aciduric | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilic, acidophilous |
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aminoaciduria | (noun) abnormal presence of amino acids in the urine; usually a symptom of metabolic defects | - |
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corduroy | (noun) a cut pile fabric with vertical ribs; usually made of cotton | Synonyms: cord |
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(noun) a road made of logs laid crosswise | - |
(verb) build (a road) from logs laid side by side | - |
corduroys | (noun) cotton trousers made of corduroy cloth | Synonyms: cords |
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dura | (noun) the outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges | Synonyms: dura mater |
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durability | (noun) permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force | Synonyms: enduringness, lastingness, strength |
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durable | (adjective) very long lasting | Synonyms: indestructible, perdurable, undestroyable |
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(adjective) existing for a long time | Synonyms: lasting, long-lasting, long-lived |
(adjective) capable of withstanding wear and tear and decay | Synonyms: long-wearing |
durables | (noun) consumer goods that are not destroyed by use | Synonyms: consumer durables, durable goods |
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dural | (adjective) of or relating to the dura mater | - |
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duramen | (noun) the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood | Synonyms: heartwood |
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durance | (noun) imprisonment (especially for a long time) | - |
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duration | (noun) continuance in time | Synonyms: length |
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(noun) the property of enduring or continuing in time | Synonyms: continuance |
(noun) the period of time during which something continues | Synonyms: continuance |
durative | (noun) the aspect of a verb that expresses its duration | Synonyms: durative aspect |
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durbar | (noun) the room in the palace of a native prince of India in which audiences and receptions occur | - |
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duress | (noun) compulsory force or threat | - |
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durian | (noun) huge fruit native to southeastern Asia `smelling like Hell and tasting like Heaven'; seeds are roasted and eaten like nuts | - |
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(noun) tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind | Synonyms: durian tree, Durio zibethinus, durion |
durion | (noun) tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind | Synonyms: durian, durian tree, Durio zibethinus |
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durmast | (noun) deciduous European oak valued for its tough elastic wood | Synonyms: Quercus petraea, Quercus sessiliflora |
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durometer | (noun) An instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like. | - |
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durra | (noun) sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: doura, dourah, Egyptian corn, Guinea corn, Indian millet |
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durum | (noun) wheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America | Synonyms: durum wheat, hard wheat, macaroni wheat, Triticum durum, Triticum turgidum |
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endurable | (adjective) capable of being borne though unpleasant | Synonyms: bearable, sufferable, supportable |
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endurance | (noun) the power to withstand hardship or stress | - |
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(noun) a state of surviving; remaining alive | Synonyms: survival |
endure | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
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(verb) undergo or be subjected to | Synonyms: suffer |
(verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on, survive |
(verb) last and be usable | Synonyms: hold out, wear |
(verb) face and withstand with courage | Synonyms: brave, brave out, weather |
(verb) persist for a specified period of time | Synonyms: last |
(verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, persist, prevail, run |
enduring | (adjective) patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble | Synonyms: long-suffering |
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(adjective) lasting a long time | Synonyms: abiding, imperishable |
enduringly | (adverb) in an enduring manner | - |
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enduringness | (noun) permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force | Synonyms: durability, lastingness, strength |
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epidural | (adjective) on or outside the dura mater | Synonyms: extradural |
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(noun) regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the epidural space of the spinal cord; sensation is lost in the abdominal and genital and pelvic areas; used in childbirth and gynecological surgery | Synonyms: epidural anaesthesia, epidural anesthesia |
extradural | (adjective) on or outside the dura mater | Synonyms: epidural |
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indurate | (adjective) emotionally hardened | Synonyms: callous, pachydermatous |
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(verb) become hard or harder | Synonyms: harden |
(verb) make hard or harder | Synonyms: harden |
(verb) become fixed or established | - |
(verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate | Synonyms: harden, inure |
induration | (noun) any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue | Synonyms: sclerosis |
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ketoaciduria | (noun) excessive amounts of ketone bodies in the urine as in diabetes mellitus or starvation | Synonyms: acetonuria, ketonuria |
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obduracy | (noun) resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible | Synonyms: adamance, unyieldingness |
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obdurate | (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flint, flinty, granitic, stony |
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(adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | Synonyms: cussed, obstinate, unrepentant |
obdurately | (adverb) in a stubborn unregenerate manner | Synonyms: cussedly, mulishly, obstinately, pig-headedly, stubbornly |
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ordure | (noun) solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | Synonyms: BM, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, stool |
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pandurate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having rounded ends and a contracted center | Synonyms: fiddle-shaped, panduriform |
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panduriform | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having rounded ends and a contracted center | Synonyms: fiddle-shaped, pandurate |
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perdurability | (noun) the property of being extremely durable | - |
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perdurable | (adjective) very long lasting | Synonyms: durable, indestructible, undestroyable |
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procedural | (adjective) relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law | Synonyms: adjective |
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(adjective) of or relating to procedure | - |
procedure | (noun) a particular course of action intended to achieve a result | Synonyms: process |
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(noun) a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings | - |
(noun) a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work | Synonyms: operation |
(noun) a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program | Synonyms: function, routine, subprogram, subroutine |
subdural | (adjective) below the dura mater but above the arachnoid membrane of the meninges | - |
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supersedure | (noun) act of replacing one person or thing by another especially one held to be superior | Synonyms: supersession |
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unendurable | (adjective) incapable of being tolerated or endured | Synonyms: intolerable, unbearable |
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uricaciduria | (noun) presence of abnormal amounts of uric acid in the urine; symptom of gout | - |
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verdure | (noun) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation | Synonyms: greenness, verdancy |
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(noun) green foliage | Synonyms: greenery |