| ab | (noun) the muscles of the abdomen | Synonyms: abdominal, abdominal muscle |
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| abcoulomb | (noun) a unit of electrical charge equal to 10 coulombs | - |
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| adverb | (noun) a word that modifies something other than a noun | - |
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| (noun) the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses | - |
| alb | (noun) a white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves; worn by priests | - |
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| aplomb | (noun) great coolness and composure under strain | Synonyms: assuredness, cool, poise, sang-froid |
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| arb | (noun) someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential) | Synonyms: arbitrager, arbitrageur |
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| ardeb | (noun) a unit of dry measure used in Egypt | - |
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| b | (noun) the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: B |
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| (noun) (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter | Synonyms: barn |
| baobab | (noun) African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread | Synonyms: Adansonia digitata, monkey-bread tree |
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| barb | (noun) one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather | - |
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| (noun) a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove | - |
| (noun) the pointed part of barbed wire | - |
| (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam |
| bathtub | (noun) a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body | Synonyms: bathing tub, tub |
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| bib | (noun) a napkin tied under the chin of a child while eating | - |
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| (noun) top part of an apron; covering the chest | - |
| bleb | (noun) (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid | Synonyms: blister, bulla |
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| blob | (noun) an indistinct shapeless form | - |
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| blowjob | (noun) slang for fellatio | Synonyms: cock sucking |
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| blurb | (noun) a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books) | Synonyms: endorsement, indorsement |
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| bob | (noun) a short abrupt inclination (as of the head) | - |
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| (noun) a short or shortened tail of certain animals | Synonyms: bobtail, dock |
| (noun) a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line | Synonyms: bobber, bobfloat, cork |
| (noun) a hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string | - |
| (noun) a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism | Synonyms: bobsled, bobsleigh |
| (noun) a hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around | - |
| (noun) a former monetary unit in Great Britain | Synonyms: British shilling, shilling |
| bomb | (noun) an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions | - |
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| (noun) strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion | Synonyms: bomb calorimeter |
| (noun) an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual | Synonyms: dud, turkey |
| boob | (noun) either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman | Synonyms: bosom, breast, knocker, tit, titty |
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| (noun) an ignorant or foolish person | Synonyms: booby, dope, dumbbell, dummy, pinhead |
| bookclub | (noun) a club that people join in order to buy selected books at reduced prices | - |
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| breadcrumb | (noun) crumb of bread; used especially for coating or thickening | - |
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| brewpub | (noun) a combination brewery and restaurant; beer is brewed for consumption on the premises and served along with food | - |
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| bulb | (noun) electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity | Synonyms: electric-light bulb, electric light, incandescent lamp, light bulb, lightbulb |
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| (noun) a rounded part of a cylindrical instrument (usually at one end) | - |
| (noun) a rounded dilation or expansion in a canal or vessel or organ | - |
| (noun) lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; (`bulb' is an old term for medulla oblongata) | Synonyms: medulla, medulla oblongata |
| (noun) a modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure | - |
| (noun) anything with a round shape resembling a teardrop | - |
| cab | (noun) a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money | Synonyms: hack, taxi, taxicab |
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| (noun) small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood | Synonyms: cabriolet |
| (noun) a compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits | - |
| carob | (noun) powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree; used as a chocolate substitute | Synonyms: carob powder, Saint-John's-bread |
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| (noun) evergreen Mediterranean tree with edible pods; the biblical carob | Synonyms: algarroba, carob bean tree, carob tree, Ceratonia siliqua |
| (noun) long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute | Synonyms: algarroba, algarroba bean, carob bean, locust bean, locust pod |
| catacomb | (noun) an underground tunnel with recesses where bodies were buried (as in ancient Rome) | - |
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| celecoxib | (noun) a Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Celebrex) that relieves pain and inflammation without harming the digestive tract | Synonyms: Celebrex |
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| chebab | (noun) a Palestinian juvenile 10-15 years old who fights against the Israelis | - |
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| cherub | (noun) an angel of the second order whose gift is knowledge; usually portrayed as a winged child | - |
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| (noun) a sweet innocent baby | - |
| chub | (noun) European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body | Synonyms: Leuciscus cephalus |
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| climb | (noun) the act of climbing something | Synonyms: mount |
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| (noun) an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) | Synonyms: climbing, mounting |
| (noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road) | Synonyms: acclivity, ascent, raise, rise, upgrade |
| club | (noun) stout stick that is larger at one end | - |
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| (noun) golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball | Synonyms: golf-club, golf club, golfclub |
| (noun) a building that is occupied by a social club | Synonyms: clubhouse |
| (noun) a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more black trefoils on it | - |
| (noun) a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | Synonyms: cabaret, night club, nightclub, nightspot |
| (noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: gild, guild, lodge, order, social club, society |
| (noun) a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together | Synonyms: ball club, baseball club, nine |
| cob | (noun) adult male swan | - |
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| (noun) stocky short-legged harness horse | - |
| (noun) white gull having a black back and wings | Synonyms: black-backed gull, great black-backed gull, Larus marinus |
| (noun) nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus | Synonyms: cobnut, filbert, hazelnut |
| cobweb | (noun) a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web | - |
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| (noun) filaments from a web that was spun by a spider | Synonyms: gossamer |
| (noun) a fabric so delicate and transparent as to resemble a web of a spider | - |
| cockscomb | (noun) the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds | Synonyms: comb, coxcomb |
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| (noun) a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red | Synonyms: coxcomb |
| (noun) a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments | Synonyms: coxcomb |
| (noun) garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers | Synonyms: Celosia argentea cristata, Celosia cristata, common cockscomb |
| comb | (noun) the act of drawing a comb through hair | Synonyms: combing |
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| (noun) ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore | - |
| (noun) the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds | Synonyms: cockscomb, coxcomb |
| (noun) a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair | - |
| (noun) any of several tools for straightening fibers | - |
| confab | (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: chat, confabulation, schmoose, schmooze |
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| corncob | (noun) the hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn | Synonyms: corn cob |
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| corncrib | (noun) a crib for storing and drying ears of corn | - |
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| corymb | (noun) flat-topped or convex inflorescence in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points on the main stem to approximately the same height; outer flowers open first | - |
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| coulomb | (noun) a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second | Synonyms: ampere-second, C |
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| cowherb | (noun) European annual with pale rose-colored flowers; cultivated flower or self-sown grainfield weed; introduced in North America; sometimes classified as a soapwort | Synonyms: cow cockle, Saponaria vaccaria, Vaccaria hispanica, Vaccaria pyramidata |
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| coxcomb | (noun) the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds | Synonyms: cockscomb, comb |
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| (noun) a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red | Synonyms: cockscomb |
| (noun) a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments | Synonyms: cockscomb |
| crab | (noun) a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply | - |
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| (noun) decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers | - |
| (noun) a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body | Synonyms: crab louse, Phthirius pubis, pubic louse |
| (noun) the edible flesh of any of various crabs | Synonyms: crabmeat |
| (noun) a quarrelsome grouch | Synonyms: crabby person |
| crib | (noun) a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two | Synonyms: cribbage |
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| (noun) the cards discarded by players at cribbage | - |
| (noun) baby bed with high sides made of slats | Synonyms: cot |
| (noun) a bin or granary for storing grains | - |
| (noun) a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly) | Synonyms: pony, trot |
| crumb | (noun) small piece of e.g. bread or cake | - |
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| (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
| (noun) a very small quantity of something | - |
| cub | (noun) the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion | Synonyms: young carnivore |
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| (noun) a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) | Synonyms: lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy |
| (noun) an awkward and inexperienced youth | Synonyms: greenhorn, rookie |
| cubeb | (noun) a cigarette containing cubeb | Synonyms: cubeb cigarette |
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| (noun) tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits | Synonyms: cubeb vine, Java pepper, Piper cubeba |
| (noun) spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes | - |
| curb | (noun) the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess | Synonyms: bridle, check |
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| (noun) an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter) | Synonyms: curbing, kerb |
| (noun) a horse's bit with an attached chain or strap to check the horse | Synonyms: curb bit |
| currycomb | (noun) a square comb with rows of small teeth; used to curry horses | - |
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| dab | (noun) a light touch or stroke | Synonyms: pat, tap |
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| (noun) a dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm and the elbow in a gesture that has been noted to resemble sneezing | Synonyms: dabbing |
| (noun) a small quantity of something moist or liquid | Synonyms: splash, splatter |
| daub | (noun) an unskillful painting | - |
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| (noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, spot |
| (noun) material used to daub walls | - |
| deb | (noun) a young woman making her debut into society | Synonyms: debutante |
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| dithyramb | (noun) (ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus) | - |
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| (noun) a wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing | - |
| doob | (noun) trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India | Synonyms: Bahama grass, Bermuda grass, Cynodon dactylon, devil grass, kweek, scutch grass, star grass |
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| doorjamb | (noun) a jamb for a door | Synonyms: doorpost |
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| doorknob | (noun) a knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain) | Synonyms: doorhandle |
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| drab | (noun) a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown | Synonyms: olive drab |
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| drib | (noun) a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid) | Synonyms: driblet, drop |
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| dub | (noun) the new sounds added by dubbing | - |
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| dweeb | (noun) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | Synonyms: grind, nerd, swot, wonk |
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| ebb | (noun) the outward flow of the tide | Synonyms: reflux |
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| (noun) a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) | Synonyms: ebbing, wane |
| fib | (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: story, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle |
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| firebomb | (noun) a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel) | Synonyms: incendiary, incendiary bomb |
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| flab | (noun) loose or flaccid body fat | - |
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| flashbulb | (noun) a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph | Synonyms: flash, flash bulb, flash lamp, flashgun, photoflash |
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| flub | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| fob | (noun) short chain or ribbon attaching a pocket watch to a man's vest | Synonyms: watch chain, watch guard |
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| (noun) an adornment that hangs from a watch chain | - |
| (noun) a vest pocket to hold a pocket watch | Synonyms: watch pocket |
| forelimb | (noun) the front limb (or the homologous structure in other animals, such as a flipper or wing) | - |
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| gab | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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| garb | (noun) clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion | Synonyms: attire, dress |
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| gib | (noun) a castrated tomcat | - |
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| glob | (noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: ball, chunk, clod, clump, lump |
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| gob | (noun) informal terms for the mouth | Synonyms: cakehole, hole, maw, trap, yap |
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| (noun) a lump of slimy stuff | - |
| (noun) a man who serves as a sailor | Synonyms: Jack-tar, Jack, mariner, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, seaman, tar |
| golfclub | (noun) golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball | Synonyms: club, golf-club, golf club |
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| grab | (noun) the act of catching an object with the hands | Synonyms: catch, snap, snatch |
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| (noun) a mechanical device for gripping an object | - |
| grub | (noun) a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects | - |
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| (noun) informal terms for a meal | Synonyms: chow, chuck, eats |
| guib | (noun) antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns | Synonyms: bushbuck, Tragelaphus scriptus |
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| hardsub | (noun) (often plural) a subtitle whose text is irreversibly merged in original video frames. | Synonyms: hard subtitle |
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| heartthrob | (noun) an object of infatuation | - |
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| hecatomb | (noun) a great sacrifice; an ancient Greek or Roman sacrifice of 100 oxen | - |
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| herb | (noun) aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities | - |
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| (noun) a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests | Synonyms: herbaceous plant |
| hijab | (noun) the custom in some Islamic societies of women dressing modestly outside the home | - |
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| (noun) a headscarf worn by Muslim women; conceals the hair and neck and usually has a face veil that covers the face | - |
| hindlimb | (noun) a posterior appendage such as a leg or the homologous structure in other animals | Synonyms: hind limb |
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| hob | (noun) a shelf beside an open fire where something can be kept warm | - |
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| (noun) a hard steel edge tool used to cut gears | - |
| (noun) (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings | Synonyms: goblin, hobgoblin |
| (noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous | Synonyms: brownie, elf, gremlin, imp, pixie, pixy |
| honeycomb | (noun) a framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees | - |
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| (noun) a structure of small hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax by bees and used to store honey and larvae | - |
| hub | (noun) the central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes | - |
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| (noun) a center of activity or interest or commerce or transportation; a focal point around which events revolve | - |
| hubbub | (noun) loud confused noise from many sources | Synonyms: brouhaha, katzenjammer, uproar |
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| iamb | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables | Synonyms: iambus |
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| infliximab | (noun) an anti-TNF compound (trade name Remicade) consisting of an antibody directed against TNF; it is given intravenously at one-month to three-month intervals; used in treatment of regional enteritis and rheumatoid arthritis | Synonyms: Remicade |
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| (noun) a monoclonal antibody (trade name Remicade) used to treat Crohn's disease and rheumatoid arthritis; administered by infusion; use and dosage must be determined by a physician | Synonyms: Remicade |
| jab | (noun) a quick short straight punch | - |
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| (noun) a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) | Synonyms: jabbing, poke, poking, thrust, thrusting |
| (noun) the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow | Synonyms: dig |
| jamb | (noun) upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame | - |
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| jib | (noun) any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast) | - |
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| job | (noun) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money | Synonyms: business, line, line of work, occupation |
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| (noun) a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee | Synonyms: chore, task |
| (noun) a crime (especially a robbery) | Synonyms: caper |
| (noun) a damaging piece of work | - |
| (noun) the responsibility to do something | - |
| (noun) the performance of a piece of work | - |
| (noun) a workplace; as in the expression `on the job' | - |
| (noun) an object worked on; a result produced by working | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit | - |
| (noun) a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved | Synonyms: problem |
| kabob | (noun) cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables | Synonyms: kebab, shish kebab |
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| kb | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 bits | Synonyms: kbit, kilobit |
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| kebab | (noun) cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables | Synonyms: kabob, shish kebab |
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| kerb | (noun) an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter) | Synonyms: curb, curbing |
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| keyfob | (noun) A small object fastened to a key chain or key ring and designed to be comfortably grasped. | Synonyms: key fob |
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| knob | (noun) a round handle | - |
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| (noun) a circular rounded projection or protuberance | Synonyms: boss |
| (noun) an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger | Synonyms: pommel |
| (noun) any thickened enlargement | Synonyms: node, thickening |