| katabolism | (noun) breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy | Synonyms: catabolism, destructive metabolism, dissimilation |
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| knockabout | (adjective) suitable for rough use | - |
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| (adjective) full of rough and exuberant animal spirits | Synonyms: boisterous |
| (noun) a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit | - |
| labor | (noun) productive work (especially physical work done for wages) | Synonyms: labour, toil |
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| (noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labour, project, task, undertaking |
| (noun) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | Synonyms: labour, proletariat, working class |
| (noun) an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement | Synonyms: labor movement, labour, trade union movement |
| (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
| (verb) undergo the efforts of childbirth | Synonyms: labour |
| (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labour, moil, toil, travail |
| (verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: drive, labour, push, tug |
| laboratory | (noun) a workplace for the conduct of scientific research | Synonyms: lab, research lab, research laboratory, science lab, science laboratory |
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| (noun) a region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers opportunities for observation and practice and experimentation | Synonyms: testing ground |
| labored | (adjective) lacking natural ease | Synonyms: laboured, strained |
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| (adjective) requiring or showing effort | Synonyms: heavy, laboured |
| laborer | (noun) someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor | Synonyms: jack, labourer, manual laborer |
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| laboring | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: drudging, labouring, toiling |
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| laborious | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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| laboriously | (adverb) in a laborious manner | - |
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| laboriousness | (noun) the quality of requiring extended effort | Synonyms: operoseness, toilsomeness |
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| laborsaving | (adjective) designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor | Synonyms: laboursaving |
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| labour | (noun) productive work (especially physical work done for wages) | Synonyms: labor, toil |
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| (noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labor, project, task, undertaking |
| (noun) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | Synonyms: labor, proletariat, working class |
| (noun) an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement | Synonyms: labor, labor movement, trade union movement |
| (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labor, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
| (verb) undergo the efforts of childbirth | Synonyms: labor |
| (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, moil, toil, travail |
| (verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: drive, labor, push, tug |
| laboured | (adjective) lacking natural ease | Synonyms: labored, strained |
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| (adjective) requiring or showing effort | Synonyms: heavy, labored |
| labourer | (noun) someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor | Synonyms: jack, laborer, manual laborer |
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| labouring | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: drudging, laboring, toiling |
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| laboursaving | (adjective) designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor | Synonyms: laborsaving |
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| lavabo | (noun) a basin for washing the hands | Synonyms: handbasin, wash-hand basin, washbasin, washbowl |
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| layabout | (noun) person who does no work | Synonyms: bum, do-nothing, idler, loafer |
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| marabou | (noun) large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments | Synonyms: Leptoptilus crumeniferus, marabou stork, marabout |
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| (noun) the downy feathers of marabou storks are used for trimming garments | - |
| marabout | (noun) large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments | Synonyms: Leptoptilus crumeniferus, marabou, marabou stork |
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| metabola | (noun) insects that undergo complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: holometabola |
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| metabolic | (adjective) undergoing metamorphosis | Synonyms: metabolous |
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| (adjective) of or relating to metabolism | - |
| metabolically | (adverb) involving metabolism | - |
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| metabolise | (verb) produce by metabolism | Synonyms: metabolize |
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| metabolism | (noun) the organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life | Synonyms: metabolic process |
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| (noun) the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals | Synonyms: metamorphosis |
| metabolite | (noun) any substance involved in metabolism (either as a product of metabolism or as necessary for metabolism) | - |
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| metabolize | (verb) produce by metabolism | Synonyms: metabolise |
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| metabolous | (adjective) undergoing metamorphosis | Synonyms: metabolic |
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| metagrabolised | (adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up | Synonyms: metagrabolized, metagrobolised, metagrobolized, mystified |
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| metagrabolized | (adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up | Synonyms: metagrabolised, metagrobolised, metagrobolized, mystified |
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| nabob | (noun) a wealthy man (especially one who made his fortune in the Orient) | - |
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| (noun) a governor in India during the Mogul empire | Synonyms: nawab |
| naboom | (noun) small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra | Synonyms: cactus euphorbia, Euphorbia ingens |
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| parabola | (noun) a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve | - |
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| parabolic | (adjective) resembling or expressed by parables | Synonyms: parabolical |
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| (adjective) having the form of a parabola | Synonyms: parabolical |
| parabolical | (adjective) resembling or expressed by parables | Synonyms: parabolic |
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| (adjective) having the form of a parabola | Synonyms: parabolic |
| parabolograph | (noun) An outdated instrument for drawing parabolas. | - |
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| paraboloid | (noun) a surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis | - |
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| paraboloidal | (adjective) having the shape of a paraboloid | - |
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| peekaboo | (noun) a game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say boo! | Synonyms: bopeep |
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| raceabout | (noun) a small sloop having the keep of a knockabout but with finer lines and carrying more sail | - |
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| roundabout | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: circuitous, devious |
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| (adjective) marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct | Synonyms: circuitous |
| (noun) a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island | Synonyms: circle, rotary, traffic circle |
| (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round, whirligig |
| roustabout | (noun) a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor | Synonyms: deckhand |
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| runabout | (noun) an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat | Synonyms: roadster, two-seater |
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| sabot | (noun) footwear usually with wooden soles | Synonyms: clog, geta, patten |
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| (noun) a shoe carved from a single block of wood | Synonyms: wooden shoe |
| sabotage | (noun) a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged | - |
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| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, countermine, subvert, undermine, weaken |
| saboteur | (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: diversionist, wrecker |
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| (noun) a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader | Synonyms: fifth columnist |
| seaboard | (noun) the shore of a sea or ocean regarded as a resort | Synonyms: seaside |
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| seaborgium | (noun) a transuranic element with atomic number 106 | Synonyms: atomic number 106, element 106, Sg |
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| seaborne | (adjective) conveyed by sea | - |
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| strabotomy | (noun) the surgical operation of cutting a muscle or tendon of the eye in order to correct strabismus | - |
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| taboo | (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, out, prohibited, proscribed, tabu, verboten |
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| (adjective) forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands | Synonyms: tabu |
| (noun) an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion | Synonyms: tabu |
| (noun) a prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature | Synonyms: tabu |
| (verb) declare as sacred and forbidden | - |
| tabooli | (noun) a finely chopped salad with tomatoes and parsley and mint and scallions and bulgur wheat | Synonyms: tabbouleh |
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| tabor | (noun) a small drum with one head of soft calfskin | Synonyms: tabour |
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| taboret | (noun) a low stool in the shape of a drum | Synonyms: tabouret |
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| tabour | (noun) a small drum with one head of soft calfskin | Synonyms: tabor |
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| tabouret | (noun) a low stool in the shape of a drum | Synonyms: taboret |
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| thereabout | (adverb) near that place | Synonyms: thereabouts |
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| (adverb) near that time or date | Synonyms: thereabouts |
| thereabouts | (adverb) near that place | Synonyms: thereabout |
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| (adverb) near that time or date | Synonyms: thereabout |
| thingamabob | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| thingmabob | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| thingumabob | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| turnabout | (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reverse, reversion, turnaround |
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| (noun) a decision to reverse an earlier decision | Synonyms: change of mind, flip-flop, reversal, turnaround |
| unelaborate | (adjective) not elaborate; lacking rich or complex detail | Synonyms: inelaborate |
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| unelaborated | (adjective) giving only major points; lacking completeness | Synonyms: sketchy |
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| vagabond | (adjective) continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another | Synonyms: aimless, drifting, floating, vagrant |
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| (adjective) wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community | Synonyms: rootless |
| (noun) anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place | - |
| (noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: clochard, drifter, floater, vagrant |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, wander |
| vagabondage | (noun) travelling about without any clear destination | Synonyms: roving, wandering |
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| walkabout | (noun) nomadic excursions into the bush made by an Aborigine | - |
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| (noun) a public stroll by a celebrity to meet people informally | - |
| (noun) a walking trip or tour | - |
| weeaboo | (noun) A white person, who is obsessed with Japanese culture, usually pejorative | Synonyms: weeb |
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| whereabouts | (noun) the general location where something is | - |
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