| cotillion | (noun) a lively dance originating in France in the 18th century | Synonyms: cotilion |
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| (noun) a ball at which young ladies are presented to society | Synonyms: cotilion |
| councillor | (noun) a member of a council | Synonyms: council member |
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| councillorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councilorship |
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| coville | (noun) desert shrub of southwestern United States and New Mexico having persistent resinous aromatic foliage and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: creosote bush, hediondilla, Larrea tridentata |
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| cranesbill | (noun) any of numerous geraniums of the genus Geranium | Synonyms: crane's bill |
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| crossbill | (noun) finch with a bill whose tips cross when closed | Synonyms: Loxia curvirostra |
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| cyrilla | (noun) shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage | Synonyms: Cyrilla racemiflora, leatherwood, white titi |
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| defibrillate | (verb) stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks | - |
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| defibrillation | (noun) treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator) | - |
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| defibrillator | (noun) an electronic device that administers an electric shock of preset voltage to the heart through the chest wall in an attempt to restore the normal rhythm of the heart during ventricular fibrillation | - |
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| deshabille | (noun) the state of being carelessly or partially dressed | Synonyms: dishabille |
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| dicloxacillin | (noun) antibacterial (trade name Dynapen) used to treat staphylococcal infections that are resistant to penicillin | Synonyms: Dynapen |
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| dill | (noun) aromatic threadlike foliage of the dill plant used as seasoning | Synonyms: dill weed |
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| (noun) aromatic Old World herb having aromatic threadlike foliage and seeds used as seasoning | Synonyms: Anethum graveolens |
| dillenia | (noun) any of several evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Dillenia grown for their foliage and nodding flowers resembling magnolias which are followed by fruit that is used in curries and jellies and preserves | - |
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| dillydallier | (noun) someone who wastes time | Synonyms: dallier, dilly-dallier, lounger, mope |
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| dillydally | (verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, shillyshally, stall |
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| dishabille | (noun) the state of being carelessly or partially dressed | Synonyms: deshabille |
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| disillusion | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disenchantment, disillusionment |
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| (verb) free from enchantment | Synonyms: disenchant |
| disillusioned | (adjective) freed from illusion | - |
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| disillusioning | (adjective) freeing from illusion or false belief | Synonyms: disenchanting |
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| disillusionment | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disenchantment, disillusion |
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| distill | (verb) give off (a liquid) | Synonyms: distil |
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| (verb) undergo the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil |
| (verb) extract by the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, extract |
| (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, make pure, purify, sublimate |
| (verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: condense, distil |
| distillate | (noun) a purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distilling | Synonyms: distillation |
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| distillation | (noun) the process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors | Synonyms: distillment |
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| (noun) a purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distilling | Synonyms: distillate |
| distiller | (noun) someone who distills alcoholic liquors | - |
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| distillery | (noun) a plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation | Synonyms: still |
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| distillment | (noun) the process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors | Synonyms: distillation |
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| doorsill | (noun) the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway | Synonyms: doorstep, threshold |
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| downhill | (adjective) sloping down rather steeply | Synonyms: declivitous, downward-sloping |
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| (noun) a ski race down a trail | - |
| (noun) the downward slope of a hill | - |
| (adverb) toward the bottom of a hill | - |
| (adverb) toward a lower or inferior state | - |
| drill | (noun) systematic training by multiple repetitions | Synonyms: exercise, practice, practice session, recitation |
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| (noun) (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms | - |
| (noun) similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored | Synonyms: Mandrillus leucophaeus |
| (noun) a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows) | - |
| (verb) learn by repetition | Synonyms: exercise, practice, practise |
| (verb) teach by repetition | - |
| (verb) train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons | - |
| (verb) undergo military training or do military exercises | - |
| (verb) make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool | Synonyms: bore |
| drilled | (adjective) trained in a skill by repetitious practice | - |
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| drilling | (noun) the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum | Synonyms: boring, oil production |
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| (noun) the act of drilling | Synonyms: boring |
| duckbill | (adjective) having a beak resembling that of a duck | Synonyms: duck-billed |
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| (noun) small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae | Synonyms: duck-billed platypus, duckbilled platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, platypus |
| (noun) primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout | Synonyms: paddlefish, Polyodon spathula |
| dunghill | (noun) a heap of dung or refuse | Synonyms: midden, muckheap, muckhill |
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| (noun) a foul or degraded condition | - |
| escadrille | (noun) an air force squadron typically containing six airplanes (as in France during World War I) | - |
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| (noun) a small squadron | - |
| espadrille | (noun) a sandal with a sole made of rope or rubber and a cloth upper part | - |
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| evilly | (adverb) in a wicked evil manner | Synonyms: wickedly |
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| faille | (noun) a ribbed woven fabric of silk or rayon or cotton | - |
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| fibrillate | (verb) make fine, irregular, rapid twitching movements | - |
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| fibrillation | (noun) act or process of forming fibrils | - |
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| (noun) muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination | - |
| fibrillose | (adjective) covered with fibrils more or less evenly disposed | - |
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| fill | (noun) a quantity sufficient to satisfy | - |
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| (noun) any material that fills a space or container | Synonyms: filling |
| (verb) become full | Synonyms: fill up |
| (verb) make full, also in a metaphorical sense | Synonyms: fill up, make full |
| (verb) plug with a substance | - |
| (verb) fill to satisfaction | Synonyms: replete, sate, satiate |
| (verb) eat until one is sated | Synonyms: fill up |
| (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fit, fulfil, fulfill, meet, satisfy |
| (verb) assume, as of positions or roles | Synonyms: occupy, take |
| (verb) appoint someone to (a position or a job) | - |
| (verb) occupy the whole of | Synonyms: occupy |
| fillagree | (noun) delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire) | Synonyms: filagree, filigree |
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| fille | (noun) a young female | Synonyms: girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman |
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| filled | (adjective) of purchase orders that have been filled | - |
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| (adjective) (of time) taken up | - |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `with' or used as a combining form) generously supplied with | - |
| filler | (noun) the tobacco used to form the core of a cigar | - |
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| (noun) anything added to fill out a whole | Synonyms: makeweight |
| (noun) copy to fill space between more important articles in the layout of a magazine or newspaper | - |
| (noun) 100 filler equal 1 forint in Hungary | - |
| (noun) used for filling cracks or holes in a surface | - |
| fillet | (noun) a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband | Synonyms: taenia, tenia |
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| (noun) fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members | Synonyms: stopping |
| (noun) lace having a square mesh | Synonyms: filet |
| (noun) a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus | Synonyms: lemniscus |
| (noun) a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef | Synonyms: filet |
| (noun) a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish | Synonyms: filet, fish filet, fish fillet |
| (verb) cut into filets | Synonyms: filet |
| (verb) decorate with a lace of geometric designs | Synonyms: filet |
| filling | (noun) the act of filling something | - |
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| (noun) the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving | Synonyms: pick, weft, woof |
| (noun) (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth | - |
| (noun) a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc. | - |
| (noun) flow into something (as a container) | - |
| (noun) any material that fills a space or container | Synonyms: fill |
| fillip | (noun) anything that tends to arouse | Synonyms: bonus |
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| filly | (noun) a young female horse under the age of four | - |
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| flotilla | (noun) a fleet of small craft | - |
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| (noun) a United States Navy fleet consisting of two or more squadrons of small warships | - |
| foothill | (noun) a relatively low hill on the lower slope of a mountain | - |
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| fothergilla | (noun) any of several deciduous low-growing shrubs of the genus Fothergilla having showy brushlike spikes of white flowers in spring and fiery red and orange autumn color; grows from Alabama to the Allegheny Mountains | Synonyms: witch alder |
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| freewill | (adjective) done of your own accord | - |
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| frijolillo | (noun) shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans | Synonyms: coral bean, frijolito, mescal bean, Sophora secundiflora |
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| frill | (noun) a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim | Synonyms: flounce, furbelow, ruffle |
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| (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
| (noun) an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal | Synonyms: ruff |
| (noun) (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs | - |
| frilled | (adjective) having decorative ruffles or frills | Synonyms: frilly, ruffled |
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| frilly | (adjective) having decorative ruffles or frills | Synonyms: frilled, ruffled |
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| fritillary | (noun) butterfly with brownish wings marked with black and silver | - |
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| (noun) any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria having nodding variously colored flowers | Synonyms: checkered lily |
| fulfill | (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fill, fit, fulfil, meet, satisfy |
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| (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: accomplish, action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil |
| (verb) meet the requirements or expectations of | Synonyms: fulfil, live up to, satisfy |
| fulfilled | (adjective) completed to perfection | - |
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| fulfillment | (noun) the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc) | Synonyms: fulfilment |
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| (noun) a feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires | Synonyms: fulfilment |
| fusillade | (noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: burst, salvo, volley |
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| (verb) attack with fusillade | - |
| gaillardia | (noun) any plant of western America of the genus Gaillardia having hairy leaves and long-stalked flowers in hot vibrant colors from golden yellow and copper to rich burgundy | - |
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| gazillion | (noun) a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) | Synonyms: bazillion, billion, jillion, million, trillion, zillion |
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| gerbille | (noun) small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping | Synonyms: gerbil |
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| ghillie | (noun) a shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep | Synonyms: gillie |
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| gill | (noun) respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water | Synonyms: branchia |
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| (noun) any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus | Synonyms: lamella |
| (noun) a United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces | - |
| (noun) a British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters | - |
| gilled | (adjective) provided with gills | Synonyms: branchiate |
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| gillie | (noun) a shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep | Synonyms: ghillie |
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| (noun) a young male attendant on a Scottish Highlander chief | - |
| gillyflower | (noun) Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors | Synonyms: carnation, clove pink, Dianthus caryophyllus |
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| (noun) any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers | Synonyms: stock |
| ginmill | (noun) a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter | Synonyms: bar, barroom, saloon, taproom |
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| goodwill | (noun) a disposition to kindness and compassion | Synonyms: good will, grace |
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| (noun) the friendly hope that something will succeed | Synonyms: good will |
| (noun) (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets) | Synonyms: good will |
| gorilla | (noun) largest anthropoid ape; terrestrial and vegetarian; of forests of central west Africa | Synonyms: Gorilla gorilla |
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| granadilla | (noun) the egg-shaped edible fruit of tropical American vines related to passionflowers | - |
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| (noun) tropical American passionflower yielding the large granadilla fruit | Synonyms: giant granadilla, Passiflora quadrangularis |
| (noun) Brazilian passionflower cultivated for its deep purple fruit | Synonyms: Passiflora edulis, purple granadillo |
| (noun) considered best for fruit | Synonyms: Passiflora ligularis, sweet granadilla |
| granadillo | (noun) West Indian tree yielding a fine grade of green ebony | Synonyms: Brya ebenus, granadilla tree |
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| grevillea | (noun) any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea | - |
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| grill | (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grille, grillwork |
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| (noun) a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill | Synonyms: grillroom |
| (verb) cook over or under a grill | - |
| (verb) examine thoroughly | - |
| grille | (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grill, grillwork |
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| (noun) grating that admits cooling air to car's radiator | Synonyms: radiator grille |
| (noun) small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted | Synonyms: lattice, wicket |
| grilled | (adjective) cooked over an outdoor grill | Synonyms: barbecued |
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| (adjective) cooked by radiant heat (as over a grill) | Synonyms: broiled |
| grilling | (noun) cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) | Synonyms: broil, broiling |
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| grillroom | (noun) a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill | Synonyms: grill |
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| grillwork | (noun) mesh netting made of wires | Synonyms: wirework |
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| (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grill, grille |
| grisaille | (noun) chiaroscuro painting or stained glass etc., in shades of grey imitating the effect of relief | - |
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| gristmill | (noun) a mill for grinding grain (especially the customer's own grain) | - |
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| guerilla | (noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerrilla, insurgent, irregular |
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| guerrilla | (noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerilla, insurgent, irregular |
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| guillemot | (noun) small black or brown speckled auks of northern seas | - |
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| guilloche | (noun) an architectural decoration formed by two intersecting wavy bands | - |
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| guillotine | (noun) instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people | - |
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| (noun) closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill | Synonyms: closure by compartment |
| (verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine | - |
| handbill | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, throwaway |
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| hawkbill | (noun) pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell | Synonyms: Eretmochelys imbricata, hawksbill, hawksbill turtle, tortoiseshell turtle |
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| hawksbill | (noun) pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell | Synonyms: Eretmochelys imbricata, hawkbill, hawksbill turtle, tortoiseshell turtle |
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| hediondilla | (noun) desert shrub of southwestern United States and New Mexico having persistent resinous aromatic foliage and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: coville, creosote bush, Larrea tridentata |
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| hill | (noun) (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands | Synonyms: mound, pitcher's mound |
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| (noun) structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones | Synonyms: mound |
| (noun) a local and well-defined elevation of the land | - |
| (verb) form into a hill | - |
| hillbilly | (noun) a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person | Synonyms: bushwhacker |
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| hilliness | (noun) the quality of being hilly | - |
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| hillock | (noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hammock, hummock, knoll, mound |
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| hillside | (noun) the side or slope of a hill | - |
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| hilltop | (noun) the peak of a hill | Synonyms: brow |
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