acatalectic | (adjective) (verse) metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot | - |
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(noun) (prosody) a line of verse that has the full number of syllables | - |
adrenalectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both adrenal glands | Synonyms: suprarenalectomy |
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alcalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alkalescent |
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ale | (noun) a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume | - |
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aleatory | (adjective) dependent on chance | - |
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alecost | (noun) tansy-scented Eurasian perennial herb with buttonlike yellow flowers; used as potherb or salad green and sometimes for potpourri or tea or flavoring; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: balsam herb, bible leaf, Chrysanthemum balsamita, costmary, mint geranium, Tanacetum balsamita |
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alee | (adverb) on or toward the lee | - |
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alehoof | (noun) trailing European aromatic plant of the mint family having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers often grown in hanging baskets; naturalized in North America; sometimes placed in genus Nepeta | Synonyms: field balm, gill-over-the-ground, Glechoma hederaceae, ground ivy, Nepeta hederaceae, runaway robin |
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alehouse | (noun) a tavern where ale is sold | - |
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alembic | (noun) an obsolete kind of container used for distillation; two retorts connected by a tube | - |
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alendronate | (noun) a tablet (trade name Fosamax) prescribed to prevent or treat osteoporosis in women after menopause | Synonyms: Fosamax |
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aleph | (noun) the 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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alert | (adjective) engaged in or accustomed to close observation | Synonyms: watchful |
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(adjective) mentally perceptive and responsive | Synonyms: alive, awake |
(adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy |
(noun) a warning serves to make you more alert to danger | Synonyms: alerting |
(noun) an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger | Synonyms: alarm, alarum, warning signal |
(noun) condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action | Synonyms: qui vive |
(verb) warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness | Synonyms: alarm |
alerting | (noun) a warning serves to make you more alert to danger | Synonyms: alert |
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(noun) a state of readiness to respond | Synonyms: alertness |
alertly | (adverb) in mentally perceptive and responsive way | - |
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alertness | (noun) lively attentiveness | Synonyms: on the qui vive, sharp-sightedness |
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(noun) the process of paying close and continuous attention | Synonyms: vigilance, wakefulness, watchfulness |
(noun) a state of readiness to respond | Synonyms: alerting |
aleurone | (noun) granular protein in outermost layer of endosperm of many seeds or cereal grains | - |
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aleuronic | (adjective) of or related to aleurone | - |
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alewife | (noun) shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus | Synonyms: Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus |
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(noun) flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams | - |
alexandrite | (noun) a green variety of chrysoberyl used as a gemstone | - |
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alexia | (noun) inability to perceive written words | Synonyms: visual aphasia, word blindness |
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alexic | (adjective) of or relating to or symptomatic of alexia | Synonyms: word-blind |
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(noun) a person with alexia | - |
alkalemia | (noun) a blood disorder characterized by a lower concentration of hydrogen ions in the blood (which rises above 7.45 on the pH scale) | - |
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alkalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alcalescent |
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ambivalence | (noun) mixed feelings or emotions | Synonyms: ambivalency |
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ambivalency | (noun) mixed feelings or emotions | Synonyms: ambivalence |
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ambivalent | (adjective) uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow | - |
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analecta | (noun) a collection of excerpts from a literary work | Synonyms: analects |
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analects | (noun) a collection of excerpts from a literary work | Synonyms: analecta |
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analeptic | (adjective) stimulating the central nervous system | - |
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(noun) a medication used as a stimulant to the central nervous system | - |
arbalest | (noun) late version of the crossbow with a steel bow | Synonyms: arbalist |
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azalea | (noun) any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors | - |
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bale | (noun) a large bundle bound for storage or transport | - |
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(verb) make into a bale | - |
baleen | (noun) a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets | Synonyms: whalebone |
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balefire | (noun) a large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration | Synonyms: bonfire |
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baleful | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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(adjective) deadly or sinister | Synonyms: baneful |
balefully | (adverb) in a baleful manner | - |
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balefulness | (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: maleficence, mischief |
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bivalent | (adjective) used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis | Synonyms: double |
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(adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: divalent |
bookdealer | (noun) a dealer in books; a merchant who sells books | Synonyms: book seller |
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braless | (adjective) having the breasts uncovered or featuring such nudity | Synonyms: bare-breasted, topless |
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calean | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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caleche | (noun) the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage | Synonyms: calash, calash top |
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(noun) a woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century | Synonyms: calash |
calefacient | (adjective) producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body | Synonyms: warming |
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calefaction | (noun) the property of being warming | Synonyms: incalescence |
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calefactive | (adjective) serving to heat | Synonyms: calefactory |
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calefactory | (adjective) serving to heat | Synonyms: calefactive |
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calendar | (noun) a list or register of events (appointments or social events or court cases etc) | - |
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(noun) a tabular array of the days (usually for one year) | - |
(noun) a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year | - |
(verb) enter into a calendar | - |
calender | (noun) a machine that smooths or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers | - |
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(verb) press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets | - |
calendered | (adjective) (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers | Synonyms: glossy |
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calendric | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or used in a calendar or time measurement | Synonyms: calendrical |
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calendrical | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or used in a calendar or time measurement | Synonyms: calendric |
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calendula | (noun) any of numerous chiefly annual herbs of the genus Calendula widely cultivated for their yellow or orange flowers; often used for medicinal and culinary purposes | - |
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catalectic | (adjective) (verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot | - |
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(noun) (prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot | - |
catalepsy | (noun) a trancelike state with loss of voluntary motion and failure to react to stimuli | - |
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cataleptic | (adjective) of or having characteristics of or affected with catalepsy | - |
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(noun) a person suffering from catalepsy | - |
catalexis | (noun) the absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse | - |
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cephalexin | (noun) a cephalosporin antibiotic (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribed for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract | Synonyms: Keflex, Keflin, Keftab |
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chalet | (noun) a Swiss house with a sloping roof and wide eaves or a house built in this style | - |
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chorale | (noun) a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune | Synonyms: choral |
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coalesce | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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(verb) fuse or cause to grow together | - |
coalesced | (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamate, amalgamated, consolidated, fused |
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coalescence | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination |
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coalescency | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalition, concretion, conglutination |
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coalescent | (adjective) growing together, fusing | Synonyms: coalescing |
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coalescing | (adjective) growing together, fusing | Synonyms: coalescent |
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concealed | (adjective) hidden on any grounds for any motive | - |
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(adjective) not accessible to view | Synonyms: hidden, out of sight |
congealed | (adjective) congealed into jelly; solidified by cooling | Synonyms: jelled, jellied |
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convalesce | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: recover, recuperate |
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convalescence | (noun) gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury | Synonyms: recovery, recuperation |
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convalescent | (adjective) returning to health after illness or debility | Synonyms: recovering |
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(noun) a person who is recovering from illness | - |
covalence | (noun) valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share | Synonyms: covalency |
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covalency | (noun) valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share | Synonyms: covalence |
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covalent | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by covalence | - |
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dale | (noun) an open river valley (in a hilly area) | - |
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dalesman | (noun) a person who lives in the dales of northern England | - |
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daleth | (noun) the 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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dealer | (noun) a firm engaged in trading | - |
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(noun) a seller of illicit goods | - |
(noun) the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game | - |
(noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: bargainer, monger, trader |
(noun) the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account | Synonyms: principal |
dealership | (noun) a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area | Synonyms: franchise |
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decalescence | (noun) phenomenon that occurs when a metal is being heated and there is a sudden slowing in the rate of temperature increase; slowing is caused by a change in the internal crystal structure of the metal | - |
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decalescent | (adjective) absorbing heat without increase in temperature when heated beyond a certain point | - |
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descale | (verb) remove the scales from | Synonyms: scale |
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dialect | (noun) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | Synonyms: accent, idiom |
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dialectal | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of a dialect | - |
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dialectic | (adjective) of or relating to or employing dialectic | Synonyms: dialectical |
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(noun) any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments | - |
(noun) a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction | - |
dialectical | (adjective) of or relating to or employing dialectic | Synonyms: dialectic |
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dialectically | (adverb) in a dialectic manner | - |
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dialectician | (noun) a logician skilled in dialectic | - |
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dialectics | (noun) a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces | - |
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dialectology | (noun) the branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects | - |
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divalent | (adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: bivalent |
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downscale | (adjective) intended for people with low incomes | - |
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empale | (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: impale, spike, transfix |
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epanalepsis | (noun) repetition after intervening words | - |
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equivalence | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, compare, comparison |
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(noun) essential equality and interchangeability | - |
(noun) a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced | Synonyms: equality, equation, par |
equivalent | (adjective) being essentially equal to something | Synonyms: tantamount |
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(noun) the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen | Synonyms: combining weight, eq, equivalent weight |
(noun) a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc | - |
exhale | (verb) expel air | Synonyms: breathe out, expire |
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(verb) give out (breath or an odor) | Synonyms: emanate, give forth |
extralegal | (adjective) not regulated or sanctioned by law | Synonyms: nonlegal |
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fairytale | (noun) a story about fairies; told to amuse children | Synonyms: fairy story, fairy tale |
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(noun) an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse | Synonyms: cock-and-bull story, fairy story, fairy tale, song and dance |
farthingale | (noun) a hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries | - |
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