| akimbo | (adjective) (used of arms and legs) bent outward with the joint away from the body | - |
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| (adverb) with hands on hips and elbows extending outward | - |
| akin | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin |
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| (adjective) similar in quality or character | Synonyms: kindred |
| akinesia | (noun) motionlessness attributable to a temporary paralysis | Synonyms: akinesis |
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| akinesis | (noun) motionlessness attributable to a temporary paralysis | Synonyms: akinesia |
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| aphakia | (noun) absence of the natural lens of the eye (usually resulting from the removal of cataracts) | - |
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| aphakic | (adjective) of or relating to or afflicted with aphakia | - |
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| (noun) someone afflicted by aphakia; someone lacking the natural lenses of the eyes | - |
| backbreaking | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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| baking | (adjective) as hot as if in an oven | Synonyms: baking hot |
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| (noun) cooking by dry heat in an oven | - |
| (noun) making bread or cake or pastry etc. | - |
| breaking | (noun) the act of breaking something | Synonyms: break, breakage |
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| breathtaking | (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathless |
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| cabinetmaking | (noun) the craft of a joiner | Synonyms: joinery |
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| creakily | (adverb) in a creaky manner | Synonyms: creakingly, screakily |
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| creaking | (noun) a squeaking sound | Synonyms: creak |
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| creakingly | (adverb) in a creaky manner | Synonyms: creakily, screakily |
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| croaking | (noun) a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) | Synonyms: croak |
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| diakinesis | (noun) the final stage of the prophase of meiosis | - |
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| dressmaking | (noun) the craft of making dresses | - |
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| earthshaking | (adjective) loud enough to shake the very earth | - |
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| (adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world | Synonyms: world-shaking, world-shattering |
| epikeratophakia | (noun) using a piece of donated corneal tissue to repair the eye of someone who has had a cataract removed | - |
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| fakir | (noun) a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man | Synonyms: fakeer, faqir, faquir |
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| flakiness | (noun) having or breaking into thin crisp flakes | - |
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| (noun) informal terms for insanity | Synonyms: craziness, daftness |
| forsaking | (noun) the act of giving something up | Synonyms: abandonment, desertion |
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| (noun) the act of forsaking | Synonyms: giving up |
| freakish | (adjective) characteristic of a freak | - |
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| (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, flaky, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
| (adjective) changeable | Synonyms: capricious |
| freakishly | (adverb) unpredictably | Synonyms: capriciously |
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| freakishness | (noun) marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal | Synonyms: abnormality |
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| groundbreaking | (adjective) being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before | Synonyms: innovational, innovative |
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| (noun) the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project | Synonyms: groundbreaking ceremony |
| hakim | (noun) a Muslim physician | Synonyms: hakeem |
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| (noun) a Muslim ruler or governor or judge | - |
| handshaking | (noun) grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) | Synonyms: handclasp, handshake, shake |
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| harakiri | (noun) ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society | Synonyms: hara-kiri, harikari, seppuku |
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| haymaking | (noun) cutting grass and curing it to make hay | - |
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| (noun) taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts | - |
| headshaking | (noun) the act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement | Synonyms: headshake |
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| heartbreaking | (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: grievous, heartrending |
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| homemaking | (noun) the management of a household | - |
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| housebreaking | (noun) trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent | Synonyms: break-in, breaking and entering |
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| kaki | (noun) blackish stilt of New Zealand sometimes considered a color phase of the white-headed stilt | Synonyms: Himantopus novae-zelandiae |
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| (noun) small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit | Synonyms: Diospyros kaki, Japanese persimmon |
| khaki | (adjective) of a yellowish brown color | - |
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| (noun) a sturdy twilled cloth of a yellowish brown color used especially for military uniforms | - |
| khakis | (noun) a military uniform made of khaki fabric | - |
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| latakia | (noun) aromatic Turkish tobacco | - |
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| lawmaking | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: legislating, legislation |
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| leakiness | (noun) the condition of permitting leaks or leakage | - |
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| lovemaking | (noun) sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people | Synonyms: love, love life, making love, sexual love |
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| making | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: devising, fashioning |
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| (noun) (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something | - |
| (noun) an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something | Synonyms: qualification |
| manakin | (noun) any of numerous small bright-colored birds of Central America and South America having short bills and elaborate courtship behavior | - |
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| (noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: form, manikin, mannequin, mannikin |
| (noun) a woman who wears clothes to display fashions | Synonyms: fashion model, manikin, mannequin, mannikin, model |
| mapmaking | (noun) the making of maps and charts | Synonyms: cartography |
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| matchmaking | (noun) mediation in order to bring about a marriage between others | - |
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| merrymaking | (noun) a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity | Synonyms: conviviality, jollification |
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| mistaking | (noun) putting the wrong interpretation on | Synonyms: misinterpretation, misunderstanding |
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| moneymaking | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, mercenary |
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| (adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: lucrative, remunerative |
| (noun) the act of making money (and accumulating wealth) | - |
| moviemaking | (noun) the production of movies | Synonyms: film making, movie making |
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| muckraking | (noun) the exposure of scandal (especially about public figures) | - |
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| nonspeaking | (adjective) not capable of or especially not involving speech or spoken lines | Synonyms: walk-on |
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| overtaking | (noun) going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it | Synonyms: passing |
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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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| papermaking | (noun) the craft of making paper | - |
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| printmaking | (noun) artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens | - |
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| rainmaking | (noun) activity intended to produce rain | - |
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| rakish | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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| (adjective) marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness | Synonyms: devil-may-care, raffish |
| rakishly | (adverb) in a rakish manner | Synonyms: carelessly, raffishly |
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| rakishness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: dapperness, jauntiness, nattiness |
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| (noun) the quality of a rake | - |
| remaking | (noun) creation that is created again or anew | Synonyms: remake |
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| retaking | (noun) the act of taking something back | Synonyms: recapture |
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| saki | (noun) small arboreal monkey of tropical South America with long hair and bushy nonprehensile tail | - |
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| (noun) Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot | Synonyms: rice beer, sake |
| screakily | (adverb) in a creaky manner | Synonyms: creakily, creakingly |
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| shakily | (adverb) in a manner characterized by trembling or shaking | - |
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| (adverb) in an insecurely shaky manner | - |
| shakiness | (noun) the quality of being unstable and insecure | - |
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| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shaking, trembling, vibration |
| shaking | (noun) the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements | - |
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| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shakiness, trembling, vibration |
| shoemaking | (noun) the shoemaker's trade | Synonyms: cobbling, shoe repairing |
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| sneakily | (adverb) in a surreptitious manner | Synonyms: surreptitiously |
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| sneakiness | (noun) a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously | Synonyms: furtiveness, stealthiness |
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| sneaking | (adjective) not openly expressed | Synonyms: unavowed |
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| sneakingly | (adverb) in a sneaky manner | - |
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| soaking | (noun) washing something by allowing it to soak | Synonyms: soak |
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| (noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: drenching, souse, sousing |
| (noun) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: soak, soakage |
| (adverb) extremely wet | Synonyms: dripping, sopping |
| souvlaki | (noun) made of lamb | Synonyms: souvlakia |
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| souvlakia | (noun) made of lamb | Synonyms: souvlaki |
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| speaking | (adjective) capable of or involving speech or speaking | - |
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| (adjective) capable of speech | Synonyms: speech-endowed |
| (noun) delivering an address to a public audience | Synonyms: oral presentation, public speaking, speechmaking |
| (noun) the utterance of intelligible speech | Synonyms: speech production |
| speechmaking | (noun) delivering an address to a public audience | Synonyms: oral presentation, public speaking, speaking |
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| squeakiness | (noun) the state of tending to produce a high-pitched sound or squeak. | - |
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| squeaking | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screaky, screechy, squeaky, squealing |
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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 |
| 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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| 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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| teriyaki | (noun) beef or chicken or seafood marinated in spicy soy sauce and grilled or broiled | - |
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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 | - |
| waking | (adjective) marked by full consciousness or alertness | Synonyms: wakeful |
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| (noun) the state of remaining awake | - |
| winemaking | (noun) the craft and science of growing grapes and making wine | Synonyms: wine making |
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