abalone | (noun) any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior | Synonyms: ear-shell |
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abampere | (noun) a unit of current equal to 10 amperes | Synonyms: abamp |
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abbe | (noun) a French abbot | - |
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abele | (noun) a poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States; has white bark and leaves with whitish undersurfaces | Synonyms: Populus alba, white aspen, white poplar, silver-leaved poplar, aspen poplar |
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aberrance | (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberration, deviance, aberrancy |
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abeyance | (noun) temporary cessation or suspension | Synonyms: suspension |
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abhorrence | (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abomination, execration, detestation, odium, loathing |
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abidance | (noun) acting according to certain accepted standards | Synonyms: compliance, conformation, conformity |
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(noun) the act of dwelling in a place | Synonyms: residence, residency |
(noun) the act of abiding (enduring without yielding) | - |
abience | (noun) (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object | - |
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ablative | (noun) the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb | Synonyms: ablative case |
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abode | (noun) any address at which you dwell more than temporarily | Synonyms: residence |
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(noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: habitation, home, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house |
aborigine | (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: native, indigen, indigene, aboriginal |
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aborticide | (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion | Synonyms: abortifacient, abortion-inducing drug |
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(noun) the act of destroying a fetus | Synonyms: feticide |
above | (noun) an earlier section of a written text | - |
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abrasive | (noun) a substance that abrades or wears down | Synonyms: abradant, abrasive material |
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abrocome | (noun) ratlike rodent with soft fur and large ears of the Andes | Synonyms: rat chinchilla, chinchilla rat |
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absence | (noun) the state of being absent | - |
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(noun) failure to be present | - |
(noun) the time interval during which something or somebody is away | - |
(noun) the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy | Synonyms: absence seizure |
absentee | (noun) one that is absent or not in residence | - |
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absinthe | (noun) aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe | Synonyms: old man, common wormwood, Artemisia absinthium, lad's love |
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(noun) strong green liqueur flavored with wormwood and anise | Synonyms: absinth |
absolute | (noun) something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative | - |
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absorbance | (noun) (physics) a measure of the extent to which a substance transmits light or other electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: photographic density, optical density, transmission density |
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absorbate | (noun) a material that has been or is capable of being absorbed | - |
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absorptance | (noun) a measure of the rate of decrease in the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (as light) as it passes through a given substance; the fraction of incident radiant energy absorbed per unit mass or thickness of an absorber | Synonyms: coefficient of absorption, absorption coefficient |
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abstinence | (noun) the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol) | Synonyms: abstention |
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(noun) act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite | - |
abundance | (noun) the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply | Synonyms: copiousness, teemingness |
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(noun) (physics) the ratio of the number of atoms of a specific isotope of an element to the total number of isotopes present | - |
(noun) (chemistry) the ratio of the total mass of an element in the earth's crust to the total mass of the earth's crust; expressed as a percentage or in parts per million | - |
abuse | (noun) cruel or inhumane treatment | Synonyms: ill-treatment, ill-usage, maltreatment |
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(noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt | Synonyms: insult, revilement, vilification, contumely |
(noun) improper or excessive use | Synonyms: misuse |
academe | (noun) the academic world | Synonyms: academia |
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acanthocyte | (noun) an abnormal red blood cell that has thorny projections of protoplasm | - |
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acaracide | (noun) a chemical agent used to kill mites | Synonyms: acaricide |
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acaricide | (noun) a chemical agent used to kill mites | Synonyms: acaracide |
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acarine | (noun) mite or tick | - |
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acaryote | (noun) a cell without a nucleus (as an erythrocyte) | Synonyms: akaryocyte, akaryote |
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acceptance | (noun) the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true | Synonyms: credence |
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(noun) the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception | Synonyms: espousal, acceptation, adoption |
(noun) the state of being acceptable and accepted | - |
(noun) (contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract) | - |
(noun) a time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank | Synonyms: banker's acceptance |
(noun) a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations | Synonyms: toleration, sufferance |
(noun) the act of taking something that is offered | - |
accidence | (noun) the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words | Synonyms: inflectional morphology |
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accolade | (noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: award, honor, honour, laurels |
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accomplice | (noun) a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan) | Synonyms: confederate |
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accordance | (noun) concurrence of opinion | Synonyms: conformity, accord |
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(noun) the act of granting rights | Synonyms: accordance of rights |
accoucheuse | (noun) a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies | Synonyms: midwife |
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accusative | (noun) the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb | Synonyms: objective case, accusative case |
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ace | (noun) the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number | Synonyms: single, one, I, unity, 1 |
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(noun) one of four playing cards in a deck having a single pip on its face | - |
(noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: genius, sensation, star, whiz, hotshot, maven, mavin, whizz, wiz, wizard, superstar, virtuoso, champion, adept |
(noun) a serve that the receiver is unable to reach | - |
acetaldehyde | (noun) a colorless volatile water-soluble liquid aldehyde used chiefly in the manufacture of acetic acid and perfumes and drugs | Synonyms: ethanal |
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acetamide | (noun) a colorless solid amide of acetic acid used as a solvent and in the synthesis of organic compounds | Synonyms: ethanamide |
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acetanilide | (noun) a solid odourless chemical of leaf or flake-like appearance; used in rubber accelerator, dye, and camphor synthesis; metabolised to paracetamol (acetaminophen) | Synonyms: phenylacetamide, acetanilid |
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acetate | (noun) a salt or ester of acetic acid | Synonyms: ethanoate |
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(noun) a fabric made from fibers of cellulose acetate | Synonyms: acetate rayon |
acetone | (noun) the simplest ketone; a highly flammable liquid widely used as an organic solvent and as material for making plastics | Synonyms: dimethyl ketone, propanone |
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acetylcholine | (noun) a neurotransmitter that is a derivative of choline; released at the ends of nerve fibers in the somatic and parasympathetic nervous systems | - |
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acetylene | (noun) a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis | Synonyms: ethyne, alkyne |
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ache | (noun) a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain | Synonyms: aching |
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achene | (noun) small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall | - |
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achondrite | (noun) a stony meteor lacking chondrules | - |
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acidophile | (noun) an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment | Synonyms: acidophil |
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ackee | (noun) red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe | Synonyms: akee |
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acme | (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, tiptop, top, elevation, superlative, height |
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(noun) the highest point (of something) | Synonyms: peak, vertex, apex |
acne | (noun) an inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin; characterized by papules or pustules or comedones | - |
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acolyte | (noun) someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches | - |
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aconite | (noun) any of various usually poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum having tuberous roots and palmately lobed leaves and blue or white flowers | - |
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acquaintance | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: familiarity, conversance, conversancy |
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(noun) a relationship less intimate than friendship | Synonyms: acquaintanceship |
(noun) a person with whom you are acquainted | Synonyms: friend |
acquiescence | (noun) acceptance without protest | - |
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(noun) agreement with a statement or proposal to do something | Synonyms: assent |
acquittance | (noun) a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation | Synonyms: release |
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acre | (noun) a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries | - |
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acreage | (noun) an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming) | Synonyms: land area |
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acrosome | (noun) a process at the anterior end of a sperm cell that produces enzymes to facilitate penetration of the egg | - |
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acrylamide | (noun) a white crystalline amide of propenoic acid can damage the nervous system and is carcinogenic in laboratory animals | - |
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acrylate | (noun) a salt or ester of propenoic acid | Synonyms: propenoate |
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acrylonitrile | (noun) a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene | Synonyms: propenonitrile, vinyl cyanide |
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actinide | (noun) any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103 | Synonyms: actinoid, actinon |
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actinolite | (noun) a green mineral of the amphibole group; calcium magnesium iron silicate | - |
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actinomycete | (noun) any bacteria (some of which are pathogenic for humans and animals) belonging to the order Actinomycetales | - |
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active | (noun) chemical agent capable of activity | Synonyms: active agent |
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(noun) the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb | Synonyms: active voice |
(noun) a person who is a participating member of an organization | - |
acupressure | (noun) treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body | Synonyms: G-Jo, shiatsu |
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acupuncture | (noun) treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin | Synonyms: stylostixis |
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acute | (noun) a mark placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: acute accent, ague |
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adage | (noun) a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people | Synonyms: saw, proverb, byword |
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adamance | (noun) resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible | Synonyms: unyieldingness, obduracy |
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additive | (noun) something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine | - |
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addressee | (noun) one to whom something is addressed | - |
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ade | (noun) a sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice | Synonyms: fruit drink |
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adenine | (noun) (biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA | Synonyms: A |
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adenosine | (noun) (biochemistry) a nucleoside that is a structural component of nucleic acids; it is present in all living cells in a combined form as a constituent of DNA and RNA and ADP and ATP and AMP | - |
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adesite | (noun) dark greyish extrusive rock | - |
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adherence | (noun) faithful support for a cause or political party or religion | Synonyms: adhesion, attachment |
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(noun) the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition | Synonyms: bond, adhesion, adhesiveness |
adhesive | (noun) a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together | Synonyms: adhesive agent, adhesive material |
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adience | (noun) (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object | - |
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adjective | (noun) a word that expresses an attribute of something | - |
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(noun) the word class that qualifies nouns | - |
admittance | (noun) the right to enter | Synonyms: entree, access, accession, admission |
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(noun) the act of admitting someone to enter | Synonyms: admission |
admixture | (noun) the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something | Synonyms: alloy |
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(noun) an additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base | Synonyms: intermixture |
(noun) the act of mixing together | Synonyms: intermixture, mix, mixing, mixture, commixture |
adobe | (noun) the clay from which adobe bricks are made | - |
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(noun) sun-dried brick; used in hot dry climates | Synonyms: adobe brick |
adolescence | (noun) the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood | - |
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(noun) in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood | - |
adoptee | (noun) someone (such as a child) who has been adopted | - |
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adrenaline | (noun) a catecholamine secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress (trade name Adrenalin); stimulates autonomic nerve action | Synonyms: epinephrin, epinephrine, Adrenalin |
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adrenarche | (noun) the increase in activity of the adrenal glands just before puberty | - |
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adrenosterone | (noun) a steroid having androgenic activity; obtained from the cortex of the adrenal gland | - |
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adsorbate | (noun) a material that has been or is capable of being adsorbed | - |
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advance | (noun) a movement forward | Synonyms: progress, progression |
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(noun) a change for the better; progress in development | Synonyms: improvement, betterment |
(noun) a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others | Synonyms: approach, overture, feeler |
(noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: procession, progress, progression, onward motion, advancement, forward motion |
(noun) an amount paid before it is earned | Synonyms: cash advance |
(noun) increase in price or value | Synonyms: rise |
advantage | (noun) the quality of having a superior or more favorable position | Synonyms: vantage |
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(noun) (tennis) first point scored after deuce | - |
(noun) benefit resulting from some event or action | Synonyms: reward |
adventure | (noun) a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful) | Synonyms: risky venture, dangerous undertaking, escapade |
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advertence | (noun) the process of being heedful | Synonyms: advertency |
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advice | (noun) a proposal for an appropriate course of action | - |
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advisee | (noun) someone who receives advice | - |
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advocate | (noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: proponent, exponent, advocator |
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(noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: pleader, counsel, counsellor, counselor, counselor-at-law |