| dustiness | (noun) the state of being covered with dust | - |
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| dutifulness | (noun) piety by virtue of devotion to duty | - |
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| dwarfishness | (noun) the quality of being built like a dwarf | - |
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| dynamics | (noun) the branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that cause motions of bodies | Synonyms: kinetics |
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| dysgenesis | (noun) infertility between hybrids | - |
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| dysgenics | (noun) the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced | Synonyms: cacogenics |
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| eagerness | (noun) prompt willingness | Synonyms: forwardness, readiness, zeal |
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| (noun) a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something | Synonyms: avidity, avidness, keenness |
| earliness | (noun) quality of coming early or earlier in time | - |
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| earnestness | (noun) the trait of being serious | Synonyms: serious-mindedness, seriousness, sincerity |
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| (noun) an earnest and sincere feeling | Synonyms: seriousness, sincerity |
| earnings | (noun) something that remunerates | Synonyms: pay, remuneration, salary, wage |
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| (noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit, profits |
| easiness | (noun) the quality of being easy in behavior or style | - |
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| (noun) freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort | Synonyms: ease, simpleness, simplicity |
| (noun) a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry | Synonyms: relaxation |
| easygoingness | (noun) being without worry or concern | - |
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| eats | (noun) informal terms for a meal | Synonyms: chow, chuck, grub |
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| eaves | (noun) the overhang at the lower edge of a roof | - |
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| eblis | (noun) (Islam) the principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology | - |
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| ecchymosis | (noun) the escape of blood from ruptured blood vessels into the surrounding tissue to form a purple or black-and-blue spot on the skin | - |
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| (noun) the purple or black-and-blue area resulting from a bruise | - |
| eccyesis | (noun) pregnancy resulting from gestation elsewhere than in the uterus | Synonyms: ectopic gestation, ectopic pregnancy, extrauterine gestation, extrauterine pregnancy, metacyesis |
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| ecdysis | (noun) periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles | Synonyms: molt, molting, moult, moulting |
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| ecesis | (noun) (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat | Synonyms: establishment |
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| echinocactus | (noun) any cactus of the genus Echinocactus; strongly ribbed and very spiny; southwestern United States to Brazil | Synonyms: barrel cactus |
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| echinococcosis | (noun) infestation with larval echinococci (tapeworms) | Synonyms: hydatid disease, hydatidosis |
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| echinococcus | (noun) tapeworms whose larvae are parasitic in humans and domestic animals | - |
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| echinus | (noun) ovolo molding between the shaft and the abacus of a Doric column | - |
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| echovirus | (noun) any of a group of viruses associated with various diseases including viral meningitis and mild respiratory disorders and diarrhea in newborn infants | - |
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| eclipsis | (noun) omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences | Synonyms: ellipsis |
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| econometrics | (noun) the application of mathematics and statistics to the study of economic and financial data | - |
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| economics | (noun) the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management | Synonyms: economic science, political economy |
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| ecphonesis | (noun) an exclamatory rhetorical device | Synonyms: exclamation |
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| ectasis | (noun) dilatation or distension of a hollow organ | Synonyms: ectasia |
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| edaphosaurus | (noun) heavy-bodied reptile with a dorsal sail or crest; of the late Paleozoic | - |
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| edelweiss | (noun) alpine perennial plant native to Europe having leaves covered with whitish down and small flower heads held in stars of glistening whitish bracts | Synonyms: Leontopodium alpinum |
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| edginess | (noun) feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable | Synonyms: disquietude, inquietude, uneasiness |
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| edibleness | (noun) the property of being fit to eat | Synonyms: edibility |
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| edmontosaurus | (noun) duck-billed dinosaur from Canada found as a fossilized mummy with skin | - |
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| eelgrass | (noun) submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts | Synonyms: grass wrack, sea wrack, Zostera marina |
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| (noun) submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia | Synonyms: tape grass, Vallisneria spiralis, wild celery |
| eeriness | (noun) strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear | Synonyms: ghostliness |
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| effectiveness | (noun) power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Synonyms: effectivity, effectuality, effectualness |
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| (noun) capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects | Synonyms: potency, strength |
| effects | (noun) property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business | Synonyms: personal effects |
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| effectualness | (noun) power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Synonyms: effectiveness, effectivity, effectuality |
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| effeminateness | (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminacy, sissiness, softness, unmanliness, womanishness |
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| efficaciousness | (noun) capacity or power to produce a desired effect | Synonyms: efficacy |
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| effortfulness | (noun) the quality of requiring deliberate effort | - |
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| effortlessness | (noun) the quality of requiring little effort | - |
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| effusiveness | (noun) a friendly open trait of a talkative person | Synonyms: expansiveness, expansivity |
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| eggs | (noun) oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food | Synonyms: egg |
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| egis | (noun) armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass | Synonyms: aegis, breastplate |
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| egress | (noun) the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent | Synonyms: egression, emergence |
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| (noun) (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse | Synonyms: emersion |
| (noun) the becoming visible | Synonyms: emergence, issue |
| eidos | (noun) (anthropology) the distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or a social group | - |
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| eighties | (noun) the time of life between 80 and 90 | Synonyms: mid-eighties |
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| (noun) the decade from 1980 to 1989 | Synonyms: 1980s |
| (noun) the decade from 1880 to 1889 | Synonyms: 1880s |
| eisegesis | (noun) personal interpretation of a text (especially of the Bible) using your own ideas | - |
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| elaborateness | (noun) marked by elaborately complex detail | Synonyms: elaboration, intricacy, involution |
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| (noun) an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated | Synonyms: ornateness |
| elastosis | (noun) breakdown of elastic tissue (as the loss of elasticity in the skin of elderly people that results from degeneration of connective tissue) | - |
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| electiveness | (noun) Quality or state in which choice or discretion is allowed. | Synonyms: optionality |
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| electrolysis | (noun) removing superfluous or unwanted hair by passing an electric current through the hair root | - |
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| (noun) (chemistry) a chemical decomposition reaction produced by passing an electric current through a solution containing ions | - |
| electromagnetics | (noun) the branch of physics concerned with electromagnetic phenomena | Synonyms: electromagnetism |
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| electronics | (noun) the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices | - |
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| electrophoresis | (noun) the motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode | Synonyms: cataphoresis, dielectrolysis, ionophoresis |
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| electrophorus | (noun) a simple electrostatic generator that generates repeated charges of static electricity | - |
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| electrostatics | (noun) the branch of physics that deals with static electricity | - |
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| elements | (noun) violent or severe weather (viewed as caused by the action of the four elements) | - |
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| elephantiasis | (noun) hypertrophy of certain body parts (usually legs and scrotum); the end state of the disease filariasis | - |
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| ellipsis | (noun) omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences | Synonyms: eclipsis |
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| elusiveness | (noun) the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down | - |
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| elves | (noun) an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources; extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec) electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km diameter) in the ionosphere | - |
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| embolus | (noun) an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood | - |
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| embroideress | (noun) a woman embroiderer | - |
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| emeritus | (noun) a professor or minister who is retired from assigned duties | - |
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| emesis | (noun) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: disgorgement, puking, regurgitation, vomit, vomiting |
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| emotionlessness | (noun) absence of emotion | Synonyms: unemotionality |
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| (noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: impassiveness, impassivity, indifference, phlegm, stolidity, unemotionality |
| emphasis | (noun) intensity or forcefulness of expression | Synonyms: vehemence |
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| (noun) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | Synonyms: accent, stress |
| (noun) special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g. | - |
| (noun) special importance or significance | Synonyms: accent |
| empress | (noun) a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor | - |
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| emptiness | (noun) the quality of being valueless or futile | Synonyms: vanity |
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| (noun) an empty area or space | Synonyms: vacancy, vacuum, void |
| (noun) the state of containing nothing | - |
| (noun) having an empty stomach | - |
| enamoredness | (noun) a feeling of love or fondness | Synonyms: amorousness |
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| enarthrosis | (noun) a freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bone | Synonyms: articulatio spheroidea, ball-and-socket joint, cotyloid joint, enarthrodial joint, spheroid joint |
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| encephalartos | (noun) any of numerous cycads of the genus Encephalartos having stout cylindrical trunks and a terminal crown of long often spiny pinnate leaves | - |
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| encephalitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (`phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use) | Synonyms: cephalitis, phrenitis |
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| encephalomeningitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges | Synonyms: cerebromeningitis, meningoencephalitis |
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| encephalomyelitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord | - |
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| enchantingness | (noun) Quality of having the ability to enchant; being charming, delightful. | - |
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| enchantress | (noun) a female sorcerer or magician | Synonyms: witch |
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| (noun) a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive | Synonyms: Delilah, femme fatale, siren, temptress |
| encopresis | (noun) involuntary defecation not attributable to physical defects or illness | - |
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| endarteritis | (noun) inflammation of the inner lining of an artery | - |
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| endlessness | (noun) the property of being (or seeming to be) without end | - |
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| endocarditis | (noun) inflammation of the endocardium and heart valves | - |
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| endocervicitis | (noun) inflammation of the mucous lining of the uterine cervix | - |
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| endodontics | (noun) the branch of dentistry dealing with diseases of the dental pulp | Synonyms: endodontia |
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| endometriosis | (noun) the presence of endometrium elsewhere than in the lining of the uterus; causes premenstrual pain and dysmenorrhea | Synonyms: adenomyosis |
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| endometritis | (noun) inflammation of the lining of the uterus (of the endometrium) | Synonyms: metritis |
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| enduringness | (noun) permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force | Synonyms: durability, lastingness, strength |
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| enigmaticness | (noun) Mysteriousness, complexity; the property of being puzzling or inexplicable. | - |
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| (noun) The quality of a person of puzzling, secretive or contradictory character. | - |
| enjoyableness | (noun) pleasantness resulting from something that can be enjoyed | - |
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| enormousness | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
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| enosis | (noun) the union of Greece and Cyprus (which is the goal of a group of Greek Cypriots) | - |
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| entasis | (noun) a slight convexity in the shaft of a column; compensates for the illusion of concavity that viewers experience when the sides are perfectly straight | - |
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| entellus | (noun) langur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India | Synonyms: hanuman, Presbytes entellus, Semnopithecus entellus |
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| enterics | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals | Synonyms: enteric bacteria, enterobacteria, entric |
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| enteritis | (noun) inflammation of the intestine (especially the small intestine); usually characterized by diarrhea | - |
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| enterobiasis | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by the pinworm Enterobius vermicularis; occurs especially in children | - |
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| enterolithiasis | (noun) the presence of calculi in the intestines | - |
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| enteroptosis | (noun) an abnormally downward position of the intestines in the abdominal cavity | - |
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