| phacoemulsification | (noun) extracapsular surgery for cataracts in which ultrasonic sound breaks the cortex and nucleus of the lens into small fragments that are then vacuumed away through a small tube | - |
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| pontifical | (adjective) denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops | Synonyms: episcopal |
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| (adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolic, apostolical, papal |
| (adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, portentous |
| (noun) the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop) | - |
| pontificate | (noun) the government of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: papacy |
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| (verb) talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner | - |
| (verb) administer a pontifical office | - |
| preachification | (noun) moralization delivered tediously in a preachy manner | - |
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| prolific | (adjective) bearing in abundance especially offspring | Synonyms: fertile |
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| (adjective) intellectually productive | Synonyms: fecund, fertile |
| prolificacy | (noun) the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth | Synonyms: fertility, rankness, richness |
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| pseudoscientific | (adjective) based on theories and methods erroneously regarded as scientific | - |
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| purification | (noun) the act of cleaning by getting rid of impurities | - |
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| (noun) the act of purging of sin or guilt; moral or spiritual cleansing | - |
| (noun) a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites | Synonyms: purgation |
| (noun) the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.) | Synonyms: refinement, refining |
| purificator | (noun) a white linen cloth which is used to wipe the chalice after each communicant partakes. | Synonyms: emunctorium, purificatorium |
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| purificatorium | (noun) a white linen cloth which is used to wipe the chalice after each communicant partakes. | Synonyms: emunctorium, purificator |
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| qualification | (noun) the act of modifying or changing the strength of some idea | - |
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| (noun) an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something | Synonyms: making |
| (noun) a statement that limits or restricts some claim | Synonyms: reservation |
| quantification | (noun) the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something | - |
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| (noun) a limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers `some' or `all' or `no') | - |
| ramification | (noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches | Synonyms: branching, fork, forking |
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| (noun) an arrangement of branching parts | - |
| (noun) a development that complicates a situation | Synonyms: complication |
| (noun) a part of a forked or branching shape | Synonyms: branch, leg |
| ratification | (noun) making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it | Synonyms: confirmation |
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| reclassification | (noun) classifying something again (usually in a new category) | - |
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| rectification | (noun) the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right | Synonyms: correction |
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| (noun) determination of the length of a curve; finding a straight line equal in length to a given curve | - |
| (noun) the conversion of alternating current to direct current | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) the process of refinement or purification of a substance by distillation | - |
| reification | (noun) regarding something abstract as a material thing | Synonyms: hypostatisation, hypostatization |
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| (noun) representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality | Synonyms: depersonalisation, depersonalization |
| reunification | (noun) the act of coming together again | Synonyms: reunion |
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| revivification | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: resurgence, revitalisation, revitalization, revival |
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| rigidification | (noun) the process of becoming stiff or rigid | Synonyms: rigidifying, stiffening |
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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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| sacrificial | (adjective) used in or connected with a sacrifice | - |
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| salvific | (adjective) pertaining to the power of salvation or redemption | - |
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| sanctification | (noun) a religious ceremony in which something is made holy | - |
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| sanguification | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis |
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| saponification | (noun) a chemical reaction in which an ester is heated with an alkali (especially the alkaline hydrolysis of a fat or oil to make soap) | - |
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| scientific | (adjective) conforming with the principles or methods used in science | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the practice of science | - |
| scientifically | (adverb) with respect to science; in a scientific way | - |
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| significance | (noun) the quality of being significant | - |
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| (noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | Synonyms: implication, import |
| (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, meaning, signification |
| significant | (adjective) important in effect or meaning | Synonyms: important |
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| (adjective) too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation | - |
| (adjective) of considerable importance, size, or worth | Synonyms: substantial |
| (adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: meaning, pregnant |
| significantly | (adverb) in an important way or to an important degree | Synonyms: importantly |
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| (adverb) in a significant manner | - |
| (adverb) in a statistically significant way | - |
| signification | (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, meaning, significance |
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| significative | (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, indicatory, revelatory, suggestive |
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| simplification | (noun) elimination of superfluous details | - |
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| (noun) the act of reducing complexity | Synonyms: reduction |
| (noun) an explanation that omits superfluous details and reduces complexity | - |
| sissification | (noun) Sexual act where a male is forced to act effeminately and dress like a woman | - |
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| solidification | (noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: curing, hardening, set, solidifying |
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| somnific | (adjective) sleep inducing | Synonyms: hypnagogic, hypnogogic, somniferous, soporiferous, soporific |
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| soporific | (adjective) sleep inducing | Synonyms: hypnagogic, hypnogogic, somniferous, somnific, soporiferous |
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| (adjective) inducing mental lethargy | Synonyms: narcotic, soporiferous |
| (noun) a drug that induces sleep | Synonyms: hypnotic |
| specific | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique | - |
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| (adjective) being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides | - |
| (adjective) relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic species | - |
| (adjective) stated explicitly or in detail | - |
| (noun) a medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease | - |
| (noun) a fact about some part (as opposed to general) | Synonyms: particular |
| specifically | (adverb) in distinction from others | - |
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| specification | (noun) a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement | Synonyms: stipulation |
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| (noun) a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work | Synonyms: spec |
| (noun) naming explicitly | - |
| (noun) (patent law) a document drawn up by the applicant for a patent of invention that provides an explicit and detailed description of the nature and use of an invention | - |
| specificity | (noun) the quality of being specific rather than general | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being specific to a particular organism | - |
| stratification | (noun) the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata | - |
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| (noun) the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination | - |
| (noun) a layered configuration | - |
| (noun) forming or depositing in layers | - |
| (noun) the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group | Synonyms: social stratification |
| stultification | (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, deadening, impairment |
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| (noun) derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent | Synonyms: befooling |
| sudorific | (adjective) inducing perspiration | Synonyms: diaphoretic |
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| (noun) a medicine that causes or increases sweating | Synonyms: sudatory |
| syllabification | (noun) forming or dividing words into syllables | Synonyms: syllabication |
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| tenebrific | (adjective) dark and gloomy | Synonyms: tenebrious, tenebrous |
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| terrific | (adjective) causing extreme terror | Synonyms: terrifying |
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| (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
| (adjective) very great or intense | - |
| terrifically | (adverb) (used as an intensifier) excellently | Synonyms: marvellously, marvelously, superbly, toppingly, wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously |
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| transmogrification | (noun) the act of changing into a different form or appearance (especially a fantastic or grotesque one) | - |
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| typification | (noun) the act of representing by a type or symbol; the action of typifying | - |
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| (noun) a representational or typifying form or model | Synonyms: exemplification |
| unification | (noun) the act of making or becoming a single unit | Synonyms: conjugation, jointure, union, uniting |
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| (noun) an occurrence that involves the production of a union | Synonyms: fusion, merger |
| (noun) the state of being joined or united or linked | Synonyms: union |
| unsanctification | (noun) unholiness by virtue of being profane | Synonyms: profaneness |
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| unscientific | (adjective) not consistent with the methods or principles of science | - |
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| unscientifically | (adverb) in an unscientific way; not according to the principles of science | - |
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| unspecific | (adjective) not detailed or specific | Synonyms: broad |
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| vaporific | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of vapor | Synonyms: vaporish, vaporous, vapourific, vapourish, vapourous |
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| (adjective) (used of substances) capable of being volatilized | Synonyms: evaporable, vaporizable, vapourific, vapourisable, volatilisable, volatilizable |
| vapourific | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of vapor | Synonyms: vaporific, vaporish, vaporous, vapourish, vapourous |
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| (adjective) (used of substances) capable of being volatilized | Synonyms: evaporable, vaporific, vaporizable, vapourisable, volatilisable, volatilizable |
| verification | (noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: check, confirmation, substantiation |
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| (noun) (law) an affidavit attached to a statement confirming the truth of that statement | - |
| verificatory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verifying |
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| versification | (noun) the art or practice of writing verse | - |
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| (noun) the form or metrical composition of a poem | - |
| (noun) a metrical adaptation of something (e.g., of a prose text) | - |
| vilification | (noun) slanderous defamation | Synonyms: malignment, smear |
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| (noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt | Synonyms: abuse, contumely, insult, revilement |
| vinification | (noun) the process whereby fermentation changes grape juice into wine | - |
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| vitrification | (noun) the process of becoming vitreous | - |
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| (noun) a vitrified substance; the glassy result of being vitrified | - |
| vivification | (noun) the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something | Synonyms: animation, invigoration |
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| (noun) quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous | Synonyms: animation, brio, invigoration, spiritedness |