hemorrhoid | (noun) venous swelling external or internal to the anal sphincter | Synonyms: haemorrhoid, piles |
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hemorrhoidectomy | (noun) surgical procedure for tying hemorrhoids and excising them | Synonyms: haemorrhoidectomy |
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hemosiderin | (noun) a granular brown substance composed of ferric oxide; left from the breakdown of hemoglobin; can be a sign of disturbed iron metabolism | Synonyms: haemosiderin |
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hemosiderosis | (noun) abnormal deposit of hemosiderin; often a symptom of thalassemia or hemochromatosis | Synonyms: haemosiderosis |
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hemostasia | (noun) surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat) | Synonyms: haemostasia, haemostasis, hemostasis |
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hemostasis | (noun) surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat) | Synonyms: haemostasia, haemostasis, hemostasia |
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hemostat | (noun) a surgical instrument that stops bleeding by clamping the blood vessel | Synonyms: haemostat |
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hemostatic | (adjective) tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels | Synonyms: styptic |
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hemothorax | (noun) accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity (the space between the lungs and the walls of the chest) | Synonyms: haemothorax |
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housemother | (noun) a woman employed as a chaperon in a residence for young people | - |
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immemorial | (adjective) long past; beyond the limits of memory or tradition or recorded history | - |
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irremovability | (noun) the quality or state of not being removable. | - |
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irremovable | (adjective) incapable of being removed or away or dismiss | - |
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isanemone | (noun) an isogram connecting points having equal wind speed. | - |
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largemouth | (noun) a large black bass; the angle of the jaw falls behind the eye | Synonyms: largemouth bass, largemouth black bass, largemouthed bass, largemouthed black bass, Micropterus salmoides |
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lemon | (noun) an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory | Synonyms: stinker |
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(noun) a strong yellow color | Synonyms: gamboge, lemon yellow, maize |
(noun) a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons | - |
(noun) yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh | - |
(noun) a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit | Synonyms: Citrus limon, lemon tree |
lemonade | (noun) sweetened beverage of diluted lemon juice | - |
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lemongrass | (noun) a tropical grass native to India and Sri Lanka | Synonyms: lemon grass |
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(noun) an aromatic oil that smells like lemon and is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumes and medicines | Synonyms: lemon grass, lemongrass oil |
lemonlike | (adjective) tasting sour like a lemon | Synonyms: lemony, sourish, tangy, tart |
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lemonwood | (noun) South African evergreen having hard tough wood | Synonyms: lemon-wood, lemon-wood tree, lemonwood tree, Psychotria capensis |
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(noun) hard tough elastic wood of the lemonwood tree; used for making bows and fishing rods | - |
lemony | (adjective) tasting sour like a lemon | Synonyms: lemonlike, sourish, tangy, tart |
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mademoiselle | (noun) small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico | Synonyms: Bairdiella chrysoura, silver perch |
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memo | (noun) a written proposal or reminder | Synonyms: memoranda, memorandum |
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memoir | (noun) an account of the author's personal experiences | - |
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(noun) an essay on a scientific or scholarly topic | - |
memorabilia | (noun) a record of things worth remembering | - |
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memorability | (noun) the quality of being worth remembering | - |
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memorable | (adjective) worth remembering | - |
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memorably | (adverb) in a memorable manner | Synonyms: unforgettably |
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memoranda | (noun) a written proposal or reminder | Synonyms: memo, memorandum |
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memorandum | (noun) a written proposal or reminder | Synonyms: memo, memoranda |
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memorial | (noun) a structure erected to commemorate persons or events | Synonyms: monument |
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(noun) a recognition of meritorious service | Synonyms: commemoration, remembrance |
(noun) a written statement of facts submitted in conjunction with a petition to an authority | - |
memorialisation | (noun) a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something | Synonyms: commemoration, memorialization |
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memorialise | (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: commemorate, immortalise, immortalize, memorialize |
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(verb) address in a memorial | Synonyms: memorialize |
memorialization | (noun) a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something | Synonyms: commemoration, memorialisation |
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memorialize | (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: commemorate, immortalise, immortalize, memorialise |
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(verb) address in a memorial | Synonyms: memorialise |
memorisation | (noun) learning so as to be able to remember verbatim | Synonyms: committal to memory, memorization |
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memorise | (verb) commit to memory; learn by heart | Synonyms: con, learn, memorize |
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memoriser | (noun) a person who learns by rote | Synonyms: memorizer |
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memorization | (noun) learning so as to be able to remember verbatim | Synonyms: committal to memory, memorisation |
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memorize | (verb) commit to memory; learn by heart | Synonyms: con, learn, memorise |
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memorizer | (noun) a person who learns by rote | Synonyms: memoriser |
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memory | (noun) an electronic memory device | Synonyms: computer memory, computer storage, memory board, storage, store |
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(noun) the power of retaining and recalling past experience | Synonyms: retention, retentiveness, retentivity |
(noun) the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered | Synonyms: remembering |
(noun) something that is remembered | - |
(noun) the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes | - |
middlemost | (adjective) being in the exact middle | Synonyms: midmost |
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mnemometer | (noun) An outdated mechanical device used for presenting a series of stimuli to be memorized. | Synonyms: memory apparatus |
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mnemonic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the memory | Synonyms: mnemotechnic, mnemotechnical |
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(noun) a device (such as a rhyme or acronym) used to aid recall | - |
mnemonics | (noun) a method or system for improving the memory | - |
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mnemonist | (noun) an expert in the use of mnemonics; someone able to perform unusual feats of memory | - |
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mnemotechnic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the memory | Synonyms: mnemonic, mnemotechnical |
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mnemotechnical | (adjective) of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the memory | Synonyms: mnemonic, mnemotechnic |
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monosemous | (adjective) having only one meaning | - |
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nemophila | (noun) any plant of the genus Nemophila | - |
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neurilemoma | (noun) tumor of the fibrous covering of a peripheral nerve | Synonyms: neurofibroma |
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overemotional | (adjective) excessively or abnormally emotional | Synonyms: sloppy |
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oxyhaemoglobin | (noun) the bright red hemoglobin that is a combination of hemoglobin and oxygen from the lungs | Synonyms: oxyhemoglobin |
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oxyhemoglobin | (noun) the bright red hemoglobin that is a combination of hemoglobin and oxygen from the lungs | Synonyms: oxyhaemoglobin |
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pandemonium | (noun) a state of extreme confusion and disorder | Synonyms: bedlam, chaos, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness |
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polemoniaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Polemoniaceae | - |
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polemonium | (noun) any plant of the genus Polemonium; most are low-growing often foul-smelling plants of temperate to Arctic regions | - |
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polysemous | (adjective) of words; having many meanings | Synonyms: polysemantic |
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premolar | (noun) a tooth having two cusps or points; located between the incisors and the molars | Synonyms: bicuspid |
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premonition | (noun) an early warning about a future event | Synonyms: forewarning |
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(noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: boding, foreboding, presentiment |
premonitory | (adjective) warning of future misfortune | Synonyms: precursory |
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racemose | (adjective) having stalked flowers along an elongated stem that continue to open in succession from below as the stem continues to grow | - |
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remodel | (verb) do over, as of (part of) a house | Synonyms: reconstruct, redo |
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(verb) cast or model anew | Synonyms: recast, reforge |
remold | (verb) give new treads to (a tire) | Synonyms: remould, retread |
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(verb) cast again | Synonyms: recast, remould |
(verb) shape again or shape differently | Synonyms: reshape |
remonstrance | (noun) the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest | Synonyms: expostulation, objection, remonstration |
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remonstrate | (verb) argue in protest or opposition | - |
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(verb) present and urge reasons in opposition | Synonyms: point out |
(verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
remonstration | (noun) the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest | Synonyms: expostulation, objection, remonstrance |
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remora | (noun) marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects | Synonyms: suckerfish, sucking fish |
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remorse | (noun) a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) | Synonyms: compunction, self-reproach |
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remorseful | (adjective) feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses | Synonyms: contrite, rueful, ruthful |
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remorsefully | (adverb) in a rueful manner | Synonyms: contritely, ruefully |
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remorseless | (adjective) without mercy or pity | Synonyms: pitiless, ruthless, unpitying |
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remorselessly | (adverb) without pity; in a merciless manner | Synonyms: mercilessly, pitilessly, unmercifully |
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remote | (adjective) far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship | Synonyms: distant |
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(adjective) inaccessible and sparsely populated | Synonyms: outback |
(adjective) unlikely to occur | Synonyms: outside |
(adjective) located far away spatially | Synonyms: distant |
(adjective) separate or apart in time | Synonyms: distant, removed |
(noun) a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance | Synonyms: remote control |
remotely | (adverb) to a remote degree | - |
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(adverb) in a remote manner | - |
remoteness | (noun) the property of being remote | Synonyms: farawayness, farness |
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(noun) a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner | Synonyms: aloofness, standoffishness, withdrawnness |
remotion | (noun) the act of removing | Synonyms: removal |
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remould | (verb) give new treads to (a tire) | Synonyms: remold, retread |
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(verb) cast again | Synonyms: recast, remold |
remount | (noun) a fresh horse especially (formerly) to replace one killed or injured in battle | - |
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(verb) provide with fresh horses | - |
(verb) mount again, as after disassembling something | - |
(verb) mount again | - |
removability | (noun) The state of being able to be dismissed from office. | - |
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removable | (adjective) capable of being removed or taken away or dismissed | - |
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(adjective) able to be obliterated completely | Synonyms: obliterable |
removal | (noun) the act of removing | Synonyms: remotion |
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(noun) dismissal from office | - |
remove | (noun) degree of figurative distance or separation | - |
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(verb) remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract | Synonyms: take, take away, withdraw |
(verb) stay away or leave | Synonyms: absent |
(verb) get rid of something abstract | Synonyms: take away |
(verb) shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes | Synonyms: transfer |
(verb) dispose of | Synonyms: get rid of |
(verb) remove from a position or an office | - |
(verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, murder, off, polish off, slay |
(verb) cause to leave | Synonyms: move out, take out |
removed | (adjective) separated in relationship by a given degree of descent | - |
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(adjective) separate or apart in time | Synonyms: distant, remote |
remover | (noun) someone who works for a company that moves furniture | - |
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(noun) a solvent that removes a substance (usually from a surface) | - |
scaremonger | (noun) a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble | Synonyms: stirrer |
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schemozzle | (noun) (Yiddish) a confused situation or affair; a mess | Synonyms: shemozzle |
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semolina | (noun) milled product of durum wheat (or other hard wheat) used in pasta | - |
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shemozzle | (noun) (Yiddish) a confused situation or affair; a mess | Synonyms: schemozzle |
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spikemoss | (noun) any of numerous fern allies of the genus Selaginella | Synonyms: little club moss, spike moss |
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supremo | (noun) the most important person in an organization | - |
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tremolite | (noun) a white or pale green mineral (calcium magnesium silicate) of the amphibole group used as a form of asbestos | - |
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tremolo | (noun) vocal vibrato especially an excessive or poorly controlled one | - |
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(noun) (music) a tremulous effect produced by rapid repetition of a single tone or rapid alternation of two tones | - |
tremor | (noun) an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear) | Synonyms: shudder |
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(noun) a small earthquake | Synonyms: earth tremor, microseism |
(noun) shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease) | - |
(verb) shake with seismic vibrations | Synonyms: quake |
twelvemonth | (noun) a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days | Synonyms: year, yr |
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ulemorrhagia | (noun) bleeding of the gums | - |
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unceremonial | (adjective) without ceremony or formality | Synonyms: unceremonious |
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unceremonious | (adjective) without due formalities | - |
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(adjective) without ceremony or formality | Synonyms: unceremonial |
unceremoniously | (adverb) in an unceremonious manner | - |
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