adhocracy | (noun) an organization with little or no structure | - |
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aristocracy | (noun) a privileged class holding hereditary titles | Synonyms: nobility |
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(noun) the most powerful members of a society | Synonyms: gentry |
autocracy | (noun) a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual | - |
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(noun) a political system governed by a single individual | Synonyms: autarchy |
bureaucracy | (noun) nonelective government officials | Synonyms: bureaucratism |
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(noun) a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials | - |
(noun) any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape | - |
crack | (adjective) of the highest quality | Synonyms: A-one, ace, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch, tops |
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(noun) the act of cracking something | Synonyms: cracking, fracture |
(noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: fling, go, offer, pass, whirl |
(noun) a narrow opening | Synonyms: gap |
(noun) a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive | Synonyms: crack cocaine, tornado |
(noun) a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts | - |
(noun) witty remark | Synonyms: quip, sally, wisecrack |
(noun) a sudden sharp noise | Synonyms: cracking, snap |
(noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure |
(noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, cranny, crevice, fissure |
(noun) a chance to do something | Synonyms: shot |
(verb) break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension | Synonyms: snap |
(verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: break, check |
(verb) break partially but keep its integrity | - |
(verb) cause to become cracked | - |
(verb) reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking | - |
(verb) break into simpler molecules by means of heat | - |
(verb) pass through (a barrier) | Synonyms: break through |
(verb) tell spontaneously | - |
(verb) hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise | - |
(verb) suffer a nervous breakdown | Synonyms: break up, collapse, crack up, crock up |
(verb) make a sharp sound | Synonyms: snap |
(verb) make a very sharp explosive sound | - |
(verb) gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions | - |
crackbrained | (adjective) insanely irresponsible | Synonyms: idiotic |
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crackdown | (noun) severely repressive actions | - |
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cracked | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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(adjective) of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide | Synonyms: alligatored |
(adjective) used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure | Synonyms: chapped, roughened |
cracker | (noun) a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends | Synonyms: cracker bonbon, snapper |
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(noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: banger, firecracker |
(noun) a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet | - |
(noun) a poor White person in the southern United States | Synonyms: redneck |
(noun) a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things | - |
crackerberry | (noun) creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska | Synonyms: bunchberry, Cornus canadensis, dwarf cornel, pudding berry |
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crackerjack | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: jimdandy, jimhickey |
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(noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: jimdandy, jimhickey |
crackers | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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cracking | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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(noun) the act of cracking something | Synonyms: crack, fracture |
(noun) a sudden sharp noise | Synonyms: crack, snap |
(noun) the process whereby heavy molecules of naphtha or petroleum are broken down into hydrocarbons of lower molecular weight (especially in the oil-refining process) | - |
crackle | (adjective) having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware | - |
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(noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle china, crackleware |
(noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackling, crepitation |
(verb) to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks | - |
(verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crunch, scranch, scraunch |
(verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crepitate |
crackleware | (noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle, crackle china |
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crackling | (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackle, crepitation |
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(noun) the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered | Synonyms: greaves |
cracklings | (noun) the crisp residue left after lard has been rendered | - |
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crackpot | (noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crank, fruitcake, nut, nut case, screwball |
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cracksman | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: safebreaker, safecracker |
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democracy | (noun) the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives | - |
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(noun) the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group | Synonyms: majority rule |
(noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | Synonyms: commonwealth, republic |
firecracker | (noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: banger, cracker |
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gerontocracy | (noun) a political system governed by old men | - |
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gimcrack | (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
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(noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
gimcrackery | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery |
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gynecocracy | (noun) a political system governed by a woman | Synonyms: gynarchy |
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hierocracy | (noun) a ruling body composed of clergy | - |
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hydrocracking | (noun) the process whereby hydrocarbon molecules of petroleum are broken down into kerosene and gasolene by the addition of hydrogen under high pressure in the presence of a catalyst | - |
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meritocracy | (noun) the belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth | - |
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(noun) a form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects | - |
mobocracy | (noun) a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses | Synonyms: ochlocracy |
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monocracy | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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nutcracker | (noun) speckled birds that feed on nuts | - |
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(noun) any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects | Synonyms: nuthatch |
(noun) a compound lever used to crack nuts open | - |
ochlocracy | (noun) a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses | Synonyms: mobocracy |
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plutocracy | (noun) a political system governed by the wealthy people | - |
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ricrac | (noun) a narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming | Synonyms: rickrack |
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safecracker | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: cracksman, safebreaker |
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stratocracy | (noun) government by the military and an army | Synonyms: military government |
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technocracy | (noun) a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control | - |
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theocracy | (noun) the belief in government by divine guidance | - |
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(noun) a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided) | - |
wisecrack | (noun) witty remark | Synonyms: crack, quip, sally |
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(verb) make a comment, usually ironic | - |