| conidiophore | (noun) a specialized fungal hypha that produces conidia | - |
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| corchorus | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Corchorus having large leaves and cymose clusters of yellow flowers; a source of jute | - |
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| crumhorn | (noun) a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) | Synonyms: cromorne, krummhorn |
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| ctenophore | (noun) biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb | Synonyms: comb jelly |
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| dehorn | (verb) take the horns off (an animal) | - |
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| (verb) prevent the growth of horns of certain animals | - |
| diaphoresis | (noun) the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid | Synonyms: hidrosis, perspiration, sudation, sweating |
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| diaphoretic | (adjective) inducing perspiration | Synonyms: sudorific |
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| (noun) used to produce perspiration | - |
| drayhorse | (noun) draft horse kept for pulling carts | Synonyms: cart horse, carthorse |
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| dysphoria | (noun) abnormal depression and discontent | - |
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| dysphoric | (adjective) generalized feeling of distress | Synonyms: distressed, unhappy |
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| electrophoresis | (noun) the motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode | Synonyms: cataphoresis, dielectrolysis, ionophoresis |
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| electrophoretic | (adjective) of or relating to electrophoresis | Synonyms: cataphoretic |
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| electrophorus | (noun) a simple electrostatic generator that generates repeated charges of static electricity | - |
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| epanaphora | (noun) repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | Synonyms: anaphora |
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| epiphora | (noun) repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc. | Synonyms: epistrophe |
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| euphorbium | (noun) an acrid brown gum resin now used mainly in veterinary medicine | Synonyms: gum eurphorbium |
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| euphoria | (noun) a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation | Synonyms: euphory |
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| euphoriant | (adjective) tending to produce euphoria | - |
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| (noun) a psychoactive drug that tends to produce elation and euphoria | - |
| euphoric | (adjective) exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation | - |
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| euphory | (noun) a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation | Synonyms: euphoria |
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| exhort | (verb) force or impel in an indicated direction | Synonyms: press, urge, urge on |
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| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, cheer, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| exhortation | (noun) the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion | Synonyms: incitement |
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| (noun) a communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action | - |
| exhortative | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortatory, hortative, hortatory |
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| exhortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, hortative, hortatory |
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| firethorn | (noun) any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries | Synonyms: fire thorn, pyracanth, Pyracantha |
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| fluegelhorn | (noun) a brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore | Synonyms: flugelhorn |
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| flugelhorn | (noun) a brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore | Synonyms: fluegelhorn |
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| foghorn | (noun) a warning device consisting of a horn that generates a loud low tone | - |
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| (noun) a loud low warning signal that can be heard by fogbound ships | Synonyms: fogsignal |
| foreshore | (noun) the part of the seashore between the highwater mark and the low-water mark | - |
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| foreshorten | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, shorten |
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| (verb) shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth | - |
| gametophore | (noun) a modified branch bearing gametangia as in the thalloid liverworts | - |
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| greenhorn | (noun) an awkward and inexperienced youth | Synonyms: cub, rookie |
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| gynophore | (noun) the stalk of a pistil that raises it above the receptacle | - |
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| haemothorax | (noun) accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity (the space between the lungs and the walls of the chest) | Synonyms: hemothorax |
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| harpsichord | (noun) a clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots | Synonyms: cembalo |
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| harpsichordist | (noun) someone who plays the harpsichord | - |
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| hawthorn | (noun) a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus | Synonyms: haw |
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| hemothorax | (noun) accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity (the space between the lungs and the walls of the chest) | Synonyms: haemothorax |
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| hobbyhorse | (noun) a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride | Synonyms: hobby, rocking horse |
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| (noun) a topic to which one constantly reverts | - |
| horary | (adjective) relating to the hours | - |
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| horchata | (noun) Spanish traditional beverage, made of ground almonds, sesame seeds, rice, barley, tigernuts (chufas), or melon seeds | - |
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| horde | (noun) a vast multitude | Synonyms: host, legion |
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| (noun) a moving crowd | Synonyms: drove, swarm |
| (noun) a nomadic community | - |
| hordeolum | (noun) an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid | Synonyms: eye infection, sty, stye |
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| horehound | (noun) a candy that is flavored with an extract of the horehound plant | - |
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| (noun) any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Marrubium | - |
| horizon | (noun) the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated | Synonyms: purview, view |
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| (noun) the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet | Synonyms: apparent horizon, sensible horizon, skyline, visible horizon |
| (noun) a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land | - |
| (noun) the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth | Synonyms: celestial horizon |
| horizontal | (adjective) parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line | - |
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| (noun) something that is oriented horizontally | - |
| horizontality | (noun) the quality of being parallel to the horizon | - |
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| horizontally | (adverb) in a horizontal direction | - |
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| hormism | (noun) psychology concerned with the purposive factor or force in behavior. | Synonyms: hormic psychology |
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| hormonal | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by hormones | - |
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| hormone | (noun) the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect | Synonyms: endocrine, internal secretion |
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| horn | (noun) one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates | - |
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| (noun) any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn | - |
| (noun) a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves | Synonyms: French horn |
| (noun) a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves | Synonyms: cornet, trump, trumpet |
| (noun) an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound | - |
| (noun) a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather) | Synonyms: saddle horn |
| (noun) a device on an automobile for making a warning noise | Synonyms: automobile horn, car horn, hooter, motor horn |
| (noun) a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it | - |
| (noun) a device having the shape of a horn | - |
| (noun) a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning | - |
| (noun) the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails | - |
| (verb) stab or pierce with a horn or tusk | Synonyms: tusk |
| hornbeam | (noun) any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus | - |
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| hornbill | (noun) bird of tropical Africa and Asia having a very large bill surmounted by a bony protuberance; related to kingfishers | - |
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| hornblende | (noun) a green to black mineral of the amphibole group; consists of silicates of calcium and sodium and magnesium and iron | - |
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| hornbook | (noun) a primer that provides instruction in the rudiments or basic skills of a branch of knowledge | - |
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| horned | (adjective) having a horn or horns or hornlike parts or horns of a particular kind | - |
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| hornet | (noun) large stinging paper wasp | - |
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| hornfels | (noun) a fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of heat on clay rocks | Synonyms: hornstone |
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| horniness | (noun) a state of sexual arousal | Synonyms: hot pants, hotness |
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| hornist | (noun) a musician who plays a horn (especially a French horn) | - |
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| hornless | (adjective) having no horns | - |
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| hornlike | (adjective) made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) | Synonyms: corneous, horny |
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| hornpipe | (noun) a British solo dance performed by sailors | - |
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| (noun) an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone | Synonyms: pibgorn, stockhorn |
| (noun) music for dancing the hornpipe | - |
| hornpout | (noun) catfish common in eastern United States | Synonyms: Ameiurus Melas, horned pout, pout |
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| hornstone | (noun) a fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of heat on clay rocks | Synonyms: hornfels |
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| hornswoggle | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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| hornwork | (noun) an element of the trace italienne system of fortification that consists of a pair of demi-bastions. | - |
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| hornwort | (noun) liverworts with slender hornlike capsules | - |
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| (noun) any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum; forms submerged masses in ponds and slow-flowing streams | - |
| horny | (adjective) made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) | Synonyms: corneous, hornlike |
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| (adjective) having horns or hornlike projections | - |
| (adjective) feeling great sexual desire | Synonyms: aroused, randy, ruttish, steamy, turned on |
| horologe | (noun) a measuring instrument or device for keeping time | Synonyms: timekeeper, timepiece |
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| horologer | (noun) someone who makes or repairs watches | Synonyms: horologist, watchmaker |
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| horologist | (noun) someone who makes or repairs watches | Synonyms: horologer, watchmaker |
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| horology | (noun) the art of designing and making clocks | - |
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| horoscope | (noun) a diagram of the positions of the planets and signs of the zodiac at a particular time and place | - |
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| (noun) a prediction of someone's future based on the relative positions of the planets | - |
| horoscopy | (noun) the drawing up and interpretation of horoscopes | - |
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| horrendous | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrific, terrible |
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| horrible | (adjective) provoking horror | Synonyms: atrocious, frightful, horrifying, ugly |
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| horribly | (adverb) of a dreadful kind | Synonyms: awfully, dreadfully |
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| horrid | (adjective) exceedingly bad | - |
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| (adjective) grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror | Synonyms: hideous, horrific, outrageous |
| horridly | (adverb) in a hideous manner | Synonyms: hideously, monstrously |
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| horridness | (noun) a quality of extreme unpleasantness | Synonyms: awfulness, dreadfulness, terribleness |
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| horrific | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, terrible |
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| (adjective) grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror | Synonyms: hideous, horrid, outrageous |
| horrified | (adjective) stricken with horror | Synonyms: horror-stricken, horror-struck |
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| horrify | (verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: alarm, appal, appall, dismay |
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| horrifying | (adjective) provoking horror | Synonyms: atrocious, frightful, horrible, ugly |
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| horrifyingly | (adverb) in a horrifying manner | - |
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| horripilate | (verb) cause (someone's) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps | - |
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| (verb) have one's hair stand on end and get goosebumps | - |
| horripilation | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, goosebump, gooseflesh, pilomotor reflex |
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| horror | (noun) something that inspires horror; something horrible | - |
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| (noun) intense aversion | Synonyms: repugnance, repulsion, revulsion |
| (noun) intense and profound fear | - |
| horse | (noun) solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times | Synonyms: Equus caballus |
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| (noun) a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa) | Synonyms: knight |
| (noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: buck, sawbuck, sawhorse |
| (noun) a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs | Synonyms: gymnastic horse |
| (noun) troops trained to fight on horseback | Synonyms: cavalry, horse cavalry |
| (verb) provide with a horse or horses | - |
| horseback | (noun) the back of a horse | - |
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| (noun) a narrow ridge of hills | Synonyms: hogback |
| (adverb) on the back of a horse | Synonyms: ahorse, ahorseback |
| horsebean | (noun) large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States | Synonyms: Jerusalem thorn, Parkinsonia aculeata |
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| (noun) seed of the broad-bean plant | Synonyms: broad bean, fava bean |
| horsebox | (noun) a conveyance (railroad car or trailer) for transporting racehorses | - |
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| horsecar | (noun) an early form of streetcar that was drawn by horses | - |
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| horsecloth | (noun) a cloth for the trapping of a horse | - |
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| horsefish | (noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish, horse-head, horsehead, moonfish, Selene setapinnis |
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| horseflesh | (noun) the flesh of horses as food | Synonyms: horsemeat |
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| horsefly | (noun) large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals | Synonyms: cleg, clegg, horse fly |
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| (noun) winged fly parasitic on horses | Synonyms: Hippobosca equina, horse tick |
| horsehair | (noun) a fabric made from fibers taken from the mane or tail of horses; used for upholstery | - |
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| (noun) hair taken from the mane or tail of a horse | - |