| cl | (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter | Synonyms: centiliter, centilitre |
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| clabber | (noun) raw milk that has soured and thickened | - |
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| clack | (noun) a simple valve with a hinge on one side; allows fluid to flow in only one direction | Synonyms: clack valve, clapper valve |
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| (noun) a sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be repeated | Synonyms: clap |
| cladding | (noun) a protective covering that protects the outside of a building | Synonyms: facing |
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| clade | (noun) a group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor | - |
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| cladistics | (noun) a taxonomic system of classifying species based on the branching patterns of cladograms that are built to infer phylogenetic relations | Synonyms: cladistic analysis |
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| cladode | (noun) a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf | Synonyms: cladophyll, phylloclad, phylloclade |
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| cladogram | (noun) a tree diagram used to illustrate phylogenetic relationships | - |
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| cladophyll | (noun) a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf | Synonyms: cladode, phylloclad, phylloclade |
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| claim | (noun) demand for something as rightful or due | - |
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| (noun) an established or recognized right | Synonyms: title |
| (noun) an informal right to something | Synonyms: title |
| (noun) an assertion of a right (as to money or property) | - |
| (noun) a demand | Synonyms: call |
| (noun) an assertion that something is true or factual | - |
| claimant | (noun) someone who claims a benefit or right or title | - |
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| clairvoyance | (noun) apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses | Synonyms: E.S.P., ESP, extrasensory perception, second sight |
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| clairvoyant | (noun) someone who has the power of clairvoyance | - |
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| clam | (noun) burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness | - |
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| (noun) flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams | - |
| (noun) a piece of paper money worth one dollar | Synonyms: buck, dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill |
| clambake | (noun) a cookout at the seashore where clams and fish and other foods are cooked--usually on heated stones covered with seaweed | - |
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| clamber | (noun) an awkward climb | - |
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| clamminess | (noun) unpleasant wetness | Synonyms: dankness |
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| clammyweed | (noun) strong-scented herb common in southern United States covered with intermixed gland and hairs | Synonyms: Polanisia dodecandra, Polanisia graveolens |
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| clamor | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamoring, clamour, clamouring, hue and cry |
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| (noun) a loud harsh or strident noise | Synonyms: blare, blaring, cacophony, din |
| clamoring | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamor, clamour, clamouring, hue and cry |
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| clamour | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamor, clamoring, clamouring, hue and cry |
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| clamouring | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamor, clamoring, clamour, hue and cry |
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| clamp | (noun) a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together | Synonyms: clinch |
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| clampdown | (noun) sudden restriction on an activity | - |
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| clams | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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| clamshell | (noun) the shell of a clam | - |
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| (noun) a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam | Synonyms: grapple |
| clan | (noun) group of people related by blood or marriage | Synonyms: kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group, tribe |
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| clang | (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clangor, clangoring, clangour, clank, clash, crash |
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| clanger | (noun) a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate | - |
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| clangor | (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangoring, clangour, clank, clash, crash |
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| clangoring | (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangour, clank, clash, crash |
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| clangour | (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangoring, clank, clash, crash |
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| clank | (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangoring, clangour, clash, crash |
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| clanker | (noun) something that makes a clanking noise. | - |
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| clannishness | (noun) tendency to associate with only a select group | Synonyms: cliquishness, exclusiveness |
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| clansman | (noun) a male member of a clan | - |
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| clanswoman | (noun) a female member of a clan | - |
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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 |
| clapboard | (noun) a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below | Synonyms: weatherboard, weatherboarding |
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| clapper | (noun) metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side | Synonyms: tongue |
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| (noun) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity | Synonyms: glossa, lingua, tongue |
| (noun) someone who applauds | Synonyms: applauder |
| clapperboard | (noun) photographic equipment used to synchronize sound and motion picture; boards held in front of a movie camera are banged together | - |
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| clappers | (noun) (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | Synonyms: bones, castanets, finger cymbals |
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| clapping | (noun) a demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together | Synonyms: applause, hand clapping |
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| claptrap | (noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing | Synonyms: blah, bombast, fustian, rant |
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| claque | (noun) a group of followers hired to applaud at a performance | - |
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| clarence | (noun) a closed carriage with four wheels and seats for four passengers | - |
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| claret | (noun) a dark purplish-red color | - |
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| (noun) dry red Bordeaux or Bordeaux-like wine | Synonyms: red Bordeaux |
| clarification | (noun) the act of removing solid particles from a liquid | Synonyms: clearing |
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| (noun) an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding | Synonyms: elucidation, illumination |
| clarinet | (noun) a single-reed instrument with a straight tube | - |
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| clarinetist | (noun) a musician who plays the clarinet | Synonyms: clarinettist |
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| clarinettist | (noun) a musician who plays the clarinet | Synonyms: clarinetist |
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| clarion | (noun) a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone | - |
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| clarity | (noun) the quality of clear water | Synonyms: clearness, uncloudedness |
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| (noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity |
| claro | (noun) a cigar made with light-colored tobacco | - |
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| clary | (noun) aromatic herb of southern Europe; cultivated in Great Britain as a potherb and widely as an ornamental | Synonyms: Salvia sclarea |
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| clash | (noun) a minor short-term fight | Synonyms: brush, encounter, skirmish |
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| (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangoring, clangour, clank, crash |
| (noun) a state of conflict between persons | Synonyms: friction |
| (noun) a state of conflict between colors | - |
| 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 | - |
| class | (noun) education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings | Synonyms: course, course of instruction, course of study |
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| (noun) elegance in dress or behavior | - |
| (noun) a collection of things sharing a common attribute | Synonyms: category, family |
| (noun) people having the same social, economic, or educational status | Synonyms: social class, socio-economic class, stratum |
| (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders | - |
| (noun) a body of students who are taught together | Synonyms: course, form, grade |
| (noun) a body of students who graduate together | Synonyms: year |
| (noun) a league ranked by quality | Synonyms: division |
| classic | (noun) a creation of the highest excellence | - |
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| (noun) an artist who has created classic works | - |
| classical | (noun) traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste | Synonyms: classical music, serious music |
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| classicalism | (noun) a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms | Synonyms: classicism |
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| classicism | (noun) a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms | Synonyms: classicalism |
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| classicist | (noun) an artistic person who adheres to classicism | - |
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| (noun) a student of ancient Greek and Latin | Synonyms: classical scholar |
| classics | (noun) study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome | - |
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| classification | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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| (noun) restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people | - |
| (noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization, sorting |
| (noun) a group of people or things arranged by class or category | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization |
| classified | (noun) a short ad in a newspaper or magazine (usually in small print) and appearing along with other ads of the same type | Synonyms: classified ad, classified advertisement |
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| classifier | (noun) an algorithm that implements classification. | - |
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| (noun) a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs | - |
| (noun) a person who creates classifications | - |
| classmate | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, schoolfellow, schoolmate |
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| classroom | (noun) a room in a school where lessons take place | Synonyms: schoolroom |
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| classwork | (noun) the part of a student's work that is done in the classroom | - |
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| clast | (noun) (geology) a constituent fragment of a clastic rock | - |
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| clatter | (noun) a rattling noise (often produced by rapid movement) | - |
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| claudication | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: gameness, gimp, gimpiness, lameness, limping |
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| clause | (noun) (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate functioning as a part of a complex sentence | - |
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| (noun) a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will) | Synonyms: article |
| claustrophobe | (noun) a person suffering from claustrophobia | - |
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| claustrophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space | - |
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| claustrum | (noun) a layer of grey matter in the brain adjacent to the lenticular nucleus | - |
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| clavichord | (noun) an early stringed instrument like a piano but with more delicate sound | - |
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| clavicle | (noun) bone linking the scapula and sternum | Synonyms: collarbone |
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| clavier | (noun) a bank of keys on a musical instrument | Synonyms: fingerboard, piano keyboard |
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| (noun) a stringed instrument that has a keyboard | Synonyms: Klavier |
| clavus | (noun) a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes | Synonyms: corn |
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| claw | (noun) sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles | - |
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| (noun) a bird's foot | - |
| (noun) a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods | Synonyms: chela, nipper, pincer |
| (noun) a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something | Synonyms: hook |
| clawback | (noun) finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way | - |
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| clawfoot | (noun) a deformity of the foot characterized by an abnormally high arch and hyperextension of the toes which gives the foot the appearance of a claw | Synonyms: pes cavus |
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| clawhammer | (noun) a hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails | Synonyms: carpenter's hammer, claw hammer |
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| claxon | (noun) a kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles | Synonyms: klaxon |
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| clay | (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: cadaver, corpse, remains, stiff |
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| (noun) a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired | - |
| (noun) water soaked soil; soft wet earth | Synonyms: mud |
| clayeyness | (noun) The quality of resembling clay, ie in thickness or consistency. | Synonyms: clayiness, clayishness |
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| (noun) The quality of being composed of clay. | Synonyms: clayiness, clayishness |
| clayiness | (noun) The quality of resembling clay, ie in thickness or consistency. | Synonyms: clayeyness, clayishness |
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| (noun) The quality of being composed of clay. | Synonyms: clayeyness, clayishness |
| clayishness | (noun) The quality of resembling clay, ie in thickness or consistency. | Synonyms: clayeyness, clayiness |
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| (noun) The quality of being composed of clay. | Synonyms: clayeyness, clayiness |
| claymore | (noun) an antipersonnel land mine whose blast is aimed at the oncoming enemy | Synonyms: claymore mine |
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| (noun) a large double-edged broadsword; formerly used by Scottish Highlanders | - |
| claystone | (noun) fine-grained rock consisting of compacted clay particles | - |
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| clayware | (noun) ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln | Synonyms: pottery |
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| clean | (noun) a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead | Synonyms: clean and jerk |
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| cleaner | (noun) a preparation used in cleaning something | Synonyms: cleanser, cleansing agent |
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| (noun) someone whose occupation is cleaning | - |
| (noun) the operator of dry-cleaning establishment | Synonyms: dry cleaner |
| cleaners | (noun) shop where dry cleaning is done | Synonyms: dry cleaners |
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| cleaning | (noun) the act of making something clean | Synonyms: cleansing, cleanup |
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| cleanliness | (noun) diligence in keeping clean | - |
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| (noun) the habit of keeping free of superficial imperfections | - |
| cleanness | (noun) the state of being clean; without dirt or other impurities | - |
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| (noun) without moral defects | - |
| cleanser | (noun) a preparation used in cleaning something | Synonyms: cleaner, cleansing agent |
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