| stocktaker | (noun) an employee whose job is to take inventory | Synonyms: stock-taker |
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| stocktaking | (noun) making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand | Synonyms: inventory, inventorying, stock-taking |
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| (noun) reappraisal of a situation or position or outlook | Synonyms: stock-taking |
| strake | (noun) thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship | Synonyms: wale |
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| streak | (noun) a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background | Synonyms: bar, stripe |
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| (noun) a distinctive characteristic | - |
| (noun) a sudden flash (as of lightning) | - |
| (noun) an unbroken series of events | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained | Synonyms: blotch, mottle |
| (verb) move quickly in a straight line | - |
| (verb) run naked in a public place | - |
| streaked | (adjective) marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations | Synonyms: streaky |
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| streaker | (noun) someone who takes off all their clothes and runs naked through a public place | - |
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| streaky | (adjective) marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations | Synonyms: streaked |
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| strikebreaker | (noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: blackleg, rat, scab |
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| strikebreaking | (noun) confrontational activities intended to break up a strike by workers | - |
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| sukiyaki | (noun) thin beef strips (or chicken or pork) cooked briefly at the table with onions and greens and soy sauce | - |
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| sunbaked | (adjective) dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight | Synonyms: adust, baked, parched, scorched |
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| (adjective) baked or hardened by exposure to sunlight; not burned | - |
| sweepstakes | (noun) a lottery in which the prize consists of the money paid by the participants | - |
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| taka | (noun) the basic unit of money in Bangladesh; equal to 100 paisa | - |
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| takahe | (noun) flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules | Synonyms: notornis, Notornis mantelli |
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| take | (noun) the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption | - |
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| (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, return, takings, yield |
| (verb) be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness | Synonyms: contract, get |
| (verb) remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract | Synonyms: remove, take away, withdraw |
| (verb) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect | Synonyms: acquire, adopt, assume, take on |
| (verb) ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial | - |
| (verb) be seized or affected in a specified way | - |
| (verb) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives | Synonyms: choose, pick out, select |
| (verb) be a student of a certain subject | Synonyms: learn, read, study |
| (verb) take into consideration for exemplifying purposes | Synonyms: consider, deal, look at |
| (verb) interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression | Synonyms: read |
| (verb) accept or undergo, often unwillingly | Synonyms: submit |
| (verb) take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs | Synonyms: claim, exact |
| (verb) make a film or photograph of something | Synonyms: film, shoot |
| (verb) lay claim to; as of an idea | Synonyms: claim |
| (verb) obtain by winning | - |
| (verb) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | Synonyms: aim, direct, take aim, train |
| (verb) serve oneself to, or consume regularly | Synonyms: consume, have, ingest, take in |
| (verb) get into one's hands, take physically | Synonyms: get hold of |
| (verb) have sex with; archaic use | Synonyms: have |
| (verb) occupy or take on | Synonyms: assume, strike, take up |
| (verb) travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route | - |
| (verb) head into a specified direction | Synonyms: make |
| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: conduct, direct, guide, lead |
| (verb) take something or somebody with oneself somewhere | Synonyms: bring, convey |
| (verb) proceed along in a vehicle | Synonyms: drive |
| (verb) experience or feel or submit to | - |
| (verb) take into one's possession | - |
| (verb) conquer by force | - |
| (verb) buy, select | - |
| (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: charter, engage, hire, lease, rent |
| (verb) receive or obtain regularly | Synonyms: subscribe, subscribe to |
| (verb) receive willingly something given or offered | Synonyms: accept, have |
| (verb) require (time or space) | Synonyms: occupy, use up |
| (verb) admit into a group or community | Synonyms: accept, admit, take on |
| (verb) to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort | - |
| (verb) make use of or accept for some purpose | Synonyms: accept |
| (verb) assume, as of positions or roles | Synonyms: fill, occupy |
| (verb) carry out | - |
| (verb) develop a habit; apply oneself to a practice or occupation | Synonyms: take to |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require |
| (verb) be designed to hold or take | Synonyms: accept |
| (verb) have with oneself; have on one's person | Synonyms: carry, pack |
| (verb) be capable of holding or containing | Synonyms: contain, hold |
| takeaway | (noun) the act of taking the ball or puck away from the team on the offense (as by the interception of a pass) | - |
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| (noun) a concession made by a labor union to a company that is trying to lower its expenditures | - |
| (noun) prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises | Synonyms: takeout, takeout food |
| takedown | (noun) a crushing remark | Synonyms: put-down, squelch, squelcher |
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| (noun) (amateur wrestling) being brought to the mat from a standing position | - |
| taken | (adjective) be affected with an indisposition | - |
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| (adjective) understood in a certain way; made sense of | Synonyms: interpreted |
| takeoff | (noun) a departure; especially of airplanes | - |
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| (noun) humorous or satirical mimicry | Synonyms: mockery, parody |
| (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, travesty |
| (noun) the initial ascent of an airplane as it becomes airborne | - |
| takeout | (adjective) of or involving food to be taken and eaten off the premises | Synonyms: take-away |
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| (noun) (bridge) a bid that asks your partner to bid another suit | - |
| (noun) prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises | Synonyms: takeaway, takeout food |
| takeover | (noun) a change by sale or merger in the controlling interest of a corporation | - |
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| (noun) a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force | Synonyms: coup, coup d'etat, putsch |
| taker | (noun) one who takes a bet or wager | - |
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| (noun) one who accepts an offer | - |
| takin | (noun) large heavily built goat antelope of eastern Himalayan area | Synonyms: Budorcas taxicolor, gnu goat |
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| taking | (adjective) very attractive; capturing interest | Synonyms: fetching, winning |
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| (noun) the act of someone who picks up or takes something | Synonyms: pickings |
| takings | (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, yield |
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| takoyaki | (noun) a ball-shaped Japanese snack made of a wheat flour-based batter and cooked in a special moulded pan | - |
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| teacake | (noun) any of various small cakes or cookies often served with tea | - |
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| (noun) flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea | Synonyms: tea biscuit |
| teak | (noun) tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood | Synonyms: Tectona grandis |
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| (noun) hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding | Synonyms: teakwood |
| teakettle | (noun) kettle for boiling water to make tea | - |
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| teakwood | (noun) hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding | Synonyms: teak |
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| tentmaker | (noun) someone who makes or repairs tents | - |
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| teriyaki | (noun) beef or chicken or seafood marinated in spicy soy sauce and grilled or broiled | - |
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| tiebreaker | (noun) overtime play in order to break a tie; e.g. tennis and soccer | - |
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| tokamak | (noun) a doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research; a plasma is heated and confined in a magnetic bottle | - |
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| tombak | (noun) an alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding | Synonyms: tambac, tombac |
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| toolmaker | (noun) someone skilled in making or repairing tools | - |
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| trojniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using two units of water for each unit of honey. | - |
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| troublemaker | (noun) someone who deliberately stirs up trouble | Synonyms: bad hat, mischief-maker, trouble maker, troubler |
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| turakoo | (noun) large brightly crested bird of Africa | Synonyms: touraco, turaco, turacou |
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| tweak | (noun) a squeeze with the fingers | Synonyms: pinch |
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| (verb) adjust finely | Synonyms: fine-tune |
| (verb) to be under the influence of methamphetamine | - |
| (verb) pull or pull out sharply | Synonyms: pick off, pluck, pull off |
| (verb) pinch or squeeze sharply | - |
| uakari | (noun) medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin; only New World monkey with a short tail | - |
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| unawakened | (adjective) not aroused or activated | - |
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| (adjective) still asleep | - |
| unbreakable | (adjective) impossible to break especially under ordinary usage | - |
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| unbreakableness | (noun) a consistency of something that does not break under pressure | - |
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| uncloak | (verb) remove a cloak from | - |
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| (verb) reveal the true nature of | Synonyms: unmask |
| undertake | (verb) promise to do or accomplish | Synonyms: guarantee |
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| (verb) enter into a contractual arrangement | Synonyms: contract |
| (verb) enter upon an activity or enterprise | Synonyms: attempt, set about |
| (verb) accept as a charge | Synonyms: take in charge |
| (verb) accept as a challenge | Synonyms: tackle, take on |
| undertaker | (noun) one whose business is the management of funerals | Synonyms: funeral director, funeral undertaker, mortician |
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| undertaking | (noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labor, labour, project, task |
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| (noun) the trade of a funeral director | - |
| unmake | (verb) deprive of certain characteristics | Synonyms: undo |
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| unmistakable | (adjective) clearly evident to the mind | - |
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| (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: apparent, evident, manifest, palpable, patent, plain |
| unmistakably | (adverb) without possibility of mistake | - |
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| (adverb) in a signal manner | Synonyms: remarkably, signally |
| unshakable | (adjective) without flaws or loopholes | Synonyms: bulletproof, ironclad, unassailable, watertight |
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| (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steadfast, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unwavering |
| unshakably | (adverb) with determination; in a determined manner | Synonyms: determinedly, unfalteringly |
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| unshaken | (adjective) unshaken in purpose | Synonyms: undaunted, undismayed |
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| unspeakable | (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible |
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| (adjective) defying expression or description | Synonyms: indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, untellable, unutterable |
| (adjective) too sacred to be uttered | Synonyms: ineffable, unnameable, unutterable |
| unspeakably | (adverb) to an inexpressible degree | Synonyms: indescribably, ineffably, inexpressibly, unutterably |
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| uptake | (noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | Synonyms: consumption, ingestion, intake |
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| (noun) a process of taking up or using up or consuming | - |
| wake | (noun) a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial | Synonyms: viewing |
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| (noun) the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward | Synonyms: backwash |
| (noun) the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event) | Synonyms: aftermath, backwash |
| (verb) be awake, be alert, be there | - |
| (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awake, awaken, come alive, wake up, waken |
| (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, rouse, wake up, waken |
| (verb) to alert someone to something | - |
| (verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, heat, ignite, inflame, stir up |
| wakeboard | (noun) a buoyant board (resembling a surfboard) that is used to ride over water while being pulled behind a motorboat | Synonyms: wake board |
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| wakeful | (adjective) carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger | Synonyms: argus-eyed, open-eyed, vigilant, watchful |
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| (adjective) marked by full consciousness or alertness | Synonyms: waking |
| (adjective) (of sleep) easily disturbed | Synonyms: light |
| wakefulness | (noun) a periodic state during which you are conscious and aware of the world | - |
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| (noun) the process of paying close and continuous attention | Synonyms: alertness, vigilance, watchfulness |
| (noun) a temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep | Synonyms: sleeplessness |
| wakeless | (adjective) (of sleep) deep and complete | Synonyms: heavy, profound, sound |
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| waken | (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awake, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up |
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| (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, rouse, wake, wake up |
| wakening | (noun) the act of waking | Synonyms: awakening, waking up |
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| waker | (noun) a person who awakes | - |
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| (noun) someone who rouses others from sleep | Synonyms: arouser, rouser |
| waking | (adjective) marked by full consciousness or alertness | Synonyms: wakeful |
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| (noun) the state of remaining awake | - |
| watchmaker | (noun) someone who makes or repairs watches | Synonyms: horologer, horologist |
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| weak | (adjective) wanting in physical strength | - |
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| (adjective) overly diluted; thin and insipid | Synonyms: washy, watery |
| (adjective) tending downward in price | - |
| (adjective) likely to fail under stress or pressure | - |
| (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weakly |
| (adjective) wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings | Synonyms: fallible, frail, imperfect |
| (adjective) deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc | Synonyms: faint |
| (adjective) not having authority, political strength, or governing power | - |
| (adjective) (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection | - |
| (adjective) deficient in intelligence or mental power | - |
| (adjective) deficient or lacking in some skill | - |
| (adjective) (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress | Synonyms: light, unaccented |
| weaken | (verb) become weaker | - |
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| (verb) lessen the strength of | - |
| (verb) reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of | Synonyms: de-escalate, step down |
| (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, damp, dampen, soften |
| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, countermine, sabotage, subvert, undermine |
| weakened | (adjective) damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value | Synonyms: hurt |
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| (adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuate, attenuated, faded |
| (adjective) mixed with water | Synonyms: cut, thinned |
| (adjective) impaired by diminution | Synonyms: diminished, lessened, vitiated |
| (adjective) made weak or weaker | - |
| weakener | (noun) that which weakens or causes a loss of strength | - |
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| weakening | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: debilitative, enervating, enfeebling |
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| (adjective) moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker | - |
| (noun) the act of reducing the strength of something | - |
| (noun) becoming weaker | - |
| weakfish | (noun) food and game fish of North American coastal waters with a mouth from which hooks easily tear out | Synonyms: Cynoscion regalis |
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| (noun) lean flesh of food and game fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States | - |
| weakling | (noun) a person who is physically weak and ineffectual | Synonyms: doormat, wuss |
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| weakly | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak |
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| (adverb) in a weak or feeble manner or to a minor degree | - |
| weakness | (noun) the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain | - |
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| (noun) powerlessness revealed by an inability to act | Synonyms: helplessness, impuissance |
| (noun) a penchant for something even though it might not be good for you | - |
| (noun) a flaw or weak point | Synonyms: failing |
| (noun) the condition of being financially weak | - |
| wheatflake | (noun) crisp flake made from wheat | - |
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| whipsnake | (noun) any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails | Synonyms: whip-snake, whip snake |
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| wigmaker | (noun) someone who makes and sells wigs | - |
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| windbreak | (noun) hedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion | Synonyms: shelterbelt |
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| windbreaker | (noun) a kind of heavy jacket | Synonyms: anorak, parka, windcheater |
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| winemaker | (noun) someone who makes wine | Synonyms: vintner, wine maker |
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| winemaking | (noun) the craft and science of growing grapes and making wine | Synonyms: wine making |
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| wreak | (verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence | Synonyms: bring, make for, play, work |
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| yak | (noun) large long-haired wild ox of Tibet often domesticated | Synonyms: Bos grunniens |
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| (noun) noisy talk | Synonyms: cackle, chatter, yack, yakety-yak |
| (verb) talk profusely | Synonyms: gab |
| yakuza | (noun) organized crime in Japan; an alliance of criminal organizations and illegal enterprises | - |
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| (noun) a Japanese gangster | - |
| yashmak | (noun) the face veil worn by Muslim women | Synonyms: yashmac |
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| yellowcake | (noun) an impure mixture of uranium oxides obtained during the processing of uranium ore | Synonyms: U308 |
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| zakat | (noun) the fourth pillar of Islam is almsgiving as an act of worship | - |
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| zamboorak | (noun) a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies | Synonyms: camel cavalry, zamburak, zamburek, zumbooruck, zumbooruk |
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| zamburak | (noun) a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies | Synonyms: camel cavalry, zamboorak, zamburek, zumbooruck, zumbooruk |
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