acetaldehyde | (noun) a colorless volatile water-soluble liquid aldehyde used chiefly in the manufacture of acetic acid and perfumes and drugs | Synonyms: ethanal |
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acetaldol | (noun) unsaturated aldol | - |
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alcalde | (noun) a mayor or chief magistrate of a Spanish town | - |
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aldehyde | (noun) any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds; used in making resins and dyes and organic acids | - |
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aldehydic | (adjective) of or related to or containing aldehydes | - |
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alder | (noun) north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant | Synonyms: alder tree |
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(noun) wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc | - |
alderfly | (noun) dark-colored insect having predaceous aquatic larvae | Synonyms: alder fly, Sialis lutaria |
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alderman | (noun) a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council) | - |
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aldermanic | (adjective) of or relating to or like an alderman | Synonyms: aldermanly |
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aldermanly | (adjective) of or relating to or like an alderman | Synonyms: aldermanic |
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aldohexose | (noun) a monosaccharide sugar having six carbon atoms and an aldehyde group | - |
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aldol | (noun) an oily colorless liquid obtained by the condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde; contains an alcohol group (-OH) and an aldehyde group (-CHO) | Synonyms: aldehyde-alcohol |
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aldose | (noun) a monosaccharide sugar that contains the aldehyde group or is hemiacetal | - |
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aldosterone | (noun) a corticosteroid hormone that is secreted by the cortex of the adrenal gland; regulates salt (sodium and potassium) and water balance | - |
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aldosteronism | (noun) a condition caused by overproduction of aldosterone | Synonyms: hyperaldosteronism |
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aldotetrose | (noun) A four-carbon aldose; for example, threose, erythrose. | - |
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aldotriose | (noun) Any aldose having three carbon atoms; in reality, just glyceraldehyde. | - |
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bald | (adjective) without the natural or usual covering | Synonyms: denudate, denuded |
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(adjective) lacking hair on all or most of the scalp | Synonyms: bald-headed, bald-pated |
(adjective) with no effort to conceal | Synonyms: barefaced |
(verb) grow bald; lose hair on one's head | - |
baldachin | (noun) ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar) | - |
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balderdash | (noun) trivial nonsense | Synonyms: fiddle-faddle, piffle |
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baldhead | (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldpate, baldy, skin, skinhead |
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balding | (adjective) getting bald | - |
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baldly | (adverb) in a bald manner | - |
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baldness | (noun) the condition of having no hair on the top of the head | Synonyms: phalacrosis |
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baldpate | (noun) a widgeon the male of which has a white crown | Synonyms: American widgeon, Anas americana |
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(noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldy, skin, skinhead |
baldric | (noun) a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip | Synonyms: baldrick |
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baldrick | (noun) a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip | Synonyms: baldric |
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baldy | (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, skin, skinhead |
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caldera | (noun) a large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression | - |
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caldron | (noun) a very large pot that is used for boiling | Synonyms: cauldron |
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chaldron | (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 36 bushels | - |
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emerald | (noun) the green color of an emerald | - |
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(noun) a transparent piece of emerald that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
(noun) a green transparent form of beryl; highly valued as a gemstone | - |
falderol | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
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formaldehyde | (noun) a colorless poisonous gas; made by the oxidation of methanol | Synonyms: methanal |
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furfuraldehyde | (noun) a liquid aldehyde with a penetrating odor; made from plant hulls and corncobs; used in making furan and as a solvent | Synonyms: furfural |
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garibaldi | (noun) a loose high-necked blouse with long sleeves; styled after the red flannel shirts worn by Garibaldi's soldiers | - |
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glyceraldehyde | (noun) a sweet crystalline aldehyde formed by the breakdown of sugars | Synonyms: glyceric aldehyde |
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herald | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: forerunner, harbinger, precursor, predecessor |
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(noun) (formal) a person who announces important news | Synonyms: trumpeter |
(verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, foretell, harbinger |
(verb) praise vociferously | Synonyms: acclaim, hail |
(verb) greet enthusiastically or joyfully | Synonyms: hail |
heralded | (adjective) proclaimed | - |
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heraldic | (adjective) of or relating to heraldry | Synonyms: heraldist |
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(adjective) indicative of or announcing something to come | - |
heraldist | (adjective) of or relating to heraldry | Synonyms: heraldic |
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heraldry | (noun) emblem indicating the right of a person to bear arms | - |
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(noun) the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies | - |
hyperaldosteronism | (noun) a condition caused by overproduction of aldosterone | Synonyms: aldosteronism |
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officialdom | (noun) people elected or appointed to administer a government | Synonyms: government officials |
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paraldehyde | (noun) a colorless liquid (a cyclic trimer of acetaldehyde) that is used as a sedative and a solvent | Synonyms: ethanal trimer |
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piebald | (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, painted, particolored, particoloured, pied, varicolored, varicoloured |
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propionaldehyde | (noun) a colorless liquid aldehyde | Synonyms: propanal |
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ribald | (adjective) humorously vulgar | Synonyms: bawdy, off-color |
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(noun) a ribald person; someone who uses vulgar and offensive language | - |
ribaldry | (noun) behavior or language bordering on indelicacy | Synonyms: gaminess, raciness, spiciness |
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(noun) ribald humor | - |
scald | (noun) the act of burning with steam or hot water | - |
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(noun) a burn cause by hot liquid or steam | - |
(verb) burn with a hot liquid or steam | - |
(verb) heat to the boiling point | - |
(verb) treat with boiling water | - |
(verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: blister, scorch, whip |
thraldom | (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom |
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unheralded | (adjective) without warning or announcement | Synonyms: unannounced, unpredicted |
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valdecoxib | (noun) a Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Bextra) that relieves pain and inflammation without harming the digestive tract | Synonyms: Bextra |
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waldmeister | (noun) fragrant dark green leaves used to flavor May wine | Synonyms: sweet woodruff |
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(noun) Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula | Synonyms: Asperula odorata, fragrant bedstraw, Galium odoratum, sweet woodruff, woodruff |
weald | (noun) an area of open or forested country | - |
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zinnwaldite | (noun) a mica containing iron and lithium | - |
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