| fruiterer | (noun) a person who sells fruit | - |
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| gadolinite | (noun) a mineral that is a source of rare earths; consists of silicates of iron and beryllium and cerium and yttrium and erbium | Synonyms: ytterbite |
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| gagwriter | (noun) someone who writes comic material for public performers | Synonyms: gagman, gagster |
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| gaiter | (noun) legging consisting of a cloth or leather covering for the leg from the knee to the ankle | - |
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| (noun) a cloth covering (a legging) that covers the instep and ankles | Synonyms: spat |
| (noun) a shoe covering the ankle with elastic gores in the sides | - |
| garnierite | (noun) a green mineral consisting of hydrated nickel magnesium silicate; a source of nickel | - |
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| gelignite | (noun) a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate | Synonyms: gelly |
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| germanite | (noun) a rare reddish-grey mineral consisting of a copper iron germanium sulfide | - |
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| ghostwrite | (verb) write for someone else | Synonyms: ghost |
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| ghostwriter | (noun) a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else | Synonyms: ghost |
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| gibbsite | (noun) white crystalline mineral consisting of aluminum hydroxide; a constituent of bauxite and a source of alumina | - |
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| glauconite | (noun) a green mineral consisting of hydrated silicate of potassium or iron or magnesium or aluminum; found in greensand | - |
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| glycerite | (noun) a medicine made by mixing a substance in glycerin | Synonyms: glycerole |
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| goethite | (noun) a red or yellow or brown mineral; an oxide of iron that is a common constituent of rust | Synonyms: gothite |
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| goiter | (noun) abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from underproduction or overproduction of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet | Synonyms: goitre, struma, thyromegaly |
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| gothite | (noun) a red or yellow or brown mineral; an oxide of iron that is a common constituent of rust | Synonyms: goethite |
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| granite | (noun) something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness) | - |
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| (noun) plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture; generally composed of feldspar and mica and quartz | - |
| granitelike | (adjective) hard as granite | Synonyms: granitic, rocklike, stony |
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| graniteware | (noun) a kind of stone-grey enamelware | - |
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| graphite | (noun) used as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors | Synonyms: black lead, plumbago |
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| greenockite | (noun) ore of cadmium; a rare yellowish mineral consisting of cadmium sulphide in crystalline form | Synonyms: cadmium sulphide |
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| gummite | (noun) a gummy orange mixture of uranium oxides and silicates occurring naturally in the hydration and oxidation of pitchblende | - |
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| gunite | (noun) a mixture of cement and sand and water that is sprayed on a surface under pneumatic pressure | - |
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| habited | (adjective) dressed in a habit | - |
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| haematite | (noun) the principal form of iron ore; consists of ferric oxide in crystalline form; occurs in a red earthy form | Synonyms: hematite |
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| halite | (noun) naturally occurring crystalline sodium chloride | Synonyms: rock salt |
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| handwrite | (verb) write by hand | - |
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| hausmannite | (noun) a mineral consisting of manganese tetroxide; a source of manganese | - |
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| headwaiter | (noun) a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers | Synonyms: captain, maitre d', maitre d'hotel |
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| hectoliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters | Synonyms: hectolitre, hl |
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| hematite | (noun) the principal form of iron ore; consists of ferric oxide in crystalline form; occurs in a red earthy form | Synonyms: haematite |
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| hemimorphite | (noun) a white mineral; a common ore of zinc | Synonyms: calamine |
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| hemiparasite | (noun) a parasitic plant that contains some chlorophyll and therefore is capable of photosynthesis | Synonyms: semiparasite |
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| hermaphrodite | (adjective) of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs | Synonyms: hermaphroditic |
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| (noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made | Synonyms: androgyne, epicene, epicene person, gynandromorph, intersex |
| hessonite | (noun) a garnet ranging in color from yellow to brown | Synonyms: cinnamon stone, essonite |
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| heulandite | (noun) a group of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous aluminum silicate of sodium and calcium | - |
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| hiddenite | (noun) a green transparent form of the mineral spodumene used as a gemstone | - |
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| hydrazoite | (noun) a salt of hydrazoic acid | - |
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| hypochlorite | (noun) any salt or ester of hypochlorous acid | - |
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| hypocrite | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, phoney, phony, pretender |
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| ignite | (verb) start or maintain a fire in | Synonyms: fire, light |
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| (verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, heat, inflame, stir up, wake |
| (verb) cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat | Synonyms: light |
| (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, combust, conflagrate, erupt, take fire |
| ignited | (adjective) set afire | Synonyms: enkindled, kindled |
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| igniter | (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: ignitor, light, lighter |
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| (noun) a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire | Synonyms: ignitor, lighter |
| illiteracy | (noun) an inability to read | Synonyms: analphabetism |
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| (noun) ignorance resulting from not reading | - |
| illiterate | (adjective) not able to read or write | - |
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| (adjective) lacking culture, especially in language and literature | - |
| (adjective) uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field | Synonyms: ignorant |
| (noun) a person unable to read | Synonyms: illiterate person, nonreader |
| ilmenite | (noun) a weakly magnetic black mineral found in metamorphic and plutonic rocks; an iron titanium oxide in crystalline form; a source of titanium | - |
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| impenitence | (noun) the trait of refusing to repent | Synonyms: impenitency |
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| impenitency | (noun) the trait of refusing to repent | Synonyms: impenitence |
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| impenitent | (adjective) not penitent or remorseful | Synonyms: unremorseful, unrepentant |
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| (adjective) impervious to moral persuasion | - |
| impenitently | (adverb) in an impenitent manner | Synonyms: unrepentantly |
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| impolite | (adjective) not polite | - |
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| impolitely | (adverb) in an impolite manner | Synonyms: discourteously, rudely |
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| impoliteness | (noun) a discourteous manner that ignores accepted social usage | - |
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| inapposite | (adjective) of an inappropriate or misapplied nature | Synonyms: out of place |
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| inappositeness | (noun) inappropriateness | Synonyms: inaptness |
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| incite | (verb) provoke or stir up | Synonyms: instigate, set off, stir up |
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| (verb) urge on; cause to act | Synonyms: egg on, prod |
| (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, motivate, move, prompt, propel |
| incitement | (noun) an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating | Synonyms: incitation |
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| (noun) the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion | Synonyms: exhortation |
| (noun) needed encouragement | Synonyms: provocation |
| (noun) something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action | Synonyms: incitation, provocation |
| inciter | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, instigant, instigator, provoker |
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| indefinite | (adjective) vague or not clearly defined or stated | - |
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| (adjective) not decided or not known | - |
| indefinitely | (adverb) to an indefinite extent; for an indefinite time | - |
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| indefiniteness | (noun) the quality of being vague and poorly defined | Synonyms: indefinity, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, indetermination |
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| indite | (verb) produce a literary work | Synonyms: compose, pen, write |
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| infinite | (adjective) having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude | - |
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| (adjective) (of verbs) not having tense, person, or number (as a participle or gerund or infinitive) | Synonyms: non-finite, nonfinite |
| (adjective) total and all-embracing | - |
| (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
| (noun) the unlimited expanse in which everything is located | Synonyms: space |
| infinitely | (adverb) continuing forever without end | Synonyms: endlessly |
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| (adverb) without bounds | Synonyms: boundlessly, immeasurably |
| infiniteness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: boundlessness, infinitude, limitlessness, unboundedness |
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| infinitesimal | (adjective) infinitely or immeasurably small | Synonyms: minute |
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| (noun) (mathematics) a variable that has zero as its limit | - |
| inhabited | (adjective) having inhabitants; lived in | - |
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| inherited | (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: familial, genetic, hereditary, transmissible, transmitted |
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| inhibited | (adjective) held back or restrained or prevented | - |
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| invite | (noun) a colloquial expression for invitation | - |
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| (verb) ask someone in a friendly way to do something | Synonyms: bid |
| (verb) request the participation or presence of | Synonyms: call for |
| (verb) ask to enter | Synonyms: ask in |
| (verb) express willingness to have in one's home or environs | Synonyms: receive, take in |
| (verb) give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting | Synonyms: tempt |
| (verb) increase the likelihood of | Synonyms: ask for |
| (verb) invite someone to one's house | Synonyms: ask over, ask round |
| (verb) have as a guest | Synonyms: pay for |
| invitee | (noun) a visitor to whom hospitality is extended | Synonyms: guest |
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| item | (noun) a whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection | - |
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| (noun) an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole | Synonyms: detail, point |
| (noun) a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list | Synonyms: point |
| (noun) an individual instance of a type of symbol | Synonyms: token |
| (noun) a small part that can be considered separately from the whole | Synonyms: detail, particular |
| (adverb) (used when listing or enumerating items) also | - |
| itemisation | (noun) the act of making a list of items | Synonyms: itemization, listing |
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| itemise | (verb) specify individually | Synonyms: enumerate, itemize, recite |
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| (verb) place on a list of items | Synonyms: itemize |
| itemization | (noun) the act of making a list of items | Synonyms: itemisation, listing |
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| itemize | (verb) specify individually | Synonyms: enumerate, itemise, recite |
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| (verb) place on a list of items | Synonyms: itemise |
| iterate | (verb) run or be performed again | - |
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| (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell |
| iteration | (noun) doing or saying again; a repeated performance | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained | Synonyms: looping |
| (noun) (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated | Synonyms: loop |
| iterative | (adjective) marked by iteration | Synonyms: reiterative |
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| (noun) the aspect of the verb that expresses the repetition of an action | Synonyms: iterative aspect |
| jadeite | (noun) a hard green mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate in monoclinic crystalline form; a source of jade; found principally in Burma | - |
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| kainite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of magnesium sulphate and potassium chloride; a source of potassium salts; used as a fertilizer | - |
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| kaolinite | (noun) a mineral consisting of aluminum silicate; main source of kaolin | - |
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| kerite | (noun) a compound in which tar or asphalt combined with animal or vegetable oils is vulcanized by sulphur, the product closely resembling rubber. | - |
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| kernite | (noun) a light soft mineral consisting of hydrated sodium borate in crystalline form; an important source of boron | - |
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| kieserite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of hydrous magnesium sulfate often found in salt mines | - |
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| kiloliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 1000 liters | Synonyms: cubic meter, cubic metre, kilolitre |
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| kimberlite | (noun) a rare type of peridotite that sometimes contains diamonds; found in South Africa and Siberia | - |
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| kite | (noun) any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals | - |
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| (noun) plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string | - |
| (noun) a bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float | - |
| (noun) a bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value | - |
| (verb) fly a kite | - |
| (verb) soar or fly like a kite | - |
| (verb) get credit or money by using a bad check | - |
| (verb) increase the amount (of a check) fraudulently | - |
| kitembilla | (noun) maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves | Synonyms: ketembilla, kitambilla |
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| (noun) a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India | Synonyms: Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa, ketembilla, ketembilla tree, kitambilla |
| krennerite | (noun) an orthorhombic gold telluride mineral which can contain a relatively small amount of silver in the structure. | - |
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| kunzite | (noun) a pinkish lilac crystal form of the mineral spodumene that is used as a gemstone | - |
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| kyanite | (noun) a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock, used as a refractory | Synonyms: cyanite |
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| langbeinite | (noun) a mineral consisting of potassium magnesium double sulphate; used as a fertilizer | - |
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| laterite | (noun) a red soil produced by rock decay; contains insoluble deposits of ferric and aluminum oxides | - |
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| lechatelierite | (noun) colorless glass made of almost pure silica | Synonyms: crystal, quartz, quartz glass, vitreous silica |
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| lepidocrocite | (noun) a red to reddish brown mineral consisting of iron oxide hydroxide; often found in iron ores together with goethite | - |
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| lepidolite | (noun) a mineral of the mica group; an important source of lithium | - |
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| lignite | (noun) intermediate between peat and bituminous coal | Synonyms: brown coal, wood coal |
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| limited | (adjective) small in range or scope | - |
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| (adjective) not unlimited | - |
| (adjective) not excessive | - |
| (adjective) including only a part | - |
| (adjective) mediocre | Synonyms: modified |
| (adjective) subject to limits or subjected to limits | Synonyms: circumscribed |
| (adjective) having a specific function or scope | Synonyms: special |
| (noun) public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops | Synonyms: express |
| limitedly | (adverb) in a limited manner | - |
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| limitedness | (noun) The state or characteristic of having certain (often specified) limits placed upon it. | - |
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