| lancetfish | (noun) large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail | Synonyms: lancet fish, wolffish |
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| lancewood | (noun) source of most of the lancewood of commerce | Synonyms: lancewood tree, Oxandra lanceolata |
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| (noun) durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools | - |
| lancinate | (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinating, piercing, stabbing |
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| lancinating | (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, piercing, stabbing |
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| lieutenancy | (noun) the position of a lieutenant | - |
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| lithomancer | (noun) one who practices lithomancy | - |
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| lithomancy | (noun) divination by means of stones or stone talismans | - |
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| luminance | (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness, brightness level, light, luminosity, luminousness |
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| luxuriance | (noun) the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses | Synonyms: lushness, voluptuousness |
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| maintenance | (noun) activity involved in maintaining something in good working order | Synonyms: care, upkeep |
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| (noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, upkeep |
| (noun) the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community | Synonyms: criminal maintenance |
| (noun) means of maintenance of a family or group | - |
| (noun) court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated | Synonyms: alimony |
| malfeasance | (noun) wrongful conduct by a public official | - |
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| malignance | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignancy, malignity |
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| (noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignancy |
| malignancy | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignance, malignity |
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| (noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignance |
| melancholia | (noun) extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears | - |
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| melancholiac | (noun) someone subject to melancholia | Synonyms: melancholic |
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| melancholic | (adjective) characterized by or causing or expressing sadness | Synonyms: melancholy |
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| (noun) someone subject to melancholia | Synonyms: melancholiac |
| melancholy | (adjective) grave or even gloomy in character | Synonyms: somber, sombre |
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| (adjective) characterized by or causing or expressing sadness | Synonyms: melancholic |
| (noun) a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy | Synonyms: black bile |
| (noun) a feeling of thoughtful sadness | - |
| (noun) a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed | - |
| mendicancy | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: beggary, begging |
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| (noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: beggary, mendicity |
| mesalliance | (noun) a marriage with a person of inferior social status | - |
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| microbalance | (noun) balance for weighing very small objects | - |
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| militance | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: combativeness, militancy |
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| militancy | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: combativeness, militance |
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| misalliance | (noun) an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage) | - |
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| mischance | (noun) an instance of misfortune | Synonyms: misadventure, mishap |
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| (noun) an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate | Synonyms: bad luck, mishap |
| misfeasance | (noun) doing a proper act in a wrongful or injurious manner | - |
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| monstrance | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a vessel (usually of gold or silver) in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration | Synonyms: ostensorium |
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| (noun) proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion | Synonyms: demonstration |
| nance | (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
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| necromancer | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, sorcerer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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| (noun) one who practices divination by conjuring up the dead | - |
| necromancy | (noun) conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying | - |
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| (noun) the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world | Synonyms: black art, black magic, sorcery |
| nonacceptance | (noun) the act of refusing an offer | Synonyms: turndown |
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| nonappearance | (noun) failure to appear (especially as at court) | - |
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| nonattendance | (noun) the failure to attend | - |
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| nonchalance | (noun) the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern | Synonyms: indifference, unconcern |
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| noncompliance | (noun) the failure to obey | Synonyms: disobedience |
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| nonconformance | (noun) failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior | Synonyms: nonconformity |
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| (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformism, nonconformity |
| nonfeasance | (noun) a failure to act when under an obligation to do so; a refusal (without sufficient excuse) to do that which it is your legal duty to do | - |
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| nonfinancial | (adjective) not involving financial matters | - |
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| nonobservance | (noun) a lack of conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | - |
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| nonperformance | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, negligence |
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| nonresistance | (noun) group refusal to resort to violence even in defense against violence | - |
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| nuance | (noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, refinement, shade, subtlety |
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| nudibranch | (noun) any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body | Synonyms: sea slug |
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| nuisance | (noun) (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive | - |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
| nurturance | (noun) physical and emotional care and nourishment | - |
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| obeisance | (noun) the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person | Synonyms: obedience |
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| (noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bow, bowing |
| oblanceolate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a tapering base | - |
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| observance | (noun) the act of observing; taking a patient look | Synonyms: observation, watching |
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| (noun) conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | Synonyms: honoring, honouring |
| (noun) the act of noticing or paying attention | Synonyms: notice, observation |
| (noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, ceremony |
| obstinance | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: mulishness, obstinacy, stubbornness |
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| (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinacy, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
| occupancy | (noun) an act of being a tenant or occupant | Synonyms: tenancy |
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| (noun) the act of occupying or taking possession of a building | Synonyms: moving in, occupation |
| oneiromancer | (noun) someone who divines through the interpretation of dreams | - |
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| oneiromancy | (noun) divination through the interpretation of dreams | - |
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| onomancer | (noun) one who practices onomancy | - |
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| onomancy | (noun) divination by the letters of a name | - |
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| ordinance | (noun) the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders | Synonyms: ordination |
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| (noun) an authoritative command | Synonyms: regulation |
| (noun) a statute enacted by a city government | - |
| ordnance | (noun) military supplies | Synonyms: munition, ordnance store |
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| (noun) large but transportable armament | Synonyms: artillery, gun, heavy weapon |
| oscitance | (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitancy, yawn, yawning |
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| (noun) drowsiness and dullness manifested by yawning | Synonyms: oscitancy |
| oscitancy | (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitance, yawn, yawning |
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| (noun) drowsiness and dullness manifested by yawning | Synonyms: oscitance |
| outbalance | (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outweigh, overbalance, preponderate |
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| outdistance | (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: distance, outstrip |
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| overabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance |
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| (noun) the state of being more than full | Synonyms: excess, surfeit |
| overbalance | (verb) cause to be off balance | - |
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| (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, outweigh, preponderate |
| overtolerance | (noun) too much permissiveness | - |
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| pancake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake |
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| pancarditis | (noun) inflammation of the entire heart (the epicardium and the myocardium and the endocardium) | - |
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| panchayat | (noun) a village council in India or southern Pakistan | Synonyms: panchayet, punchayet |
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| panchayet | (noun) a village council in India or southern Pakistan | Synonyms: panchayat, punchayet |
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| pancreas | (noun) a large elongated exocrine gland located behind the stomach; secretes pancreatic juice and insulin | - |
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| pancreatectomy | (noun) surgical removal of part or all of the pancreas | - |
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| pancreatic | (adjective) of or involving the pancreas | - |
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| pancreatin | (noun) extract from the pancreas of animals that contains pancreatic enzymes; used to treat pancreatitis and other conditions involving insufficient pancreatic secretions | - |
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| pancreatitis | (noun) inflammation of the pancreas; usually marked by abdominal pain | - |
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| pancytopenia | (noun) an abnormal deficiency in all blood cells (red blood cells and white blood cells and platelets); usually associated with bone marrow tumor or with aplastic anemia | - |
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| parlance | (noun) a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language | Synonyms: idiom |
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| penance | (noun) voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing | Synonyms: self-abasement, self-mortification |
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| (noun) a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution | - |
| (noun) remorse for your past conduct | Synonyms: penitence, repentance |
| perchance | (adverb) through chance | Synonyms: by chance |
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| (adverb) by chance | Synonyms: maybe, mayhap, peradventure, perhaps, possibly |
| performance | (noun) the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it | Synonyms: carrying into action, carrying out, execution |
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| (noun) the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment | - |
| (noun) any recognized accomplishment | - |
| (noun) a dramatic or musical entertainment | Synonyms: public presentation |
| (noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: functioning, operation |
| perseverance | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseveration, persistence |
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| (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
| petulance | (noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness |
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| piquance | (noun) a tart spicy quality | Synonyms: nip, piquancy, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest |
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| (noun) the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting | Synonyms: piquancy, piquantness |
| piquancy | (noun) a tart spicy quality | Synonyms: nip, piquance, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest |
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| (noun) the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting | Synonyms: piquance, piquantness |
| pittance | (noun) an inadequate payment | - |
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| planchet | (noun) a flat metal disk ready for stamping as a coin | Synonyms: coin blank |
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| planchette | (noun) a triangular board supported on casters; when lightly touched with the fingertips it is supposed to spell out supernatural (or unconscious) messages | - |
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| pleasance | (noun) a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience | Synonyms: pleasure |
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| (noun) a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion | - |
| pliancy | (noun) adaptability of mind or character | Synonyms: pliability, pliantness, suppleness |
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| (noun) the property of being pliant and flexible | Synonyms: pliantness, suppleness |
| poignance | (noun) a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow | Synonyms: poignancy |
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| poignancy | (noun) a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow) | Synonyms: pathos |
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| (noun) a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow | Synonyms: poignance |
| prance | (noun) a proud stiff pompous gait | Synonyms: strut, swagger |
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| (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, ruffle, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup |
| (verb) ride a horse such that it springs and bounds forward | - |
| (verb) cause (a horse) to bound spring forward | - |
| (verb) spring forward on the hind legs | - |
| prancer | (noun) a mettlesome or fiery horse | - |
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| precancerous | (adjective) of or relating to a growth that is not malignant but is likely to become so if not treated | - |
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| precipitance | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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| precipitancy | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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| predominance | (noun) the quality of being more noticeable than anything else | Synonyms: predomination |
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| (noun) the state of being predominant over others | Synonyms: predomination, prepotency |
| pregnancy | (noun) the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus | Synonyms: gestation, maternity |
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| preoccupancy | (noun) the act of taking occupancy before someone else does | Synonyms: preoccupation |
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| (noun) the mental state of being preoccupied by something | Synonyms: absorption, engrossment, preoccupation |
| preponderance | (noun) a superiority in numbers or amount | Synonyms: prevalence |
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| (noun) exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight | - |
| (noun) superiority in power or influence | - |
| procurance | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procural, procurement |
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| protuberance | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, swelling |
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| (noun) the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out | - |
| provenance | (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenience |
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| puissance | (noun) power to influence or coerce | - |
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