abacinate | (verb) blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes | - |
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abactinal | (adjective) (of radiate animals) located on the surface or end opposite to that on which the mouth is situated | - |
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abdominal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the abdomen | - |
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(noun) the muscles of the abdomen | Synonyms: ab, abdominal muscle |
abominable | (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: atrocious, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable |
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(adjective) unequivocally detestable | Synonyms: detestable, execrable, odious |
abominably | (adverb) in a terrible manner | Synonyms: abysmally, atrociously, awfully, rottenly, terribly |
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(adverb) in an offensive and hateful manner | Synonyms: detestably, odiously, repulsively |
abominate | (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abhor, execrate, loathe |
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abomination | (noun) an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence | - |
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(noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abhorrence, detestation, execration, loathing, odium |
(noun) a person who is loathsome or disgusting | - |
abominator | (noun) one who hates or loathes | Synonyms: loather |
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aboriginal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning | Synonyms: native |
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(adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: primaeval, primal, primeval, primordial |
(noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aborigine, indigen, indigene, native |
acinar | (adjective) pertaining to the individual parts making up an aggregate fruit like a blackberry | - |
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(adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinic, acinose, acinous |
actinal | (adjective) (of radiate organisms) located on the surface or end on which the mouth is situated | - |
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acuminate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) narrowing to a slender point | - |
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(verb) make sharp or acute; taper; make (something) come to a point | - |
affinal | (adjective) (anthropology) related by marriage | Synonyms: affine |
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agglutinate | (adjective) united as if by glue | Synonyms: agglutinative |
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(verb) clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc. | - |
(verb) string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language) | - |
agglutination | (noun) the building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in the process of combining | - |
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(noun) a clumping of bacteria or red cells when held together by antibodies (agglutinins) | - |
(noun) the coalescing of small particles that are suspended in solution; these larger masses are then (usually) precipitated | Synonyms: agglutinating activity |
agglutinative | (adjective) united as if by glue | Synonyms: agglutinate |
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(adjective) forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning | Synonyms: polysynthetic |
albinal | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affected by albinism | Synonyms: albinic, albinistic, albinotic |
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altitudinal | (adjective) pertaining to altitude | - |
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alumina | (noun) any of various forms of aluminum oxide occurring naturally as corundum | Synonyms: aluminium oxide, aluminum oxide |
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aluminate | (noun) a compound of alumina and a metallic oxide | - |
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anaclinal | (adjective) of valleys and rivers; progressing in a direction opposite to the dip in surrounding rock strata | - |
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angina | (noun) any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain | - |
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(noun) a heart condition marked by paroxysms of chest pain due to reduced oxygen to the heart | Synonyms: angina pectoris |
anginal | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginose, anginous |
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anticlinal | (adjective) sloping downward away from a common crest | - |
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aptitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to aptitudes | - |
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arundinaceous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling reedlike plants of the genus Arundinaria | - |
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ascertainable | (adjective) capable of being ascertained or found out | Synonyms: discoverable |
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asparaginase | (noun) antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia | Synonyms: Elspar |
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assassinate | (verb) destroy or damage seriously, as of someone's reputation | - |
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(verb) murder; especially of socially prominent persons | - |
assassinated | (adjective) murdered by surprise attack for political reasons | - |
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assassination | (noun) murder of a public figure by surprise attack | - |
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(noun) an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation | Synonyms: blackwash, character assassination |
assassinator | (noun) a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed | Synonyms: assassin, bravo |
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attainability | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: achievability, attainableness |
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attainable | (adjective) capable of being attained or accomplished | Synonyms: come-at-able |
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attainableness | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: achievability, attainability |
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attitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to attitudes | - |
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badinage | (noun) frivolous banter | - |
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ballerina | (noun) a female ballet dancer | Synonyms: danseuse |
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basinal | (adjective) of or relating to a basin | - |
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bastinado | (noun) a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels | Synonyms: falanga |
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(noun) a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet | - |
(verb) beat somebody on the soles of the feet | - |
bigeminal | (adjective) occurring in pairs | - |
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binary | (adjective) of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base | - |
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(adjective) consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms) | - |
(noun) a pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system | Synonyms: binary program |
(noun) a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation | Synonyms: binary star, double star |
binate | (adjective) growing in two parts or in pairs | - |
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binaural | (adjective) relating to or having or hearing with two ears | Synonyms: biaural |
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binaurally | (adverb) in a binaural manner | Synonyms: in both ears, to both ears |
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binominal | (adjective) having or characterized by two names, especially those of genus and species in taxonomies | Synonyms: binomial |
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bombinate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombilate, buzz |
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bombination | (noun) sound of rapid vibration | Synonyms: bombilation, buzz |
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botulinal | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by the botulinus | - |
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brominate | (verb) treat with bromine | Synonyms: bromate |
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(verb) react with bromine | Synonyms: bromate |
cacuminal | (adjective) pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate | Synonyms: retroflex |
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calcination | (noun) the conversion of metals into their oxides as a result of heating to a high temperature | - |
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calycinal | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a calyx | Synonyms: calyceal, calycine |
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cardinal | (adjective) being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order | - |
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(adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: central, fundamental, key, primal |
(noun) crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male | Synonyms: cardinal grosbeak, Cardinalis cardinalis, redbird, Richmondena Cardinalis |
(noun) a variable color averaging a vivid red | Synonyms: carmine |
(noun) (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes | - |
(noun) the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order | Synonyms: cardinal number |
cardinalate | (noun) the office of cardinal | Synonyms: cardinalship |
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(noun) (Roman Catholic Church) the body of all cardinals of the church; elects and advises the pope | Synonyms: College of Cardinals, Sacred College, Sacred College of Cardinals |
cardinalfish | (noun) small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters | - |
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cardinality | (noun) (mathematics) the number of elements in a set or group (considered as a property of that grouping) | - |
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cardinalship | (noun) the office of cardinal | Synonyms: cardinalate |
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carina | (noun) any of various keel-shaped structures or ridges such as that on the breastbone of a bird or that formed by the fused petals of a pea blossom | - |
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carinal | (adjective) relating to or resembling a carina | - |
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carinate | (adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship | Synonyms: carinated, keeled, ridged |
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(noun) birds having keeled breastbones for attachment of flight muscles | Synonyms: carinate bird, flying bird |
carinated | (adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship | Synonyms: carinate, keeled, ridged |
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carminative | (adjective) relieving gas in the alimentary tract (colic or flatulence or griping) | Synonyms: flatus-relieving |
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(noun) medication that prevents the formation of gas in the alimentary tract or eases its passing | - |
casuarina | (noun) any of various trees and shrubs of the genus Casuarina having jointed stems and whorls of scalelike leaves; some yield heavy hardwood | - |
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cataclinal | (adjective) of valleys and rivers; running in the direction of the dip in surrounding rock strata | - |
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catkinate | (adjective) resembling a catkin | - |
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cerebrospinal | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and spinal cord | - |
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china | (noun) high quality porcelain originally made only in China | - |
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(noun) dishware made of high quality porcelain | Synonyms: chinaware |
chinaberry | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azedarach, azederach, China tree, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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(noun) evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans | Synonyms: China tree, false dogwood, jaboncillo, Sapindus saponaria |
chinaware | (noun) dishware made of high quality porcelain | Synonyms: china |
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chlorinate | (verb) disinfect with chlorine | - |
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(verb) treat or combine with chlorine | - |
chlorination | (noun) disinfection of water by the addition of small amounts of chlorine or a chlorine compound | - |
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(noun) the addition or substitution of chlorine in organic compounds | - |
chloroplatinate | (noun) any salt of chloroplatinic acid. | - |
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circinate | (adjective) shaped like a ring | Synonyms: annular, annulate, annulated, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped, ringed |
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coinage | (noun) the act of inventing a word or phrase | Synonyms: neologism, neology |
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(noun) a newly invented word or phrase | Synonyms: neologism, neology |
(noun) coins collectively | Synonyms: metal money, mintage, specie |
combinable | (adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinational, combinatory |
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combination | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combining, compounding |
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(noun) the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order | - |
(noun) a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities | - |
(noun) a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose | - |
(noun) a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock | - |
(noun) an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes) | - |
(noun) a coordinated sequence of chess moves | - |
combinational | (adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinable, combinatory |
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combinative | (adjective) marked by or relating to or resulting from combination | Synonyms: combinatory |
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(adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinatorial, combinatory |
combinatorial | (adjective) relating to the combination and arrangement of elements in sets | - |
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(adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatory |
combinatory | (adjective) marked by or relating to or resulting from combination | Synonyms: combinative |
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(adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatorial |
(adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinable, combinational |
commelina | (noun) any plant of the genus Commelina | - |
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comminate | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, execrate |
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commination | (noun) a threat of divine punishment or vengeance | - |
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(noun) prayers proclaiming God's anger against sinners; read in the Church of England on Ash Wednesday | - |
comminatory | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: denunciative, denunciatory |
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complainant | (noun) a person who brings an action in a court of law | Synonyms: plaintiff |
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concertina | (noun) free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds | - |
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(noun) coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle | - |
(verb) collapse like a concertina | - |
concubinage | (noun) cohabitation without being legally married | - |
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conglutinate | (verb) stick together | - |
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(verb) cause to adhere | Synonyms: coapt |
conglutination | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion |
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(noun) healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones | Synonyms: union |
consuetudinal | (noun) a manual describing the customs of a particular group (especially the ceremonial practices of a monastic order) | Synonyms: consuetudinary |
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consuetudinary | (noun) a manual describing the customs of a particular group (especially the ceremonial practices of a monastic order) | Synonyms: consuetudinal |
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contaminant | (noun) a substance that contaminates | Synonyms: contamination |
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contaminate | (verb) make impure | Synonyms: foul, pollute |
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(verb) make radioactive by adding radioactive material | - |
contaminated | (adjective) corrupted by contact or association | - |
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(adjective) rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution | Synonyms: polluted |
contaminating | (adjective) spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination | Synonyms: dirty |
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(adjective) that infects or taints | Synonyms: corrupting |
contamination | (noun) the act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors | Synonyms: pollution |
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(noun) the state of being contaminated | Synonyms: taint |
(noun) a substance that contaminates | Synonyms: contaminant |
contaminative | (adjective) making impure by contact or mixing | - |
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coordinate | (adjective) of equal importance, rank, or degree | - |
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(noun) a number that identifies a position relative to an axis | Synonyms: co-ordinate |
(verb) bring order and organization to | Synonyms: organise, organize |
(verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: align, ordinate |
(verb) bring into common action, movement, or condition | - |
(verb) be co-ordinated | - |
coordinated | (adjective) being dexterous in the use of more than one set of muscle movements | Synonyms: co-ordinated |
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(adjective) operating as a unit | Synonyms: co-ordinated, interconnected, unified |
(adjective) intentionally matched | Synonyms: co-ordinated, matching |