| kob | (noun) an orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa | Synonyms: Kobus kob |
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| lab | (noun) a workplace for the conduct of scientific research | Synonyms: laboratory, research lab, research laboratory, science lab, science laboratory |
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| lamb | (noun) young sheep | - |
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| (noun) the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food | - |
| (noun) a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child) | Synonyms: dear |
| (noun) a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters) | - |
| lb | (noun) 16 ounces avoirdupois | Synonyms: pound |
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| lightbulb | (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: bulb, electric-light bulb, electric light, incandescent lamp, light bulb |
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| limb | (noun) any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm | Synonyms: arm, branch |
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| (noun) the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles | - |
| (noun) either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip | - |
| (noun) one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm, leg, wing, flipper | - |
| (noun) (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet | - |
| (noun) any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree | Synonyms: tree branch |
| lob | (noun) the act of propelling something (as a ball or shell etc.) in a high arc | - |
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| (noun) an easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc | - |
| matrisib | (noun) one related on the mother's side | Synonyms: enate, matrikin, matrilineal kin, matrilineal sib |
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| memsahib | (noun) a woman sahib | - |
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| midrib | (noun) the vein in the center of a leaf | Synonyms: midvein |
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| mihrab | (noun) (Islam) a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the direction of Mecca | - |
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| (noun) (Islam) a design in the shape of niche in a Muslim prayer rug; during worship the niche must be pointed toward Mecca | - |
| minicab | (noun) a minicar used as a taxicab | - |
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| minisub | (noun) submersible vessel for one or two persons; for naval operations or underwater exploration | Synonyms: minisubmarine |
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| mob | (noun) a disorderly crowd of people | Synonyms: rabble, rout |
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| (noun) an association of criminals | Synonyms: gang, pack, ring |
| (noun) a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities | Synonyms: crime syndicate, family, syndicate |
| nabob | (noun) a wealthy man (especially one who made his fortune in the Orient) | - |
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| (noun) a governor in India during the Mogul empire | Synonyms: nawab |
| nawab | (noun) a governor in India during the Mogul empire | Synonyms: nabob |
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| neb | (noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: beak, bill, nib, pecker |
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| (noun) a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose | Synonyms: snout |
| nib | (noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: beak, bill, neb, pecker |
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| (noun) the writing point of a pen | Synonyms: pen nib |
| nightclub | (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, club, night club, nightspot |
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| niqab | (noun) a face veil covering the lower part of the face (up to the eyes) worn by observant Muslim women | - |
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| nob | (noun) informal term for an upper-class or wealthy person | Synonyms: toff |
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| nub | (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, pith, substance, sum |
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| (noun) a small piece | Synonyms: stub |
| (noun) a small lump or protuberance | Synonyms: nubble |
| orb | (noun) the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye | Synonyms: eyeball |
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| (noun) an object with a spherical shape | Synonyms: ball, globe |
| patrisib | (noun) one related on the father's side | Synonyms: agnate, patrikin, patrilineal kin, patrilineal sib |
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| pedicab | (noun) a tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling); used in the Orient for transporting passengers for hire | Synonyms: cycle rickshaw |
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| pleb | (noun) one of the common people | Synonyms: plebeian |
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| plumb | (noun) the metal bob of a plumb line | Synonyms: plumb bob, plummet |
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| pocketcomb | (noun) a small comb suitable for carrying in a pocket | Synonyms: pocket comb |
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| potherb | (noun) any of various herbaceous plants whose leaves or stems or flowers are cooked and used for food or seasoning | - |
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| prefab | (noun) a prefabricated structure | - |
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| proverb | (noun) a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people | Synonyms: adage, byword, saw |
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| pseudobulb | (noun) a solid bulblike enlargement of the stem of some orchids | - |
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| pub | (noun) tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals | Synonyms: gin mill, pothouse, public house, saloon, taphouse |
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| rhomb | (noun) a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram | Synonyms: diamond, rhombus |
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| rhubarb | (noun) long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened | Synonyms: pieplant |
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| (noun) plants having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks growing in basal clumps; stems (and only the stems) are edible when cooked; leaves are poisonous | Synonyms: rhubarb plant |
| rhumb | (noun) a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a constant compass direction | Synonyms: loxodrome, rhumb line |
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| rib | (noun) support resembling the rib of an animal | - |
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| (noun) a projecting molding on the underside of a vault or ceiling; may be ornamental or structural | - |
| (noun) any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates) | Synonyms: costa |
| (noun) a riblike supporting or strengthening part of an animal or plant | - |
| (noun) a teasing remark | - |
| (noun) cut of meat including one or more ribs | - |
| rofecoxib | (noun) a Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Vioxx) that relieves pain and inflammation without harming the digestive tract; voluntarily withdrawn from the market in 2004 | Synonyms: Vioxx |
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| rub | (noun) the act of rubbing or wiping | Synonyms: wipe |
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| (noun) an unforeseen obstacle | Synonyms: hang-up, hitch, snag |
| sahib | (noun) formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India; used after the name | - |
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| scab | (noun) the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion | - |
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| (noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: blackleg, rat, strikebreaker |
| scarab | (noun) scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians | Synonyms: scarabaeus, Scarabaeus sacer |
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| scrub | (noun) the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water | Synonyms: scouring, scrubbing |
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| (noun) dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes | Synonyms: bush, chaparral |
| shrub | (noun) a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems | Synonyms: bush |
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| sib | (noun) one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another | Synonyms: blood relation, blood relative, cognate |
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| (noun) a person's brother or sister | Synonyms: sibling |
| sideboob | (noun) A breast exposed from the side | - |
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| sillabub | (noun) sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor | Synonyms: syllabub |
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| (noun) spiced hot milk with rum or wine | Synonyms: syllabub |
| skibob | (noun) a vehicle resembling a bicycle but having skis instead of wheels; the rider wears short skis for balancing | - |
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| slab | (noun) block consisting of a thick piece of something | - |
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| slob | (noun) a coarse obnoxious person | Synonyms: pig, sloven, slovenly person |
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| slub | (noun) soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design | Synonyms: burl, knot |
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| snob | (noun) a person regarded as arrogant and annoying | Synonyms: prig, snoot, snot |
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| snub | (noun) a refusal to recognize someone you know | Synonyms: cold shoulder, cut |
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| (noun) an instance of driving away or warding off | Synonyms: rebuff, repulse |
| sob | (noun) convulsive gasp made while weeping | Synonyms: sobbing |
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| sorb | (noun) acid gritty-textured fruit | Synonyms: sorb apple |
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| sparerib | (noun) a cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off | - |
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| squab | (noun) an unfledged pigeon | - |
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| (noun) a soft padded sofa | - |
| (noun) flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled | Synonyms: dove |
| squib | (noun) firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise | - |
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| stab | (noun) a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument | Synonyms: knife thrust, thrust |
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| (noun) informal words for any attempt or effort | Synonyms: shot |
| (noun) a sudden sharp feeling | Synonyms: pang, twinge |
| stob | (noun) a short straight stick of wood | - |
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| stub | (noun) the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking) | Synonyms: butt |
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| (noun) a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt | Synonyms: ticket stub |
| (noun) the part of a check that is retained as a record | Synonyms: check stub, counterfoil |
| (noun) a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost | - |
| (noun) a small piece | Synonyms: nub |
| sub | (noun) a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes | Synonyms: pigboat, submarine |
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| (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, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
| subshrub | (noun) low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base | Synonyms: suffrutex |
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| suburb | (noun) a residential district located on the outskirts of a city | Synonyms: suburban area, suburbia |
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| swab | (noun) cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors | Synonyms: mop, swob |
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| (noun) implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion | - |
| swob | (noun) cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors | Synonyms: mop, swab |
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| syllabub | (noun) sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor | Synonyms: sillabub |
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| (noun) spiced hot milk with rum or wine | Synonyms: sillabub |
| tab | (noun) a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet | Synonyms: lozenge, pill, tablet |
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| (noun) a short strip of material attached to or projecting from something in order to facilitate opening or identifying or handling it | - |
| (noun) the key on a typewriter or a word processor that causes a tabulation | Synonyms: tab key |
| (noun) the bill in a restaurant | Synonyms: check, chit |
| (noun) sensationalist journalism | Synonyms: tabloid, yellow journalism |
| taxicab | (noun) a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money | Synonyms: cab, hack, taxi |
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| thingamabob | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| thingmabob | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| thingumabob | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| throb | (noun) an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart) | Synonyms: pounding, throbbing |
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| (noun) a deep pulsating type of pain | - |
| thumb | (noun) the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb | - |
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| (noun) a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse | Synonyms: ovolo, quarter round |
| (noun) the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb | Synonyms: pollex |
| tomb | (noun) a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone) | Synonyms: grave |
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| tub | (noun) a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids | Synonyms: vat |
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| (noun) a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body | Synonyms: bathing tub, bathtub |
| (noun) the amount that a tub will hold | Synonyms: tubful |
| undershrub | (noun) a low shrub | - |
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| valdecoxib | (noun) a Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Bextra) that relieves pain and inflammation without harming the digestive tract | Synonyms: Bextra |
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| verb | (noun) a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence | - |
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| (noun) the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence | - |
| washtub | (noun) a tub in which clothes or linens can be washed | - |
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| web | (noun) the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft | Synonyms: vane |
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| (noun) membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and mammals | - |
| (noun) an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim | Synonyms: entanglement |
| (noun) a fabric (especially a fabric in the process of being woven) | - |
| (noun) computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol | Synonyms: World Wide Web, WWW |
| (noun) an interconnected system of things or people | Synonyms: network |
| (noun) an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving | - |
| weeb | (noun) A white person, who is obsessed with Japanese culture, usually pejorative | Synonyms: weeaboo |
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| willowherb | (noun) a plant of the genus Epilobium having pink or yellow flowers and seeds with silky hairs | - |
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| womb | (noun) a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus | Synonyms: uterus |
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| yob | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yobbo, yobo |
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