| captopril | (noun) a drug (trade name Capoten) that blocks the formation of angiotensin in the kidneys resulting in vasodilation; used in the treatment of hypertension and congestive heart failure | Synonyms: Capoten |
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| captor | (noun) a person who captures and holds people or animals | Synonyms: capturer |
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| capture | (noun) the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property | Synonyms: gaining control, seizure |
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| (noun) the act of taking of a person by force | Synonyms: seizure |
| (noun) the removal of an opponent's piece from the chess board | - |
| (noun) any process in which an atomic or nuclear system acquires an additional particle | - |
| (noun) a process whereby a star or planet holds an object in its gravitational field | - |
| (verb) capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping | Synonyms: catch |
| (verb) succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase | Synonyms: catch, get |
| (verb) succeed in representing or expressing something intangible | - |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| (verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: appropriate, conquer, seize |
| (verb) bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit | - |
| capturer | (noun) a person who captures and holds people or animals | Synonyms: captor |
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| capuchin | (noun) monkey of Central America and South America having thick hair on the head that resembles a monk's cowl | Synonyms: Cebus capucinus, ringtail |
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| (noun) a hooded cloak for women | - |
| capulin | (noun) Mexican black cherry | Synonyms: Mexican black cherry |
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| (noun) Mexican black cherry tree having edible fruit | Synonyms: capulin tree, Prunus capuli |
| caput | (noun) the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains | Synonyms: head |
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| (noun) a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure | - |
| capybara | (noun) pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent | Synonyms: capibara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris |
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| chincapin | (noun) small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut | Synonyms: chinkapin, chinquapin |
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| cityscape | (noun) painting depicting a city or urban area | - |
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| (noun) a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area | - |
| decapitate | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: behead, decollate |
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| decapitated | (adjective) having had the head cut off | Synonyms: beheaded |
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| decapitation | (noun) killing by cutting off the head | Synonyms: beheading |
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| (noun) execution by cutting off the victim's head | Synonyms: beheading |
| decapod | (noun) crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax | Synonyms: decapod crustacean |
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| (noun) cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones | - |
| encapsulate | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume | Synonyms: capsule, capsulise, capsulize |
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| (verb) enclose in a capsule or other small container | - |
| encapsulation | (noun) the process of enclosing (as in a capsule) | - |
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| (noun) the condition of being enclosed (as in a capsule) | - |
| escapade | (noun) any carefree episode | Synonyms: lark |
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| (noun) a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful) | Synonyms: adventure, dangerous undertaking, risky venture |
| escape | (noun) the act of escaping physically | Synonyms: flight |
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| (noun) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do | Synonyms: dodging, evasion |
| (noun) an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy | Synonyms: escapism |
| (noun) an avoidance of danger or difficulty | - |
| (noun) a means or way of escaping | - |
| (noun) a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level | Synonyms: escape cock, escape valve, relief valve, safety valve |
| (noun) the discharge of a fluid from some container | Synonyms: leak, leakage, outflow |
| (noun) a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild | - |
| (verb) issue or leak, as from a small opening | - |
| (verb) fail to experience | Synonyms: miss |
| (verb) escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action | Synonyms: get away, get by, get off, get out |
| (verb) run away from confinement | Synonyms: break loose, get away |
| (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
| (verb) remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion | Synonyms: get away |
| (verb) be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by | Synonyms: elude |
| escaped | (adjective) having escaped, especially from confinement | Synonyms: at large, loose, on the loose |
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| escapee | (noun) someone who escapes | - |
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| escapement | (noun) mechanical device that regulates movement | - |
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| escapism | (noun) an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy | Synonyms: escape |
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| escapist | (noun) a person who escapes into a world of fantasy | Synonyms: dreamer, wishful thinker |
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| escapologist | (noun) an entertainer who is expert in the art of escaping | Synonyms: escape expert |
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| escapology | (noun) the study of methods of escaping (especially as a form of entertainment) | - |
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| foolscap | (noun) a size of paper used especially in Britain | - |
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| handicap | (noun) advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning | - |
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| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, deterrent, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
| (noun) the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness | Synonyms: disability, disablement, impairment |
| (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, incapacitate, invalid |
| (verb) put at a disadvantage | Synonyms: hamper, hinder |
| (verb) attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant | - |
| handicapped | (adjective) the total or partial absence of a person's bodily or mental functions, including the absence of a part of a person's body | Synonyms: disabled |
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| (noun) people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped | Synonyms: disabled |
| handicapper | (noun) someone who sets the betting odds based on calculations of the outcome of a contest (especially a horse race) | Synonyms: odds-maker |
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| hubcap | (noun) cap that fits over the hub of a wheel | - |
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| hypercapnia | (noun) the physical condition of having the presence of an abnormally high level of carbon dioxide in the circulating blood | Synonyms: hypercarbia |
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| hypocapnia | (noun) a state in which the level of carbon dioxide in the blood is lower than normal; can result from deep or rapid breathing | Synonyms: acapnia |
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| icecap | (noun) a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak) | Synonyms: ice cap |
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| incapability | (noun) the quality of not being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally | Synonyms: incapableness |
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| (noun) lack of potential for development | Synonyms: incapableness |
| incapable | (adjective) (followed by `of') lacking capacity or ability | - |
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| (adjective) (followed by `of') not having the temperament or inclination for | - |
| (adjective) not meeting requirements | Synonyms: incompetent, unequal to |
| (adjective) not being susceptible to or admitting of something (usually followed by `of') | - |
| incapableness | (noun) the quality of not being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally | Synonyms: incapability |
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| (noun) lack of potential for development | Synonyms: incapability |
| incapacitate | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, handicap, invalid |
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| (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disable, disenable |
| incapacitated | (adjective) lacking in or deprived of strength or power | Synonyms: helpless |
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| incapacitating | (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: crippling, disabling |
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| incapacity | (noun) lack of physical or natural qualifications | - |
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| (noun) lack of intellectual power | - |
| inescapable | (adjective) impossible to avoid or evade | Synonyms: ineluctable, unavoidable |
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| inescapably | (adverb) by necessity | Synonyms: ineluctably, inevitably, unavoidably |
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| kneecap | (noun) a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint | Synonyms: kneepan, patella |
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| (verb) shoot in the kneecap, often done by terrorist groups as a warning | - |
| landscape | (noun) a genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery | Synonyms: landscape painting |
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| (noun) painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery | - |
| (noun) an extensive mental viewpoint | - |
| (noun) an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view | - |
| (verb) do landscape gardening | - |
| (verb) embellish with plants | - |
| landscaped | (adjective) (of land) improved by gardening or landscape architecture | - |
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| landscaper | (noun) someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively | Synonyms: landscape architect, landscape gardener, landscapist |
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| landscaping | (noun) working as a landscape gardener | Synonyms: landscape gardening |
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| (noun) a garden laid out for esthetic effect | - |
| landscapist | (noun) someone who paints landscapes | - |
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| (noun) someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively | Synonyms: landscape architect, landscape gardener, landscaper |
| madcap | (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, tearaway |
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| (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: daredevil, harum-scarum, hothead, lunatic, swashbuckler |
| mercaptopurine | (noun) a drug (trade name Purinethol) that interferes with the metabolism of purine and is used to treat acute lymphocytic leukemia | Synonyms: Purinethol |
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| milkcap | (noun) edible mushroom | Synonyms: Lactarius delicioso |
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| mobcap | (noun) large high frilly cap with a full crown; formerly worn indoors by women | - |
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| nightcap | (noun) the final game of a double header | - |
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| (noun) a cloth cap worn in bed | - |
| (noun) an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime; often alcoholic | - |
| overcapitalisation | (noun) (business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants) | Synonyms: overcapitalization |
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| overcapitalise | (verb) capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
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| (verb) overestimate the market value of | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
| (verb) estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
| overcapitalization | (noun) (business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants) | Synonyms: overcapitalisation |
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| overcapitalize | (verb) capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
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| (verb) overestimate the market value of | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
| (verb) estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
| recap | (noun) a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion | Synonyms: recapitulation, review |
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| (noun) a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads | Synonyms: retread |
| (verb) summarize briefly | Synonyms: recapitulate |
| recapitulate | (verb) summarize briefly | Synonyms: recap |
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| (verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: repeat, reprise, reprize |
| (verb) repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life | - |
| recapitulation | (noun) (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement) | - |
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| (noun) a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion | Synonyms: recap, review |
| (noun) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated | - |
| (noun) emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species | Synonyms: palingenesis |
| recapture | (noun) the act of taking something back | Synonyms: retaking |
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| (noun) a legal seizure by the government of profits beyond a fixed amount | - |
| (verb) capture again | Synonyms: retake |
| (verb) take up anew | - |
| (verb) experience anew | - |
| (verb) take back by force, as after a battle | Synonyms: retake |
| redcap | (noun) a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at a railroad station | - |
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| (noun) a member of the military police in Britain | - |
| scape | (noun) (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column | Synonyms: shaft |
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| (noun) erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip | Synonyms: flower stalk |
| scapegoat | (noun) someone who is punished for the errors of others | Synonyms: whipping boy |
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| scapegrace | (noun) a reckless and unprincipled reprobate | Synonyms: black sheep |
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| scaphocephaly | (noun) congenital malformation of the skull which is long and narrow; frequently accompanied by mental retardation | - |
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| scaphoid | (adjective) shaped like a boat | Synonyms: navicular |
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| scaphopod | (noun) burrowing marine mollusk | - |
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| scapose | (adjective) resembling or consisting of a scape; having a bare leafless stalk growing directly from the ground | - |
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| scapula | (noun) either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings | Synonyms: shoulder blade, shoulder bone |
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| scapular | (adjective) relating to or near the shoulder blade | - |
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| (noun) a feather covering the shoulder of a bird | - |
| (noun) garment consisting of a long wide piece of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders with an opening for the head; part of a monastic habit | Synonyms: scapulary |
| scapulary | (noun) garment consisting of a long wide piece of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders with an opening for the head; part of a monastic habit | Synonyms: scapular |
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| scapulohumeral | (adjective) relating to the shoulder blade and upper arm bone | - |
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| seascape | (noun) a painting of the sea (as distinguished from a landscape) | Synonyms: waterscape |
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| (noun) a view of the sea | - |
| sexcapade | (noun) a sexual escapade; an illicit affair | - |
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| skullcap | (noun) rounded brimless cap fitting the crown of the head | - |
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| (noun) the dome of the skull | Synonyms: calvaria |
| (noun) a herbaceous plant of the genus Scutellaria which has a calyx that, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised | Synonyms: helmetflower |
| skycap | (noun) a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at an airport | - |
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| snowcap | (noun) a covering of snow (as on a mountain peak) | - |
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| toecap | (noun) a protective leather or steel cover for the toe of a boot or shoe, reinforcing or decorating it | - |
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| uncapped | (adjective) used especially of front teeth | - |
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| waterscape | (noun) a painting of the sea (as distinguished from a landscape) | Synonyms: seascape |
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| waxycap | (noun) any fungus of the family Hygrophoraceae having gills that are more or less waxy in appearance | - |
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| whitecap | (noun) a wave that is blown by the wind so its crest is broken and appears white | Synonyms: white horse |
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