blatherskite | (noun) foolish gibberish | Synonyms: blather |
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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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kit | (noun) young of any of various fur-bearing animals | - |
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(noun) gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose | Synonyms: outfit |
(noun) a case for containing a set of articles | - |
(verb) supply with a set of articles or tools | Synonyms: kit out, kit up |
kitambilla | (noun) maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves | Synonyms: ketembilla, kitembilla |
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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, kitembilla |
kitbag | (noun) a knapsack (usually for a soldier) | Synonyms: kit bag |
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kitchen | (noun) a room equipped for preparing meals | - |
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kitchenette | (noun) small kitchen | - |
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kitchenware | (noun) hardware utensils for use in a kitchen | - |
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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 |
kith | (noun) your friends and acquaintances | - |
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kitsch | (noun) excessively garish or sentimental art; usually considered in bad taste | - |
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kitschy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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kittee | (noun) a form of torture used by American Indians in which sensitive parts of the body were squeezed between two boards until the victim could bear no more | - |
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kitten | (noun) young domestic cat | Synonyms: kitty |
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(verb) give birth to kittens | - |
kittenish | (adjective) playful like a lively kitten | Synonyms: frisky |
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kittiwake | (noun) small pearl-grey gull of northern regions; nests on cliffs and has a rudimentary hind toe | - |
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kittul | (noun) fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago | Synonyms: Caryota urens, jaggery palm, kitul, kitul tree, toddy palm, wine palm |
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kitty | (noun) informal terms referring to a domestic cat | Synonyms: kitty-cat, puss, pussy, pussycat |
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(noun) young domestic cat | Synonyms: kitten |
(noun) the combined stakes of the betters | Synonyms: pool |
(noun) the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker) | Synonyms: jackpot, pot |
kitul | (noun) fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago | Synonyms: Caryota urens, jaggery palm, kittul, kitul tree, toddy palm, wine palm |
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samarskite | (noun) a complex black mineral occurring in pegmatites | - |
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skit | (noun) a short theatrical episode | - |
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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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