| explanandum | (noun) (logic) a statement of something (a fact or thing or expression) to be explained | Synonyms: explicandum |
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| explanans | (noun) (logic) statements that explain the explicandum; the explanatory premises | - |
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| explanation | (noun) thought that makes something comprehensible | - |
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| (noun) a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc. | Synonyms: account |
| (noun) the act of explaining; making something plain or intelligible | - |
| explanatory | (adjective) serving or intended to explain or make clear | - |
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| fanaloka | (noun) civet of Madagascar | Synonyms: Fossa fossa |
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| fanatic | (adjective) marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea | Synonyms: fanatical, overzealous, rabid |
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| (noun) a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause) | Synonyms: fiend |
| fanatical | (adjective) marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea | Synonyms: fanatic, overzealous, rabid |
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| fanatically | (adverb) in a passionately fanatic manner | - |
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| fanaticism | (noun) excessive intolerance of opposing views | Synonyms: fanatism, zealotry |
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| fanatism | (noun) excessive intolerance of opposing views | Synonyms: fanaticism, zealotry |
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| gitana | (noun) a Spanish female Gypsy | - |
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| granadilla | (noun) the egg-shaped edible fruit of tropical American vines related to passionflowers | - |
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| (noun) tropical American passionflower yielding the large granadilla fruit | Synonyms: giant granadilla, Passiflora quadrangularis |
| (noun) Brazilian passionflower cultivated for its deep purple fruit | Synonyms: Passiflora edulis, purple granadillo |
| (noun) considered best for fruit | Synonyms: Passiflora ligularis, sweet granadilla |
| granadillo | (noun) West Indian tree yielding a fine grade of green ebony | Synonyms: Brya ebenus, granadilla tree |
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| granary | (noun) a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed | Synonyms: garner |
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| guanabana | (noun) large spiny tropical fruit with tart pulp related to custard apples | Synonyms: soursop |
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| guanabenz | (noun) antihypertensive drug (trade name Wytensin) that reduces blood pressure by its effect on the central nervous system | Synonyms: Wytensin |
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| guanaco | (noun) wild llama | Synonyms: Lama guanicoe |
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| gymkhana | (noun) a meet at which riders and horses display a range of skills and aptitudes | - |
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| hypnoanalysis | (noun) the use of hypnosis in conjunction with psychoanalysis | - |
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| iguana | (noun) large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America | Synonyms: common iguana, Iguana iguana |
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| isocyanate | (noun) a salt or ester of isocyanic acid | - |
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| isothiocyanate | (noun) a family of compounds derived from horseradish and radishes and onions and mustards; source of the hotness of those plants and preparations | - |
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| jackanapes | (noun) someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous | Synonyms: lightweight, whippersnapper |
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| kanaf | (noun) valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation | Synonyms: bimli, bimli hemp, Bombay hemp, deccan hemp, Hibiscus cannabinus, Indian hemp, kenaf |
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| kanamycin | (noun) antibiotic (trade name Kantrex) used to treat severe infections | Synonyms: Kantrex |
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| khanate | (noun) the position of a khan | - |
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| (noun) the realm of a khan | - |
| lanai | (noun) a veranda or roofed patio often furnished and used as a living room | - |
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| lanate | (adjective) covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments | Synonyms: woolly |
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| lantana | (noun) a genus of about 150 species of flowering shrub, commonly known as shrub verbenas or lantanas | - |
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| liana | (noun) a woody climbing usually tropical plant | - |
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| manacle | (noun) shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs | Synonyms: cuff, handcuff, handlock |
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| (verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: cuff, handcuff |
| manage | (verb) handle effectively | Synonyms: handle, wield |
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| (verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: care, deal, handle |
| (verb) watch and direct | Synonyms: oversee, superintend, supervise |
| (verb) carry on or function | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out |
| (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: finagle, wangle |
| (verb) be successful; achieve a goal | Synonyms: bring off, carry off, negociate, pull off |
| manageability | (noun) the capability of being managed or controlled | Synonyms: manageableness |
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| manageable | (adjective) capable of being managed or controlled | - |
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| (adjective) capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do | Synonyms: accomplishable, achievable, doable, realizable |
| manageableness | (noun) the capability of being managed or controlled | Synonyms: manageability |
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| manageably | (adverb) so as to be manageable | - |
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| management | (noun) the act of managing something | Synonyms: direction |
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| (noun) those in charge of running a business | - |
| manager | (noun) someone who controls resources and expenditures | Synonyms: director, managing director |
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| (noun) (sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team | Synonyms: coach, handler |
| manageress | (noun) a woman manager | - |
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| managerial | (adjective) of or relating to the function or responsibility or activity of management | - |
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| managerially | (adverb) in a managerial manner | - |
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| managership | (noun) the position of manager | - |
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| 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 |
| manana | (noun) an unspecified time in the future | - |
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| manat | (noun) the basic unit of money in Azerbaijan | - |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Turkmenistan | - |
| manatee | (noun) sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America; the flat tail is rounded | Synonyms: Trichechus manatus |
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| manganate | (noun) a salt of manganic acid containing manganese as its anion | - |
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| marihuana | (noun) the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect | Synonyms: cannabis, ganja, marijuana |
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| (noun) a strong-smelling plant whose dried leaves can be smoked for a pleasant effect or pain reduction | Synonyms: Cannabis sativa, ganja, marijuana |
| marijuana | (noun) the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect | Synonyms: cannabis, ganja, marihuana |
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| (noun) a strong-smelling plant whose dried leaves can be smoked for a pleasant effect or pain reduction | Synonyms: Cannabis sativa, ganja, marihuana |
| methanal | (noun) a colorless poisonous gas; made by the oxidation of methanol | Synonyms: formaldehyde |
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| mismanage | (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: misconduct, mishandle |
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| mismanagement | (noun) management that is careless or inefficient | Synonyms: misdirection |
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| morganatic | (adjective) (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior | Synonyms: left-handed |
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| napoleoniana | (noun) items related to the life of Napoleon (engravings, paintings, books, etc.). | - |
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| neuroanatomic | (adjective) of or relating to neural tissue or the nervous system | Synonyms: neuroanatomical |
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| neuroanatomical | (adjective) of or relating to neural tissue or the nervous system | Synonyms: neuroanatomic |
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| neuroanatomy | (noun) the anatomy of the nervous system | - |
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| nirvana | (noun) any place of complete bliss and delight and peace | Synonyms: Eden, heaven, paradise, promised land, Shangri-la |
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| (noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness | Synonyms: enlightenment |
| oceanaut | (noun) a skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research | Synonyms: aquanaut |
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| opopanax | (noun) an odorous gum resin formerly used in medicines | - |
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| orphanage | (noun) a public institution for the care of orphans | Synonyms: orphans' asylum |
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| (noun) the condition of being a child without living parents | Synonyms: orphanhood |
| panacea | (noun) hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists | Synonyms: catholicon, cure-all, nostrum |
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| panache | (noun) a feathered plume on a helmet | - |
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| (noun) distinctive and stylish elegance | Synonyms: dash, elan, flair, style |
| panamica | (noun) low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers | Synonyms: friendship plant, panamiga, Pilea involucrata |
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| panamiga | (noun) low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers | Synonyms: friendship plant, panamica, Pilea involucrata |
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| panatela | (noun) a long slender cigar | Synonyms: panetela, panetella |
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| paranasal | (adjective) adjacent to the nasal cavities | - |
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| perianal | (adjective) around the anus | - |
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| permanganate | (noun) a dark purple salt of permanganic acid; in water solution it is used as a disinfectant and antiseptic | - |
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| pirana | (noun) small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals | Synonyms: caribe, piranha |
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| planar | (adjective) involving or having two dimensions | Synonyms: two-dimensional |
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| planaria | (noun) free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts | Synonyms: planarian |
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| planarian | (noun) free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts | Synonyms: planaria |
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| planate | (adjective) having been flattened | Synonyms: flattened |
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| planation | (noun) the process of erosion whereby a level surface is produced | - |
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| poinciana | (noun) a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana | Synonyms: bird of paradise, Caesalpinia gilliesii, Poinciana gilliesii |
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| pomegranate | (noun) large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind | - |
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| (noun) shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit | Synonyms: pomegranate tree, Punica granatum |
| preanal | (adjective) situated in front of the anus | - |
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| profanation | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | Synonyms: blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege |
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| (noun) degradation of something worthy of respect; cheapening | - |
| profanatory | (adjective) profaning or tending to desecrate | - |
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| propanal | (noun) a colorless liquid aldehyde | Synonyms: propionaldehyde |
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| propanamide | (noun) the amide of propionic acid (C2H5CONH2) | Synonyms: proprionamide |
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| psychoanalyse | (verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, psychoanalyze |
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| psychoanalysis | (noun) a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud | Synonyms: analysis, depth psychology |
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| psychoanalyst | (noun) a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis | Synonyms: analyst |
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| psychoanalytic | (adjective) of or relating to or incorporating the methods and theory of psychiatric treatment originated by Sigmund Freud | Synonyms: psychoanalytical |
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| psychoanalytical | (adjective) of or relating to or incorporating the methods and theory of psychiatric treatment originated by Sigmund Freud | Synonyms: psychoanalytic |
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| psychoanalyze | (verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, psychoanalyse |
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| pyocyanase | (noun) a yellow-green mixture of antibiotics obtained from the bacillus of green pus | - |
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| sanatarium | (noun) a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases | Synonyms: sanatorium, sanitarium |
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| sanative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: alterative, curative, healing, remedial, therapeutic |
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| sanatorium | (noun) a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases | Synonyms: sanatarium, sanitarium |
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| (noun) pejorative terms for an insane asylum | Synonyms: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, snake pit |
| solanaceous | (adjective) of or relating to plants of the family Solanaceae (the potato family) | - |
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| sultana | (noun) dried seedless grape | Synonyms: seedless raisin |
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| (noun) pale yellow seedless grape used for raisins and wine | - |
| sultanate | (noun) country or territory ruled by a sultan | - |
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| supranational | (adjective) transcending established national boundaries or spheres of interest | - |
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| tanager | (noun) any of numerous New World woodland birds having brightly colored males | - |
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| thanatology | (noun) the branch of science that studies death (especially its social and psychological aspects) | - |
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| thanatophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of death | - |
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| thanatopsis | (noun) an essay expressing a view on the subject of death | - |
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