cunctation | (noun) the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time | Synonyms: procrastination, shillyshally |
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cunctator | (noun) someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness) | Synonyms: postponer, procrastinator |
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cuneal | (adjective) shaped like a wedge | Synonyms: cuneiform, wedge-shaped |
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cuneate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) narrowly triangular, wider at the apex and tapering toward the base | Synonyms: wedge-shaped |
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cuneiform | (adjective) of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped bones) | - |
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(adjective) shaped like a wedge | Synonyms: cuneal, wedge-shaped |
(noun) an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | - |
cuneus | (noun) any shape that is triangular in cross section | Synonyms: wedge, wedge shape |
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cunner | (noun) common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States | Synonyms: bergall, Tautogolabrus adspersus |
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cunnilinctus | (noun) oral stimulation of the vulva or clitoris | Synonyms: cunnilingus |
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cunnilingus | (noun) oral stimulation of the vulva or clitoris | Synonyms: cunnilinctus |
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cunning | (adjective) showing inventiveness and skill | Synonyms: clever, ingenious |
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(adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
(adjective) attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness | Synonyms: cute |
(noun) crafty artfulness (especially in deception) | - |
(noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craft, craftiness, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness |
cunningly | (adverb) in an subtle, cunning manner | Synonyms: artfully, craftily, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily |
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(adverb) in an attractive manner | Synonyms: cutely |
cunt | (noun) obscene terms for female genitals | Synonyms: puss, pussy, slit, snatch, twat |
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(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked | Synonyms: bitch |
dracunculiasis | (noun) a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin | Synonyms: Guinea worm, Guinea worm disease |
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fecund | (adjective) capable of producing offspring or vegetation | - |
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(adjective) intellectually productive | Synonyms: fertile, prolific |
fecundate | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fertilise, fertilize, inseminate |
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(verb) make fertile or productive | Synonyms: fertilise, fertilize |
fecundation | (noun) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | Synonyms: fertilisation, fertilization, impregnation |
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(noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: dressing, fertilisation, fertilization |
fecundity | (noun) the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth | Synonyms: fruitfulness |
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(noun) the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination | Synonyms: fruitfulness |
(noun) the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring | Synonyms: fertility |
impecunious | (adjective) not having enough money to pay for necessities | Synonyms: hard up, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious, pinched |
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impecuniousness | (noun) a state of lacking money | Synonyms: pennilessness, penuriousness |
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jocund | (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: gay, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful |
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jocundity | (noun) a feeling of facetious merriment | Synonyms: jocularity |
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lacuna | (noun) a blank gap or missing part | Synonyms: blank |
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lacunar | (noun) an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome | Synonyms: caisson, coffer |
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mucuna | (noun) any of several erect or climbing woody plants of the genus Mucuna; widespread in tropics of both hemispheres | - |
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pecuniary | (adjective) relating to or involving money | Synonyms: monetary |
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rubicund | (adjective) inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life | Synonyms: florid, ruddy, sanguine |
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scunner | (noun) a strong dislike | - |
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secundigravida | (noun) a woman who is pregnant for the second time | Synonyms: gravida II |
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superfecundation | (noun) fertilization of two or more ova released during the same menstrual cycle by sperm from separate acts of coitus (especially by different males) | - |
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vicuna | (noun) small wild cud-chewing Andean animal similar to the guanaco but smaller; valued for its fleecy undercoat | Synonyms: Vicugna vicugna |
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(noun) a soft wool fabric made from the fleece of the vicuna | - |
(noun) the wool of the vicuna | - |