| huck | (noun) toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric | Synonyms: huckaback |
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| huckaback | (noun) toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric | Synonyms: huck |
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| hulk | (noun) a ship that has been wrecked and abandoned | - |
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| (noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: giant, heavyweight, whale |
| hummock | (noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hammock, hillock, knoll, mound |
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| humpback | (noun) large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives | Synonyms: humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae |
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| (noun) a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine | Synonyms: crookback, hunchback |
| (noun) an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column | Synonyms: hunchback, kyphosis |
| hunchback | (noun) a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine | Synonyms: crookback, humpback |
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| (noun) an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column | Synonyms: humpback, kyphosis |
| hunk | (noun) a large piece of something without definite shape | Synonyms: lump |
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| (noun) a well-built sexually attractive man | - |
| husk | (noun) outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds | - |
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| (noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: chaff, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble |
| hygrodeik | (noun) a wet and dry bulb hygrometer | - |
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| hymnbook | (noun) a songbook containing a collection of hymns | Synonyms: hymnal, hymnary |
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| hyperlink | (noun) a link from a hypertext file to another location or file; typically activated by clicking on a highlighted word or icon at a particular location on the screen | - |
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| icepick | (noun) pick consisting of a steel rod with a sharp point; used for breaking up blocks of ice | Synonyms: ice pick |
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| ilk | (noun) a kind of person | Synonyms: like |
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| inglenook | (noun) a corner by a fireplace | Synonyms: chimney corner |
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| ink | (noun) dark protective fluid ejected into the water by cuttlefish and other cephalopods | - |
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| (noun) a liquid used for printing or writing or drawing | - |
| interlock | (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlocking, mesh, meshing |
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| (noun) a device that prevents an automotive engine from starting | Synonyms: ignition interlock |
| ironwork | (noun) work made of iron (gratings or rails or railings etc) | - |
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| jack | (noun) any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas | - |
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| (noun) male donkey | Synonyms: jackass |
| (noun) tool for exerting pressure or lifting | - |
| (noun) one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince | Synonyms: knave |
| (noun) small flag indicating a ship's nationality | - |
| (noun) game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks | Synonyms: jackstones |
| (noun) an electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug | - |
| (noun) a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling | - |
| (noun) immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted | Synonyms: jackfruit, jak |
| (noun) someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor | Synonyms: laborer, labourer, manual laborer |
| (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, shit, squat |
| jailbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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| (noun) the removal of security locks from an electronic device | - |
| jak | (noun) immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted | Synonyms: jack, jackfruit |
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| jerk | (noun) an abrupt spasmodic movement | Synonyms: jerking, jolt, saccade |
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| (noun) a sudden abrupt pull | Synonyms: tug |
| (noun) raising a weight from shoulder height to above the head by straightening the arms | - |
| (noun) meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun | Synonyms: jerked meat, jerky |
| (noun) a dull stupid fatuous person | Synonyms: dork |
| (noun) (mechanics) the rate of change of acceleration | - |
| jock | (noun) a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise | Synonyms: athletic supporter, jockstrap, supporter, suspensor |
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| (noun) a person trained to compete in sports | Synonyms: athlete |
| jook | (noun) a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox | Synonyms: jook house, jook joint, juke, juke house, juke joint |
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| (noun) a Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast | Synonyms: congee |
| joystick | (noun) a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane | Synonyms: control stick, stick |
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| (noun) a manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions; used as an input device to computers or to devices controlled by computers | - |
| junk | (noun) any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails | - |
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| (noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | Synonyms: debris, detritus, dust, rubble |
| k | (noun) the 11th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: K |
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| kapok | (noun) massive tropical tree with deep ridges on its massive trunk and bearing large pods of seeds covered with silky floss; source of the silky kapok fiber | Synonyms: Bombay ceiba, Ceiba pentandra, ceiba tree, God tree, silk-cotton tree, white silk-cotton tree |
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| (noun) a plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation | Synonyms: silk cotton, vegetable silk |
| kayak | (noun) a small canoe consisting of a light frame made watertight with animal skins; used by Eskimos | - |
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| kibbutznik | (noun) a member of a kibbutz | - |
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| kick | (noun) the act of delivering a blow with the foot | Synonyms: boot, kicking |
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| (noun) a rhythmic thrusting movement of the legs as in swimming or calisthenics | Synonyms: kicking |
| (noun) the sudden stimulation provided by strong drink (or certain drugs) | - |
| (noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, bitch, gripe, squawk |
| (noun) the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired | Synonyms: recoil |
| (noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, flush, rush, thrill |
| kickback | (noun) a commercial bribe paid by a seller to a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter into the transaction | - |
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| kinfolk | (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept |
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| kink | (noun) a difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation | - |
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| (noun) an eccentric idea | - |
| (noun) a person with unusual sexual tastes | - |
| (noun) a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight | Synonyms: twirl, twist |
| (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, rick, wrick |
| kinsfolk | (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, phratry, sept |
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| kiosk | (noun) small area set off by walls for special use | Synonyms: booth, cubicle, stall |
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| kirk | (noun) a Scottish church | - |
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| klick | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles) | Synonyms: kilometer, kilometre, km |
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| knack | (noun) a special way of doing something | Synonyms: bent, hang |
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| knapsack | (noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder | Synonyms: back pack, backpack, haversack, packsack, rucksack |
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| knickknack | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknackery, nicknack, whatnot |
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| (noun) a small inexpensive mass-produced article | Synonyms: novelty |
| knitwork | (noun) needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine | Synonyms: knit, knitting |
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| knock | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: belt, rap, whack, whang |
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| (noun) negative criticism | Synonyms: roast |
| (noun) a vigorous blow | Synonyms: bang, bash, belt, smash |
| (noun) the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing) | Synonyms: knocking |
| (noun) a bad experience | - |
| kolkhoznik | (noun) a member of a kolkhoz | - |
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| kook | (noun) someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group | Synonyms: odd fellow, odd fish, odd man out, queer bird, queer duck |
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| kopeck | (noun) 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia | Synonyms: copeck, kopek |
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| kopek | (noun) 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia | Synonyms: copeck, kopeck |
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| kweek | (noun) trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India | Synonyms: Bahama grass, Bermuda grass, Cynodon dactylon, devil grass, doob, scutch grass, star grass |
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| lacebark | (noun) small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage | Synonyms: Hoheria populnea, houhere, ribbonwood |
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| lacework | (noun) work consisting of (or resembling) lace fabric | - |
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| lack | (noun) the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Synonyms: deficiency, want |
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| lampblack | (noun) a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink | Synonyms: carbon black, crock, smut, soot |
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| landmark | (noun) an anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken | - |
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| (noun) a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land | - |
| (noun) an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend | Synonyms: turning point, watershed |
| (noun) the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape | - |
| lark | (noun) any carefree episode | Synonyms: escapade |
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| (noun) any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing | - |
| (noun) a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage | Synonyms: pipit, titlark |
| (noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: meadowlark |
| latticework | (noun) framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal | Synonyms: fretwork, lattice |
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| laughingstock | (noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: butt, goat, stooge |
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| leafstalk | (noun) the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf | Synonyms: petiole |
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| leak | (noun) unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information | Synonyms: news leak |
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| (noun) the discharge of a fluid from some container | Synonyms: escape, leakage, outflow |
| (noun) an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape | - |
| (noun) a euphemism for urination | Synonyms: making water, passing water, wetting |
| (noun) soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi | - |
| leatherback | (noun) wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle | Synonyms: Dermochelys coriacea, leatherback turtle, leathery turtle |
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| leatherjack | (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leatherneck | (noun) a member of the United States Marine Corps | Synonyms: devil dog, Marine, shipboard soldier |
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| leatherwork | (noun) work made of leather | - |
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| leek | (noun) related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves | - |
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| (noun) plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum | Synonyms: Allium porrum, scallion |
| lek | (noun) the basic unit of money in Albania | - |
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| lentisk | (noun) an evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region that is cultivated for its resin | Synonyms: mastic, mastic tree, Pistacia lentiscus |
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| lick | (noun) touching with the tongue | Synonyms: lap |
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| (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: biff, clout, poke, punch, slug |
| (noun) a salt deposit that animals regularly lick | Synonyms: salt lick |
| lifework | (noun) the principal work of your career | - |
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| lightstick | (noun) A portable rod used for illumination. | - |
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| limerick | (noun) a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba | - |
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| link | (noun) a fastener that serves to join or connect | Synonyms: linkup, tie-in, tie |
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| (noun) a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network | Synonyms: radio link |
| (noun) an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data | Synonyms: data link |
| (noun) a channel for communication between groups | Synonyms: contact, inter-group communication, liaison |
| (noun) (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list | - |
| (noun) a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain | - |
| (noun) the means of connection between things linked in series | Synonyms: nexus |
| (noun) a connecting shape | Synonyms: connection, connexion |
| (noun) the state of being connected | Synonyms: connectedness, connection |
| linstock | (noun) a stick about a meter long with a point on one end (to stick in the ground) and a forked head on the other end (to hold a lighted match); formerly used to fire cannons | - |
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| lipstick | (noun) makeup that is used to color the lips | Synonyms: lip rouge |
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| littleneck | (noun) a young quahog | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
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| (noun) a quahog when young and small; usually eaten raw; an important food popular in New York | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
| livestock | (noun) any animals kept for use or profit | Synonyms: farm animal, stock |
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| lobsterback | (noun) British soldier; so-called because of his red coat (especially during the American Revolution) | Synonyms: redcoat |
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| lock | (noun) any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured | - |
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| (noun) a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed | - |
| (noun) a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key | Synonyms: ignition lock |
| (noun) enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it | Synonyms: lock chamber |
| (noun) a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun | - |
| (noun) a strand or cluster of hair | - |
| logbook | (noun) a book in which the log is written | - |
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| look | (noun) the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; look | Synonyms: looking, looking at |
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| (noun) physical appearance | - |
| (noun) the feelings expressed on a person's face | Synonyms: aspect, expression, face, facial expression |
| (noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, smell, spirit, tone |
| luck | (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: chance, fortune, hazard |
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| (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome | Synonyms: fortune |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, lot, portion |
| lumberjack | (noun) a short warm outer jacket | Synonyms: lumber jacket |
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| (noun) a person who fells trees | Synonyms: faller, feller, logger, lumberman |
| lutefisk | (noun) dried cod soaked in a lye solution before boiling to give it a gelatinous consistency | Synonyms: lutfisk |
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| lutfisk | (noun) dried cod soaked in a lye solution before boiling to give it a gelatinous consistency | Synonyms: lutefisk |
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| mack | (noun) a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric | Synonyms: mac, macintosh, mackintosh |
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| mahlstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: maulstick |
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| malik | (noun) the leader of a town or community in some parts of Asia Minor and the Indian subcontinent | - |
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| mark | (noun) something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal | Synonyms: bell ringer, bull's eye, home run |
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| (noun) an indication of damage | Synonyms: scar, scrape, scratch |
| (noun) a marking that consists of lines that cross each other | Synonyms: crisscross, cross |
| (noun) the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember | - |
| (noun) a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance) | Synonyms: grade, score |
| (noun) a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation) | - |
| (noun) a symbol of disgrace or infamy | Synonyms: brand, stain, stigma |
| (noun) a distinguishing symbol | Synonyms: marker, marking |
| (noun) a visible indication made on a surface | Synonyms: print |
| (noun) a reference point to shoot at | Synonyms: target |
| (noun) a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened) | Synonyms: sign |
| (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker |
| (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in Germany | Synonyms: Deutsche Mark, Deutschmark, German mark |
| mask | (noun) activity that tries to conceal something | - |
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| (noun) a covering to disguise or conceal the face | - |
| (noun) a protective covering worn over the face | - |
| (noun) a party of guests wearing costumes and masks | Synonyms: masque, masquerade, masquerade party |
| matchbook | (noun) a small folder of paper safety matches | - |
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| matchlock | (noun) an early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge | - |
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| matchstick | (noun) a short thin stick of wood used in making matches | - |
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| mattock | (noun) a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat blade set at right angles to the handle | - |
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| maulstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: mahlstick |
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| maverick | (noun) an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it | - |
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| (noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: rebel |
| meadowlark | (noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: lark |
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| medick | (noun) any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves | Synonyms: medic, trefoil |
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| meshwork | (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshing, net, network |
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| metalwork | (noun) the activity of making things out of metal in a skillful manner | Synonyms: metalworking |
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| (noun) the metal parts of something | - |
| meterstick | (noun) a rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters) | Synonyms: metrestick |
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| metrestick | (noun) a rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters) | Synonyms: meterstick |
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| midweek | (noun) the middle of a week | - |
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| milk | (noun) produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young | - |
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| (noun) a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings | - |
| (noun) any of several nutritive milklike liquids | - |