| pilferer | (noun) a thief who steals without using violence | Synonyms: sneak thief, snitcher |
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| poriferan | (noun) primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies | Synonyms: parazoan, sponge |
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| poriferous | (adjective) full of pores or vessels or holes | Synonyms: porous |
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| prefer | (verb) select as an alternative over another | Synonyms: choose, opt |
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| (verb) like better; value more highly | - |
| (verb) promote over another | Synonyms: favor, favour |
| (verb) give preference to one creditor over another | - |
| preferable | (adjective) more desirable than another | Synonyms: preferred |
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| preferably | (adverb) more readily or willingly | Synonyms: rather, sooner |
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| preference | (noun) grant of favor or advantage to one over another (especially to a country or countries in matters of international trade, such as levying duties) | - |
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| (noun) the right or chance to choose | Synonyms: druthers |
| (noun) a predisposition in favor of something | Synonyms: orientation, predilection |
| (noun) a strong liking | Synonyms: penchant, predilection, taste |
| preferent | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, favourite, pet, preferred |
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| preferential | (adjective) manifesting partiality | Synonyms: discriminatory |
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| preferentially | (adverb) in a preferential manner | - |
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| preferment | (noun) the act of preferring | - |
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| (noun) the act of making accusations | - |
| preferred | (adjective) more desirable than another | Synonyms: preferable |
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| (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, favourite, pet, preferent |
| proffer | (noun) a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: proposition, suggestion |
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| (verb) present for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: offer |
| proliferate | (verb) grow rapidly | - |
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| (verb) cause to grow or increase rapidly | - |
| proliferation | (noun) growth by the rapid multiplication of parts | - |
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| (noun) a rapid increase in number (especially a rapid increase in the number of deadly weapons) | - |
| puffer | (noun) any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers | Synonyms: blowfish, globefish, pufferfish |
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| (noun) delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver | Synonyms: blowfish, pufferfish, sea squab |
| pufferfish | (noun) any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers | Synonyms: blowfish, globefish, puffer |
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| (noun) delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver | Synonyms: blowfish, puffer, sea squab |
| puffery | (noun) a flattering commendation (especially when used for promotional purposes) | - |
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| quaffer | (noun) a person who drinks heartily | - |
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| reefer | (noun) marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking | Synonyms: joint, marijuana cigarette, spliff, stick |
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| refer | (verb) think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another | - |
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| (verb) have as a meaning | Synonyms: denote |
| (verb) make reference to | Synonyms: advert, bring up, cite, mention, name |
| (verb) use a name to designate | - |
| (verb) seek information from | Synonyms: consult, look up |
| (verb) send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision | - |
| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, pertain, relate, touch, touch on |
| referable | (adjective) capable of being assigned or credited to | Synonyms: ascribable, due, imputable |
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| referee | (noun) (sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play | Synonyms: ref |
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| (noun) someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication | Synonyms: reader, reviewer |
| (noun) an attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case | - |
| (verb) evaluate professionally a colleague's work | Synonyms: peer review |
| (verb) be a referee or umpire in a sports competition | Synonyms: umpire |
| refereeing | (noun) the act of umpiring | Synonyms: officiating, officiation, umpirage |
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| reference | (noun) the act of referring or consulting | Synonyms: consultation |
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| (noun) the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to | Synonyms: denotation, extension |
| (noun) the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to | - |
| (noun) a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability | Synonyms: character, character reference |
| (noun) a remark that calls attention to something or someone | Synonyms: mention |
| (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, cite, credit, mention, quotation |
| (noun) a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts | Synonyms: book of facts, reference book, reference work |
| (noun) an indicator that orients you generally | Synonyms: point of reference, reference point |
| (noun) a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to | Synonyms: source |
| (noun) (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored | Synonyms: address, computer address |
| (verb) refer to | Synonyms: cite |
| referenced | (adjective) supported with written references or citations | - |
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| referendum | (noun) a legislative act is referred for final approval to a popular vote by the electorate | - |
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| referent | (adjective) having reference | - |
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| (noun) something referred to; the object of a reference | - |
| (noun) the first term in a proposition; the term to which other terms relate | - |
| (noun) something that refers; a term that refers to another term | - |
| referential | (adjective) referring or pointing to something | - |
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| referral | (noun) the act of referring (as forwarding an applicant for employment or referring a matter to an appropriate agency) | - |
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| (noun) a recommendation to consult the (professional) person or group to whom one has been referred | - |
| (noun) a person whose case has been referred to a specialist or professional group | - |
| roofer | (noun) a craftsman who lays or repairs roofs | - |
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| rotifer | (noun) minute aquatic multicellular organisms having a ciliated wheel-like organ for feeding and locomotion; constituents of freshwater plankton | - |
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| saliferous | (adjective) containing or yielding salt | - |
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| scoffer | (noun) someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision | Synonyms: flouter, jeerer, mocker |
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| (noun) someone who eats food rapidly and greedily | Synonyms: gorger |
| scuffer | (noun) a lightweight flexible sandal with a sturdy sole; worn as play shoes by children and as sportswear by adults | - |
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| seminiferous | (adjective) bearing or producing seed or semen | - |
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| sniffer | (noun) a person who sniffs | - |
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| snuffer | (noun) a cone-shaped implement with a handle; for extinguishing candles | - |
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| (noun) a person who uses snuff | Synonyms: snuff user |
| (noun) a person who snuffs out candles | - |
| snuffers | (noun) scissors for cropping and holding the snuff of a candlewick | - |
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| solferino | (noun) a pink dye that was discovered in 1859, the year a battle was fought at Solferino | Synonyms: purplish pink |
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| somniferous | (adjective) sleep inducing | Synonyms: hypnagogic, hypnogogic, somnific, soporiferous, soporific |
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| soporiferous | (adjective) sleep inducing | Synonyms: hypnagogic, hypnogogic, somniferous, somnific, soporific |
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| (adjective) inducing mental lethargy | Synonyms: narcotic, soporific |
| splendiferous | (adjective) having great beauty and splendor | Synonyms: glorious, resplendent, splendid |
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| staffer | (noun) an employee who is a member of a staff of workers (especially a member of the staff that works for the President of the United States) | Synonyms: staff member |
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| stoloniferous | (adjective) producing stolons | - |
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| strafer | (noun) a combat pilot who strafes the enemy | - |
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| stuffer | (noun) an advertising circular that is enclosed with other material and (usually) sent by mail | - |
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| (noun) a craftsman who stuffs and mounts the skins of animals for display | Synonyms: animal stuffer, taxidermist |
| subwoofer | (noun) a loudspeaker that is designed to reproduce very low bass frequencies | - |
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| suffer | (verb) be in pain | Synonyms: hurt |
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| (verb) undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) | Synonyms: get, have, sustain |
| (verb) feel unwell or uncomfortable | - |
| (verb) get worse in quality | - |
| (verb) be set at a disadvantage | Synonyms: lose |
| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, support, tolerate |
| (verb) experience (emotional) pain | - |
| (verb) feel physical pain | Synonyms: ache, hurt |
| (verb) undergo or be subjected to | Synonyms: endure |
| (verb) undergo or suffer | Synonyms: meet |
| (verb) be given to | - |
| sufferable | (adjective) capable of being borne though unpleasant | Synonyms: bearable, endurable, supportable |
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| sufferance | (noun) patient endurance especially of pain or distress | - |
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| (noun) a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations | Synonyms: acceptance, toleration |
| sufferer | (noun) a person suffering from an illness | Synonyms: diseased person, sick person |
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| (noun) one who suffers for the sake of principle | Synonyms: martyr |
| suffering | (adjective) troubled by pain or loss | - |
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| (adjective) very unhappy; full of misery | Synonyms: miserable, wretched |
| (noun) feelings of mental or physical pain | Synonyms: hurt |
| (noun) psychological suffering | Synonyms: distress, hurt |
| (noun) a state of acute pain | Synonyms: agony, excruciation |
| (noun) misery resulting from affliction | Synonyms: woe |
| surfer | (noun) someone who engages in surfboarding | Synonyms: surfboarder |
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| teleconference | (noun) a conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television | Synonyms: teleconferencing |
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| teleconferencing | (noun) a conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television | Synonyms: teleconference |
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| telfer | (noun) one of the conveyances (or cars) in a telpherage | Synonyms: telpher |
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| telferage | (noun) a transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity | Synonyms: telpherage |
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| thurifer | (noun) an acolyte who carries a thurible | - |
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| titfer | (noun) a hat (Cockney rhyming slang: `tit for tat' rhymes with `hat') | - |
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| transfer | (noun) the act of moving something from one location to another | Synonyms: conveyance, transferral, transport, transportation |
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| (noun) transferring ownership | Synonyms: transference |
| (noun) the act of transferring something from one form to another | Synonyms: transference |
| (noun) application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation | Synonyms: carry-over, transfer of training |
| (noun) a ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances | - |
| (noun) someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another | Synonyms: transferee |
| (verb) transfer from one place or period to another | Synonyms: transplant, transpose |
| (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, channelize, transmit, transport |
| (verb) move around | Synonyms: shift |
| (verb) shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes | Synonyms: remove |
| (verb) change from one vehicle or transportation line to another | Synonyms: change |
| (verb) lift and reset in another soil or situation | Synonyms: transplant |
| (verb) cause to change ownership | - |
| (verb) move from one place to another | - |
| (verb) transfer somebody to a different position or location of work | Synonyms: reassign |
| transferability | (noun) the quality of being transferable or exchangeable | - |
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| transferable | (adjective) legally transferable to the ownership of another | Synonyms: assignable, conveyable, negotiable, transferrable |
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| (adjective) capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another | Synonyms: movable, moveable, transferrable, transportable |
| transferase | (noun) any of various enzymes that move a chemical group from one compound to another compound | - |
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| transferee | (noun) someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another | Synonyms: transfer |
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| (noun) (law) someone to whom a title or property is conveyed | - |
| transference | (noun) transferring ownership | Synonyms: transfer |
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| (noun) the act of transferring something from one form to another | Synonyms: transfer |
| (noun) (psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst | - |
| transferer | (noun) someone who transfers something | Synonyms: transferrer |
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| transferor | (noun) (law) someone who conveys a title or property to another | - |
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| transferrable | (adjective) legally transferable to the ownership of another | Synonyms: assignable, conveyable, negotiable, transferable |
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| (adjective) capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another | Synonyms: movable, moveable, transferable, transportable |
| transferral | (noun) the act of moving something from one location to another | Synonyms: conveyance, transfer, transport, transportation |
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| transferrer | (noun) someone who transfers something | Synonyms: transferer |
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| transferrin | (noun) a globulin in blood plasma that carries iron | Synonyms: beta globulin, siderophilin |
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| twofer | (noun) an offer of two for the price of one | - |
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| (noun) a coupon that allows the holder to purchase two items (as two tickets to a play) for the price of one | - |
| umbellifer | (noun) any of numerous aromatic herbs of the family Umbelliferae | Synonyms: umbelliferous plant |
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| umbelliferous | (adjective) relating to or belonging to plants of the family Umbelliferae | - |
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| undeferential | (adjective) not showing courteous respect | - |
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| undifferentiated | (adjective) not differentiated | Synonyms: uniform |
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| unfermented | (adjective) not soured or preserved | Synonyms: fresh, sweet |
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| unfertile | (adjective) incapable of reproducing | Synonyms: infertile, sterile |
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| unfertilised | (adjective) not having been fertilized | Synonyms: unfertilized, unimpregnated |
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| unfertilized | (adjective) not having been fertilized | Synonyms: unfertilised, unimpregnated |
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| unsufferable | (adjective) too extreme to bear | Synonyms: insufferable |
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| unsufferably | (adverb) to an insufferable degree | Synonyms: insufferably |
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| untransferable | (adjective) incapable of being transferred | Synonyms: nontransferable, unassignable |
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| vinifera | (noun) common European grape cultivated in many varieties; chief source of Old World wine and table grapes | Synonyms: common grape vine, vinifera grape, Vitis vinifera |
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| vociferate | (verb) utter in a very loud voice | Synonyms: shout out |
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| vociferation | (noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition | Synonyms: call, cry, outcry, shout, yell |
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| vociferator | (noun) a loud and vehement speaker (usually in protest) | - |
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| vociferous | (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamant, clamorous, strident |
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| vociferously | (adverb) in a vociferous manner | - |
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| wafer | (noun) a small thin crisp cake or cookie | - |
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| (noun) thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist) | - |
| (noun) a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters | - |
| whiffer | (noun) a batter who strikes out by swinging at and missing the third strike | - |
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| woodfern | (noun) any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris | Synonyms: wood-fern, wood fern |
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| woofer | (noun) a loudspeaker that reproduces lower audio frequency sounds | - |
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