afterlife | (noun) life after death | Synonyms: hereafter |
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aftermath | (noun) the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual | Synonyms: consequence |
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(noun) the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event) | Synonyms: backwash, wake |
aftermost | (adjective) located closest to the stern or tail | - |
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afternoon | (noun) a conventional expression of greeting or farewell, used to wish someone a good afternoon | Synonyms: good afternoon |
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(noun) the part of the day between noon and evening | - |
afterpains | (noun) pains felt by a woman after her baby is born; associated with contractions of the uterus | - |
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afterpiece | (noun) a brief dramatic piece (usually comic) presented after a play | - |
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afters | (noun) a dish served as the last course of a meal | Synonyms: dessert, sweet |
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aftersensation | (noun) an image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceased | Synonyms: afterimage |
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aftershaft | (noun) a supplementary feather (usually small) on the underside of the base of the shaft of some feathers in some birds | - |
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aftershafted | (adjective) having an aftershaft (a small feather at the base of some feathers) | - |
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aftershock | (noun) a tremor (or one of a series of tremors) occurring after the main shock of an earthquake | - |
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aftertaste | (noun) an afterimage of a taste | - |
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afterthought | (noun) an addition that was not included in the original plan | - |
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(noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: reconsideration, rethink, second thought |
afterward | (adverb) happening at a time subsequent to a reference time | Synonyms: after, afterwards, later, later on, subsequently |
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afterwards | (adverb) happening at a time subsequent to a reference time | Synonyms: after, afterward, later, later on, subsequently |
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afterworld | (noun) the place where you are after you die | - |
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aircraft | (noun) a vehicle that can fly | - |
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aircraftman | (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force | Synonyms: aircraftsman |
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aircraftsman | (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force | Synonyms: aircraftman |
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allograft | (noun) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor of the same species but different genetic makeup; recipient's immune system must be suppressed to prevent rejection of the graft | Synonyms: homograft |
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antiaircraft | (adjective) designed for defense from a surface position against air attack | - |
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(noun) artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes | Synonyms: ack-ack, ack-ack gun, antiaircraft gun, flack, flak, pom-pom |
asafetida | (noun) the brownish gum resin of various plants; has strong taste and odor; formerly used as an antispasmodic | Synonyms: asafoetida |
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asafoetida | (noun) the brownish gum resin of various plants; has strong taste and odor; formerly used as an antispasmodic | Synonyms: asafetida |
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autograft | (noun) tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person | Synonyms: autoplasty |
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baffle | (noun) a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy | Synonyms: baffle board |
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(verb) restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.) | Synonyms: regulate |
(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
(verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
baffled | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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(noun) people who are frustrated and perplexed | - |
bafflement | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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baffling | (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough |
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biosafety | (noun) safety from exposure to infectious agents | - |
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bloodleaf | (noun) any plant of the genus Iresine having colored foliage | - |
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broadleaf | (adjective) having relatively broad rather than needlelike or scalelike leaves | Synonyms: broad-leafed, broad-leaved |
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cafe | (noun) a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold | Synonyms: coffee bar, coffee shop, coffeehouse |
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cafeteria | (noun) a restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier | - |
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caff | (noun) informal British term for a cafe | - |
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caffein | (noun) a bitter alkaloid found in coffee and tea that is responsible for their stimulating effects | Synonyms: caffeine |
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caffeine | (noun) a bitter alkaloid found in coffee and tea that is responsible for their stimulating effects | Synonyms: caffein |
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caffeinic | (adjective) of or containing caffein | - |
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caffeinism | (noun) poisoning resulting from excessive intake of caffeine containing products | Synonyms: caffeine intoxication |
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caffer | (noun) an offensive and insulting term for any Black African | Synonyms: caffre, kaffir, kafir |
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caffre | (noun) an offensive and insulting term for any Black African | Synonyms: caffer, kaffir, kafir |
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caftan | (noun) a (cotton or silk) cloak with full sleeves and sash reaching down to the ankles; worn by men in the Levant | Synonyms: kaftan |
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(noun) a woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East | Synonyms: kaftan |
camshaft | (noun) an engine shaft with cams attached to it | - |
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canafistola | (noun) deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia | Synonyms: canafistula, Cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia |
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canafistula | (noun) deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia | Synonyms: canafistola, Cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia |
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carafe | (noun) a bottle with a stopper; for serving wine or water | Synonyms: decanter |
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catafalque | (noun) a decorated bier on which a coffin rests in state during a funeral | - |
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chafe | (noun) anger produced by some annoying irritation | Synonyms: annoyance, vexation |
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(noun) soreness and warmth caused by friction | - |
(verb) warm by rubbing, as with the hands | - |
(verb) tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading | Synonyms: excoriate |
(verb) cause friction | Synonyms: fray, fret, rub, scratch |
(verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
(verb) feel extreme irritation or anger | - |
(verb) become or make sore by or as if by rubbing | Synonyms: fret, gall |
chafed | (adjective) painful from having the skin abraded | Synonyms: galled |
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chafeweed | (noun) weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike | Synonyms: Gnaphalium sylvaticum, wood cudweed |
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chaff | (noun) foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure | - |
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(noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble |
(verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, jolly, josh, kid |
chaffer | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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(verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: haggle, higgle, huckster |
chaffinch | (noun) small European finch with a cheerful song | Synonyms: Fringilla coelebs |
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chafflike | (adjective) abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff | Synonyms: chaffy |
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chaffweed | (noun) weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves | Synonyms: bastard pimpernel, false pimpernel |
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chaffy | (adjective) abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff | Synonyms: chafflike |
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(adjective) value | - |
chafing | (noun) soreness or irritation of the skin caused by friction | - |
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cloverleaf | (noun) an interchange that does not require left-hand turns | - |
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cockchafer | (noun) any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult | Synonyms: May beetle, May bug, Melolontha melolontha |
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contrafagotto | (noun) the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family | Synonyms: contrabassoon, double bassoon |
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corticoafferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticipetal |
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craft | (noun) the skilled practice of a practical occupation | Synonyms: trade |
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(noun) a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space | - |
(noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness |
(noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craftsmanship, workmanship |
(noun) people who perform a particular kind of skilled work | Synonyms: trade |
(verb) make by hand and with much skill | - |
crafter | (noun) a creator of great skill in the manual arts | Synonyms: craftsman |
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craftily | (adverb) in an subtle, cunning manner | Synonyms: artfully, cunningly, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily |
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craftiness | (noun) the quality of being crafty | Synonyms: guile |
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(noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craft, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness |
craftsman | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, artisan, journeyman |
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(noun) a creator of great skill in the manual arts | Synonyms: crafter |
(noun) a professional whose work is consistently of high quality | - |
craftsmanship | (noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craft, workmanship |
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crafty | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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crankshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft driven by (or driving) a crank | - |
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cybercafe | (noun) a cafe whose customers sit at computer terminals and log on to the internet while they eat and drink | - |
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daffodil | (noun) any of numerous varieties of Narcissus plants having showy often yellow flowers with a trumpet-shaped central crown | Synonyms: Narcissus pseudonarcissus |
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daft | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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daftly | (adverb) in a mildly insane manner | Synonyms: balmily, dottily, nuttily, wackily |
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daftness | (noun) informal terms for insanity | Synonyms: craziness, flakiness |
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daraf | (noun) a unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad | - |
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deaf | (adjective) lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part | - |
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(adjective) (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed | Synonyms: indifferent |
(noun) people who have severe hearing impairments | - |
(verb) make or render deaf | Synonyms: deafen |
deafen | (verb) make soundproof | - |
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(verb) make or render deaf | Synonyms: deaf |
(verb) be unbearably loud | - |
deafened | (adjective) caused to hear poorly or not at all | - |
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deafening | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: earsplitting, thunderous, thundery |
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deafness | (noun) partial or complete loss of hearing | Synonyms: hearing loss |
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decaf | (noun) coffee with the caffeine removed | Synonyms: decaffeinated coffee |
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decaffeinate | (verb) remove caffeine from (coffee) | - |
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disaffect | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: alienate, estrange |
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disaffected | (adjective) discontented as toward authority | Synonyms: ill-affected, malcontent, rebellious |
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disaffection | (noun) disloyalty to the government or to established authority | - |
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(noun) the feeling of being alienated from other people | Synonyms: alienation, estrangement |
disaffirmation | (noun) the act of asserting that something alleged is not true | Synonyms: denial |
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disafforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: deforest, disforest |
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distaff | (adjective) characteristic of or peculiar to a woman | Synonyms: female |
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(noun) the staff on which wool or flax is wound before spinning | - |
(noun) the sphere of work by women | - |
downdraft | (noun) a strong downward air current | - |
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draff | (noun) the residue of malt and grain which remains in the mash-kettle after the mashing and lautering process. | Synonyms: brewer's grain, spent grain |
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draft | (noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draught, drawing |
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(noun) a large and hurried swallow | Synonyms: draught, gulp, swig |
(noun) compulsory military service | Synonyms: conscription, muster, selective service |
(noun) a dose of liquid medicine | Synonyms: draught |
(noun) a preliminary sketch of a design or picture | Synonyms: rough drawing |
(noun) a regulator for controlling the flow of air in a fireplace | - |
(noun) the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded) | Synonyms: draught |
(noun) any of the various versions in the development of a written work | Synonyms: draft copy |
(noun) a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg | Synonyms: draught, potation, tipple |
(noun) a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle) | Synonyms: draught |
(noun) a document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another | Synonyms: bill of exchange, order of payment |
(verb) engage somebody to enter the army | Synonyms: enlist, muster in |
(verb) draw up an outline or sketch for something | Synonyms: outline |
(verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: blueprint, draught |
draftee | (noun) someone who is drafted into military service | Synonyms: conscript, inductee |
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drafter | (noun) a writer of a draft | - |
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drafting | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: draftsmanship, drawing |
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(noun) writing a first version to be filled out and polished later | - |
(noun) the craft of drawing blueprints | Synonyms: mechanical drawing |
draftsman | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsperson, draughtsman |
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(noun) an artist skilled at drawing | Synonyms: drawer |
draftsmanship | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: drafting, drawing |
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draftsperson | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsman, draughtsman |
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drafty | (adjective) not airtight | Synonyms: draughty |
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driveshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft that transmits power from the engine to the point of application | - |
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engraft | (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, imbed, implant, plant |
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(verb) cause to grow together parts from different plants | Synonyms: graft, ingraft |
exaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one quintillion floating-point operations a second. | Synonyms: EFLOPS |
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