| aardwolf | (noun) striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects | Synonyms: Proteles cristata |
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| bandwagon | (noun) a large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band | - |
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| (noun) a popular trend that attracts growing support | - |
| bandwidth | (noun) a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel | - |
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| beadwork | (noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: astragal, bead, beading |
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| (noun) ornamentation with beads | Synonyms: beading |
| bedwetter | (noun) someone suffering from enuresis; someone who urinates while asleep in bed | Synonyms: bed wetter, wetter |
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| bindweed | (noun) any of several vines of the genera Convolvulus and Calystegia having a twining habit | - |
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| birdwatch | (verb) watch and study birds in their natural habitat | Synonyms: bird |
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| blindworm | (noun) small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind | Synonyms: Anguis fragilis, slowworm |
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| (noun) any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions | Synonyms: caecilian |
| bloodworm | (noun) a segmented marine worm with bright red body; often used for bait | - |
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| bloodwort | (noun) any of various plants of the family Haemodoraceae; roots contain a deep red coloring matter | - |
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| boardwalk | (noun) a walkway made of wooden boards; usually at seaside | - |
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| bondwoman | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondswoman |
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| (noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondswoman |
| breadwinner | (noun) one whose earnings are the primary source of support for their dependents | - |
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| broadwise | (adverb) in the direction of the breadth | Synonyms: breadthways, breadthwise |
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| coldwork | (verb) shape (metal) without heat | Synonyms: cold work |
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| cordwood | (noun) firewood cut and stacked in cords; wood sold by the cord | - |
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| cudweed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color | - |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads | Synonyms: cotton rose, filago |
| (noun) perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States | Synonyms: Artemisia gnaphalodes, Artemisia ludoviciana, prairie sage, western mugwort, white sage |
| deadwood | (noun) someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded | Synonyms: fifth wheel |
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| (noun) a branch or a part of a tree that is dead | - |
| dwarf | (noun) a plant or animal that is atypically small | - |
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| (noun) a person who is markedly small | Synonyms: midget, nanus |
| (noun) a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure | Synonyms: gnome |
| (verb) check the growth of | - |
| (verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: overshadow, shadow |
| dwarfish | (adjective) atypically small | - |
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| dwarfishness | (noun) the quality of being built like a dwarf | - |
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| dwarfism | (noun) a genetic abnormality resulting in short stature | Synonyms: nanism |
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| dweeb | (noun) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | Synonyms: grind, nerd, swot, wonk |
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| dwell | (verb) think moodily or anxiously about something | Synonyms: brood |
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| (verb) come back to | Synonyms: harp |
| (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: inhabit, live, populate |
| (verb) originate (in) | Synonyms: consist, lie, lie in |
| (verb) exist or be situated within | Synonyms: inhabit |
| dweller | (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: denizen, habitant, indweller, inhabitant |
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| dwelling | (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling house, habitation, home |
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| dwindle | (verb) become smaller or lose substance | Synonyms: dwindle away, dwindle down |
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| dwindling | (adjective) gradually decreasing until little remains | Synonyms: tapering, tapering off |
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| (noun) a becoming gradually less | Synonyms: dwindling away |
| dwojniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using equal amounts of water and honey. | - |
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| endways | (adverb) with the end forward or toward the observer | Synonyms: end on, endwise |
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| (adverb) in or toward the direction of the ends; lengthwise | Synonyms: endwise |
| (adverb) on end or upright | Synonyms: endwise |
| endwise | (adverb) with the end forward or toward the observer | Synonyms: end on, endways |
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| (adverb) in or toward the direction of the ends; lengthwise | Synonyms: endways |
| (adverb) on end or upright | Synonyms: endways |
| fieldwork | (noun) a temporary fortification built by troops in the field | - |
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| fieldworker | (noun) a researcher who works in the field | - |
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| freedwoman | (noun) a female person who has been freed from slavery | - |
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| godwit | (noun) large wading bird that resembles a curlew; has a long slightly upturned bill | - |
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| goldworker | (noun) an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold | Synonyms: gold-worker, goldsmith |
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| goodwill | (noun) a disposition to kindness and compassion | Synonyms: good will, grace |
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| (noun) the friendly hope that something will succeed | Synonyms: good will |
| (noun) (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets) | Synonyms: good will |
| groundwork | (noun) preliminary preparation as a basis or foundation | - |
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| (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, fundament, substructure, understructure |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, foundation, fundament |
| handwash | (verb) wash or launder by hand instead of with a machine | Synonyms: hand-wash |
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| handwear | (noun) clothing for the hands | Synonyms: hand wear |
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| handwheel | (noun) control consisting of a wheel whose rim serves as the handle by which a part is operated | - |
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| (noun) a wheel worked by hand | - |
| handwork | (noun) a work produced by hand labor | Synonyms: handcraft, handicraft, handiwork |
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| handwoven | (adjective) made on a handloom | Synonyms: hand-loomed |
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| handwrite | (verb) write by hand | - |
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| handwriting | (noun) the activity of writing by hand | - |
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| (noun) something written by hand | Synonyms: hand, script |
| handwritten | (adjective) written by hand | - |
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| hardware | (noun) (computer science) the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system | Synonyms: computer hardware |
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| (noun) major items of military weaponry (as tanks or missile) | - |
| (noun) instrumentalities (tools or implements) made of metal | Synonyms: ironware |
| hardwareman | (noun) someone who sells hardware | Synonyms: ironmonger |
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| hardwood | (noun) the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers) | - |
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| hardworking | (adjective) characterized by hard work and perseverance | Synonyms: industrious, tireless, untiring |
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| headwaiter | (noun) a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers | Synonyms: captain, maitre d', maitre d'hotel |
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| headwater | (noun) the source of a river | - |
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| headway | (noun) forward movement | Synonyms: head |
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| (noun) vertical space available to allow easy passage under something | Synonyms: clearance, headroom |
| headwind | (noun) wind blowing opposite to the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| headword | (noun) a word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry) | - |
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| (noun) a content word that can be qualified by a modifier | Synonyms: head word |
| hoodwink | (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: bamboozle, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow |
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| (verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: beguile, juggle |
| hundredweight | (noun) a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds | Synonyms: cwt, long hundredweight |
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| (noun) a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds | Synonyms: cental, centner, cwt, quintal, short hundredweight |
| (noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: centner, doppelzentner, metric hundredweight |
| indwell | (verb) to exist as an inner activating spirit, force, or principle | - |
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| indweller | (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: denizen, dweller, habitant, inhabitant |
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| (noun) activation by an inner spirit or force or principle | - |
| indwelling | (adjective) existing or residing as an inner activating spirit or force or principle | - |
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| landward | (adverb) toward land | Synonyms: landwards |
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| landwards | (adverb) toward land | Synonyms: landward |
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| leadwort | (noun) a plant of the genus Plumbago with blue flowers | Synonyms: Plumbago europaea |
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| madwoman | (noun) a woman lunatic | - |
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| madwort | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Alyssum having clusters of small yellow or white flowers | Synonyms: alyssum |
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| midwatch | (noun) a watch during the night (as from midnight to 8 a.m.) | Synonyms: graveyard watch, middle watch, night watch |
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| midway | (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: center, centre, halfway, middle |
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| (noun) the place at a fair or carnival where sideshows and similar amusements are located | - |
| (adverb) at half the distance; at the middle | Synonyms: halfway |
| midweek | (noun) the middle of a week | - |
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| (adverb) in the middle of the week | - |
| midweekly | (adjective) occurring during the middle of the week | - |
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| midwestern | (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and sometimes Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota | - |
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| midwife | (noun) a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies | Synonyms: accoucheuse |
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| midwifery | (noun) assisting women at childbirth | - |
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| (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother | Synonyms: OB, obstetrics, tocology |
| midwinter | (noun) the middle of winter | - |
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| mudwrestle | (verb) wrestle in mud | Synonyms: mud-wrestle |
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| nakedwood | (noun) tree of extreme southern Florida and West Indies having thin scaly bark and aromatic fruits and seeds and yielding hard heavy close-grained zebrawood | Synonyms: Eugenia dicrana |
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| (noun) any of several small to medium-sized trees of Florida and West Indies with thin scaly bark and heavy dark heartwood | - |
| oldwench | (noun) tropical Atlantic fish | Synonyms: Balistes vetula, Bessy cerca, oldwife, queen triggerfish |
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| oldwife | (noun) tropical Atlantic fish | Synonyms: Balistes vetula, Bessy cerca, oldwench, queen triggerfish |
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| (noun) a common long-tailed sea duck of the northern parts of the United States | Synonyms: Clangula hyemalis, old squaw |
| pedwood | (noun) European deciduous shrub turning red in autumn having dull white flowers | Synonyms: blood-twig, common European dogwood, Cornus sanguinea, red dogwood |
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| pondweed | (noun) any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae | - |
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| (noun) submerged freshwater perennials | Synonyms: ditchmoss, Elodea, genus Elodea |
| redwing | (noun) small European thrush having reddish flanks | Synonyms: Turdus iliacus |
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| (noun) North American blackbird with scarlet patches on the wings | Synonyms: Agelaius phoeniceus, red-winged blackbird |
| redwood | (noun) the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees | - |
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| (noun) either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae | Synonyms: sequoia |
| (noun) wood of either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae | Synonyms: sequoia |
| roadway | (noun) a road (especially that part of a road) over which vehicles travel | - |
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| roadworthiness | (noun) (of motor vehicles) the quality of being fit to drive on the open road | - |
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| roundworm | (noun) unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic | Synonyms: nematode, nematode worm |
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| (noun) infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches | Synonyms: ringworm, tinea |
| sandwich | (noun) two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them | - |
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| (verb) insert or squeeze tightly between two people or objects | - |
| (verb) make into a sandwich | - |
| sandwichman | (noun) a person with advertising boards hanging from the shoulders | - |
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| sandwort | (noun) low-growing chiefly perennial plant usually with small white flowers suitable for e.g. rock gardens | - |
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| (noun) low-growing herb having clusters of small white four-petaled flowers | Synonyms: Moehringia lateriflora |
| (noun) loosely matted plant with moss-like foliage studded with tiny starry four-petaled white blossoms; mountains of central and southern Europe | Synonyms: Moehringia mucosa |
| speedway | (noun) a racetrack for racing automobiles or motorcycles | - |
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| (noun) road where high speed driving is allowed | - |
| speedwell | (noun) any plant of the genus Veronica | Synonyms: veronica |
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| threadworm | (noun) small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children | Synonyms: Enterobius vermicularis, pinworm |
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| treadwheel | (noun) a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps | Synonyms: tread-wheel, treadmill |
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| windward | (adjective) on the side exposed to the wind | - |
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| (noun) the side of something that is toward the wind | - |
| (noun) the direction from which the wind is coming | - |
| (adverb) toward the wind | Synonyms: downwind |
| woadwaxen | (noun) small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental | Synonyms: dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, greenweed, whin, woodwaxen |
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| woodwaxen | (noun) small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental | Synonyms: dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen |
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| woodwind | (noun) any wind instrument other than the brass instruments | Synonyms: wood, woodwind instrument |
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| woodwork | (noun) the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood | Synonyms: carpentry, woodworking |
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| (noun) work made of wood; especially moldings or stairways or furniture | - |
| woodworker | (noun) makes things out of wood | Synonyms: woodman, woodsman |
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| woodworking | (noun) the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood | Synonyms: carpentry, woodwork |
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| woodworm | (noun) a larva of a woodborer | - |
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| worldwide | (adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, general, oecumenical, universal, world-wide |
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| (adjective) spanning or extending throughout the entire world | Synonyms: world-wide |
| (adjective) involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope | Synonyms: global, planetary, world-wide, world |