| echography | (noun) using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs | Synonyms: sonography, ultrasonography, ultrasound |
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| echolalia | (noun) (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia) | - |
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| (noun) an infant's repetition of sounds uttered by others | - |
| echolocation | (noun) determining the location of something by measuring the time it takes for an echo to return from it | Synonyms: echo sounding |
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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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| eclair | (noun) oblong cream puff | - |
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| eclampsia | (noun) a toxic condition characterized by convulsions and possibly coma during or immediately after pregnancy | - |
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| eclat | (noun) brilliant or conspicuous success or effect | - |
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| (noun) ceremonial elegance and splendor | Synonyms: pomp |
| (noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclaim, acclamation, plaudit, plaudits |
| eclectic | (noun) someone who selects according to the eclectic method | Synonyms: eclecticist |
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| eclecticism | (noun) making decisions on the basis of what seems best instead of following some single doctrine or style | Synonyms: eclectic method |
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| eclecticist | (noun) someone who selects according to the eclectic method | Synonyms: eclectic |
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| eclipse | (noun) one celestial body obscures another | Synonyms: occultation |
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| eclipsis | (noun) omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences | Synonyms: ellipsis |
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| ecliptic | (noun) the great circle representing the apparent annual path of the sun; the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun; makes an angle of about 23 degrees with the equator | - |
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| eclogue | (noun) a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life | Synonyms: bucolic, idyl, idyll |
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| ecobabble | (noun) using the technical language of ecology to make the user seem ecologically aware | - |
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| ecologist | (noun) a biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment | - |
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| ecology | (noun) the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment | Synonyms: bionomics, environmental science |
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| (noun) the environment as it relates to living organisms | - |
| econometrician | (noun) an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods | Synonyms: econometrist |
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| econometrics | (noun) the application of mathematics and statistics to the study of economic and financial data | - |
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| econometrist | (noun) an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods | Synonyms: econometrician |
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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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| economiser | (noun) a frugal person who limits spending and avoids waste | Synonyms: economizer |
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| economist | (noun) an expert in the science of economics | Synonyms: economic expert |
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| economizer | (noun) a frugal person who limits spending and avoids waste | Synonyms: economiser |
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| economy | (noun) an act of economizing; reduction in cost | Synonyms: saving |
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| (noun) frugality in the expenditure of money or resources | Synonyms: thriftiness |
| (noun) the efficient use of resources | - |
| (noun) the system of production and distribution and consumption | Synonyms: economic system |
| ecosystem | (noun) a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment | - |
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| ecoterrorism | (noun) violence carried out to further the political or social objectives of the environmentalists | Synonyms: eco-warfare, ecological terrorism, ecological warfare |
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| ecotourism | (noun) tourism to exotic or threatened ecosystems to observe wildlife or to help preserve nature | - |
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| ecphonesis | (noun) an exclamatory rhetorical device | Synonyms: exclamation |
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| ecrevisse | (noun) small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America | Synonyms: Old World crayfish |
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| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
| ecru | (noun) a very light brown | Synonyms: beige |
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| ecstasy | (noun) street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine | Synonyms: Adam, cristal, disco biscuit, go, hug drug, X, XTC |
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| (noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion | Synonyms: exaltation, rapture, raptus, transport |
| (noun) a state of elated bliss | Synonyms: rapture |
| ectasia | (noun) dilatation or distension of a hollow organ | Synonyms: ectasis |
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| ectasis | (noun) dilatation or distension of a hollow organ | Synonyms: ectasia |
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| ectoblast | (noun) the outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue | Synonyms: ectoderm, exoderm |
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| ectoderm | (noun) the outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue | Synonyms: ectoblast, exoderm |
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| ectomorph | (noun) a person with a thin body | - |
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| ectomorphy | (noun) slender, weak, and lightweight | Synonyms: asthenic type |
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| ectoparasite | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon |
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| ectopia | (noun) abnormal position of a part or organ (especially at the time of birth) | - |
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| ectoplasm | (noun) the outer granule-free layer of cytoplasm | - |
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| (noun) (spiritualism) a substance supposed to emanate from the body of the medium during a trance | - |
| ectoproct | (noun) sessile mossy aquatic animal having the anus of the polyp outside the crown of tentacles | - |
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| ectotherm | (noun) an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals | Synonyms: poikilotherm |
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| ectozoan | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon |
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| ectozoon | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoan, epizoan, epizoon |
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| ectrodactyly | (noun) congenital abnormality involving the absence of some fingers or toes | - |
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| ecumenicalism | (noun) (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity | Synonyms: ecumenicism, ecumenism |
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| ecumenicism | (noun) (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity | Synonyms: ecumenicalism, ecumenism |
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| ecumenism | (noun) (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity | Synonyms: ecumenicalism, ecumenicism |
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| (noun) a movement promoting union between religions (especially between Christian churches) | Synonyms: oecumenism |
| eczema | (noun) generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin; particularly with vesiculation in the acute stages | - |
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| edacity | (noun) extreme gluttony | Synonyms: esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracity |
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| (noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: esurience, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity |
| edaphosaurus | (noun) heavy-bodied reptile with a dorsal sail or crest; of the late Paleozoic | - |
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| edda | (noun) tropical starchy tuberous root | Synonyms: cocoyam, dasheen, taro, taro root |
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| eddo | (noun) edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants | Synonyms: cocoyam, dasheen, taro |
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| eddy | (noun) a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself | Synonyms: twist |
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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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| edema | (noun) swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities | Synonyms: dropsy, hydrops, oedema |
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| edentate | (noun) primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America | - |
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| edge | (noun) a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object | - |
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| (noun) the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something | - |
| (noun) a slight competitive advantage | - |
| (noun) the attribute of urgency in tone of voice | Synonyms: sharpness |
| (noun) the boundary of a surface | Synonyms: border |
| (noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: bound, boundary |
| edger | (noun) garden tool for cutting grass around the edges of a yard | - |
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| (noun) a person who puts finishing edges on a garment | - |
| edginess | (noun) feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable | Synonyms: disquietude, inquietude, uneasiness |
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| edging | (noun) border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug) | - |
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| edibility | (noun) the property of being fit to eat | Synonyms: edibleness |
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| edible | (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: comestible, eatable, pabulum, victual, victuals |
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| edibleness | (noun) the property of being fit to eat | Synonyms: edibility |
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| edict | (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, fiat, order, rescript |
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| (noun) a formal or authoritative proclamation | - |
| edification | (noun) uplifting enlightenment | Synonyms: sophistication |
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| edifice | (noun) a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place | Synonyms: building |
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| editing | (noun) putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form | Synonyms: redaction |
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| edition | (noun) something a little different from others of the same type | Synonyms: variant, variation, version |
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| (noun) an issue of a newspaper | - |
| (noun) the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published | - |
| (noun) all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time | - |
| editor | (noun) (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data | Synonyms: editor program |
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| (noun) a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine) | Synonyms: editor in chief |
| editorial | (noun) an article giving opinions or perspectives | Synonyms: column, newspaper column |
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| editorialist | (noun) a journalist who writes editorials | Synonyms: columnist |
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| editorship | (noun) the position of editor | - |
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| edmontosaurus | (noun) duck-billed dinosaur from Canada found as a fossilized mummy with skin | - |
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| educatee | (noun) a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution | Synonyms: pupil, student |
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| education | (noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: didactics, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy, teaching |
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| (noun) the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university) | - |
| (noun) the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior) | Synonyms: breeding, training |
| (noun) knowledge acquired by learning and instruction | - |
| (noun) the gradual process of acquiring knowledge | - |
| educationalist | (noun) a specialist in the theory of education | Synonyms: educationist |
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| educationist | (noun) a specialist in the theory of education | Synonyms: educationalist |
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| educator | (noun) someone who educates young people | Synonyms: pedagog, pedagogue |
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| edutainment | (noun) entertainment that is intended to be educational | - |
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| eel | (noun) voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins | - |
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| (noun) the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled | - |
| eelblenny | (noun) eellike fishes found in subarctic coastal waters | - |
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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 |
| eelpout | (noun) marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas | Synonyms: pout |
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| (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: burbot, cusk, ling, Lota lota |
| eelworm | (noun) any of various small free-living plant-parasitic roundworms | - |
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| eeriness | (noun) strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear | Synonyms: ghostliness |
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| effacement | (noun) withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous | Synonyms: self-effacement |
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| (noun) shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor | - |
| effect | (noun) an outward appearance | Synonyms: impression |
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| (noun) (of a law) having legal validity | Synonyms: force |
| (noun) an impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived) | - |
| (noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: burden, core, essence, gist |
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot |
| (noun) a symptom caused by an illness or a drug | - |
| effecter | (noun) one who brings about a result or event; one who accomplishes a purpose | Synonyms: effector |
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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 |
| effectivity | (noun) power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Synonyms: effectiveness, effectuality, effectualness |
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| effector | (noun) an organ (a gland or muscle) that becomes active in response to nerve impulses | - |
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| (noun) a nerve fiber that terminates on a muscle or gland and stimulates contraction or secretion | - |
| (noun) one who brings about a result or event; one who accomplishes a purpose | Synonyms: effecter |
| effects | (noun) property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business | Synonyms: personal effects |
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| effectuality | (noun) power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Synonyms: effectiveness, effectivity, effectualness |
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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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| effectuation | (noun) the act of implementing (providing a practical means for accomplishing something); carrying into effect | Synonyms: implementation |
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| effeminacy | (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminateness, sissiness, softness, unmanliness, womanishness |
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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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| effendi | (noun) a former Turkish term of respect; especially for government officials | - |
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