ablactate | (verb) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk | Synonyms: wean |
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ablactation | (noun) the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal | Synonyms: weaning |
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(noun) the cessation of lactation | - |
agalactia | (noun) a condition in which milk is not secreted in the mother's breasts after her child has been delivered | Synonyms: agalactosis |
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agalactosis | (noun) a condition in which milk is not secreted in the mother's breasts after her child has been delivered | Synonyms: agalactia |
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alacritous | (adjective) quick and eager | - |
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alacrity | (noun) liveliness and eagerness | Synonyms: briskness, smartness |
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ambulacral | (adjective) pertaining to the ambulacra of radial echinoderms | - |
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ambulacrum | (noun) one of the five areas on the undersurface of an echinoderm on which the tube feet are located | - |
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amylaceous | (adjective) resembling starch | Synonyms: amyloid, amyloidal, farinaceous, starchlike |
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anaphylactic | (adjective) related to the hypersensitivity known as anaphylaxis | - |
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antiblack | (adjective) discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion | Synonyms: anti-Semite, racist |
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anyplace | (adverb) at or in or to any place | Synonyms: anywhere |
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aplacental | (adjective) having no placenta | - |
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aplacophoran | (noun) deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle | Synonyms: solenogaster |
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argillaceous | (adjective) resembling or containing clay | Synonyms: clayey |
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balaclava | (noun) a cap that is close-fitting and woolen and covers all of the head but the face | Synonyms: balaclava helmet |
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betulaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of trees of the birch family | - |
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birthplace | (noun) the place where someone was born | Synonyms: place of birth |
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(noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience |
black | (adjective) being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light | - |
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(adjective) of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin | - |
(adjective) marked by anger or resentment or hostility | - |
(adjective) (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood | Synonyms: blackened |
(adjective) (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading | - |
(adjective) extremely dark | Synonyms: pitch-black, pitch-dark |
(adjective) soiled with dirt or soot | Synonyms: smutty |
(adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful |
(adjective) stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable | Synonyms: dark, sinister |
(adjective) offering little or no hope | Synonyms: bleak, dim |
(adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, bootleg, contraband, smuggled |
(adjective) harshly ironic or sinister | Synonyms: grim, mordant |
(adjective) (of coffee) without cream or sugar | - |
(adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful |
(noun) black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning) | - |
(noun) (board games) the darker pieces | - |
(noun) the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) | Synonyms: blackness, inkiness |
(noun) total absence of light | Synonyms: blackness, lightlessness, pitch blackness, total darkness |
(verb) make or become black | Synonyms: blacken, melanise, melanize |
blackamoor | (noun) a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) | Synonyms: Black person |
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blackball | (noun) the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto | Synonyms: barring |
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(verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun |
(verb) vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent | Synonyms: negative, veto |
blackbeetle | (noun) dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution | Synonyms: Asiatic cockroach, Blatta orientalis, oriental cockroach, oriental roach |
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blackberry | (noun) large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus | - |
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(noun) bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle | Synonyms: blackberry bush |
(verb) pick or gather blackberries | - |
blackbird | (noun) any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black | Synonyms: New World blackbird |
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(noun) common black European thrush | Synonyms: European blackbird, merl, merle, ousel, ouzel, Turdus merula |
blackboard | (noun) sheet of slate; for writing with chalk | Synonyms: chalkboard |
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blackbody | (noun) a hypothetical object capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it | Synonyms: black body, full radiator |
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blackbuck | (noun) common Indian antelope with a dark back and spiral horns | Synonyms: Antilope cervicapra, black buck |
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blackcap | (noun) small brownish-grey warbler with a black crown | Synonyms: Silvia atricapilla |
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(noun) chickadee having a dark crown | Synonyms: black-capped chickadee, Parus atricapillus |
(noun) small black-headed European gull | Synonyms: Larus ridibundus, laughing gull, pewit, pewit gull |
(noun) raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: black raspberry, blackcap raspberry, Rubus occidentalis, thimbleberry |
blackcock | (noun) male black grouse | Synonyms: black cock |
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blackdamp | (noun) the atmosphere in a mine following an explosion; high in carbon dioxide and incapable of supporting life | Synonyms: chokedamp |
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blacken | (verb) make or become black | Synonyms: black, melanise, melanize |
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(verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color | Synonyms: char, scorch, sear |
blackened | (adjective) (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood | Synonyms: black |
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(adjective) darkened by smoke | - |
blackening | (noun) changing to a darker color | Synonyms: darkening |
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blackface | (noun) the makeup (usually burnt cork) used by a performer in order to imitate a Negro | - |
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blackfish | (noun) female salmon that has recently spawned | - |
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(noun) small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school | Synonyms: black whale, common blackfish, Globicephala melaena, pilot whale |
(noun) large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America | Synonyms: tautog, Tautoga onitis |
blackfly | (noun) small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals | Synonyms: black fly, buffalo gnat |
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(noun) blackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets | Synonyms: Aphis fabae, bean aphid |
blackguard | (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: bounder, cad, dog, heel, hound |
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(verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, clapperclaw, shout |
(verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule, roast |
blackguardly | (adjective) lacking principles or scruples | Synonyms: rascally, roguish, scoundrelly |
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blackhead | (noun) a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin | Synonyms: comedo |
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blackheart | (noun) heart cherry with dark flesh and skin | Synonyms: blackheart cherry |
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(noun) any of various diseases in which the central tissues blacken | - |
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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blackjack | (noun) a gambling game using cards; the object is to hold cards having a higher count than those dealt to the banker up to but not exceeding 21 | Synonyms: twenty-one, vingt-et-un |
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(noun) a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people | Synonyms: cosh, sap |
(noun) a flag usually bearing a white skull and crossbones on a black background; indicates a pirate ship | Synonyms: black flag, Jolly Roger, pirate flag |
(noun) a common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad three-lobed (club-shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets | Synonyms: blackjack oak, jack oak, Quercus marilandica |
(verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackmail, pressure |
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 | - |
blackmail | (noun) extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information | - |
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(verb) obtain through threats | - |
(verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackjack, pressure |
blackmailer | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: extortioner, extortionist |
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blackness | (noun) the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) | Synonyms: black, inkiness |
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(noun) total absence of light | Synonyms: black, lightlessness, pitch blackness, total darkness |
blackout | (noun) a momentary loss of consciousness | - |
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(noun) partial or total loss of memory | Synonyms: amnesia, memory loss |
(noun) the failure of electric power for a general region | - |
(noun) darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) | Synonyms: brownout, dimout |
(noun) a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting | - |
blackpoll | (noun) North American warbler having a black-and-white head | Synonyms: Dendroica striate |
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blackseed | (noun) grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus | Synonyms: carpet grass, smut grass, Sporobolus poiretii |
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blacksmith | (noun) a smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil | - |
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blacksnake | (noun) blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet | Synonyms: black racer, Coluber constrictor |
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(noun) large harmless shiny black North American snake | Synonyms: black rat snake, Elaphe obsoleta, mountain blacksnake, pilot blacksnake |
blacktail | (noun) mule deer of western Rocky Mountains | Synonyms: black-tailed deer, blacktail deer, Odocoileus hemionus columbianus |
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blackthorn | (noun) erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries | Synonyms: Crataegus calpodendron, Crataegus tomentosa, pear haw, pear hawthorn |
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(noun) a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits | Synonyms: Prunus spinosa, sloe |
blacktop | (noun) a black bituminous material used for paving roads or other areas; usually spread over crushed rock | Synonyms: blacktopping |
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(verb) coat with blacktop | - |
blacktopping | (noun) a black bituminous material used for paving roads or other areas; usually spread over crushed rock | Synonyms: blacktop |
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blackwash | (noun) a wash that colors a surface black | - |
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(noun) a mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores | Synonyms: black lotion |
(noun) an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation | Synonyms: assassination, character assassination |
(verb) color with blackwash | - |
(verb) bring (information) out of concealment | - |
blackwater | (noun) any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells | - |
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blackwood | (noun) any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood | Synonyms: blackwood tree |
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(noun) very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees | - |
bootblack | (noun) a person who polishes shoes and boots | Synonyms: shoeblack |
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bootlace | (noun) a long lace for fastening boots | - |
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bullace | (noun) small wild or half-domesticated Eurasian plum bearing small ovoid fruit in clusters | Synonyms: Prunus insititia |
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caipiblack | (noun) a variation of the Caipirinha made with black vodka instead of cachaça. | - |
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caryophyllaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to plants of the family Caryophyllaceae | - |
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chachalaca | (noun) slender arboreal guan resembling a wild turkey; native to Central America and Mexico; highly regarded as game birds | - |
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chylaceous | (adjective) consisting of chyle or having the properties of chyle | Synonyms: chylous |
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clack | (noun) a simple valve with a hinge on one side; allows fluid to flow in only one direction | Synonyms: clack valve, clapper valve |
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(noun) a sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be repeated | Synonyms: clap |
(verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
(verb) make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens | Synonyms: click, cluck |
(verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: brattle, clatter |
coelacanth | (noun) fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa | Synonyms: Latimeria chalumnae |
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commonplace | (adjective) not challenging; dull and lacking excitement | Synonyms: humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous |
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(adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
(adjective) completely ordinary and unremarkable | - |
(noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: banality, bromide, cliche, platitude |
commonplaceness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonness, everydayness |
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complacence | (noun) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | Synonyms: complacency, self-complacency, self-satisfaction |
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complacency | (noun) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | Synonyms: complacence, self-complacency, self-satisfaction |
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complacent | (adjective) contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions | Synonyms: self-complacent, self-satisfied |
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complacently | (adverb) in a self-satisfied manner | - |
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demiglace | (noun) sauce Espagnole with extra beef stock simmered down and seasoned with dry wine or sherry | Synonyms: demi-glaze |
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displace | (verb) cause to move, usually with force or pressure | - |
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(verb) cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense | Synonyms: move |
(verb) take the place of or have precedence over | Synonyms: preempt |
(verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
displacement | (noun) act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics | Synonyms: supplanting |
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(noun) act of removing from office or employment | - |
(noun) the act of uniform movement | Synonyms: translation |
(noun) to move something from its natural environment | Synonyms: deracination |
(noun) an event in which something is displaced without rotation | Synonyms: shift |
(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one | - |
(noun) (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound | Synonyms: displacement reaction |
emplace | (verb) put into place or position | - |
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(verb) provide a new emplacement for guns | - |
emplacement | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: locating, location, placement, position, positioning |
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(noun) military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon | - |
enlace | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: entwine, interlace, intertwine, lace, twine |
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etodolac | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Lodine) | Synonyms: Lodine |
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everyplace | (adverb) to or in any or all places; pronoun, location; quantifier: universal | Synonyms: all over, everywhere |
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extragalactic | (adjective) outside or beyond a galaxy | - |
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fallacious | (adjective) involving deception | Synonyms: deceitful, fraudulent |
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(adjective) based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information | - |
(adjective) containing or based on a fallacy | Synonyms: unsound |
fallaciousness | (noun) result of a fallacy or error in reasoning | - |
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fallacy | (noun) a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning | Synonyms: false belief |
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farmplace | (noun) a farm together with its buildings | Synonyms: farm-place, farmstead |
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fireplace | (noun) an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built | Synonyms: hearth, open fireplace |
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flaccid | (adjective) drooping without elasticity; wanting in stiffness | - |
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(adjective) out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance | Synonyms: flabby, soft |
flaccidity | (noun) a flabby softness | Synonyms: flabbiness, limpness |
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flack | (noun) artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes | Synonyms: ack-ack, ack-ack gun, antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, pom-pom |
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(noun) intense adverse criticism | Synonyms: attack, blast, fire, flak |
(noun) a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer | Synonyms: flack catcher, flak, flak catcher |
folacin | (noun) a B vitamin that is essential for cell growth and reproduction | Synonyms: folate, folic acid, pteroylglutamic acid, pteroylmonoglutamic acid, vitamin Bc, vitamin M |
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galactagogue | (noun) agent that induces milk secretion | - |
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galactic | (adjective) of or relating to a galaxy (especially our galaxy the Milky Way) | - |
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(adjective) inconceivably large | Synonyms: astronomic, astronomical |
galactocele | (noun) a cystic tumor containing milk or a milky substance (especially in the mammary glands) | - |
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galactose | (noun) a simple sugar found in lactose | Synonyms: brain sugar |
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galactosemia | (noun) a genetic disease (autosomal recessive) in which an enzyme needed to metabolize galactose is deficient or absent; typically develops shortly after birth | - |
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galactosis | (noun) the secretion of milk | - |
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