| magnificently | (adverb) wonderfully | Synonyms: excellently, famously, splendidly |
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| (adverb) in an impressively beautiful manner | Synonyms: gorgeously, resplendently, splendidly |
| maleficence | (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: balefulness, mischief |
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| (noun) doing or causing evil | - |
| maleficent | (adjective) harmful or evil in intent or effect | - |
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| malice | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolence, malevolency |
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| (noun) feeling a need to see others suffer | Synonyms: maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom |
| malpractice | (noun) a wrongful act that the actor had no right to do; improper professional conduct | - |
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| (noun) professional wrongdoing that results in injury or damage | - |
| matricentric | (adjective) centered upon the mother | - |
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| micelle | (noun) an electrically charged particle built up from polymeric molecules or ions and occurring in certain colloidal electrolytic solutions like soaps and detergents | - |
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| microdevice | (noun) any very small device manufactured using microfabrication. | - |
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| monitrice | (noun) an assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes | Synonyms: birthing coach, doula, labor coach |
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| mortice | (noun) a square hole made to receive a tenon and so to form a joint | Synonyms: mortise |
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| (verb) join by a tenon and mortise | Synonyms: mortise |
| (verb) cut a hole for a tenon in | Synonyms: mortise |
| multicellular | (adjective) consisting of many cells | - |
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| munificence | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, largesse, magnanimity, openhandedness |
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| munificent | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: lavish, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting |
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| munificently | (adverb) in a generous manner | Synonyms: generously, liberally |
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| nice | (adjective) pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance | - |
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| (adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: dainty, overnice, prissy, squeamish |
| (adjective) exhibiting courtesy and politeness | Synonyms: courteous, gracious |
| (adjective) socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous | Synonyms: decent |
| (adjective) done with delicacy and skill | Synonyms: skillful |
| nicely | (adverb) in a nice way | - |
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| niceness | (noun) the quality of nice | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze | Synonyms: subtlety |
| (noun) a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage | Synonyms: politeness |
| nicety | (noun) conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety | Synonyms: justness, rightness |
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| (noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nuance, refinement, shade, subtlety |
| nociceptive | (adjective) caused by or in response to pain | - |
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| notice | (noun) the act of noticing or paying attention | Synonyms: observance, observation |
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| (noun) polite or favorable attention | - |
| (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: bill, card, placard, poster, posting |
| (noun) an announcement containing information about an event | - |
| (noun) a request for payment | Synonyms: notification |
| (noun) advance notification (usually written) of the intention to withdraw from an arrangement of contract | - |
| (noun) a short critical review | - |
| (verb) make or write a comment on | Synonyms: comment, point out, remark |
| (verb) express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with | Synonyms: acknowledge |
| (verb) notice or perceive | Synonyms: mark, note |
| (verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: detect, discover, find, observe |
| noticeability | (noun) the property of being easy to see and understand | Synonyms: noticeableness, obviousness, patency |
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| noticeable | (adjective) capable or worthy of being noticed | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being detected | Synonyms: detectable |
| noticeableness | (noun) the property of being easy to see and understand | Synonyms: noticeability, obviousness, patency |
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| noticeably | (adverb) in a noticeable manner | Synonyms: observably, perceptibly |
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| noticed | (adjective) being perceived or observed | - |
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| noticer | (noun) someone who gives formal notice | - |
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| (noun) someone who takes notice | - |
| novice | (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: beginner, initiate, tiro, tyro |
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| (noun) someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows | Synonyms: novitiate |
| office | (noun) a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities | - |
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| (noun) the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group | Synonyms: function, part, role |
| (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, place, position, post, situation |
| (noun) place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed | Synonyms: business office |
| (noun) professional or clerical workers in an office | Synonyms: office staff |
| (noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency |
| (noun) (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power | Synonyms: power |
| officeholder | (noun) the official who holds an office | Synonyms: incumbent |
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| (noun) someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust | Synonyms: officer |
| officer | (noun) a member of a police force | Synonyms: police officer |
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| (noun) someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust | Synonyms: officeholder |
| (noun) any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command | Synonyms: military officer |
| (noun) a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel | Synonyms: ship's officer |
| (verb) direct or command as an officer | - |
| orifice | (noun) an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity | Synonyms: opening, porta |
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| overnice | (adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: dainty, nice, prissy, squeamish |
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| overprice | (verb) price excessively high | - |
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| overpriced | (adjective) too costly for the value | - |
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| patricentric | (adjective) centered upon the father | - |
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| pedicel | (noun) a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle | Synonyms: pedicle |
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| pericementoclasia | (noun) pus pocket formation around a tooth | - |
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| plaice | (noun) large European food fish | Synonyms: Pleuronectes platessa |
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| (noun) flesh of large European flatfish | - |
| police | (noun) the force of policemen and officers | Synonyms: constabulary, law, police force |
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| (verb) maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol | Synonyms: patrol |
| policeman | (noun) a male member of a police force | - |
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| policewoman | (noun) a woman policeman | Synonyms: police matron |
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| poultice | (noun) a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc. | Synonyms: cataplasm, plaster |
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| (verb) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance | Synonyms: plaster |
| practice | (noun) a customary way of operation or behavior | Synonyms: pattern |
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| (noun) systematic training by multiple repetitions | Synonyms: drill, exercise, practice session, recitation |
| (noun) the exercise of a profession | - |
| (noun) translating an idea into action | Synonyms: praxis |
| (noun) knowledge of how something is usually done | - |
| (verb) learn by repetition | Synonyms: drill, exercise, practise |
| (verb) engage in a rehearsal (of) | Synonyms: practise, rehearse |
| (verb) carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions | Synonyms: do, exercise, practise |
| (verb) avail oneself to | Synonyms: apply, use |
| (verb) engage in or perform | Synonyms: commit |
| practiced | (adjective) skillful after much practice | Synonyms: practised |
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| (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, expert, good, proficient, skilful, skillful |
| precipice | (noun) a very steep cliff | - |
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| prejudice | (noun) a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation | Synonyms: bias, preconception |
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| (verb) influence (somebody's) opinion in advance | Synonyms: prepossess |
| (verb) disadvantage by prejudice | - |
| prejudiced | (adjective) being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand | Synonyms: discriminatory |
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| (adjective) emanating from a person's emotions and prejudices | - |
| prentice | (noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: apprentice, learner |
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| price | (noun) the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold) | Synonyms: cost, monetary value |
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| (noun) the high value or worth of something | - |
| (noun) value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something | Synonyms: cost, toll |
| (noun) a monetary reward for helping to catch a criminal | - |
| (noun) the amount of money needed to purchase something | Synonyms: damage, terms |
| (noun) cost of bribing someone | - |
| (verb) ascertain or learn the price of | - |
| (verb) determine the price of | - |
| priceless | (adjective) having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual worth | Synonyms: invaluable |
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| pricelessness | (noun) the positive quality of being precious and beyond value | Synonyms: invaluableness, preciousness, valuableness |
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| pricey | (adjective) having a high price | Synonyms: costly, dear, high-priced, pricy |
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| pumice | (noun) a light glass formed on the surface of some lavas; used as an abrasive | Synonyms: pumice stone |
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| (verb) rub with pumice, in order to clean or to smoothen | - |
| quadriceps | (noun) a muscle of the thigh that extends the leg | Synonyms: musculus quadriceps femoris, quad, quadriceps femoris |
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| rejoice | (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exuberate, exult, jubilate, triumph |
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| (verb) feel happiness or joy | Synonyms: joy |
| (verb) be ecstatic with joy | Synonyms: triumph, wallow |
| reticence | (noun) the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary | Synonyms: reserve, taciturnity |
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| reticent | (adjective) temperamentally disinclined to talk | Synonyms: untalkative |
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| (adjective) reluctant to draw attention to yourself | Synonyms: retiring, self-effacing |
| (adjective) cool and formal in manner | Synonyms: restrained, unemotional |
| reticently | (adverb) with reticence; in a reticent manner | - |
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| rice | (noun) grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished | - |
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| (noun) annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper | - |
| (verb) sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice | - |
| ricebird | (noun) migratory American songbird | Synonyms: bobolink, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, reedbird |
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| (noun) small finch-like Indonesian weaverbird that frequents rice fields | Synonyms: Java finch, Java sparrow, Padda oryzivora |
| ricegrass | (noun) any grass of the genus Oryzopsis | Synonyms: rice grass |
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| ricer | (noun) a kitchen utensil used for ricing soft foods by extruding them through small holes | - |
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| rubicelle | (noun) a yellow or orange variety of ruby spinel | - |
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| sacrifice | (noun) the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity | Synonyms: ritual killing |
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| (noun) the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc. | Synonyms: forfeit, forfeiture |
| (noun) (baseball) an out that advances the base runners | - |
| (noun) personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective) | - |
| (noun) a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value | - |
| (verb) kill or destroy | - |
| (verb) endure the loss of | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals | - |
| (verb) sell at a loss | - |
| sacrificeable | (adjective) may be deliberately sacrificed to achieve an objective | - |
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| sacrificer | (noun) a religious person who offers up a sacrifice | - |
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| satisfice | (verb) decide on and pursue a course of action satisfying the minimum requirements to achieve a goal | Synonyms: satisfise |
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| semicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or marking the 50th anniversary | Synonyms: semicentennial |
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| (noun) the 50th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: semicentennial |
| semicentennial | (adjective) of or relating to or marking the 50th anniversary | Synonyms: semicentenary |
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| (noun) the 50th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: semicentenary |
| septicemia | (noun) invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection | Synonyms: blood poisoning, septicaemia |
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| septicemic | (adjective) characteristic of septicemia | - |
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| sericeous | (adjective) covered with fine soft hairs or down | Synonyms: downy, puberulent, pubescent |
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| service | (noun) an act of help or assistance; something (such as a tool, software or system) used to render said help or assistance | - |
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| (noun) the act of public worship following prescribed rules | Synonyms: divine service, religious service |
| (noun) (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play | Synonyms: serve |
| (noun) the act of mating by male animals | Synonyms: servicing |
| (noun) the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone | Synonyms: service of process, serving |
| (noun) periodic maintenance on a car or machine | Synonyms: inspection and repair, overhaul |
| (noun) the performance of duties by a waiter or servant | - |
| (noun) employment in or work for another | - |
| (noun) work done by one person or group that benefits another | - |
| (noun) (law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him | - |
| (noun) tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table | Synonyms: table service |
| (noun) a means of serving | Synonyms: avail, help |
| (noun) a force that is a branch of the armed forces | Synonyms: armed service, military service |
| (noun) a company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation | - |
| (verb) make fit for use | - |
| (verb) mate with | Synonyms: serve |
| (verb) be used by; as of a utility | Synonyms: serve |
| serviceability | (noun) the quality of being able to provide good service | Synonyms: serviceableness, usability, usableness, useableness |
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| serviceable | (adjective) ready for service or able to give long service | - |
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| (adjective) intended or able to serve a purpose without elaboration | - |
| (adjective) capable of being put to good use | - |
| serviceableness | (noun) the quality of being able to provide good service | Synonyms: serviceability, usability, usableness, useableness |
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| serviceberry | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: juneberry, saskatoon, shadberry |
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| (noun) any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit | Synonyms: Juneberry, service tree, shadblow, shadbush |
| serviceman | (noun) someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force | Synonyms: man, military man, military personnel |
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| services | (noun) performance of duties or provision of space and equipment helpful to others | - |
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| sesquicentennial | (noun) the 150th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | - |
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| siliceous | (adjective) relating to or containing or resembling silica | Synonyms: silicious |
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| slice | (noun) a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: fade, slicing |
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| (noun) a spatula for spreading paint or ink | - |
| (noun) a serving that has been cut from a larger portion | Synonyms: piece |
| (noun) a thin flat piece cut off of some object | - |
| (noun) a share of something | Synonyms: piece |
| (noun) a wound made by cutting | Synonyms: cut, gash, slash |
| (verb) hit a ball so that it causes a backspin | - |
| (verb) cut into slices | Synonyms: slice up |
| (verb) make a clean cut through | Synonyms: slit |
| (verb) hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction | - |
| sliced | (adjective) (used of meat) cut into pieces for serving | - |
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| (adjective) prepared by cutting | Synonyms: chopped, shredded |
| slicer | (noun) knife especially designed for slicing particular foods, as cheese | - |
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| (noun) a machine for cutting; usually with a revolving blade | - |
| (noun) a golfer whose shots typically curve right (for right-handed golfers) | - |
| sluice | (noun) conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate | Synonyms: penstock, sluiceway |
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| (verb) irrigate with water from a sluice | Synonyms: flush |
| (verb) draw through a sluice | - |
| (verb) transport in or send down a sluice | - |
| (verb) pour as if from a sluice | Synonyms: sluice down |
| sluicegate | (noun) regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice | Synonyms: floodgate, head gate, penstock, sluice valve, water gate |
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| sluiceway | (noun) conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate | Synonyms: penstock, sluice |
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| solstice | (noun) either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator | - |
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| spice | (noun) the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored | Synonyms: spicery, spiciness |
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| (noun) any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food | - |
| (noun) aromatic substances of vegetable origin used as a preservative | - |
| (verb) make more interesting or flavorful | Synonyms: spice up |
| (verb) add herbs or spices to | Synonyms: spice up, zest |
| spiceberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India | Synonyms: Ardisia crenata, coralberry |
| spicebush | (noun) deciduous shrub of the eastern United States having highly aromatic leaves and bark and yellow flowers followed by scarlet or yellow berries | Synonyms: American spicebush, Benjamin bush, Benzoin odoriferum, Lindera benzoin, spice bush |
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| (noun) straggling aromatic shrub of southwestern United States having fragrant brown flowers | Synonyms: California allspice, Calycanthus occidentalis |
| spicemill | (noun) a mill for grinding spices | - |
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| spicery | (noun) the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored | Synonyms: spice, spiciness |
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| splice | (noun) joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together | Synonyms: lap joint |
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| (noun) a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together | Synonyms: splicing |
| (verb) join by interweaving strands | - |
| (verb) join the ends of | - |
| (verb) join together so as to form new genetic combinations | - |
| (verb) perform a marriage ceremony | Synonyms: marry, tie, wed |
| splicer | (noun) a mechanical device for joining two pieces of paper or film or magnetic tape | - |
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| (noun) a worker who splices ropes together by interweaving strands | - |
| (noun) a woodworker who joins pieces of wood with a splice | - |
| statice | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of white or mauve flowers | Synonyms: marsh rosemary, sea lavender |
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| suffice | (verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: answer, do, serve |
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| surplice | (noun) a loose-fitting white ecclesiastical vestment with wide sleeves | - |
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| surpliced | (adjective) wearing a surplice | - |
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| thrice | (adverb) three times | - |
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