aglet | (noun) ornamental tagged cord or braid on the shoulder of a uniform | Synonyms: aiglet, aiguillette |
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(noun) metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon | Synonyms: aiglet |
aiglet | (noun) ornamental tagged cord or braid on the shoulder of a uniform | Synonyms: aglet, aiguillette |
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(noun) metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon | Synonyms: aglet |
amulet | (noun) a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease | Synonyms: talisman |
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anklet | (noun) an ornament worn around the ankle | Synonyms: ankle bracelet |
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(noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklets, bobbysock, bobbysocks |
(noun) a shoe for a child or woman that has a strap around the ankle | - |
annulet | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: bandelet, bandelette, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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(noun) (heraldry) a charge in the shape of a small ring | - |
applet | (noun) a Java application; an application program that uses the client's web browser to provide a user interface | - |
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armlet | (noun) a band worn around the arm for decoration | Synonyms: arm band |
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auklet | (noun) any of several small auks of the northern Pacific coasts | - |
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ballet | (noun) a theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers | Synonyms: concert dance |
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(noun) music written for a ballet | - |
bandelet | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelette, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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bandlet | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelet, bandelette, square and rabbet |
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billet | (noun) lodging for military personnel (especially in a private home) | - |
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(noun) a short personal letter | Synonyms: line, note, short letter |
bomblet | (noun) one of the smaller bombs that are released from a cluster bomb | Synonyms: cluster bomblet |
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bonelet | (noun) a small bone; especially one in the middle ear | Synonyms: ossicle, ossiculum |
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booklet | (noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: brochure, folder, leaflet, pamphlet |
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bracelet | (noun) jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration | Synonyms: bangle |
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(noun) a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist | Synonyms: watch bracelet, watchband, watchstrap, wristband |
bractlet | (noun) a small bract | Synonyms: bracteole |
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branchlet | (noun) a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year | Synonyms: sprig, twig |
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brooklet | (noun) a small brook | - |
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bulblet | (noun) small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers | Synonyms: bulbil |
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bullet | (noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity | Synonyms: fastball, heater, hummer, smoke |
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(noun) a projectile that is fired from a gun | Synonyms: slug |
(noun) a high-speed passenger train | Synonyms: bullet train |
cabriolet | (noun) small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood | Synonyms: cab |
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camlet | (noun) a fabric of Asian origin; originally made of silk and camel's hair | - |
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(noun) a garment made of camlet fabric | - |
capelet | (noun) a small cape that covers the shoulders and is worn predominantly by women. | - |
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chalet | (noun) a Swiss house with a sloping roof and wide eaves or a house built in this style | - |
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chaplet | (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes | Synonyms: coronal, garland, lei, wreath |
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circlet | (noun) decorated metal band worn around the head | - |
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(noun) a small circle | - |
collet | (noun) a band or collar that holds an individual stone in a jewelry setting | - |
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(noun) a metal cap or band placed on a wooden pole to prevent splitting | Synonyms: ferrule |
(noun) a cone-shaped chuck used for holding cylindrical pieces in a lathe | Synonyms: collet chuck |
corselet | (noun) a piece of body armor for the trunk; usually consists of a breastplate and back piece | Synonyms: corslet |
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corslet | (noun) a piece of body armor for the trunk; usually consists of a breastplate and back piece | Synonyms: corselet |
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couplet | (noun) a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed | - |
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(noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
coverlet | (noun) a decorative bedspread (usually quilted) | - |
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cutlet | (noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: escallop, scallop, scollop |
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doublet | (noun) a man's close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance | - |
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driblet | (noun) a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid) | Synonyms: drib, drop |
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droplet | (noun) a tiny drop | - |
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drupelet | (noun) a small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe | - |
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eaglet | (noun) a young eagle | - |
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epaulet | (noun) adornment consisting of an ornamental cloth pad worn on the shoulder | Synonyms: epaulette |
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eyelet | (noun) a small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord or hook or bar | Synonyms: eyehole |
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(noun) fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines | Synonyms: cringle, grommet, grummet, loop |
(noun) fabric decorated with small holes with finely stitched edges that form an ornamental pattern. | - |
filet | (noun) lace having a square mesh | Synonyms: fillet |
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(noun) a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef | Synonyms: fillet |
(noun) a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish | Synonyms: fillet, fish filet, fish fillet |
fillet | (noun) a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband | Synonyms: taenia, tenia |
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(noun) fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members | Synonyms: stopping |
(noun) lace having a square mesh | Synonyms: filet |
(noun) a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus | Synonyms: lemniscus |
(noun) a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef | Synonyms: filet |
(noun) a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish | Synonyms: filet, fish filet, fish fillet |
flageolet | (noun) a small fipple flute with four finger holes and two thumb holes | Synonyms: shepherd's pipe, treble recorder |
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(noun) a French bean variety with light-colored seeds; usually dried | Synonyms: haricot |
flatlet | (noun) a tiny flat | - |
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frontlet | (noun) an adornment worn on the forehead | Synonyms: frontal |
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fruitlet | (noun) a diminutive fruit, especially one that is part of a multiple fruit | - |
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gantlet | (noun) a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim | Synonyms: gauntlet |
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(noun) the convergence of two parallel railroad tracks in a narrow place; the inner rails cross and run parallel and then diverge so a train remains on its own tracks at all times | - |
(noun) a glove of armored leather; protects the hand | Synonyms: gauntlet, metal glove |
(noun) a glove with long sleeve | Synonyms: gauntlet |
(noun) to offer or accept a challenge | Synonyms: gauntlet |
gauntlet | (noun) a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim | Synonyms: gantlet |
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(noun) a glove of armored leather; protects the hand | Synonyms: gantlet, metal glove |
(noun) a glove with long sleeve | Synonyms: gantlet |
(noun) to offer or accept a challenge | Synonyms: gantlet |
giblet | (noun) edible viscera of a fowl | Synonyms: giblets |
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gimlet | (noun) hand tool for boring holes | Synonyms: auger, screw auger, wimble |
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(noun) a cocktail made of gin or vodka and lime juice | - |
goblet | (noun) a drinking glass with a base and stem | - |
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(noun) a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup | Synonyms: chalice |
gullet | (noun) the passage between the pharynx and the stomach | Synonyms: esophagus, gorge, oesophagus |
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hamlet | (noun) a community of people smaller than a village | Synonyms: crossroads |
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(noun) a settlement smaller than a town | Synonyms: village |
haslet | (noun) heart and liver and other edible viscera especially of hogs; usually chopped and formed into a loaf and braised | - |
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inlet | (noun) an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container | Synonyms: intake |
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(noun) an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands) | Synonyms: recess |
islet | (noun) a small island | Synonyms: isle |
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kinglet | (noun) small birds resembling warblers but having some of the habits of titmice | - |
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lancelet | (noun) small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates | Synonyms: amphioxus |
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leaflet | (noun) a thin triangular flap of a heart valve | Synonyms: cusp |
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(noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: booklet, brochure, folder, pamphlet |
(noun) part of a compound leaf | - |
let | (noun) a serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court; the ball must be served again | Synonyms: net ball |
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mallet | (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: beetle |
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(noun) a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc. | Synonyms: hammer |
(noun) a sports implement with a long handle and a head like a hammer; used in sports (polo or croquet) to hit a ball | - |
mantelet | (noun) short cape worn by women | Synonyms: mantilla |
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(noun) portable bulletproof shelter | Synonyms: mantlet |
mantlet | (noun) portable bulletproof shelter | Synonyms: mantelet |
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millet | (noun) small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica | - |
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(noun) any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine | - |
mullet | (noun) bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin | - |
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(noun) freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide | Synonyms: gray mullet, grey mullet |
(noun) highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet | Synonyms: gray mullet, grey mullet |
necklet | (noun) decoration worn about the neck (fur piece or tight necklace) as an ornament | - |
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nutlet | (noun) a small nut | - |
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omelet | (noun) beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set; may be folded around e.g. ham or cheese or jelly | Synonyms: omelette |
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outlet | (noun) activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion | Synonyms: release, vent |
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(noun) an opening that permits escape or release | Synonyms: exit, issue, way out |
(noun) a place of business for retailing goods | Synonyms: mercantile establishment, retail store, sales outlet |
(noun) receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices | Synonyms: electric outlet, electric receptacle, electrical outlet, wall plug, wall socket |
owlet | (noun) young owl | - |
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pallet | (noun) a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed | - |
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(noun) board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used | Synonyms: palette |
(noun) a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay | - |
(noun) a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it | - |
(noun) the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art | Synonyms: palette |
pamphlet | (noun) a brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet | Synonyms: tract |
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(noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: booklet, brochure, folder, leaflet |
pellet | (noun) a solid missile discharged from a firearm | Synonyms: shot |
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(noun) a small rounded mass of a substance | - |
piculet | (noun) small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers | - |
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piglet | (noun) a young pig | Synonyms: piggy, shoat, shote |
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piolet | (noun) an ax used by mountain climbers for cutting footholds in ice | Synonyms: ice ax, ice axe |
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plantlet | (noun) a young plant or a small plant | - |
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platelet | (noun) tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting | Synonyms: blood platelet, thrombocyte |
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playlet | (noun) a short play | - |
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poulet | (noun) the flesh of a chicken used for food | Synonyms: chicken, volaille |
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pullet | (noun) young hen usually less than a year old | - |
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(noun) flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying | Synonyms: frier, fryer |
quadruplet | (noun) a set of four similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quadruple, quartet, quartette |
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(noun) one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy | Synonyms: quad |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
quintuplet | (noun) a set of five similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintette, quintuple |
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(noun) one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy | Synonyms: quin, quint |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, V |
ringlet | (noun) any of various butterflies belonging to the family Satyridae | Synonyms: ringlet butterfly |
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(noun) a little ring | - |
(noun) lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl | Synonyms: curl, whorl |
(noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, roll, scroll, whorl |
rivulet | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, run, runnel, streamlet |
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rondelet | (noun) a shorter form of rondeau | - |
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rootlet | (noun) small root or division of a root | - |
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sallet | (noun) a light medieval helmet with a slit for vision | Synonyms: salade |
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scarlet | (noun) a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge | Synonyms: orange red, vermilion |
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sextuplet | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sestet, sextet, sise, six, sixer, VI |
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shrublet | (noun) dwarf shrub | - |
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singlet | (noun) a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body | Synonyms: undershirt, vest |
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skillet | (noun) a pan used for frying foods | Synonyms: frying pan, frypan |
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spikelet | (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spine, sticker, thorn |
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starlet | (noun) a small star | - |
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(noun) a young (film) actress who is publicized as a future star | - |
streamlet | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, rivulet, run, runnel |
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stylet | (noun) small needlelike appendage; especially the feeding organ of a tardigrade | - |
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sublet | (noun) a lease from one lessee to another | Synonyms: sublease |
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surmullet | (noun) brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels | Synonyms: goatfish, Mullus surmuletus, red mullet |
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swiftlet | (noun) swift of eastern Asia; produces the edible bird's nest | Synonyms: Collocalia inexpectata |
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