| ankle | (noun) a gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus | Synonyms: ankle joint, articulatio talocruralis, mortise joint |
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| anklebone | (noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint | Synonyms: astragal, astragalus, talus |
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| anklet | (noun) an ornament worn around the ankle | Synonyms: ankle bracelet |
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| (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklets, bobbysock, bobbysocks |
| (noun) a shoe for a child or woman that has a strap around the ankle | - |
| anklets | (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklet, bobbysock, bobbysocks |
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| auklet | (noun) any of several small auks of the northern Pacific coasts | - |
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| backlash | (noun) an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence | - |
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| (noun) a movement back from an impact | Synonyms: rebound, recoil, repercussion |
| (verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backfire, recoil |
| backless | (adjective) lacking a back | - |
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| backlighting | (noun) lighting from behind | - |
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| backlog | (noun) an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services) | - |
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| (noun) something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose | Synonyms: reserve, stockpile |
| (noun) the large log at the back of a hearth fire | - |
| (verb) accumulate and create a backlog | - |
| baklava | (noun) rich Middle Eastern cake made of thin layers of flaky pastry filled with nuts and honey | - |
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| balkline | (noun) line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game | Synonyms: baulk-line, string line |
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| beakless | (adjective) not having a beak or bill | - |
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| beaklike | (adjective) resembling the beak of a bird | - |
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| bespeckle | (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: speckle |
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| besprinkle | (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkle |
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| biweekly | (adjective) occurring every two weeks | Synonyms: fortnightly |
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| (adjective) occurring twice a week | Synonyms: semiweekly |
| (noun) a periodical that is published twice a week or every two weeks (either 104 or 26 issues per year) | - |
| (adverb) every two weeks | Synonyms: fortnightly |
| (adverb) twice a week | Synonyms: semiweekly |
| blacklead | (verb) cover with graphite | - |
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| blackleg | (noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: rat, scab, strikebreaker |
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| (verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: fink, rat, scab |
| blacklist | (noun) a list of people who are out of favor | Synonyms: black book, shitlist |
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| (verb) put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted | - |
| blankly | (adverb) in a blank and uncomprehending manner | - |
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| bleakly | (adverb) without hope | - |
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| booklet | (noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: brochure, folder, leaflet, pamphlet |
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| booklouse | (noun) minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers | Synonyms: book louse, deathwatch, Liposcelis divinatorius |
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| booklover | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: bibliophile, book lover |
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| bricklayer | (noun) a craftsman skilled in building with bricks | - |
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| bricklaying | (noun) the craft of laying bricks | - |
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| brickle | (adjective) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped | Synonyms: brickly, brittle |
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| brickly | (adjective) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped | Synonyms: brickle, brittle |
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| briskly | (adverb) in a brisk manner | - |
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| brooklet | (noun) a small brook | - |
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| brooklime | (noun) plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers | Synonyms: American brooklime, Veronica americana |
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| (noun) European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers; sparsely naturalized in North America | Synonyms: European brooklime, Veronica beccabunga |
| buckle | (noun) fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong | - |
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| (noun) a shape distorted by twisting or folding | Synonyms: warp |
| (verb) bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat | Synonyms: heave, warp |
| (verb) fasten with a buckle or buckles | Synonyms: clasp |
| (verb) fold or collapse | Synonyms: crumple |
| buckler | (noun) armor carried on the arm to intercept blows | Synonyms: shield |
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| buckleya | (noun) parasitic shrub of the eastern United States having opposite leaves and insignificant greenish flowers followed by oily dull green olivelike fruits | Synonyms: Buckleya distichophylla |
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| cackle | (noun) a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle | - |
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| (noun) noisy talk | Synonyms: chatter, yack, yak, yakety-yak |
| (noun) the sound made by a hen after laying an egg | - |
| (verb) emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing | - |
| (verb) squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens | - |
| (verb) talk or utter in a cackling manner | - |
| (verb) make a noise characteristic of a goose | Synonyms: gaggle |
| cackler | (noun) a hen that has just laid an egg and emits a shrill squawk | - |
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| (noun) any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae | Synonyms: babbler |
| cackly | (adjective) like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg | Synonyms: squawky |
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| checklist | (noun) a list of items (names or tasks etc.) to be checked or consulted | - |
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| chuckle | (noun) a soft partly suppressed laugh | Synonyms: chortle |
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| (verb) laugh quietly or with restraint | Synonyms: chortle, laugh softly |
| cockle | (noun) common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs | - |
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| (noun) common edible European bivalve | - |
| (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: crumple, knit, pucker, rumple |
| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: riffle, ripple, ruffle, undulate |
| cocklebur | (noun) any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs | Synonyms: cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cockleburr |
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| (noun) burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use | Synonyms: Arctium lappa, great burdock, greater burdock |
| cockleburr | (noun) any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs | Synonyms: cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cocklebur |
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| cockleshell | (noun) a small light flimsy boat | - |
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| cockloft | (noun) a small loft or garret | - |
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| crackle | (adjective) having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware | - |
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| (noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle china, crackleware |
| (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackling, crepitation |
| (verb) to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks | - |
| (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crunch, scranch, scraunch |
| (verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crepitate |
| crackleware | (noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle, crackle china |
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| crackling | (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackle, crepitation |
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| (noun) the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered | Synonyms: greaves |
| cracklings | (noun) the crisp residue left after lard has been rendered | - |
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| crinkle | (noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crease, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle |
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| (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crumple, rumple, wrinkle |
| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
| crinkled | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkly, rippled, wavelike, wavy |
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| crinkleroot | (noun) North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots | Synonyms: Cardamine diphylla, crinkle-root, crinkle root, Dentaria diphylla, pepper root, toothwort |
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| crinkly | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkled, rippled, wavelike, wavy |
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| darkling | (adjective) (poetic) occurring in the dark or night | - |
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| (adjective) uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure | - |
| darkly | (adverb) without light | Synonyms: in darkness |
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| (adverb) in a dark glowering menacing manner | - |
| deckle | (noun) (paper making) a frame used to form paper pulp into sheets | - |
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| (noun) rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper | Synonyms: deckle edge |
| deckled | (adjective) having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade | Synonyms: deckle-edged, featheredged |
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| disklike | (adjective) having a flat circular shape | Synonyms: disc-shaped, disclike, discoid, discoidal, disk-shaped |
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| dkl | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: dal, decaliter, decalitre, dekaliter, dekalitre |
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| duckling | (noun) young duck | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a young domestic duck | - |
| farkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: sparkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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| feckless | (adjective) generally incompetent and ineffectual | Synonyms: inept |
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| (adjective) not fit to assume responsibility | - |
| fecklessly | (adverb) with ineptitude; in an incompetent manner | Synonyms: ineptly |
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| (adverb) in a feckless manner; irresponsibly and incompetently | - |
| fecklessness | (noun) worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual | - |
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| fickle | (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: erratic, mercurial, quicksilver |
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| (adjective) marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments | Synonyms: volatile |
| fickleness | (noun) unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous | Synonyms: faithlessness, falseness, inconstancy |
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| folklore | (noun) the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture | - |
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| folklorism | (noun) Invention or adaptation of folklore; including any use of a tradition outside the cultural context in which it was created. | - |
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| forklift | (noun) a small industrial vehicle with a power operated forked platform in front that can be inserted under loads to lift and move them | - |
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| franklin | (noun) a landowner (14th and 15th centuries) who was free but not of noble birth | - |
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| frankly | (adverb) (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that | Synonyms: candidly, honestly |
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| freckle | (noun) a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin | Synonyms: lentigo |
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| (verb) mark with freckles | - |
| (verb) become freckled | - |
| freckled | (adjective) relating to or covered with or resembling freckles | Synonyms: lentiginose, lentiginous |
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| grackle | (noun) long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black plumage | Synonyms: crow blackbird |
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| (noun) glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech | Synonyms: Gracula religiosa, hill myna, Indian grackle |
| hackle | (noun) long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants | - |
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| (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hatchel, heckle |
| hackles | (noun) a feeling of anger and animosity | Synonyms: dander |
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| heckle | (noun) a comb for separating flax fibers | Synonyms: hatchel |
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| (verb) challenge aggressively | - |
| (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hackle, hatchel |
| heckler | (noun) someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections | Synonyms: badgerer |
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| heckling | (noun) shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | Synonyms: barracking |
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| honeysuckle | (noun) shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera | - |
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| (noun) columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers | Synonyms: Aquilegia canadensis, meeting house |
| (noun) shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers | Synonyms: Australian honeysuckle, Banksia integrifolia, coast banksia |
| hooklike | (adjective) having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold) | Synonyms: hooked |
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| huckleberry | (noun) blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States | - |
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| (noun) any of several shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia bearing small berries resembling blueberries | - |
| (noun) any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries | - |
| inkle | (noun) a linen tape used for trimming as a decoration | - |
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| inkling | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, glimmering, intimation |
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| jacklight | (noun) a light used as a lure in hunting or fishing at night | - |
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| (verb) hunt with a jacklight | Synonyms: jack |
| klavern | (noun) a local unit of the Ku Klux Klan | - |
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| klaxon | (noun) a kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles | Synonyms: claxon |
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| klebsiella | (noun) a genus of nonmotile rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some cause respiratory and other infections | - |
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| kleptomania | (noun) an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive | - |
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| kleptomaniac | (noun) someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive | - |
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| klick | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles) | Synonyms: kilometer, kilometre, km |
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| klondike | (noun) a form of solitaire that begins with seven piles of cards with the top cards facing up; descending sequences of cards of alternating colors are built on these piles; as aces become available they are placed above the seven piles; the object is to build sequences in suit from ace to king as the remaining cards are dealt out one at a time | - |
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| kludge | (noun) a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose | - |
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| klutz | (noun) (Yiddish) a clumsy dolt | - |
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| klystron | (noun) an electron tube used to generate or amplify electromagnetic radiation in the microwave region by velocity modulation | - |
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| knuckle | (noun) a joint of a finger when the fist is closed | Synonyms: knuckle joint, metacarpophalangeal joint |
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| (verb) press or rub with the knuckles | - |
| (verb) shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground | - |
| knuckleball | (noun) a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin | Synonyms: knuckler |
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| knucklebones | (noun) a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball | Synonyms: jacks, jackstones |
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| knucklehead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| knuckler | (noun) a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin | Synonyms: knuckleball |
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| knuckles | (noun) (used in the plural) a small metal weapon; worn over the knuckles on the back of the hand | Synonyms: brass knuckles, brass knucks, knuckle duster, knucks |
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