| amplifier | (noun) electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it | - |
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| applier | (noun) a device for applying a substance | Synonyms: applicator |
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| (noun) a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission | Synonyms: applicant |
| atelier | (noun) a studio especially for an artist or designer | Synonyms: artist's workroom |
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| bandolier | (noun) a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers | Synonyms: bandoleer |
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| barrier | (noun) a structure or object that impedes free movement | - |
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| (noun) any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective | Synonyms: roadblock |
| (noun) anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access | - |
| bier | (noun) a stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burial | - |
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| (noun) a coffin along with its stand | - |
| bombardier | (noun) the member of a bomber crew responsible for using the bombsight and releasing the bombs on the target | - |
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| (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British artillery | - |
| boulevardier | (noun) a visitor of a city boulevard (especially in Paris) | - |
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| boutonniere | (noun) a flower that is worn in a buttonhole | - |
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| brasier | (noun) large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times | Synonyms: brazier |
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| brassiere | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bandeau, bra |
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| brazier | (noun) large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times | Synonyms: brasier |
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| brier | (noun) evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: briar, Erica arborea, tree heath |
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| (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
| (noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | Synonyms: briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier |
| (noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier patch, brierpatch |
| (noun) a thorny stem or twig | - |
| brierpatch | (noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier, brier patch |
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| brierwood | (noun) wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: briarwood, brier-wood |
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| briery | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| brigadier | (noun) a general officer ranking below a major general | Synonyms: brigadier general |
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| bullbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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| bullterrier | (noun) a powerful short-haired terrier originated in England by crossing the bulldog with terriers | Synonyms: bull terrier |
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| bustier | (noun) a close-fitting and strapless top without sleeves that is worn by women either as lingerie or for evening dress | - |
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| carabinier | (noun) a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine | Synonyms: carabineer, carbineer |
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| carrier | (noun) (genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring | - |
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| (noun) a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings | Synonyms: aircraft carrier, attack aircraft carrier, flattop |
| (noun) a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like | - |
| (noun) a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something | - |
| (noun) a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages | Synonyms: common carrier |
| (noun) (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others | Synonyms: immune carrier |
| (noun) a boy who delivers newspapers | Synonyms: newsboy |
| (noun) a man who delivers the mail | Synonyms: letter carrier, mail carrier, mailman, postman |
| (noun) someone whose employment involves carrying something | Synonyms: bearer, toter |
| (noun) a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal | Synonyms: carrier wave |
| (noun) an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction | - |
| cashier | (noun) an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money | Synonyms: bank clerk, teller |
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| (noun) a person responsible for receiving payments for goods and services (as in a shop or restaurant) | - |
| (verb) discharge with dishonor, as in the army | - |
| (verb) discard or do away with | - |
| catbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, bullbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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| cavalier | (adjective) given to haughty disregard of others | Synonyms: high-handed |
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| (noun) a gallant or courtly gentleman | Synonyms: chevalier |
| cavalierly | (adverb) in a proud and domineering manner | Synonyms: disdainfully |
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| chandelier | (noun) branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling | Synonyms: pendant, pendent |
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| chevalier | (noun) a gallant or courtly gentleman | Synonyms: cavalier |
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| chiffonier | (noun) a tall elegant chest of drawers | Synonyms: commode |
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| classifier | (noun) an algorithm that implements classification. | - |
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| (noun) a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs | - |
| (noun) a person who creates classifications | - |
| clavier | (noun) a bank of keys on a musical instrument | Synonyms: fingerboard, piano keyboard |
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| (noun) a stringed instrument that has a keyboard | Synonyms: Klavier |
| clothier | (noun) a merchant who sells men's clothing | Synonyms: haberdasher |
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| collier | (noun) someone who works in a coal mine | Synonyms: coal miner, pitman |
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| colliery | (noun) a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it | Synonyms: pit |
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| complexifier | (noun) someone makes things complex | - |
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| concierge | (noun) a French caretaker of apartments or a hotel; lives on the premises and oversees people entering and leaving and handles mail and acts as janitor or porter | - |
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| copier | (noun) apparatus that makes copies of typed, written or drawn material | Synonyms: duplicator |
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| cordierite | (noun) a blue mineral of magnesium and iron and aluminum and silicon and oxygen; often used as a gemstone | - |
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| costumier | (noun) someone who designs or supplies costumes (as for a play or masquerade) | Synonyms: costume designer, costumer |
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| cottier | (noun) a medieval English villein | Synonyms: cotter |
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| courier | (noun) a person who carries a message | Synonyms: messenger |
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| courtier | (noun) an attendant at the court of a sovereign | - |
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| couturier | (noun) someone who designs clothing | Synonyms: clothes designer, designer, fashion designer |
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| crier | (noun) (formerly) an official who made public announcements | Synonyms: town crier |
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| (noun) a person who weeps | Synonyms: weeper |
| (noun) a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells | - |
| crosier | (noun) a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office | Synonyms: crozier |
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| croupier | (noun) someone who collects and pays bets at a gaming table | - |
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| crozier | (noun) a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office | Synonyms: crosier |
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| cubitiere | (noun) body armor that protects the elbow | - |
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| cuirassier | (noun) a cavalryman equipped with a cuirass | - |
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| currier | (noun) a craftsman who curries leather for use | - |
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| dallier | (noun) someone who wastes time | Synonyms: dilly-dallier, dillydallier, lounger, mope |
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| dehumidifier | (noun) an appliance to extract moisture from the air and make the environment more comfortable | - |
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| denier | (noun) any of various former European coins of different denominations | - |
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| (noun) a unit of measurement for the fineness of silk or nylon or rayon | - |
| (noun) one who denies | - |
| derriere | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| dieresis | (noun) a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate that it does not form a diphthong with an adjacent vowel | Synonyms: diaeresis |
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| dillydallier | (noun) someone who wastes time | Synonyms: dallier, dilly-dallier, lounger, mope |
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| dossier | (noun) a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record) | - |
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| drier | (noun) an appliance that removes moisture | Synonyms: dryer |
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| (noun) a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture) | Synonyms: desiccant, drying agent, siccative |
| earlier | (adjective) (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early | Synonyms: earliest |
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| (adverb) earlier in time; previously | Synonyms: before |
| (adverb) comparatives of `soon' or `early' | Synonyms: sooner |
| (adverb) before now | Synonyms: in the beginning, in the first place, originally, to begin with |
| emulsifier | (noun) a surface-active agent that promotes the formation of an emulsion | - |
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| epauliere | (noun) armor plate that protects the shoulder | - |
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| espalier | (noun) a trellis on which ornamental shrub or fruit tree is trained to grow flat | - |
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| falsifier | (noun) someone who falsifies | - |
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| fancier | (noun) a person having a strong liking for something | Synonyms: enthusiast |
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| farrier | (noun) a person who shoes horses | Synonyms: horseshoer |
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| fierce | (adjective) marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid | Synonyms: tearing, trigger-happy, vehement, violent |
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| (adjective) ruthless in competition | Synonyms: bowelless, cutthroat |
| (adjective) violently agitated and turbulent | Synonyms: boisterous, rough |
| (adjective) marked by extreme and violent energy | Synonyms: ferocious, furious, savage |
| fiercely | (adverb) in a physically fierce manner | Synonyms: ferociously |
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| (adverb) in an emotionally fierce manner | - |
| fierceness | (noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: ferocity, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness |
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| fierily | (adverb) with passionate fervor | Synonyms: fervently, fervidly |
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| fieriness | (noun) the heat or the color of fire | Synonyms: red heat |
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| (noun) a passionate and quick-tempered nature | - |
| fiery | (adjective) like or suggestive of fire | Synonyms: igneous |
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| (adjective) passionate or quick-tempered | Synonyms: flaming |
| (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: ardent, fervent, fervid, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
| financier | (noun) a person skilled in large scale financial transactions | Synonyms: moneyman |
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| (verb) conduct financial operations | - |
| flier | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
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| (noun) someone who travels by air | Synonyms: flyer |
| (noun) someone who operates an aircraft | Synonyms: aeronaut, aviator, flyer |
| forestiera | (noun) any plant of the genus Forestiera | - |
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| frier | (noun) A kitchen appliance for deep frying; its size depends on intended use. | Synonyms: deep fat fryer, deep fryer, fryer, fryolator |
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| (noun) flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying | Synonyms: fryer, pullet |
| frontier | (noun) an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development | - |
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| (noun) a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country | - |
| (noun) an international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary | - |
| frontiersman | (noun) a man who lives on the frontier | Synonyms: backwoodsman, mountain man |
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| frontierswoman | (noun) a woman who lives on the frontier | - |
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| furrier | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing fur garments | Synonyms: cloakmaker |
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| fusilier | (noun) (formerly) a British infantryman armed with a light flintlock musket | - |
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| garnierite | (noun) a green mineral consisting of hydrated nickel magnesium silicate; a source of nickel | - |
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| glacier | (noun) a slowly moving mass of ice | - |
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| glazier | (noun) someone who cuts flat glass to size | Synonyms: glass-cutter, glass cutter, glassworker, glazer |
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| gondolier | (noun) a (Venetian) boatman who propels a gondola | Synonyms: gondoliere |
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| gondoliere | (noun) a (Venetian) boatman who propels a gondola | Synonyms: gondolier |
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| grazier | (noun) a rancher who grazes cattle or sheep for market | - |
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| greenbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, bullbrier, catbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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| grenadier | (noun) deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail | Synonyms: rattail, rattail fish |
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| (noun) an infantryman equipped with grenades | Synonyms: grenade thrower |
| halberdier | (noun) a guard who carries a halberd (as a symbol of his duty) | - |
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| harrier | (noun) hawks that hunt over meadows and marshes and prey on small terrestrial animals | - |
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| (noun) a hound that resembles a foxhound but is smaller; used to hunt rabbits | - |
| (noun) a persistent attacker | Synonyms: harasser |
| haulier | (noun) a haulage contractor | Synonyms: hauler |
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| healthier | (adjective) improved in health or physical condition | Synonyms: fitter |
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| hierarch | (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: archpriest, high priest, prelate, primate |
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| (noun) a person who holds a high position in a hierarchy | - |
| hierarchal | (adjective) classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers | Synonyms: hierarchic, hierarchical |
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| hierarchic | (adjective) classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers | Synonyms: hierarchal, hierarchical |
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| hierarchical | (adjective) classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers | Synonyms: hierarchal, hierarchic |
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| hierarchically | (adverb) in a hierarchical manner | - |
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| hierarchisation | (noun) The act or result of hierarchizing; the establishment of a hierarchy. | Synonyms: hierarchization |
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| hierarchization | (noun) The act or result of hierarchizing; the establishment of a hierarchy. | Synonyms: hierarchisation |
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| hierarchy | (noun) a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system | - |
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| (noun) the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body | Synonyms: pecking order, power structure |