| litterateur | (noun) a writer of literary works | Synonyms: essayist |
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| litterbin | (noun) bin (usually in or outside a public building) into which the public can put rubbish | Synonyms: litter-basket, litter basket |
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| litterbug | (noun) a person who litters public places with refuse | Synonyms: litter lout, litterer |
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| littered | (adjective) filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish | Synonyms: cluttered |
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| litterer | (noun) a person who litters public places with refuse | Synonyms: litter lout, litterbug |
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| little | (adjective) low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal | Synonyms: short |
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| (adjective) limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent | Synonyms: small |
| (adjective) (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some | Synonyms: slight |
| (adjective) small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context) | - |
| (adjective) lowercase | Synonyms: minuscule, small |
| (adjective) (of a voice) faint | Synonyms: small |
| (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
| (adjective) (of children and animals) young, immature | Synonyms: small |
| (noun) a small amount or duration | - |
| (adverb) not much | - |
| littleneck | (noun) a young quahog | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
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| (noun) a quahog when young and small; usually eaten raw; an important food popular in New York | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
| littleness | (noun) the property of having a relatively small size | Synonyms: smallness |
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| (noun) lack of generosity in trifling matters | Synonyms: pettiness, smallness |
| (noun) the property of having relatively little strength or vigor | Synonyms: smallness |
| littler | (adjective) small or little relative to something else | Synonyms: smaller |
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| littoral | (adjective) of or relating to a coastal or shore region | - |
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| (noun) the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean | Synonyms: litoral, littoral zone, sands |
| manumitter | (noun) someone who frees others from bondage | Synonyms: emancipator |
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| mitt | (noun) the handwear used by fielders in playing baseball | Synonyms: baseball glove, baseball mitt, glove |
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| (noun) the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb | Synonyms: hand, manus, paw |
| mittelschmerz | (noun) pain in the area of the ovary that is felt at the time of ovulation (usually midway through the menstrual cycle) | - |
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| mitten | (noun) glove that encases the thumb separately and the other four fingers together | - |
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| neurotransmitter | (noun) a neurochemical that transmits nerve impulses across a synapse | - |
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| nitwitted | (adjective) (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment | Synonyms: senseless, soft-witted, witless |
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| noncommittal | (adjective) refusing to bind oneself to a particular course of action or view or the like | - |
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| nonremittal | (noun) loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid | Synonyms: default, nonpayment |
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| (noun) act of failing to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: default, nonpayment |
| outfitted | (adjective) equipped with appropriate wearing apparel and accessories | - |
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| (adjective) furnished with essential equipment for a particular occupation or undertaking occupation | Synonyms: fitted out |
| outfitter | (noun) a shop that provides equipment for some specific purpose | - |
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| (noun) someone who sells men's clothes | - |
| outfitting | (noun) the act of renovating and fitting out a ship | - |
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| pipefitting | (noun) fitting consisting of threaded pieces of pipe for joining pipes together | Synonyms: pipe fitting |
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| pitta | (noun) any bird of the genus Pitta; brilliantly colored chiefly terrestrial birds with short wings and tail and stout bills | - |
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| pittance | (noun) an inadequate payment | - |
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| pitted | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: alveolate, cavitied, faveolate, honeycombed |
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| pitting | (noun) the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion | Synonyms: indentation, roughness |
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| psittacosaur | (noun) primitive dinosaur actually lacking horns and having only the beginning of a frill; long hind limbs and short forelimbs; may have been bipedal | Synonyms: psittacosaurus |
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| psittacosaurus | (noun) primitive dinosaur actually lacking horns and having only the beginning of a frill; long hind limbs and short forelimbs; may have been bipedal | Synonyms: psittacosaur |
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| psittacosis | (noun) infectious disease of birds | Synonyms: parrot disease |
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| (noun) an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds | Synonyms: ornithosis, parrot fever |
| quittance | (noun) payment of a debt or obligation | Synonyms: repayment |
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| (noun) a document or receipt certifying release from an obligation or debt | - |
| quitter | (noun) a person who gives up too easily | - |
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| remittal | (noun) the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance | Synonyms: absolution, remission, remission of sin |
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| (noun) an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease) | Synonyms: remission, subsidence |
| (noun) a payment of money sent to a person in another place | Synonyms: remission, remitment, remittance |
| remittance | (noun) a payment of money sent to a person in another place | Synonyms: remission, remitment, remittal |
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| remittent | (adjective) (of a disease) characterized by periods of diminished severity | - |
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| sagitta | (noun) any arrowworm of the genus Sagitta | - |
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| sagittal | (adjective) located in a plane that is parallel to the central plane of the sagittal suture | - |
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| sagittate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes | Synonyms: arrow-shaped, sagittiform |
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| sagittiform | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes | Synonyms: arrow-shaped, sagittate |
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| schnittlaugh | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chive, chives, cive |
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| shittah | (noun) source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible; probably a species of genus Acacia | Synonyms: shittah tree |
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| shitter | (noun) a person who defecates | Synonyms: defecator, voider |
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| shittim | (noun) shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit | Synonyms: Bumelia lycioides, mock orange, shittimwood, southern buckthorn |
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| shittimwood | (noun) wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle | - |
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| (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittamwood, chittimwood, false buckthorn |
| (noun) shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit | Synonyms: Bumelia lycioides, mock orange, shittim, southern buckthorn |
| shittiness | (noun) (vulgar, colloquial) The state or condition of being very bad; unpleasant; miserable; insignificant. | - |
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| shitting | (noun) the elimination of fecal waste through the anus | Synonyms: defecation, laxation |
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| shitty | (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, stinking, stinky |
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| sidesplitter | (noun) a joke that seems extremely funny | Synonyms: belly laugh, howler, riot, scream, thigh-slapper, wow |
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| sidesplitting | (adjective) very funny | Synonyms: killing |
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| sidesplittingly | (adverb) in a very humorous manner | Synonyms: killingly |
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| sitter | (noun) a domestic hen ready to brood | Synonyms: brood hen, broody, broody hen, setting hen |
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| (noun) a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home | Synonyms: baby-sitter, babysitter |
| (noun) an organism (person or animal) that sits | - |
| (noun) a person who poses for a painter or sculptor | Synonyms: artist's model |
| sitting | (adjective) (of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks | Synonyms: seated |
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| (adjective) not moving and therefore easy to attack | - |
| (noun) the act of assuming or maintaining a seated position | - |
| (noun) (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait) | Synonyms: posing |
| (noun) a session as of a legislature or court | - |
| (noun) a meeting of spiritualists | Synonyms: seance, session |
| skitter | (verb) twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water | - |
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| (verb) cause to skip over a surface | Synonyms: skim, skip |
| (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scurry, scuttle |
| (verb) glide easily along a surface | - |
| skittish | (adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | Synonyms: flighty, nervous, spooky |
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| skittishly | (adverb) in a skittish manner | - |
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| skittishness | (noun) characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright | Synonyms: restiveness |
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| skittle | (noun) a bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles | Synonyms: ninepin, skittle pin |
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| (verb) play skittles | - |
| skittles | (noun) a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins | Synonyms: ninepins |
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| smitten | (adjective) (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming | Synonyms: stricken, struck |
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| (adjective) marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness | Synonyms: enamored, in love, infatuated, potty, soft on, taken with |
| spitter | (noun) an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it | Synonyms: spitball |
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| (noun) a person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth) | Synonyms: expectorator |
| spitting | (noun) the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva) | Synonyms: expectoration, spit |
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| spittle | (noun) a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches | Synonyms: saliva, spit |
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| spittlebug | (noun) small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete | Synonyms: spittle insect |
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| spittoon | (noun) a receptacle for spit (usually in a public place) | Synonyms: cuspidor |
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| splitter | (noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics | Synonyms: divider |
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| (noun) a worker who splits fish and removes the backbone | - |
| (noun) a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences | Synonyms: rail-splitter |
| splitting | (adjective) resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree | Synonyms: rending, ripping |
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| steamfitter | (noun) a craftsman who installs and maintains equipment for ventilating or heating or refrigerating | - |
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| subcommittee | (noun) a subset of committee members organized for a specific purpose | - |
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| sublittoral | (adjective) of or relating to the region of the continental shelf (between the seashore and the edge of the continental shelf) or the marine organisms situated there | - |
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| submitter | (noun) someone who submits something (as an application for a job or a manuscript for publication etc.) for the judgment of others | - |
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| (noun) someone who yields to the will of another person or force | - |
| tightfitting | (adjective) fitting snugly | Synonyms: skinny, tight-fitting, tight fitting, tightly fitting |
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| titter | (noun) a nervous restrained laugh | - |
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| (verb) laugh nervously | Synonyms: giggle |
| titterer | (noun) a person who laughs nervously | Synonyms: giggler |
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| tittering | (adjective) being or sounding of nervous or suppressed laughter | Synonyms: thoriated |
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| tittivate | (verb) make neat, smart, or trim | Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce, spruce up, titivate |
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| tittivation | (noun) sprucing up; making decorative additions to | Synonyms: titivation |
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| tittle | (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, whit |
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| tittup | (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, ruffle, sashay, strut, swagger |
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| titty | (noun) either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman | Synonyms: boob, bosom, breast, knocker, tit |
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| transmittable | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: catching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible |
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| transmittal | (noun) the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted | Synonyms: transmission, transmitting |
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| transmittance | (noun) the fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance | Synonyms: transmission |
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| transmitted | (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: familial, genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmissible |
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| transmitter | (noun) set used to broadcast radio or tv signals | Synonyms: sender |
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| (noun) any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease | Synonyms: vector |
| (noun) someone who transmits a message | Synonyms: sender |
| transmitting | (noun) the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted | Synonyms: transmission, transmittal |
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| twitter | (noun) a series of chirps | Synonyms: chirrup |
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| (verb) make high-pitched sounds, as of birds | Synonyms: chitter |
| twitterer | (noun) a bird that twitters | - |
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| twitterverse | (noun) the social sphere of the Twitter service | - |
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| unbefitting | (adjective) not befitting | - |
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| unbitter | (adjective) having or showing no resentment or desire for revenge | - |
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| uncommitted | (adjective) not bound or pledged | - |
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| (adjective) not associated in an exclusive sexual relationship | Synonyms: unattached |
| (adjective) not busy; not otherwise committed | Synonyms: available |
| unfitting | (adjective) not in keeping with what is correct or proper | Synonyms: inappropriate, incompatible, out of keeping |
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| unlittered | (adjective) having nothing extraneous | Synonyms: uncluttered |
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| unremitting | (adjective) uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | Synonyms: ceaseless, constant, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing |
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| unwitting | (adjective) not aware or knowing | - |
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| (adjective) unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge | Synonyms: ignorant, unknowing, unknowledgeable |
| (adjective) not done with purpose or intent | Synonyms: unintentional, unplanned |
| unwittingly | (adverb) without knowledge or intention | Synonyms: inadvertently, unknowingly |
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| unwritten | (adjective) based on custom rather than documentation | - |
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| (adjective) using speech rather than writing | Synonyms: oral |
| (adjective) said or done without having been planned or written in advance | Synonyms: ad-lib, spontaneous |
| whittle | (verb) cut small bits or pare shavings from | Synonyms: pare |
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| whittler | (noun) someone who whittles (usually as an idle pastime) | - |
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| witticism | (noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humor, humour, wit, wittiness |
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| wittily | (adverb) in a witty manner | - |
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