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 |
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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lamb | (noun) young sheep | - |
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(noun) the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food | - |
(noun) a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child) | Synonyms: dear |
(noun) a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters) | - |
(verb) give birth to a lamb | - |
lambast | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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(verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambaste |
lambaste | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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(verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambast |
lambchop | (noun) chop cut from a lamb | Synonyms: lamb-chop, lamb chop |
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lambda | (noun) the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and lamboid sutures of the skull | - |
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(noun) the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
lambdacism | (noun) speech defect involving excessive use or unusual pronunciation of the phoneme `l' | - |
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lambency | (noun) an appearance of reflected light | Synonyms: gleam, gleaming, glow |
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lambent | (adjective) softly bright or radiant | Synonyms: aglow, lucent, luminous |
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lambert | (noun) a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter | Synonyms: L |
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lambkill | (noun) North American dwarf shrub resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; poisonous to young stock | Synonyms: Kalmia angustifolia, pig laurel, sheep laurel |
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lambkin | (noun) a very young lamb | - |
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lamblike | (adjective) like a lamb in meekness and gentleness | - |
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lambrequin | (noun) short and decorative hanging for a shelf edge or top of a window casing | - |
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(noun) a scarf that covers a knight's helmet | - |
lambskin | (noun) the skin of a lamb with the wool still on | - |
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(noun) skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on | Synonyms: parchment, sheepskin |