concubinage | (noun) cohabitation without being legally married | - |
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concubine | (noun) a woman who cohabits with an important man | Synonyms: courtesan, doxy, paramour |
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connubial | (adjective) of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband | Synonyms: conjugal |
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(adverb) in a conjugal manner | Synonyms: conjugally |
contemptibility | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, despicability, despicableness, sordidness |
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convertibility | (noun) the quality of being exchangeable (especially the ability to convert a currency into gold or other currencies without restriction) | - |
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corbiestep | (noun) (architecture) a step on the top of a gable wall | Synonyms: corbel step, corbie-step, crow step |
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corbina | (noun) bluish-grey whiting of California coast | Synonyms: Menticirrhus undulatus |
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corruptibility | (noun) the capability of being corrupted | - |
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cowbird | (noun) North American blackbird that follows cattle and lays eggs in other birds' nests | - |
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crabbiness | (noun) a disposition to be ill-tempered | Synonyms: crabbedness, crossness |
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cranesbill | (noun) any of numerous geraniums of the genus Geranium | Synonyms: crane's bill |
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credibility | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: believability, credibleness |
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crossbill | (noun) finch with a bill whose tips cross when closed | Synonyms: Loxia curvirostra |
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cryobiology | (noun) the branch of biology that studies the effects of low temperatures on living tissues or organs or organisms | - |
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cryophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of freezing | - |
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cryptobiosis | (noun) a state in which an animal's metabolic activities come to a reversible standstill | - |
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cryptobiotic | (adjective) of or related to the state of cryptobiosis | - |
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cubic | (adjective) having the shape of a cube; having three dimensions | Synonyms: three-dimensional |
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(adjective) involving the cube and no higher power of a quantity or variable | - |
cubical | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidal |
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cubicity | (noun) the property of resembling a cube | - |
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cubicle | (noun) small area set off by walls for special use | Synonyms: booth, kiosk, stall |
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(noun) small individual study area in a library | Synonyms: carrel, carrell, stall |
(noun) small room in which a monk or nun lives | Synonyms: cell |
cubiform | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubical, cuboid, cuboidal |
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cubism | (noun) an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes | - |
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cubist | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of cubism | Synonyms: cubistic |
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(noun) an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism | - |
cubistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of cubism | Synonyms: cubist |
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cubit | (noun) an ancient unit of length based on the length of the forearm | - |
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cubital | (adjective) of or relating to the elbow | - |
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cubitiere | (noun) body armor that protects the elbow | - |
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cubitus | (noun) hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped | Synonyms: articulatio cubiti, cubital joint, elbow, elbow joint, human elbow |
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(noun) the arm from the elbow to the fingertips | - |
cucurbit | (noun) any plant of the family Cucurbitaceae | - |
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cucurbitaceous | (adjective) of or relating to plants of the family Cucurbitaceae | - |
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culpability | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: blameworthiness, culpableness |
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curability | (noun) capability of being cured or healed | Synonyms: curableness |
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curbing | (noun) an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter) | Synonyms: curb, kerb |
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cyberphobia | (noun) irrational fear of computers or technology | - |
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cymbid | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers; extensively hybridized and cultivated as houseplants and important florists' flowers | Synonyms: cymbidium |
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cymbidium | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers; extensively hybridized and cultivated as houseplants and important florists' flowers | Synonyms: cymbid |
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cynophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of dogs | - |
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dabbing | (noun) pressing a marijuana concentrate to a hot surface in order to vaporize it and inhale the concentrate | - |
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(noun) a dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm and the elbow in a gesture that has been noted to resemble sneezing | Synonyms: dab |
daubing | (noun) the application of plaster | Synonyms: plastering |
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debile | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly |
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debilitate | (verb) make weak | Synonyms: drain, enfeeble |
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debilitated | (adjective) lacking energy or vitality | Synonyms: adynamic, asthenic, enervated |
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debilitating | (adjective) impairing the strength and vitality | - |
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debilitation | (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion |
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debilitative | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: enervating, enfeebling, weakening |
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debility | (noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) | Synonyms: feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity, valetudinarianism |
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debit | (noun) an accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing | Synonyms: debit entry |
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(verb) enter as debit | - |
debitor | (noun) a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt | Synonyms: debtor |
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decasyllabic | (adjective) having or characterized by or consisting of ten syllables | - |
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decubitus | (noun) a reclining position (as in a bed) | - |
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defensibility | (noun) capability of being defended | - |
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definability | (noun) the quality or state of being capable of being defined, limited, or explained. | - |
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delabialization | (noun) the pronouncing of a sound without lip rounding. | - |
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delectability | (noun) extreme appetizingness | Synonyms: deliciousness, lusciousness, toothsomeness |
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demobilisation | (noun) act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops | Synonyms: demobilization |
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demobilise | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demob, demobilize |
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(verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilize, inactivate |
demobilization | (noun) act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops | Synonyms: demobilisation |
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demobilize | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demob, demobilise |
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(verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilise, inactivate |
demonstrability | (noun) capability of being demonstrated or logically proved | Synonyms: provability |
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dendrobium | (noun) a plant of the genus Dendrobium having stems like cane and usually showy racemose flowers | - |
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dependability | (noun) the quality of being dependable or reliable | Synonyms: dependableness, reliability, reliableness |
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deshabille | (noun) the state of being carelessly or partially dressed | Synonyms: dishabille |
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desirability | (noun) the quality of being worthy of desiring | Synonyms: desirableness |
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(noun) attractiveness to the opposite sex | Synonyms: desirableness, oomph, sex appeal |
despicability | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicableness, sordidness |
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destabilisation | (noun) the action of destabilizing; making something less stable (especially of a government or country or economy) | Synonyms: destabilization |
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destabilise | (verb) make unstable | Synonyms: destabilize |
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(verb) become unstable | Synonyms: destabilize |
destabilization | (noun) the action of destabilizing; making something less stable (especially of a government or country or economy) | Synonyms: destabilisation |
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(noun) an event that causes a loss of equilibrium (as of a ship or aircraft) | - |
destabilize | (verb) make unstable | Synonyms: destabilise |
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(verb) become unstable | Synonyms: destabilise |
destructibility | (noun) vulnerability to destruction | - |
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detectability | (noun) The state of being noticeable. | - |
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dickeybird | (noun) small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds | Synonyms: dickey-bird, dicky-bird, dickybird |
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dickybird | (noun) small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds | Synonyms: dickey-bird, dickeybird, dicky-bird |
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digestibility | (noun) the property of being easy to digest | Synonyms: digestibleness |
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disability | (noun) the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness | Synonyms: disablement, handicap, impairment |
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disambiguate | (verb) state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from | - |
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disambiguation | (noun) clarification that follows from the removal of ambiguity | - |
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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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discernability | (noun) distinctness that makes perception easy | Synonyms: legibility |
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dishabille | (noun) the state of being carelessly or partially dressed | Synonyms: deshabille |
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dispensability | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you can get along without | Synonyms: dispensableness |
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disreputability | (noun) dishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation | Synonyms: disreputableness, unrespectability |
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dissolubility | (noun) the property of being dissoluble | Synonyms: solubleness |
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distinguishability | (noun) Capability of being perceived as different or distinct. | - |
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disturbing | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, distressing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
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disturbingly | (adverb) in a disturbing manner | - |
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disyllabic | (adjective) having or characterized by or consisting of two syllables | - |
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dithyrambic | (adjective) of or in the manner of a dithyramb | - |
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divisibility | (noun) the quality of being divisible; the capacity to be divided into parts or divided among a number of persons | - |
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dobbin | (noun) a quiet plodding workhorse | Synonyms: farm horse |
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doxorubicin | (noun) an antibiotic used as an anticancer drug | - |
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dronabinol | (noun) psychoactive substance present in marijuana; used therapeutically to control nausea associated with cancer therapy | - |
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drubbing | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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(noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
dubbin | (noun) tallow mixed with oil; used to make leather soft and waterproof | - |
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dubbing | (noun) a new soundtrack that is added to a film | - |
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dubiety | (noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty |
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dubious | (adjective) open to doubt or suspicion | Synonyms: doubtful, dubitable, in question |
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(adjective) fraught with uncertainty or doubt | Synonyms: doubtful |
(adjective) not convinced | - |
dubiously | (adverb) in a doubtful manner | Synonyms: doubtfully |
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(adverb) in a questionable and dubious manner | Synonyms: questionably |
dubiousness | (noun) uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, question |
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(noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, incertitude, uncertainty |
dubitable | (adjective) open to doubt or suspicion | Synonyms: doubtful, dubious, in question |
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