| erythropoietin | (noun) a glycoprotein secreted by the kidneys that stimulates the production of red blood cells | - |
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| every | (adjective) (used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception | - |
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| (adjective) each and all of a series of entities or intervals as specified | - |
| everyday | (adjective) commonplace and ordinary | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: casual, daily |
| (adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday |
| everydayness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonness, commonplaceness |
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| everyman | (noun) the ordinary person | - |
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| everyplace | (adverb) to or in any or all places; pronoun, location; quantifier: universal | Synonyms: all over, everywhere |
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| everything | (noun) all things that are of importance to a person | - |
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| everywhere | (adverb) to or in any or all places; pronoun, location; quantifier: universal | Synonyms: all over, everyplace |
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| faery | (noun) the enchanted realm of fairies | Synonyms: faerie, fairyland |
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| (noun) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers | Synonyms: faerie, fairy, fay, sprite |
| fakery | (noun) the act of faking (or the product of faking) | - |
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| feathery | (adjective) adorned with feathers or plumes | Synonyms: feathered, plumy |
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| (adjective) characterized by a covering of feathers | - |
| (adjective) resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers | Synonyms: featherlike |
| feryaz | (noun) a broad kaftan with long sleeves, worn by the nobility in Russia in the 16th and 17th centuries. | - |
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| festoonery | (noun) flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration | Synonyms: festoon |
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| fiery | (adjective) like or suggestive of fire | Synonyms: igneous |
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| (adjective) passionate or quick-tempered | Synonyms: flaming |
| (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: ardent, fervent, fervid, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
| finery | (noun) elaborate or showy attire and accessories | - |
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| fishery | (noun) a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold | Synonyms: piscary |
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| flattery | (noun) excessive or insincere praise | - |
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| flowery | (adjective) of or relating to or suggestive of flowers | - |
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| (adjective) marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details | Synonyms: ornate |
| flummery | (noun) meaningless ceremonies and flattery | Synonyms: mummery |
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| (noun) a bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal | - |
| foolery | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, indulgence, lunacy, tomfoolery |
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| forgery | (noun) criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud | - |
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| (noun) a copy that is represented as the original | Synonyms: counterfeit |
| frippery | (noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: bagatelle, fluff, frivolity |
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| gallery | (noun) narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade | - |
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| (noun) a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns) | - |
| (noun) a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose | - |
| (noun) a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited | Synonyms: art gallery, picture gallery |
| (noun) a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) | Synonyms: veranda, verandah |
| (noun) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine | Synonyms: drift, heading |
| (noun) spectators at a golf or tennis match | - |
| gaudery | (noun) cheap or pretentious or vain display | Synonyms: pomp |
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| gendarmery | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmerie |
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| gimcrackery | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery |
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| gingery | (adjective) (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color | Synonyms: ginger |
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| (adjective) having a taste like that of ginger | - |
| glimmery | (adjective) shining softly and intermittently | - |
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| glittery | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| glyceryl | (noun) a trivalent radical derived from glycerol by removing the three hydroxyl radicals | - |
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| goldsmithery | (noun) the work, art, or trade of a one who makes or deals in articles of gold. | - |
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| greenery | (noun) green foliage | Synonyms: verdure |
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| greengrocery | (noun) a greengrocer's grocery store | - |
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| (noun) groceries sold by a greengrocer | - |
| grocery | (noun) a marketplace where groceries are sold | Synonyms: food market, grocery store, market |
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| (noun) (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer | Synonyms: foodstuff |
| grotesquery | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesqueness, grotesquerie |
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| gunnery | (noun) guns collectively | - |
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| haberdashery | (noun) the drygoods sold by a haberdasher | Synonyms: men's furnishings |
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| (noun) a store where men's clothes are sold | Synonyms: clothing store, haberdashery store, mens store |
| hatchery | (noun) a place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions (especially fish eggs) | - |
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| hosiery | (noun) socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear) | Synonyms: hose |
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| housewifery | (noun) the work of a housewife | - |
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| imagery | (noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagination, imaging, mental imagery |
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| ironmongery | (noun) the merchandise that is sold in an ironmonger's shop | - |
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| jaggery | (noun) unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap | Synonyms: jaggary, jagghery |
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| jagghery | (noun) unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap | Synonyms: jaggary, jaggery |
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| japery | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, frivolity, harlequinade, prank |
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| jewellery | (noun) an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems) | Synonyms: jewelry |
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| jittery | (adjective) characterized by jerky movements | - |
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| (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight |
| jobbery | (noun) corruptness among public officials | - |
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| joinery | (noun) the craft of a joiner | Synonyms: cabinetmaking |
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| (noun) fine woodwork done by a joiner | - |
| jugglery | (noun) the performance of a juggler | - |
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| (noun) artful trickery designed to achieve an end | - |
| kerygma | (noun) preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church | Synonyms: kerugma |
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| knavery | (noun) lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing | Synonyms: dishonesty |
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| knickknackery | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknack, nicknack, whatnot |
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| lamasery | (noun) a monastery for lamas | - |
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| lathery | (adjective) resembling lather or covered with lather | Synonyms: sudsy |
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| leathery | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leathered, leatherlike |
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| lechery | (noun) unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity | - |
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| leery | (adjective) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide | Synonyms: mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary |
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| lepidoptery | (noun) the branch of entomology dealing with Lepidoptera | Synonyms: lepidopterology |
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| livery | (adjective) suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress | Synonyms: bilious, liverish |
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| (noun) the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another | Synonyms: delivery, legal transfer |
| (noun) the care (feeding and stabling) of horses for pay | - |
| (noun) uniform worn by some menservants and chauffeurs | - |
| liveryman | (noun) a worker in a livery stable | - |
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| lottery | (noun) players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots | Synonyms: drawing |
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| (noun) something that is regarded as a chance event | - |
| lumberyard | (noun) a workplace where lumber is stocked for sale | - |
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| machinery | (noun) machines or machine systems collectively | - |
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| (noun) a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions | - |
| malacopterygian | (noun) any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii | Synonyms: soft-finned fish |
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| mastery | (noun) the act of mastering or subordinating someone | Synonyms: subordination |
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| (noun) great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | Synonyms: command, control |
| (noun) power to dominate or defeat | Synonyms: domination, supremacy |
| mesentery | (noun) a double layer of peritoneum that attaches to the back wall of the abdominal cavity and supports the small intestines | - |
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| microbrewery | (noun) a small brewery; consumption of the product is mainly elsewhere | - |
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| microsurgery | (noun) surgery using operating microscopes and miniaturized precision instruments to perform intricate procedures on very small structures | - |
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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 |
| millinery | (noun) hats for women; the wares sold by a milliner | Synonyms: woman's hat |
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| (noun) shop selling women's hats | Synonyms: hat shop |
| misery | (noun) a feeling of intense unhappiness | - |
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| (noun) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune | Synonyms: miserableness, wretchedness |
| mockery | (noun) humorous or satirical mimicry | Synonyms: parody, takeoff |
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| (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeer, jeering, scoff, scoffing |
| (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
| monastery | (noun) the residence of a religious community | - |
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| mummery | (noun) meaningless ceremonies and flattery | Synonyms: flummery |
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| mystery | (noun) something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained | Synonyms: closed book, enigma, secret |
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| (noun) a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie | Synonyms: mystery story, whodunit |
| napery | (noun) linens for the dining table | Synonyms: table linen |
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| neurosurgery | (noun) any surgery that involves the nervous system (brain or spinal cord or peripheral nerves) | - |
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| nonslippery | (adjective) not slippery; not likely to slip or skid | - |
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| nunnery | (noun) the convent of a community of nuns | - |
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| nursery | (noun) a child's room for a baby | Synonyms: baby's room |
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| nurseryman | (noun) someone who takes care of a garden | Synonyms: gardener |
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| orangery | (noun) a place where oranges are grown; a plantation of orange trees in warm climes or a greenhouse in cooler areas | - |
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| ornery | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: cantankerous, crotchety |
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| orrery | (noun) planetarium consisting of an apparatus that illustrates the relative positions and motions of bodies in the solar system by rotation and revolution of balls moved by wheelwork; sometimes incorporated in a clock | - |
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| papery | (adjective) of or like paper | Synonyms: chartaceous, paperlike |
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| (adjective) thin and paperlike | - |
| pentaerythritol | (noun) a coronary vasodilator (trade name Peritrate) used to treat angina pectoris | Synonyms: Peritrate |
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| peppery | (adjective) having the piquant burning taste of peppers | - |
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| perfumery | (noun) the art of making perfumes | - |
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| (noun) an establishment where perfumes are made | - |
| (noun) store where perfumes are sold | - |
| (noun) perfumes in general | - |
| periphery | (noun) the outside boundary or surface of something | Synonyms: fringe, outer boundary |
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| pettifoggery | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, bickering, fuss, spat, squabble, tiff |
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| phrontistery | (noun) an establishment for study and learning (sometimes including modern universities) | - |
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| phycoerythrin | (noun) red pigment in red algae | - |
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| phylactery | (noun) (Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer | Synonyms: tefillin |
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| piggery | (noun) a farm where pigs are raised or kept | Synonyms: pig farm |
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| plumbery | (noun) the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building) | Synonyms: plumbing |
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| poltroonery | (noun) abject pusillanimity | - |
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| popery | (noun) offensive terms for the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: papism |
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| pottery | (noun) the craft of making earthenware | - |
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| (noun) ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln | Synonyms: clayware |
| (noun) a workshop where clayware is made | - |
| powdery | (adjective) consisting of fine particles | Synonyms: fine-grained, powdered, pulverised, pulverized, small-grained |
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| (adjective) as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder | - |