| bread | (noun) food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked | Synonyms: breadstuff, staff of life |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| breadboard | (noun) a wooden or plastic board on which dough is kneaded or bread is sliced | Synonyms: bread board |
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| breed | (noun) a special type | - |
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| (noun) a special variety of domesticated animals within a species | Synonyms: stock, strain |
| briard | (noun) old French breed of large strong usually black dogs having a long tail and long wavy and slightly stiff coat | - |
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| briarwood | (noun) wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: brier-wood, brierwood |
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| brickfield | (noun) a place where bricks are made and sold | Synonyms: brickyard |
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| brickyard | (noun) a place where bricks are made and sold | Synonyms: brickfield |
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| bridesmaid | (noun) an unmarried woman who attends the bride at a wedding | Synonyms: maid of honor |
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| bridgehead | (noun) an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies | Synonyms: foothold |
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| (noun) a defensive post at the end of a bridge nearest to the enemy | - |
| brierwood | (noun) wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: briarwood, brier-wood |
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| brigand | (noun) an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band | Synonyms: bandit |
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| broad | (noun) slang term for a woman | - |
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| broadsword | (noun) a sword with a broad blade and (usually) two cutting edges; used to cut rather than stab | - |
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| brood | (noun) the young of an animal cared for at one time | - |
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| brookweed | (noun) water pimpernel of Europe to China | Synonyms: Samolus valerandii |
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| (noun) American water pimpernel | Synonyms: Samolus floribundus, Samolus parviflorus |
| broomweed | (noun) annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers | Synonyms: broom-weed, Gutierrezia texana |
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| brotherhood | (noun) the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers | - |
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| (noun) people engaged in a particular occupation | Synonyms: fraternity, sodality |
| (noun) an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer | Synonyms: labor union, trade union, trades union, union |
| (noun) the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings | - |
| brushwood | (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brush, coppice, copse, thicket |
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| (noun) the wood from bushes or small branches | - |
| buckboard | (noun) an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; has a seat attached to a flexible board between the two axles | - |
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| bud | (noun) a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals | - |
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| (noun) a partially opened flower | - |
| bufflehead | (noun) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, butterball, dipper |
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| bugleweed | (noun) any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover | Synonyms: bugle |
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| (noun) a mildly narcotic and astringent aromatic herb having small whitish flowers; eastern United States | Synonyms: Lycopus virginicus |
| build | (noun) constitution of the human body | Synonyms: body-build, habitus, physique |
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| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| bulkhead | (noun) a partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments | - |
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| bullethead | (noun) a head shaped like a bullet | - |
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| bullhead | (noun) freshwater sculpin with a large flattened bony-plated head with hornlike spines | - |
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| (noun) any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States | Synonyms: bullhead catfish |
| busload | (noun) the quantity of cargo or the number of passengers that a bus can carry | - |
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| bustard | (noun) large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy steppes | - |
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| butcherbird | (noun) shrikes that impale their prey on thorns | - |
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| (noun) large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns | - |
| butterweed | (noun) any of several yellow-flowered plants of the genus Packera; often placed in genus Senecio | - |
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| (noun) American ragwort with yellow flowers | Synonyms: ragwort, Senecio glabellus |
| buttonwood | (noun) very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico | Synonyms: American plane, American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis |
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| buzzard | (noun) a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States | Synonyms: Cathartes aura, turkey buzzard, turkey vulture |
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| (noun) the common European short-winged hawk | Synonyms: Buteo buteo |
| buzzword | (noun) stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition | Synonyms: cant |
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| byroad | (noun) a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) | Synonyms: bypath, byway |
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| byword | (noun) a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people | Synonyms: adage, proverb, saw |
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| cabstand | (noun) a place where taxis park while awaiting customers | Synonyms: taxi rank, taxistand |
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| cad | (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: blackguard, bounder, dog, heel, hound |
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| camelopard | (noun) tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa | Synonyms: Giraffa camelopardalis, giraffe |
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| campground | (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite, encampment |
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| camphorweed | (noun) aromatic plant of western United States | Synonyms: Trichostema lanceolatum, turpentine camphor weed, vinegarweed |
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| camwood | (noun) small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye | Synonyms: African sandalwood, Baphia nitida |
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| canard | (noun) a deliberately misleading fabrication | - |
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| cancerweed | (noun) sage of eastern United States | Synonyms: cancer weed, Salvia lyrata |
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| cancroid | (noun) the most common form of skin cancer | Synonyms: squamous cell carcinoma |
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| candlewood | (noun) any of several resinous trees or shrubs often burned for light | - |
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| candyweed | (noun) bog plant of pine barrens of southeastern United States having spikes of irregular yellow-orange flowers | Synonyms: orange milkwort, Polygala lutea, yellow bachelor's button, yellow milkwort |
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| canfield | (noun) a form of solitaire that involves gambling | - |
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| canid | (noun) any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles | Synonyms: canine |
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| cankerweed | (noun) herb of northeastern North America having drooping clusters of yellowish-white flowers; sometimes placed in genus Prenanthes | Synonyms: Nabalus alba, Prenanthes alba, white lettuce |
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| capeweed | (noun) European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears | Synonyms: California dandelion, cat's-ear, gosmore, Hypochaeris radicata |
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| caprimulgid | (noun) mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects | Synonyms: goatsucker, nightjar |
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| capsid | (noun) the outer covering of protein surrounding the nucleic acid of a virus | - |
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| (noun) a variety of leaf bug | Synonyms: mirid, mirid bug |
| carangid | (noun) a percoid fish of the family Carangidae | Synonyms: carangid fish |
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| carcinoid | (noun) a small tumor (benign or malignant) arising from the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract; usually associated with excessive secretion of serotonin | - |
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| card | (noun) one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes | - |
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| (noun) a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities | Synonyms: add-in, board, circuit board, circuit card, plug-in |
| (noun) a rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may have printed greetings or pictures) | - |
| (noun) a card certifying the identity of the bearer | Synonyms: identity card |
| (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: bill, notice, placard, poster, posting |
| (noun) (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat | Synonyms: batting order, lineup |
| (noun) a printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited | Synonyms: calling card, visiting card |
| (noun) a list of dishes available at a restaurant | Synonyms: bill of fare, carte, carte du jour, menu |
| (noun) (golf) a record of scores (as in golf) | Synonyms: scorecard |
| (noun) a witty amusing person who makes jokes | Synonyms: wag, wit |
| (noun) thin cardboard, usually rectangular | - |
| cardboard | (noun) a stiff moderately thick paper | Synonyms: composition board |
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| cardioid | (noun) an epicycloid in which the rolling circle equals the fixed circle | - |
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| carload | (noun) a gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile | - |
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| (noun) the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car | Synonyms: boatload, shipload |
| carotenoid | (noun) any of a class of highly unsaturated yellow to red pigments occurring in plants and animals | - |
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| carpetweed | (noun) annual prostrate mat-forming weed having whorled leaves and small greenish-white flowers; widespread throughout North America | Synonyms: Indian chickweed, Molluga verticillata |
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| cartload | (noun) the quantity that a cart holds | - |
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| cartroad | (noun) any road or path affording passage especially a rough one | Synonyms: cart track, track |
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| caryatid | (noun) a supporting column carved in the shape of a person | - |
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| cashcard | (noun) a payment card that entitles the holder to receive cash | Synonyms: cash card |
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| catbird | (noun) North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing | Synonyms: Dumetella carolinensis, gray catbird, grey catbird |
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| (noun) any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females | Synonyms: bowerbird |
| catchweed | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: cleavers, clivers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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| catchword | (noun) a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual | Synonyms: motto, shibboleth, slogan |
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| (noun) a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page | Synonyms: guide word, guideword |
| cathartid | (noun) large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures | Synonyms: New World vulture |
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| catostomid | (noun) a cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae | - |
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| cd | (noun) the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin | Synonyms: candela, candle, standard candle |
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| cedarbird | (noun) widely distributed over temperate North America | Synonyms: Bombycilla cedrorun, cedar waxwing |
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| cedarwood | (noun) durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests | Synonyms: cedar |
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| celluloid | (noun) a medium that disseminates moving pictures | Synonyms: cinema, film |
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| (noun) highly flammable substance made from cellulose nitrate and camphor; used in e.g. motion-picture and X-ray film; its use has decreased with the development of nonflammable thermoplastics | - |
| centerboard | (noun) a retractable fin keel used on sailboats to prevent drifting to leeward | Synonyms: centreboard, drop keel, sliding keel |
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| centerfield | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the central third of the outfield | Synonyms: center field |
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| (noun) the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher | Synonyms: center, center field, centre |
| centerfold | (noun) a magazine center spread; especially a foldout of a large photograph or map or other feature | Synonyms: centrefold |
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| centrarchid | (noun) small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies, black bass, bluegills, pumpkinseed | Synonyms: sunfish |
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| centreboard | (noun) a retractable fin keel used on sailboats to prevent drifting to leeward | Synonyms: centerboard, drop keel, sliding keel |
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| centrefold | (noun) a magazine center spread; especially a foldout of a large photograph or map or other feature | Synonyms: centerfold |
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| centroid | (noun) the center of mass of an object of uniform density | - |
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| cephalaspid | (noun) extinct jawless fish of the Devonian with armored head | Synonyms: osteostracan |
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| cephalopod | (noun) marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles | Synonyms: cephalopod mollusk |
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| cervid | (noun) distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers | Synonyms: deer |
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| chad | (noun) a small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when a hole is punched in a card or paper tape | - |
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| chafeweed | (noun) weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike | Synonyms: Gnaphalium sylvaticum, wood cudweed |
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| chaffweed | (noun) weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves | Synonyms: bastard pimpernel, false pimpernel |
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| chalcid | (noun) any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injurious insects | Synonyms: chalcid fly, chalcid wasp, chalcidfly |
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| chalkboard | (noun) sheet of slate; for writing with chalk | Synonyms: blackboard |
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| chambermaid | (noun) a maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels) | Synonyms: fille de chambre |
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| chancroid | (noun) infectious venereal ulcer | - |
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| characid | (noun) any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae | Synonyms: characin, characin fish |
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| chard | (noun) long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves | Synonyms: leaf beet, spinach beet, Swiss chard |
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| (noun) beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks | Synonyms: Beta vulgaris cicla, chard plant, leaf beet, spinach beet, Swiss chard |
| chased | (noun) a person who is being chased | Synonyms: pursued |
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| checkerboard | (noun) a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors | Synonyms: checker board, chequerboard |
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| cheeseboard | (noun) tray on which cheeses are served | Synonyms: cheese tray |
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| cheloid | (noun) raised pinkish scar tissue at the site of an injury; results from excessive tissue repair | Synonyms: keloid |
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| chequerboard | (noun) a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors | Synonyms: checker board, checkerboard |
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| chessboard | (noun) a checkerboard used to play chess | Synonyms: chess board |
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| chesterfield | (noun) a fitted overcoat with a velvet collar | - |
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| (noun) an overstuffed davenport with upright armrests | - |
| chickenfeed | (noun) a trifling sum of money | Synonyms: chump change, small change |
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