| marmalade | (noun) a preserve made of the pulp and rind of citrus fruits | - |
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| masquerade | (noun) making a false outward show | Synonyms: charade |
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| (noun) a costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party | Synonyms: fancy dress, masquerade costume |
| (noun) a party of guests wearing costumes and masks | Synonyms: mask, masque, masquerade party |
| (verb) pretend to be someone or something that you are not | - |
| (verb) take part in a masquerade | - |
| masquerader | (noun) a participant in a masquerade | Synonyms: masker, masquer |
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| megadeath | (noun) the death of a million people | - |
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| menhaden | (noun) shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer | Synonyms: Brevoortia tyrannis |
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| misleader | (noun) someone who leads astray (often deliberately) | - |
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| motorcade | (noun) a procession of people traveling in motor cars | - |
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| muddleheaded | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, addlepated, puddingheaded |
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| mujahadeen | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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| mujahadein | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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| muscadel | (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadelle, muscat, muscatel |
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| muscadelle | (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscat, muscatel |
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| newsreader | (noun) someone who reads out broadcast news bulletin | Synonyms: news reader |
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| nightshade | (noun) any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit | - |
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| nonleaded | (adjective) (of gasoline) not containing tetraethyl lead | Synonyms: lead-free |
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| nonreader | (noun) a student who is very slow in learning to read | - |
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| (noun) a person unable to read | Synonyms: illiterate, illiterate person |
| orangeade | (noun) sweetened beverage of diluted orange juice | - |
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| overladen | (adjective) loaded past capacity | Synonyms: overloaded |
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| overloaded | (adjective) loaded past capacity | Synonyms: overladen |
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| pademelon | (noun) small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea | Synonyms: paddymelon |
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| palisade | (noun) fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground | - |
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| (verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify | Synonyms: fence, fence in, surround, wall |
| parade | (noun) a visible display | - |
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| (noun) a ceremonial procession including people marching | - |
| (noun) an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things | - |
| (verb) march in a procession in a public place | Synonyms: promenade, troop |
| (verb) walk ostentatiously | Synonyms: exhibit, march |
| parader | (noun) walks with regular or stately step | Synonyms: marcher |
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| pasquinade | (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
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| paygrade | (noun) rank in a military organization | Synonyms: military rank, military rating, rating |
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| persuade | (verb) cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm | - |
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| (verb) win approval or support for | Synonyms: carry, sway |
| persuader | (noun) someone who tries to persuade or induce or lead on | Synonyms: inducer |
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| pervade | (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, riddle |
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| philadelphus | (noun) any of various chiefly deciduous ornamental shrubs of the genus Philadelphus having white sweet-scented flowers, single or in clusters; widely grown in temperate regions | - |
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| phylloclade | (noun) a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf | Synonyms: cladode, cladophyll, phylloclad |
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| pigheaded | (adjective) obstinate and stupid | Synonyms: bullet-headed, bullheaded |
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| pigheadedness | (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinacy, obstinance, self-will, stubbornness |
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| plantigrade | (adjective) (of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do) | - |
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| (noun) an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings | Synonyms: plantigrade mammal |
| pleader | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counsellor, counselor-at-law, counselor |
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| pomade | (noun) hairdressing consisting of a perfumed oil or ointment | Synonyms: pomatum |
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| (verb) apply pomade to (hair) | - |
| pomaded | (adjective) (of hair) groomed with pomade | - |
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| prefaded | (adjective) (of fabric or clothing) having been given a faded (weathered) appearance by artificial means | - |
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| promenade | (noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) | Synonyms: amble, perambulation, saunter, stroll |
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| (noun) a march of all the guests at the opening of a formal dance | - |
| (noun) a square dance figure; couples march counterclockwise in a circle | - |
| (noun) a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk | Synonyms: mall |
| (noun) a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year | Synonyms: prom |
| (verb) take a leisurely walk | - |
| (verb) march in a procession in a public place | Synonyms: parade, troop |
| proofreader | (noun) someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections | Synonyms: reader |
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| puddingheaded | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, addlepated, muddleheaded |
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| railroader | (noun) an employee of a railroad | Synonyms: railroad man, railway man, railwayman, trainman |
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| razorblade | (noun) a blade that has very sharp edge | - |
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| reader | (noun) one of a series of texts for students learning to read | - |
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| (noun) a person who enjoys reading | - |
| (noun) a public lecturer at certain universities | Synonyms: lector, lecturer |
| (noun) someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication | Synonyms: subscriber |
| (noun) a person who can read; a literate person | - |
| (noun) someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections | Synonyms: proofreader |
| (noun) someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication | Synonyms: referee, reviewer |
| (noun) someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: lector |
| readership | (noun) the audience reached by written communications (books or magazines or newspapers etc.) | - |
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| redheaded | (adjective) having red hair and usually fair skin | - |
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| redheader | (noun) someone who has red hair | Synonyms: carrottop, red-header, redhead |
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| renegade | (adjective) having deserted a cause or principle | Synonyms: recreant |
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| (noun) someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw | - |
| (noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: apostate, deserter, ratter, recreant, turncoat |
| (verb) break with established customs | Synonyms: rebel |
| retrograde | (adjective) of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma | - |
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| (adjective) moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth | - |
| (adjective) going from better to worse | Synonyms: retrogressive |
| (adjective) moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction | Synonyms: retral |
| (verb) get worse or fall back to a previous condition | Synonyms: regress, retrogress |
| (verb) go back over | Synonyms: hash over, rehash |
| (verb) move back | Synonyms: retreat |
| (verb) move in a direction contrary to the usual one | - |
| (verb) move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies | - |
| rhagades | (noun) cracks or fissures in the skin (especially around the mouth or anus) | - |
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| rhodomontade | (noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: bluster, braggadocio, rodomontade |
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| ringleader | (noun) a person who leads (especially in illicit activities) | - |
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| rodomontade | (noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: bluster, braggadocio, rhodomontade |
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| rollerblader | (noun) a skater who uses Rollerblades | - |
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| roulade | (noun) (music) an elaborate run of several notes sung to one syllable | - |
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| (noun) a dish consisting of a slice of meat that is rolled around a filling and cooked | - |
| roundheaded | (adjective) having a brachycephalic head | Synonyms: broad-headed, short-headed |
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| saccade | (noun) a rapid, jerky movement of the eyes between positions of rest | - |
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| (noun) an abrupt spasmodic movement | Synonyms: jerk, jerking, jolt |
| salade | (noun) a light medieval helmet with a slit for vision | Synonyms: sallet |
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| serenade | (noun) a song characteristically played outside the house of a woman | - |
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| (noun) a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form | Synonyms: divertimento |
| (verb) sing and play for somebody | - |
| sexcapade | (noun) a sexual escapade; an illicit affair | - |
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| shade | (noun) protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight | - |
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| (noun) a representation of the effect of shadows in a picture or drawing (as by shading or darker pigment) | - |
| (noun) a protective ornamental covering for a lamp, used to screen a light bulb from direct view | Synonyms: lamp shade, lampshade |
| (noun) a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color | Synonyms: tincture, tint, tone |
| (noun) a mental representation of some haunting experience | Synonyms: ghost, specter, spectre, spook, wraith |
| (noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, nuance, refinement, subtlety |
| (noun) a slight amount or degree of difference | Synonyms: tad |
| (noun) relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body | Synonyms: shadiness, shadowiness |
| (noun) a position of relative inferiority | - |
| (verb) pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree | - |
| (verb) vary slightly | - |
| (verb) protect from light, heat, or view | - |
| (verb) represent the effect of shade or shadow on | Synonyms: fill in |
| (verb) cast a shadow over | Synonyms: shade off, shadow |
| shaded | (adjective) protected from heat and light with shade or shadow | - |
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| (adjective) (of pictures or drawings) drawn or painted with degrees or gradations of shadow | - |
| shades | (noun) (plural) spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun | Synonyms: dark glasses, sunglasses |
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| (noun) (plural) something that reminds you of someone or something | - |
| sialadenitis | (noun) inflammation of the salivary glands | - |
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| sightreader | (noun) a performer who reads without preparation or prior acquaintance (as in music) | - |
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| sleepyheaded | (adjective) ready to fall asleep | Synonyms: sleepy-eyed, sleepy |
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| softheaded | (adjective) foolish; totally unsound | Synonyms: crazy, half-baked, screwball |
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| spade | (noun) a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot | - |
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| (noun) a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it | - |
| (verb) dig (up) with a spade | - |
| spadefish | (noun) deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: angelfish, Chaetodipterus faber |
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| spadefoot | (noun) a burrowing toad of the Northern Hemisphere with a horny spade-like projection on each hind foot | Synonyms: spadefoot toad |
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| spadeful | (noun) the quantity a shovel can hold | Synonyms: shovel, shovelful |
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| spadework | (noun) dull or routine preliminary work preparing for an undertaking | - |
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| spreadeagle | (verb) defeat disastrously | Synonyms: rout, spread-eagle |
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| spreader | (noun) a hand tool for spreading something | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions | Synonyms: broadcaster |
| stockade | (noun) a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions) | Synonyms: concentration camp |
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| (noun) fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense | - |
| (verb) surround with a stockade in order to fortify | - |
| succade | (noun) fruit cooked in sugar syrup and encrusted with a sugar crystals | Synonyms: candied fruit, crystallized fruit |
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| sunshade | (noun) a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun | Synonyms: awning, sunblind |
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| (noun) a handheld collapsible source of shade | Synonyms: parasol |
| switchblade | (noun) a pocketknife with a blade that springs open at the press of a button | Synonyms: flick-knife, flick knife, switchblade knife |
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| tamponade | (noun) blockage or closure (as of a wound or body cavity) by (or as if by) a tampon (especially to stop bleeding) | Synonyms: tamponage |
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| tapenade | (noun) a spread consisting of capers and black olives and anchovies made into a puree with olive oil | - |
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| tardigrade | (noun) an arthropod of the division Tardigrada | - |
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| thickheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, wooden-headed |
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| threaded | (adjective) (of bolts or screws) having screw threads | - |
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| threader | (noun) a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops | Synonyms: bodkin |
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| tirade | (noun) a speech of violent denunciation | Synonyms: broadside, philippic |
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| toadshade | (noun) trillium of northeastern United States with sessile leaves and red or purple flowers having a pungent odor | Synonyms: red trillium, sessile trillium, Trillium sessile |
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| towheaded | (adjective) of hair color; whitish | Synonyms: ash-blonde, platinum-blonde |
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| trade | (noun) the skilled practice of a practical occupation | Synonyms: craft |
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| (noun) the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers | Synonyms: patronage |
| (noun) a particular instance of buying or selling | Synonyms: business deal, deal |
| (noun) an equal exchange | Synonyms: barter, swap, swop |
| (noun) the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services | - |
| (noun) people who perform a particular kind of skilled work | Synonyms: craft |
| (noun) steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator | Synonyms: trade wind |
| (verb) turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase | Synonyms: trade in |
| (verb) engage in the trade of | Synonyms: merchandise |
| (verb) exchange or give (something) in exchange for | Synonyms: swap, switch, swop |
| (verb) do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood | Synonyms: deal, sell |
| (verb) be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions | - |
| tradecraft | (noun) skill acquired through experience in a trade; often used to discuss skill in espionage | - |
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| trademark | (noun) a distinctive characteristic or attribute of someone or something | Synonyms: earmark, hallmark, stylemark |
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| (noun) a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product | - |
| (verb) register the trademark of | - |
| (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brand, brandmark |
| trademarked | (adjective) (of goods and merchandise) labeled with proprietary (and legally registered) identification guaranteeing exclusive use | - |
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| tradeoff | (noun) an exchange that occurs as a compromise | Synonyms: trade-off |
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| trader | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: bargainer, dealer, monger |
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| tradesman | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, shopkeeper, storekeeper |
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| tradespeople | (noun) people engaged in trade | - |
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| tribade | (noun) a female homosexual | Synonyms: gay woman, lesbian |
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| twayblade | (noun) orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown; Europe to central Asia | Synonyms: Listera ovata |
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| (noun) an orchid of the genus Liparis having a pair of leaves | - |
| ungraded | (adjective) not arranged in order hierarchically | Synonyms: unordered, unranked |
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| (adjective) (of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel | Synonyms: dirt |
| unheaded | (adjective) not having a heading or caption | - |
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| unlade | (verb) remove the load from (a container or vehicle) | Synonyms: offload, unload |
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| unleaded | (adjective) not treated with lead | Synonyms: leadless |
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| (adjective) not having leads between the lines | - |