fondant | (noun) candy made of a thick creamy sugar paste | - |
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fumigant | (noun) a chemical substance used in fumigation | - |
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gallant | (noun) a man who attends or escorts a woman | Synonyms: squire |
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(noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, sheik, swell |