| eunuchoidism | (noun) the state of being a eunuch (either because of lacking testicles or because they failed to develop) | Synonyms: male hypogonadism |
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| euphemism | (noun) an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh | - |
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| euphonium | (noun) a bass horn (brass wind instrument) that is the tenor of the tuba family | - |
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| euphorbium | (noun) an acrid brown gum resin now used mainly in veterinary medicine | Synonyms: gum eurphorbium |
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| euphuism | (noun) an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology | - |
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| (noun) any artificially elegant style of language | - |
| europium | (noun) a bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group | Synonyms: atomic number 63, Eu |
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| eusporangium | (noun) a sporangium that arises from a group of epidermal cells | - |
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| evangelicalism | (noun) stresses the importance of personal conversion and faith as the means of salvation | - |
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| evangelism | (noun) zealous preaching and advocacy of the gospel | - |
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| evolutionism | (noun) (biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals | Synonyms: theory of evolution, theory of organic evolution |
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| exam | (noun) a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge | Synonyms: examination, test |
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| exanthem | (noun) eruption on the skin occurring as a symptom of a disease | Synonyms: exanthema, skin eruption |
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| exhibitionism | (noun) the perverse act of exposing and attracting attention to your own genitals | Synonyms: immodesty |
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| (noun) extravagant and conspicuous behavior intended to attract attention to yourself | - |
| existentialism | (noun) (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves | Synonyms: existential philosophy, existentialist philosophy |
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| exoderm | (noun) the outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue | Synonyms: ectoblast, ectoderm |
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| exorcism | (noun) freeing from evil spirits | Synonyms: dispossession |
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| exordium | (noun) (rhetoric) the introductory section of an oration or discourse | - |
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| exotherm | (noun) a compound that gives off heat during its formation and absorbs heat during its decomposition | - |
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| exoticism | (noun) the quality of being exotic | Synonyms: exoticness, exotism |
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| exotism | (noun) the quality of being exotic | Synonyms: exoticism, exoticness |
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| expansionism | (noun) the doctrine of expanding the territory or the economic influence of a country | - |
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| experimentalism | (noun) an orientation that favors experimentation and innovation | - |
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| (noun) an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles | - |
| explanandum | (noun) (logic) a statement of something (a fact or thing or expression) to be explained | Synonyms: explicandum |
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| explicandum | (noun) (logic) a statement of something (a fact or thing or expression) to be explained | Synonyms: explanandum |
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| expressionism | (noun) an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality | - |
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| extremism | (noun) any political theory favoring immoderate uncompromising policies | - |
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| extremum | (noun) the point located farthest from the middle of something | Synonyms: extreme, extreme point |
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| (noun) the most extreme possible amount or value | Synonyms: peak |
| facepalm | (noun) the act of putting your hand to cover your face to show disappointment or despair | - |
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| factotum | (noun) a servant employed to do a variety of jobs | - |
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| fanaticism | (noun) excessive intolerance of opposing views | Synonyms: fanatism, zealotry |
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| fanatism | (noun) excessive intolerance of opposing views | Synonyms: fanaticism, zealotry |
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| fancam | (noun) footage of a celebrity taken by a fan | - |
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| fandom | (noun) the fans of a sport or famous person | - |
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| fantasm | (noun) something existing in perception only | Synonyms: apparition, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow |
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| (noun) a ghostly appearing figure | Synonyms: apparition, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, specter, spectre |
| farm | (noun) workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit | - |
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| fascism | (noun) a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism) | - |
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| fatalism | (noun) a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them | - |
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| (noun) a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable | - |
| fathom | (noun) a linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth | Synonyms: fthm |
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| (noun) (mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of ore | Synonyms: fthm |
| fatism | (noun) discrimination against people who are overweight | Synonyms: fattism |
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| fattism | (noun) discrimination against people who are overweight | Synonyms: fatism |
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| fauvism | (noun) an art movement launched in 1905 whose work was characterized by bright and nonnatural colors and simple forms; influenced the expressionists | - |
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| favism | (noun) anemia resulting from eating fava beans; victims have an inherited blood abnormality and enzyme deficiency | - |
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| favoritism | (noun) unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice | Synonyms: discrimination, favouritism |
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| (noun) an inclination to favor some person or group | Synonyms: favouritism |
| favouritism | (noun) unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice | Synonyms: discrimination, favoritism |
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| (noun) an inclination to favor some person or group | Synonyms: favoritism |
| federalism | (noun) the idea of a federal organization of more or less self-governing units | - |
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| feminism | (noun) the movement aimed at equal rights for women | Synonyms: feminist movement, women's lib, women's liberation movement |
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| (noun) a doctrine that advocates equal rights for women | - |
| fermium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic metallic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons | Synonyms: atomic number 100, Fm |
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| ferrimagnetism | (noun) a phenomenon in ferrites where there can be incomplete cancellation of antiferromagnetic arranged spins giving a net magnetic moment | - |
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| ferrocerium | (noun) a pyrophoric alloy of iron with cerium; used for lighter flints | - |
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| ferromagnetism | (noun) phenomenon exhibited by materials like iron (nickel or cobalt) that become magnetized in a magnetic field and retain their magnetism when the field is removed | - |
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| fetichism | (noun) sexual arousal or gratification resulting from handling a fetish (or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs) | Synonyms: fetishism |
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| (noun) a belief in the magical power of fetishes (or the worship of a fetish) | Synonyms: fetishism |
| fetishism | (noun) sexual arousal or gratification resulting from handling a fetish (or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs) | Synonyms: fetichism |
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| (noun) a belief in the magical power of fetishes (or the worship of a fetish) | Synonyms: fetichism |
| feudalism | (noun) the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war | Synonyms: feudal system |
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| fiefdom | (noun) an organization that is controlled by a dominant person or group | - |
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| (noun) the domain controlled by a feudal lord | - |
| film | (noun) a thin coating or layer | - |
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| (noun) photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies | Synonyms: photographic film |
| (noun) a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things | Synonyms: plastic film |
| (noun) a medium that disseminates moving pictures | Synonyms: celluloid, cinema |
| (noun) a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement | Synonyms: flick, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture, picture show |
| filmdom | (noun) the personnel of the film industry | Synonyms: screen, screenland |
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| filum | (noun) a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) | Synonyms: filament |
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| findom | (noun) pejorative term for when a man gives money to a woman | - |
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| (noun) a fetish where the submissive is forced to give money to a dominant | - |
| firearm | (noun) a portable gun | Synonyms: piece, small-arm |
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| fireroom | (noun) (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired | Synonyms: stokehold, stokehole |
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| firestorm | (noun) an outburst of controversy | - |
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| (noun) a storm in which violent winds are drawn into the column of hot air rising over a severely bombed area | - |
| firm | (noun) the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments | Synonyms: business firm, house |
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| fishworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| flagellum | (noun) a lash-like appendage used for locomotion (e.g., in sperm cells and some bacteria and protozoa) | - |
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| (noun) a whip used to inflict punishment | Synonyms: scourge |
| flatworm | (noun) parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body | Synonyms: platyhelminth |
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| flerovium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element | Synonyms: Fl |
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| flexitarianism | (noun) The practice of eating mainly vegetarian food, but making occasional exceptions for social, pragmatic, cultural, or nutritional reasons. | Synonyms: semi-vegetarianism |
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| flimflam | (noun) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property | Synonyms: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, hustle, sting |
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| flipagram | (noun) a sequence of photos composed into a video | - |
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| florilegium | (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: garland, miscellany |
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| flotsam | (noun) the floating wreckage of a ship | Synonyms: jetsam |
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| fluidram | (noun) a unit of capacity or volume in the apothecary system equal to one eighth of a fluid ounce | Synonyms: drachm, fluid drachm, fluid dram |
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| (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 60 minims or 3.5516 cubic centimeters | Synonyms: drachm, fluid drachm, fluid dram |
| flunitrazepam | (noun) a depressant and tranquilizer (trade name Rohypnol) often used in the commission of sexual assault; legally available in Europe and Mexico and Colombia | Synonyms: Rohypnol |
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| fluoroform | (noun) colorless gas haloform CHF3 (similar to chloroform) | Synonyms: trifluoromethane |
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| flurazepam | (noun) tranquilizer (trade name Dalmane) used to treat insomnia | Synonyms: Dalmane, flurazepam hydrochloride |
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| foam | (noun) a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid | Synonyms: froth |
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| (noun) a lightweight material in cellular form; made by introducing gas bubbles during manufacture | - |
| folium | (noun) a thin layer or stratum of (especially metamorphic) rock | - |
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| folklorism | (noun) Invention or adaptation of folklore; including any use of a tradition outside the cultural context in which it was created. | - |
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| foodgasm | (noun) An extreme feeling of pleasure caused by seeing food | - |
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| foram | (noun) marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude | Synonyms: foraminifer |
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| forearm | (noun) the part of the superior limb between the elbow and the wrist | - |
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| form | (noun) the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance | Synonyms: shape |
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| (noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: manakin, manikin, mannequin, mannikin |
| (noun) a mold for setting concrete | - |
| (noun) the visual appearance of something or someone | Synonyms: cast, shape |
| (noun) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) | Synonyms: configuration, conformation, contour, shape |
| (noun) an ability to perform well | - |
| (noun) a particular mode in which something is manifested | - |
| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| (noun) a perceptual structure | Synonyms: pattern, shape |
| (noun) a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality | Synonyms: kind, sort, variety |
| (noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: descriptor, signifier, word form |
| (noun) a printed document with spaces in which to write | - |
| (noun) an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse | - |
| (noun) a body of students who are taught together | Synonyms: class, course, grade |
| (noun) (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups | Synonyms: strain, var., variant |
| (noun) (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary | Synonyms: phase |
| formalism | (noun) the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms | - |
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| (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications | - |
| (noun) the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented | - |
| forum | (noun) a public facility to meet for open discussion | Synonyms: assembly, meeting place |
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| (noun) a public meeting or assembly for open discussion | - |
| francium | (noun) a radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium | Synonyms: atomic number 87, Fr |
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| freedom | (noun) the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints | - |
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| (noun) immunity from an obligation or duty | Synonyms: exemption |
| frustum | (noun) a truncated cone or pyramid; the part that is left when a cone or pyramid is cut by a plane parallel to the base and the apical part is removed | - |
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| fthm | (noun) a linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth | Synonyms: fathom |
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| (noun) (mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of ore | Synonyms: fathom |
| fulcrum | (noun) the pivot about which a lever turns | - |
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| funambulism | (noun) walking on a tightrope or slack rope | Synonyms: tightrope walking |
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| functionalism | (noun) a psychology based on the assumption that all mental process are useful to an organism in adapting to the environment | - |
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| (noun) any doctrine that stresses utility or purpose | - |
| fundamentalism | (noun) a form of Protestantism that takes the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth | - |
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| (noun) the strict adherence to the basic principles or doctrines of a religion, ideology, etc. | - |
| futurism | (noun) the position that the meaning of life should be sought in the future | - |
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| (noun) an artistic movement in Italy around 1910 that tried to express the energy and values of the machine age | - |
| gadolinium | (noun) a ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group | Synonyms: atomic number 64, Gd |
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| galbanum | (noun) a bitter aromatic gum resin that resembles asafetida | Synonyms: gum albanum |
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| gallium | (noun) a rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element; brittle at low temperatures but liquid above room temperature; occurs in trace amounts in bauxite and zinc ores | Synonyms: atomic number 31, Ga |
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| galvanism | (noun) the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis) | Synonyms: electric healing, electrical healing, electrotherapy |
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| (noun) electricity produced by chemical action | - |
| gam | (noun) a herd of whales | - |
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| gametangium | (noun) cell or organ in which gametes develop | - |
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| gametoecium | (noun) gametangia and surrounding bracts | - |
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