| deign | (verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: condescend, descend |
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| demagnetisation | (noun) the process of removing magnetization | Synonyms: demagnetization |
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| demagnetise | (verb) make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of) | Synonyms: degauss, demagnetize |
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| (verb) erase (a magnetic storage device) | Synonyms: demagnetize |
| demagnetization | (noun) the process of removing magnetization | Synonyms: demagnetisation |
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| demagnetize | (verb) make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of) | Synonyms: degauss, demagnetise |
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| (verb) erase (a magnetic storage device) | Synonyms: demagnetise |
| derecognise | (verb) cause to be no longer approved or accepted | Synonyms: decertify, derecognize |
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| derecognize | (verb) cause to be no longer approved or accepted | Synonyms: decertify, derecognise |
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| deservingness | (noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: merit, meritoriousness |
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| design | (noun) the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan) | Synonyms: designing |
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| (noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: figure, pattern |
| (noun) a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something | - |
| (noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: conception, excogitation, innovation, invention |
| (noun) an arrangement scheme | Synonyms: plan |
| (noun) something intended as a guide for making something else | Synonyms: blueprint, pattern |
| (noun) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Synonyms: aim, intent, intention, purpose |
| (verb) plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect | - |
| (verb) intend or have as a purpose | - |
| (verb) create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner | - |
| (verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: contrive, plan, project |
| (verb) create designs | - |
| (verb) conceive or fashion in the mind; invent | - |
| designate | (adjective) appointed but not yet installed in office | - |
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| (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: destine, intend, specify |
| (verb) assign a name or title to | Synonyms: denominate |
| (verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: destine, doom, fate |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: indicate, point, show |
| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, delegate, depute |
| designation | (noun) the act of putting a person into a non-elective position | Synonyms: appointment, assignment, naming |
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| (noun) the act of designating or identifying something | Synonyms: identification |
| (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellation, appellative, denomination |
| designative | (adjective) serving to designate | - |
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| designatum | (noun) something (whether existing or not) that is referred to by a linguistic expression | - |
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| designed | (adjective) done or made or performed with purpose and intent | Synonyms: intentional, unintentional |
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| designedly | (adverb) with intention; in an intentional manner | Synonyms: advisedly, by choice, by design, deliberately, intentionally, on purpose, purposely |
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| designer | (noun) someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings) | Synonyms: architect |
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| (noun) someone who designs clothing | Synonyms: clothes designer, couturier, fashion designer |
| (noun) a person who specializes in interior design | Synonyms: interior designer |
| (noun) a person who devises plots or intrigues | Synonyms: intriguer |
| (noun) someone who specializes in graphic design | Synonyms: graphic designer |
| designing | (adjective) concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest | Synonyms: scheming |
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| (noun) the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan) | Synonyms: design |
| diagnosable | (adjective) capable of being diagnosed | - |
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| diagnose | (verb) determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis | Synonyms: name |
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| (verb) subject to a medical analysis | - |
| diagnosing | (noun) identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon | Synonyms: diagnosis |
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| diagnosis | (noun) identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon | Synonyms: diagnosing |
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| diagnostic | (adjective) concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic or indicative of a disease | Synonyms: symptomatic |
| diagnostician | (noun) a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis | Synonyms: pathologist |
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| diagnostics | (noun) the branch of medical science dealing with the classification of disease | Synonyms: nosology |
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| diamagnet | (noun) a substance that exhibits diamagnetism | - |
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| diamagnetic | (adjective) relating to or exhibiting diamagnetism; slightly repelled by a magnet | - |
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| diamagnetism | (noun) phenomenon exhibited by materials like copper or bismuth that become magnetized in a magnetic field with a polarity opposite to the magnetic force; unlike iron they are slightly repelled by a magnet | - |
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| dignified | (adjective) having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance | - |
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| (adjective) having or showing self-esteem | Synonyms: self-respectful, self-respecting |
| dignify | (verb) raise the status of | - |
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| (verb) confer dignity or honor upon | Synonyms: ennoble |
| dignifying | (adjective) investing with dignity or honor | Synonyms: ennobling |
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| dignitary | (noun) an important or influential (and often overbearing) person | Synonyms: high-up, high muckamuck, panjandrum, very important person, VIP |
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| dignity | (noun) the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect | Synonyms: self-regard, self-respect, self-worth |
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| (noun) formality in bearing and appearance | Synonyms: gravitas, lordliness |
| (noun) high office or rank or station | - |
| disgustingness | (noun) extreme unpalatability to the mouth | Synonyms: distastefulness, nauseatingness, sickeningness, unsavoriness |
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| (noun) the property of being extremely unacceptable to the mind | Synonyms: unsavoriness |
| distressingness | (noun) the quality of being painful | Synonyms: painfulness |
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| domineeringness | (noun) the trait of being imperious and overbearing | Synonyms: imperiousness, overbearingness |
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| dragnet | (noun) a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths | Synonyms: trawl, trawl net |
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| (noun) a system of coordinated measures for apprehending (criminals or other individuals) | - |
| easygoingness | (noun) being without worry or concern | - |
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| eggnog | (noun) a punch made of sweetened milk or cream mixed with eggs and usually alcoholic liquor | - |
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| electromagnet | (noun) a temporary magnet made by coiling wire around an iron core; when current flows in the coil the iron becomes a magnet | - |
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| electromagnetic | (adjective) pertaining to or exhibiting magnetism produced by electric charge in motion | - |
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| electromagnetics | (noun) the branch of physics concerned with electromagnetic phenomena | Synonyms: electromagnetism |
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| electromagnetism | (noun) the branch of physics concerned with electromagnetic phenomena | Synonyms: electromagnetics |
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| (noun) magnetism produced by an electric current | - |
| enchantingness | (noun) Quality of having the ability to enchant; being charming, delightful. | - |
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| enduringness | (noun) permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force | Synonyms: durability, lastingness, strength |
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| ensign | (noun) colors flown by a ship to show its nationality | - |
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| (noun) an emblem flown as a symbol of nationality | Synonyms: national flag |
| (noun) a person who holds a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant junior grade | - |
| enterprisingness | (noun) readiness to embark on bold new ventures | Synonyms: enterprise, go-ahead, initiative |
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| epergne | (noun) a large table centerpiece with branching holders for fruit or sweets or flowers | - |
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| everlastingness | (noun) the property of lasting forever | - |
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| exactingness | (noun) the quality or state of being demanding or unyielding. | - |
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| fansign | (noun) a sign made by a fan, usually with the target's name on it | - |
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| feign | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, dissemble, pretend, sham |
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| (verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: assume, sham, simulate |
| feigned | (adjective) not genuine | - |
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| feigning | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation |
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| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, pretence, pretense |
| ferrimagnetism | (noun) a phenomenon in ferrites where there can be incomplete cancellation of antiferromagnetic arranged spins giving a net magnetic moment | - |
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| ferromagnet | (noun) any material that has ferromagnetic properties. | - |
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| ferromagnetic | (adjective) relating to or demonstrating ferromagnetism | - |
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| ferromagnetism | (noun) phenomenon exhibited by materials like iron (nickel or cobalt) that become magnetized in a magnetic field and retain their magnetism when the field is removed | - |
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| fittingness | (noun) the quality of being suitable | Synonyms: fitness |
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| fleetingness | (noun) the property of lasting for a very short time | Synonyms: ephemerality, ephemeralness |
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| fogsignal | (noun) a loud low warning signal that can be heard by fogbound ships | Synonyms: foghorn |
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| foreign | (adjective) relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world | Synonyms: strange |
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| (adjective) of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own) | - |
| (adjective) not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source | Synonyms: extraneous |
| (adjective) not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something | Synonyms: alien |
| foreigner | (noun) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country | Synonyms: alien, noncitizen, outlander |
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| (noun) someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group | Synonyms: outsider |
| foreignness | (noun) the quality of being alien or not native | Synonyms: curiousness, strangeness |
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| forgivingness | (noun) tendency to be kind and forgiving | Synonyms: kindness |
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| forthcomingness | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendence, impendency |
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| gelignite | (noun) a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate | Synonyms: gelly |
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| gnarl | (noun) something twisted and tight and swollen | Synonyms: knot |
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| (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, grumble, murmur, mutter |
| (verb) twist into a state of deformity | - |
| gnarled | (adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | Synonyms: gnarly, knobbed, knotted, knotty |
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| gnarly | (adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | Synonyms: gnarled, knobbed, knotted, knotty |
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| gnash | (verb) grind together, of teeth | - |
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| gnat | (noun) any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies | - |
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| (noun) (British usage) mosquito | - |
| gnatcatcher | (noun) very small North American and South American warblers | - |
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| gnathion | (noun) the most inferior point of the mandible in the midline | - |
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| gnathopod | (noun) One of a set of three paired appendages on the thorax of a decapod crustacean, located just posterior to the maxillae and used in feeding. | Synonyms: maxilliped |
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| gnathostome | (noun) a vertebrate animal possessing true jaws | - |
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| gnaw | (verb) become ground down or deteriorate | Synonyms: eat at, erode, gnaw at, wear away |
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| (verb) bite or chew on with the teeth | - |
| gnawer | (noun) relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing | Synonyms: rodent |
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| gneiss | (noun) a laminated metamorphic rock similar to granite | - |
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| gnetum | (noun) small tropical tree with tiered branches and divaricate branchlets having broad glossy dark green leaves; exploited for its edible young leaves and seeds that provide a fine flour | Synonyms: Gnetum gnemon |
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| gnocchi | (noun) (Italian) a small dumpling made of potato or flour or semolina that is boiled or baked and is usually served with a sauce or with grated cheese | - |
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| gnome | (noun) a short pithy saying expressing a general truth | - |
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| (noun) a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure | Synonyms: dwarf |
| gnomic | (adjective) relating to or containing gnomes | - |
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| gnomish | (adjective) used of small deformed creatures | - |
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| gnomon | (noun) indicator provided by the stationary arm whose shadow indicates the time on the sundial | - |
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| gnosis | (noun) intuitive knowledge of spiritual truths; said to have been possessed by ancient Gnostics | - |
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| gnostic | (adjective) possessing intellectual or esoteric knowledge of spiritual things | - |
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| gnu | (noun) large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail | Synonyms: wildebeest |
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| hangnail | (noun) a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected | Synonyms: agnail |
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| hypognathous | (adjective) having a projecting lower jaw | Synonyms: prognathic, prognathous |
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| igneous | (adjective) produced by the action of fire or intense heat | Synonyms: eruptive |
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| (adjective) produced under conditions involving intense heat | Synonyms: pyrogenic, pyrogenous |
| (adjective) like or suggestive of fire | Synonyms: fiery |
| ignescent | (adjective) can emit sparks or burst into flame | - |
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| ignitable | (adjective) capable of burning | Synonyms: burnable, ignitible |
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| ignite | (verb) start or maintain a fire in | Synonyms: fire, light |
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| (verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, heat, inflame, stir up, wake |
| (verb) cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat | Synonyms: light |
| (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, combust, conflagrate, erupt, take fire |
| ignited | (adjective) set afire | Synonyms: enkindled, kindled |
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| igniter | (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: ignitor, light, lighter |
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| (noun) a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire | Synonyms: ignitor, lighter |
| ignitible | (adjective) capable of burning | Synonyms: burnable, ignitable |
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| ignition | (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, inflammation, kindling, lighting |
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| (noun) the mechanism that ignites the fuel in an internal-combustion engine | Synonyms: ignition system |
| (noun) the process of initiating combustion or catching fire | - |
| ignitor | (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: igniter, light, lighter |
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| (noun) a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire | Synonyms: igniter, lighter |
| ignobility | (noun) the quality of being ignoble | Synonyms: ignobleness |
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| ignoble | (adjective) completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose | - |
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| (adjective) not of the nobility | Synonyms: ungentle, untitled |