| applemint | (noun) mint with apple-scented stems of southern and western Europe; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: apple mint, Mentha rotundifolia, Mentha suaveolens |
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| aquatint | (noun) a method of etching that imitates the broad washes of a water color | - |
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| (noun) an etching made by a process that makes it resemble a water color | - |
| ballpoint | (noun) a pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper | Synonyms: ballpen, ballpoint pen, Biro |
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| bluepoint | (noun) small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island | Synonyms: blue point |
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| (noun) oysters originally from Long Island Sound but now from anywhere along the northeastern seacoast; usually eaten raw | Synonyms: blue point |
| blueprint | (noun) photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc. | - |
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| (noun) something intended as a guide for making something else | Synonyms: design, pattern |
| calamint | (noun) perennial aromatic herbs growing in hedgerows or scrub or open woodlands from western Europe to central Asia and in North America | - |
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| catmint | (noun) hairy aromatic perennial herb having whorls of small white purple-spotted flowers in a terminal spike; used in the past as a domestic remedy; strongly attractive to cats | Synonyms: catnip, Nepeta cataria |
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| checkpoint | (noun) a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance | - |
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| chokepoint | (noun) a point of congestion or blockage | - |
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| (noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: bottleneck, constriction |
| complaint | (noun) an expression of grievance or resentment | - |
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| (noun) (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow | - |
| (noun) (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based | - |
| (noun) (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense | Synonyms: charge |
| (noun) an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining | Synonyms: ailment, ill |
| constraint | (noun) the act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of others | - |
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| (noun) a device that retards something's motion | Synonyms: restraint |
| (noun) the state of being physically constrained | Synonyms: restraint |
| counterpoint | (noun) a musical form involving the simultaneous sound of two or more melodies | - |
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| cuckoopint | (noun) common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum | Synonyms: Arum maculatum, jack-in-the-pulpit, lords-and-ladies |
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| dint | (noun) interchangeable with `means' in the expression `by means of' | - |
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| distraint | (noun) the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim | Synonyms: distress |
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| embonpoint | (noun) the bodily property of being well rounded | Synonyms: plumpness, roundness |
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| endpoint | (noun) a place where something ends or is complete | Synonyms: end point, termination, terminus |
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| faint | (noun) a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain | Synonyms: deliquium, swoon, syncope |
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| feint | (noun) any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack) | - |
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| fingerpaint | (noun) paint that has the consistency of jelly | Synonyms: finger paint |
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| fingerprint | (noun) a smudge made by a (dirty) finger | Synonyms: fingermark |
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| (noun) a generic term for any identifying characteristic | - |
| (noun) a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations | - |
| flashpoint | (noun) the lowest temperature at which the vapor of a combustible liquid can be ignited in air | Synonyms: flash point |
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| (noun) a place of political unrest and potential violence | Synonyms: hot spot, hotspot, trouble spot |
| (noun) point at which something is ready to blow up | Synonyms: flash point |
| flint | (noun) a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony | - |
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| footprint | (noun) the area taken up by some object | - |
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| (noun) a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface | Synonyms: footmark, step |
| (noun) a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important | - |
| forint | (noun) the basic unit of money in Hungary | - |
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| glint | (noun) a spatially localized brightness | - |
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| (noun) a momentary flash of light | Synonyms: flicker, spark |
| greasepaint | (noun) a greasy substance used as makeup by actors | - |
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| gunflint | (noun) the piece of flint that provides the igniting spark in a flintlock weapon | - |
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| gunpoint | (noun) the gun muzzle's direction | Synonyms: point |
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| hint | (noun) an indirect suggestion | Synonyms: breath, intimation |
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| (noun) a slight indication | Synonyms: clue |
| (noun) an indication of potential opportunity | Synonyms: confidential information, lead, steer, tip, wind |
| (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch |
| (noun) a just detectable amount | Synonyms: suggestion, tint, trace |
| hoofprint | (noun) a visible impression on a surface made by the hoof of an animal | Synonyms: hoof-mark, hoof mark |
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| horsemint | (noun) a coarse Old World wild water mint having long leaves and spikelike clusters of flowers; naturalized in the eastern United States | Synonyms: Mentha longifolia |
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| (noun) tall erect perennial or annual having lanceolate leaves and heads of purple-spotted creamy flowers; many subspecies grown from eastern to southwestern United States and in Mexico | Synonyms: Monarda punctata |
| (noun) an annual horsemint of central and western United States and northern Mexico | Synonyms: lemon mint, Monarda citriodora |
| housepaint | (noun) paint used to cover the exterior woodwork of a house | Synonyms: house paint |
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| imprint | (noun) a device produced by pressure on a surface | - |
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| (noun) a distinctive influence | - |
| (noun) an impression produced by pressure or printing | Synonyms: embossment |
| (noun) an identification of a publisher; a publisher's name along with the date and address and edition that is printed at the bottom of the title page | - |
| (noun) a concavity in a surface produced by pressing | Synonyms: depression, impression |
| joint | (noun) marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking | Synonyms: marijuana cigarette, reefer, spliff, stick |
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| (noun) junction by which parts or objects are joined together | - |
| (noun) a disreputable place of entertainment | - |
| (noun) (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) | Synonyms: articulatio, articulation |
| (noun) a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion | Synonyms: roast |
| (noun) the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made | Synonyms: articulation, join, junction, juncture |
| lint | (noun) cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side; used to dress wounds | - |
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| (noun) fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers | - |
| mezzotint | (noun) print produced by an engraving that has been scraped to represent light or shade | - |
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| microprint | (noun) extremely small print, read by a magnifying device. | - |
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| midpoint | (noun) a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure | Synonyms: center, centre |
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| mint | (noun) a plant where money is coined by authority of the government | - |
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| (noun) a candy that is flavored with a mint oil | Synonyms: mint candy |
| (noun) the leaves of a mint plant used fresh or candied | - |
| (noun) any north temperate plant of the genus Mentha with aromatic leaves and small mauve flowers | - |
| (noun) any member of the mint family of plants | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| misprint | (noun) a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind | Synonyms: erratum, literal, literal error, typo, typographical error |
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| needlepoint | (noun) embroidery consisting of allover embroidered canvas resembling tapestry | Synonyms: needlepoint embroidery |
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| (noun) lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern | Synonyms: point lace |
| newsprint | (noun) cheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing newspapers | Synonyms: newspaper |
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| offprint | (noun) a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication | Synonyms: reprint, separate |
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| overprint | (noun) something added by overprinting | Synonyms: surprint |
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| paint | (noun) a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating | Synonyms: pigment |
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| (noun) makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | Synonyms: blush, blusher, rouge |
| (noun) (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court | Synonyms: key |
| peppermint | (noun) a candy flavored with peppermint oil | Synonyms: peppermint candy |
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| (noun) herb with downy leaves and small purple or white flowers that yields a pungent oil used as a flavoring | Synonyms: Mentha piperita |
| (noun) red gum tree of Tasmania | Synonyms: Eucalyptus amygdalina, peppermint gum, red gum |
| pinpoint | (noun) the sharp point of a pin | - |
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| (noun) a very small spot | Synonyms: speck |
| (noun) a very brief moment | - |
| pint | (noun) a United States liquid unit equal to 16 fluid ounces; two pints equal one quart | - |
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| (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 gills or 568.26 cubic centimeters | - |
| (noun) a United States dry unit equal to 0.5 quart or 33.6 cubic inches | Synonyms: dry pint |
| plaint | (noun) a cry of sorrow and grief | Synonyms: lament, lamentation, wail |
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| (noun) (United Kingdom) a written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court of law asking for the grievance to be redressed | - |
| point | (noun) sharp end | - |
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| (noun) a wall socket | Synonyms: power point |
| (noun) the gun muzzle's direction | Synonyms: gunpoint |
| (noun) a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs | Synonyms: breaker point, distributor point |
| (noun) the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip | Synonyms: pointedness |
| (noun) an outstanding characteristic | Synonyms: spot |
| (noun) a distinguishing or individuating characteristic | - |
| (noun) a geometric element that has position but no extension | - |
| (noun) an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole | Synonyms: detail, item |
| (noun) the object of an activity | - |
| (noun) a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations | Synonyms: full point, full stop, period, stop |
| (noun) a brief version of the essential meaning of something | - |
| (noun) a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer | Synonyms: head |
| (noun) a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list | Synonyms: item |
| (noun) the dot at the left of a decimal fraction | Synonyms: decimal point, percentage point |
| (noun) the precise location of something; a spatially limited location | - |
| (noun) a promontory extending out into a large body of water | - |
| (noun) one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan | - |
| (noun) a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch | - |
| (noun) the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest | - |
| (noun) any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass | Synonyms: compass point |
| (noun) a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect | - |
| (noun) a V shape | Synonyms: peak, tip |
| (noun) a very small circular shape | Synonyms: dot |
| (noun) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | Synonyms: degree, level, stage |
| (noun) an instant of time | Synonyms: point in time |
| print | (noun) a picture or design printed from an engraving | - |
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| (noun) a fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it (usually by engraved rollers) | - |
| (noun) a printed picture produced from a photographic negative | Synonyms: photographic print |
| (noun) a copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version of it) | - |
| (noun) the text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publication | - |
| (noun) a visible indication made on a surface | Synonyms: mark |
| (noun) availability in printed form | - |
| quint | (noun) one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy | Synonyms: quin, quintuplet |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quintet, quintuplet, V |
| reprint | (noun) a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication | Synonyms: offprint, separate |
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| (noun) a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale | Synonyms: reissue, reprinting |
| restraint | (noun) the act of controlling by restraining someone or something | - |
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| (noun) a device that retards something's motion | Synonyms: constraint |
| (noun) discipline in personal and social activities | Synonyms: control |
| (noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: chasteness, simpleness, simplicity |
| (noun) a rule or condition that limits freedom | - |
| (noun) the state of being physically constrained | Synonyms: constraint |
| saint | (noun) person of exceptional holiness | Synonyms: angel, holy man, holy person |
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| (noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: apotheosis, ideal, nonesuch, nonpareil, nonsuch, paragon |
| (noun) a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization | - |
| silverpoint | (noun) a drawing made on specially prepared paper with an instrument having a silver tip (15th and 16th centuries) | - |
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| skinflint | (noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend | Synonyms: churl, niggard, scrooge |
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| spearmint | (noun) common garden herb having clusters of small purplish flowers and yielding an oil used as a flavoring | Synonyms: Mentha spicata |
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| spearpoint | (noun) the head and sharpened point of a spear | Synonyms: spear-point, spearhead |
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| speedpaint | (noun) Painting a picture in a very short amount of time | - |
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| splint | (noun) an orthopedic mechanical device used to immobilize and protect a part of the body (as a broken leg) | - |
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| (noun) a thin sliver of wood | - |
| sprint | (noun) a quick run | Synonyms: dash |
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| squint | (noun) the act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closed | - |
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| (noun) abnormal alignment of one or both eyes | Synonyms: strabismus |
| standpoint | (noun) a mental position from which things are viewed | Synonyms: point of view, stand, viewpoint |
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| stint | (noun) an individual's prescribed share of work | - |
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| (noun) smallest American sandpiper | Synonyms: Erolia minutilla, least sandpiper |
| (noun) an unbroken period of time during which you do something | Synonyms: stretch |
| subpoint | (noun) A point (proposition in a debate etc.) that forms part of a larger point. | - |
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| surprint | (noun) something added by overprinting | Synonyms: overprint |
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| taint | (noun) the state of being contaminated | Synonyms: contamination |
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| thumbprint | (noun) fingerprint made by the thumb (especially by the pad of the thumb) | - |
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| tint | (noun) a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color | Synonyms: shade, tincture, tone |
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| (noun) a just detectable amount | Synonyms: hint, suggestion, trace |
| (noun) a dye for coloring the hair | Synonyms: hair coloring, hair dye |
| unconstraint | (noun) the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry | Synonyms: abandon, wantonness |
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| unrestraint | (noun) the quality of lacking restraint | - |
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| varmint | (noun) any usually predatory wild animal considered undesirable; e.g., coyote | Synonyms: varment |
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| (noun) an irritating or obnoxious person | Synonyms: vermin |
| viewpoint | (noun) a mental position from which things are viewed | Synonyms: point of view, stand, standpoint |
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| (noun) a place from which something can be viewed | Synonyms: vantage point |
| voiceprint | (noun) biometric identification by electronically recording and graphically representing a person's voice | - |
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| wellpoint | (noun) a perforated tube driven into the ground to collect water from the surrounding area | Synonyms: well point |
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