| accumbent | (adjective) lying down; in a position of comfort or rest | Synonyms: decumbent, recumbent |
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| accumulate | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: amass, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up |
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| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| accumulated | (adjective) periodically accumulated over time | Synonyms: accrued |
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| accumulation | (noun) the act of accumulating | Synonyms: accrual, accruement |
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| (noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: aggregation, assemblage, collection |
| (noun) (finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation | - |
| (noun) an increase by natural growth or addition | Synonyms: accretion |
| accumulative | (adjective) marked by acquiring or amassing | - |
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| (adjective) increasing by successive addition | Synonyms: cumulative |
| accumulator | (noun) a voltaic battery that stores electric charge | Synonyms: storage battery |
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| (noun) (computer science) a register that has a built-in adder that adds an input number to the contents of the register | Synonyms: accumulator register |
| (noun) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) | Synonyms: collector, gatherer |
| acumen | (noun) shrewdness shown by keen insight | Synonyms: insightfulness |
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| (noun) a tapering point | - |
| acuminate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) narrowing to a slender point | - |
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| (verb) make sharp or acute; taper; make (something) come to a point | - |
| altocumulus | (noun) a cumulus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles | Synonyms: altocumulus cloud |
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| angrecum | (noun) any of various spectacular orchids of the genus Angraecum having dark green leathery leaves and usually nocturnally scented white or ivory flowers | - |
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| cacuminal | (adjective) pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate | Synonyms: retroflex |
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| caecum | (noun) the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens | Synonyms: blind gut, cecum |
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| capsicum | (noun) any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers | Synonyms: capsicum pepper plant, pepper |
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| cecum | (noun) the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens | Synonyms: blind gut, caecum |
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| circumambulate | (verb) walk around something | Synonyms: walk around |
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| circumboreal | (adjective) comprising or throughout far northern regions | Synonyms: boreal |
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| circumcise | (verb) cut the foreskin off male babies or teenage boys | - |
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| (verb) cut the skin over the clitoris | - |
| circumcision | (noun) the act of circumcising; surgical removal of the foreskin of males | - |
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| (noun) the act of circumcising performed on males eight days after birth as a Jewish and Muslim religious rite | - |
| circumduction | (noun) a circular movement of a limb or eye | - |
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| circumference | (noun) the size of something as given by the distance around it | Synonyms: perimeter |
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| (noun) the length of the closed curve of a circle | - |
| (noun) the boundary line encompassing an area or object | Synonyms: circuit |
| circumferent | (adjective) closely encircling | Synonyms: encompassing, surrounding |
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| circumferential | (adjective) lying around or just outside the edges or outskirts | - |
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| circumflex | (noun) a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality | - |
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| circumfuse | (verb) spread something around something | - |
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| circumlocution | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: ambage, periphrasis |
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| (noun) an indirect way of expressing something | Synonyms: indirect expression |
| circumlocutious | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutory, periphrastic |
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| circumlocutory | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, periphrastic |
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| circumnavigate | (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: compass |
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| circumnavigation | (noun) traveling around something (by ship or plane) | - |
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| circumpolar | (adjective) located or found throughout a polar region | - |
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| (adjective) (of a celestial body) continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel | - |
| circumscribe | (verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: confine to, limit |
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| (verb) draw a line around | - |
| (verb) to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect | - |
| circumscribed | (adjective) subject to limits or subjected to limits | Synonyms: limited |
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| circumscription | (noun) the act of circumscribing | - |
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| circumspect | (adjective) heedful of potential consequences | Synonyms: discreet |
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| circumspection | (noun) the trait of being circumspect and prudent | Synonyms: caution |
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| (noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: discreetness, discretion, prudence |
| circumspectly | (adverb) in a cagey manner | Synonyms: cagily |
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| circumstance | (noun) information that should be kept in mind when making a decision | Synonyms: condition, consideration |
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| (noun) formal ceremony about important occasions | - |
| (noun) a condition that accompanies or influences some event or activity | - |
| (noun) the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event | Synonyms: context, setting |
| circumstances | (noun) a person's financial situation (good or bad) | - |
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| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: destiny, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion |
| circumstantial | (adjective) fully detailed and specific about particulars | - |
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| circumstantially | (adverb) insofar as the circumstances are concerned | - |
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| (adverb) without advance planning | Synonyms: accidentally, by chance, unexpectedly |
| (adverb) in minute detail | Synonyms: minutely |
| (adverb) according to circumstances | - |
| circumstantiate | (verb) give circumstantial evidence for | - |
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| circumvallate | (verb) surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification | - |
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| circumvent | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, hem in, surround |
| circumvention | (noun) the act of evading by going around | - |
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| circumvolute | (verb) wind or turn in volutions, especially in an inward spiral, as of snail | - |
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| circumvolution | (noun) the act of turning or winding or folding around a central axis | - |
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| circumvolve | (verb) cause to turn on an axis or center | Synonyms: rotate |
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| cirrocumulus | (noun) a cloud at a high altitude consisting of a series of regularly arranged small clouds resembling ripples | Synonyms: cirrocumulus cloud |
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| cucumber | (noun) cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons | Synonyms: cuke |
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| (noun) a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit | Synonyms: cucumber vine, Cucumis sativus |
| cum | (noun) the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract | Synonyms: come, ejaculate, seed, semen, seminal fluid |
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| cumarone | (noun) a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins | Synonyms: benzofuran, coumarone |
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| cumber | (verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult | Synonyms: encumber, restrain |
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| cumbersome | (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
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| (adjective) difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight | Synonyms: cumbrous |
| cumbersomeness | (noun) trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape | Synonyms: awkwardness, unwieldiness |
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| cumbrous | (adjective) difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight | Synonyms: cumbersome |
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| cumfrey | (noun) perennial herbs of Europe and Iran; make rapidly growing groundcover for shaded areas | Synonyms: comfrey |
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| cumin | (noun) aromatic seeds of the cumin herb of the carrot family | Synonyms: cumin seed |
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| (noun) dwarf Mediterranean annual long cultivated for its aromatic seeds | Synonyms: Cuminum cyminum |
| cummerbund | (noun) a broad pleated sash worn as formal dress with a tuxedo | - |
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| cummings | (noun) United States writer noted for his typographically eccentric poetry (1894-1962) | Synonyms: e. e. cummings, Edward Estlin Cummings |
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| cumquat | (noun) any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp | Synonyms: kumquat, kumquat tree |
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| cumswallow | (verb) to swallow ejaculate | - |
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| cumulate | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, conglomerate, gather, pile up |
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| cumulation | (noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other | Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulus, heap, mound, pile |
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| cumulative | (adjective) increasing by successive addition | Synonyms: accumulative |
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| cumulatively | (adverb) in a cumulative manner | - |
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| cumuliform | (adjective) shaped like a cumulus cloud | - |
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| cumulonimbus | (noun) a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms | Synonyms: cumulonimbus cloud, thundercloud |
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| cumulous | (adjective) of or related to cumulous clouds | Synonyms: cumulus |
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| (adjective) thrown together in a pile | - |
| cumulus | (adjective) of or related to cumulous clouds | Synonyms: cumulous |
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| (noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other | Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulation, heap, mound, pile |
| (noun) a globular cloud | Synonyms: cumulus cloud |
| cynancum | (noun) any of various mostly giant tropical lianas of Africa and Madagascar having greenish or purple flowers and long smooth pods; roots formerly used as an emetic | - |
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| decumary | (noun) woody climber of southeastern United States having white flowers in compound terminal clusters | Synonyms: Decumaria barbara, Decumaria barbata |
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| decumbent | (adjective) lying down; in a position of comfort or rest | Synonyms: accumbent, recumbent |
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| dicumarol | (noun) an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin | Synonyms: dicoumarol |
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| disencumber | (verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disentangle, extricate, untangle |
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| document | (noun) anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks | - |
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| (noun) writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature) | Synonyms: papers, written document |
| (noun) (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters | Synonyms: text file |
| (noun) a written account of ownership or obligation | - |
| (verb) support or supply with references | - |
| (verb) record in detail | - |
| documental | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or derived from documents | Synonyms: documentary |
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| documentary | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or derived from documents | Synonyms: documental |
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| (adjective) (of film, television, radio, or photography) depicting a real-life event using images or interviews with people involved in the event | - |
| (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: docudrama, documentary film, infotainment |
| documentation | (noun) documentary validation | Synonyms: support |
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| (noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: certification, corroboration |
| (noun) program listings or technical manuals describing the operation and use of programs | Synonyms: software documentation |
| documented | (adjective) furnished with or supported by documents | - |
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| (adjective) established as genuine | Synonyms: attested, authenticated |
| ecumenic | (adjective) concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions | Synonyms: ecumenical, oecumenic, oecumenical |
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| ecumenical | (adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: cosmopolitan, general, oecumenical, universal, world-wide, worldwide |
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| (adjective) concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions | Synonyms: ecumenic, oecumenic, oecumenical |
| ecumenicalism | (noun) (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity | Synonyms: ecumenicism, ecumenism |
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| ecumenicism | (noun) (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity | Synonyms: ecumenicalism, ecumenism |
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| ecumenism | (noun) (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity | Synonyms: ecumenicalism, ecumenicism |
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| (noun) a movement promoting union between religions (especially between Christian churches) | Synonyms: oecumenism |
| encumber | (verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult | Synonyms: cumber, restrain |
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| encumbered | (adjective) loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load | - |
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| encumbrance | (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive |
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| (noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: burden, incumbrance, load, onus |
| (noun) a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage) | Synonyms: incumbrance |
| guaiacum | (noun) hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum | Synonyms: guaiac, lignum vitae |
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| (noun) medicinal resin from the lignum vitae tree | - |
| incumbency | (noun) the office of an incumbent | - |
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| (noun) a duty that is incumbent upon you | - |
| (noun) the term during which some position is held | Synonyms: tenure, term of office |
| incumbent | (adjective) currently holding an office | - |
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| (adjective) necessary (for someone) as a duty or responsibility; morally binding | - |
| (adjective) lying or leaning on something else | - |
| (noun) the official who holds an office | Synonyms: officeholder |
| incumbrance | (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, interference, preventative, preventive |
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| (noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: burden, encumbrance, load, onus |
| (noun) a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage) | Synonyms: encumbrance |
| locum | (noun) someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession | Synonyms: locum tenens |
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| macumba | (noun) a Brazilian religious cult of African origin; combines voodoo elements with singing and chanting and dancing | - |
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| (noun) popular dance music of Brazil; derived from the practices of the macumba religious cult | - |
| (noun) (Brazil) followers of a religious cult of African origin | - |
| modicum | (noun) a small or moderate or token amount | - |
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| molluscum | (noun) any skin disease characterized by soft pulpy nodules | - |
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| oecumenic | (adjective) concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions | Synonyms: ecumenic, ecumenical, oecumenical |
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| oecumenical | (adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, general, universal, world-wide, worldwide |
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| (adjective) concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions | Synonyms: ecumenic, ecumenical, oecumenic |
| oecumenism | (noun) a movement promoting union between religions (especially between Christian churches) | Synonyms: ecumenism |
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| procumbent | (adjective) having stems that trail along the ground without putting down roots | - |
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| recumb | (verb) lean in a comfortable resting position | Synonyms: recline, repose |
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