abstainer | (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstinent, nondrinker |
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(noun) someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline | Synonyms: ascetic |
airliner | (noun) a commercial airplane that carries passengers | - |
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anticholinergic | (adjective) inhibiting or blocking the action of acetylcholine at a receptor site | - |
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(noun) a substance that opposes or blocks the action of acetylcholine | Synonyms: anticholinergic drug |
bargainer | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: dealer, monger, trader |
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(noun) negotiator of the terms of a transaction | - |
carabiner | (noun) an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes | Synonyms: karabiner, snap ring |
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cholinergic | (adjective) releasing or activated by acetylcholine or a related compound | - |
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cineraria | (noun) herb of Canary Islands widely cultivated for its blue or purple or red or variegated daisylike flowers | Synonyms: Pericallis cruenta, Senecio cruentus |
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cinerarium | (noun) a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead | Synonyms: columbarium |
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cinerary | (adjective) containing or used for ashes of the cremated dead | - |
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coiner | (noun) a skilled worker who coins or stamps money | Synonyms: minter, moneyer |
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(noun) someone who is a source of new words or new expressions | - |
(noun) a maker of counterfeit coins | - |
complainer | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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container | (noun) any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) | - |
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containerful | (noun) the quantity that a container will hold | - |
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containerise | (verb) package in a container | Synonyms: containerize |
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containerize | (verb) package in a container | Synonyms: containerise |
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containership | (noun) a cargo ship designed to hold containerized cargoes | Synonyms: container ship, container vessel |
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demineralisation | (noun) the removal of minerals and mineral salts from a liquid (especially from water) | Synonyms: demineralization |
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(noun) abnormal loss of mineral salts (especially from bone) | Synonyms: demineralization |
demineralise | (verb) remove the minerals or salts from | Synonyms: demineralize |
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demineralization | (noun) the removal of minerals and mineral salts from a liquid (especially from water) | Synonyms: demineralisation |
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(noun) abnormal loss of mineral salts (especially from bone) | Synonyms: demineralisation |
demineralize | (verb) remove the minerals or salts from | Synonyms: demineralise |
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determiner | (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determinative, determining factor |
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(noun) one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | Synonyms: determinative |
(noun) an argument that is conclusive | Synonyms: clincher, determining factor |
diner | (noun) a passenger car where food is served in transit | Synonyms: buffet car, dining car, dining compartment |
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(noun) a restaurant that resembles a dining car | - |
(noun) a person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant) | - |
dinero | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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diviner | (noun) someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers | - |
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enginery | (noun) machinery consisting of engines collectively | - |
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entertainer | (noun) a person who tries to please or amuse | - |
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examiner | (noun) an investigator who observes carefully | Synonyms: inspector |
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(noun) someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications | Synonyms: quizzer, tester |
eyeliner | (noun) makeup applied to emphasize the shape of the eyes | - |
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fineliner | (noun) A felt-tip pen with a thin tip that produces thin lines. | Synonyms: fineliner pen |
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finer | (adjective) (comparative of `fine') greater in quality or excellence | - |
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finery | (noun) elaborate or showy attire and accessories | - |
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gainer | (noun) a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board | Synonyms: full gainer |
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(noun) a person who gains (gains an advantage or gains profits) | - |
(noun) a person who gains weight | Synonyms: weight gainer |
hardliner | (noun) a conservative who is uncompromising | - |
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headliner | (noun) a performer who receives prominent billing | Synonyms: star |
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incinerate | (verb) cause to undergo combustion | Synonyms: burn |
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(verb) become reduced to ashes | - |
incineration | (noun) the act of burning something completely; reducing it to ashes | - |
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incinerator | (noun) a furnace for incinerating (especially to dispose of refuse) | - |
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ineradicable | (adjective) not able to be destroyed or rooted out | - |
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inerrable | (adjective) not liable to error | Synonyms: inerrant, unerring |
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inerrancy | (noun) (Christianity) exemption from error | - |
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inerrant | (adjective) not liable to error | Synonyms: inerrable, unerring |
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inert | (adjective) slow and apathetic | Synonyms: sluggish, soggy, torpid |
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(adjective) unable to move or resist motion | - |
(adjective) having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive | Synonyms: indifferent, neutral |
inertia | (noun) a disposition to remain inactive or inert | Synonyms: inactiveness, inactivity |
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(noun) (physics) the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force | - |
inertial | (adjective) of or relating to inertia | - |
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inertness | (noun) immobility by virtue of being inert | - |
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itinerant | (adjective) traveling from place to place to work | - |
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(noun) a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment | Synonyms: gipsy, gypsy |
itinerary | (noun) a proposed route of travel | Synonyms: travel plan |
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(noun) a guidebook for travelers | Synonyms: travel guidebook |
(noun) an established line of travel or access | Synonyms: path, route |
itinerate | (verb) travel from place to place, as for work | - |
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itineration | (noun) journeying from place to place preaching or lecturing; a preaching tour or lecturing tour | - |
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jetliner | (noun) a large jet plane that carries passengers | - |
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joiner | (noun) a woodworker whose work involves making things by joining pieces of wood | - |
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(noun) a person who likes to join groups | - |
joinery | (noun) the craft of a joiner | Synonyms: cabinetmaking |
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(noun) fine woodwork done by a joiner | - |
karabiner | (noun) an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes | Synonyms: carabiner, snap ring |
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liner | (noun) (baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter | Synonyms: line drive |
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(noun) a large commercial ship (especially one that carries passengers on a regular schedule) | Synonyms: ocean liner |
(noun) a piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment | Synonyms: lining |
(noun) a protective covering that protects an inside surface | Synonyms: lining |
machinery | (noun) machines or machine systems collectively | - |
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(noun) a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions | - |
maintainer | (noun) someone who upholds or maintains | Synonyms: sustainer, upholder |
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mariner | (noun) a man who serves as a sailor | Synonyms: gob, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, seaman, tar |
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milliner | (noun) someone who makes and sells hats | Synonyms: hatmaker, hatter, modiste |
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millinery | (noun) hats for women; the wares sold by a milliner | Synonyms: woman's hat |
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(noun) shop selling women's hats | Synonyms: hat shop |
miner | (noun) laborer who works in a mine | Synonyms: mineworker |
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mineral | (adjective) relating to minerals | - |
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(adjective) composed of matter other than plant or animal | - |
(noun) solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition | - |
mineralize | (verb) transform (a metal) into an ore | - |
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(verb) convert into a mineral substance | - |
mineralocorticoid | (noun) hormone that is one of the steroids of the adrenal cortex that influences the metabolism of sodium and potassium | - |
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mineralogist | (noun) a scientist trained in mineralogy | - |
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mineralogy | (noun) the branch of geology that studies minerals: their structure and properties and the ways of distinguishing them | - |
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moonshiner | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: bootlegger |
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niner | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one | Synonyms: 9, ennead, IX, Nina from Carolina, nine |
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ordainer | (noun) a cleric who ordains; a cleric who admits someone to holy orders | - |
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recliner | (noun) an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it | Synonyms: lounger, reclining chair |
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refiner | (noun) one whose work is to refine a specific thing | - |
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refinery | (noun) an industrial plant for purifying a crude substance | - |
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restrainer | (noun) a person who directs and restrains | Synonyms: controller |
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(noun) a chemical that is added to a photographic developer in order to retard development and reduce the amount of fog on a film | - |
retainer | (noun) a dental appliance that holds teeth (or a prosthesis) in position after orthodontic treatment | - |
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(noun) a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) | Synonyms: servant |
(noun) a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone | Synonyms: consideration |
ruiner | (noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: destroyer, undoer, uprooter, waster |
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shiner | (noun) any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis | - |
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(noun) important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales | Synonyms: common mackerel, Scomber scombrus |
(noun) something that shines (with emitted or reflected light) | - |
(noun) a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye | Synonyms: black eye, mouse |
stainer | (noun) a worker who stains (wood or fabric) | - |
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strainer | (noun) a filter to retain larger pieces while smaller pieces and liquids pass through | - |
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streamliner | (noun) a streamlined train | - |
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submariner | (noun) a member of the crew of a submarine | - |
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sustainer | (noun) someone who upholds or maintains | Synonyms: maintainer, upholder |
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trainer | (noun) simulator consisting of a machine on the ground that simulates the conditions of flying a plane | Synonyms: flight simulator |
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(noun) one who trains other persons or animals | - |
twiner | (noun) someone who intertwines (e.g. threads) or forms something by twisting or interlacing | - |
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vinery | (noun) a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced | Synonyms: vineyard |
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whiner | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker |
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winery | (noun) an establishment where wine is made | Synonyms: wine maker |
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