| alky | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker, souse |
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| alkyd | (noun) a durable synthetic resin widely used in adhesives and paints | Synonyms: alkyd resin |
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| alkyl | (noun) any of a series of univalent groups of the general formula CnH2n+1 derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons | Synonyms: alkyl group, alkyl radical |
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| alkylbenzene | (noun) organic compound that has an alkyl group bound to a benzene ring | - |
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| alkylbenzenesulfonate | (noun) sulfonate of alkyl benzene | - |
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| alkylic | (adjective) of or related to an alkyl | - |
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| alkyne | (noun) a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis | Synonyms: acetylene, ethyne |
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| ankyloglossia | (noun) a congenital anomaly in which the mucous membrane under the tongue is too short limiting the mobility of the tongue | Synonyms: tongue tie |
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| ankylosaur | (noun) having the back covered with thick bony plates; thought to have walked with a sprawling gait resembling a lizard's | Synonyms: ankylosaurus |
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| ankylosaurus | (noun) having the back covered with thick bony plates; thought to have walked with a sprawling gait resembling a lizard's | Synonyms: ankylosaur |
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| ankylose | (verb) undergo ankylosis | Synonyms: ancylose |
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| (verb) produce ankylosis by surgery | Synonyms: ancylose |
| ankylosis | (noun) abnormal adhesion and rigidity of the bones of a joint | Synonyms: anchylosis |
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| ankylotic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the abnormality ankylosis | - |
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| autarky | (noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarchy |
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| backyard | (noun) the grounds in back of a house | - |
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| balky | (adjective) refusing to proceed, act or work | Synonyms: balking |
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| barky | (adjective) resembling the rough bark of a tree | - |
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| blocky | (adjective) resembling a block in shape | Synonyms: blockish |
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| bosky | (adjective) covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets | Synonyms: brushy |
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| braky | (adjective) abounding with bracken | - |
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| (adjective) covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth | Synonyms: brambly |
| brickyard | (noun) a place where bricks are made and sold | Synonyms: brickfield |
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| buckyball | (noun) a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene | Synonyms: buckminsterfullerene |
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| bulky | (adjective) of large size for its weight | - |
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| bullocky | (adjective) resembling a bullock in strength and power | - |
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| buttinsky | (noun) a meddler who tends to butt in | - |
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| chalky | (adjective) composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk | Synonyms: calcareous |
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| (adjective) of something having the color of chalk | - |
| cheeky | (adjective) offensively bold | Synonyms: brash, nervy |
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| choky | (adjective) so tight as to tend to choke | - |
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| (noun) British slang (dated) for a prison | Synonyms: chokey |
| chunky | (adjective) short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature | Synonyms: dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy |
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| (adjective) like or containing small sticky lumps | Synonyms: lumpy |
| clunky | (adjective) making a clunking sound | - |
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| (adjective) lacking grace in movement or posture | Synonyms: clumsy, gawky, ungainly, unwieldy |
| cocky | (adjective) overly self-confident or self-assertive | - |
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| colicky | (adjective) suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: flatulent, gassy |
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| cooky | (noun) any of various small flat sweet cakes | Synonyms: biscuit, cookie |
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| (noun) the cook on a ranch or at a camp | Synonyms: cookie |
| corky | (adjective) (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin | Synonyms: corked |
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| cranky | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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| (adjective) (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail | Synonyms: crank, tender, tippy |
| creaky | (adjective) having a rasping or grating sound | Synonyms: screaky |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to arthritis | Synonyms: arthritic, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy |
| (adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
| croaky | (adjective) like the sounds of frogs and crows | Synonyms: guttural |
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| darky | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkey, darkie |
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| dicky | (adjective) (British informal) faulty | Synonyms: dickey |
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| (noun) a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt | Synonyms: dickey, dickie, shirtfront |
| (noun) a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater | Synonyms: dickey-seat, dickey, dickie-seat, dickie, dicky-seat |
| dickybird | (noun) small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds | Synonyms: dickey-bird, dickeybird, dicky-bird |
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| dinky | (adjective) (British informal) pretty and neat | - |
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| (adjective) small and unimpressive | Synonyms: insignificant |
| (noun) a small locomotive | Synonyms: dinkey |
| dockyard | (noun) an establishment on the waterfront where vessels are built or fitted out or repaired | - |
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| droshky | (noun) an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; formerly used in Poland and Russia | Synonyms: drosky |
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| drosky | (noun) an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; formerly used in Poland and Russia | Synonyms: droshky |
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| ducky | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, favorite, favourite, pet |
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| dusky | (adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color | Synonyms: dark-skinned, swart, swarthy |
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| (adjective) lighted by or as if by twilight | Synonyms: twilight, twilit |
| ensky | (verb) exalt to the skies; lift to the skies or to heaven with praise | - |
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| finicky | (adjective) exacting especially about details | Synonyms: finical, fussy, particular, picky |
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| flaky | (adjective) made of or resembling flakes | Synonyms: flakey |
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| (adjective) made of or easily forming flakes | Synonyms: flakey |
| (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
| fluky | (adjective) subject to accident or chance or change | Synonyms: chancy, flukey, iffy |
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| flunky | (noun) a person of unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: flunkey, stooge, yes-man |
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| (noun) a male servant (especially a footman) | Synonyms: flunkey, lackey |
| freaky | (adjective) strange and somewhat frightening | - |
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| (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, flaky, freakish, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
| frisky | (adjective) playful like a lively kitten | Synonyms: kittenish |
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| frolicky | (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicsome, rollicking, sportive |
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| funky | (adjective) in a state of cowardly fright | - |
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| (adjective) (of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues | Synonyms: low-down |
| (adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, foul, ill-scented, noisome, smelly, stinking |
| (adjective) stylish and modern in an unconventional way | - |
| garlicky | (adjective) relating to or tasting or smelling of garlic | - |
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| gawky | (adjective) lacking grace in movement or posture | Synonyms: clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy |
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| hanky | (noun) a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory | Synonyms: handkerchief, hankey, hankie |
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| honky | (noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man | Synonyms: honkey, honkie, whitey |
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| honkytonk | (noun) a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall | Synonyms: dive |
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| hooky | (noun) failure to attend (especially school) | Synonyms: truancy |
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| hulky | (adjective) of great size and bulk | Synonyms: hulking |
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| husky | (adjective) deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion | Synonyms: gruff, hoarse |
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| (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, burly, strapping |
| (noun) breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog | Synonyms: Eskimo dog |
| icky | (adjective) soft and sticky | Synonyms: gooey |
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| (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky |
| inky | (adjective) of the color of black ink | Synonyms: ink-black, inky-black |
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| jabberwocky | (noun) nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll) | - |
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| jerky | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy |
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| (adjective) marked by abrupt transitions | Synonyms: choppy |
| (adjective) lacking a steady rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmic, jerking |
| (noun) meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun | Synonyms: jerk, jerked meat |
| junky | (noun) a narcotics addict | Synonyms: drug addict, junkie |
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| (noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: addict, freak, junkie, nut |
| junkyard | (noun) a field where junk is collected and stored for resale | - |
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| kinky | (adjective) (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes | Synonyms: perverted |
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| (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: crisp, frizzly, frizzy, nappy |
| (adjective) (informal) strikingly unconventional | Synonyms: far-out, offbeat, quirky, way-out |
| kooky | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| kyanite | (noun) a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock, used as a refractory | Synonyms: cyanite |
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| kyat | (noun) the basic unit of money in Myanmar | - |
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| kylie | (noun) an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex | Synonyms: kiley |
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| kylix | (noun) a shallow drinking cup with two handles; used in ancient Greece | Synonyms: cylix |
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| kymograph | (noun) scientific instrument consisting of a rotating drum holding paper on which a stylus traces a continuous record (as of breathing or blood pressure) | Synonyms: cymograph |
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| kyphosis | (noun) The property of having an abnormal convex curvature in the cervical or lumbar regions of the spine. | - |
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| (noun) an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column | Synonyms: humpback, hunchback |
| kyphotic | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked |
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| lanky | (adjective) tall and thin and having long slender limbs | Synonyms: gangling, gangly, rangy |
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| (adjective) tall and thin | Synonyms: gangling, gangly |
| leaky | (adjective) permitting the unwanted passage of fluids or gases | - |
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| (adjective) prone to communicate confidential information | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, talebearing, tattling |
| (adjective) used informally; unable to retain urine | - |
| lucky | (adjective) having or bringing good fortune | - |
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| (adjective) occurring by chance | - |
| (adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome | Synonyms: favorable, favourable, golden, prosperous |
| malarky | (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, jazz, malarkey, nothingness, wind |
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| manky | (adjective) inferior and worthless | - |
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| milky | (adjective) resembling milk in color; not clear | Synonyms: milklike, whitish |
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| mirky | (adjective) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment | Synonyms: cloudy, muddy, murky, turbid |
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| (adjective) dark or gloomy | Synonyms: murky |
| mucky | (adjective) dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck | Synonyms: muddy |
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| (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
| murky | (adjective) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment | Synonyms: cloudy, mirky, muddy, turbid |
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| (adjective) dark or gloomy | Synonyms: mirky |
| musky | (adjective) resembling the smell of musk | - |
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| nooky | (noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: ass, fuck, fucking, nookie, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag, shtup |
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| panicky | (adjective) thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation | Synonyms: frightened, panic-stricken, panic-struck, panicked, terrified |
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| parky | (adjective) appreciably or disagreeably cold | Synonyms: chilly |
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| pawky | (adjective) cunning and sly | - |
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| peaky | (adjective) having or as if having especially high-pitched spots | Synonyms: spiky |
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| perky | (adjective) characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness | Synonyms: buoyant, chirpy |
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| pesky | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| picky | (adjective) exacting especially about details | Synonyms: finical, finicky, fussy, particular |
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| pinky | (noun) the finger farthest from the thumb | Synonyms: little finger, pinkie |
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| plucky | (adjective) marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited | Synonyms: gutsy |
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| (adjective) showing courage | Synonyms: feisty, spunky |
| poky | (adjective) small and remote and insignificant | Synonyms: jerkwater, one-horse, pokey |
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| (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: dilatory, laggard, pokey |
| (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: clink, gaol, jail, jailhouse, pokey, slammer |
| punky | (noun) minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects | Synonyms: biting midge, no-see-um, punkey, punkie |
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