abfarad | (noun) a capacitance unit equal to one billion farads | - |
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absurd | (noun) a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless | Synonyms: the absurd |
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acarid | (noun) very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants; related to ticks | - |
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accord | (noun) sympathetic compatibility | - |
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(noun) concurrence of opinion | Synonyms: accordance, conformity |
(noun) a written agreement between two states or sovereigns | Synonyms: pact, treaty |
(noun) harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: agreement |
accused | (noun) a defendant in a criminal proceeding | - |
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acetanilid | (noun) a solid odourless chemical of leaf or flake-like appearance; used in rubber accelerator, dye, and camphor synthesis; metabolised to paracetamol (acetaminophen) | Synonyms: acetanilide, phenylacetamide |
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acid | (noun) street name for lysergic acid diethylamide | Synonyms: back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen |
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(noun) any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt | - |
acridid | (noun) grasshopper with short antennae | Synonyms: short-horned grasshopper |
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actinoid | (noun) any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103 | Synonyms: actinide, actinon |
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actinopod | (noun) protozoa having stiff rodlike radiating pseudopods | - |
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ad | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: advert, advertisement, advertising, advertizement, advertizing |
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addend | (noun) a number that is added to another number (the augend) | - |
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addlehead | (noun) a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought | Synonyms: addle-head, birdbrain, loon |
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adelgid | (noun) any of various insects that feed and form galls on conifers | - |
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adenoid | (noun) a collection of lymphatic tissue in the throat behind the uvula (on the posterior wall and roof of the nasopharynx) | Synonyms: Luschka's tonsil, pharyngeal tonsil, third tonsil, tonsilla adenoidea, tonsilla pharyngealis |
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adulthood | (noun) the state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity | - |
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(noun) the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed | Synonyms: maturity |
afterworld | (noun) the place where you are after you die | - |
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agamid | (noun) a lizard of the family Agamidae | Synonyms: agamid lizard |
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aged | (noun) people who are old collectively | Synonyms: elderly |
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agueweed | (noun) gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers | Synonyms: ague weed, five-flowered gentian, Gentiana quinquefolia, Gentianella quinquefolia, stiff gentian |
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(noun) perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine | Synonyms: boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum, thoroughwort |
aid | (noun) the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose | Synonyms: assist, assistance, help |
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(noun) the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something | Synonyms: attention, care, tending |
(noun) a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do | Synonyms: assistance, help |
(noun) gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause | Synonyms: assistance, economic aid, economic assistance, financial aid, financial assistance |
airfield | (noun) a place where planes take off and land | Synonyms: field, flying field, landing field |
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airhead | (noun) a bridgehead seized by airborne troops | - |
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(noun) a flighty scatterbrained simpleton | - |
airspeed | (noun) the speed of an aircraft relative to the air in which it is flying | - |
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albuminoid | (noun) a simple protein found in horny and cartilaginous tissues and in the lens of the eye | Synonyms: scleroprotein |
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alidad | (noun) surveying instrument used with a plane table for drawing lines of sight on a distant object and for measuring angles | Synonyms: alidade |
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(noun) surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments | Synonyms: alidade |
alkaloid | (noun) natural bases containing nitrogen found in plants | - |
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alkyd | (noun) a durable synthetic resin widely used in adhesives and paints | Synonyms: alkyd resin |
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allgood | (noun) European plant naturalized in North America; often collected from the wild as a potherb | Synonyms: Chenopodium bonus-henricus, fat hen, good-king-henry, wild spinach |
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almond | (noun) oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree | - |
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(noun) small bushy deciduous tree native to Asia and North Africa having pretty pink blossoms and highly prized edible nuts enclosed in a hard green hull; cultivated in southern Australia and California | Synonyms: Amygdalus communis, Prunus amygdalus, Prunus dulcis, sweet almond |
ambystomid | (noun) small to moderate-sized terrestrial or semiaquatic New World salamander | Synonyms: ambystomid salamander |
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ammonoid | (noun) one of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mollusks | Synonyms: ammonite |
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ampersand | (noun) a punctuation mark (&) used to represent conjunction (and) | - |
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amphidiploid | (noun) (genetics) an organism or cell having a diploid set of chromosomes from each parent | - |
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amphipod | (noun) a kind of malacostracan crustacean | - |
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amygdaloid | (noun) volcanic rock in which rounded cavities formed by expanding gas have subsequently become filled with mineral deposits | - |
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amyloid | (noun) (pathology) a waxy translucent complex protein resembling starch that results from degeneration of tissue | - |
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(noun) a non-nitrogenous food substance consisting chiefly of starch; any substance resembling starch | - |
analysand | (noun) a person undergoing psychoanalysis | - |
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anapsid | (noun) primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles | Synonyms: anapsid reptile |
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anaspid | (noun) extinct small freshwater jawless fish usually having a heterocercal tail and an armored head; of the Silurian and Devonian | - |
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andrenid | (noun) a bee that is a member of the genus Andrena | Synonyms: andrena, mining bee |
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android | (noun) an automaton that resembles a human being | Synonyms: humanoid, mechanical man |
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(noun) An operating system from Google for mobile devices | - |
aneroid | (noun) a barometer that measures pressure without using fluids | Synonyms: aneroid barometer |
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aniseed | (noun) liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors | Synonyms: anise, anise seed |
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annelid | (noun) worms with cylindrical bodies segmented both internally and externally | Synonyms: annelid worm, segmented worm |
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antacid | (noun) an agent that counteracts or neutralizes acidity (especially in the stomach) | Synonyms: alkaliser, alkalizer, antiacid, gastric antacid |
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antbird | (noun) any of various dull-colored South American birds that feeding on ants some following army ant swarms | Synonyms: ant bird |
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antherozoid | (noun) a motile male gamete of a plant such as an alga or fern or gymnosperm | Synonyms: spermatozoid |
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anthropoid | (noun) any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids | - |
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(noun) person who resembles a nonhuman primate | Synonyms: ape |
antiacid | (noun) an agent that counteracts or neutralizes acidity (especially in the stomach) | Synonyms: alkaliser, alkalizer, antacid, gastric antacid |
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aoudad | (noun) wild sheep of northern Africa | Synonyms: Ammotragus lervia, arui, audad, Barbary sheep, maned sheep |
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apartheid | (noun) a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa | - |
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aphid | (noun) any of various small plant-sucking insects | - |
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applewood | (noun) wood of any of various apple trees of the genus Malus | - |
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arachnid | (noun) air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs | Synonyms: arachnoid |
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arachnoid | (noun) air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs | Synonyms: arachnid |
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(noun) the middle of the 3 meninges | Synonyms: arachnoid membrane |
archiannelid | (noun) small primitive marine worm lacking external segmentation and resembling polychaete larvae | - |
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arcsecond | (noun) a 60th part of a minute of arc | Synonyms: second |
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arctiid | (noun) stout-bodied broad-winged moth with conspicuously striped or spotted wings; larvae are hairy caterpillars | Synonyms: arctiid moth |
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ard | (noun) a simple light plough without a mouldboard. | Synonyms: ard plough, scratch plough |
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argasid | (noun) tick lacking a dorsal shield and having mouth parts on the under side of the head | Synonyms: soft tick |
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armband | (noun) a band worn around the upper arm | - |
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(noun) worn around arm as identification or to indicate mourning | - |
armguard | (noun) a protective covering for the wrist or arm that is used in archery and fencing and other sports | Synonyms: bracer |
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aroid | (noun) any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe | Synonyms: arum |
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arrowhead | (noun) the pointed head or striking tip of an arrow | - |
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arthropod | (noun) invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin | - |
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arytaenoid | (noun) either of two small cartilages at the back of the larynx to which the vocal folds are attached | Synonyms: arytenoid, arytenoid cartilage |
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arytenoid | (noun) either of two small cartilages at the back of the larynx to which the vocal folds are attached | Synonyms: arytaenoid, arytenoid cartilage |
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asclepiad | (noun) any plant of the family Asclepiadaceae | - |
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asteroid | (noun) any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter) | - |
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athodyd | (noun) a simple type of jet engine; must be launched at high speed | Synonyms: atherodyde, flying drainpipe, ramjet, ramjet engine |
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attosecond | (noun) one quintillionth (10^-18) of a second; one thousandth of a femtosecond | - |
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audad | (noun) wild sheep of northern Africa | Synonyms: Ammotragus lervia, aoudad, arui, Barbary sheep, maned sheep |
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augend | (noun) a number to which another number (the addend) is added | - |
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autacoid | (noun) any physiologically active internal secretion especially one of uncertain classification | Synonyms: autocoid |
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autocoid | (noun) any physiologically active internal secretion especially one of uncertain classification | Synonyms: autacoid |
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award | (noun) a grant made by a law court | Synonyms: awarding |
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(noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: accolade, honor, honour, laurels |
(noun) something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery | Synonyms: prize |
axseed | (noun) European herb resembling vetch; naturalized in the eastern United States; having umbels of pink-and-white flowers and sharp-angled pods | Synonyms: Coronilla varia, crown vetch |
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babyhood | (noun) the earliest state of immaturity | Synonyms: infancy |
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(noun) the early stage of growth or development | Synonyms: early childhood, infancy |
bachelorhood | (noun) the state of being an unmarried man | - |
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(noun) the time of a man's life prior to marriage | - |
backband | (noun) a broad band that passes over the back of a horse and supports the shafts of a vehicle | - |
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backbend | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the trunk is bent backward from a standing position until the hands touch the floor | - |
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backboard | (noun) a board used to support the back of someone or something | - |
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(noun) a raised vertical board with basket attached; used to play basketball | Synonyms: basketball backboard |
backfield | (noun) the offensive football players who line up behind the linemen | - |
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background | (noun) scenery hung at back of stage | Synonyms: backcloth, backdrop |
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(noun) (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear | Synonyms: desktop, screen background |
(noun) a person's social heritage: previous experience or training | - |
(noun) the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground | Synonyms: ground |
(noun) information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem | Synonyms: background knowledge |
(noun) extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured | Synonyms: background signal |
(noun) relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation | - |
(noun) the state of the environment in which a situation exists | Synonyms: scope, setting |
backhand | (noun) a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke | Synonyms: backhand shot, backhand stroke |
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backsword | (noun) a sword with only one cutting edge | - |
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(noun) a stick used instead of a sword for fencing | Synonyms: fencing stick, singlestick |
backyard | (noun) the grounds in back of a house | - |
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bacteroid | (noun) a rodlike bacterium (especially any of the rod-shaped or branched bacteria in the root nodules of nitrogen-fixing plants) | - |
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bad | (noun) that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency | Synonyms: badness |
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baffled | (noun) people who are frustrated and perplexed | - |
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baldhead | (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldpate, baldy, skin, skinhead |
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ballad | (noun) a narrative poem of popular origin | Synonyms: lay |
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(noun) a narrative song with a recurrent refrain | Synonyms: lay |
band | (noun) a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body) | - |
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(noun) an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material | Synonyms: banding, stripe |
(noun) a restraint put around something to hold it together | - |
(noun) jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger | Synonyms: ring |
(noun) a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration) | Synonyms: ring |
(noun) a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration | - |
(noun) a driving belt in machinery | - |
(noun) a stripe or stripes of contrasting color | Synonyms: banding, stria, striation |
(noun) a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure | Synonyms: isthmus |
(noun) a range of frequencies between two limits | - |
(noun) instrumentalists not including string players | - |
(noun) an unofficial association of people or groups | Synonyms: circle, lot, set |
(noun) a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing | Synonyms: dance band, dance orchestra |
bandstand | (noun) a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air | Synonyms: outdoor stage, stand |
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bard | (noun) an ornamental caparison for a horse | - |
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(noun) a lyric poet | - |
barmaid | (noun) a female bartender | - |
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barnyard | (noun) a yard adjoining a barn | - |
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baseboard | (noun) a molding covering the joint formed by a wall and the floor | Synonyms: mopboard, skirting board |
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basswood | (noun) any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber | Synonyms: lime, lime tree, linden, linden tree |
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(noun) soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork | Synonyms: linden |