| centripetal | (adjective) tending to move toward a center | - |
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| (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system | Synonyms: receptive, sensory |
| (adjective) tending to unify | Synonyms: unifying |
| centrism | (noun) a political philosophy of avoiding the extremes of left and right by taking a moderate position or course of action | Synonyms: moderatism |
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| centrist | (adjective) supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative | Synonyms: middle-of-the-road |
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| (noun) a person who takes a position in the political center | Synonyms: middle of the roader, moderate, moderationist |
| centroid | (noun) the center of mass of an object of uniform density | - |
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| centroidal | (adjective) of or relating to (especially passing through) a centroid | - |
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| centromere | (noun) a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape | Synonyms: kinetochore |
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| centromeric | (adjective) pertaining to the dense specialized portion of a chromosome to which the spindle attaches during mitosis | - |
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| centrosome | (noun) small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus; contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules | Synonyms: central body |
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| centrosomic | (adjective) of or relating to a centrosome | - |
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| centrosymmetric | (adjective) having a symmetrical arrangement of radiating parts about a central point | Synonyms: radially symmetrical |
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| centrum | (noun) the main body of a vertebra | - |
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| centurion | (noun) (ancient Rome) the leader of 100 soldiers | - |
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| century | (noun) ten 10s | Synonyms: 100, C, hundred, one C |
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| (noun) a period of 100 years | - |
| chemiluminescent | (adjective) relating to the phenomenon of chemiluminescence | - |
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| coalescent | (adjective) growing together, fusing | Synonyms: coalescing |
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| cognoscente | (noun) an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts | Synonyms: connoisseur |
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| complacent | (adjective) contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions | Synonyms: self-complacent, self-satisfied |
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| complacently | (adverb) in a self-satisfied manner | - |
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| concenter | (verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concentre, focalise, focalize, focus |
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| concentrate | (noun) a concentrated example of something | - |
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| (noun) a concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water | - |
| (noun) the desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore | Synonyms: dressed ore |
| (verb) cook until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, reduce |
| (verb) make denser, stronger, or purer | - |
| (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralise, centralize |
| (verb) be cooked until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, decoct, reduce |
| (verb) make more concise | Synonyms: condense, digest |
| (verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: condense, contract |
| (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, focus, pore, rivet |
| (verb) draw together or meet in one common center | - |
| concentrated | (adjective) gathered together or made less diffuse | - |
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| (adjective) (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source | Synonyms: hard |
| (adjective) being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance | Synonyms: saturated |
| (adjective) intensely focused | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to a solution whose dilution has been reduced | - |
| concentration | (noun) strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material | - |
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| (noun) bringing together military forces | - |
| (noun) great and constant diligence and attention | Synonyms: assiduity, assiduousness |
| (noun) the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume | - |
| (noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: compactness, denseness, density, tightness |
| (noun) complete attention; intense mental effort | Synonyms: absorption, engrossment, immersion |
| (noun) increase in density | - |
| concentre | (verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, focalise, focalize, focus |
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| concentric | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentrical, homocentric |
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| concentrical | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentric, homocentric |
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| concentricity | (noun) the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another) | - |
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| concupiscent | (adjective) vigorously passionate | Synonyms: lustful, lusty |
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| convalescent | (adjective) returning to health after illness or debility | Synonyms: recovering |
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| (noun) a person who is recovering from illness | - |
| crescent | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, lunate, semilunar |
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| (noun) any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters | - |
| decalescent | (adjective) absorbing heat without increase in temperature when heated beyond a certain point | - |
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| decent | (adjective) conforming to conventions of sexual behavior | - |
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| (adjective) meeting requirements | Synonyms: acceptable, satisfactory |
| (adjective) observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress | - |
| (adjective) in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion | Synonyms: fitting |
| (adjective) socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous | Synonyms: nice |
| (adjective) sufficiently clothed to see visitors or appear in public | - |
| (adverb) in the right manner; correctly; suitably | Synonyms: decently, properly, right |
| decentalisation | (noun) the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts | Synonyms: decentralization |
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| decentering | (noun) Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others. | Synonyms: decentration |
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| decently | (adverb) in a decent manner | - |
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| (adverb) in the right manner; correctly; suitably | Synonyms: decent, properly, right |
| decentralisation | (noun) the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments | Synonyms: decentralization |
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| decentralise | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralize, deconcentrate |
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| decentralised | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralized |
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| decentralising | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralizing |
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| decentralization | (noun) the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments | Synonyms: decentralisation |
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| (noun) the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts | Synonyms: decentalisation |
| decentralize | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralise, deconcentrate |
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| decentralized | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralised |
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| decentralizing | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralising |
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| decentration | (noun) Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others. | Synonyms: decentering |
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| deconcentrate | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralise, decentralize |
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| defervescent | (adjective) of or relating to the reduction of a fever | - |
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| dehiscent | (adjective) (of e.g. fruits and anthers) opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds | - |
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| deliquescent | (adjective) (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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| demulcent | (adjective) having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin | Synonyms: emollient, salving, softening |
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| (noun) a medication (in the form of an oil or salve etc.) that soothes inflamed or injured skin | - |
| descent | (noun) the act of changing your location in a downward direction | - |
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| (noun) properties attributable to your ancestry | Synonyms: extraction, origin |
| (noun) a movement downward | - |
| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, downslope, fall |
| (noun) the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors | Synonyms: filiation, line of descent, lineage |
| disincentive | (noun) a negative motivational influence | Synonyms: deterrence |
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| docent | (noun) a teacher at some universities | - |
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| eccentric | (adjective) not having a common center; not concentric | Synonyms: nonconcentric |
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| (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, flakey, flaky, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
| (noun) a person with an unusual or odd personality | Synonyms: eccentric person, flake, geek, oddball |
| (noun) a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) | Synonyms: case, character, type |
| eccentrically | (adverb) not symmetrically with respect to the center | - |
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| (adverb) in an eccentric or bizarre manner | - |
| eccentricity | (noun) strange and unconventional behavior | - |
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| (noun) a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path | - |
| (noun) (geometry) a ratio describing the shape of a conic section; the ratio of the distance between the foci to the length of the major axis | - |
| effervescent | (adjective) (of a liquid) giving off bubbles | - |
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| (adjective) used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: sparkling |
| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
| efflorescent | (adjective) when the bud, or buds, on a plant are bursting into flower | Synonyms: abloom |
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| egocentric | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egoistic, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving, selfish |
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| (noun) a self-centered person with little regard for others | Synonyms: egoist |
| egocentrism | (noun) concern for your own interests and welfare | Synonyms: egoism, self-centeredness, self-concern, self-interest |
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| endocentric | (adjective) fulfilling the grammatical role of one of its constituents | - |
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| epicenter | (noun) the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake | Synonyms: epicentre |
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| epicentre | (noun) the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake | Synonyms: epicenter |
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| ethnocentric | (adjective) centered on a specific ethnic group, usually one's own | - |
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| ethnocentrism | (noun) belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group | - |
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| evanescent | (adjective) tending to vanish like vapor | - |
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| excrescent | (adjective) forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth) | - |
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| exocentric | (adjective) not fulfilling the same grammatical role of any of its constituents | - |
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| fluorescent | (adjective) brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light | - |
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| (adjective) emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source | - |
| (noun) a lighting fixture that uses a fluorescent lamp | Synonyms: fluorescent fixture |
| geocentric | (adjective) having the earth as the center | - |
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| glabrescent | (adjective) lacking hair or a similar growth or tending to become hairless | - |
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| heliocentric | (adjective) having the sun as the center | - |
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| homocentric | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentric, concentrical |
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| ignescent | (adjective) can emit sparks or burst into flame | - |
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| incandescent | (adjective) characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance | - |
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| (adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: candent |
| incentive | (noun) a positive motivational influence | Synonyms: inducement, motivator |
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| (noun) an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output | Synonyms: bonus |
| indecent | (adjective) offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters | - |
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| (adjective) offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance | - |
| (adjective) not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society | Synonyms: indecorous, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly, untoward |
| indecently | (adverb) in an indecent manner | - |
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| indehiscent | (adjective) (of e.g. fruits) not opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds | - |
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| innocent | (adjective) free from evil or guilt | Synonyms: clean-handed, guiltless |
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| (adjective) lacking intent or capacity to injure | Synonyms: innocuous |
| (adjective) lacking in sophistication or worldliness | Synonyms: ingenuous |
| (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, destitute, devoid, free |
| (adjective) (used of things) lacking sense or awareness | - |
| (adjective) not knowledgeable about something specified | Synonyms: unacquainted |
| (adjective) free from sin | Synonyms: impeccant, sinless |
| (noun) a person who lacks knowledge of evil | Synonyms: inexperienced person |
| innocently | (adverb) in a naively innocent manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a not unlawful manner | - |
| intumescent | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, distended, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
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| iridescent | (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent |
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| (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, chatoyant, shot |
| jobcentre | (noun) a government office in a town where information about available jobs is displayed and where unemployment benefits are administered | - |
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| licentiate | (noun) holds a license (degree) from a (European) university | - |
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| licentious | (adjective) lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained | - |
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| licentiously | (adverb) in a licentious and promiscuous manner | Synonyms: promiscuously, wantonly |
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| licentiousness | (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissipation, dissolution, looseness, profligacy |
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| (noun) the quality of being lewd and lascivious | Synonyms: wantonness |
| liquescent | (adjective) becoming liquid | Synonyms: melting |
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| lucent | (adjective) softly bright or radiant | Synonyms: aglow, lambent, luminous |
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| luminescent | (adjective) emitting light not caused by heat | - |
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| magnificent | (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: brilliant, glorious, splendid |
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| magnificently | (adverb) wonderfully | Synonyms: excellently, famously, splendidly |
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| (adverb) in an impressively beautiful manner | Synonyms: gorgeously, resplendently, splendidly |
| maleficent | (adjective) harmful or evil in intent or effect | - |
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| matricentric | (adjective) centered upon the mother | - |
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| metacenter | (noun) (shipbuilding) the point of intersection between two vertical lines, one line through the center of buoyancy of the hull of a ship in equilibrium and the other line through the center of buoyancy of the hull when the ship is inclined to one side; the distance of this intersection above the center of gravity is an indication of the stability of the ship | Synonyms: metacentre |
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| metacentre | (noun) (shipbuilding) the point of intersection between two vertical lines, one line through the center of buoyancy of the hull of a ship in equilibrium and the other line through the center of buoyancy of the hull when the ship is inclined to one side; the distance of this intersection above the center of gravity is an indication of the stability of the ship | Synonyms: metacenter |
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| metacentric | (adjective) having two equal arms because of the median position of the centromere | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the metacenter | - |
| monocentrism | (noun) the property of having or proceeding from a single center. | - |
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| munificent | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: lavish, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting |
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| munificently | (adverb) in a generous manner | Synonyms: generously, liberally |
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| nascent | (adjective) being born or beginning | - |
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