| 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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| acidophile
|
(noun) an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment |
Synonyms:
acidophil |
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| acrylonitrile
|
(noun) a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene |
Synonyms:
propenonitrile,
vinyl cyanide |
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| aerophile
|
(noun) a lover of aviation |
- |
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| aisle
|
(noun) a long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods) |
- |
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| (noun) passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores |
Synonyms:
gangway |
| (noun) part of a church divided laterally from the nave proper by rows of pillars or columns |
- |
| ale
|
(noun) a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume |
- |
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| allele
|
(noun) (genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and that control the same character |
Synonyms:
allelomorph |
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| amarelle
|
(noun) any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice |
Synonyms:
Prunus cerasus caproniana |
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| (noun) pale red sour cherry with colorless or nearly colorless juice |
- |
| amble
|
(noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) |
Synonyms:
perambulation,
promenade,
saunter,
stroll |
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| amphibole
|
(noun) a mineral or mineral variety belonging to the amphibole group |
- |
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| ampoule
|
(noun) a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle) |
Synonyms:
phial,
vial,
ampul,
ampule |
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| ampule
|
(noun) a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle) |
Synonyms:
phial,
vial,
ampoule,
ampul |
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| anethole
|
(noun) an organic compound that is widely used as a flavoring substance. |
Synonyms:
anise camphor |
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| angle
|
(noun) the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a biased way of looking at or presenting something |
Synonyms:
slant |
| anglophile
|
(noun) an admirer of England and things English |
Synonyms:
anglophil |
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| animalcule
|
(noun) microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium |
Synonyms:
animalculum |
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| ankle
|
(noun) a gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus |
Synonyms:
mortise joint,
ankle joint,
articulatio talocruralis |
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| anole
|
(noun) small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color |
Synonyms:
American chameleon,
Anolis carolinensis |
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| antiparticle
|
(noun) a particle that has the same mass as another particle but has opposite values for its other properties; interaction of a particle and its antiparticle results in annihilation and the production of radiant energy |
- |
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| apostle
|
(noun) an ardent early supporter of a cause or reform |
- |
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| appendicle
|
(noun) a small appendage |
- |
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| apple
|
(noun) fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh |
- |
|---|
| (noun) native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits |
Synonyms:
Malus pumila,
orchard apple tree |
| argyle
|
(noun) a covered gravy holder of silver or other metal containing a detachable central vessel for hot water to keep the gravy warm |
Synonyms:
argyll |
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| (noun) a design consisting of a pattern of varicolored diamonds on a solid background (originally for knitted articles); patterned after the tartan of a clan in western Scotland |
Synonyms:
argyll |
| (noun) a sock knitted or woven with an argyle design |
Synonyms:
argyll |
| armhole
|
(noun) a hole through which you put your arm and where a sleeve can be attached |
- |
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| arsehole
|
(noun) vulgar slang for anus |
Synonyms:
bunghole,
arse,
asshole |
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| arteriole
|
(noun) one of the small thin-walled arteries that end in capillaries |
Synonyms:
capillary artery,
arteriola |
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| article
|
(noun) nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication |
- |
|---|
| (noun) one of a class of artifacts |
- |
| (noun) a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will) |
Synonyms:
clause |
| (noun) (grammar) a determiner that may indicate the specificity of reference of a noun phrase |
- |
| asshole
|
(noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous |
Synonyms:
prick,
shit,
bastard,
mother fucker,
motherfucker,
dickhead,
whoreson,
SOB,
son of a bitch,
cocksucker |
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| (noun) vulgar slang for anus |
Synonyms:
bunghole,
arse,
arsehole |
| asystole
|
(noun) absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death |
Synonyms:
cardiac arrest,
cardiopulmonary arrest |
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| atole
|
(noun) eaten as mush or as a thin gruel |
- |
|---|
| audible
|
(noun) a football play is changed orally after both teams have assumed their positions at the line of scrimmage |
- |
|---|
| audile
|
(noun) one whose mental imagery is auditory rather than visual or motor |
- |
|---|
| aureole
|
(noun) the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse |
Synonyms:
corona |
|---|
| (noun) an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint |
Synonyms:
halo,
nimbus,
gloriole,
glory,
aura |
| auricle
|
(noun) a small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart |
Synonyms:
atrial auricle,
auricula atrii |
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| (noun) the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear |
Synonyms:
ear,
pinna |
| automobile
|
(noun) a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine |
Synonyms:
machine,
motorcar,
car,
auto |
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| axle
|
(noun) a shaft on which a wheel rotates |
- |
|---|
| babble
|
(noun) gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby |
Synonyms:
babbling,
lallation |
|---|
| baffle
|
(noun) a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy |
Synonyms:
baffle board |
|---|
| bagatelle
|
(noun) a light piece of music for piano |
- |
|---|
| (noun) something of little value or significance |
Synonyms:
fluff,
frivolity,
frippery |
| (noun) a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over |
Synonyms:
bar billiards |
| bakeapple
|
(noun) creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries |
Synonyms:
Rubus chamaemorus,
dwarf mulberry,
salmonberry,
cloudberry,
baked-apple berry |
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| bale
|
(noun) a large bundle bound for storage or transport |
- |
|---|
| bangle
|
(noun) jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration |
Synonyms:
bracelet |
|---|
| (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing |
Synonyms:
novelty,
gaud,
gewgaw,
bauble,
fallal,
trinket |
| barcarole
|
(noun) a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers |
Synonyms:
barcarolle |
|---|
| barcarolle
|
(noun) a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers |
Synonyms:
barcarole |
|---|
| barnacle
|
(noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces |
Synonyms:
cirriped,
cirripede |
|---|
| (noun) European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north |
Synonyms:
Branta leucopsis,
barnacle goose |
| bascule
|
(noun) a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw) |
- |
|---|
| basophile
|
(noun) a leukocyte with basophilic granules easily stained by basic stains |
Synonyms:
basophil |
|---|
| bastille
|
(noun) a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner) |
- |
|---|
| battle
|
(noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war |
Synonyms:
engagement,
conflict,
fight |
|---|
| (noun) an energetic attempt to achieve something |
Synonyms:
struggle |
| (noun) an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) |
Synonyms:
struggle,
conflict |
| bauble
|
(noun) a mock scepter carried by a court jester |
- |
|---|
| (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing |
Synonyms:
novelty,
gaud,
gewgaw,
bangle,
fallal,
trinket |
| beadle
|
(noun) a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function |
- |
|---|
| beagle
|
(noun) a small short-legged smooth-coated breed of hound |
- |
|---|
| beetle
|
(noun) insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing |
Synonyms:
mallet |
| belle
|
(noun) a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals |
- |
|---|
| bible
|
(noun) a book regarded as authoritative in its field |
- |
|---|
| bibliophile
|
(noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books |
Synonyms:
book lover,
booklover |
|---|
| bibliopole
|
(noun) a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books) |
Synonyms:
bibliopolist |
|---|
| bicycle
|
(noun) a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals |
Synonyms:
cycle,
wheel,
bike |
|---|
| bile
|
(noun) a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats |
Synonyms:
gall |
|---|
| bingle
|
(noun) a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base |
Synonyms:
single |
|---|
| binnacle
|
(noun) a nonmagnetic housing for a ship's compass (usually in front of the helm) |
- |
|---|
| blackbeetle
|
(noun) dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution |
Synonyms:
oriental cockroach,
oriental roach,
Asiatic cockroach,
Blatta orientalis |
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| blastocele
|
(noun) the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula |
Synonyms:
segmentation cavity,
cleavage cavity,
blastocoel,
blastocoele |
|---|
| blastocoele
|
(noun) the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula |
Synonyms:
segmentation cavity,
cleavage cavity,
blastocele,
blastocoel |
|---|
| bloodmobile
|
(noun) a motor vehicle equipped to collect blood donations |
- |
|---|
| blowhole
|
(noun) the spiracle of a cetacean located far back on the skull |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a hole for the escape of gas or air |
Synonyms:
vent,
vent-hole,
venthole |
| bluebottle
|
(noun) an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers |
Synonyms:
Centaurea cyanus,
cornflower,
bachelor's button |
|---|
| (noun) blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight |
Synonyms:
Calliphora vicina |
| bobble
|
(noun) the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball |
- |
|---|
| bole
|
(noun) a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment) |
- |
|---|
| (noun) the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber |
Synonyms:
trunk,
tree trunk |
| boodle
|
(noun) informal terms for money |
Synonyms:
scratch,
sugar,
wampum,
dough,
kale,
cabbage,
bread,
lettuce,
lolly,
moolah,
dinero,
pelf,
gelt,
shekels,
simoleons,
clams,
loot,
lucre |
|---|
| (noun) a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card |
Synonyms:
Michigan,
Chicago,
Newmarket,
stops |
| bookmobile
|
(noun) a van with shelves of books; serves as a mobile library or bookstore |
- |
|---|
| boondoggle
|
(noun) work of little or no value done merely to look busy |
- |
|---|
| borecole
|
(noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head |
Synonyms:
kail,
kale,
cole,
colewort,
Brassica oleracea acephala |
|---|
| bottle
|
(noun) a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped |
- |
|---|
| (noun) the quantity contained in a bottle |
Synonyms:
bottleful |
| (noun) a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children |
Synonyms:
nursing bottle,
feeding bottle |
| boucle
|
(noun) a fabric of uneven yarn that has an uneven knobby effect |
- |
|---|
| boule
|
(noun) an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork |
Synonyms:
boulle,
buhl |
|---|
| boulle
|
(noun) an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork |
Synonyms:
boule,
buhl |
|---|
| bracteole
|
(noun) a small bract |
Synonyms:
bractlet |
|---|
| braille
|
(noun) a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals |
- |
|---|
| bramble
|
(noun) any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines |
- |
|---|
| breakable
|
(noun) an article that is fragile and easily broken |
- |
|---|
| bricole
|
(noun) catapult operated by manpower pulling cords attached to a lever and slign to launch projectiles |
Synonyms:
mangonel,
traction trebuchet |
|---|
| bridle
|
(noun) headgear for a horse; includes a headstall and bit and reins to give the rider or driver control |
- |
|---|
| (noun) the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess |
Synonyms:
check,
curb |
| bristle
|
(noun) a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a stiff hair |
- |
| brittle
|
(noun) caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets |
Synonyms:
toffee,
toffy |
|---|
| bronchiole
|
(noun) any of the smallest bronchial ducts; ending in alveoli |
- |
|---|
| bubble
|
(noun) a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide) |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control |
Synonyms:
house of cards |
| (noun) an impracticable and illusory idea |
- |
| (noun) a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic |
- |
| buckle
|
(noun) fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a shape distorted by twisting or folding |
Synonyms:
warp |
| bugle
|
(noun) a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares |
- |
|---|
| (noun) any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover |
Synonyms:
bugleweed |
| (noun) a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration |
- |
| bundle
|
(noun) a collection of things wrapped or boxed together |
Synonyms:
parcel,
package,
packet |
|---|
| (noun) a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing |
Synonyms:
sheaf |
| (noun) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) |
Synonyms:
pile,
megabucks,
big bucks,
big money |
| bunghole
|
(noun) vulgar slang for anus |
Synonyms:
arse,
arsehole,
asshole |
|---|
| (noun) a hole in a barrel or cask; used to fill or empty it |
- |
| bungle
|
(noun) an embarrassing mistake |
Synonyms:
pratfall,
bloomer,
blooper,
blunder,
boner,
boo-boo,
botch,
flub,
foul-up,
fuckup |
|---|
| businesspeople
|
(noun) people who transact business (especially business executives) |
Synonyms:
business people |
|---|
| bustle
|
(noun) a rapid active commotion |
Synonyms:
flurry,
hustle,
stir,
ado,
fuss |
|---|
| (noun) a framework worn at the back below the waist for giving fullness to a woman's skirt |
- |
| buttonhole
|
(noun) a hole through which buttons are pushed |
Synonyms:
button hole |
|---|
| cable
|
(noun) a telegram sent abroad |
Synonyms:
overseas telegram,
cablegram |
|---|
| (noun) a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power |
Synonyms:
line,
transmission line |
| (noun) a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire |
- |
| (noun) a nautical unit of depth |
Synonyms:
cable length,
cable's length |
| (noun) television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver |
Synonyms:
cable television |
| (noun) a television system that transmits over cables |
Synonyms:
cable system,
cable television,
cable television service |
| caboodle
|
(noun) any collection in its entirety |
Synonyms:
lot,
bunch |
|---|
| cackle
|
(noun) the sound made by a hen after laying an egg |
- |
|---|
| (noun) noisy talk |
Synonyms:
chatter,
yak,
yack,
yakety-yak |
| (noun) a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle |
- |
| cacomistle
|
(noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings |
Synonyms:
raccoon fox,
ring-tailed cat,
ringtail,
miner's cat,
cacomixle,
civet cat,
coon cat,
Bassariscus astutus,
bassarisk |
|---|
| cacomixle
|
(noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings |
Synonyms:
raccoon fox,
ring-tailed cat,
ringtail,
miner's cat,
cacomistle,
civet cat,
coon cat,
Bassariscus astutus,
bassarisk |
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