albino | (noun) an animal with congenital albinism | - |
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(noun) a person with congenital albinism: white hair and milky skin; eyes are usually pink | - |
amino | (noun) the radical -NH2 | Synonyms: amino group |
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antineutrino | (noun) the antiparticle of a neutrino | - |
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bambino | (noun) a young child who is just beginning to walk | Synonyms: toddler, tot, yearling |
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beano | (noun) a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | Synonyms: bingo, keno, lotto |
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boliviano | (noun) the basic unit of money in Bolivia; equal to 100 centavos | - |
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cappuccino | (noun) equal parts of espresso and hot milk topped with cinnamon and nutmeg and usually whipped cream | Synonyms: cappuccino coffee, coffee cappuccino |
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casino | (noun) a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand | Synonyms: cassino |
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(noun) a public building for gambling and entertainment | Synonyms: gambling casino |
cassino | (noun) a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand | Synonyms: casino |
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chino | (noun) a coarse twilled cotton fabric frequently used for uniforms | - |
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contadino | (noun) an Italian farmer | - |
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domino | (noun) a small rectangular block used in playing the game of dominoes; the face of each block has two equal areas that can bear 0 to 6 dots | - |
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(noun) a mask covering the upper part of the face but with holes for the eyes | Synonyms: eye mask, half mask |
(noun) a loose hooded cloak worn with a half mask as part of a masquerade costume | - |
gitano | (noun) a Spanish male Gypsy | - |
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grissino | (noun) a long slender crusty breadstick | - |
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guano | (noun) the excrement of sea birds; used as fertilizer | - |
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inferno | (noun) a very intense and uncontrolled fire | Synonyms: conflagration |
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(noun) any place of pain and turmoil | Synonyms: hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits |
jalapeno | (noun) hot green or red pepper of southwestern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: jalapeno pepper |
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(noun) plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red | Synonyms: Capsicum annuum longum, cayenne, cayenne pepper, chili pepper, chilli pepper, long pepper |
keno | (noun) a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | Synonyms: beano, bingo, lotto |
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kimono | (noun) a loose robe; imitated from robes originally worn by Japanese | - |
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kino | (noun) East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning | Synonyms: Pterocarpus marsupium |
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(noun) a gum obtained from various tropical plants; used as an astringent and in tanning | Synonyms: gum kino, kino gum |
kiwano | (noun) a fruit that has orange skin and lime green, jelly-like flesh with a refreshingly fruity taste, and texture similar to a passionfruit or pomegranate; grows on the annual vine Cucumis metuliferus. | - |
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lino | (noun) a floor covering | Synonyms: linoleum |
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llano | (noun) an extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in Latin America) | - |
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madrono | (noun) evergreen tree of the Pacific coast of North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries; wood used for furniture and bark for tanning | Synonyms: Arbutus menziesii, madrona, manzanita |
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maraschino | (noun) cherry preserved in true or imitation maraschino liqueur | Synonyms: maraschino cherry |
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(noun) distilled from fermented juice of bitter wild marasca cherries | Synonyms: maraschino liqueur |
merino | (noun) white sheep originating in Spain and producing a heavy fleece of exceptional quality | Synonyms: merino sheep |
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mono | (noun) an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing | Synonyms: glandular fever, infectious mononucleosis, kissing disease, mononucleosis |
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neutrino | (noun) an elementary, electrically neutral particle with a very small mass | - |
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no | (noun) a negative | - |
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notturno | (noun) a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano) | Synonyms: nocturne |
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oregano | (noun) pungent leaves used as seasoning with meats and fowl and in stews and soups and omelets | Synonyms: marjoram |
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(noun) aromatic Eurasian perennial | Synonyms: marjoram, Origanum vulgare, pot marjoram, wild marjoram, winter sweet |
palomino | (noun) a horse of light tan or golden color with cream-colored or white mane and tail | - |
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piano | (noun) a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds | Synonyms: forte-piano, pianoforte |
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(noun) (music) low loudness | Synonyms: pianissimo |
pompano | (noun) any of several deep-bodied food fishes of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico | - |
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(noun) flesh of pompano; warm-water fatty fish | - |
porno | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: erotica, porn, pornography, smut |
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pruno | (noun) a liquor concocted from a mixture of ingredients (such as prunes and raisins and milk and sugar) that can be fermented to produce alcohol; made by prison inmates | - |
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rhino | (noun) massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout | Synonyms: rhinoceros |
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segno | (noun) (music) a notation written at the beginning or end of a passage that is to be repeated | - |
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solferino | (noun) a pink dye that was discovered in 1859, the year a battle was fought at Solferino | Synonyms: purplish pink |
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soprano | (noun) the pitch range of the highest female voice | Synonyms: treble |
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(noun) the highest female voice; the voice of a boy before puberty | - |
(noun) a female singer with the highest vocal range of all the voice type | - |
sordino | (noun) a mute for a violin | Synonyms: sourdine |
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techno | (noun) a style of fast heavy electronic dance music usually without vocals | - |
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tenno | (noun) the emperor of Japan; when regarded as a religious leader the emperor is called tenno | Synonyms: mikado |
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vino | (noun) fermented juice (of grapes especially) | Synonyms: wine |
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virino | (noun) (microbiology) a hypothetical infectious particle thought to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system; consists of nucleic acid in a protective coat of host cell proteins | - |
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volcano | (noun) a mountain formed by volcanic material | - |
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(noun) a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt | Synonyms: vent |
wino | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, drunkard, inebriate, rummy, sot |
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