antenna | (noun) one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste | Synonyms: feeler |
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(noun) an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals | Synonyms: aerial, transmitting aerial |
(noun) sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ | Synonyms: feeler |
antennal | (adjective) of or relating to antennae | Synonyms: antennary |
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antennary | (adjective) of or relating to antennae | Synonyms: antennal |
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barrenness | (noun) the quality of yielding nothing of value | Synonyms: aridity, fruitlessness |
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(noun) the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children | - |
benne | (noun) East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil | Synonyms: benni, benny, sesame, Sesamum indicum |
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bennet | (noun) North American white-flowered avens | Synonyms: Geum canadense, white avens |
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(noun) avens of Virginia having pale or greenish yellow flowers | Synonyms: Geum virginianum, white avens |
benni | (noun) East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil | Synonyms: benne, benny, sesame, Sesamum indicum |
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bennie | (noun) a form of amphetamine | Synonyms: Benzedrine |
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benniseed | (noun) small oval seeds of the sesame plant | Synonyms: sesame seed |
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benny | (noun) East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil | Synonyms: benne, benni, sesame, Sesamum indicum |
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bicentennial | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | Synonyms: bicentenary |
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(noun) the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bicentenary |
biennial | (adjective) having a life cycle lasting two seasons | Synonyms: two-year |
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(adjective) occurring every second year | Synonyms: biyearly |
(noun) (botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season | - |
biennially | (adverb) every two years | Synonyms: biyearly |
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bimillennium | (noun) a span of 2000 years | Synonyms: bimillenary |
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(noun) the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bimillenary |
blennioid | (noun) elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins | Synonyms: blennioid fish |
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blenny | (noun) small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; are territorial and live in holes between rocks | Synonyms: combtooth blenny |
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brazenness | (noun) behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame | Synonyms: shamelessness |
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catchpenny | (adjective) designed to sell quickly without concern for quality | - |
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cayenne | (noun) ground pods and seeds of pungent red peppers of the genus Capsicum | Synonyms: cayenne pepper, red pepper |
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(noun) a long and often twisted hot red pepper | Synonyms: cayenne pepper |
(noun) plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red | Synonyms: Capsicum annuum longum, cayenne pepper, chili pepper, chilli pepper, jalapeno, long pepper |
centennial | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | Synonyms: centenary |
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(noun) the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: centenary |
centennially | (adverb) every hundred years; once in a century | - |
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comedienne | (noun) a female comedian | - |
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(noun) a female actor in a comedy | - |
cravenness | (noun) meanspirited cowardice | - |
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decennary | (noun) a period of 10 years | Synonyms: decade, decennium |
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decennium | (noun) a period of 10 years | Synonyms: decade, decennary |
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doyenne | (noun) a woman who is the senior member of a group | - |
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drunkenness | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drinking |
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(noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
(noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms | Synonyms: alcohol addiction, alcoholism, inebriation |
duenna | (noun) a woman chaperon | - |
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eelblenny | (noun) eellike fishes found in subarctic coastal waters | - |
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eightpenny | (adjective) used of nail size; 2 1/2 in or 6.4 cm long | - |
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empennage | (noun) the rear part of an aircraft | Synonyms: tail, tail assembly |
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ennead | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one | Synonyms: 9, IX, Nina from Carolina, nine, niner |
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ennoble | (verb) give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility | Synonyms: entitle, gentle |
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(verb) confer dignity or honor upon | Synonyms: dignify |
ennoblement | (noun) the act of raising someone to the nobility | - |
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(noun) the state of being noble | - |
ennobling | (adjective) tending to exalt | Synonyms: exalting |
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(adjective) investing with dignity or honor | Synonyms: dignifying |
ennui | (noun) the feeling of being bored by something tedious | Synonyms: boredom, tedium |
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evenness | (noun) a quality of uniformity and lack of variation | Synonyms: invariability |
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(noun) the quality of being balanced | - |
(noun) the parity of even numbers (divisible by two) | - |
fennel | (noun) fennel seeds are ground and used as a spice or as an ingredient of a spice mixture | - |
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(noun) leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: common fennel |
(noun) aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads | Synonyms: finocchio, Florence fennel |
(noun) any of several aromatic herbs having edible seeds and leaves and stems | - |
fourpenny | (adjective) used of nail size; 1 1/2 in or 3.8 cm long | - |
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givenness | (noun) the quality of being granted as a supposition; of being acknowledged or assumed | - |
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greenness | (noun) green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass | Synonyms: green, viridity |
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(noun) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation | Synonyms: verdancy, verdure |
(noun) the state of not being ripe | - |
halfpenny | (noun) an English coin worth half a penny | Synonyms: ha'penny |
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halfpennyworth | (noun) the amount that can be bought for a halfpenny | Synonyms: ha'p'orth |
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henna | (noun) a reddish brown dye used especially on hair | - |
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(verb) apply henna to one's hair | - |
hiddenness | (noun) the state of being covert and hidden | Synonyms: covertness |
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jennet | (noun) female donkey | Synonyms: jenny, jenny ass |
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jenny | (noun) female donkey | Synonyms: jennet, jenny ass |
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julienne | (noun) a vegetable cut into thin strips | Synonyms: julienne vegetable |
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(noun) a clear soup garnished with julienne vegetables | - |
(verb) cut into long thin strips | - |
keenness | (noun) thinness of edge or fineness of point | Synonyms: sharpness |
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(noun) a quick and penetrating intelligence | Synonyms: acuity, acuteness, sharpness |
(noun) a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something | Synonyms: avidity, avidness, eagerness |
kennel | (noun) outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog | Synonyms: dog house, doghouse |
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(verb) put up in a kennel | - |
kenning | (noun) conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry | - |
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krennerite | (noun) an orthorhombic gold telluride mineral which can contain a relatively small amount of silver in the structure. | - |
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millennial | (adjective) relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years | Synonyms: millennian |
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millennian | (adjective) relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years | Synonyms: millennial |
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millennium | (noun) a span of 1000 years | Synonyms: millenary |
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(noun) (New Testament) in the Book of Revelation it is foretold that those faithful to Jesus will reign with Jesus over the earth for a thousand years; the meaning of these words have been much debated; some denominations (e.g. Jehovah's Witnesses) expect it to be a thousand years of justice and peace and happiness | - |
(noun) the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: millenary |
millenniumism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarianism, millenarism |
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misshapenness | (noun) an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed | Synonyms: deformity, malformation |
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ninepenny | (adjective) used of nail size; 2 3/4 in or 7 cm long | - |
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oftenness | (noun) the number of occurrences within a given time period | Synonyms: frequence, frequency |
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openness | (noun) characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive | Synonyms: nakedness |
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(noun) willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas) | Synonyms: receptiveness, receptivity |
(noun) without obstructions to passage or view | - |
outspokenness | (noun) the trait of being blunt and outspoken | Synonyms: frankness |
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pennant | (noun) a long flag; often tapering | Synonyms: pennon, streamer, waft |
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(noun) a flag longer than it is wide (and often tapering) | - |
(noun) the award given to the champion | Synonyms: crown |
pennate | (adjective) having feathered wings | - |
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penne | (noun) pasta in short tubes with diagonally cut ends | - |
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penni | (noun) 100 pennia formerly equaled 1 markka in Finland | - |
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penniless | (adjective) not having enough money to pay for necessities | Synonyms: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penurious, pinched |
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pennilessness | (noun) a state of lacking money | Synonyms: impecuniousness, penuriousness |
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penning | (noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: authorship, composition, writing |
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pennon | (noun) wing of a bird | Synonyms: pinion |
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(noun) a long flag; often tapering | Synonyms: pennant, streamer, waft |
pennoncel | (noun) a small pennant borne on a lance | Synonyms: pennoncelle, penoncel |
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pennoncelle | (noun) a small pennant borne on a lance | Synonyms: pennoncel, penoncel |
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penny | (noun) a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit | Synonyms: cent, centime |
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(noun) a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound | - |
pennycress | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Thlaspi | - |
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pennyroyal | (noun) Eurasian perennial mint have small lilac-blue flowers and ovate leaves; yields an aromatic oil | Synonyms: Mentha pulegium |
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(noun) erect hairy branching American herb having purple-blue flowers; yields an essential oil used as an insect repellent and sometimes in folk medicine | Synonyms: American pennyroyal, Hedeoma pulegioides |
pennyweight | (noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains | - |
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pennywhistle | (noun) an inexpensive fipple flute | Synonyms: tin whistle, whistle |
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pennyworth | (noun) the amount that can be bought for a penny | Synonyms: penn'orth |
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perennate | (verb) survive from season to season, of plants | - |
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perennation | (noun) the process of living through a number of years (as a perennial plant) | - |
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perennial | (adjective) lasting three seasons or more | - |
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(adjective) recurring again and again | Synonyms: recurrent, repeated |
(adjective) lasting an indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal | - |
(noun) (botany) a plant lasting for three seasons or more | - |
perennially | (adverb) in a perennial manner; repeatedly | - |
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pfennig | (noun) 100 pfennigs formerly equaled 1 Deutsche Mark in Germany | - |
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pikeblenny | (noun) tropical American fishes; males are aggressively defensive of their territory | - |
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postmillennial | (adjective) of or relating to the period following the millennium | - |
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quadrennium | (noun) a period of four years | - |
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quatercentennial | (noun) the 400th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: quatercentenary |
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quincentennial | (adjective) of or relating to a 500th anniversary | Synonyms: quincentenary |
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(noun) the 500th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: quincentenary |
quinquennium | (noun) a period of five years | - |
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rennet | (noun) a substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket | - |
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rennin | (noun) an enzyme that occurs in gastric juice; causes milk to coagulate | Synonyms: chymosin |
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rottenness | (noun) the quality of rotting and becoming putrid | Synonyms: putrescence |
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(noun) in a state of progressive putrefaction | Synonyms: corruption, putrescence, putridness |
semicentennial | (adjective) of or relating to or marking the 50th anniversary | Synonyms: semicentenary |
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(noun) the 50th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: semicentenary |
senna | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Senna having pinnately compound leaves and showy usually yellow flowers; many are used medicinally | - |
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sennit | (noun) flat braided cordage that is used on ships | - |
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sesquicentennial | (noun) the 150th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | - |
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sienna | (noun) an earth color containing ferric oxides; used as a pigment | - |
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sixpenny | (adjective) of trifling worth | Synonyms: threepenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny, twopenny |
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snakeblenny | (noun) found in Arctic and northern Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Lumpenus lumpretaeformis |
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suddenness | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness |
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sullenness | (noun) a sullen moody resentful disposition | Synonyms: moroseness, sourness, sulkiness |
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(noun) a gloomy ill-tempered feeling | Synonyms: glumness, moroseness |