proprionamide | (noun) the amide of propionic acid (C2H5CONH2) | Synonyms: propanamide |
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prude | (noun) a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum | Synonyms: puritan |
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pulchritude | (noun) physical beauty (especially of a woman) | - |
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quietude | (noun) a state of peace and quiet | Synonyms: quietness, tranquility, tranquillity |
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rawhide | (noun) untanned hide especially of cattle; cut in strips it is used for whips and ropes | - |
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razorblade | (noun) a blade that has very sharp edge | - |
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rectitude | (noun) righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest | Synonyms: uprightness |
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regicide | (noun) the act of killing a king | - |
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(noun) someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king | - |
renegade | (noun) someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw | - |
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(noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: apostate, deserter, ratter, recreant, turncoat |
rhodomontade | (noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: bluster, braggadocio, rodomontade |
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ride | (noun) a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile) | Synonyms: drive |
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(noun) a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement | - |
ringside | (noun) first row of seating; has an unobstructed view of a boxing or wrestling ring | Synonyms: ringside seat |
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riptide | (noun) a strong surface current flowing outwards from a shore | Synonyms: rip current |
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(noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: countercurrent, crosscurrent, rip, tide rip |
riverside | (noun) the bank of a river | Synonyms: riverbank |
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roadside | (noun) edge of a way or road or path | Synonyms: wayside |
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rockslide | (noun) a landslide of rocks | - |
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rodomontade | (noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: bluster, braggadocio, rhodomontade |
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roulade | (noun) (music) an elaborate run of several notes sung to one syllable | - |
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(noun) a dish consisting of a slice of meat that is rolled around a filling and cooked | - |
saccade | (noun) a rapid, jerky movement of the eyes between positions of rest | - |
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(noun) an abrupt spasmodic movement | Synonyms: jerk, jerking, jolt |
saccharide | (noun) an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain | Synonyms: carbohydrate, sugar |
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salade | (noun) a light medieval helmet with a slit for vision | Synonyms: sallet |
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sanctitude | (noun) the quality of being holy | Synonyms: holiness, sanctity |
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scabicide | (noun) a drug that destroys the itch mite that causes scabies | - |
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seaside | (noun) the shore of a sea or ocean regarded as a resort | Synonyms: seaboard |
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serenade | (noun) a song characteristically played outside the house of a woman | - |
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(noun) a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form | Synonyms: divertimento |
servitude | (noun) state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment | - |
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sexcapade | (noun) a sexual escapade; an illicit affair | - |
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shade | (noun) protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight | - |
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(noun) a representation of the effect of shadows in a picture or drawing (as by shading or darker pigment) | - |
(noun) a protective ornamental covering for a lamp, used to screen a light bulb from direct view | Synonyms: lamp shade, lampshade |
(noun) a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color | Synonyms: tincture, tint, tone |
(noun) a mental representation of some haunting experience | Synonyms: ghost, specter, spectre, spook, wraith |
(noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, nuance, refinement, subtlety |
(noun) a slight amount or degree of difference | Synonyms: tad |
(noun) relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body | Synonyms: shadiness, shadowiness |
(noun) a position of relative inferiority | - |
shipside | (noun) the part of a wharf that is next to a ship | - |
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side | (noun) an extended outer surface of an object | - |
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(noun) either the left or right half of a body | - |
(noun) an aspect of something (as contrasted with some other implied aspect) | - |
(noun) an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute | Synonyms: position |
(noun) (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist | Synonyms: English |
(noun) a lengthwise dressed half of an animal's carcass used for food | Synonyms: side of meat |
(noun) one of two or more contesting groups | - |
(noun) a family line of descent | - |
(noun) a surface forming part of the outside of an object | Synonyms: face |
(noun) a line segment forming part of the perimeter of a plane figure | - |
(noun) a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location | - |
(noun) an elevated geological formation | Synonyms: incline, slope |
silicide | (noun) any of various compounds of silicon with a more electropositive element or radical | - |
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silverside | (noun) small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States | Synonyms: silversides |
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similitude | (noun) a duplicate copy | Synonyms: counterpart, twin |
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(noun) similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things | Synonyms: alikeness, likeness |
slide | (noun) the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it | Synonyms: coast, glide |
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(noun) sloping channel through which things can descend | Synonyms: chute, slideway, sloping trough |
(noun) a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector | Synonyms: lantern slide |
(noun) a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study | Synonyms: microscope slide |
(noun) plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide | Synonyms: playground slide, sliding board |
(noun) (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale | Synonyms: swoop |
(noun) (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc. | - |
solicitude | (noun) a feeling of excessive concern | Synonyms: solicitousness |
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solitude | (noun) a solitary place | - |
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(noun) a state of social isolation | Synonyms: purdah |
(noun) the state or situation of being alone | - |
spade | (noun) a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot | - |
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(noun) a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it | - |
spermatocide | (noun) a contraceptive agent that kills spermatozoa | Synonyms: spermicide |
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spermicide | (noun) a contraceptive agent that kills spermatozoa | Synonyms: spermatocide |
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springtide | (noun) a greater than average tide occurring during the new and full moons | - |
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(noun) a swelling rush of anything | - |
stampede | (noun) a headlong rush of people on a common impulse | - |
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(noun) a wild headlong rush of frightened animals (horses or cattle) | - |
stockade | (noun) a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions) | Synonyms: concentration camp |
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(noun) fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense | - |
stride | (noun) a step in walking or running | Synonyms: pace, tread |
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(noun) significant progress (especially in the phrase `make strides') | - |
(noun) the distance covered by a step | Synonyms: footstep, pace, step |
succade | (noun) fruit cooked in sugar syrup and encrusted with a sugar crystals | Synonyms: candied fruit, crystallized fruit |
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suede | (noun) a fabric made to resemble suede leather | Synonyms: suede cloth |
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(noun) leather with a napped surface | Synonyms: suede leather |
suicide | (noun) the act of killing yourself | Synonyms: self-annihilation, self-destruction |
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(noun) a person who kills himself intentionally | Synonyms: felo-de-se |
sulfacetamide | (noun) a topical sulfonamide (trade name Sulamyd) used to treat eye infections | Synonyms: Sulamyd |
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sulfanilamide | (noun) a white odorless crystalline sulfa drug; the parent compound of most of the sulfa drugs | - |
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sulfide | (noun) a compound of sulphur and some other element that is more electropositive | Synonyms: sulphide |
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sulfonamide | (noun) antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA | Synonyms: sulfa, sulfa drug, sulpha |
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sulphide | (noun) a compound of sulphur and some other element that is more electropositive | Synonyms: sulfide |
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sunshade | (noun) a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun | Synonyms: awning, sunblind |
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(noun) a handheld collapsible source of shade | Synonyms: parasol |
superoxide | (noun) the univalent anion O2- | Synonyms: superoxide anion |
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(noun) a metallic oxide containing the univalent anion O2- | - |
swede | (noun) the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food | Synonyms: rutabaga, swedish turnip, yellow turnip |
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(noun) a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root | Synonyms: Brassica napus napobrassica, rutabaga, rutabaga plant, Swedish turnip, turnip cabbage |
switchblade | (noun) a pocketknife with a blade that springs open at the press of a button | Synonyms: flick-knife, flick knife, switchblade knife |
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tamponade | (noun) blockage or closure (as of a wound or body cavity) by (or as if by) a tampon (especially to stop bleeding) | Synonyms: tamponage |
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tapenade | (noun) a spread consisting of capers and black olives and anchovies made into a puree with olive oil | - |
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tardigrade | (noun) an arthropod of the division Tardigrada | - |
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telluride | (noun) any binary compound of tellurium with other more electropositive elements | - |
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tetrachloride | (noun) any compound that contains four chlorine atoms per molecule | - |
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tetrahalide | (noun) any halide containing four halogen atoms in its molecules | - |
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tetrasaccharide | (noun) any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield four monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis | - |
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tetrode | (noun) a thermionic tube having four electrodes | - |
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tetroxide | (noun) an oxide containing four atoms of oxygen in the molecule | - |
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thalidomide | (noun) a sedative and hypnotic drug; withdrawn from sale after discovered to cause severe birth defects because it inhibits angiogenesis | - |
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thiazide | (noun) any of a group of drugs commonly used as diuretics in the treatment of hypertension; they block the reabsorption of sodium in the kidneys | - |
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tide | (noun) the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon | - |
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(noun) something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea) | - |
(noun) there are usually two high and two low tides each day | Synonyms: lunar time period |
tilde | (noun) a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization | - |
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tirade | (noun) a speech of violent denunciation | Synonyms: broadside, philippic |
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toadshade | (noun) trillium of northeastern United States with sessile leaves and red or purple flowers having a pungent odor | Synonyms: red trillium, sessile trillium, Trillium sessile |
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tocainide | (noun) antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Tonocard) used to treat ventricular arrhythmias when less dangerous drugs have failed | Synonyms: Tonocard |
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tolazamide | (noun) a drug (trade name Tolinase) used in treating stable adult-onset diabetes mellitus | Synonyms: Tolinase |
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tolbutamide | (noun) sulfonylurea; an oral antidiabetic drug (trade name Orinase) used in the treatment of adult-onset diabetes mellitus | Synonyms: Orinase |
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topside | (noun) (usually plural) weather deck; the part of a ship's hull that is above the waterline | - |
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trade | (noun) the skilled practice of a practical occupation | Synonyms: craft |
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(noun) the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers | Synonyms: patronage |
(noun) a particular instance of buying or selling | Synonyms: business deal, deal |
(noun) an equal exchange | Synonyms: barter, swap, swop |
(noun) the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services | - |
(noun) people who perform a particular kind of skilled work | Synonyms: craft |
(noun) steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator | Synonyms: trade wind |
transactinide | (noun) any of the artificially produced elements with atomic numbers greater than 103 | - |
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trematode | (noun) parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host | Synonyms: fluke, trematode worm |
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tribade | (noun) a female homosexual | Synonyms: gay woman, lesbian |
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trichloride | (noun) any compound containing three chlorine atoms in each molecule | - |
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trichlormethiazide | (noun) diuretic drug (trade name Naqua) used to treat hypertension | Synonyms: Naqua |
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triglyceride | (noun) glyceride occurring naturally in animal and vegetable tissues; it consists of three individual fatty acids bound together in a single large molecule; an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body | - |
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triode | (noun) a thermionic vacuum tube having three electrodes; fluctuations of the charge on the grid control the flow from cathode to anode which makes amplification possible | - |
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trioxide | (noun) an oxide containing three atoms of oxygen in the molecule | - |
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trisaccharide | (noun) any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield three monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis | - |
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turpitude | (noun) a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice | Synonyms: depravity |
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twayblade | (noun) orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown; Europe to central Asia | Synonyms: Listera ovata |
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(noun) an orchid of the genus Liparis having a pair of leaves | - |
tyrannicide | (noun) killing a tyrant | - |
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underside | (noun) the lower side of anything | Synonyms: bottom, undersurface |
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undertide | (noun) a current below the surface of a fluid | Synonyms: undercurrent |
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upgrade | (noun) the act of improving something (especially machinery) by raising it to a higher grade (as by adding or replacing components) | - |
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(noun) hardware that provides better performance than an earlier version did | - |
(noun) the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises | Synonyms: rise, rising slope |
(noun) a reservation that is improved | - |
(noun) software that provides better performance than an earlier version did | - |
(noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road) | Synonyms: acclivity, ascent, climb, raise, rise |
upside | (noun) the highest or uppermost side of anything | Synonyms: top, top side, upper side |
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ureide | (noun) any compound, of general formula R-CO-NH-CO-NH2 or R-CO-NH-CO-NH-CO-R', formally derived by the acylation of urea. | - |
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uxoricide | (noun) the murder of a wife by her husband | - |
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(noun) a husband who murders his wife | - |
velocipede | (noun) a vehicle with three wheels that is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: tricycle, trike |
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(noun) any of several early bicycles with pedals on the front wheel | - |
verisimilitude | (noun) the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true | - |
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vermicide | (noun) an agent that kills worms (especially those in the intestines) | - |
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vicissitude | (noun) mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another) | - |
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(noun) a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something | - |
viricide | (noun) an agent (physical or chemical) that inactivates or destroys viruses | Synonyms: virucide |
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virucide | (noun) an agent (physical or chemical) that inactivates or destroys viruses | Synonyms: viricide |
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waterside | (noun) land bordering a body of water | - |
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