| craton | (noun) the part of a continent that is stable and forms the central mass of the continent; typically Precambrian | - |
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| creator | (noun) a person who grows or makes or invents things | - |
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| crematorium | (noun) a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes | Synonyms: cremation chamber, crematory |
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| (noun) a mortuary where corpses are cremated | Synonyms: crematory |
| crematory | (noun) a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes | Synonyms: cremation chamber, crematorium |
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| (noun) a mortuary where corpses are cremated | Synonyms: crematorium |
| criminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, incriminating, incriminatory |
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| cultivator | (noun) a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture) | Synonyms: tiller |
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| (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, agriculturist, grower, raiser |
| cunctator | (noun) someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness) | Synonyms: postponer, procrastinator |
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| curator | (noun) the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library) | Synonyms: conservator |
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| curatorial | (adjective) of or relating to a curator or the duties of a curator | - |
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| curatorship | (noun) the position of curator | - |
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| damnatory | (adjective) threatening with damnation | Synonyms: damning |
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| declamatory | (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: bombastic, large, orotund, tumid, turgid |
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| declaratory | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: asserting, declarative |
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| decorator | (noun) someone who decorates | Synonyms: ornamentalist |
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| (noun) a person who specializes in interior decoration | Synonyms: house decorator, interior decorator, room decorator |
| defalcator | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: embezzler, peculator |
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| defamatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| defecator | (noun) (obsolete) that which cleanses or purifies; especially, an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and syrups. | - |
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| (noun) a person who defecates | Synonyms: shitter, voider |
| defibrillator | (noun) an electronic device that administers an electric shock of preset voltage to the heart through the chest wall in an attempt to restore the normal rhythm of the heart during ventricular fibrillation | - |
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| deflator | (noun) a statistical factor designed to remove the effect of inflation; inflation adjusted variables are in constant dollars | - |
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| defoliator | (noun) an insect that strips the leaves from plants | - |
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| demodulator | (noun) rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave | Synonyms: detector |
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| demonstrator | (noun) someone who participates in a public display of group feeling | Synonyms: protester |
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| (noun) someone who demonstrates an article to a prospective buyer | Synonyms: sales demonstrator |
| (noun) a teacher or teacher's assistant who demonstrates the principles that are being taught | - |
| denigratory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| denitrator | (noun) Any device used to remove nitrates or other nitrogen compounds, especially from water. | - |
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| denominator | (noun) the divisor of a fraction | - |
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| denunciatory | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: comminatory, denunciative |
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| depilator | (noun) a cosmetic for temporary removal of undesired hair | Synonyms: depilatory, epilator |
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| depilatory | (adjective) able to remove hair or render hairless | - |
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| (noun) a cosmetic for temporary removal of undesired hair | Synonyms: depilator, epilator |
| (noun) a chemical (usually a sulfide) used to remove hair or wool or bristles from hides | - |
| deprecatory | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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| depreciator | (noun) one who disparages or belittles the worth of something | Synonyms: detractor, disparager, knocker |
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| depreciatory | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciating, depreciative |
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| (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, slighting |
| dermatoglyphic | (noun) the lines that form patterns on the skin (especially on the fingertips and the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet) | - |
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| dermatoglyphics | (noun) the study of the whorls and loops and arches in the fingertips and on the palms of the hand and the soles of the feet | - |
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| dermatologic | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing dermatology | Synonyms: dermatological |
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| dermatological | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing dermatology | Synonyms: dermatologic |
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| dermatologist | (noun) a doctor who specializes in the physiology and pathology of the skin | Synonyms: skin doctor |
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| dermatology | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and its diseases | - |
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| dermatome | (noun) a surgical instrument used to cut very thin slices of skin | - |
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| dermatomycosis | (noun) fungal infection of the skin (especially of moist parts covered by clothing) | Synonyms: dermatophytosis |
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| dermatomyositis | (noun) myositis characterized by weakness of limb and neck muscles and much muscle pain and swelling accompanied by skin rash affecting cheeks and eyelids and neck and chest and limbs; progression and severity vary among individuals | - |
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| dermatophytosis | (noun) fungal infection of the skin (especially of moist parts covered by clothing) | Synonyms: dermatomycosis |
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| dermatosclerosis | (noun) an autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels and connective tissue; fibrous connective tissue is deposited in the skin | Synonyms: scleroderma |
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| dermatosis | (noun) disorder involving lesions or eruptions of the skin (in which there is usually no inflammation) | - |
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| derogatory | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogative, disparaging |
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| detonator | (noun) a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive | Synonyms: cap, detonating device |
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| dextrorotatory | (adjective) rotating to the right | Synonyms: dextrorotary, right-handed |
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| diatom | (noun) microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica | - |
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| diatomic | (adjective) of or relating to a molecule made up of two atoms | - |
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| diatomite | (noun) a light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material | Synonyms: diatomaceous earth, kieselguhr |
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| diatonic | (adjective) based on the standard major or minor scales consisting of 5 tones and 2 semitones without modulation by accidentals | - |
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| (adjective) based on or using the five tones and two semitones of the major or minor scales of western music | - |
| dichromatopsia | (noun) a deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision) | Synonyms: dichromacy, dichromasy, dichromatism, dichromia |
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| dictator | (noun) a ruler who is unconstrained by law | Synonyms: potentate |
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| (noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: authoritarian |
| (noun) a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine | - |
| dictatorial | (adjective) of or characteristic of a dictator | - |
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| (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: authoritarian, overbearing |
| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| dictatorially | (adverb) in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator | Synonyms: autocratically, magisterially |
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| dictatorship | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| differentiator | (noun) a person who (or that which) differentiates | Synonyms: discriminator |
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| dilator | (noun) a surgical instrument that is used to dilate or distend an opening or an organ | Synonyms: dilater |
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| (noun) a drug that causes dilation | - |
| (noun) a muscle or nerve that dilates or widens a body part | - |
| dilatoriness | (noun) slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it | Synonyms: procrastination |
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| dilatory | (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: laggard, pokey, poky |
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| disambiguator | (noun) (computer science) a natural language processing application that tries to determine the intended meaning of a word or phrase by examining the linguistic context in which it is used | - |
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| discriminator | (noun) a person who (or that which) differentiates | Synonyms: differentiator |
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| discriminatory | (adjective) being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand | Synonyms: prejudiced |
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| (adjective) manifesting partiality | Synonyms: preferential |
| (adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminative |
| (adjective) containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice | Synonyms: invidious |
| disseminator | (noun) someone who spreads the news | Synonyms: propagator |
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| dissimulator | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender |
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| distomatosis | (noun) a disease of the liver (especially in sheep and cattle) caused by liver flukes and their by-products | Synonyms: black disease, liver rot, sheep rot |
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| divinatory | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical |
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| (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
| duplicator | (noun) apparatus that makes copies of typed, written or drawn material | Synonyms: copier |
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| edematous | (adjective) swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid | Synonyms: dropsical |
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| educator | (noun) someone who educates young people | Synonyms: pedagog, pedagogue |
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| ejaculator | (noun) a speaker who utters a sudden exclamation | - |
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| (noun) a man who ejaculates semen | - |
| elevator | (noun) lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building | Synonyms: lift |
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| (noun) the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend | - |
| eliminator | (noun) an agent that eliminates something | - |
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| emancipator | (noun) someone who frees others from bondage | Synonyms: manumitter |
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| emphysematous | (adjective) relating to or resembling or being emphysema | - |
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| emulator | (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: ape, aper, copycat, imitator |
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| enumerator | (noun) someone who collects census data by visiting individual homes | Synonyms: census taker |
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| epikeratophakia | (noun) using a piece of donated corneal tissue to repair the eye of someone who has had a cataract removed | - |
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| epilator | (noun) a cosmetic for temporary removal of undesired hair | Synonyms: depilator, depilatory |
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| epistolatory | (adjective) written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence | Synonyms: epistolary |
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| equator | (noun) an imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north and south poles | - |
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| (noun) a circle dividing a sphere or other surface into two usually equal and symmetrical parts | - |
| equatorial | (adjective) of or existing at or near the geographic equator | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to conditions at the geographical equator | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or at an equator | - |
| (noun) a telescope whose mounting has only two axes of motion, one parallel to the Earth's axis and the other one at right angles to it | - |
| equivocator | (noun) a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer | Synonyms: hedger, tergiversator |
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| eradicator | (noun) someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects) | Synonyms: exterminator, terminator |
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| erythematous | (adjective) relating to or characterized by erythema | - |
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| escalator | (noun) a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt | Synonyms: moving staircase, moving stairway |
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| (noun) a clause in a contract that provides for an increase or a decrease in wages or prices or benefits etc. depending on certain conditions (as a change in the cost of living index) | Synonyms: escalator clause |
| eschatological | (adjective) of or relating to or dealing with or regarding the ultimate destiny of mankind and the world | - |
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| eschatologically | (adverb) in relation to eschatology | - |
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| eschatologist | (noun) a theologian who specializes in eschatology | - |
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| eschatology | (noun) the branch of theology that is concerned with such final things as death and Last Judgment; Heaven and Hell; the ultimate destiny of humankind | - |
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| eschaton | (noun) (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives | Synonyms: crack of doom, Day of Judgement, Day of Judgment, day of reckoning, Doomsday, doomsday, end of the world, Judgement Day, Judgment Day, Last Day, Last Judgement, Last Judgment |
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| estimator | (noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: calculator, computer, figurer, reckoner |
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| evaluator | (noun) an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality | Synonyms: judge |
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| excavator | (noun) a machine for excavating | Synonyms: digger, power shovel, shovel |
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| (noun) a workman who excavates for foundations of buildings or for quarrying | - |
| excitatory | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitant, excitative |
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| exclamatory | (adjective) sudden and strong | Synonyms: emphatic |
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| excogitator | (noun) a thinker who considers carefully and thoroughly | - |
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| exculpatory | (adjective) clearing of guilt or blame | - |
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| excusatory | (adjective) offering or expressing apology | Synonyms: apologetic |
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| exhortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, hortative, hortatory |
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| expectorator | (noun) a medicine promoting expectoration | Synonyms: expectorant |
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| (noun) a person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth) | Synonyms: spitter |