| chop | (noun) a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball | Synonyms: chop shot |
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| (noun) a grounder that bounces high in the air | Synonyms: chopper |
| (noun) a jaw | - |
| (noun) a small cut of meat including part of a rib | - |
| (noun) the irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind blowing in a direction opposite to the tide) | - |
| chump | (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker |
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| citizenship | (noun) conduct as a citizen | - |
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| (noun) the status of a citizen with rights and duties | - |
| clamp | (noun) a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together | Synonyms: clinch |
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| clap | (noun) a sudden very loud noise | Synonyms: bam, bang, blast, eruption |
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| (noun) a sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be repeated | Synonyms: clack |
| (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra | Synonyms: gonorrhea, gonorrhoea |
| claptrap | (noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing | Synonyms: blah, bombast, fustian, rant |
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| clasp | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, grip, hold |
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| (noun) a fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together | - |
| cleanup | (noun) the act of making something clean | Synonyms: cleaning, cleansing |
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| (noun) (baseball) the fourth position in the batting order (usually filled by the best batter on the team) | Synonyms: cleanup position, cleanup spot |
| (noun) a very large profit | Synonyms: killing |
| cleistocarp | (noun) closed spore-bearing structure of some fungi (especially Aspergillaceae and Erysiphaceae) from which spores are released only by decay or disintegration | Synonyms: cleistothecium |
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| clerkship | (noun) the job of clerk | - |
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| clip | (noun) the act of clipping or snipping | Synonyms: clipping, snip |
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| (noun) a sharp slanting blow | - |
| (noun) a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun | Synonyms: cartridge clip, cartridge holder, magazine |
| (noun) any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together | - |
| (noun) an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress | - |
| (noun) an instance or single occasion for some event | Synonyms: time |
| clop | (noun) the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | Synonyms: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clopping, clumping, clunking |
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| closeup | (noun) a photograph taken at close range | - |
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| clump | (noun) a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) | Synonyms: clunk, thud, thump, thumping |
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| (noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: bunch, cluster, clustering |
| (noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: ball, chunk, clod, glob, lump |
| coachwhip | (noun) a whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico; tail resembles a braided whip | Synonyms: coachwhip snake, Masticophis flagellum |
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| (noun) desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers | Synonyms: Fouquieria splendens, Jacob's staff, ocotillo, vine cactus |
| cockup | (noun) something badly botched or muddled | Synonyms: balls-up, ballup, mess-up |
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| codswallop | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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| commandership | (noun) the position or office of commander | Synonyms: commandery |
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| comp | (noun) an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge | Synonyms: comprehensive, comprehensive examination |
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| companionship | (noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: company, fellowship, society |
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| comptrollership | (noun) the position of comptroller | - |
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| comradeship | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: camaraderie, chumminess, comradeliness, comradery |
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| connoisseurship | (noun) love of or taste for fine objects of art | Synonyms: vertu, virtu |
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| consulship | (noun) the post of consul | - |
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| containership | (noun) a cargo ship designed to hold containerized cargoes | Synonyms: container ship, container vessel |
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| controllership | (noun) the position of controller | - |
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| coop | (noun) an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept | Synonyms: cage |
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| (noun) a farm building for housing poultry | Synonyms: chicken coop, hencoop, henhouse |
| cop | (noun) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman | Synonyms: bull, copper, fuzz, pig |
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| copartnership | (noun) a partnership in which employees get a share of the profits in addition to their wages | - |
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| corbiestep | (noun) (architecture) a step on the top of a gable wall | Synonyms: corbel step, corbie-step, crow step |
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| corp | (noun) a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state | Synonyms: corporation |
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| councillorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councilorship |
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| councilorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councillorship |
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| counsellorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counselorship |
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| counselorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counsellorship |
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| countercoup | (noun) a sudden and decisive overthrow of a government that gained power by a coup d'etat | - |
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| countertop | (noun) the top side of a counter | - |
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| coup | (noun) a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force | Synonyms: coup d'etat, putsch, takeover |
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| (noun) a brilliant and notable success | - |
| courtship | (noun) a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage) | Synonyms: courting, suit, wooing |
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| cowslip | (noun) early spring flower common in British isles having fragrant yellow or sometimes purple flowers | Synonyms: paigle, Primula veris |
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| (noun) swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups | Synonyms: Caltha palustris, kingcup, marsh marigold, May blob, meadow bright, water dragon |
| craftsmanship | (noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craft, workmanship |
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| cramp | (noun) a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together | Synonyms: cramp iron |
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| (noun) a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued | - |
| (noun) a painful and involuntary muscular contraction | Synonyms: muscle spasm, spasm |
| crap | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, dogshit, horseshit, Irish bull, shit |
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| (noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: dirt, poop, shit, shite, turd |
| creep | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, crawling, creeping |
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| (noun) a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot | - |
| (noun) a slow longitudinal movement or deformation | - |
| (noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: spook, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy |
| crimp | (noun) a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled | - |
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| (noun) someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers | Synonyms: crimper |
| (noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crease, flexure, fold, plication |
| crisp | (noun) a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat | Synonyms: chip, potato chip, Saratoga chip |
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| crop | (noun) a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food | Synonyms: craw |
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| (noun) the stock or handle of a whip | - |
| (noun) the output of something in a season | - |
| (noun) a collection of people or things appearing together | - |
| (noun) the yield from plants in a single growing season | Synonyms: harvest |
| (noun) a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale | - |
| croup | (noun) the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | Synonyms: croupe, hindquarters, rump |
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| (noun) a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing | Synonyms: spasmodic laryngitis |
| cup | (noun) a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle | - |
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| (noun) a large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition | Synonyms: loving cup |
| (noun) the hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green | - |
| (noun) a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl | - |
| (noun) cup-shaped plant organ | - |
| (noun) the quantity a cup will hold | Synonyms: cupful |
| (noun) a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces | - |
| (noun) any cup-shaped concavity | - |
| curatorship | (noun) the position of curator | - |
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| cusp | (noun) point formed by two intersecting arcs (as from the intrados of a Gothic arch) | - |
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| (noun) small elevation on the grinding surface of a tooth | - |
| (noun) a thin triangular flap of a heart valve | Synonyms: leaflet |
| custodianship | (noun) the position of custodian | - |
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| damp | (noun) a slight wetness | Synonyms: dampness, moistness |
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| dealership | (noun) a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area | Synonyms: franchise |
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| deanship | (noun) the position or office of a dean | Synonyms: deanery |
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| deathtrap | (noun) any structure that is very unsafe; where people are likely to be killed | - |
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| deep | (noun) a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor | Synonyms: oceanic abyss, trench |
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| (noun) literary term for an ocean | - |
| (noun) the central and most intense or profound part | - |
| derp | (noun) someone who is silly or stupid especially when seeming cute | - |
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| desktop | (noun) (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear | Synonyms: background, screen background |
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| (noun) the top of a desk | - |
| dewdrop | (noun) a drop of dew | - |
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| dewlap | (noun) a hanging fold of loose skin on an elderly person's neck | - |
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| dictatorship | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| dip | (noun) a brief swim in water | Synonyms: plunge |
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| (noun) a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms | - |
| (noun) a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow | - |
| (noun) a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity | Synonyms: drop, fall, free fall |
| (noun) a brief immersion | - |
| (noun) tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped | - |
| (noun) a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places | Synonyms: cutpurse, pickpocket |
| (noun) (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon | Synonyms: angle of dip, inclination, magnetic dip, magnetic inclination |
| (noun) a depression in an otherwise level surface | - |
| dipterocarp | (noun) tree of the family Dipterocarpaceae | - |
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| directorship | (noun) the position of a director of a business concern | - |
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| discipleship | (noun) the position of disciple | - |
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| dollop | (noun) a small measure (usually of food) | - |
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| doorstep | (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: doorsill, threshold |
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| doorstop | (noun) a stop that keeps open doors from moving | Synonyms: doorstopper |
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| draftsmanship | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: drafting, drawing |
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| drip | (noun) (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway) | Synonyms: drip mold, drip mould |
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| (noun) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid | Synonyms: dribble, trickle |
| (noun) the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop | Synonyms: dripping |
| droop | (noun) a shape that sags | Synonyms: sag |
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| drop | (noun) the act of dropping something | - |
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| (noun) a central depository where things can be left or picked up | - |
| (noun) a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery | Synonyms: drop cloth, drop curtain |
| (noun) a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity | Synonyms: dip, fall, free fall |
| (noun) a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity | Synonyms: fall |
| (noun) a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property) | - |
| (noun) a steep high face of rock | Synonyms: cliff, drop-off |
| (noun) a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid) | Synonyms: drib, driblet |
| (noun) a shape that is spherical and small | Synonyms: bead, pearl |
| dubstep | (noun) A genre of electronic music descended from 2-step garage, characterised by its dark mood, sparse, half-step and two-step rhythms, an average bpm of 140 and an emphasis on sub-bass. | - |
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| dump | (noun) a place where supplies can be stored | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs | - |
| (noun) a piece of land where waste materials are dumped | Synonyms: dumpsite, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, waste-yard, wasteyard |
| (noun) a coarse term for defecation | Synonyms: shit |
| dustmop | (noun) a dry swab for dusting floors | Synonyms: dry mop, dust mop |
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| dustup | (noun) an angry dispute | Synonyms: quarrel, row, run-in, words, wrangle |
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| eardrop | (noun) an earring with a pendant ornament | Synonyms: drop earring, pendant earring |
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| earflap | (noun) one of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm | Synonyms: earlap |
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| earlap | (noun) one of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm | Synonyms: earflap |
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| editorship | (noun) the position of editor | - |
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| eggcup | (noun) dishware consisting of a small cup for serving a boiled egg | Synonyms: egg cup |
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| eldership | (noun) the office of elder | - |
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| electrosleep | (noun) unconsciousness brought about by the passage of a low voltage electric current through the brain | - |
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| endocarp | (noun) the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed | Synonyms: pit, stone |
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| epicarp | (noun) outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a peach or grape | Synonyms: exocarp |
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| escallop | (noun) edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions | Synonyms: scallop, scollop |
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| (noun) edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces | Synonyms: scallop, scollop |
| (noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: cutlet, scallop, scollop |
| escarp | (noun) a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification | Synonyms: escarpment, protective embankment, scarp |
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| exaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one quintillion floating-point operations a second. | Synonyms: EFLOPS |
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| exocarp | (noun) outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a peach or grape | Synonyms: epicarp |
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| eyecup | (noun) (embryology) a two-walled cuplike depression that develops into the pigmented and sensory layers of the retina | Synonyms: optic cup |
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| (noun) a small vessel with a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye; use to apply medicated or cleansing solution to the eyeball | Synonyms: eye cup, eyebath |
| eyedrop | (noun) a method of irrigating the eye used by ophthalmologists | Synonyms: eye-drop |
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| (noun) a drop from an eye dropper | Synonyms: eye-drop |
| feathertop | (noun) northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles | Synonyms: feathertop grass, Pennistum villosum |
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| (noun) a variety of reed grass | Synonyms: Calamagrostis acutiflora, feather reed grass |
| fellowship | (noun) an association of people who share common beliefs or activities | Synonyms: family |
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| (noun) money granted (by a university or foundation or other agency) for advanced study or research | - |
| (noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: companionship, company, society |
| fillip | (noun) anything that tends to arouse | Synonyms: bonus |
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| fingertip | (noun) the end (tip) of a finger | - |
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| firedamp | (noun) a mixture of gases (mostly methane) that form in coal mines and become explosive when mixed with air | - |
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| firetrap | (noun) a building that would be hard to escape from if it were to catch fire | - |
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| flagship | (noun) the ship that carries the commander of a fleet and flies his flag | - |
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| (noun) the chief one of a related group | - |
| flap | (noun) any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely | - |
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| (noun) a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag | Synonyms: flaps |
| (noun) a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body | - |
| (noun) the motion made by flapping up and down | Synonyms: flapping, flutter, fluttering |
| (noun) an excited state of agitation | Synonyms: dither, fuss, pother, tizzy |