abcoulomb | (noun) a unit of electrical charge equal to 10 coulombs | - |
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aplomb | (noun) great coolness and composure under strain | Synonyms: assuredness, cool, poise, sang-froid |
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bomb | (noun) an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions | - |
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(noun) strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion | Synonyms: bomb calorimeter |
(noun) an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual | Synonyms: dud, turkey |
breadcrumb | (noun) crumb of bread; used especially for coating or thickening | - |
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catacomb | (noun) an underground tunnel with recesses where bodies were buried (as in ancient Rome) | - |
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climb | (noun) the act of climbing something | Synonyms: mount |
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(noun) an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) | Synonyms: climbing, mounting |
(noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road) | Synonyms: acclivity, ascent, raise, rise, upgrade |
cockscomb | (noun) the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds | Synonyms: comb, coxcomb |
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(noun) a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red | Synonyms: coxcomb |
(noun) a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments | Synonyms: coxcomb |
(noun) garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers | Synonyms: Celosia argentea cristata, Celosia cristata, common cockscomb |
comb | (noun) the act of drawing a comb through hair | Synonyms: combing |
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(noun) ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore | - |
(noun) the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds | Synonyms: cockscomb, coxcomb |
(noun) a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair | - |
(noun) any of several tools for straightening fibers | - |
corymb | (noun) flat-topped or convex inflorescence in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points on the main stem to approximately the same height; outer flowers open first | - |
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coulomb | (noun) a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second | Synonyms: ampere-second, C |
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coxcomb | (noun) the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds | Synonyms: cockscomb, comb |
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(noun) a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red | Synonyms: cockscomb |
(noun) a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments | Synonyms: cockscomb |
crumb | (noun) small piece of e.g. bread or cake | - |
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(noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
(noun) a very small quantity of something | - |
currycomb | (noun) a square comb with rows of small teeth; used to curry horses | - |
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dithyramb | (noun) (ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus) | - |
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(noun) a wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing | - |
doorjamb | (noun) a jamb for a door | Synonyms: doorpost |
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firebomb | (noun) a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel) | Synonyms: incendiary, incendiary bomb |
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forelimb | (noun) the front limb (or the homologous structure in other animals, such as a flipper or wing) | - |
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hecatomb | (noun) a great sacrifice; an ancient Greek or Roman sacrifice of 100 oxen | - |
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hindlimb | (noun) a posterior appendage such as a leg or the homologous structure in other animals | Synonyms: hind limb |
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honeycomb | (noun) a framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees | - |
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(noun) a structure of small hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax by bees and used to store honey and larvae | - |
iamb | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables | Synonyms: iambus |
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jamb | (noun) upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame | - |
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lamb | (noun) young sheep | - |
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(noun) the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food | - |
(noun) a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child) | Synonyms: dear |
(noun) a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters) | - |
limb | (noun) any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm | Synonyms: arm, branch |
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(noun) the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles | - |
(noun) either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip | - |
(noun) one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm, leg, wing, flipper | - |
(noun) (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet | - |
(noun) any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree | Synonyms: tree branch |
plumb | (noun) the metal bob of a plumb line | Synonyms: plumb bob, plummet |
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pocketcomb | (noun) a small comb suitable for carrying in a pocket | Synonyms: pocket comb |
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rhomb | (noun) a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram | Synonyms: diamond, rhombus |
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rhumb | (noun) a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a constant compass direction | Synonyms: loxodrome, rhumb line |
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thumb | (noun) the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb | - |
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(noun) a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse | Synonyms: ovolo, quarter round |
(noun) the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb | Synonyms: pollex |
tomb | (noun) a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone) | Synonyms: grave |
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womb | (noun) a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus | Synonyms: uterus |
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