| atonalism | (noun) the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system | Synonyms: atonality |
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| atonalistic | (adjective) of or relating to atonalism | - |
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| atonality | (noun) the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system | Synonyms: atonalism |
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| atonally | (adverb) without tonality | - |
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| atone | (verb) turn away from sin or do penitence | Synonyms: repent |
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| (verb) make amends for | Synonyms: aby, abye, expiate |
| atonement | (noun) the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity) | Synonyms: expiation, propitiation |
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| (noun) compensation for a wrong | Synonyms: expiation, satisfaction |
| atonia | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: amyotonia, atonicity, atony |
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| atonic | (adjective) (used of syllables) carrying no stress | Synonyms: unaccented |
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| (adjective) characterized by a lack of tonus | - |
| atonicity | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: amyotonia, atonia, atony |
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| atony | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: amyotonia, atonia, atonicity |
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| atop | (adverb) on, to, or at the top | - |
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| atopognosia | (noun) absence or loss of topognosia; inability to locate correctly a point of touch | Synonyms: atopognosis |
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| atopognosis | (noun) absence or loss of topognosia; inability to locate correctly a point of touch | Synonyms: atopognosia |
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| atopy | (noun) an allergic reaction that becomes apparent in a sensitized person only minutes after contact | Synonyms: atopic allergy, immediate allergy, type I allergic reaction |
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| atorvastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Lipitor) that is effective in lowering triglycerides; potent in reducing LDL cholesterol because higher doses can be given | Synonyms: Lipitor |
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| atoxic | (adjective) not producing or resulting from poison | Synonyms: nontoxic |
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| attenuator | (noun) an electrical device for attenuating the strength of an electrical signal | - |
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| attestator | (noun) (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature | Synonyms: attestant, attestor, witness |
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| auscultatory | (adjective) of or relating to auscultation | - |
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| authenticator | (noun) one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity | Synonyms: appraiser |
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| automaton | (noun) a mechanism that can move automatically | Synonyms: golem, robot |
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| (noun) a machine that operates on its own without the need for human control | - |
| (noun) someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way | Synonyms: zombi, zombie |
| automatonlike | (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatic, machinelike, robotic, robotlike |
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| aviator | (noun) someone who operates an aircraft | Synonyms: aeronaut, flier, flyer |
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| ayatollah | (noun) a high-ranking Shiite religious leader who is regarded as an authority on religious law and its interpretation and who has political power as well | - |
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| barrator | (noun) someone guilty of barratry | Synonyms: barrater |
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| baton | (noun) a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir | Synonyms: wand |
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| (noun) a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race | - |
| (noun) a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette | - |
| (noun) a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority | - |
| (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: billy, billy club, billystick, nightstick, truncheon |
| bioclimatology | (noun) the study of effects of climate on living organisms | - |
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| bronchodilator | (noun) a drug that relaxes and dilates the bronchial passageways and improves the passages of air into the lungs | - |
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| calculator | (noun) a small machine that is used for mathematical calculations; can be mechanical or electronic | Synonyms: calculating machine |
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| (noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: computer, estimator, figurer, reckoner |
| calorisator | (noun) an apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion. | Synonyms: calorizator |
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| calorizator | (noun) an apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion. | Synonyms: calorisator |
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| calumniatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| carbonator | (noun) a device that carries out carbonation. | Synonyms: soda carbonator, soda maker |
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| carcinomatous | (adjective) being or relating to carcinoma | - |
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| cardiorespiratory | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiopulmonary |
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| castrato | (noun) a male singer who was castrated before puberty and retains a soprano or alto voice | - |
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| catatonia | (noun) a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way to short periods of extreme excitement | Synonyms: catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophrenia |
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| (noun) extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia | - |
| catatonic | (adjective) characterized by catatonia especially either rigidity or extreme laxness of limbs | - |
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| catoptric | (adjective) of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors | Synonyms: catoptrical |
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| catoptrical | (adjective) of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors | Synonyms: catoptric |
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| catoptrics | (noun) branch of optics dealing with formation of images by mirrors | - |
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| catostomid | (noun) a cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae | - |
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| celebrator | (noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrant, celebrater |
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| celebratory | (adjective) used for celebrating | - |
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| cephalhematoma | (noun) a collection of blood under the scalp of a newborn; caused by pressure during birth | Synonyms: cephalohematoma |
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| cephalohematoma | (noun) a collection of blood under the scalp of a newborn; caused by pressure during birth | Synonyms: cephalhematoma |
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| ceratodus | (noun) extinct lungfish | - |
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| ceratopsian | (noun) any of several four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls; of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia | Synonyms: horned dinosaur |
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| ceratosaur | (noun) primitive medium-sized theropod; swift-running bipedal carnivorous dinosaur having grasping hands with sharp claws and a short horn between the nostrils; Jurassic in North America | Synonyms: ceratosaurus |
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| ceratosaurus | (noun) primitive medium-sized theropod; swift-running bipedal carnivorous dinosaur having grasping hands with sharp claws and a short horn between the nostrils; Jurassic in North America | Synonyms: ceratosaur |
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| ceratozamia | (noun) a small cycad of the genus Ceratozamia having a short scaly woody trunk and fernlike foliage and woody cones; Mexico | - |
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| certificatory | (adjective) serving to certify or endorse authoritatively | - |
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| chatoyant | (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, iridescent, shot |
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| chromatogram | (noun) the recording (column or paper strip) on which the constituents of a mixture are adsorbed in chromatography | - |
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| chromatograph | (noun) equipment that enables a sophisticated separation, e.g. gas chromatographic or liquid chromatographic separation. | - |
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| chromatographic | (adjective) of or relating to chromatography | Synonyms: chromatographical |
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| chromatographical | (adjective) of or relating to chromatography | Synonyms: chromatographic |
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| chromatographically | (adverb) by means of a chromatographic process | - |
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| chromatography | (noun) a process used for separating mixtures by virtue of differences in absorbency | - |
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| cinematographer | (noun) a photographer who operates a movie camera | Synonyms: camera operator, cameraman |
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| cinematography | (noun) the act of making a film | Synonyms: filming, motion-picture photography |
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| circulatory | (adjective) relating to circulatory system or to circulation of the blood | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to circulation | Synonyms: circulative |
| clamatorial | (adjective) of or relating to Clamatores | - |
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| classificatory | (adjective) relating to or involving classification | - |
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| climatologist | (noun) someone who is expert in climatology | - |
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| climatology | (noun) meteorology of climates and their phenomena | - |
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| coagulator | (noun) an agent that produces coagulation | Synonyms: coagulant |
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| cockatoo | (noun) white or light-colored crested parrot of the Australian region; often kept as cage birds | - |
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| coconspirator | (noun) a member of a conspiracy | Synonyms: conspirator, machinator, plotter |
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| collaborator | (noun) an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest | Synonyms: cooperator, pardner, partner |
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| (noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborationist, quisling |
| (noun) someone who assists in a plot | Synonyms: confederate, henchman, partner in crime |
| collator | (noun) a machine that selects, merges and matches decks of punch cards. | - |
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| collimator | (noun) optical device consisting of a tube containing a convex achromatic lens at one end and a slit at the other with the slit at the focus of the lens; light rays leave the slit as a parallel beam | - |
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| (noun) a small telescope attached to a large telescope to use in setting the line of the larger one | - |
| comatose | (adjective) relating to or associated with a coma | - |
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| (adjective) in a state of deep and usually prolonged unconsciousness; unable to respond to external stimuli | - |
| comatoseness | (noun) a state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury | Synonyms: coma |
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| combinatorial | (adjective) relating to the combination and arrangement of elements in sets | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatory |
| combinatory | (adjective) marked by or relating to or resulting from combination | Synonyms: combinative |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatorial |
| (adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinable, combinational |
| commentator | (noun) a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day | Synonyms: reviewer |
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| (noun) an expert who observes and comments on something | Synonyms: observer |
| comminatory | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: denunciative, denunciatory |
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| communicator | (noun) a person who communicates with others | - |
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| communicatory | (adjective) able or tending to communicate | Synonyms: communicative |
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| commutator | (noun) switch for reversing the direction of an electric current | - |
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| conciliator | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: make-peace, pacifier, peacemaker, reconciler |
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| conciliatory | (adjective) intended to placate | Synonyms: conciliative |
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| (adjective) making or willing to make concessions | Synonyms: compromising, flexible |
| condemnatory | (adjective) containing or imposing condemnation or censure | Synonyms: condemning |
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| confirmatory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| congenator | (noun) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) | Synonyms: congener, congeneric, relative |
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| congratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: gratulatory |
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| conservatoire | (noun) a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | Synonyms: conservatory |
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| conservator | (noun) the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library) | Synonyms: curator |
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| (noun) someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person | - |
| conservatory | (noun) a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner | Synonyms: hothouse, indoor garden |
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| (noun) a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | Synonyms: conservatoire |
| (noun) the faculty and students of a school specializing in one of the fine arts | - |
| consolatory | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: comforting, consoling |
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| conspirator | (noun) a member of a conspiracy | Synonyms: coconspirator, machinator, plotter |
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| conspiratorial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of conspiracy or conspirators | Synonyms: conspirative |
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| consultatory | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultative, consultive |
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| cooperator | (noun) an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest | Synonyms: collaborator, pardner, partner |
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| coordinator | (noun) someone whose task is to see that work goes harmoniously | Synonyms: co-ordinator |
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| copulatory | (adjective) of or relating to coitus or copulation | Synonyms: coital |
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| corroboratory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| cosignatory | (adjective) signing jointly with others | - |
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| (noun) one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration) | Synonyms: cosigner |
| counterdemonstrator | (noun) someone who demonstrates in opposition to another demonstration | - |
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