baiting | (noun) harassment especially of a tethered animal | - |
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biting | (adjective) causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold | Synonyms: bitter |
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(adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, mordacious, nipping, pungent |
bitingly | (adverb) extremely and sharply | Synonyms: bitter, bitterly, piercingly |
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chitin | (noun) a tough semitransparent horny substance; the principal component of the exoskeletons of arthropods and the cell walls of certain fungi | - |
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chitinous | (adjective) of or resembling chitin | - |
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dispiriting | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, demoralizing, disheartening |
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editing | (noun) putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form | Synonyms: redaction |
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exciting | (adjective) creating or arousing excitement | - |
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(adjective) stimulating interest and discussion | - |
excitingly | (adverb) in an exciting manner | - |
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ferritin | (noun) a protein containing 20% iron that is found in the intestines and liver and spleen; it is one of the chief forms in which iron is stored in the body | - |
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fruiting | (adjective) capable of bearing fruit | - |
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haemitin | (noun) a complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds | Synonyms: haem, hematin, heme, protoheme |
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handwriting | (noun) the activity of writing by hand | - |
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(noun) something written by hand | Synonyms: hand, script |
inheriting | (adjective) having the legal right to inherit | - |
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inspiriting | (adjective) cheerfully encouraging | Synonyms: heartening |
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inviting | (adjective) attractive and tempting | - |
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invitingly | (adverb) in a tantalizing manner | Synonyms: tantalizingly |
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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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limiting | (adjective) strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase | - |
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(adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, constrictive, restricting |
(noun) the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase | Synonyms: modification, qualifying |
neritina | (noun) ornately marked and brightly colored snails of brackish waters | - |
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palmitin | (noun) an ester of glycerol and palmitic acid | - |
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precipitin | (noun) an antibody that causes precipitation when it unites with its antigen | - |
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repositing | (noun) depositing in a warehouse | Synonyms: reposition, storage, warehousing |
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rewriting | (noun) editing that involves writing something again | Synonyms: revising |
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skywriting | (noun) writing formed in the sky by smoke released from an airplane | - |
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suiting | (noun) a fabric used for suits | - |
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tripalmitin | (noun) a triglyceride of palmitic acid | Synonyms: glycerol tripalmitate |
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typewriting | (noun) writing done with a typewriter | Synonyms: typing |
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unexciting | (adjective) not exciting | - |
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(adjective) not stimulating | Synonyms: unstimulating |
unexcitingly | (adverb) in an unexciting manner | - |
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uninviting | (adjective) neither attractive nor tempting | - |
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(adjective) not tempting | Synonyms: untempting |
uniting | (noun) the act of making or becoming a single unit | Synonyms: conjugation, jointure, unification, union |
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(noun) the combination of two or more commercial companies | Synonyms: amalgamation, merger |
visiting | (noun) the activity of making visits | - |
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vomiting | (noun) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: disgorgement, emesis, puking, regurgitation, vomit |
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waiting | (adjective) being and remaining ready and available for use | Synonyms: ready and waiting |
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(noun) the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something) | Synonyms: wait |
whiting | (noun) a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus | Synonyms: Gadus merlangus, Merlangus merlangus |
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(noun) any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters | - |
(noun) found off Atlantic coast of North America | Synonyms: Merluccius bilinearis, silver hake |
(noun) a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish | - |
(noun) flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America | - |
(noun) flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe | - |
writing | (noun) the activity of putting something in written form | Synonyms: committal to writing |
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(noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: authorship, composition, penning |
(noun) the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect) | Synonyms: piece of writing, written material |
(noun) letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language | - |
(noun) (usually plural) the collected work of an author | - |