| anthracite | (noun) a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat | Synonyms: anthracite coal, hard coal |
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| anthracitic | (adjective) relating to or resembling anthracite coal | - |
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| anthracosis | (noun) lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust | Synonyms: black lung, black lung disease, coal miner's lung |
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| anthrax | (noun) a highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people | Synonyms: splenic fever |
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| (noun) a disease of humans that is not communicable; caused by infection with Bacillus anthracis followed by septicemia | - |
| antiphrasis | (noun) the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony) | - |
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| arthralgia | (noun) pain in a joint or joints | - |
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| arthralgic | (adjective) of or relating to arthralgia | - |
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| ashram | (noun) (India) a place of religious retreat for Hindus | - |
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| (noun) a place of religious retreat modeled after the Indian ashram | - |
| birthrate | (noun) the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year | Synonyms: birth rate, fertility, fertility rate, natality |
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| cataphract | (noun) armor that protects the wearer's whole body | Synonyms: body armor, body armour, coat of mail, suit of armor, suit of armour |
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| catchphrase | (noun) a phrase that has become a catchword | Synonyms: catch phrase |
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| clathrate | (adjective) designating or relating to a compound in which one component is physically enclosed within the crystal structure of another | - |
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| (adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellate, cancellated |
| deathrate | (noun) the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year | Synonyms: death rate, fatality rate, mortality, mortality rate |
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| diaphragm | (noun) a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens | Synonyms: stop |
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| (noun) electro-acoustic transducer that vibrates to receive or produce sound waves | - |
| (noun) a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix | Synonyms: contraceptive diaphragm, pessary |
| (noun) (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration | Synonyms: midriff |
| dishrag | (noun) a cloth for washing dishes | Synonyms: dishcloth |
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| enthral | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthrall, ravish, transport |
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| enthrall | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, ravish, transport |
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| enthralled | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, captivated, charmed, delighted, entranced |
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| enthralling | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, entrancing, fascinating |
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| enthrallingly | (adverb) in a bewitching manner | Synonyms: bewitchingly, captivatingly, enchantingly |
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| enthrallment | (noun) a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual | Synonyms: captivation, enchantment, fascination |
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| hitchrack | (noun) a fixed horizontal rail to which a horse can be hitched to prevent it from straying | Synonyms: hitching bar |
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| hypaethral | (adjective) partly or entirely open to the sky | Synonyms: hypethral |
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| hypethral | (adjective) partly or entirely open to the sky | Synonyms: hypaethral |
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| mihrab | (noun) (Islam) a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the direction of Mecca | - |
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| (noun) (Islam) a design in the shape of niche in a Muslim prayer rug; during worship the niche must be pointed toward Mecca | - |
| mithraic | (adjective) of or relating to Mithraism or its god | Synonyms: mithraistic |
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| mithraistic | (adjective) of or relating to Mithraism or its god | Synonyms: mithraic |
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| mithramycin | (noun) an antineoplastic drug (trade name Mithracin) used to treat cancer of the testes | Synonyms: Mithracin |
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| nephralgia | (noun) pain in the kidney (usually felt in the loins) | - |
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| paraphrase | (noun) rewording for the purpose of clarification | Synonyms: paraphrasis |
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| (verb) express the same message in different words | Synonyms: rephrase, reword |
| paraphrasis | (noun) rewording for the purpose of clarification | Synonyms: paraphrase |
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| paraphrastic | (adjective) altered by paraphrasing | - |
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| periphrasis | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: ambage, circumlocution |
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| periphrastic | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, circumlocutory |
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| phragmacone | (noun) the thin conical chambered internal shell (either straight or curved) of a belemnite | Synonyms: phragmocone |
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| phragmocone | (noun) the thin conical chambered internal shell (either straight or curved) of a belemnite | Synonyms: phragmacone |
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| phrasal | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as a phrase | - |
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| phrase | (noun) dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence | - |
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| (noun) an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence | - |
| (noun) a short musical passage | Synonyms: musical phrase |
| (noun) an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up | Synonyms: idiom, idiomatic expression, phrasal idiom, set phrase |
| (verb) put into words or an expression | Synonyms: articulate, formulate, give voice, word |
| (verb) divide, combine, or mark into phrases | - |
| phraseology | (noun) the manner in which something is expressed in words | Synonyms: choice of words, diction, phrasing, verbiage, wording |
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| phrasing | (noun) the grouping of musical phrases in a melodic line | - |
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| (noun) the manner in which something is expressed in words | Synonyms: choice of words, diction, phraseology, verbiage, wording |
| phratry | (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept |
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| rephrase | (verb) express the same message in different words | Synonyms: paraphrase, reword |
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| rephrasing | (noun) changing a particular word or phrase | Synonyms: recasting, rewording |
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| sepulchral | (adjective) of or relating to a sepulchre | - |
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| (adjective) suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial | Synonyms: funereal |
| (adjective) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead | Synonyms: charnel, ghastly |
| shrapnel | (noun) shell containing lead pellets that explodes in flight | - |
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| thraldom | (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom |
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| thrall | (noun) someone held in bondage | - |
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| (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: bondage, slavery, thraldom, thralldom |
| thralldom | (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: bondage, slavery, thraldom, thrall |
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| thrash | (noun) a swimming kick used while treading water | - |
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| (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard | Synonyms: flail, lam, thresh |
| (verb) beat the seeds out of a grain | Synonyms: thresh |
| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, drub, lick |
| (verb) dance the slam dance | Synonyms: mosh, slam, slam dance |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
| (verb) beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all | - |
| (verb) move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation | - |
| thrasher | (noun) thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs | Synonyms: mocking thrush |
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| (noun) large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed | Synonyms: Alopius vulpinus, fox shark, thresher, thresher shark |
| (noun) a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw | Synonyms: thresher, threshing machine |
| thrashing | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, trouncing, whacking |
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| (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
| urethra | (noun) duct through which urine is discharged in most mammals and which serves as the male genital duct | - |
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| urethral | (adjective) of or relating to the urethra | - |
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| utahraptor | (noun) large (20-ft) and swift carnivorous dinosaur having an upright slashing claw 15 inches long on each hind foot; early Cretaceous | Synonyms: superslasher |
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| washrag | (noun) bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body | Synonyms: face cloth, flannel, washcloth |
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