| aikido | (noun) a Japanese martial art employing principles similar to judo | - |
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| akimbo | (adjective) (used of arms and legs) bent outward with the joint away from the body | - |
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| (adverb) with hands on hips and elbows extending outward | - |
| akin | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin |
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| (adjective) similar in quality or character | Synonyms: kindred |
| akinesia | (noun) motionlessness attributable to a temporary paralysis | Synonyms: akinesis |
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| akinesis | (noun) motionlessness attributable to a temporary paralysis | Synonyms: akinesia |
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| antiknocking | (adjective) suppressing or eliminating engine knock in combustion engines | Synonyms: antiknock |
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| aphakia | (noun) absence of the natural lens of the eye (usually resulting from the removal of cataracts) | - |
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| aphakic | (adjective) of or relating to or afflicted with aphakia | - |
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| (noun) someone afflicted by aphakia; someone lacking the natural lenses of the eyes | - |
| asking | (noun) the verbal act of requesting | Synonyms: request |
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| attacking | (adjective) disposed to attack | Synonyms: assaultive |
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| autarkic | (adjective) of countries; not relying on imports | Synonyms: autarkical |
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| autarkical | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by autarchy | Synonyms: autarchic, autarchical |
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| (adjective) of countries; not relying on imports | Synonyms: autarkic |
| backbreaking | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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| backing | (noun) the act of providing approval and support | Synonyms: backup, championship, patronage |
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| (noun) something forming a back that is added for strengthening | Synonyms: mount |
| (noun) financial resources provided to make some project possible | Synonyms: financial backing, financial support, funding, support |
| backpacking | (noun) carrying something in a pack on the back | Synonyms: packing |
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| baking | (adjective) as hot as if in an oven | Synonyms: baking hot |
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| (noun) cooking by dry heat in an oven | - |
| (noun) making bread or cake or pastry etc. | - |
| balkiness | (noun) likely to stop abruptly and unexpectedly | - |
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| balking | (adjective) refusing to proceed, act or work | Synonyms: balky |
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| banking | (noun) transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc. | - |
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| (noun) engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc. | - |
| baranduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baronduki, barunduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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| baronduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, barunduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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| barracking | (noun) shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | Synonyms: heckling |
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| barunduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, baronduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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| bearskin | (noun) tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions | Synonyms: busby, shako |
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| (noun) the pelt of a bear | - |
| bikini | (noun) a woman's very brief bathing suit | Synonyms: two-piece |
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| bivouacking | (noun) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | Synonyms: camping, encampment, tenting |
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| blacking | (noun) a substance used to produce a shiny protective surface on footwear | Synonyms: shoe polish |
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| blackish | (adjective) of something that is somewhat black | - |
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| blatherskite | (noun) foolish gibberish | Synonyms: blather |
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| blinking | (adjective) closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly | Synonyms: winking |
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| (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
| (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink, winking |
| blocking | (noun) the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements | Synonyms: block |
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| blockish | (adjective) resembling a block in shape | Synonyms: blocky |
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| bloodsucking | (adjective) drawing blood from the body of another | - |
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| (adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | Synonyms: leechlike, parasitic, parasitical |
| bluestocking | (noun) a woman having literary or intellectual interests | Synonyms: bas bleu |
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| bodkin | (noun) a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops | Synonyms: threader |
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| (noun) a small sharp-pointed tool for punching holes in leather or fabric | - |
| (noun) formerly a long hairpin; usually with an ornamental head | - |
| (noun) a dagger with a slender blade | Synonyms: poniard |
| bookie | (noun) a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races) | Synonyms: bookmaker |
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| booking | (noun) the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group) | Synonyms: reservation |
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| (noun) employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time | Synonyms: engagement |
| bookish | (adjective) characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading | Synonyms: studious |
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| bookishness | (noun) exaggerated studiousness | - |
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| bootlicking | (adjective) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | Synonyms: fawning, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish |
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| (adjective) attempting to win favor by flattery | Synonyms: fawning, sycophantic, toadyish |
| brackish | (adjective) slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) | Synonyms: briny |
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| (adjective) distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture | - |
| brackishness | (noun) the quality of being salty, as the saltiness of water | - |
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| breaking | (noun) the act of breaking something | Synonyms: break, breakage |
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| breathtaking | (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathless |
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| brickkiln | (noun) a kiln for making bricks | - |
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| buckskin | (noun) horse of a light yellowish dun color with dark mane and tail | - |
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| (noun) a soft yellowish suede leather originally from deerskin but now usually from sheepskin | - |
| buckskins | (noun) (used in the plural) breeches made of buckskin | - |
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| bulkiness | (noun) an unwieldy largeness | Synonyms: massiveness |
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| bumpkin | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yahoo, yokel |
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| bumpkinly | (adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial | Synonyms: hick, rustic, unsophisticated |
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| burunduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, baronduki, barunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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| bushwhacking | (adjective) lying in ambush | - |
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| buskin | (noun) a boot reaching halfway up to the knee | Synonyms: combat boot, desert boot, half boot, top boot |
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| cabinetmaking | (noun) the craft of a joiner | Synonyms: joinery |
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| calfskin | (noun) fine leather from the skin of a calf | Synonyms: calf |
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| calkin | (noun) a metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping | Synonyms: calk |
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| cannikin | (noun) a small can | - |
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| (noun) a wooden bucket | - |
| carjacking | (noun) the violent theft of an occupied car | - |
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| catkin | (noun) a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence | Synonyms: ament |
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| catkinate | (adjective) resembling a catkin | - |
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| caulking | (noun) a waterproof filler and sealant that is used in building and repair to make watertight | Synonyms: caulk |
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| cheekily | (adverb) in a brash cheeky manner | Synonyms: brashly, nervily |
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| cheekiness | (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence |
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| choking | (adjective) causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat | Synonyms: smothering, suffocating, suffocative |
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| (noun) the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe | Synonyms: strangling, strangulation, throttling |
| (noun) a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx) | - |
| cholecystokinin | (noun) a gastrointestinal hormone that stimulates the secretion of pancreatic enzymes and the contraction and emptying of the gall bladder; its release is stimulated by the presence of fatty acids and amino acids in the small intestine | - |
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| chunking | (noun) (psychology) the configuration of smaller units of information into large coordinated units | Synonyms: unitisation, unitization |
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| clanking | (adjective) having a hard nonresonant metallic sound | - |
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| clerking | (noun) the activity of recording business transactions | Synonyms: bookkeeping |
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| clinking | (adjective) like the light sharp ringing sound of glasses being tapped | - |
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| clocking | (noun) the time taken to traverse a measured course | - |
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| clucking | (noun) the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks) | Synonyms: cluck |
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| clunking | (noun) the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | Synonyms: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clop, clopping, clumping |
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| cockiness | (noun) offensive boldness and assertiveness | Synonyms: bumptiousness, forwardness, pushiness |
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| cookie | (noun) a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site | - |
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| (noun) any of various small flat sweet cakes | Synonyms: biscuit, cooky |
| (noun) the cook on a ranch or at a camp | Synonyms: cooky |
| cooking | (noun) the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat | Synonyms: cookery, preparation |
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| coonskin | (noun) a raccoon cap with the tail hanging down the back | Synonyms: coonskin cap |
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| corking | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| cornhusking | (noun) the act of removing the husks from ears of corn | - |
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| (noun) a social gathering for the purpose of husking corn | Synonyms: husking bee |
| cowskin | (noun) leather made from the hide of a cow | Synonyms: cowhide |
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| coxsackievirus | (noun) enterovirus causing a disease resembling poliomyelitis but without paralysis | Synonyms: Coxsackie virus |
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| cracking | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| (noun) the act of cracking something | Synonyms: crack, fracture |
| (noun) a sudden sharp noise | Synonyms: crack, snap |
| (noun) the process whereby heavy molecules of naphtha or petroleum are broken down into hydrocarbons of lower molecular weight (especially in the oil-refining process) | - |
| crankiness | (noun) a fussy and eccentric disposition | Synonyms: contrariness, crotchetiness, grumpiness |
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| creakily | (adverb) in a creaky manner | Synonyms: creakingly, screakily |
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| creaking | (noun) a squeaking sound | Synonyms: creak |
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| creakingly | (adverb) in a creaky manner | Synonyms: creakily, screakily |
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| croaking | (noun) a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) | Synonyms: croak |
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| cytokine | (noun) any of various protein molecules secreted by cells of the immune system that serve to regulate the immune system | - |
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| cytokinesis | (noun) organic process consisting of the division of the cytoplasm of a cell following karyokinesis bringing about the separation into two daughter cells | - |
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| cytokinetic | (adjective) of or relating to the division of the cytoplasm of a cell following the division of the nucleus | - |
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| cytokinin | (noun) any of a class of plant hormones that promote cell division and delay the senescence of leaves | Synonyms: kinin |
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| daishiki | (noun) a loose and brightly colored African shirt | Synonyms: dashiki |
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| darkie | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkey, darky |
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| darkish | (adjective) slightly dark | - |
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| dashiki | (noun) a loose and brightly colored African shirt | Synonyms: daishiki |
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| debunking | (noun) the exposure of falseness or pretensions | Synonyms: repudiation |
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| deerskin | (noun) leather from the hide of a deer | - |
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| deerstalking | (noun) stalking deer | - |
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| diakinesis | (noun) the final stage of the prophase of meiosis | - |
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| dickie | (noun) a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt | Synonyms: dickey, dicky, shirtfront |
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| (noun) a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater | Synonyms: dickey-seat, dickey, dickie-seat, dicky-seat, dicky |
| docking | (noun) the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes | Synonyms: dockage, moorage, tying up |
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