| accouchement | (noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: childbearing, childbirth, vaginal birth |
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| accoucheur | (noun) a physician specializing in obstetrics | Synonyms: obstetrician |
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| accoucheuse | (noun) a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies | Synonyms: midwife |
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| ache | (noun) a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain | Synonyms: aching |
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| (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: languish, pine, yearn, yen |
| (verb) be the source of pain | Synonyms: hurt, smart |
| (verb) feel physical pain | Synonyms: hurt, suffer |
| achene | (noun) small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall | - |
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| achenial | (adjective) pertaining to dry one-seeded indehiscent fruit | - |
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| adrenarche | (noun) the increase in activity of the adrenal glands just before puberty | - |
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| affenpinscher | (noun) European breed of small dog resembling a terrier with dark wiry hair and a tufted muzzle | Synonyms: monkey dog, monkey pinscher |
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| alchemic | (adjective) related to or concerned with alchemy | Synonyms: alchemical |
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| alchemical | (adjective) related to or concerned with alchemy | Synonyms: alchemic |
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| alchemise | (verb) alter (elements) by alchemy | Synonyms: alchemize |
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| alchemist | (noun) one who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone | - |
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| alchemistic | (adjective) of or relating to alchemists | Synonyms: alchemistical |
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| alchemistical | (adjective) of or relating to alchemists | Synonyms: alchemistic |
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| alchemize | (verb) alter (elements) by alchemy | Synonyms: alchemise |
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| alchemy | (noun) a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times | - |
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| (noun) the way two individuals relate to each other | Synonyms: chemistry, interpersonal chemistry |
| apache | (noun) a Parisian gangster | - |
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| archduchess | (noun) a wife or widow of an archduke or a princess of the former ruling house of Austria | - |
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| archean | (adjective) of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon | Synonyms: archaean |
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| arched | (adjective) constructed with or in the form of an arch or arches | - |
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| (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arced, arching, arciform, arcuate, bowed |
| archegonial | (adjective) of or relating to an archegonium | Synonyms: archegoniate |
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| archegoniate | (adjective) of or relating to an archegonium | Synonyms: archegonial |
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| archegonium | (noun) a female sex organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms | - |
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| archenteron | (noun) central cavity of the gastrula; becomes the intestinal or digestive cavity | - |
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| archeobacteria | (noun) considered ancient life forms that evolved separately from bacteria and blue-green algae | Synonyms: archaebacteria, archaebacterium, archaeobacteria |
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| archeologic | (adjective) related to or dealing with or devoted to archaeology | Synonyms: archaeologic, archaeological, archeological |
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| archeological | (adjective) related to or dealing with or devoted to archaeology | Synonyms: archaeologic, archaeological, archeologic |
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| archeologist | (noun) an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture | Synonyms: archaeologist |
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| archeology | (noun) the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures | Synonyms: archaeology |
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| archeopteryx | (noun) extinct primitive toothed bird of the Jurassic period having a long feathered tail and hollow bones; usually considered the most primitive of all birds | Synonyms: archaeopteryx, Archaeopteryx lithographica |
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| archeozoic | (adjective) of or belonging to earlier of two divisions of the Precambrian era | Synonyms: archaeozoic |
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| archepiscopal | (adjective) of or associated with an archbishop | Synonyms: archiepiscopal |
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| archer | (noun) a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow | Synonyms: bowman |
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| archerfish | (noun) any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water; found in Indonesia and Australia | Synonyms: Toxotes jaculatrix |
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| archery | (noun) the sport of shooting arrows with a bow | - |
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| archespore | (noun) primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops | Synonyms: archesporium |
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| archesporial | (adjective) of or relating to the cells in a sporangium that give rise to spores | - |
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| archesporium | (noun) primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops | Synonyms: archespore |
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| archetypal | (adjective) representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned | Synonyms: archetypical, prototypal, prototypic, prototypical |
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| archetype | (noun) something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies | Synonyms: original, pilot |
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| archetypical | (adjective) representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned | Synonyms: archetypal, prototypal, prototypic, prototypical |
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| ascolichen | (noun) a lichen in which the fungus component is an ascomycete | - |
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| attache | (noun) a shallow and rectangular briefcase | Synonyms: attache case |
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| (noun) a specialist assigned to the staff of a diplomatic mission | - |
| attached | (adjective) associated in an exclusive sexual relationship | Synonyms: committed |
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| (adjective) used of buildings joined by common sidewalls | - |
| (adjective) fond and affectionate | - |
| (adjective) being joined in close association | Synonyms: affiliated, connected |
| avalanche | (noun) a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain | - |
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| (noun) a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things | - |
| (verb) gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow | Synonyms: roll down |
| bachelor | (noun) a man who has never been married | Synonyms: unmarried man |
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| (noun) a knight of the lowest order; could display only a pennon | Synonyms: bachelor-at-arms, knight bachelor |
| (verb) lead a bachelor's existence | Synonyms: bach |
| bachelorette | (noun) a young unmarried woman who lives alone | Synonyms: bachelor girl |
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| bachelorhood | (noun) the state of being an unmarried man | - |
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| (noun) the time of a man's life prior to marriage | - |
| backache | (noun) an ache localized in the back | - |
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| backbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who is not a party leader | - |
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| backscratcher | (noun) a long-handled scratcher for scratching your back | - |
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| (noun) someone who is willing to trade favors or services for mutual advantage | - |
| barouche | (noun) a horse-drawn carriage having four wheels; has an outside seat for the driver and facing inside seats for two couples and a folding top | - |
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| basidiolichen | (noun) a lichen in which the fungus component is a basidiomycete | - |
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| beechen | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the beech tree | - |
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| bellyache | (noun) an ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region | Synonyms: gastralgia, stomach ache, stomachache |
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| (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
| bellyacher | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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| bewitched | (adjective) captured, as if under a spell | Synonyms: ensorcelled |
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| bewitchery | (noun) magnetic personal charm | Synonyms: animal magnetism, beguilement |
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| biochemical | (adjective) of or relating to biochemistry; involving chemical processes in living organisms | - |
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| biochemically | (adverb) with respect to biochemistry | - |
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| biochemist | (noun) someone with special training in biochemistry | - |
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| biochemistry | (noun) the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry | - |
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| birchen | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree | Synonyms: birch, birken |
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| bitchery | (noun) aggressive remarks and behavior like that of a spiteful malicious woman | - |
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| blanched | (adjective) anemic looking from illness or emotion | Synonyms: ashen, bloodless, livid, white |
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| (adjective) (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light | Synonyms: etiolate, etiolated |
| bleached | (adjective) (used of color) artificially produced; not natural | Synonyms: colored, coloured, dyed |
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| (adjective) having lost freshness or brilliance of color | Synonyms: faded, washed-out, washy |
| bleacher | (noun) a worker who bleaches (cloth or flour etc.) | - |
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| bleachers | (noun) (used in the plural) an outdoor grandstand without a roof; patrons are exposed to the sun as linens are when they are bleached | - |
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| blotched | (adjective) marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots | Synonyms: blotchy, splotched |
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| blucher | (noun) a high shoe with laces over the tongue | - |
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| botched | (adjective) spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness | Synonyms: bungled |
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| botcher | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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| bouchee | (noun) shell of puff paste | Synonyms: patty shell |
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| branched | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branching, ramate, ramose, ramous |
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| (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
| breeched | (adjective) dressed in trousers | Synonyms: pantalooned, trousered |
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| breeches | (noun) (used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee | Synonyms: knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers, knickers |
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| brioche | (noun) a light roll rich with eggs and butter and somewhat sweet | - |
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| britches | (noun) (used in the plural) informal term for breeches | - |
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| broached | (adjective) of a cask or barrel | Synonyms: abroach |
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| brochette | (noun) a small spit or skewer | - |
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| butcher | (noun) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | Synonyms: slaughterer |
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| (noun) a brutal indiscriminate murderer | - |
| (noun) a retailer of meat | Synonyms: meatman |
| (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
| (verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption | Synonyms: slaughter |
| butcherbird | (noun) shrikes that impale their prey on thorns | - |
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| (noun) large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns | - |
| butchering | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchery |
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| butcherly | (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous |
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| (adjective) poorly done | Synonyms: botchy, unskillful |
| butchery | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchering |
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| (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
| (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse |
| cache | (noun) a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons) | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics | Synonyms: memory cache |
| (noun) a secret store of valuables or money | Synonyms: hoard, stash |
| (verb) save up as for future use | Synonyms: hive up, hoard, lay away, squirrel away, stash |
| cachectic | (adjective) relating to or having the symptoms of cachexia | - |
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| cachet | (noun) a seal on a letter | - |
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| (noun) an indication of approved or superior status | Synonyms: seal, seal of approval |
| (noun) a warrant formerly issued by a French king who could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal | Synonyms: lettre de cachet |
| cachexia | (noun) any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease | Synonyms: cachexy, wasting |
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| cachexy | (noun) any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease | Synonyms: cachexia, wasting |
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| caleche | (noun) the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage | Synonyms: calash, calash top |
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| (noun) a woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century | Synonyms: calash |
| caliche | (noun) nitrate-bearing rock or gravel of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru | - |
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| (noun) crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions | Synonyms: hardpan |
| caroche | (noun) a luxurious carriage suitable for nobility in the 16th and 17th century | - |
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| cartouche | (noun) a cartridge (usually with paper casing) | Synonyms: cartouch |
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| catananche | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Catananche having long-stalked heads of blue or yellow flowers | - |
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| catcher | (noun) the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws | - |
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| (noun) (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher | Synonyms: backstop |
| catechesis | (noun) oral religious instruction (as before baptism or confirmation) | - |
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| catechetic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism | Synonyms: catechistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or involving catechesis | Synonyms: catechetical |
| catechetical | (adjective) of or relating to or involving catechesis | Synonyms: catechetic |
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| cheap | (adjective) relatively low in price or charging low prices | Synonyms: inexpensive |
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| (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
| (adjective) embarrassingly stingy | Synonyms: chinchy, chintzy |
| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |