| flappy | (adjective) having a tendency to flap | - |
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| flaps | (noun) a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag | Synonyms: flap |
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| fleapit | (noun) an old shabby movie theater | - |
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| fluorapatite | (noun) a form of apatite in which fluorine predominates over chlorine | - |
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| flypaper | (noun) paper that is poisoned or coated with a sticky substance to kill flies | - |
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| flytrap | (noun) a trap for catching flies | - |
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| foolscap | (noun) a size of paper used especially in Britain | - |
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| frap | (verb) take up the slack of | - |
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| (verb) make secure by lashing | - |
| frappe | (noun) a frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one containing no milk) | Synonyms: ice |
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| (noun) thick milkshake containing ice cream | - |
| (noun) liqueur poured over shaved ice | - |
| gabapentin | (noun) an anticonvulsant (trade name Neurontin) used to control some types of seizures in the treatment of epilepsy; also used to manage neuralgia caused by shingles | Synonyms: Neurontin |
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| gap | (noun) an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Synonyms: break, disruption, interruption |
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| (noun) a narrow opening | Synonyms: crack |
| (noun) a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures | Synonyms: spread |
| (noun) a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations | - |
| (noun) an open or empty space in or between things | Synonyms: opening |
| (noun) a pass between mountain peaks; geomorphological term for the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks | Synonyms: col |
| (verb) make an opening or gap in | Synonyms: breach |
| gape | (noun) a stare of amazement (usually with the mouth open) | - |
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| (noun) an expression of openmouthed astonishment | - |
| (verb) look with amazement; look stupidly | Synonyms: gawk, gawp, goggle |
| (verb) be wide open | Synonyms: yaw, yawn |
| gaping | (adjective) with the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe | Synonyms: agape |
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| genipap | (noun) a succulent orange-sized tropical fruit with a thick rind | Synonyms: genipap fruit |
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| geographer | (noun) an expert on geography | - |
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| geographic | (adjective) determined by geography | Synonyms: geographical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the science of geography | Synonyms: geographical |
| geographical | (adjective) determined by geography | Synonyms: geographic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the science of geography | Synonyms: geographic |
| geographically | (adverb) with respect to geography | - |
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| geographics | (noun) study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation | Synonyms: geography |
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| geography | (noun) study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation | Synonyms: geographics |
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| gingersnap | (noun) a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger | Synonyms: ginger nut, ginger snap, snap |
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| glyptography | (noun) carving or engraving (especially on stones) | - |
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| (noun) carvings or engravings (especially on precious stones) | Synonyms: glyptic art |
| grape | (noun) a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot | Synonyms: grapeshot |
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| (noun) any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters | - |
| (noun) any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries | Synonyms: grape vine, grapevine |
| grapefruit | (noun) large yellow fruit with somewhat acid juicy pulp; usual serving consists of a half | - |
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| (noun) citrus tree bearing large round edible fruit having a thick yellow rind and juicy somewhat acid pulp | Synonyms: Citrus paradisi |
| grapelike | (adjective) resembling the fruit of a grape vine | - |
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| grapeshot | (noun) a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot | Synonyms: grape |
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| grapevine | (noun) gossip spread by spoken communication | Synonyms: pipeline, word of mouth |
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| (noun) any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries | Synonyms: grape, grape vine |
| grapey | (adjective) having a taste like that of grapes | Synonyms: grapy |
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| graph | (noun) a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities, represented as points, plotted with reference to a set of axes | Synonyms: graphical record, graphical recording |
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| (noun) a visual display of information | Synonyms: chart |
| (noun) a written symbol that is used to represent speech | Synonyms: character, grapheme, graphic symbol |
| (verb) represent by means of a graph | Synonyms: chart |
| (verb) plot upon a graph | - |
| grapheme | (noun) a written symbol that is used to represent speech | Synonyms: character, graph, graphic symbol |
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| graphic | (adjective) relating to or presented by a graph | Synonyms: graphical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the graphic arts | - |
| (adjective) describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail | - |
| (adjective) evoking lifelike images within the mind | Synonyms: lifelike, pictorial, vivid |
| (adjective) written or drawn or engraved | Synonyms: graphical, in writing |
| (noun) an image that is generated by a computer | Synonyms: computer graphic |
| graphical | (adjective) relating to or presented by a graph | Synonyms: graphic |
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| (adjective) written or drawn or engraved | Synonyms: graphic, in writing |
| graphically | (adverb) in a graphic way | - |
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| (adverb) with respect to graphic aspects | - |
| (adverb) in a diagrammatic manner | Synonyms: diagrammatically |
| graphics | (noun) the drawings and photographs in the layout of a book | - |
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| (noun) photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication | Synonyms: art, artwork, nontextual matter |
| graphite | (noun) used as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors | Synonyms: black lead, plumbago |
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| graphologist | (noun) a specialist in inferring character from handwriting | Synonyms: handwriting expert |
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| graphology | (noun) the study of handwriting (especially as an indicator of the writer's character or disposition) | - |
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| graphospasm | (noun) muscular spasms of thumb and forefinger while writing with a pen or pencil | Synonyms: writer's cramp |
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| grapnel | (noun) a light anchor for small boats | Synonyms: grapnel anchor |
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| (noun) a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope | Synonyms: grapple, grappler, grappling hook, grappling iron |
| grappa | (noun) Italian brandy made from residue of grapes after pressing | - |
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| grapple | (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle, wrestling |
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| (noun) a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope | Synonyms: grapnel, grappler, grappling hook, grappling iron |
| (noun) a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam | Synonyms: clamshell |
| (verb) to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match | Synonyms: grip |
| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, cope, deal, get by, make do, make out, manage |
| grappler | (noun) a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope | Synonyms: grapnel, grapple, grappling hook, grappling iron |
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| (noun) combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground | Synonyms: matman, wrestler |
| grappling | (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grapple, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle, wrestling |
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| (noun) the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down | Synonyms: rassling, wrestling |
| grapy | (adjective) having a taste like that of grapes | Synonyms: grapey |
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| hagiographer | (noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography | Synonyms: hagiographist, hagiologist |
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| hagiographist | (noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography | Synonyms: hagiographer, hagiologist |
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| hagiography | (noun) a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint) | - |
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| handclap | (noun) a clap of the hands to indicate approval | - |
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| handicap | (noun) advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning | - |
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| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, deterrent, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
| (noun) the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness | Synonyms: disability, disablement, impairment |
| (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, incapacitate, invalid |
| (verb) put at a disadvantage | Synonyms: hamper, hinder |
| (verb) attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant | - |
| handicapped | (adjective) the total or partial absence of a person's bodily or mental functions, including the absence of a part of a person's body | Synonyms: disabled |
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| (noun) people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped | Synonyms: disabled |
| handicapper | (noun) someone who sets the betting odds based on calculations of the outcome of a contest (especially a horse race) | Synonyms: odds-maker |
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| hap | (noun) an accidental happening | - |
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| (verb) come to pass | Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
| haphazard | (adjective) marked by great carelessness | Synonyms: slapdash, slipshod, sloppy |
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| (adjective) dependent upon or characterized by chance | Synonyms: hit-or-miss |
| (adverb) without care; in a slapdash manner | Synonyms: haphazardly |
| haphazardly | (adverb) in a random manner | Synonyms: arbitrarily, at random, every which way, indiscriminately, randomly, willy-nilly |
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| (adverb) without care; in a slapdash manner | Synonyms: haphazard |
| haphazardness | (noun) the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan | Synonyms: noise, randomness, stochasticity |
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| hapless | (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched |
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| haploid | (adjective) of a cell or organism having a single set of chromosomes | Synonyms: haploidic, monoploid |
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| (noun) (genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes | - |
| haploidic | (adjective) of a cell or organism having a single set of chromosomes | Synonyms: haploid, monoploid |
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| haploidy | (noun) the condition of being haploid | - |
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| haplosporidian | (noun) parasite in invertebrates and lower vertebrates of no known economic importance | - |
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| haplotype | (noun) (genetics) a combination of alleles (for different genes) that are located closely together on the same chromosome and that tend to be inherited together | - |
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| haply | (adverb) by accident | Synonyms: by chance, by luck |
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| happen | (verb) come to pass | Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
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| (verb) come into being; become reality | Synonyms: materialise, materialize |
| (verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance | Synonyms: bechance, befall |
| (verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, chance, encounter, find |
| (verb) chance to be or do something, without intention or causation | - |
| happening | (noun) an event that happens | Synonyms: natural event, occurrence, occurrent |
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| happenstance | (noun) an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental | Synonyms: coincidence |
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| happily | (adverb) in an unexpectedly lucky way | - |
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| (adverb) in a joyous manner | Synonyms: blithely, gayly, jubilantly, merrily, mirthfully |
| happiness | (noun) emotions experienced when in a state of well-being | - |
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| (noun) state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy | Synonyms: felicity |
| happy | (adjective) enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure | - |
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| (adjective) well expressed and to the point | Synonyms: well-chosen |
| (adjective) marked by good fortune | Synonyms: felicitous |
| (adjective) eagerly disposed to act or to be of service | Synonyms: glad |
| haptic | (adjective) of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch | Synonyms: tactile, tactual |
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| haptically | (adverb) by touch | Synonyms: tactually |
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| haptoglobin | (noun) a protein in plasma that binds free hemoglobin and removes it (as from wounds) | - |
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| heap | (noun) a car that is old and unreliable | Synonyms: bus, jalopy |
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| (noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other | Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, mound, pile |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (verb) fill to overflow | - |
| (verb) arrange in stacks | Synonyms: pile, stack |
| (verb) bestow in large quantities | - |
| heaps | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| (adverb) very much | - |
| hectograph | (noun) duplicator consisting of a gelatin plate from which ink can be taken to make a copy | Synonyms: heliotype |
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| (verb) copy on a duplicator | - |
| heliograph | (noun) an apparatus for sending telegraphic messages by using a mirror to turn the sun's rays off and on | - |
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| (verb) signal by means of a mirror and the using the sun's rays | - |
| heliotherapy | (noun) therapeutic exposure to sunlight | Synonyms: insolation |
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| hermaphrodism | (noun) congenital condition in which external genitalia and internal sex organs have both male and female characteristics | Synonyms: hermaphroditism |
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| hermaphrodite | (adjective) of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs | Synonyms: hermaphroditic |
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| (noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made | Synonyms: androgyne, epicene, epicene person, gynandromorph, intersex |
| hermaphroditic | (adjective) of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs | Synonyms: hermaphrodite |
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| (adjective) of or relating to monoclinous plants | - |
| hermaphroditism | (noun) showing characteristics of both sexes | Synonyms: androgyny, bisexuality |
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| (noun) congenital condition in which external genitalia and internal sex organs have both male and female characteristics | Synonyms: hermaphrodism |
| hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia | (noun) fear of magic properties of the number 666 | - |
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| hexapod | (noun) an animal having six feet | - |
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| historiographer | (noun) a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it | Synonyms: historian |
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| historiography | (noun) the writing of history | - |
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| (noun) a body of historical literature | - |
| hollygrape | (noun) ornamental evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having dark green pinnate leaves and racemes of yellow flowers followed by blue-black berries | Synonyms: holly-leaves barberry, Mahonia aquifolium, mountain grape, Oregon grape, Oregon holly grape |
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| holograph | (noun) the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography | Synonyms: hologram |
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| (noun) handwritten book or document | Synonyms: manuscript |
| holographic | (adjective) written entirely in one's own hand | Synonyms: holographical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to holography or holograms | - |
| (adjective) written wholly in the handwriting of the signer | - |
| holographical | (adjective) written entirely in one's own hand | Synonyms: holographic |
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| holography | (noun) the branch of optics that deals with the use of coherent light from a laser in order to make a hologram that can then be used to create a three-dimensional image | - |
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| homograph | (noun) two words are homographs if they are spelled the same way but differ in meaning (e.g. fair) | - |
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| hubcap | (noun) cap that fits over the hub of a wheel | - |
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| hydrographic | (adjective) of or relating to the science of hydrography | Synonyms: hydrographical |
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| hydrographical | (adjective) of or relating to the science of hydrography | Synonyms: hydrographic |
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| hydrography | (noun) the science of the measurement and description and mapping of the surface waters of the earth with special reference to navigation | - |
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| hydrotherapy | (noun) the internal and external use of water in the treatment of disease | Synonyms: hydropathy |
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| hymnography | (noun) (music) the craft of hymn composition. | - |
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| hypercapnia | (noun) the physical condition of having the presence of an abnormally high level of carbon dioxide in the circulating blood | Synonyms: hypercarbia |
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| hypnotherapy | (noun) the use of hypnosis in psychotherapy | - |
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| hypocapnia | (noun) a state in which the level of carbon dioxide in the blood is lower than normal; can result from deep or rapid breathing | Synonyms: acapnia |
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| hypsography | (noun) measurement of the elevation of land above sea level | Synonyms: hypsometry |
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| (noun) the scientific study of the earth's configuration above sea level (emphasizing the measurement of land altitudes relative to sea level) | - |