achimenes | (noun) any plant of the genus Achimenes having showy bell-shaped flowers that resemble gloxinias | Synonyms: hot water plant |
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ahimsa | (noun) a Buddhist and Hindu and especially Jainist doctrine holding that all forms of life are sacred and urging the avoidance of violence | - |
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amphimixis | (noun) union of sperm and egg in sexual reproduction | - |
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(noun) reproduction involving the union or fusion of a male and a female gamete | Synonyms: sexual reproduction |
archimandrite | (noun) the superior of an abbey of monks | Synonyms: abbot |
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chimaera | (noun) a deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail | - |
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(noun) a grotesque product of the imagination | Synonyms: chimera |
chime | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument | Synonyms: bell, gong |
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(verb) emit a sound | - |
chimer | (noun) a fur-lined coat decorated with braid, worn in the sixteenth century. | Synonyms: chamarre, simarre |
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chimera | (noun) a grotesque product of the imagination | Synonyms: chimaera |
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chimeral | (adjective) being or relating to or like a chimera | Synonyms: chimeric, chimerical |
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chimeric | (adjective) being or relating to or like a chimera | Synonyms: chimeral, chimerical |
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chimerical | (adjective) being or relating to or like a chimera | Synonyms: chimeral, chimeric |
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(adjective) produced by a wildly fanciful imagination | - |
chimney | (noun) a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building | - |
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(noun) a glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp | Synonyms: lamp chimney |
chimneypiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece |
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chimneypot | (noun) a short earthenware pipe on the top of a chimney to increase the draft | - |
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chimneystack | (noun) the part of the chimney that is above the roof; usually has several flues | - |
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chimneysweep | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweeper, sweep |
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chimneysweeper | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, sweep |
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chimp | (noun) intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests | Synonyms: chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes |
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chimpanzee | (noun) intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests | Synonyms: chimp, Pan troglodytes |
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glutethimide | (noun) sedative (trade name Doriden) used to treat some sleep disorders | Synonyms: Doriden |
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khimar | (noun) a headscarf worn by observant Muslim women that hangs down to just above the waist | - |
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mahimahi | (noun) large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) | Synonyms: dolphin, dolphinfish |
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(noun) the lean flesh of a saltwater fish found in warm waters (especially in Hawaii) | Synonyms: dolphinfish |
phimosis | (noun) an abnormal tightness of the foreskin preventing retraction over the glans | - |
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sashimi | (noun) very thinly sliced raw fish | - |
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shim | (noun) a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices | - |
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shimmer | (noun) a weak and tremulous light | Synonyms: play |
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(verb) give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk | - |
(verb) shine with a weak or fitful light | - |
shimmery | (adjective) glistening tremulously | - |
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shimmy | (noun) lively dancing (usually to ragtime music) with much shaking of the shoulders and hips | - |
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(noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment | Synonyms: chemise, shift, slip, teddy |
(noun) an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels) | - |
(verb) dance a shimmy | - |
(verb) tremble or shake | Synonyms: wobble |
thimble | (noun) a small metal cap to protect the finger while sewing; can be used as a small container | - |
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(noun) as much as a thimble will hold | Synonyms: thimbleful |
thimbleberry | (noun) raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: black raspberry, blackcap, blackcap raspberry, Rubus occidentalis |
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(noun) white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries | Synonyms: Rubus parviflorus, salmon berry, salmonberry |
(noun) shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: flowering raspberry, purple-flowering raspberry, Rubus odoratus |
thimbleful | (noun) as much as a thimble will hold | Synonyms: thimble |
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thimblerig | (noun) a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under | Synonyms: shell game |
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thimbleweed | (noun) a common North American anemone with cylindrical fruit clusters resembling thimbles | Synonyms: Anemone cylindrica |
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thimerosal | (noun) a light-colored crystalline powder (trade name Merthiolate) used as a surgical antiseptic | Synonyms: Merthiolate, sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate |
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whim | (noun) an odd or fanciful or capricious idea | Synonyms: notion, whimsey, whimsy |
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(noun) a sudden desire | Synonyms: caprice, impulse |
whimper | (noun) a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way | Synonyms: whine |
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(verb) cry weakly or softly | Synonyms: mewl, pule, wail |
whimsey | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, flightiness, whimsicality, whimsy |
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(noun) an odd or fanciful or capricious idea | Synonyms: notion, whim, whimsy |
whimsical | (adjective) determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason | Synonyms: capricious, impulsive |
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whimsicality | (noun) the trait of behaving like an imp | Synonyms: impishness, mischievousness, puckishness |
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(noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsy |
whimsically | (adverb) in a fanciful manner | Synonyms: fancifully |
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whimsy | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsicality |
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(noun) an odd or fanciful or capricious idea | Synonyms: notion, whim, whimsey |