| bastioned | (adjective) secured with bastions or fortifications | Synonyms: fortified |
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| bastnaesite | (noun) a yellow-to-brown mineral that is a source of rare earth elements | Synonyms: bastnasite |
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| bastnasite | (noun) a yellow-to-brown mineral that is a source of rare earth elements | Synonyms: bastnaesite |
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| basuco | (noun) low-grade cocaine mixed with coca paste and cannabis | - |
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| bombast | (noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing | Synonyms: blah, claptrap, fustian, rant |
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| bombastic | (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid |
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| bombastically | (adverb) in a grandiose manner | Synonyms: grandiosely |
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| (adverb) in a turgid manner | Synonyms: turgidly |
| breadbasket | (noun) a basket for serving bread | - |
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| (noun) an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion | Synonyms: stomach, tum, tummy |
| (noun) a geographic region serving as the principal source of grain | - |
| cabasset | (noun) a metal helmet worn by common soldiers in the 16th century | Synonyms: morion |
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| cabassous | (noun) naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America | Synonyms: Cabassous unicinctus, tatouay |
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| calabash | (noun) bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd | Synonyms: gourd |
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| (noun) a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd | Synonyms: calabash pipe |
| (noun) tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds | Synonyms: calabash tree, Crescentia cujete |
| (noun) round gourd of the calabash tree | - |
| (noun) Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits | Synonyms: bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria |
| chabasite | (noun) a group of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous silicate of calcium and aluminum | Synonyms: chabazite |
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| contrabass | (adjective) pitched an octave below normal bass instrumental or vocal range | Synonyms: double-bass |
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| (noun) largest and lowest member of the violin family | Synonyms: bass fiddle, bass viol, bull fiddle, double bass, string bass |
| contrabassoon | (noun) the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family | Synonyms: contrafagotto, double bassoon |
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| database | (noun) an organized body of related information | - |
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| debase | (verb) lower in value by increasing the base-metal content | Synonyms: alloy |
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| (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, dilute, load, stretch |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| debased | (adjective) ruined in character or quality | Synonyms: corrupted, vitiated |
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| (adjective) mixed with impurities | Synonyms: adulterate, adulterated |
| (adjective) lowered in value | Synonyms: degraded, devalued |
| debasement | (noun) changing to a lower state (a less respected state) | Synonyms: degradation |
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| (noun) being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating | Synonyms: adulteration |
| debaser | (noun) a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins) | Synonyms: degrader |
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| debasing | (adjective) used of conduct; characterized by dishonor | Synonyms: degrading |
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| dumbass | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| embassador | (noun) a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another | Synonyms: ambassador |
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| embassy | (noun) a diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work | - |
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| (noun) an ambassador and his entourage collectively | - |
| fanbase | (noun) All of the fans or devotees of something | - |
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| firebase | (noun) an artillery base to support advancing troops | - |
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| gynobase | (noun) the enlarged receptacle in which the pistil is borne | - |
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| handbasin | (noun) a basin for washing the hands | Synonyms: lavabo, wash-hand basin, washbasin, washbowl |
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| handbasket | (noun) a container that is usually woven and has handles | Synonyms: basket |
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| hypobasidium | (noun) special cell constituting the base of the basidium in various fungi especially of the order Tremellales | - |
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| isobase | (noun) a line drawn on a map or chart connecting places of equal or constant land upheaval. | - |
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| lambast | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambaste |
| lambaste | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambast |
| subbase | (noun) the lowest molding of an architectural base or of a baseboard | - |
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| surbase | (noun) the molding or border above the base of a structure (a pedestal or podium or wall) | - |
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| tabasco | (noun) very hot red peppers; usually long and thin; some very small | Synonyms: red pepper |
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| thrombasthenia | (noun) a rare autosomal recessive disease in which the platelets do not produce clots in the normal way and hemorrhage results | - |
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| unabashed | (adjective) not embarrassed | Synonyms: unembarrassed |
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| unabashedly | (adverb) in an unabashed manner | - |
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| washbasin | (noun) a basin for washing the hands | Synonyms: handbasin, lavabo, wash-hand basin, washbowl |
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| (noun) a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face | Synonyms: basin, lavatory, washbowl, washstand |
| wastebasket | (noun) a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish | Synonyms: circular file, waste-paper basket, waste basket, wastepaper basket |
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| wheelbase | (noun) the distance from the center of a car's front wheel to the rear axle | - |
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| workbasket | (noun) container for holding implements and materials for work (especially for sewing) | Synonyms: workbag, workbox |
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