| mercerised | (adjective) of cotton thread that has been treated with sodium hydroxide to shrink it and increase its luster and affinity for dye | Synonyms: mercerized |
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| mercerize | (verb) treat to strengthen and improve the luster | Synonyms: mercerise |
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| mercerized | (adjective) of cotton thread that has been treated with sodium hydroxide to shrink it and increase its luster and affinity for dye | Synonyms: mercerised |
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| mincer | (noun) a kitchen utensil that cuts or chops food (especially meat) into small pieces | Synonyms: mincing machine |
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| necromancer | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, sorcerer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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| (noun) one who practices divination by conjuring up the dead | - |
| nitroglycerin | (noun) a heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator (trade names Nitrospan and Nitrostat) | Synonyms: glyceryl trinitrate, nitroglycerine, Nitrospan, Nitrostat, trinitroglycerin |
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| nitroglycerine | (noun) a heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator (trade names Nitrospan and Nitrostat) | Synonyms: glyceryl trinitrate, nitroglycerin, Nitrospan, Nitrostat, trinitroglycerin |
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| noticer | (noun) someone who gives formal notice | - |
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| (noun) someone who takes notice | - |
| officer | (noun) a member of a police force | Synonyms: police officer |
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| (noun) someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust | Synonyms: officeholder |
| (noun) any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command | Synonyms: military officer |
| (noun) a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel | Synonyms: ship's officer |
| (verb) direct or command as an officer | - |
| onchocerciasis | (noun) infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America | Synonyms: river blindness |
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| oneiromancer | (noun) someone who divines through the interpretation of dreams | - |
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| onomancer | (noun) one who practices onomancy | - |
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| ozocerite | (noun) a waxy mineral that is a mixture of hydrocarbons and occurs in association with petroleum; some varieties are used in making ceresin and candles | Synonyms: ader wax, earth wax, mineral wax, ozokerite |
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| pacer | (noun) a horse trained to a special gait in which both feet on one side leave the ground together | - |
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| (noun) a horse used to set the pace in racing | Synonyms: pacemaker, pacesetter |
| paleocerebellum | (noun) the anterior lobe of the cerebellum which was one of the earliest parts of the hindbrain to develop in mammals | - |
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| pincer | (noun) a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods | Synonyms: chela, claw, nipper |
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| (noun) a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping | Synonyms: pair of pincers, pair of tweezers, tweezer |
| placer | (noun) an alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral | - |
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| prancer | (noun) a mettlesome or fiery horse | - |
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| precancerous | (adjective) of or relating to a growth that is not malignant but is likely to become so if not treated | - |
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| preconcerted | (adjective) previously arranged or agreed on | - |
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| producer | (noun) something that produces | - |
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| (noun) someone who manufactures something | Synonyms: manufacturer |
| (noun) someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work) | - |
| protoceratops | (noun) small horned dinosaur | - |
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| pyromancer | (noun) one who practices pyromancy | - |
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| racer | (noun) an animal that races | - |
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| (noun) slender fast-moving North American snakes | - |
| (noun) a fast car that competes in races | Synonyms: race car, racing car |
| (noun) someone who drives racing cars at high speeds | Synonyms: automobile driver, race driver |
| racerunner | (noun) very swift lizard of eastern and central United States | Synonyms: Cnemidophorus sexlineatus, race runner, six-lined racerunner |
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| reducer | (noun) pipefitting that joins two pipes of different diameter | - |
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| (noun) a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver | Synonyms: reducing agent, reductant |
| reinforcer | (noun) (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it | Synonyms: reinforcement, reinforcing stimulus |
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| reproducer | (noun) an audio system that can reproduce and amplify signals to produce sound | - |
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| rhabdomancer | (noun) someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water | Synonyms: dowser, water witch |
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| rhinoceros | (noun) massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout | Synonyms: rhino |
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| ricer | (noun) a kitchen utensil used for ricing soft foods by extruding them through small holes | - |
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| ropedancer | (noun) an acrobat who performs on a rope stretched at some height above the ground | Synonyms: ropewalker |
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| sacerdotal | (adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests | Synonyms: hieratic, hieratical, priestly |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a belief in sacerdotalism | - |
| sacerdotalism | (noun) a belief that priests can act as mediators between human beings and God | - |
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| sacrificer | (noun) a religious person who offers up a sacrifice | - |
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| saucer | (noun) a small shallow dish for holding a cup at the table | - |
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| (noun) a disk used in throwing competitions | Synonyms: discus |
| (noun) directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation | Synonyms: dish, dish aerial, dish antenna |
| (noun) something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate | Synonyms: disc, disk |
| secern | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| secernate | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| secernment | (noun) the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished | Synonyms: discrimination |
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| (noun) the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance | Synonyms: secretion |
| seducer | (noun) a man who takes advantage of women | Synonyms: ladies' man, lady killer |
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| (noun) a bad person who entices others into error or wrongdoing | - |
| sequencer | (noun) computer hardware that sorts data or programs into a predetermined sequence | - |
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| (noun) (chemistry) an apparatus that can determine the sequence of monomers in a polymer | Synonyms: sequenator |
| silencer | (noun) a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise | Synonyms: muffler |
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| (noun) short tube attached to the muzzle of a gun that deadens the sound of firing | - |
| sincere | (adjective) open and genuine; not deceitful | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions | Synonyms: earnest, solemn |
| sincerely | (adverb) with sincerity; without pretense | Synonyms: truly, unfeignedly |
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| (adverb) written formula for ending a letter | Synonyms: sincerely yours |
| sincerity | (noun) the quality of being open and truthful; not deceitful or hypocritical | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being serious | Synonyms: earnestness, serious-mindedness, seriousness |
| (noun) a quality of naturalness and simplicity | Synonyms: unassumingness |
| (noun) an earnest and sincere feeling | Synonyms: earnestness, seriousness |
| slicer | (noun) knife especially designed for slicing particular foods, as cheese | - |
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| (noun) a machine for cutting; usually with a revolving blade | - |
| (noun) a golfer whose shots typically curve right (for right-handed golfers) | - |
| soccer | (noun) a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal | Synonyms: association football |
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| sorcerer | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, necromancer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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| sorceress | (noun) a woman sorcerer | - |
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| sorcerise | (verb) transform or change by means of sorcery | Synonyms: sorcerize |
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| sorcerize | (verb) transform or change by means of sorcery | Synonyms: sorcerise |
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| sorcerous | (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: charming, magic, magical, witching, wizard, wizardly |
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| sorcery | (noun) the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world | Synonyms: black art, black magic, necromancy |
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| spicery | (noun) the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored | Synonyms: spice, spiciness |
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| splicer | (noun) a mechanical device for joining two pieces of paper or film or magnetic tape | - |
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| (noun) a worker who splices ropes together by interweaving strands | - |
| (noun) a woodworker who joins pieces of wood with a splice | - |
| tracer | (noun) ammunition whose flight can be observed by a trail of smoke | Synonyms: tracer bullet |
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| (noun) (radiology) any radioactive isotope introduced into the body to study metabolism or other biological processes | - |
| (noun) an instrument used to make tracings | - |
| (noun) an investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods | - |
| tracery | (noun) decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs | - |
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| traducer | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, maligner, slanderer, vilifier |
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| transducer | (noun) an electrical device that converts one form of energy into another | - |
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| triceratops | (noun) huge ceratopsian dinosaur having three horns and the neck heavily armored with a very solid frill | - |
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| triglyceride | (noun) glyceride occurring naturally in animal and vegetable tissues; it consists of three individual fatty acids bound together in a single large molecule; an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body | - |
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| trinitroglycerin | (noun) a heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator (trade names Nitrospan and Nitrostat) | Synonyms: glyceryl trinitrate, nitroglycerin, nitroglycerine, Nitrospan, Nitrostat |
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| ulcer | (noun) a circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue | Synonyms: ulceration |
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| ulcerate | (verb) affect with an ulcer | - |
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| (verb) undergo ulceration | - |
| ulcerated | (adjective) having an ulcer or canker | Synonyms: cankerous, ulcerous |
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| ulceration | (noun) the process of ulcer formation; the process of becoming ulcerated | - |
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| (noun) a circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue | Synonyms: ulcer |
| ulcerative | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by ulceration | - |
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| ulcerous | (adjective) having an ulcer or canker | Synonyms: cankerous, ulcerated |
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| unascertainable | (adjective) not able to be ascertained; resisting discovery | Synonyms: undiscoverable |
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| unceremonial | (adjective) without ceremony or formality | Synonyms: unceremonious |
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| unceremonious | (adjective) without due formalities | - |
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| (adjective) without ceremony or formality | Synonyms: unceremonial |
| unceremoniously | (adverb) in an unceremonious manner | - |
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| unceremoniousness | (noun) an unceremonial manner | - |
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| uncertain | (adjective) not established beyond doubt; still undecided or unknown | - |
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| (adjective) lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance | Synonyms: incertain, unsure |
| (adjective) not certain to occur; not inevitable | - |
| (adjective) not established or confirmed | Synonyms: unsealed |
| (adjective) ambiguous (especially in the negative) | - |
| (adjective) not consistent or dependable | - |
| (adjective) subject to change | Synonyms: changeable, unsettled |
| uncertainly | (adverb) showing lack of certainty | - |
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| (adverb) in an unsteady manner | Synonyms: falteringly, unsteadily |
| uncertainness | (noun) being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance | Synonyms: precariousness, uncertainty |
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| uncertainty | (noun) being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance | Synonyms: precariousness, uncertainness |
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| (noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude |
| uncertified | (adjective) lacking requisite official documentation or endorsement | - |
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| unconcern | (noun) the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern | Synonyms: indifference, nonchalance |
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| (noun) a feeling of lack of concern | - |
| unconcerned | (adjective) lacking in interest or care or feeling | - |
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| (adjective) not occupied or engaged with | - |
| (adjective) easy in mind; not worried | - |
| unconcernedly | (adverb) in an indifferent manner | - |
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| undiscerning | (adjective) lacking discernment | - |
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| viceregal | (adjective) of or relating to a viceroy | - |
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| vicereine | (noun) governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign | Synonyms: viceroy |
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| (noun) wife of a viceroy | - |
| viceroy | (noun) showy American butterfly resembling the monarch but smaller | Synonyms: Limenitis archippus |
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| (noun) governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign | Synonyms: vicereine |
| viceroyalty | (noun) a district or province governed by a viceroy | - |
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| viceroyship | (noun) the position of viceroy | - |
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| viscera | (noun) internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity) | Synonyms: entrails, innards, insides |
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| visceral | (adjective) relating to or affecting the viscera | Synonyms: splanchnic |
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| (adjective) obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation | Synonyms: intuitive, nonrational |
| viscerally | (adverb) in the viscera | - |
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| (adverb) in an unreasoning visceral manner | Synonyms: unreasoningly |
| voicer | (noun) a speaker who voices an opinion | - |
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| (noun) someone who regulates the tone of organ pipes | - |