| acclamation | (noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclaim, eclat, plaudit, plaudits |
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| achlamydeous | (adjective) not having a floral envelope or perianth | - |
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| acrylamide | (noun) a white crystalline amide of propenoic acid can damage the nervous system and is carcinogenic in laboratory animals | - |
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| aflame | (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: ablaze, afire, aflare, alight, on fire |
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| (adjective) keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement | Synonyms: ablaze, aroused |
| allamanda | (noun) a plant of the genus Allamanda having large showy funnel-shaped flowers in terminal cymes | - |
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| alprazolam | (noun) an antianxiety agent (trade name Xanax) of the benzodiazepine class | Synonyms: Xanax |
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| bedlam | (noun) a state of extreme confusion and disorder | Synonyms: chaos, pandemonium, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness |
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| bedlamite | (noun) an archaic term for a lunatic | - |
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| blamable | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blameable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable, culpable |
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| blame | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| (noun) a reproach for some lapse or misdeed | Synonyms: rap |
| (noun) an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed | Synonyms: incrimination, inculpation |
| (verb) attribute responsibility to | Synonyms: charge |
| (verb) put or pin the blame on | Synonyms: fault |
| (verb) harass with constant criticism | Synonyms: find fault, pick |
| blameable | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable, culpable |
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| blamed | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| blameful | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameable, blameworthy, censurable, culpable |
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| blameless | (adjective) free of guilt; not subject to blame | Synonyms: inculpable, irreproachable, unimpeachable |
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| blamelessly | (adverb) in an irreproachable and blameless manner | Synonyms: irreproachably |
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| blamelessness | (noun) a state of innocence | Synonyms: guiltlessness, inculpability, inculpableness |
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| blameworthiness | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: culpability, culpableness |
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| blameworthy | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameable, blameful, censurable, culpable |
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| blowlamp | (noun) a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame | Synonyms: blowtorch, torch |
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| calamari | (noun) (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food | Synonyms: calamary, squid |
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| calamary | (noun) (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food | Synonyms: calamari, squid |
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| calamine | (noun) a white mineral; a common ore of zinc | Synonyms: hemimorphite |
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| calamint | (noun) perennial aromatic herbs growing in hedgerows or scrub or open woodlands from western Europe to central Asia and in North America | - |
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| calamitous | (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, disastrous, fatal, fateful |
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| calamity | (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | Synonyms: cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy |
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| calamondin | (noun) a fruit of the calamondin tree. | - |
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| calamus | (noun) the hollow spine of a feather | Synonyms: quill, shaft |
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| (noun) any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus; light tough stems are a source of rattan canes | - |
| (noun) perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots | Synonyms: Acorus calamus, flagroot, myrtle flag, sweet calamus, sweet flag |
| (noun) the aromatic root of the sweet flag used medicinally | - |
| catecholamine | (noun) any of a group of chemicals including epinephrine and norepinephrine that are produced in the medulla of the adrenal gland | - |
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| chlamydeous | (adjective) having a floral envelope or perianth consisting of a calyx and/or corolla | - |
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| chlamydia | (noun) coccoid rickettsia infesting birds and mammals; cause infections of eyes and lungs and genitourinary tract | - |
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| (noun) a sexually transmitted infection caused by bacteria of the genus Chlamydia | - |
| chlamydial | (adjective) of or pertaining to the sexually transmitted infection or to the parasite | - |
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| chlamydospore | (noun) thick-walled asexual resting spore of certain fungi and algae | - |
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| chlamyphore | (noun) very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck | Synonyms: Chlamyphorus truncatus, fairy armadillo, pichiciago, pichiciego |
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| chlamys | (noun) a short mantle or cape fastened at the shoulder; worn by men in ancient Greece | - |
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| (noun) collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils | Synonyms: floral envelope, perianth, perigone, perigonium |
| clam | (noun) burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness | - |
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| (noun) flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams | - |
| (noun) a piece of paper money worth one dollar | Synonyms: buck, dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill |
| (verb) gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean | - |
| clamant | (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: crying, exigent, insistent, instant |
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| (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamorous, strident, vociferous |
| clamatorial | (adjective) of or relating to Clamatores | - |
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| clambake | (noun) a cookout at the seashore where clams and fish and other foods are cooked--usually on heated stones covered with seaweed | - |
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| clamber | (noun) an awkward climb | - |
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| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
| clammily | (adverb) in a clammy manner | - |
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| clamminess | (noun) unpleasant wetness | Synonyms: dankness |
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| clammy | (adjective) unpleasantly cool and humid | Synonyms: dank |
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| clammyweed | (noun) strong-scented herb common in southern United States covered with intermixed gland and hairs | Synonyms: Polanisia dodecandra, Polanisia graveolens |
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| clamor | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamoring, clamour, clamouring, hue and cry |
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| (noun) a loud harsh or strident noise | Synonyms: blare, blaring, cacophony, din |
| (verb) utter or proclaim insistently and noisily | Synonyms: clamour |
| (verb) make loud demands | Synonyms: clamour |
| (verb) compel someone to do something by insistent clamoring | - |
| clamoring | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamor, clamour, clamouring, hue and cry |
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| clamorous | (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamant, strident, vociferous |
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| clamorously | (adverb) in manner that attracts attention | Synonyms: loudly, obstreperously |
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| clamour | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamor, clamoring, clamouring, hue and cry |
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| (verb) utter or proclaim insistently and noisily | Synonyms: clamor |
| (verb) make loud demands | Synonyms: clamor |
| clamouring | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamor, clamoring, clamour, hue and cry |
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| clamp | (noun) a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together | Synonyms: clinch |
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| (verb) impose or inflict forcefully | - |
| (verb) fasten or fix with a clamp | - |
| clampdown | (noun) sudden restriction on an activity | - |
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| clams | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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| clamshell | (noun) the shell of a clam | - |
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| (noun) a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam | Synonyms: grapple |
| cobalamin | (noun) a B vitamin that is used to treat pernicious anemia | Synonyms: antipernicious anemia factor, cyanocobalamin, vitamin B12 |
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| cyanocobalamin | (noun) a B vitamin that is used to treat pernicious anemia | Synonyms: antipernicious anemia factor, cobalamin, vitamin B12 |
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| cyclamate | (noun) any salt or ester of cyclamic acid. | - |
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| cyclamen | (noun) Mediterranean plant widely cultivated as a houseplant for its showy dark green leaves splotched with silver and nodding white or pink to reddish flowers with reflexed petals | Synonyms: Cyclamen purpurascens |
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| declamation | (noun) vehement oratory | - |
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| (noun) recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric | - |
| declamatory | (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: bombastic, large, orotund, tumid, turgid |
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| eclampsia | (noun) a toxic condition characterized by convulsions and possibly coma during or immediately after pregnancy | - |
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| epithalamium | (noun) an ode honoring a bride and bridegroom | - |
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| estazolam | (noun) a frequently prescribed sleeping pill (trade name ProSom) | Synonyms: ProSom |
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| exclamation | (noun) an abrupt excited utterance | Synonyms: exclaiming |
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| (noun) an exclamatory rhetorical device | Synonyms: ecphonesis |
| (noun) a loud complaint or protest or reproach | - |
| exclamatory | (adjective) sudden and strong | Synonyms: emphatic |
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| filament | (noun) a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current | - |
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| (noun) a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) | Synonyms: filum |
| (noun) the stalk of a stamen | - |
| (noun) a very slender natural or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: fibril, strand |
| filamentlike | (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentous, filiform, threadlike, thready |
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| filamentous | (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentlike, filiform, threadlike, thready |
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| flambe | (verb) pour liquor over and ignite (a dish) | - |
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| flambeau | (noun) a flaming torch (such as are used in processions at night) | - |
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| flamboyance | (noun) extravagant elaborateness | Synonyms: floridity, floridness, showiness |
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| flamboyant | (adjective) elaborately or excessively ornamented | Synonyms: aureate, florid |
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| (adjective) marked by ostentation but often tasteless | Synonyms: showy, splashy |
| (noun) showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana | Synonyms: Delonix regia, flame tree, peacock flower, Poinciana regia, royal poinciana |
| flamboyantly | (adverb) in a fancy colorful manner | Synonyms: flashily, showily |
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| flame | (noun) the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke | Synonyms: fire, flaming |
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| (verb) criticize harshly, usually via an electronic medium | - |
| (verb) be in flames or aflame | - |
| (verb) shine with a sudden light | Synonyms: flare |
| flamefish | (noun) a cardinalfish found in tropical Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: Apogon maculatus, flame fish |
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| flameflower | (noun) plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots | Synonyms: flame-flower, flame flower, Talinum aurantiacum |
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| (noun) a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers | Synonyms: flame-flower, flame flower, kniphofia, tritoma |
| flamen | (noun) a priest who served a particular deity in ancient Rome | - |
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| flamenco | (noun) a style of dancing characteristic of the Andalusian Gypsies; vigorous and rhythmic with clapping and stamping of feet | Synonyms: gypsy dancing |
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| (noun) guitar music composed for dancing the flamenco | - |
| flameproof | (adjective) resistant to catching fire | Synonyms: flame-retardant |
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| flamethrower | (noun) a weapon that squirts ignited fuel for several yards | - |
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| flaming | (adjective) passionate or quick-tempered | Synonyms: fiery |
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| (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, blooming, crashing, fucking |
| (noun) the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke | Synonyms: fire, flame |
| flamingo | (noun) large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes | - |
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| flammability | (noun) the quality of being easily ignited and burning rapidly | Synonyms: inflammability |
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| flammable | (adjective) easily ignited | Synonyms: inflammable |
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| flimflam | (noun) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property | Synonyms: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, hustle, sting |
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| foglamp | (noun) headlight that provides strong beam for use in foggy weather | - |
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| gallamine | (noun) neuromuscular blocking agent (trade name Flaxedil) used as a muscle relaxant in the administration of anesthesia | Synonyms: Flaxedil |
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| glamor | (noun) alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal) | Synonyms: glamour |
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| glamorisation | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorization, glamourisation, glamourization |
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| glamorise | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, glamourize |
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| glamorization | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorisation, glamourisation, glamourization |
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| glamorize | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamourise, glamourize |
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| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamourise, romanticise, romanticize |
| glamorous | (adjective) having an air of allure, romance and excitement | Synonyms: glamourous |
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| glamour | (noun) alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal) | Synonyms: glamor |
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| (verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: bewitch, enchant, hex, jinx, witch |
| glamourisation | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorisation, glamorization, glamourization |
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| glamourise | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamorize, glamourize |
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| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, romanticise, romanticize |
| glamourization | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorisation, glamorization, glamourisation |
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| glamourize | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamorize, glamourise |
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| glamourous | (adjective) having an air of allure, romance and excitement | Synonyms: glamorous |
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| glamping | (noun) Camping glamorously, i.e., with expensive equipment | - |
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| headlamp | (noun) a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive | Synonyms: headlight |
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