| acetaldehyde | (noun) a colorless volatile water-soluble liquid aldehyde used chiefly in the manufacture of acetic acid and perfumes and drugs | Synonyms: ethanal |
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| alcalde | (noun) a mayor or chief magistrate of a Spanish town | - |
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| aldehyde | (noun) any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds; used in making resins and dyes and organic acids | - |
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| aldehydic | (adjective) of or related to or containing aldehydes | - |
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| alder | (noun) north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant | Synonyms: alder tree |
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| (noun) wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc | - |
| alderfly | (noun) dark-colored insect having predaceous aquatic larvae | Synonyms: alder fly, Sialis lutaria |
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| alderman | (noun) a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council) | - |
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| aldermanic | (adjective) of or relating to or like an alderman | Synonyms: aldermanly |
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| aldermanly | (adjective) of or relating to or like an alderman | Synonyms: aldermanic |
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| balderdash | (noun) trivial nonsense | Synonyms: fiddle-faddle, piffle |
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| beholden | (adjective) under a moral obligation to someone | - |
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| beholder | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: observer, perceiver, percipient |
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| bewilder | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, discombobulate, throw |
| bewildered | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| bewilderedly | (adverb) in a bewildered manner | - |
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| bewilderingly | (adverb) in a bewildering and confusing manner | Synonyms: confusingly |
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| bewilderment | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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| blindfolded | (adjective) wearing a blindfold | Synonyms: blindfold |
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| boatbuilder | (noun) a person who builds boats | - |
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| bodybuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder, muscleman |
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| bondholder | (noun) a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation | - |
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| boulder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: bowlder |
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| bouldered | (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldery, rocky, stony |
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| bouldery | (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldered, rocky, stony |
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| bowlder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: boulder |
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| builder | (noun) someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) | Synonyms: constructor |
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| (noun) a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country | - |
| (noun) a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action | Synonyms: detergent builder |
| caldera | (noun) a large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression | - |
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| cardholder | (noun) a player who holds a card or cards in a card game | - |
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| (noun) a person who holds a credit card or debit card | - |
| centerfielder | (noun) the person who plays center field | Synonyms: center fielder |
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| coachbuilder | (noun) a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles | - |
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| copyholder | (noun) mechanical device used in printing; holds the copy for the compositor | - |
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| elder | (adjective) used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son | Synonyms: older, sr. |
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| (noun) a person who is older than you are | Synonyms: senior |
| (noun) any of various church officers | - |
| (noun) any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit | Synonyms: elderberry bush |
| elderberry | (noun) berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies | - |
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| (noun) a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies | Synonyms: black elder, bourtree, common elder, European elder, Sambucus nigra |
| elderly | (adjective) advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables) | Synonyms: aged, older, senior |
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| (noun) people who are old collectively | Synonyms: aged |
| eldership | (noun) the office of elder | - |
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| eldest | (adjective) first in order of birth | Synonyms: firstborn |
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| (noun) the offspring who came first in the order of birth | Synonyms: firstborn |
| embolden | (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, hearten, recreate |
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| emboldened | (adjective) made bold or courageous | - |
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| falderol | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
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| fielder | (noun) a member of the baseball team that is in the field instead of at bat | - |
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| (noun) a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting | Synonyms: fieldsman |
| folder | (noun) covering that is folded over to protect the contents | - |
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| (noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: booklet, brochure, leaflet, pamphlet |
| folderal | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
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| folderol | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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| formaldehyde | (noun) a colorless poisonous gas; made by the oxidation of methanol | Synonyms: methanal |
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| freeholder | (noun) the owner of a freehold | - |
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| furfuraldehyde | (noun) a liquid aldehyde with a penetrating odor; made from plant hulls and corncobs; used in making furan and as a solvent | Synonyms: furfural |
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| gelded | (adjective) (of a male animal) having the testicles removed | Synonyms: cut, emasculated |
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| gilded | (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: aureate, gilt, gold, golden |
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| (adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: glossy, meretricious, specious |
| (adjective) made from or covered with gold | Synonyms: gold, golden |
| (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, grand, lush, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous |
| gilder | (noun) someone whose occupation is to apply an overlay of gold or gilt | - |
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| glyceraldehyde | (noun) a sweet crystalline aldehyde formed by the breakdown of sugars | Synonyms: glyceric aldehyde |
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| golden | (adjective) supremely favored | Synonyms: fortunate |
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| (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: aureate, gilded, gilt, gold |
| (adjective) marked by peace and prosperity | Synonyms: halcyon, prosperous |
| (adjective) made from or covered with gold | Synonyms: gilded, gold |
| (adjective) suggestive of gold | - |
| (adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome | Synonyms: favorable, favourable, lucky, prosperous |
| goldenbush | (noun) a plant of the genus Haplopappus | - |
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| (noun) any of various much-branched yellow-flowered shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus; western North America | - |
| goldeneye | (noun) large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions | Synonyms: Bucephela clangula, whistler |
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| (noun) a variety of green lacewing | Synonyms: golden-eyed fly |
| goldenrod | (noun) any of numerous chiefly summer-blooming and fall-blooming North American plants especially of the genus Solidago | - |
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| goldenseal | (noun) perennial herb of northeastern United States having a thick knotted yellow rootstock and large rounded leaves | Synonyms: golden seal, Hydrastis Canadensis, turmeric root, yellow root |
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| guilder | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Dutch florin, florin, gulden |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: florin, gulden |
| gulden | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Dutch florin, florin, guilder |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: florin, guilder |
| heralded | (adjective) proclaimed | - |
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| holder | (noun) a holding device | - |
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| (noun) the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it | Synonyms: bearer |
| (noun) a person who holds something | - |
| homebuilder | (noun) someone who builds houses as a business | Synonyms: home-builder, house-builder, housebuilder |
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| housebuilder | (noun) someone who builds houses as a business | Synonyms: home-builder, homebuilder, house-builder |
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| householder | (noun) someone who owns a home | Synonyms: homeowner |
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| infielder | (noun) (baseball) a person who plays a position in the infield | - |
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| jobholder | (noun) an employee who holds a regular job | - |
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| kildeer | (noun) American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry | Synonyms: Charadrius vociferus, killdeer, killdeer plover |
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| kilderkin | (noun) an obsolete British unit of capacity equal to 18 Imperial gallons | - |
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| killdeer | (noun) American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry | Synonyms: Charadrius vociferus, kildeer, killdeer plover |
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| landholder | (noun) a holder or proprietor of land | Synonyms: landowner, property owner |
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| leaseholder | (noun) a tenant who holds a lease | Synonyms: lessee |
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| mildew | (noun) a fungus that produces a superficial (usually white) growth on organic matter | - |
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| (noun) the process of becoming mildewed | Synonyms: mold, mould |
| (verb) become moldy; spoil due to humidity | Synonyms: mold, mould |
| molded | (adjective) shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort) | Synonyms: shaped, wrought |
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| molder | (verb) break down | Synonyms: decompose, moulder, rot |
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| moulder | (verb) break down | Synonyms: decompose, molder, rot |
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| musclebuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: bodybuilder, muscle-builder, muscle builder, muscleman |
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| officeholder | (noun) the official who holds an office | Synonyms: incumbent |
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| (noun) someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust | Synonyms: officer |
| olden | (adjective) relating to time long past | - |
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| older | (adjective) skilled through long experience | Synonyms: old |
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| (adjective) advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables) | Synonyms: aged, elderly, senior |
| (adjective) used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son | Synonyms: elder, sr. |
| outfielder | (noun) (baseball) a person who plays in the outfield | - |
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| (noun) a fielder in cricket who is stationed in the outfield | - |
| paraldehyde | (noun) a colorless liquid (a cyclic trimer of acetaldehyde) that is used as a sedative and a solvent | Synonyms: ethanal trimer |
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| placeholder | (noun) a symbol in a logical or mathematical expression that can be replaced by the name of any member of specified set | - |
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| (noun) a person authorized to act for another | Synonyms: procurator, proxy |
| polder | (noun) low-lying land that has been reclaimed and is protected by dikes (especially in the Netherlands) | - |
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| policyholder | (noun) a person who holds an insurance policy; usually, the client in whose name an insurance policy is written | - |
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| potholder | (noun) an insulated pad for holding hot pots | - |
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| propionaldehyde | (noun) a colorless liquid aldehyde | Synonyms: propanal |
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| scolder | (noun) someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault | Synonyms: common scold, nag, nagger, scold |
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| shareholder | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareowner, stockholder |
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| shielded | (adjective) (used especially of machinery) protected by a shield to prevent injury | - |
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| shielder | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: defender, guardian, protector |
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| shipbuilder | (noun) a business that builds and repairs ships | - |
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| (noun) a person who builds ships as a business | Synonyms: ship builder |
| (noun) a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels | Synonyms: ship builder, shipwright |
| shoulder | (noun) a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road | Synonyms: berm |
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| (noun) the part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder | - |
| (noun) the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm | - |
| (noun) a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula | Synonyms: articulatio humeri, shoulder joint |
| (noun) a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg | - |
| (verb) push with the shoulders | - |
| (verb) carry a burden, either real or metaphoric | - |
| (verb) lift onto one's shoulders | - |
| shouldered | (adjective) having shoulders or shoulders as specified; usually used as a combining form | - |
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| sildenafil | (noun) virility drug (trade name Viagra) used to treat erectile dysfunction in men | Synonyms: sildenafil citrate, Viagra |
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| slaveholder | (noun) someone who holds slaves | Synonyms: slave owner, slaver |
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| smallholder | (noun) a person owning or renting a smallholding | - |
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| smolder | (noun) a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame | Synonyms: smoulder |
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| (verb) burn slowly and without a flame | Synonyms: smoulder |
| (verb) have strong suppressed feelings | Synonyms: smoulder |
| smoldering | (adjective) showing scarcely suppressed anger | Synonyms: smouldering |
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| smolderingly | (adverb) with barely repressed anger | Synonyms: smoulderingly |
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| smoulder | (noun) a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame | Synonyms: smolder |
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| (verb) burn slowly and without a flame | Synonyms: smolder |
| (verb) have strong suppressed feelings | Synonyms: smolder |
| smouldering | (adjective) showing scarcely suppressed anger | Synonyms: smoldering |
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| smoulderingly | (adverb) with barely repressed anger | Synonyms: smolderingly |
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