| agaric | (noun) a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside | - |
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| (noun) fungus used in the preparation of punk for fuses | Synonyms: Fomes igniarius |
| archbishopric | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of an archbishop | - |
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| baldric | (noun) a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip | Synonyms: baldrick |
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| bishopric | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop | Synonyms: diocese, episcopate |
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| cambric | (noun) a finely woven white linen | - |
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| cleric | (noun) a clergyman or other person in religious orders | Synonyms: churchman, divine, ecclesiastic |
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| climacteric | (noun) the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends | Synonyms: change of life, menopause |
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| (noun) a period in a man's life corresponding to menopause | - |
| congeneric | (noun) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) | Synonyms: congenator, congener, relative |
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| dielectric | (noun) a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity | Synonyms: insulator, nonconductor |
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| eccentric | (noun) a person with an unusual or odd personality | Synonyms: eccentric person, flake, geek, oddball |
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| (noun) a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) | Synonyms: case, character, type |
| egocentric | (noun) a self-centered person with little regard for others | Synonyms: egoist |
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| electric | (noun) a car that is powered by electricity | Synonyms: electric automobile, electric car |
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| entric | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals | Synonyms: enteric bacteria, enterics, enterobacteria |
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| fabric | (noun) artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers | Synonyms: cloth, material, textile |
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| (noun) the underlying structure | Synonyms: framework |
| generic | (noun) any product that can be sold without a brand name | - |
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| (noun) wine that does not meet the minimum qualifications and standards for use of a designation by appellation of origin (where the grapes are grown) or by varietal content; may only be labeled by proprietary (made-up) name, by general color (such as `vin rouge', `vino rosso', `rotwein', `red wine', etc.), or by general class (as `vin ordinaire', `vin de table', `vino da tavola', `tafelwein', `table wine', etc.) | Synonyms: generic wine |
| hysteric | (noun) a person suffering from hysteria | - |
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| isometric | (noun) a line connecting isometric points | Synonyms: isometric line |
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| lyric | (noun) a short poem of songlike quality | Synonyms: lyric poem |
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| (noun) the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number | Synonyms: language, words |
| matric | (noun) admission to a group (especially a college or university) | Synonyms: matriculation |
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| metric | (noun) a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic | Synonyms: system of measurement |
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| (noun) a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds) | Synonyms: metric unit |
| (noun) a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them | Synonyms: metric function |
| panegyric | (noun) a formal expression of praise | Synonyms: encomium, eulogy, paean, pean |
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| paregoric | (noun) medicine used to treat diarrhea | Synonyms: camphorated tincture of opium |
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| pneumogastric | (noun) a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera | Synonyms: nervus vagus, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve, vagus, vagus nerve, wandering nerve |
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| quadric | (noun) a curve or surface whose equation (in Cartesian coordinates) is of the second degree | Synonyms: quadric surface |
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| rhetoric | (noun) study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking) | - |
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| (noun) using language effectively to please or persuade | - |
| (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness |
| (noun) loud and confused and empty talk | Synonyms: empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver |
| rubric | (noun) category name | - |
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| (noun) a title or heading that is printed in red or in a special type | - |
| (noun) an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text | Synonyms: gloss |
| (noun) an authoritative rule of conduct or procedure | - |
| (noun) directions for the conduct of Christian church services (often printed in red in a prayer book) | - |
| (noun) a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with | Synonyms: statute title, title |
| turmeric | (noun) ground dried rhizome of the turmeric plant used as seasoning | - |
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| (noun) widely cultivated tropical plant of India having yellow flowers and a large aromatic deep yellow rhizome; source of a condiment and a yellow dye | Synonyms: Curcuma domestica, Curcuma longa |