| leatherwork | (noun) work made of leather | - |
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| leathery | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leathered, leatherlike |
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| lecher | (noun) man with strong sexual desires | Synonyms: lech, letch, satyr |
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| lecherous | (adjective) given to excessive indulgence in sexual activity | - |
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| lecherousness | (noun) a strong sexual desire | Synonyms: lust, lustfulness |
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| lechery | (noun) unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity | - |
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| lexicographer | (noun) a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language | Synonyms: lexicologist |
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| lithographer | (noun) a printmaker who uses lithography | - |
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| lithosphere | (noun) the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle | Synonyms: geosphere |
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| loather | (noun) one who hates or loathes | Synonyms: abominator |
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| luncher | (noun) someone who is eating lunch | - |
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| lurcher | (noun) someone waiting in concealment | Synonyms: lurker, skulker |
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| magnetosphere | (noun) the magnetic field of a planet; the volume around the planet in which charged particles are subject more to the planet's magnetic field than to the solar magnetic field | - |
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| mammothermography | (noun) the use of thermography to detect breast tumors (which appear as hot spots) | - |
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| marcher | (noun) fights on foot with small arms | Synonyms: foot soldier, footslogger, infantryman |
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| (noun) walks with regular or stately step | Synonyms: parader |
| (noun) an inhabitant of a border district | - |
| masher | (noun) a kitchen utensil used for mashing (e.g. potatoes) | - |
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| (noun) a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women | Synonyms: skirt chaser, wolf, woman chaser |
| matcher | (noun) someone who arranges (or tries to arrange) marriages for others | Synonyms: marriage broker, matchmaker |
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| megahertz | (noun) one million periods per second | Synonyms: Mc, megacycle, megacycle per second, MHz |
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| megathere | (noun) gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America | Synonyms: ground sloth |
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| megatherian | (noun) a large extinct ground sloth | Synonyms: megatherian mammal, megatheriid |
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| megatheriid | (noun) a large extinct ground sloth | Synonyms: megatherian, megatherian mammal |
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| mesosphere | (noun) the atmospheric layer between the stratosphere and the thermosphere | - |
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| metatherian | (noun) primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas | - |
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| milcher | (noun) cattle that are reared for their milk | Synonyms: dairy cattle, dairy cow, milch cow, milk cow, milker |
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| moocher | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: cadger, mooch, scrounger |
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| mother | (noun) a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation | - |
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| (noun) a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother) | Synonyms: female parent |
| (noun) a term of address for a mother superior | - |
| (noun) a term of address for an elderly woman | - |
| (noun) a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar | - |
| (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, sire |
| (verb) care for like a mother | Synonyms: fuss, overprotect |
| motherese | (noun) an adult's imitation of the speech of a young child | Synonyms: baby talk, babytalk |
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| motherfucker | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
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| motherhood | (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother | Synonyms: maternity |
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| motherland | (noun) the country where you were born | Synonyms: country of origin, fatherland, homeland, mother country, native land |
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| motherless | (adjective) having no living or known mother | - |
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| motherlike | (adjective) suggestive of or acting like a mother | - |
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| motherliness | (noun) the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother | Synonyms: maternal quality, maternalism, maternity |
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| motherly | (adjective) befitting a mother; warm and nurturing | - |
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| (adverb) in a maternal manner; as a mother | Synonyms: maternally |
| motherwort | (noun) bitter Old World herb of hedgerows and woodland margins having toothed leaves and white or pale pink flowers | Synonyms: Leonurus cardiaca |
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| muncher | (noun) a chewer who makes a munching noise | - |
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| musher | (noun) a traveler who drives (or travels with) a dog team | - |
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| neither | (adjective) not either; not one or the other; entity, dual, negative pronoun; quantifier, dual, negative | - |
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| nether | (adjective) lower | - |
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| (adjective) dwelling beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: chthonian, chthonic |
| (adjective) located below or beneath something else | Synonyms: under |
| nethermost | (adjective) farthest down | Synonyms: bottommost, lowermost |
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| netherworld | (noun) (religion) the world of the dead | Synonyms: Hades, Hell, infernal region, Scheol, underworld |
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| nigher | (adverb) (comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance | Synonyms: closer, nearer |
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| nonhereditary | (adjective) not acquirable by inheritance | Synonyms: nontransmissible |
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| nonheritable | (adjective) not inheritable | Synonyms: noninheritable |
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| noninheritable | (adjective) not inheritable | Synonyms: nonheritable |
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| nonkosher | (adjective) not conforming to dietary laws | Synonyms: terefah, tref |
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| nonspherical | (adjective) not spherical | - |
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| nonthermal | (adjective) not involving heat | - |
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| normothermia | (noun) normal body temperature | - |
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| norther | (noun) a wind that blows from the north | Synonyms: boreas, north wind, northerly |
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| northerly | (adjective) coming from the north; used especially of wind | Synonyms: northern |
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| (adjective) oriented toward the north | Synonyms: northern |
| (noun) a wind that blows from the north | Synonyms: boreas, north wind, norther |
| (adverb) in a northern direction | Synonyms: north, northward, northwards |
| northern | (adjective) situated in regions of the north | - |
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| (adjective) in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line | - |
| (adjective) coming from the north; used especially of wind | Synonyms: northerly |
| (adjective) oriented toward the north | Synonyms: northerly |
| northernmost | (adjective) situated farthest north | Synonyms: northmost |
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| northernness | (noun) the property of being to the north | - |
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| nosher | (noun) someone who eats lightly or eats snacks between meals | Synonyms: snacker |
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| nowhere | (noun) an insignificant place | - |
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| (adverb) not anywhere; in or at or to no place | - |
| oceanographer | (noun) a scientist who studies physical and biological aspects of the seas | - |
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| ocher | (adjective) of a moderate orange-yellow color | Synonyms: ochre |
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| (noun) a moderate yellow-orange to orange color | Synonyms: ochre |
| (noun) any of various earths containing silica and alumina and ferric oxide; used as a pigment | Synonyms: ochre |
| oosphere | (noun) a gamete; used especially of lower plants | - |
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| other | (adjective) not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied; quantifier, other | - |
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| (adjective) recently past | - |
| (adjective) very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected | - |
| (adjective) belonging to the distant past | Synonyms: early, former |
| otherness | (noun) the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known | Synonyms: distinctness, separateness |
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| otherwise | (adjective) other than as supposed or expected | - |
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| (adverb) in other respects or ways | - |
| (adverb) in another and different manner | Synonyms: differently |
| otherworld | (noun) an abstract spiritual world beyond earthly reality | - |
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| otherworldliness | (noun) concern with things of the spirit | Synonyms: spiritism, spiritualism, spirituality |
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| otherworldly | (adjective) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | Synonyms: nonnatural, preternatural, transcendental |
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| oystercatcher | (noun) black-and-white shorebird with stout legs and bill; feed on oysters etc. | Synonyms: oyster catcher |
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| ozonosphere | (noun) a layer in the stratosphere (at approximately 20 miles) that contains a concentration of ozone sufficient to block most ultraviolet radiation from the sun | Synonyms: ozone layer |
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| paleographer | (noun) an archeologist skilled in paleography | Synonyms: paleographist |
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| panther | (noun) a leopard in the black color phase | - |
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| (noun) a large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis | Synonyms: Felis onca, jaguar, Panthera onca |
| (noun) large American feline resembling a lion | Synonyms: catamount, cougar, Felis concolor, mountain lion, painter, puma |
| paragrapher | (noun) a writer of paragraphs (as for publication on the editorial page of a newspaper) | - |
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| paraphernalia | (noun) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. | Synonyms: appurtenance, gear |
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| penpusher | (noun) a clerk who does boring paperwork | Synonyms: pencil pusher |
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| percher | (noun) a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists | Synonyms: Insessores, order Insessores, perching bird |
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| (noun) a person situated on a perch | - |
| peripheral | (adjective) on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary; the outer area | - |
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| (adjective) related to the key issue but not of central importance | - |
| (noun) electronic equipment external to the circuit board that contains the CPU of a computer | Synonyms: computer peripheral, peripheral device |
| peripherally | (adverb) in or at or near a periphery or according to a peripheral role or function or relationship | - |
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| periphery | (noun) the outside boundary or surface of something | Synonyms: fringe, outer boundary |
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| perisher | (noun) bounder | - |
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| pheresis | (noun) a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis; some are retained and the rest are returned to the donor by transfusion | Synonyms: apheresis |
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| pheromone | (noun) a chemical substance secreted externally by some animals (especially insects) that influences the physiology or behavior of other animals of the same species | - |
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| philosopher | (noun) a specialist in philosophy | - |
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| (noun) a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity | - |
| photographer | (noun) someone who takes photographs professionally | Synonyms: lensman |
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| photosphere | (noun) the intensely luminous surface of a star (especially the sun) | - |
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| phototherapy | (noun) the use of strong light to treat acne or hyperbilirubinemia of the newborn | - |
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| physiotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to or used in physical therapy | - |
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| physiotherapist | (noun) therapist who treats injury or dysfunction with exercises and other physical treatments of the disorder | Synonyms: physical therapist |
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| physiotherapy | (noun) therapy that uses physical agents: exercise and massage and other modalities | Synonyms: physiatrics, physical therapy |
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| phytotherapy | (noun) the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet) | Synonyms: botanical medicine, herbal therapy |
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| pinscher | (noun) any of three breeds of dogs whose ears and tail are usually cropped | - |
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| pitcher | (noun) the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit | Synonyms: mound |
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| (noun) an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring | Synonyms: ewer |
| (noun) (baseball) the person who does the pitching | Synonyms: hurler, twirler |
| (noun) (botany) a leaf that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer | - |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a pitcher | Synonyms: pitcherful |
| pitcherful | (noun) the quantity contained in a pitcher | Synonyms: pitcher |
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| plasmapheresis | (noun) plasma is separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor | - |
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| plateletpheresis | (noun) platelets are separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor | - |
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| poacher | (noun) small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters | Synonyms: sea poacher, sea poker |
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| (noun) a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs) | - |
| (noun) someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another | - |
| poikilotherm | (noun) an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals | Synonyms: ectotherm |
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| poikilothermic | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, heterothermic, poikilothermous |
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| poikilothermous | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, heterothermic, poikilothermic |
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| polisher | (noun) a power tool used to buff surfaces | Synonyms: buffer |
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| pornographer | (noun) someone who presents shows or sells writing or pictures that are sexually explicit in violation of the community mores | Synonyms: porn merchant |
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| portwatcher | (noun) a watchman on a wharf | Synonyms: port watcher |
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| pother | (noun) an excited state of agitation | Synonyms: dither, flap, fuss, tizzy |
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| (verb) make a fuss; be agitated | Synonyms: dither, flap |
| (verb) make upset or troubled | - |