storm | (noun) a direct and violent assault on a stronghold | - |
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(noun) a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning | Synonyms: violent storm |
(noun) a violent commotion or disturbance | Synonyms: tempest |
strawworm | (noun) larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains | Synonyms: jointworm |
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(noun) larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris | Synonyms: caddisworm |
swarm | (noun) a group of many things in the air or on the ground | Synonyms: cloud |
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(noun) a moving crowd | Synonyms: drove, horde |
tapeworm | (noun) ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates | Synonyms: cestode |
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term | (noun) (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome | Synonyms: terminal figure, terminus |
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(noun) any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial | - |
(noun) a word or expression used for some particular thing | - |
(noun) one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition | - |
(noun) (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement | Synonyms: condition, strings |
(noun) a limited period of time | - |
(noun) the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent | Synonyms: full term |
therm | (noun) a unit of heat equal to 100,000 British thermal units | - |
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threadworm | (noun) small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children | Synonyms: Enterobius vermicularis, pinworm |
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thunderstorm | (noun) a storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning | Synonyms: electric storm, electrical storm |
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uniform | (noun) clothing of distinctive design worn by members of a particular group as a means of identification | - |
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vetchworm | (noun) larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops | Synonyms: corn earworm, cotton bollworm, Heliothis zia, tobacco budworm, tomato fruitworm |
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waveform | (noun) the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time | Synonyms: wave form, wave shape |
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webworm | (noun) several gregarious moth larvae that spin webs over foliage on which they feed | - |
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wheatworm | (noun) small roundworm parasitic on wheat | Synonyms: Tylenchus tritici, wheat eel, wheat eelworm |
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windstorm | (noun) a storm consisting of violent winds | - |
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wireworm | (noun) wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants | - |
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woodworm | (noun) a larva of a woodborer | - |
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worm | (noun) any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae | - |
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(noun) screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack | - |
(noun) a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network | - |
(noun) a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect | Synonyms: dirt ball, insect, louse |
yardarm | (noun) either end of the yard of a square-rigged ship | - |
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