| amadavat | (noun) red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds | Synonyms: avadavat |
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| amah | (noun) a female domestic | Synonyms: housemaid, maid, maidservant |
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| (noun) a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else | Synonyms: wet-nurse, wet nurse, wetnurse |
| amalgam | (noun) a combination or blend of diverse things | - |
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| (noun) an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams | Synonyms: dental amalgam |
| amalgamation | (noun) the combination of two or more commercial companies | Synonyms: merger, uniting |
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| amalgamator | (noun) a businessman who arranges an amalgamation of two or more commercial companies | - |
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| amanuensis | (noun) someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation) | Synonyms: shorthand typist, stenographer |
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| amaranth | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food | - |
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| (noun) seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America | - |
| amarelle | (noun) pale red sour cherry with colorless or nearly colorless juice | - |
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| (noun) any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice | Synonyms: Prunus cerasus caproniana |
| amaretto | (noun) an Italian almond liqueur | - |
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| amaryllis | (noun) bulbous plant having showy white to reddish flowers | - |
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| amastia | (noun) absence of the mammary glands (either through surgery or developmental defect) | - |
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| amateur | (noun) someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime | - |
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| (noun) an athlete who does not play for pay | - |
| amateurishness | (noun) something that demonstrates a lack of professional competency | - |
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| amateurism | (noun) the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money | - |
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| amativeness | (noun) the arousal of feelings of sexual desire | Synonyms: amorousness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness |
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| amatungulu | (noun) very large closely branched South African shrub having forked bright green spines and shiny leaves | Synonyms: Carissa grandiflora, Carissa macrocarpa, natal plum |
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| amaurosis | (noun) partial or total loss of sight without pathology of the eye; caused by disease of optic nerve or retina or brain | - |
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| amazement | (noun) the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising | Synonyms: astonishment |
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| amazon | (noun) mainly green tropical American parrots | - |
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| (noun) a large strong and aggressive woman | Synonyms: virago |