| fishery | (noun) a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold | Synonyms: piscary |
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| flasher | (noun) an electrical device that automatically turns a lamp on and off (as for an advertising display) | - |
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| (noun) a light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to send messages | Synonyms: blinker |
| (noun) someone with a compulsive desire to expose the genitals | Synonyms: exhibitionist |
| flycatcher | (noun) any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing | Synonyms: Old World flycatcher, true flycatcher |
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| (noun) large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing | Synonyms: New World flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher |
| forefather | (noun) the founder of a family | Synonyms: father, sire |
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| (noun) person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group | - |
| foregather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, forgather, gather, meet |
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| foremother | (noun) a female ancestor | - |
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| forgather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, foregather, gather, meet |
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| fothergilla | (noun) any of several deciduous low-growing shrubs of the genus Fothergilla having showy brushlike spikes of white flowers in spring and fiery red and orange autumn color; grows from Alabama to the Allegheny Mountains | Synonyms: witch alder |
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| fresher | (noun) a first-year undergraduate | Synonyms: freshman |
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| frontbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who is a minister in the government or who holds an official position in an opposition party | - |
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| further | (adjective) more distant in especially degree | Synonyms: farther |
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| (adverb) to or at a greater distance in time or space (`farther' is used more frequently than `further' in this physical sense) | Synonyms: farther |
| (adverb) to or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (`further' is used more often than `farther' in this abstract sense) | Synonyms: farther |
| (adverb) in addition or furthermore | - |
| (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, boost, encourage, promote |
| (verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: cultivate, foster |
| furtherance | (noun) the advancement of some enterprise | Synonyms: forwarding, promotion |
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| (noun) encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something | Synonyms: advancement, promotion |
| furthermore | (adverb) denoting additional information | Synonyms: in addition, moreover, what is more |
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| furthermost | (adjective) (comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order | Synonyms: farthermost, farthest, furthest, utmost, uttermost |
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| gatecrasher | (noun) someone who gets in (to a party) without an invitation or without paying | Synonyms: crasher, unwelcome guest |
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| gather | (noun) the act of gathering something | Synonyms: gathering |
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| (noun) sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching | Synonyms: gathering |
| (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, pile up |
| (verb) increase or develop | Synonyms: gain |
| (verb) conclude from evidence | - |
| (verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: collect, garner, pull together |
| (verb) draw together into folds or puckers | Synonyms: pucker, tuck |
| (verb) look for (food) in nature | - |
| (verb) draw and bring closer | - |
| (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, foregather, forgather, meet |
| (verb) get people together | Synonyms: assemble, get together |
| gathered | (adjective) brought together in one place | Synonyms: collected |
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| gatherer | (noun) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) | Synonyms: accumulator, collector |
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| (noun) a person who gathers | - |
| gathering | (noun) the social act of assembling | Synonyms: assemblage, assembly |
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| (noun) the act of gathering something | Synonyms: gather |
| (noun) sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching | Synonyms: gather |
| (noun) a group of persons together in one place | Synonyms: assemblage |
| gaucherie | (noun) a socially awkward or tactless act | Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, slip, solecism |
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| (noun) the quality of being rustic or gauche | Synonyms: rusticity |
| gayfeather | (noun) any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads | Synonyms: blazing star, button snakeroot, gay-feather, snakeroot |
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| geographer | (noun) an expert on geography | - |
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| geosphere | (noun) the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle | Synonyms: lithosphere |
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| geothermal | (adjective) of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth | Synonyms: geothermic |
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| geothermally | (adverb) by means of heat from the interior of the earth | - |
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| geothermic | (adjective) of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth | Synonyms: geothermal |
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| gherkin | (noun) small prickly cucumber | - |
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| (noun) any of various small cucumbers pickled whole | - |
| gigahertz | (noun) 1,000,000,000 periods per second | Synonyms: Gc, GHz, gigacycle, gigacycle per second |
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| gnatcatcher | (noun) very small North American and South American warblers | - |
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| goatherd | (noun) a person who tends a flock of goats | Synonyms: goat herder |
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| godfather | (noun) any man who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
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| (noun) someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild | - |
| godmother | (noun) any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
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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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| gomphothere | (noun) extinct elephants of Central American and South America; of the Miocene and Pleistocene | - |
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| gopher | (noun) burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America | Synonyms: pocket gopher, pouched rat |
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| (noun) burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America | Synonyms: gopher tortoise, gopher turtle, Gopherus polypemus |
| (noun) any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops | Synonyms: ground squirrel, spermophile |
| (noun) a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman) | Synonyms: goffer |
| gopherwood | (noun) small handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye | Synonyms: Cladrastis kentukea, Cladrastis lutea, Kentucky yellowwood |
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| grandfather | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: gramps, grandad, granddad, granddaddy, grandpa |
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| grandmother | (noun) the mother of your father or mother | Synonyms: gran, grandma, grannie, granny, nan, nanna |
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| gusher | (noun) an oil well with a strong natural flow so that pumping is not necessary | - |
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| haberdasher | (noun) a merchant who sells men's clothing | Synonyms: clothier |
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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 |
| hagiographer | (noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography | Synonyms: hagiographist, hagiologist |
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| hatchery | (noun) a place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions (especially fish eggs) | - |
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| hauncher | (noun) a machine for making shaped cuts in the end or along the edge of a board. | Synonyms: haunching machine |
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| heather | (noun) interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color | Synonyms: heather mixture |
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| (noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: broom, Calluna vulgaris, ling, Scots heather |
| heliosphere | (noun) the region inside the heliopause containing the sun and solar system | - |
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| heliotherapy | (noun) therapeutic exposure to sunlight | Synonyms: insolation |
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| hemisphere | (noun) either half of the cerebrum | Synonyms: cerebral hemisphere |
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| (noun) half of the terrestrial globe | - |
| (noun) half of a sphere | - |
| hemispheric | (adjective) of or relating to the cerebral hemispheres | - |
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| hemispherical | (adjective) of or relating to or being a hemisphere | - |
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| herald | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: forerunner, harbinger, precursor, predecessor |
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| (noun) (formal) a person who announces important news | Synonyms: trumpeter |
| (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, foretell, harbinger |
| (verb) praise vociferously | Synonyms: acclaim, hail |
| (verb) greet enthusiastically or joyfully | Synonyms: hail |
| heralded | (adjective) proclaimed | - |
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| heraldic | (adjective) of or relating to heraldry | Synonyms: heraldist |
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| (adjective) indicative of or announcing something to come | - |
| heraldist | (adjective) of or relating to heraldry | Synonyms: heraldic |
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| heraldry | (noun) emblem indicating the right of a person to bear arms | - |
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| (noun) the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies | - |
| herb | (noun) aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities | - |
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| (noun) a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests | Synonyms: herbaceous plant |
| herbaceous | (adjective) characteristic of a nonwoody herb or plant part | - |
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| herbage | (noun) succulent herbaceous vegetation of pastureland | Synonyms: pasturage |
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| herbal | (adjective) of or relating to herbs | - |
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| (noun) tea-like drink made of leaves of various herbs | Synonyms: herb tea, herbal tea |
| herbalist | (noun) a therapist who heals by the use of herbs | Synonyms: herb doctor |
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| herbarium | (noun) a collection of dried plants that are mounted and systematically classified for study | - |
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| herbicide | (noun) a chemical agent that destroys plants or inhibits their growth | Synonyms: weed killer, weedkiller |
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| herbivore | (noun) any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants | - |
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| herbivorous | (adjective) feeding only on plants | - |
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| herculean | (adjective) extremely difficult; requiring the strength of a Hercules | - |
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| (adjective) displaying superhuman strength or power | Synonyms: powerful |
| herd | (noun) a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans | - |
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| (noun) a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra | - |
| (noun) a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things | Synonyms: ruck |
| (verb) move together, like a herd | - |
| (verb) cause to herd, drive, or crowd together | Synonyms: crowd |
| (verb) keep, move, or drive animals | - |
| herder | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: drover, herdsman |
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| herdsman | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: drover, herder |
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| here | (adjective) being here now | - |
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| (noun) the present location; this place; location, proximal pronoun; demonstrative pronoun, location; quantifier: demonstrative determiner, singular, proximal | - |
| (adverb) in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is | - |
| (adverb) to this place (especially toward the speaker) | Synonyms: hither |
| (adverb) in this circumstance or respect or on this point or detail | - |
| (adverb) at this time; now | - |
| hereabout | (adverb) in this general vicinity | Synonyms: hereabouts |
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| hereabouts | (adverb) in this general vicinity | Synonyms: hereabout |
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| hereafter | (noun) the time yet to come | Synonyms: future, futurity, time to come |
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| (noun) life after death | Synonyms: afterlife |
| (adverb) in a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc. | Synonyms: hereinafter, hereunder |
| (adverb) following this in time or order or place; after this | - |
| (adverb) in a future life or state | - |
| hereby | (adverb) (formal) by means of this | Synonyms: herewith |
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| hereditament | (noun) any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited | - |
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| hereditarianism | (noun) the philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth | - |
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| hereditary | (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: familial, genetic, inherited, transmissible, transmitted |
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| (adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: ancestral, patrimonial, transmissible |
| heredity | (noun) the total of inherited attributes | Synonyms: genetic endowment |
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| (noun) the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next | - |
| herein | (adverb) in this place or thing or document | - |
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| hereinafter | (adverb) in a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc. | Synonyms: hereafter, hereunder |
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| hereinbefore | (adverb) in the preceding part of the current text | - |
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| hereness | (noun) the state of being here in this place | - |
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| hereof | (adverb) of or concerning this | - |
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| heresy | (noun) a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion | Synonyms: unorthodoxy |
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| (noun) any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position | Synonyms: heterodoxy, unorthodoxy |
| heretic | (noun) a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: misbeliever, religious outcast |
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| (noun) a person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field (not merely religion) | - |
| heretical | (adjective) characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards | Synonyms: dissident, heterodox |
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| hereto | (adverb) to this writing or document | - |
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| heretofore | (adverb) used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time | Synonyms: as yet, hitherto, so far, thus far, til now, until now, up to now, yet |
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| hereunder | (adverb) in a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc. | Synonyms: hereafter, hereinafter |
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| (adverb) under the terms of this agreement | - |
| hereupon | (adverb) immediately after this | - |
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| herewith | (adverb) (formal) by means of this | Synonyms: hereby |
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| heritable | (adjective) capable of being inherited | Synonyms: inheritable |
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| heritage | (noun) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property | Synonyms: inheritance |
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| (noun) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors | Synonyms: inheritance |
| (noun) practices that are handed down from the past by tradition | - |
| (noun) that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner | Synonyms: inheritance |
| heritor | (noun) a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another | Synonyms: heir, inheritor |
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| herm | (noun) a statue consisting of a squared stone pillar with a carved head (usually a bearded Hermes) on top; used in ancient Greece as a boundary marker or signpost | - |
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| hermaphrodism | (noun) congenital condition in which external genitalia and internal sex organs have both male and female characteristics | Synonyms: hermaphroditism |
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| hermaphrodite | (adjective) of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs | Synonyms: hermaphroditic |
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| (noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made | Synonyms: androgyne, epicene, epicene person, gynandromorph, intersex |
| hermaphroditic | (adjective) of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs | Synonyms: hermaphrodite |
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| (adjective) of or relating to monoclinous plants | - |
| hermaphroditism | (noun) showing characteristics of both sexes | Synonyms: androgyny, bisexuality |
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| (noun) congenital condition in which external genitalia and internal sex organs have both male and female characteristics | Synonyms: hermaphrodism |
| hermeneutic | (adjective) interpretive or explanatory | - |
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| hermeneutics | (noun) the branch of theology that deals with principles of exegesis | - |
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