amphoric | (adjective) the sound heard in auscultation resembling the hollow sound made by blowing across the mouth of a bottle | - |
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anaphoric | (adjective) relating to anaphora | - |
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anchorite | (noun) one retired from society for religious reasons | Synonyms: hermit |
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anchoritic | (adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: eremitic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical |
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antiauthoritarian | (adjective) opposed to authoritarianism | - |
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aphorise | (verb) speak or write in aphorisms | Synonyms: aphorize |
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aphorism | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: apophthegm, apothegm |
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aphorist | (noun) someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms | - |
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aphoristic | (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: axiomatic |
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(adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: apothegmatic, epigrammatic |
aphorize | (verb) speak or write in aphorisms | Synonyms: aphorise |
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authorial | (adjective) of or by or typical of an author | Synonyms: auctorial |
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authorisation | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorization, empowerment |
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(noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authority, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so |
(noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authority, authorization, sanction |
(noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorization, mandate |
authorise | (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorize, clear, pass |
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(verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorize, empower |
authorised | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authoritative, authorized |
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authoriser | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authorizer |
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authoritarian | (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: dictatorial, overbearing |
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(adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
(noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: dictator |
authoritarianism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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authoritative | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authorised, authorized |
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(adjective) having authority or ascendancy or influence | Synonyms: important |
(adjective) of recognized authority or excellence | Synonyms: definitive |
authoritatively | (adverb) in an authoritative and magisterial manner | Synonyms: magisterially |
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authorities | (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: government, regime |
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authority | (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so |
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(noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization, sanction |
(noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: assurance, confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness |
(noun) an authoritative written work | - |
(noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office |
(noun) an expert whose views are taken as definitive | - |
(noun) (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others | - |
authorization | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorisation, empowerment |
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(noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, dominance, potency, say-so |
(noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, sanction |
(noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorisation, mandate |
authorize | (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorise, clear, pass |
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(verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorise, empower |
authorized | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authorised, authoritative |
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authorizer | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authoriser |
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camphoric | (adjective) relating to or derived from or containing camphor | - |
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choric | (adjective) relating to or written for or in the style of a Greek chorus | - |
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chorine | (noun) a woman who dances in a chorus line | Synonyms: chorus girl, showgirl |
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chorioallantois | (noun) the very vascular fetal membrane composed of the fused chorion and adjacent wall of the allantois | Synonyms: chorioallantoic membrane |
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choriomeningitis | (noun) a cerebral meningitis with cellular infiltration of the meninges | - |
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chorion | (noun) the outermost membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) | - |
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chorionic | (adjective) of or relating to a chorion | - |
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chorioretinitis | (noun) inflammation of the choroid layer behind the retina | - |
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chorister | (noun) a singer in a choir | - |
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chorizo | (noun) a spicy Spanish pork sausage | - |
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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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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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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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metaphoric | (adjective) expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another | Synonyms: metaphorical |
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metaphorical | (adjective) expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another | Synonyms: metaphoric |
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metaphorically | (adverb) in a metaphorical manner | - |
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oophoritis | (noun) inflammation of one or both ovaries | - |
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phoenicophorium | (noun) latanier palm | Synonyms: genus Phoenicophorium |
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phosphoric | (adjective) containing or characteristic of phosphorus | Synonyms: phosphorous |
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plethoric | (adjective) excessively abundant | Synonyms: overabundant, rife |
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radiothorium | (noun) radioactive isotope of thorium with mass number 228 | Synonyms: thorium-228 |
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shoring | (noun) the act of propping up with shores | Synonyms: propping up, shoring up |
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(noun) a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support | Synonyms: shore |
thoriate | (verb) impregnate with thorium oxide to increase thermionic emission | - |
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thoriated | (adjective) being or sounding of nervous or suppressed laughter | Synonyms: tittering |
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thorite | (noun) a radioactive mineral consisting of thorium silicate; it is a source of thorium that is found in coarse granite | - |
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thorium | (noun) a soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sands | Synonyms: atomic number 90, Th |
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unauthorised | (adjective) not endowed with authority | Synonyms: unauthorized |
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(adjective) without official authorization | Synonyms: unauthorized, wildcat |
unauthorized | (adjective) not endowed with authority | Synonyms: unauthorised |
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(adjective) without official authorization | Synonyms: unauthorised, wildcat |
whoriental | (noun) An East Asian Whore | - |
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