| amberbell | (noun) eastern North American dogtooth having solitary yellow flowers marked with brown or purple and spotted interiors | Synonyms: Erythronium americanum, trout lily, yellow adder's tongue |
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| anthill | (noun) a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest | Synonyms: formicary |
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| argyll | (noun) a sock knitted or woven with an argyle design | Synonyms: argyle |
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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: 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: argyle |
| aspergill | (noun) a short-handled device with a globe containing a sponge; used for sprinkling holy water | Synonyms: aspersorium |
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| atoll | (noun) an island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon | - |
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| bacteriochlorophyll | (noun) a substance in photosensitive bacteria that is related to but different from chlorophyll of higher plants | - |
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| ball | (noun) a pitch that is not in the strike zone | - |
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| (noun) a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs | Synonyms: baseball, baseball game |
| (noun) round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games | - |
| (noun) a spherical object used as a plaything | - |
| (noun) a solid projectile that is shot by a musket | Synonyms: musket ball |
| (noun) a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass | - |
| (noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ballock, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis |
| (noun) a lavish dance requiring formal attire | Synonyms: formal |
| (noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: chunk, clod, clump, glob, lump |
| (noun) an object with a spherical shape | Synonyms: globe, orb |
| bankroll | (noun) a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.) | Synonyms: roll |
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| barbell | (noun) a bar to which heavy discs are attached at each end; used in weightlifting | - |
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| baseball | (noun) a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs | Synonyms: ball, baseball game |
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| (noun) a ball used in playing baseball | - |
| basketball | (noun) a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop | Synonyms: basketball game, hoops |
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| (noun) an inflated ball used in playing basketball | - |
| beachball | (noun) large and light ball; for play at the seaside | Synonyms: beach ball |
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| beanball | (noun) a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head | Synonyms: beaner |
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| bedroll | (noun) bedding rolled up for carrying | - |
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| bell | (noun) a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck | - |
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| (noun) a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed | Synonyms: buzzer, doorbell |
| (noun) the flared opening of a tubular device | - |
| (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument | Synonyms: chime, gong |
| (noun) the sound of a bell being struck | Synonyms: toll |
| (noun) the shape of a bell | Synonyms: bell shape, campana |
| (noun) (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. | Synonyms: ship's bell |
| bellpull | (noun) a handle or cord that is pulled to ring a doorbell or a servant's bell etc. | - |
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| bergall | (noun) common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States | Synonyms: cunner, Tautogolabrus adspersus |
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| bill | (noun) the entertainment offered at a public presentation | - |
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| (noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: beak, neb, nib, pecker |
| (noun) a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes | Synonyms: eyeshade, peak, visor, vizor |
| (noun) a cutting tool with a sharp edge | Synonyms: billhook |
| (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: card, notice, placard, poster, posting |
| (noun) an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered | Synonyms: account, invoice |
| (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
| (noun) a statute in draft before it becomes law | Synonyms: measure |
| (noun) a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare) | - |
| (noun) a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank) | Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, Federal Reserve note, government note, greenback, note |
| birdcall | (noun) a device for imitating a birdcall | - |
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| (noun) the characteristic sound produced by a bird | Synonyms: birdsong, call, song |
| blackball | (noun) the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto | Synonyms: barring |
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| blackpoll | (noun) North American warbler having a black-and-white head | Synonyms: Dendroica striate |
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| blowball | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Taraxacum having long tap roots and deeply notched leaves and bright yellow flowers followed by fluffy seed balls | Synonyms: dandelion |
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| bluebell | (noun) one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas | Synonyms: Eustoma grandiflorum, prairie gentian, tulip gentian |
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| (noun) perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: Campanula rotundifolia, harebell |
| (noun) sometimes placed in genus Scilla | Synonyms: harebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth |
| bluebill | (noun) diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill | Synonyms: broadbill, scaup, scaup duck |
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| bluegill | (noun) important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States | Synonyms: Lepomis macrochirus |
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| boatbill | (noun) tropical American heron related to night herons | Synonyms: boat-billed heron, broadbill, Cochlearius cochlearius |
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| boll | (noun) the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant | - |
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| bombshell | (noun) an explosive bomb or artillery shell | - |
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| (noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: thunderbolt, thunderclap |
| (noun) an entertainer who has a sensational effect | - |
| bookstall | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookshop, bookstore |
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| brandyball | (noun) a British candy flavored with brandy | - |
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| brill | (noun) European food fish | Synonyms: Scophthalmus rhombus |
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| broadbill | (noun) small birds of the Old World tropics having bright plumage and short wide bills | - |
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| (noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, shoveler, shoveller |
| (noun) diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill | Synonyms: bluebill, scaup, scaup duck |
| (noun) tropical American heron related to night herons | Synonyms: boat-billed heron, boatbill, Cochlearius cochlearius |
| buckyball | (noun) a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene | Synonyms: buckminsterfullerene |
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| bull | (noun) a serious and ludicrous blunder | - |
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| (noun) uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle | - |
| (noun) mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle | - |
| (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bullshit, crap, dogshit, horseshit, Irish bull, shit |
| (noun) a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla) | Synonyms: papal bull |
| (noun) the center of a target | Synonyms: bull's eye |
| (noun) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman | Synonyms: cop, copper, fuzz, pig |
| (noun) an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later | - |
| (noun) a large and strong and heavyset man | Synonyms: bruiser, Samson, strapper |
| butterball | (noun) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, bufflehead, dipper |
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| (noun) a rotund individual | Synonyms: fat person, fatso, fatty, roly-poly |
| call | (noun) (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee | - |
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| (noun) a visit in an official or professional capacity | - |
| (noun) a brief social visit | - |
| (noun) the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date | Synonyms: call option |
| (noun) a method of contacting a person by phone | Synonyms: phone call, telephone call |
| (noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition | Synonyms: cry, outcry, shout, vociferation, yell |
| (noun) the characteristic sound produced by a bird | Synonyms: birdcall, birdsong, song |
| (noun) a request | - |
| (noun) a demand | Synonyms: claim |
| (noun) a demand for a show of hands in a card game | - |
| (noun) an instruction that interrupts the program being executed | - |
| (noun) a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement | Synonyms: margin call |
| cannonball | (noun) a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon | Synonyms: cannon ball, round shot |
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| carrell | (noun) small individual study area in a library | Synonyms: carrel, cubicle, stall |
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| carryall | (noun) a capacious bag or basket | Synonyms: holdall, tote, tote bag |
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| cataphyll | (noun) a reduced or scarcely developed leaf at the start of a plant's life (i.e., cotyledons) or in the early stages of leaf development | - |
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| catcall | (noun) a cry expressing disapproval | - |
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| catchall | (noun) an enclosure or receptacle for odds and ends | - |
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| cell | (noun) (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals | - |
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| (noun) a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction | Synonyms: electric cell |
| (noun) a room where a prisoner is kept | Synonyms: jail cell, prison cell |
| (noun) small room in which a monk or nun lives | Synonyms: cubicle |
| (noun) any small compartment | - |
| (noun) a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver | Synonyms: cellphone, cellular phone, cellular telephone, mobile phone |
| (noun) a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement | Synonyms: cadre |
| chill | (noun) coldness due to a cold environment | Synonyms: gelidity, iciness |
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| (noun) a sudden numbing dread | Synonyms: pall |
| (noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: frisson, quiver, shiver, shudder, thrill, tingle |
| (noun) a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever | Synonyms: shivering |
| chlorophyll | (noun) any of a group of green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms; there are four naturally occurring forms | Synonyms: chlorophyl |
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| cladophyll | (noun) a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf | Synonyms: cladode, phylloclad, phylloclade |
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| clamshell | (noun) the shell of a clam | - |
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| (noun) a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam | Synonyms: grapple |
| cockleshell | (noun) a small light flimsy boat | - |
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| coverall | (noun) a loose-fitting protective garment that is worn over other clothing | - |
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| cowbell | (noun) a bell hung around the neck of cow so that the cow can be easily located | - |
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| cranesbill | (noun) any of numerous geraniums of the genus Geranium | Synonyms: crane's bill |
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| crossbill | (noun) finch with a bill whose tips cross when closed | Synonyms: Loxia curvirostra |
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| cull | (noun) the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality | Synonyms: reject |
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| dell | (noun) a small wooded hollow | Synonyms: dingle |
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| dill | (noun) aromatic threadlike foliage of the dill plant used as seasoning | Synonyms: dill weed |
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| (noun) aromatic Old World herb having aromatic threadlike foliage and seeds used as seasoning | Synonyms: Anethum graveolens |
| doll | (noun) a small replica of a person; used as a toy | Synonyms: dolly |
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| (noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, chick, dame, skirt, wench |
| doorbell | (noun) a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed | Synonyms: bell, buzzer |
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| doorsill | (noun) the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway | Synonyms: doorstep, threshold |
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| downfall | (noun) a sudden decline in strength or number or importance | Synonyms: fall |
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| (noun) failure that results in a loss of position or reputation | Synonyms: ruin, ruination |
| (noun) the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist) | Synonyms: precipitation |
| downhill | (noun) a ski race down a trail | - |
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| (noun) the downward slope of a hill | - |
| drill | (noun) systematic training by multiple repetitions | Synonyms: exercise, practice, practice session, recitation |
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| (noun) (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms | - |
| (noun) similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored | Synonyms: Mandrillus leucophaeus |
| (noun) a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows) | - |
| drywall | (noun) a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses | Synonyms: dry wall, wallboard |
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| duckbill | (noun) small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae | Synonyms: duck-billed platypus, duckbilled platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, platypus |
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| (noun) primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout | Synonyms: paddlefish, Polyodon spathula |
| dumbbell | (noun) an exercising weight; two spheres connected by a short bar that serves as a handle | - |
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| (noun) an ignorant or foolish person | Synonyms: boob, booby, dope, dummy, pinhead |
| dunghill | (noun) a heap of dung or refuse | Synonyms: midden, muckheap, muckhill |
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| (noun) a foul or degraded condition | - |
| earthball | (noun) any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles | Synonyms: false truffle, hard-skinned puffball, puffball |
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| eggshell | (noun) the exterior covering of a bird's egg | Synonyms: shell |
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| ell | (noun) an extension at the end and at right angles to the main building | - |
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| evenfall | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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| eyeball | (noun) the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye | Synonyms: orb |
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| fall | (noun) a sudden drop from an upright position | Synonyms: spill, tumble |
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| (noun) the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) | Synonyms: capitulation, surrender |
| (noun) a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity | - |
| (noun) a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity | Synonyms: dip, drop, free fall |
| (noun) a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity | Synonyms: drop |
| (noun) a sudden decline in strength or number or importance | Synonyms: downfall |
| (noun) when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat | Synonyms: pin |
| (noun) a movement downward | - |
| (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope |
| (noun) the season when the leaves fall from the trees | Synonyms: autumn |
| (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
| farewell | (noun) the act of departing politely | Synonyms: leave-taking, leave, parting |
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| (noun) an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting | Synonyms: word of farewell |
| fastball | (noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity | Synonyms: bullet, heater, hummer, smoke |
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| fell | (noun) the act of felling something (as a tree) | - |
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| (noun) seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges | Synonyms: felled seam |
| (noun) the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal) | Synonyms: hide |
| fill | (noun) a quantity sufficient to satisfy | - |
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| (noun) any material that fills a space or container | Synonyms: filling |
| fingerstall | (noun) a sheath worn to protect a finger | Synonyms: cot |
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| fireball | (noun) the luminous center of a nuclear explosion | - |
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| (noun) a ball of fire (such as the sun or a ball-shaped discharge of lightning) | - |
| (noun) a highly energetic and indefatigable person | Synonyms: ball of fire, human dynamo, powerhouse |
| (noun) an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding) | Synonyms: bolide |
| firewall | (noun) (colloquial) the application of maximum thrust | - |
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| (noun) a fireproof (or fire-resistant) wall designed to prevent the spread of fire through a building or a vehicle | - |
| (noun) (computing) a security system consisting of a combination of hardware and software that limits the exposure of a computer or computer network to attack from crackers; commonly used on local area networks that are connected to the internet | - |
| football | (noun) any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal | Synonyms: football game |
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| (noun) the inflated oblong ball used in playing American football | - |
| footfall | (noun) the sound of a step of someone walking | Synonyms: footstep, step |
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| foothill | (noun) a relatively low hill on the lower slope of a mountain | - |
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| footstall | (noun) an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue) | Synonyms: pedestal, plinth |
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| footwall | (noun) the lower wall of an inclined fault | - |
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| frill | (noun) a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim | Synonyms: flounce, furbelow, ruffle |
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| (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
| (noun) an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal | Synonyms: ruff |
| (noun) (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs | - |
| frontstall | (noun) medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head | Synonyms: chamfron, chanfron, front-stall, testiere |
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| full | (noun) the time when the Moon is fully illuminated | Synonyms: full-of-the-moon, full moon, full phase of the moon |
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| gall | (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, impertinence, impudence, insolence |
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| (noun) a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats | Synonyms: bile |
| (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: bitterness, rancor, rancour, resentment |
| (noun) abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury | - |
| (noun) a skin sore caused by chafing | - |
| (noun) an open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle | Synonyms: saddle sore |
| gildhall | (noun) the meeting place of a medieval guild | - |
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| gill | (noun) respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water | Synonyms: branchia |
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| (noun) any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus | Synonyms: lamella |
| (noun) a United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces | - |
| (noun) a British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters | - |
| ginmill | (noun) a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter | Synonyms: bar, barroom, saloon, taproom |
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| goodwill | (noun) a disposition to kindness and compassion | Synonyms: good will, grace |
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| (noun) the friendly hope that something will succeed | Synonyms: good will |
| (noun) (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets) | Synonyms: good will |
| goofball | (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
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| (noun) a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior | Synonyms: buffoon, clown, goof, merry andrew |
| greaseball | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: dago, ginzo, Guinea, wop |
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| grill | (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grille, grillwork |
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| (noun) a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill | Synonyms: grillroom |
| gristmill | (noun) a mill for grinding grain (especially the customer's own grain) | - |
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| gromwell | (noun) European perennial branching plant; occurs in hedgerows and at the edge of woodlands | Synonyms: Lithospermum officinale |
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| groundball | (noun) (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground | Synonyms: ground ball, grounder, hopper |
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| guildhall | (noun) the hall of a guild or corporation | - |
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| gull | (noun) mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs | Synonyms: sea gull, seagull |
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| (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker |
| hairball | (noun) a compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur) | Synonyms: hair ball, trichobezoar |
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