| mainline | (verb) inject into the vein | - |
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| mainly | (adverb) for the most part | Synonyms: chiefly, in the main, primarily, principally |
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| mainmast | (noun) the chief mast of a sailing vessel with two or more masts | - |
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| mainsail | (noun) the lowermost sail on the mainmast | - |
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| mainsheet | (noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind | Synonyms: sheet, shroud, tack, weather sheet |
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| mainspring | (noun) the most important spring in a mechanical device (especially a clock or watch); as it uncoils it drives the mechanism | - |
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| mainstay | (noun) the forestay that braces the mainmast | - |
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| (noun) a central cohesive source of support and stability | Synonyms: anchor, backbone, keystone, linchpin, lynchpin |
| (noun) a prominent supporter | Synonyms: pillar |
| mainstream | (noun) the prevailing current of thought | - |
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| mainstreamed | (adjective) (of the handicapped) placed in regular school classes | - |
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| maintain | (verb) stick to correctly or closely | Synonyms: keep, observe |
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| (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: assert, asseverate |
| (verb) state or assert | Synonyms: defend |
| (verb) support against an opponent | Synonyms: uphold |
| (verb) maintain by writing regular records | Synonyms: keep |
| (verb) supply with necessities and support | Synonyms: keep, sustain |
| (verb) keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction | Synonyms: conserve, keep up, preserve |
| (verb) have and exercise | Synonyms: exert, wield |
| (verb) maintain for use and service | Synonyms: keep |
| (verb) cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity | Synonyms: hold, keep |
| maintainable | (adjective) capable of being maintained | - |
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| maintained | (adjective) kept in good condition | Synonyms: kept up, well-kept |
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| (adjective) continued in your keeping or use or memory | Synonyms: retained |
| maintainer | (noun) someone who upholds or maintains | Synonyms: sustainer, upholder |
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| maintenance | (noun) activity involved in maintaining something in good working order | Synonyms: care, upkeep |
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| (noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, upkeep |
| (noun) the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community | Synonyms: criminal maintenance |
| (noun) means of maintenance of a family or group | - |
| (noun) court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated | Synonyms: alimony |
| marocain | (noun) a dress crepe; similar to Canton crepe | Synonyms: crepe marocain |
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| midbrain | (noun) the middle portion of the brain | Synonyms: mesencephalon |
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| migraine | (noun) a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men | Synonyms: hemicrania, megrim, sick headache |
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| militainment | (noun) entertainment with military themes in which the Department of Defense is celebrated | - |
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| misocainea | (noun) hatred of new ideas | - |
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| moraine | (noun) accumulated earth and stones deposited by a glacier | - |
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| mortmain | (noun) the oppressive influence of past events or decisions | Synonyms: dead hand, dead hand of the past |
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| (noun) real property held inalienably (as by an ecclesiastical corporation) | Synonyms: dead hand |
| mountain | (noun) a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill | Synonyms: mount |
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| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| mountaineer | (noun) someone who climbs mountains | Synonyms: mountain climber |
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| (verb) climb mountains for pleasure as a sport | - |
| mountaineering | (noun) the activity of climbing a mountain | Synonyms: mountain climbing |
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| mountainous | (adjective) like a mountain in size and impressiveness | - |
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| (adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: cragged, craggy, hilly |
| (adjective) containing many mountains | - |
| mountainside | (noun) the side or slope of a mountain | Synonyms: versant |
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| murrain | (noun) any disease of domestic animals that resembles a plague | - |
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| nainsook | (noun) a soft lightweight muslin used especially for babies | - |
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| novocaine | (noun) procaine administered as a hydrochloride (trade name Novocain) | Synonyms: Novocain, procaine hydrochloride |
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| obtain | (verb) receive a specified treatment (abstract) | Synonyms: find, get, incur, receive |
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| (verb) come into possession of | - |
| (verb) be valid, applicable, or true | Synonyms: hold, prevail |
| obtainable | (adjective) capable of being obtained | Synonyms: getable, gettable, procurable |
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| obtainment | (noun) the act of obtaining | Synonyms: obtention |
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| ordain | (verb) issue an order | - |
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| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: consecrate, order, ordinate |
| (verb) order by virtue of superior authority; decree | Synonyms: enact |
| (verb) invest with ministerial or priestly authority | - |
| ordained | (adjective) invested with ministerial or priestly functions | - |
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| (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: appointed, decreed, prescribed |
| ordainer | (noun) a cleric who ordains; a cleric who admits someone to holy orders | - |
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| overstrain | (noun) too much strain | - |
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| (verb) strain excessively | Synonyms: overextend |
| pain | (noun) a somatic sensation of acute discomfort | Synonyms: pain sensation, painful sensation |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, nuisance, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
| (noun) emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid | Synonyms: painfulness |
| (noun) a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder | Synonyms: hurting |
| (verb) cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed | Synonyms: ail, trouble |
| (verb) cause emotional anguish or make miserable | Synonyms: anguish, hurt |
| pained | (adjective) emotionally hurt or upset or annoyed | Synonyms: injured, offended |
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| painful | (adjective) causing physical or psychological pain | - |
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| (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, awful, dreadful, terrible, unspeakable |
| (adjective) causing physical discomfort | Synonyms: irritating |
| (adjective) causing misery or pain or distress | Synonyms: afflictive, sore |
| painfully | (adverb) unpleasantly | Synonyms: distressingly |
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| (adverb) in or as if in pain | Synonyms: sorely |
| painfulness | (noun) the quality of being painful | Synonyms: distressingness |
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| (noun) emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid | Synonyms: pain |
| painkiller | (noun) a medicine used to relieve pain | Synonyms: analgesic, anodyne, pain pill |
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| painless | (adjective) not causing physical or psychological pain | - |
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| (adjective) requiring little hard work or exertion | - |
| painlessly | (adverb) without pain | - |
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| painlessness | (noun) The quality of being free from pain, without pain or trouble. | - |
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| (noun) Ease; lack of difficulty. | - |
| pains | (noun) an effortful attempt to attain a goal | Synonyms: nisus, strain, striving |
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| painstaking | (adjective) characterized by extreme care and great effort | Synonyms: conscientious, scrupulous |
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| painstakingly | (adverb) in a fastidious and painstaking manner | Synonyms: fastidiously |
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| painstakingness | (noun) the trait of being painstaking and careful | Synonyms: conscientiousness |
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| paint | (noun) a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating | Synonyms: pigment |
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| (noun) makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | Synonyms: blush, blusher, rouge |
| (noun) (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court | Synonyms: key |
| (verb) apply paint to; coat with paint | - |
| (verb) apply a liquid to; e.g., paint the gutters with linseed oil | - |
| (verb) make a painting of | - |
| (verb) make a painting | - |
| paintable | (adjective) lending itself to being painted | - |
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| paintball | (noun) a game that simulates military combat; players on one team try to eliminate players on the opposing team by shooting capsules of paint at them | - |
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| (noun) a capsule filled with water-soluble dye used as a projectile in playing the game of paintball | - |
| paintbox | (noun) a box containing a collection of cubes or tubes of artists' paint | - |
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| paintbrush | (noun) a brush used as an applicator (to apply paint) | - |
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| painted | (adjective) coated with paint | - |
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| (adjective) having makeup applied | - |
| (adjective) lacking substance or vitality as if produced by painting | - |
| (adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: calico, motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured |
| painter | (noun) large American feline resembling a lion | Synonyms: catamount, cougar, Felis concolor, mountain lion, panther, puma |
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| (noun) a line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up (as when docking or towing) | - |
| (noun) an artist who paints | - |
| (noun) a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint | - |
| painterly | (adjective) having qualities unique to the art of painting | - |
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| painting | (noun) creating a picture with paints | - |
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| (noun) the occupation of a house painter | Synonyms: house painting |
| (noun) the act of applying paint to a surface | - |
| (noun) graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface | Synonyms: picture |
| papain | (noun) a proteolytic enzyme obtained from the unripe papaya; used as a meat tenderizer | - |
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| peneplain | (noun) a more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements | Synonyms: peneplane |
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| pertain | (verb) be a part or attribute of | Synonyms: appertain |
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| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, refer, relate, touch, touch on |
| pertainym | (noun) meaning relating to or pertaining to | - |
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| piperocaine | (noun) a compound used in the form of its hydrochloride as a local or spinal anesthetic | Synonyms: Metycaine, piperocaine hydrochloride |
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| plain | (adjective) not elaborate or elaborated; simple | - |
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| (adjective) lacking patterns especially in color | Synonyms: unpatterned |
| (adjective) free from any effort to soften to disguise | Synonyms: unvarnished |
| (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: apparent, evident, manifest, palpable, patent, unmistakable |
| (adjective) not mixed with extraneous elements | Synonyms: sheer, unmingled, unmixed |
| (adjective) lacking embellishment or ornamentation | Synonyms: bare, spare, unembellished, unornamented |
| (adjective) lacking in physical beauty or proportion | Synonyms: homely |
| (noun) a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side | Synonyms: knit, knit stitch, plain stitch |
| (noun) extensive tract of level open land | Synonyms: champaign, field |
| (adverb) unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly') | Synonyms: apparently, evidently, manifestly, obviously, patently, plainly |
| (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kick, kvetch, quetch, sound off |
| plainchant | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a liturgical chant consisting of a single, unaccompanied melodic line | Synonyms: plainsong |
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| plainclothesman | (noun) a detective who wears civilian clothes on duty | - |
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| plainly | (adverb) unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly') | Synonyms: apparently, evidently, manifestly, obviously, patently, plain |
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| (adverb) in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment | Synonyms: simply |
| plainness | (noun) the appearance of being plain and unpretentious | - |
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| (noun) an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful | Synonyms: homeliness |
| (noun) clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous | Synonyms: perspicuity, perspicuousness |
| (noun) the state of being unmixed with other material | - |
| plainsman | (noun) an inhabitant of a plains region (especially the Great Plains of North America) | - |
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| plainsong | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a liturgical chant consisting of a single, unaccompanied melodic line | Synonyms: plainchant |
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| plainspoken | (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: blunt, candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
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| (adjective) using simple and direct language | - |
| plaint | (noun) a cry of sorrow and grief | Synonyms: lament, lamentation, wail |
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| (noun) (United Kingdom) a written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court of law asking for the grievance to be redressed | - |
| plaintiff | (noun) a person who brings an action in a court of law | Synonyms: complainant |
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| plaintive | (adjective) expressing sorrow | Synonyms: mournful |
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| plaintively | (adverb) in a plaintive manner | - |
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| plaintiveness | (noun) expressing sorrowfulness | - |
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| plantain | (noun) starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics | - |
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| (noun) a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics | Synonyms: Musa paradisiaca, plantain tree |
| (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally | - |
| porcelain | (noun) ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic | - |
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| porcelainize | (verb) coat with porcelain or a porcelain-like surface | - |
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| preordain | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: foreordain, predestine |
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| procaine | (noun) a white crystalline powder (trade name Ethocaine) administered near nerves as a local anesthetic in dentistry and medicine | Synonyms: Ethocaine |
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| ptomain | (noun) any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria | Synonyms: ptomaine |
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| ptomaine | (noun) a term for food poisoning that is no longer in scientific use; food poisoning was once thought to be caused by ingesting ptomaines | Synonyms: ptomaine poisoning |
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| (noun) any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria | Synonyms: ptomain |
| quaint | (adjective) attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic) | Synonyms: old-time, olde worlde |
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| (adjective) strange in an interesting or pleasing way | - |
| (adjective) very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance | - |
| quaintly | (adverb) in a quaint old-fashioned manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a strange but not unpleasant manner | - |
| quaintness | (noun) strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned | - |
| quatrain | (noun) a stanza of four lines | - |
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| rain | (noun) anything happening rapidly or in quick successive | Synonyms: pelting |
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| (noun) water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere | Synonyms: rainfall |
| (noun) drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds | Synonyms: rainwater |
| (verb) precipitate as rain | Synonyms: rain down |
| rainbow | (noun) an illusory hope | - |
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| (noun) an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain | - |
| raincoat | (noun) a water-resistant coat | Synonyms: waterproof |
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| raindrop | (noun) a drop of rain | - |
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| rainfall | (noun) water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere | Synonyms: rain |
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| rainfly | (noun) flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent | Synonyms: fly, fly sheet, tent-fly, tent flap |
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| rainforest | (noun) a forest with heavy annual rainfall | Synonyms: rain forest |
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| raininess | (noun) (of weather) the badness of the weather | Synonyms: foulness |
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| raining | (adjective) falling in drops or as if falling like rain | - |
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| rainless | (adjective) lacking rain | - |
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| rainlessness | (noun) The state or condition of being rainless; lack of rain; drought. | - |
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| rainmaker | (noun) American Indian medicine man who attempt to make it rain | - |
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| (noun) executive who is very successful in bringing in business to his company or firm | - |
| rainmaking | (noun) activity intended to produce rain | - |
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