| palankeen | (noun) a closed litter carried on the shoulders of four bearers | Synonyms: palanquin |
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| palanquin | (noun) a closed litter carried on the shoulders of four bearers | Synonyms: palankeen |
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| paralanguage | (noun) the use of manner of speaking to communicate particular meanings | Synonyms: paralinguistic communication |
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| parkland | (noun) a large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property | Synonyms: park |
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| parlance | (noun) a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language | Synonyms: idiom |
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| pastureland | (noun) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock | Synonyms: grazing land, lea, ley, pasture, pasture land |
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| peneplane | (noun) a more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements | Synonyms: peneplain |
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| pentlandite | (noun) a mineral (iron and nickel sulphide) that is the chief ore of nickel | - |
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| petulance | (noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness |
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| petulant | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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| petulantly | (adverb) in a petulant manner | Synonyms: irritably, pettishly, testily |
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| phalangeal | (adjective) of or relating to the bones of the fingers or toes | - |
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| phalanger | (noun) small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails | Synonyms: opossum, possum |
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| phalangist | (noun) a Spanish member of General Franco's political party | Synonyms: falangist |
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| phalangitis | (noun) inflammation of a finger or toe | - |
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| phalanx | (noun) any of the bones of the fingers or toes | - |
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| (noun) a body of troops in close array | - |
| (noun) any closely ranked crowd of people | - |
| phenylalanine | (noun) an essential amino acid found in proteins and needed for growth of children and for protein metabolism in children and adults; abundant in milk and eggs; it is normally converted to tyrosine in the human body | - |
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| philander | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, romance |
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| (verb) have amorous affairs; of men | Synonyms: womanise, womanize |
| philanderer | (noun) a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them | Synonyms: womaniser, womanizer |
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| philanthropic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by philanthropy | - |
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| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, benevolent, eleemosynary |
| philanthropically | (adverb) in a philanthropic manner | - |
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| philanthropist | (noun) someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being | Synonyms: altruist |
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| philanthropy | (noun) voluntary promotion of human welfare | Synonyms: philanthropic gift |
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| phytoplankton | (noun) photosynthetic or plant constituent of plankton; mainly unicellular algae | - |
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| pieplant | (noun) long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened | Synonyms: rhubarb |
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| plan | (noun) scale drawing of a structure | Synonyms: architectural plan |
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| (noun) a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished | Synonyms: program, programme |
| (noun) an arrangement scheme | Synonyms: design |
| (verb) make plans for something | - |
| (verb) have the will and intention to carry out some action | Synonyms: be after |
| (verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: contrive, design, project |
| planar | (adjective) involving or having two dimensions | Synonyms: two-dimensional |
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| planaria | (noun) free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts | Synonyms: planarian |
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| planarian | (noun) free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts | Synonyms: planaria |
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| planate | (adjective) having been flattened | Synonyms: flattened |
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| planation | (noun) the process of erosion whereby a level surface is produced | - |
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| planchet | (noun) a flat metal disk ready for stamping as a coin | Synonyms: coin blank |
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| planchette | (noun) a triangular board supported on casters; when lightly touched with the fingertips it is supposed to spell out supernatural (or unconscious) messages | - |
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| plane | (adjective) having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another | Synonyms: flat, level |
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| (noun) a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood | Synonyms: carpenter's plane, woodworking plane |
| (noun) an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets | Synonyms: aeroplane, airplane |
| (noun) a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood | Synonyms: planer, planing machine |
| (noun) (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape | Synonyms: sheet |
| (noun) a level of existence or development | - |
| (verb) cut or remove with or as if with a plane | Synonyms: shave |
| (verb) make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane | - |
| (verb) travel on the surface of water | Synonyms: skim |
| planeness | (noun) the property of having two dimensions | Synonyms: flatness, two-dimensionality |
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| planer | (noun) a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood | Synonyms: plane, planing machine |
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| planet | (noun) (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction | Synonyms: major planet |
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| (noun) any celestial body (other than comets or satellites) that revolves around a star | - |
| (noun) a person who follows or serves another | Synonyms: satellite |
| planetal | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets | Synonyms: planetary |
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| planetarium | (noun) an apparatus or model for representing the solar systems | - |
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| (noun) an optical device for projecting images of celestial bodies and other astronomical phenomena onto the inner surface of a hemispherical dome | - |
| (noun) a building housing an instrument for projecting the positions of the planets onto a domed ceiling | - |
| planetary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets | Synonyms: planetal |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants | Synonyms: terrestrial |
| (adjective) involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope | Synonyms: global, world-wide, world, worldwide |
| (adjective) having no fixed course | Synonyms: erratic, wandering |
| planetesimal | (noun) one of many small solid celestial bodies thought to have existed at an early stage in the development of the solar system | - |
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| planetoid | (noun) any of numerous small celestial bodies that move around the sun | Synonyms: minor planet |
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| plangency | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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| plangent | (adjective) loud and resounding | - |
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| planimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the area of an irregular plane figure | Synonyms: integrator |
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| plank | (noun) an endorsed policy in the platform of a political party | - |
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| (noun) a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes | Synonyms: board |
| (verb) cook and serve on a plank | - |
| (verb) cover with planks | Synonyms: plank over |
| (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plonk, plop, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
| planking | (noun) the work of covering an area with planks | - |
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| (noun) (nautical) a covering or flooring constructed of planks (as on a ship) | - |
| (noun) planks collectively; a quantity of planks | - |
| plankton | (noun) the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water | - |
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| planktonic | (adjective) of or relating to plankton | - |
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| planless | (adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: adrift, afloat, aimless, directionless, rudderless, undirected |
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| planned | (adjective) designed or carried out according to a plan | - |
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| (adjective) with planning and intention | Synonyms: aforethought, plotted |
| planner | (noun) a notebook for recording appointments and things to be done, etc. | - |
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| (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: contriver, deviser |
| planning | (noun) an act of formulating a program for a definite course of action | - |
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| (noun) the act or process of drawing up plans or layouts for some project or enterprise | - |
| (noun) the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening | Synonyms: preparation, provision |
| planoconcave | (adjective) flat on one side and concave on the other | - |
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| planoconvex | (adjective) flat on one side and convex on the other | - |
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| planographic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving planography | - |
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| planography | (noun) the process of printing from a surface on which the printing areas are not raised but are ink-receptive (as opposed to ink repellent) | Synonyms: planographic printing |
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| plant | (noun) (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion | Synonyms: flora, plant life |
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| (noun) buildings for carrying on industrial labor | Synonyms: industrial plant, works |
| (noun) something planted secretly for discovery by another | - |
| (noun) an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience | - |
| (verb) put firmly in the mind | Synonyms: implant |
| (verb) put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground | Synonyms: set |
| (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, imbed, implant |
| (verb) place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive | - |
| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, establish, found, institute |
| (verb) place into a river | - |
| plantain | (noun) starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics | - |
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| (noun) a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics | Synonyms: Musa paradisiaca, plantain tree |
| (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally | - |
| plantal | (adjective) of or relating to plants | - |
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| plantar | (adjective) relating to or occurring on the undersurface of the foot | - |
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| plantation | (noun) garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth | Synonyms: grove, orchard, woodlet |
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| (noun) an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas) | - |
| planted | (adjective) set in the soil for growth | - |
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| (adjective) (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held | Synonyms: deep-rooted, deep-seated, implanted, ingrained |
| planter | (noun) a decorative pot for house plants | - |
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| (noun) the owner or manager of a plantation | Synonyms: plantation owner |
| (noun) a worker who puts or sets seeds or seedlings into the ground | - |
| planthopper | (noun) related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants | Synonyms: plant hopper |
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| plantigrade | (adjective) (of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do) | - |
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| (noun) an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings | Synonyms: plantigrade mammal |
| planting | (noun) the act of fixing firmly in place | - |
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| (noun) putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow | - |
| (noun) a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area | - |
| plantlet | (noun) a young plant or a small plant | - |
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| plantsman | (noun) an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants) | Synonyms: horticulturist |
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| planula | (noun) the flat ciliated free-swimming larva of hydrozoan coelenterates | - |
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| ploughland | (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, plowland, tillage, tilled land, tilth |
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| plowland | (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, tillage, tilled land, tilth |
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| postulant | (noun) one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order | - |
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| potamoplankton | (noun) plankton that inhabit rivers | - |
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| propellant | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellent, propelling, propulsive |
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| (noun) any substance that propels | Synonyms: propellent |
| prostaglandin | (noun) a potent substance that acts like a hormone and is found in many bodily tissues (and especially in semen); produced in response to trauma and may affect blood pressure and metabolism and smooth muscle activity | - |
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| psilomelane | (noun) a mineral consisting of hydrated basic oxide of manganese and barium; a source of manganese | - |
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| purslane | (noun) a plant of the family Portulacaceae having fleshy succulent obovate leaves often grown as a potherb or salad herb; a weed in some areas | - |
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| pusillanimity | (noun) contemptible fearfulness | Synonyms: pusillanimousness |
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| pusillanimous | (adjective) lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful | Synonyms: poor-spirited, unmanly |
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| pusillanimously | (adverb) with a lack of courage and determination | Synonyms: simperingly |
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| pusillanimousness | (noun) contemptible fearfulness | Synonyms: pusillanimity |
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| raglan | (noun) a garment (coat or sweater) that has raglan sleeves | - |
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| rangeland | (noun) land suitable for grazing livestock | - |
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| rataplan | (noun) the sound made by beating a drum | Synonyms: drumbeat, rub-a-dub |
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| repellant | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| (adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: rebarbative, repellent |
| (noun) the power to repel | Synonyms: repellent |
| (noun) a chemical substance that repels animals | Synonyms: repellent |
| (noun) a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water | Synonyms: repellent |
| replant | (verb) plant again or anew | - |
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| resemblance | (noun) similarity in appearance or external or superficial details | - |
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| sailplane | (noun) aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces | Synonyms: glider |
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| (verb) fly a plane without an engine | Synonyms: soar |
| sailplaning | (noun) the activity of flying a glider | Synonyms: glide, gliding, sailing, soaring |
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| scablands | (noun) (geology) flat elevated land with poor soil and little vegetation that is scarred by dry channels of glacial origin (especially in eastern Washington) | - |
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| scintillant | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillating, sparkly |
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| screenland | (noun) the personnel of the film industry | Synonyms: filmdom, screen |
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| scrubland | (noun) an uncultivated region covered with scrub vegetation | - |
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| sealant | (noun) a kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface) | Synonyms: sealer |
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| seaplane | (noun) an airplane that can land on or take off from water | Synonyms: hydroplane |
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| (verb) glide on the water in a hydroplane | Synonyms: hydroplane |
| semblance | (noun) picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing | Synonyms: likeness |
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| (noun) an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading | Synonyms: color, colour, gloss |
| (noun) an erroneous mental representation | Synonyms: illusion |
| sibilant | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, fricative, spirant, strident |
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| (noun) a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh) | Synonyms: sibilant consonant |
| slander | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, calumny, defamation, denigration |
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| (noun) words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another | - |
| (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, smear, smirch, sully |
| slanderer | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, maligner, traducer, vilifier |
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