baronage | (noun) the peers of a kingdom considered as a group | Synonyms: peerage |
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baronduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, barunduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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baroness | (noun) a noblewoman who holds the rank of baron or who is the wife or widow of a baron | - |
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baronet | (noun) a member of the British order of honor; ranks below a baron but above a knight | Synonyms: Bart |
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baronetage | (noun) the state of a baronet | - |
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(noun) the collective body of baronets | - |
baronetcy | (noun) the title of a baron | - |
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(noun) the rank or dignity or position of a baronet or baroness | Synonyms: barony |
baronetise | (verb) confer baronetcy upon | Synonyms: baronetize |
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baronetize | (verb) confer baronetcy upon | Synonyms: baronetise |
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barong | (noun) a knife resembling a cleaver; used in the Philippines | - |
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baronial | (adjective) impressive in size, manner, or appearance | Synonyms: imposing, noble, stately |
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barony | (noun) the domain of a baron | - |
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(noun) the estate of a baron | - |
(noun) the rank or dignity or position of a baronet or baroness | Synonyms: baronetcy |
baroque | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750 | Synonyms: Baroque |
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(adjective) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation | Synonyms: churrigueresco, churrigueresque |
(noun) elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century | Synonyms: baroqueness |
baroqueness | (noun) elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century | Synonyms: baroque |
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baroreceptor | (noun) a sensory receptor that responds to pressure | - |
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barosaur | (noun) a dinosaur that could grow to be as tall as a building five stories tall | Synonyms: barosaurus |
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barosaurus | (noun) a dinosaur that could grow to be as tall as a building five stories tall | Synonyms: barosaur |
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barouche | (noun) a horse-drawn carriage having four wheels; has an outside seat for the driver and facing inside seats for two couples and a folding top | - |
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barque | (noun) a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts | Synonyms: bark |
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barrack | (noun) a building or group of buildings used to house military personnel | - |
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(verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: flout, gibe, jeer, scoff |
(verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: cheer, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
(verb) lodge in barracks | - |
barracking | (noun) shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | Synonyms: heckling |
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barracouta | (noun) a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa | Synonyms: snoek |
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barracuda | (noun) any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth | - |
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barrage | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling |
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(noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: bombardment, onslaught, outpouring |
(verb) address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage | Synonyms: bombard |
barramundi | (noun) a species of large perch noted for its sporting and eating qualities; lives in marine, estuary, and freshwater habitats | Synonyms: Asian seabass, giant perch, giant seaperch, Lates calcarifer, white seabass |
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barrater | (noun) someone guilty of barratry | Synonyms: barrator |
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barrator | (noun) someone guilty of barratry | Synonyms: barrater |
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barratry | (noun) the offense of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrels | - |
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(noun) (maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo | - |
(noun) the crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery | - |
(noun) traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments | Synonyms: simony |
barred | (adjective) marked with stripes or bands | - |
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(adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barricaded, blockaded |
barrel | (noun) a cylindrical container that holds liquids | Synonyms: cask |
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(noun) a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired | Synonyms: gun barrel |
(noun) any of various units of capacity | Synonyms: bbl |
(noun) the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold | Synonyms: barrelful |
(noun) a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends | Synonyms: drum |
(verb) put in barrels | - |
barreled | (adjective) put in or stored in a barrel | Synonyms: barrelled |
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(adjective) (of an arrow) tapered toward both ends | Synonyms: barrelled |
barrelfish | (noun) blackish fish of New England waters | Synonyms: black rudderfish, Hyperglyphe perciformis |
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barrelful | (noun) the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold | Synonyms: barrel |
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barrelhouse | (noun) a cheap drinking and dancing establishment | Synonyms: honky-tonk |
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barrelled | (adjective) put in or stored in a barrel | Synonyms: barreled |
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(adjective) (of an arrow) tapered toward both ends | Synonyms: barreled |
barrels | (noun) the amount that many barrels might hold | - |
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barren | (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, bleak, desolate, stark |
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(adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: destitute, devoid, free, innocent |
(adjective) not bearing offspring | - |
(noun) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation | Synonyms: waste, wasteland |
barrenness | (noun) the quality of yielding nothing of value | Synonyms: aridity, fruitlessness |
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(noun) the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children | - |
barrenwort | (noun) slow-growing creeping plant with semi-evergreen leaves on erect wiry stems; used as ground cover | Synonyms: bishop's hat, Epimedium grandiflorum |
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barrette | (noun) a pin for holding women's hair in place | - |
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barretter | (noun) a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations) | Synonyms: ballast, ballast resistor |
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barricade | (noun) a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. | Synonyms: roadblock |
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(noun) a barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy | - |
(verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricado |
(verb) prevent access to by barricading | - |
(verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop |
barricaded | (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barred, blockaded |
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barricado | (verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricade |
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barrier | (noun) a structure or object that impedes free movement | - |
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(noun) any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective | Synonyms: roadblock |
(noun) anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access | - |
barring | (noun) the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto | Synonyms: blackball |
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barrio | (noun) an urban area in a Spanish-speaking country | - |
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(noun) a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city (especially in the United States) | - |
barrister | (noun) a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution | - |
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barroom | (noun) a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter | Synonyms: bar, ginmill, saloon, taproom |
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barrow | (noun) a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels | Synonyms: garden cart, lawn cart, wheelbarrow |
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(noun) (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs | Synonyms: burial mound, grave mound, tumulus |
(noun) the quantity that a barrow will hold | Synonyms: barrowful |
barrowful | (noun) the quantity that a barrow will hold | Synonyms: barrow |
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bars | (noun) gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights | Synonyms: parallel bars |
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bartender | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, barkeeper, mixologist |
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barter | (noun) an equal exchange | Synonyms: swap, swop, trade |
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(verb) exchange goods without involving money | - |
barterer | (noun) a trader who exchanges goods and not money | - |
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bartlett | (noun) juicy yellow pear | Synonyms: bartlett pear |
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bartonia | (noun) annual grown especially for its fragrant golden nocturnal flowers | Synonyms: Mentzelia lindleyi |
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barunduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, baronduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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barycenter | (noun) (astronomy) the common center of mass around which two or more bodies revolve | - |
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barye | (noun) the absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter | Synonyms: bar absolute, microbar |
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baryon | (noun) any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions; a hadron with a baryon number of +1 | Synonyms: heavy particle |
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baryta | (noun) any of several compounds of barium | - |
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barytes | (noun) a white or colorless mineral (BaSO4); the main source of barium | Synonyms: barite, barium sulphate, heavy spar |
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barytic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing baryta | - |
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barytone | (noun) a male singer | Synonyms: baritone |
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birchbark | (noun) a canoe made with the bark of a birch tree | Synonyms: birch bark, birchbark canoe |
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bombard | (noun) a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family | Synonyms: bombardon |
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(verb) direct high energy particles or radiation against | - |
(verb) address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage | Synonyms: barrage |
(verb) throw bombs at or attack with bombs | Synonyms: bomb |
(verb) cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile | Synonyms: pelt |
bombardier | (noun) the member of a bomber crew responsible for using the bombsight and releasing the bombs on the target | - |
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(noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British artillery | - |
bombardment | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, battery, shelling |
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(noun) an attack by dropping bombs | Synonyms: bombing |
(noun) the act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays) | - |
(noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: barrage, onslaught, outpouring |
bombardon | (noun) a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family | Synonyms: bombard |
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(noun) a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician | Synonyms: helicon |
bulbar | (adjective) involving the medulla oblongata | - |
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busbar | (noun) an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits | Synonyms: bus |
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cabaret | (noun) a series of acts at a night club | Synonyms: floor show, floorshow |
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(noun) a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | Synonyms: club, night club, nightclub, nightspot |
capibara | (noun) pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent | Synonyms: capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris |
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capybara | (noun) pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent | Synonyms: capibara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris |
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cinnabar | (adjective) of a vivid red to reddish-orange color | Synonyms: Chinese-red, vermilion, vermillion |
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(noun) large red-and-black European moth; larvae feed on leaves of ragwort; introduced into United States to control ragwort | Synonyms: Callimorpha jacobeae, cinnabar moth |
(noun) a heavy reddish mineral consisting of mercuric sulfide; the chief source of mercury | - |
columbarium | (noun) a sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns | - |
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(noun) a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead | Synonyms: cinerarium |
(noun) a birdhouse for pigeons | Synonyms: columbary, dovecote |
columbary | (noun) a birdhouse for pigeons | Synonyms: columbarium, dovecote |
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counterbombardment | (noun) bombardment intended to destroy or neutralize enemy weapons | - |
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courbaril | (noun) West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood | Synonyms: Hymenaea courbaril |
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cowbarn | (noun) a barn for cows | Synonyms: byre, cow barn, cowhouse, cowshed |
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crampbark | (noun) deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries | Synonyms: cranberry tree, European cranberry bush, European cranberrybush, guelder rose, Viburnum opulus |
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crossbar | (noun) long thin horizontal crosspiece between two vertical posts | - |
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(noun) game equipment consisting of a horizontal bar to be jumped or vaulted over | - |
(noun) a horizontal bar that goes across something | - |
crowbar | (noun) a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge | Synonyms: pry, pry bar, wrecking bar |
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debar | (verb) prevent from entering; keep out | Synonyms: bar, exclude |
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(verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
(verb) bar temporarily; from school, office, etc. | Synonyms: suspend |
debark | (verb) go ashore | Synonyms: disembark, set down |
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debarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: disembarkation, disembarkment |
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debarment | (noun) the act of prevention by legal means | - |
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(noun) the state of being debarred (excluded from enjoying certain possessions or rights or practices) | - |
disbar | (verb) remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official action | - |
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disbarment | (noun) the act of expelling a lawyer from the practice of law | - |
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disembark | (verb) go ashore | Synonyms: debark, set down |
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disembarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: debarkation, disembarkment |
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disembarkment | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: debarkation, disembarkation |
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disembarrass | (verb) relieve from | Synonyms: free, rid |
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disembarrassment | (noun) something that extricates you from embarrassment | - |
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drawbar | (noun) a strong metal bar bearing a hook to attach something to be pulled | - |
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durbar | (noun) the room in the palace of a native prince of India in which audiences and receptions occur | - |
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embargo | (noun) a government order imposing a trade barrier | Synonyms: trade embargo, trade stoppage |
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(verb) prevent commerce | - |
(verb) ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons | - |
embark | (verb) set out on (an enterprise or subject of study) | Synonyms: enter |
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(verb) go on board | Synonyms: ship |
(verb) proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers | Synonyms: venture |
embarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: boarding, embarkment |
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embarkment | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: boarding, embarkation |
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