acaulescent | (adjective) (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground | Synonyms: stemless |
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acquiesce | (verb) to agree or express agreement | Synonyms: accede, assent |
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acquiescence | (noun) agreement with a statement or proposal to do something | Synonyms: assent |
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(noun) acceptance without protest | - |
acquiescent | (adjective) willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest | Synonyms: biddable |
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adolesce | (verb) become adolescent; pass through adolescence | - |
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adolescence | (noun) in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood | - |
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(noun) the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood | - |
adolescent | (adjective) relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent | - |
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(adjective) in the state of development between puberty and maturity | - |
(adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: jejune, juvenile, puerile |
(adjective) being of the age 13 through 19 | Synonyms: teen, teenage, teenaged |
(noun) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | Synonyms: stripling, teen, teenager |
aeschynanthus | (noun) a plant of the genus Aeschynanthus having somewhat red or orange flowers and seeds having distinctive hairs at base and apex | - |
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aesculapian | (adjective) of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art | Synonyms: medical |
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albescent | (adjective) becoming or shading into white | - |
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alcalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alkalescent |
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alfresco | (adjective) in the open air | Synonyms: open-air |
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(adverb) outside a building | Synonyms: out of doors, outdoors, outside |
alkalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alcalescent |
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arborescent | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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autofluorescence | (noun) self-induced fluorescence | - |
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autofluorescent | (adjective) emitting light via self-induced fluorescence | - |
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bioluminescence | (noun) luminescence produced by physiological processes (as in the firefly) | - |
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bioluminescent | (adjective) (of living organisms) emitting light | - |
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candescent | (adjective) glowing from great heat | - |
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canescent | (adjective) of greyish white | - |
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(adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down | Synonyms: hoary |
caulescent | (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: cauline, stemmed |
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chemiluminescence | (noun) luminescence resulting from a chemical reaction as the oxidation of luciferin in fireflies | - |
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chemiluminescent | (adjective) relating to the phenomenon of chemiluminescence | - |
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churrigueresco | (adjective) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation | Synonyms: baroque, churrigueresque |
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coalesce | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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(verb) fuse or cause to grow together | - |
coalesced | (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamate, amalgamated, consolidated, fused |
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coalescence | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination |
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coalescency | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalition, concretion, conglutination |
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coalescent | (adjective) growing together, fusing | Synonyms: coalescing |
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coalescing | (adjective) growing together, fusing | Synonyms: coalescent |
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condescend | (verb) treat condescendingly | Synonyms: patronise, patronize |
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(verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: deign, descend |
(verb) behave in a patronizing and condescending manner | - |
(verb) debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way | Synonyms: lower oneself, stoop |
condescending | (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: arch, patronising, patronizing |
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condescendingly | (adverb) with condescension; in a patronizing manner | Synonyms: patronisingly, patronizingly |
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condescendingness | (noun) affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank | Synonyms: condescension |
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condescension | (noun) the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior | Synonyms: disdainfulness, superciliousness |
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(noun) affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank | Synonyms: condescendingness |
(noun) a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient | Synonyms: disdain, patronage |
convalesce | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: recover, recuperate |
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convalescence | (noun) gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury | Synonyms: recovery, recuperation |
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convalescent | (adjective) returning to health after illness or debility | Synonyms: recovering |
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(noun) a person who is recovering from illness | - |
crescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in volume | - |
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(noun) (music) a gradual increase in loudness | - |
(verb) grow louder | - |
crescent | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, lunate, semilunar |
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(noun) any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters | - |
decalescence | (noun) phenomenon that occurs when a metal is being heated and there is a sudden slowing in the rate of temperature increase; slowing is caused by a change in the internal crystal structure of the metal | - |
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decalescent | (adjective) absorbing heat without increase in temperature when heated beyond a certain point | - |
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decrescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: diminuendo |
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(noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: diminuendo |
(verb) grow quieter | - |
defervesce | (verb) experience an abatement of a fever | - |
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defervescence | (noun) abatement of a fever as indicated by a reduction in body temperature | - |
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defervescent | (adjective) of or relating to the reduction of a fever | - |
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deliquesce | (verb) melt or become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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(verb) melt away in the process of decay | - |
deliquescent | (adjective) (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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descale | (verb) remove the scales from | Synonyms: scale |
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descant | (noun) a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody | Synonyms: discant |
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(verb) sing by changing register; sing by yodeling | Synonyms: warble, yodel |
(verb) talk at great length about something of one's interest | - |
(verb) sing in descant | - |
descend | (verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: fall, settle |
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(verb) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way | Synonyms: come down, fall, go down |
(verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: condescend, deign |
(verb) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example | Synonyms: come, derive |
descendant | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendent |
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(adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
(noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
descendants | (noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: posterity |
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descendent | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendant |
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(adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
(noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
descender | (noun) (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters | - |
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(noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters | - |
(noun) someone who descends | - |
descending | (adjective) coming down or downward | - |
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descensus | (noun) the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus) | Synonyms: prolapse, prolapsus |
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descent | (noun) the act of changing your location in a downward direction | - |
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(noun) properties attributable to your ancestry | Synonyms: extraction, origin |
(noun) a movement downward | - |
(noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
(noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, downslope, fall |
(noun) the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors | Synonyms: filiation, line of descent, lineage |
describable | (adjective) capable of being described | - |
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describe | (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: discover, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name |
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(verb) give a description of | Synonyms: depict, draw |
(verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: account, report |
(verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, draw, line, trace |
described | (adjective) represented in words especially with sharpness and detail | - |
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description | (noun) sort or variety | - |
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(noun) the act of describing something | - |
(noun) a statement that represents something in words | Synonyms: verbal description |
descriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage | - |
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(adjective) serving to describe or inform or characterized by description | - |
descriptively | (adverb) by giving a description | - |
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descriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting descriptive linguistics | - |
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(noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements have a truth value | - |
descriptor | (noun) a piece of stored information that is used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system | - |
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(noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: form, signifier, word form |
descry | (verb) catch sight of | Synonyms: espy, spot, spy |
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detumescence | (noun) diminution of swelling; the subsidence of anything swollen | - |
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effervesce | (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: fizz, foam, form bubbles, froth, sparkle |
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effervescence | (noun) the property of giving off bubbles | Synonyms: bubbliness, frothiness |
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(noun) the process of bubbling as gas escapes | - |
effervescent | (adjective) (of a liquid) giving off bubbles | - |
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(adjective) used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: sparkling |
(adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
effervescing | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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effloresce | (verb) come into or as if into flower | Synonyms: burst forth |
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(verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
(verb) become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation | - |
efflorescence | (noun) a powdery deposit on a surface | Synonyms: bloom |
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(noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
(noun) any red eruption of the skin | Synonyms: rash, roseola, skin rash |
(noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
efflorescent | (adjective) when the bud, or buds, on a plant are bursting into flower | Synonyms: abloom |
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escadrille | (noun) an air force squadron typically containing six airplanes (as in France during World War I) | - |
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(noun) a small squadron | - |
escalade | (noun) an act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification) | - |
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(verb) climb up and over | - |
escalader | (noun) someone who gains access by the use of ladders | - |
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escalate | (verb) increase in extent or intensity | Synonyms: intensify, step up |
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escalation | (noun) an increase to counteract a perceived discrepancy | - |
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escalator | (noun) a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt | Synonyms: moving staircase, moving stairway |
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(noun) a clause in a contract that provides for an increase or a decrease in wages or prices or benefits etc. depending on certain conditions (as a change in the cost of living index) | Synonyms: escalator clause |
escallop | (noun) edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions | Synonyms: scallop, scollop |
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(noun) edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces | Synonyms: scallop, scollop |
(noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: cutlet, scallop, scollop |
(verb) bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top | Synonyms: scallop |
escapade | (noun) any carefree episode | Synonyms: lark |
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(noun) a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful) | Synonyms: adventure, dangerous undertaking, risky venture |
escape | (noun) the act of escaping physically | Synonyms: flight |
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(noun) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do | Synonyms: dodging, evasion |
(noun) an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy | Synonyms: escapism |
(noun) an avoidance of danger or difficulty | - |
(noun) a means or way of escaping | - |
(noun) a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level | Synonyms: escape cock, escape valve, relief valve, safety valve |
(noun) the discharge of a fluid from some container | Synonyms: leak, leakage, outflow |
(noun) a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild | - |
(verb) issue or leak, as from a small opening | - |
(verb) fail to experience | Synonyms: miss |
(verb) escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action | Synonyms: get away, get by, get off, get out |
(verb) run away from confinement | Synonyms: break loose, get away |
(verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
(verb) remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion | Synonyms: get away |
(verb) be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by | Synonyms: elude |
escaped | (adjective) having escaped, especially from confinement | Synonyms: at large, loose, on the loose |
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escapee | (noun) someone who escapes | - |
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escapement | (noun) mechanical device that regulates movement | - |
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escapism | (noun) an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy | Synonyms: escape |
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escapist | (noun) a person who escapes into a world of fantasy | Synonyms: dreamer, wishful thinker |
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escapologist | (noun) an entertainer who is expert in the art of escaping | Synonyms: escape expert |
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escapology | (noun) the study of methods of escaping (especially as a form of entertainment) | - |
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escargot | (noun) edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic | Synonyms: snail |
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escarole | (noun) variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges | Synonyms: chicory escarole, endive |
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escarp | (noun) a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification | Synonyms: escarpment, protective embankment, scarp |
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escarpment | (noun) a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification | Synonyms: escarp, protective embankment, scarp |
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(noun) a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion | Synonyms: scarp |
eschalot | (noun) type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning | Synonyms: Allium ascalonicum, Allium cepa aggregatum, multiplier onion, shallot |
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eschar | (noun) a dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin | - |
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eschatological | (adjective) of or relating to or dealing with or regarding the ultimate destiny of mankind and the world | - |
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eschatologically | (adverb) in relation to eschatology | - |
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eschatologist | (noun) a theologian who specializes in eschatology | - |
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