abortifacient | (adjective) causing abortion | - |
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(noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion | Synonyms: aborticide, abortion-inducing drug |
acetify | (verb) turn acidic | Synonyms: acidify |
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(verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acidify, acidulate, sour |
acidification | (noun) the process of becoming acid or being converted into an acid | - |
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acidify | (verb) turn acidic | Synonyms: acetify |
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(verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidulate, sour |
acneiform | (adjective) resembling acne | - |
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adrift | (adjective) afloat on the surface of a body of water | - |
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(adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: afloat, aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected |
(adverb) off course, wandering aimlessly | - |
(adverb) floating freely; not anchored | - |
aeriferous | (adjective) conveying air; as the bronchial tubes | - |
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aeriform | (adjective) resembling air or having the form of air | Synonyms: airlike |
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(adjective) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air | Synonyms: aerial, aery, airy, ethereal |
aerify | (verb) turn into gas | Synonyms: gasify, vaporise, vaporize |
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afterlife | (noun) life after death | Synonyms: hereafter |
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airlift | (noun) transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable) | Synonyms: lift |
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(verb) fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means | Synonyms: lift |
alewife | (noun) shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus | Synonyms: Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus |
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(noun) flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams | - |
aliform | (adjective) having or resembling wings | Synonyms: alar, alary, wing-shaped |
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alkalify | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalise, alkalize, basify |
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aluminiferous | (adjective) containing alum or aluminum | - |
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amentiferous | (adjective) (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins | Synonyms: amentaceous |
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ammonification | (noun) impregnation with ammonia or a compound of ammonia | - |
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ammonify | (verb) treat with ammonia; cause to undergo ammonification | - |
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amplification | (noun) (electronics) the act of increasing voltage or power or current | - |
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(noun) addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail | Synonyms: elaboration |
(noun) the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input | Synonyms: gain |
amplifier | (noun) electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it | - |
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amplify | (verb) increase in size, volume or significance | Synonyms: magnify |
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(verb) increase the volume of | - |
(verb) exaggerate or make bigger | Synonyms: blow up, expand, inflate |
(verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
amygdaliform | (adjective) shaped like an almond | Synonyms: almond-shaped, amygdaloid, amygdaloidal |
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antifeminism | (noun) activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women | Synonyms: chauvinism, male chauvinism |
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antifeminist | (noun) someone who does not believe in the social or economic or political equality of men and women | - |
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antiferromagnet | (noun) any material that has antiferromagnetic properties. | - |
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antiferromagnetic | (adjective) relating to antiferromagnetism | - |
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antiferromagnetism | (noun) magnetic field creates parallel but opposing spins; varies with temperature | - |
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antifertility | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: contraceptive, prophylactic |
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antifertilizin | (noun) An immunologically specific substance produced by animal sperm to implement attraction by the egg before fertilization. | - |
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antiflatulent | (noun) any agent that reduces intestinal gas | - |
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antifreeze | (noun) a liquid added to the water in a cooling system to lower its freezing point | - |
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antifungal | (adjective) capable of destroying fungi | Synonyms: fungicidal |
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(noun) any agent that destroys or prevents the growth of fungi | Synonyms: antifungal agent, antimycotic, antimycotic agent, fungicide |
aperitif | (noun) alcoholic beverage taken before a meal as an appetizer | - |
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apoplectiform | (adjective) resembling apoplexy | Synonyms: apoplectoid |
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aquifer | (noun) underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc | - |
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aquiferous | (adjective) of or relating to an aquifer | - |
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arboriform | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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arciform | (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arced, arched, arching, arcuate, bowed |
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argentiferous | (adjective) containing or yielding silver | - |
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artifact | (noun) a man-made object taken as a whole | Synonyms: artefact |
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artifactual | (adjective) of or relating to artifacts | Synonyms: artefactual |
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artifice | (noun) a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture) | Synonyms: ruse |
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artificer | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artisan, craftsman, journeyman |
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(noun) someone who is the first to think of or make something | Synonyms: discoverer, inventor |
(noun) an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc. | Synonyms: armorer, armourer |
artificial | (adjective) contrived by art rather than nature | Synonyms: unreal |
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(adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: contrived, hokey, stilted |
(adjective) not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes | - |
artificialism | (noun) Czech surrealism founded in 1928 by Jindrich Styrsky and Toyen (Marie Cerminova). | - |
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artificiality | (noun) the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally | - |
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artificially | (adverb) not according to nature; not by natural means | Synonyms: by artificial means, unnaturally |
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auriferous | (adjective) containing gold | Synonyms: gold-bearing |
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auriform | (adjective) having a shape resembling an ear | Synonyms: ear-like, ear-shaped |
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aurify | (verb) turn golden | - |
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(verb) transform into gold | - |
avifauna | (noun) the birds of a particular region or period | - |
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avifaunal | (adjective) of or relating to birds of a particular region or period | Synonyms: avifaunistic |
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avifaunistic | (adjective) of or relating to birds of a particular region or period | Synonyms: avifaunal |
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bacciferous | (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: baccate, berried |
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bacilliform | (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacillary, baculiform, rod-shaped |
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baculiform | (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacillary, bacilliform, rod-shaped |
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bailiff | (noun) an officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc. | - |
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bailiffship | (noun) the office of bailiff | - |
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basifixed | (adjective) attached by its base (as certain anthers to their filaments or stalks) | - |
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basify | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalify, alkalise, alkalize |
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beatific | (adjective) marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, sainted, saintlike, saintly |
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(adjective) experiencing or bestowing celestial joy | - |
beatification | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an act of the Pope who declares that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration; a first step toward canonization | - |
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(noun) the action of rendering supremely blessed and extremely happy | - |
(noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatitude, blessedness |
beatified | (adjective) Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration | Synonyms: blessed |
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beatify | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood | - |
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(verb) make blessedly happy | - |
(verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: exalt, exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
beautification | (noun) the act of making something more beautiful | - |
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beautiful | (adjective) delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration | - |
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(adjective) (of weather) highly enjoyable | - |
beautifully | (adverb) in a beautiful manner | Synonyms: attractively |
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beautify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: embellish, fancify, prettify |
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(verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament |
(verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, deck, decorate, embellish, grace |
biface | (adjective) having two faces or fronts | Synonyms: bifacial |
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bifacial | (adjective) having two faces or fronts | Synonyms: biface |
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biff | (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: clout, lick, poke, punch, slug |
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(verb) strike, usually with the fist | Synonyms: pommel, pummel |
bifid | (adjective) divided into two lobes | - |
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bifilar | (adjective) having or using two filaments | - |
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biflagellate | (adjective) having two flagella | - |
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bifocal | (adjective) having two foci | - |
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bifocals | (noun) (plural) eyeglasses having two focal lengths, one for near vision and the other for far vision | - |
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bifoliate | (adjective) having two leaves | - |
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biform | (adjective) having or combining two forms | - |
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bifurcate | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
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(verb) divide into two branches | - |
(verb) split or divide into two | - |
bifurcated | (adjective) divided into or made up of two parts | - |
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bifurcation | (noun) the act of splitting into two branches | - |
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(noun) the place where something divides into two branches | - |
(noun) a bifurcating branch (one or both of them) | - |
bipinnatifid | (adjective) pinnatifid with the segments also pinnatifid | - |
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boniface | (noun) the owner or manager of an inn | Synonyms: host, innkeeper |
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botuliform | (adjective) long with rounded ends | - |
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bountiful | (adjective) producing in abundance | Synonyms: plentiful |
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(adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
bountifully | (adverb) in a bountiful manner | Synonyms: bounteously, plenteously, plentifully |
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bountifulness | (noun) the property of copious abundance | Synonyms: amplitude, bounty |
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bursiform | (adjective) shaped like a pouch | Synonyms: pouch-shaped, pouchlike, saclike |
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caitiff | (adjective) despicably mean and cowardly | - |
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(noun) a cowardly and despicable person | - |
calceiform | (adjective) of slipper-shaped blossoms | Synonyms: calceolate |
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calciferol | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets | Synonyms: cholecalciferol, D, ergocalciferol, viosterol, vitamin D |
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calciferous | (adjective) bearing or producing or containing calcium or calcium carbonate or calcite | - |
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calcific | (adjective) involving or resulting from calcification | - |
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calcification | (noun) a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts) | - |
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(noun) tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts | - |
(noun) an inflexible and unchanging state | - |
calcifugous | (adjective) growing or living in acid soil | - |
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calcify | (verb) turn into lime; become calcified | - |
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(verb) convert into lime | - |
(verb) become impregnated with calcium salts | - |
(verb) become inflexible and unchanging | - |
calif | (noun) the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | Synonyms: caliph, kalif, kaliph, khalif, khalifah |
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californium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding curium with alpha particles | Synonyms: atomic number 98, Cf |
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calorifacient | (adjective) producing heat; usually used of foods | - |
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calorific | (adjective) heat-generating | - |
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