surplusage | (noun) a quantity much larger than is needed | Synonyms: excess, nimiety, surplus |
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swage | (noun) a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging | Synonyms: upset |
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(verb) form metals with a swage | Synonyms: upset |
tamponage | (noun) blockage or closure (as of a wound or body cavity) by (or as if by) a tampon (especially to stop bleeding) | Synonyms: tamponade |
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tanager | (noun) any of numerous New World woodland birds having brightly colored males | - |
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tankage | (noun) the act of storing in tanks | - |
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(noun) the charge for storing something in tanks | - |
(noun) the quantity contained in (or the capacity of) a tank or tanks | - |
teenage | (adjective) being of the age 13 through 19 | Synonyms: adolescent, teen, teenaged |
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teenaged | (adjective) being of the age 13 through 19 | Synonyms: adolescent, teen, teenage |
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teenager | (noun) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, stripling, teen |
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telferage | (noun) a transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity | Synonyms: telpherage |
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telpherage | (noun) a transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity | Synonyms: telferage |
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tetragen | (noun) any chemical element that belongs to the carbon group. | Synonyms: carbon group element, crystallogen, Group 14 element, tetrel |
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tillage | (noun) the cultivation of soil for raising crops | - |
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(noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, plowland, tilled land, tilth |
tonnage | (noun) a tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship | Synonyms: tonnage duty, tunnage |
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towage | (noun) the act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope | Synonyms: tow |
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tragedian | (noun) an actor who specializes in tragic roles | - |
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(noun) a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies | - |
tragedienne | (noun) an actress who specializes in tragic roles | - |
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tragedy | (noun) drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity | - |
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(noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | Synonyms: calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster |
treillage | (noun) latticework used to support climbing plants | Synonyms: trellis |
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triage | (noun) sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food | - |
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truckage | (noun) the activity of transporting goods by truck | Synonyms: hauling, trucking |
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(noun) a fee charged for transporting goods by truckage | - |
tunnage | (noun) a tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship | Synonyms: tonnage, tonnage duty |
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tutelage | (noun) teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately) | Synonyms: tuition, tutorship |
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(noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety | Synonyms: care, charge, guardianship |
ullage | (noun) the amount that a container (as a wine bottle or tank) lacks of being full | - |
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umbrage | (noun) a feeling of anger caused by being offended | Synonyms: offence, offense |
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umbrageous | (adjective) angered at something unjust or wrong | Synonyms: incensed, indignant, outraged |
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(adjective) filled with shade | Synonyms: shadowed, shadowy, shady |
umpirage | (noun) the act of umpiring | Synonyms: officiating, officiation, refereeing |
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(noun) mediation by an umpire | - |
unaged | (adjective) not subjected to an aging process | - |
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unappendaged | (adjective) not having an appendage | - |
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undamaged | (adjective) not harmed or spoiled; sound | - |
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underage | (adjective) not of legal age | Synonyms: minor, nonaged |
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(adjective) dependent by virtue of youth | - |
undercarriage | (noun) framework that serves as a support for the body of a vehicle | - |
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undiscouraged | (adjective) not deterred | Synonyms: undeterred |
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uneager | (adjective) lacking interest or spirit or animation | - |
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unengaged | (adjective) not busy or occupied; free | - |
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(adjective) not promised in marriage | Synonyms: unpledged, unpromised |
unmanageable | (adjective) hard to control | Synonyms: difficult |
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(adjective) difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape | Synonyms: unwieldy |
(adjective) incapable of being controlled or managed | Synonyms: uncontrollable, uncorrectable |
(adjective) difficult to solve or alleviate | Synonyms: uncontrollable |
unmanageableness | (noun) the trait of being unmanageable | Synonyms: recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness |
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unmanageably | (adverb) so as to be unmanageable | - |
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unmortgaged | (adjective) (especially of a title) free from any encumbrance or limitation that presents a question of fact or law | Synonyms: clear |
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unpackaged | (adjective) not packaged or put into packets | - |
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unstaged | (adjective) not performed on the stage | - |
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upstage | (adjective) of the back half of a stage | - |
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(adjective) remote in manner | Synonyms: aloof, distant |
(noun) the rear part of the stage | - |
(adverb) at or toward the rear of the stage | - |
(verb) steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else | - |
(verb) move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the audience | - |
(verb) treat snobbishly, put in one's place | - |
upstager | (noun) a selfish actor who upstages the other actors | - |
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usage | (noun) the act of using | Synonyms: employment, exercise, use, utilisation, utilization |
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(noun) accepted or habitual practice | Synonyms: custom, usance |
(noun) the customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written | - |
vagabondage | (noun) travelling about without any clear destination | Synonyms: roving, wandering |
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vantage | (noun) the quality of having a superior or more favorable position | Synonyms: advantage |
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(noun) place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective) | - |
vassalage | (noun) the state of a serf | Synonyms: serfdom, serfhood |
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verbiage | (noun) the manner in which something is expressed in words | Synonyms: choice of words, diction, phraseology, phrasing, wording |
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(noun) overabundance of words | Synonyms: verbalism |
vicarage | (noun) an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector | Synonyms: parsonage, rectory |
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village | (noun) a community of people smaller than a town | Synonyms: settlement, small town |
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(noun) a settlement smaller than a town | Synonyms: hamlet |
villager | (noun) one who has lived in a village most of their life | - |
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villainage | (noun) the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf | Synonyms: villeinage |
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villeinage | (noun) tenure by which a villein held land | - |
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(noun) the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf | Synonyms: villainage |
vintage | (noun) the oldness of wines | Synonyms: time of origin |
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(noun) a season's yield of wine from a vineyard | - |
vintager | (noun) a person who harvests grapes for making wine | - |
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visage | (noun) the appearance conveyed by a person's face | Synonyms: countenance |
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(noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: countenance, kisser, mug, phiz, physiognomy, smiler |
visaged | (adjective) having a face or visage as specified | - |
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voltage | (noun) the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts | Synonyms: electric potential, potential, potential difference, potential drop |
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(noun) the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit; expressed in volts | Synonyms: electromotive force, emf |
voyage | (noun) a journey to some distant place | - |
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(noun) an act of traveling by water | Synonyms: ocean trip |
(verb) travel on water propelled by wind or by other means | Synonyms: navigate, sail |
voyager | (noun) a traveler to a distant land (especially one who travels by sea) | - |
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wage | (noun) something that remunerates | Synonyms: earnings, pay, remuneration, salary |
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(verb) carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns) | Synonyms: engage |
wager | (noun) the act of gambling | Synonyms: bet |
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(noun) the money risked on a gamble | Synonyms: bet, stake, stakes |
(verb) maintain with or as if with a bet | Synonyms: bet |
(verb) stake on the outcome of an issue | Synonyms: bet, play |
wagerer | (noun) someone who bets | Synonyms: better, bettor, punter |
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wages | (noun) a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing | Synonyms: payoff, reward |
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wastage | (noun) anything lost by wear or waste | - |
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(noun) the process of wasting | - |
wattage | (noun) the product of voltage and current | Synonyms: electric power, electrical power |
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webpage | (noun) a document connected to the World Wide Web and viewable by anyone connected to the internet who has a web browser | Synonyms: web page |
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wharfage | (noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: dock, pier, wharf |
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(noun) a fee charged for the use of a wharf or quay | Synonyms: quayage |
windage | (noun) the deflection of a projectile resulting from the effects of wind | Synonyms: wind deflection |
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(noun) exposure to the wind (as the exposed part of a vessel's hull which is responsible for wind resistance) | Synonyms: wind exposure |
(noun) the space between the projectile of a smoothbore gun and the surface of the bore of the gun | - |
(noun) the retarding force of air friction on a moving object | - |
wreckage | (noun) the remaining parts of something that has been wrecked | - |
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yardage | (noun) distance measured in the aggregate number of yards | - |
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zooflagellate | (noun) flagellate protozoan lacking photosynthesis and other plant-like characteristics | Synonyms: zoomastigote |
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