| orderly | (noun) a male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients | Synonyms: hospital attendant |
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| (noun) a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer | - |
| oversupply | (noun) the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall | Synonyms: glut, surfeit |
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| oxycephaly | (noun) a congenital abnormality of the skull; the top of the skull assumes a cone shape | Synonyms: acrocephaly |
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| panoply | (noun) a complete and impressive array | - |
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| patchouly | (noun) a heavy perfume made from the patchouli plant | Synonyms: pachouli, patchouli |
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| (noun) small East Indian shrubby mint; fragrant oil from its leaves is used in perfumes | Synonyms: pachouli, patchouli, Pogostemon cablin |
| pearly | (noun) informal terms for a human `tooth' | Synonyms: chopper |
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| philately | (noun) the collection and study of postage stamps | Synonyms: stamp collecting, stamp collection |
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| plagiocephaly | (noun) congenital malformation of the skull in which the main axis of the skull is oblique | - |
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| ply | (noun) (usually in combinations) one of several layers of cloth or paper or wood as in plywood | - |
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| (noun) one of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination | - |
| polydactyly | (noun) birth defect characterized by the presence of more than the normal number of fingers or toes | Synonyms: hyperdactyly |
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| potbelly | (noun) a bulbous stove in which wood or coal is burned | Synonyms: potbelly stove |
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| (noun) slang for a paunch | Synonyms: bay window, corporation, pot, tummy |
| pussly | (noun) weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: common purslane, Portulaca oleracea, pussley, verdolagas |
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| quarterly | (noun) a periodical that is published every quarter (or four issues per year) | - |
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| rainfly | (noun) flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent | Synonyms: fly, fly sheet, tent-fly, tent flap |
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| rally | (noun) (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes | Synonyms: exchange |
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| (noun) the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort | Synonyms: rallying |
| (noun) an automobile race run over public roads | - |
| (noun) a large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm | Synonyms: mass meeting |
| (noun) a marked recovery of strength or spirits during an illness | - |
| reassembly | (noun) assembling again | Synonyms: refabrication |
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| redbelly | (noun) freshwater turtle of Chesapeake Bay tributaries having red markings on the lower shell | Synonyms: Pseudemys rubriventris, red-bellied terrapin, red-bellied turtle |
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| reply | (noun) the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange | Synonyms: response |
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| (noun) a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation | Synonyms: answer, response |
| rockabilly | (noun) a fusion of black music and country music that was popular in the 1950s; sometimes described as blues with a country beat | - |
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| sally | (noun) a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position | Synonyms: sortie |
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| (noun) a venture off the beaten path | Synonyms: sallying forth |
| (noun) witty remark | Synonyms: crack, quip, wisecrack |
| sandfly | (noun) any of various small dipterous flies; bloodsucking females can transmit sandfly fever and leishmaniasis | Synonyms: Phlebotomus papatasii, sand fly |
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| sawfly | (noun) insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant | - |
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| scaphocephaly | (noun) congenital malformation of the skull which is long and narrow; frequently accompanied by mental retardation | - |
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| semimonthly | (noun) a periodical that is published twice each month (or 24 issues per year) | - |
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| semiweekly | (noun) a periodical that is published twice each week (or 104 issues per year) | - |
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| shadfly | (noun) slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days | Synonyms: dayfly, mayfly |
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| shillyshally | (noun) the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time | Synonyms: cunctation, procrastination |
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| shoofly | (noun) a child's rocking chair with the seat built between two flat sides that are shaped to resemble an animal (such as a swan or duck) | - |
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| (noun) an undercover police officer who investigates other policemen | - |
| silly | (noun) a word used for misbehaving children | - |
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| skilly | (noun) a thin porridge or soup (usually oatmeal and water flavored with meat) | - |
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| snakefly | (noun) predatory insect of western North America having a long necklike prothorax | - |
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| southerly | (noun) a wind from the south | Synonyms: south wind, souther |
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| sowbelly | (noun) salt pork from the belly of a hog carcass | - |
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| splenomegaly | (noun) an abnormal enlargement of the spleen | - |
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| spongefly | (noun) hairy-bodied insect whose larvae feed on freshwater sponges | Synonyms: spongillafly |
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| spongillafly | (noun) hairy-bodied insect whose larvae feed on freshwater sponges | Synonyms: spongefly |
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| stonefly | (noun) primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones | Synonyms: plecopteran, stone fly |
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| subfamily | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic category below a family | - |
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| superfamily | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group ranking below an order but above a family | - |
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| supply | (noun) the activity of supplying or providing something | Synonyms: provision, supplying |
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| (noun) offering goods and services for sale | - |
| (noun) an amount of something available for use | - |
| syndactyly | (noun) birth defect in which there is partial or total webbing connecting two or more fingers or toes | Synonyms: syndactylism |
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| tally | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, counting, enumeration, numeration, reckoning |
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| (noun) a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely | Synonyms: run |
| (noun) a bill for an amount due | Synonyms: reckoning |
| telly | (noun) an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen | Synonyms: boob tube, goggle box, idiot box, television, television receiver, television set, tv, tv set |
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| thyromegaly | (noun) abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from underproduction or overproduction of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet | Synonyms: goiter, goitre, struma |
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| underbelly | (noun) the quality of being weak or unprotected | - |
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| (noun) the soft belly or underside of an animal's body | Synonyms: underbody |
| (noun) lower side | - |
| wally | (noun) a silly and inept person; someone who is regarded as stupid | - |
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| weekly | (noun) a periodical that is published every week (or 52 issues per year) | - |
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| westerly | (noun) the winds from the west that occur in the temperate zones of the Earth | Synonyms: prevailing westerly |
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| whitefly | (noun) minute insect that feeds on plant juices; related to scale insects | - |
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| yearly | (noun) a reference book that is published regularly once every year | Synonyms: annual, yearbook |
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