| kurchee | (noun) tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea | Synonyms: conessi, Holarrhena antidysenterica, Holarrhena pubescens, ivory tree, kurchi |
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| lathee | (noun) club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron; used by police in India | Synonyms: lathi |
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| lee | (noun) the side of something that is sheltered from the wind | Synonyms: lee side, leeward |
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| leechee | (noun) Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried | Synonyms: lichee, lichi, litchee, litchi, litchi nut, lychee |
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| legatee | (noun) someone to whom a legacy is bequeathed | - |
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| lessee | (noun) a tenant who holds a lease | Synonyms: leaseholder |
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| levee | (noun) an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing | - |
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| (noun) a pier that provides a landing place on a river | - |
| (noun) a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court) | - |
| licensee | (noun) someone to whom a license is granted | - |
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| lichee | (noun) Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried | Synonyms: leechee, lichi, litchee, litchi, litchi nut, lychee |
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| (noun) Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Nephelium | Synonyms: litchi, Litchi chinensis, litchi tree, Nephelium litchi |
| litchee | (noun) Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried | Synonyms: leechee, lichee, lichi, litchi, litchi nut, lychee |
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| lycee | (noun) a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12 | Synonyms: Gymnasium, lyceum, middle school, secondary school |
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| lychee | (noun) Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried | Synonyms: leechee, lichee, lichi, litchee, litchi, litchi nut |
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| maharanee | (noun) a great rani; a princess in India or the wife of a maharaja | Synonyms: maharani |
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| mallee | (noun) any of several low-growing Australian eucalypts | - |
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| mammee | (noun) globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh | Synonyms: mamey, mammee apple |
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| (noun) brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet | Synonyms: marmalade plum, sapote |
| (noun) tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind | Synonyms: mamey, Mammea americana, mammee apple, mammee tree |
| (noun) tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum | Synonyms: Calocarpum zapota, marmalade tree, Pouteria zapota, sapote |
| manatee | (noun) sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America; the flat tail is rounded | Synonyms: Trichechus manatus |
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| marquee | (noun) permanent canopy over an entrance of a hotel etc. | Synonyms: marquise |
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| (noun) large and often sumptuous tent | Synonyms: pavilion |
| matinee | (noun) a theatrical performance held during the daytime (especially in the afternoon) | - |
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| melee | (noun) a noisy riotous fight | Synonyms: battle royal, scrimmage |
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| mentee | (noun) one who is being mentored | Synonyms: mentoree |
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| mentoree | (noun) one who is being mentored | Synonyms: mentee |
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| millidegree | (noun) a unit of temperature equal to one-thousandth of a degree | - |
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| mortgagee | (noun) the person who accepts a mortgage | Synonyms: mortgage holder |
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| muggee | (noun) a victim of a mugging | - |
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| murderee | (noun) a victim who is murdered | - |
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| negligee | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, neglige, peignoir, wrapper |
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| ngwee | (noun) 100 ngwee equal 1 kwacha in Zambia | - |
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| nominee | (noun) a politician who is running for public office | Synonyms: campaigner, candidate |
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| ogee | (noun) a molding that (in section) has the shape of an S with the convex part above and the concave part below | Synonyms: cyma reversa |
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| parolee | (noun) someone released on probation or on parole | Synonyms: probationer |
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| patentee | (noun) the inventor to whom a patent is issued | - |
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| payee | (noun) a person to whom money is paid | - |
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| pedigree | (noun) ancestry of a purebred animal | Synonyms: bloodline |
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| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, stemma, stock |
| (noun) line of descent of a purebred animal | - |
| pee | (noun) informal terms for urination | Synonyms: peeing, piss, pissing |
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| (noun) liquid excretory product | Synonyms: piddle, piss, urine, water, weewee |
| peewee | (noun) small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America | Synonyms: Contopus virens, peewit, pewee, pewit, wood pewee |
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| (noun) disparaging terms for small people | Synonyms: half-pint, runt, shrimp |
| perigee | (noun) periapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is nearest to the Earth | - |
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| pewee | (noun) small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America | Synonyms: Contopus virens, peewee, peewit, pewit, wood pewee |
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| pharisee | (noun) a self-righteous or sanctimonious person | - |
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| pledgee | (noun) someone to whom a pledge is made or someone with whom something is deposited as a pledge | - |
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| pongee | (noun) a soft thin cloth woven from raw silk (or an imitation) | - |
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| promisee | (noun) a person to whom a promise is made | - |
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| protegee | (noun) a woman protege | - |
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| puree | (noun) food prepared by cooking and straining or processed in a blender | - |
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| puttee | (noun) a strip of cloth wound around the leg to form legging; used by soldiers in World War I | - |
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| ragee | (noun) East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient | Synonyms: African millet, coracan, corakan, Eleusine coracana, finger millet, kurakkan, ragi |
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| ramee | (noun) tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves; cultivated for the fiber from its woody stems that resembles flax | Synonyms: Boehmeria nivea, China grass, Chinese silk plant, ramie |
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| ranee | (noun) (the feminine of raja) a Hindu princess or the wife of a raja | Synonyms: rani |
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| rappee | (noun) strong snuff made from dark coarse tobacco | - |
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| ratafee | (noun) sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum or peach or apricot kernels and bitter almonds | Synonyms: ratafia |
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| referee | (noun) (sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play | Synonyms: ref |
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| (noun) someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication | Synonyms: reader, reviewer |
| (noun) an attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case | - |
| refugee | (noun) an exile who flees for safety | - |
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| repartee | (noun) adroitness and cleverness in reply | - |
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| retiree | (noun) someone who has retired from active working | Synonyms: retired person |
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| rooftree | (noun) a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters | Synonyms: ridge, ridgepole |
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| rupee | (noun) the basic unit of money in India; equal to 100 paise | Synonyms: Indian rupee |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Pakistan; equal to 100 paisa | Synonyms: Pakistani rupee |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Mauritius; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Mauritian rupee |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Nepal; equal to 100 paisa | Synonyms: Nepalese rupee |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Seychelles; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Seychelles rupee |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Sri Lanka; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Sri Lanka rupee |
| sangaree | (noun) sweetened red wine and orange or lemon juice with soda water | Synonyms: sangria |
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| saree | (noun) a dress worn primarily by Hindu women; consists of several yards of light material that is draped around the body | Synonyms: sari |
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| scree | (noun) a sloping mass of loose rocks at the base of a cliff | Synonyms: talus |
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| see | (noun) the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located | - |
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| sendee | (noun) the intended recipient of a message | - |
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| settee | (noun) a small sofa | - |
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| (noun) a long wooden bench with a back | Synonyms: settle |
| shivaree | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, callithump, charivari, chivaree |
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| shoetree | (noun) a wooden or metal device that is inserted into a shoe to preserve its shape when it is not being worn | - |
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| snickersnee | (noun) fighting with knives | Synonyms: cut-and-thrust, knife fight |
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| soiree | (noun) a party of people assembled in the evening (usually at a private house) | - |
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| spondee | (noun) a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables | - |
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| spree | (noun) a brief indulgence of your impulses | Synonyms: fling |
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| squeegee | (noun) T-shaped cleaning implement with a rubber edge across the top; drawn across a surface to remove water (as in washing windows) | - |
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| standee | (noun) a lifesize cardboard cutout (usually of a celebrity) | - |
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| (noun) someone who stands in a place where one might otherwise sit (as a spectator who uses standing room in a theater or a passenger on a crowded bus or train) | - |
| subcommittee | (noun) a subset of committee members organized for a specific purpose | - |
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| suttee | (noun) the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband | - |
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| swingletree | (noun) a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling | Synonyms: whiffletree, whippletree |
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| tee | (noun) a short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the ground | Synonyms: golf tee |
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| (noun) support holding a football on end and above the ground preparatory to the kickoff | Synonyms: football tee |
| (noun) the starting place for each hole on a golf course | Synonyms: teeing ground |
| teepee | (noun) a Native American tent; usually of conical shape | Synonyms: tepee, tipi |
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| tepee | (noun) a Native American tent; usually of conical shape | Synonyms: teepee, tipi |
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| testee | (noun) someone who is tested (as by an intelligence test or an academic examination) | Synonyms: examinee |
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| three | (noun) one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips | Synonyms: trey |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| thuggee | (noun) murder and robbery by thugs | - |
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| toffee | (noun) caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets | Synonyms: brittle, toffy |
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| topee | (noun) a lightweight hat worn in tropical countries for protection from the sun | Synonyms: pith hat, pith helmet, sun helmet, topi |
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| toupee | (noun) a small hairpiece to cover partial baldness | Synonyms: toupe |
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| towhee | (noun) any of numerous long-tailed American finches | - |
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| townee | (noun) townsman unacquainted with country life especially a slick and flashy male city dweller | - |
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| trainee | (noun) someone who is being trained | - |
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| transferee | (noun) someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another | Synonyms: transfer |
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| (noun) (law) someone to whom a title or property is conveyed | - |
| tree | (noun) a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms | - |
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| (noun) a figure that branches from a single root | Synonyms: tree diagram |
| trochee | (noun) a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables | - |
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| trustee | (noun) a person (or institution) to whom legal title to property is entrusted to use for another's benefit | Synonyms: legal guardian |
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| (noun) members of a governing board | Synonyms: regent |
| tutee | (noun) learns from a tutor | - |
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| vaccinee | (noun) a patient who has been vaccinated | - |
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| vendee | (noun) a person who buys | Synonyms: buyer, emptor, purchaser |
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| vouchee | (noun) (law) a person called into court to defend a title | - |
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| wampee | (noun) American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds | Synonyms: pickerel weed, pickerelweed, Pontederia cordata |
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| wannabee | (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirant, aspirer, hopeful, wannabe |
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| warrantee | (noun) a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications | Synonyms: guarantee, warrant, warranty |
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| (noun) a customer to whom a warrant or guarantee is given | - |
| (noun) a recipient of a warrant issued by a court in the United States | - |
| wee | (noun) a short time | - |
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| weewee | (noun) liquid excretory product | Synonyms: pee, piddle, piss, urine, water |
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| whiffletree | (noun) a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling | Synonyms: swingletree, whippletree |
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| whippletree | (noun) a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling | Synonyms: swingletree, whiffletree |
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| whoopee | (noun) noisy and boisterous revelry | - |
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