| alee | (adverb) on or toward the lee | - |
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| asleep | (adjective) in a state of sleep | - |
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| (adjective) dead | Synonyms: at peace, at rest, deceased, departed, gone |
| (adjective) lacking sensation | Synonyms: benumbed, numb |
| (adverb) into a sleeping state | - |
| (adverb) in the sleep of death | - |
| bailee | (noun) the agent to whom property involved in a bailment is delivered | - |
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| baleen | (noun) a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets | Synonyms: whalebone |
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| bandoleer | (noun) a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers | Synonyms: bandolier |
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| bleed | (verb) lose blood from one's body | Synonyms: hemorrhage, shed blood |
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| (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: leech, phlebotomise, phlebotomize |
| (verb) drain of liquid or steam | - |
| (verb) be diffused | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone | - |
| bleeder | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: haemophile, haemophiliac, hemophile, hemophiliac |
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| bleeding | (noun) the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel | Synonyms: haemorrhage, hemorrhage |
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| bleep | (noun) a short high tone produced as a signal or warning | Synonyms: beep |
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| (verb) emit a single short high-pitched signal | - |
| colleen | (noun) an Irish girl | - |
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| electrosleep | (noun) unconsciousness brought about by the passage of a low voltage electric current through the brain | - |
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| eleemosynary | (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, benevolent, philanthropic |
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| enrollee | (noun) a person who enrolls in (or is enrolled in) a class or course of study | - |
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| flee | (verb) run away quickly | Synonyms: fly, take flight |
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| fleece | (noun) outer coat of especially sheep and yaks | Synonyms: wool |
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| (noun) a soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing | - |
| (noun) the wool of a sheep or similar animal | - |
| (noun) tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing | Synonyms: sheepskin |
| (verb) shear the wool from | Synonyms: shear |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
| fleeceable | (adjective) naive and easily deceived or tricked | Synonyms: green, gullible |
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| fleecy | (adjective) (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing | Synonyms: brushed, napped |
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| fleer | (noun) someone who flees from an uncongenial situation | Synonyms: fugitive, runaway |
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| (noun) contempt expressed by mockery in looks or words | - |
| (verb) to smirk contemptuously | - |
| fleet | (adjective) moving very fast | Synonyms: swift |
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| (noun) a group of warships organized as a tactical unit | - |
| (noun) a group of steamships operating together under the same ownership | - |
| (noun) group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership | - |
| (noun) group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership | - |
| (verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fade, pass, pass off |
| (verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: dart, flit, flutter |
| fleeting | (adjective) lasting for a markedly brief time | Synonyms: fugitive, momentaneous, momentary |
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| fleetingness | (noun) the property of lasting for a very short time | Synonyms: ephemerality, ephemeralness |
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| fleetly | (adverb) in a swift manner | Synonyms: swiftly |
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| fleetness | (noun) rapidity of movement | - |
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| glee | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: gleefulness, hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness |
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| (noun) malicious satisfaction | Synonyms: gloat, gloating |
| gleeful | (adjective) full of high-spirited delight | Synonyms: elated, joyful, jubilant |
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| gleefully | (adverb) in a joyous and gleeful manner | Synonyms: joyfully, joyously |
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| gleefulness | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: glee, hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness |
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| gleet | (noun) a thin morbid discharge as from a wound or especially chronic gonorrhea | - |
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| horseleech | (noun) any of several large freshwater leeches | - |
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| jubilee | (noun) a special anniversary (or the celebration of it) | - |
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| keteleeria | (noun) Asiatic conifers resembling firs | - |
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| lee | (adjective) towards the side away from the wind | Synonyms: downwind |
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| (noun) the side of something that is sheltered from the wind | Synonyms: lee side, leeward |
| leech | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: bloodsucker, hirudinean |
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| (noun) a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage | Synonyms: parasite, sponge, sponger |
| (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, phlebotomise, phlebotomize |
| leechee | (noun) Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried | Synonyms: lichee, lichi, litchee, litchi, litchi nut, lychee |
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| leechlike | (adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | Synonyms: bloodsucking, parasitic, parasitical |
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| leek | (noun) related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves | - |
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| (noun) plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum | Synonyms: Allium porrum, scallion |
| leer | (noun) a suggestive or sneering look or grin | - |
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| (noun) a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls | Synonyms: sneer |
| (verb) look suggestively or obliquely; look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression | - |
| leering | (adjective) showing sly or knowing malice in a glance | - |
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| (adjective) (of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious | - |
| leery | (adjective) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide | Synonyms: mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary |
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| lees | (noun) the sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage | - |
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| leeward | (adjective) on the side away from the wind | - |
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| (noun) the side of something that is sheltered from the wind | Synonyms: lee, lee side |
| (noun) the direction in which the wind is blowing | - |
| (adverb) away from the wind | Synonyms: upwind |
| leeway | (noun) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits | Synonyms: allowance, margin, tolerance |
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| (noun) (of a ship or plane) sideways drift | - |
| mallee | (noun) any of several low-growing Australian eucalypts | - |
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| melee | (noun) a noisy riotous fight | Synonyms: battle royal, scrimmage |
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| nosebleed | (noun) bleeding from the nose | Synonyms: epistaxis |
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| oversleep | (verb) sleep longer than intended | - |
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| paleencephalon | (noun) the more primitive parts of the brain phylogenetically; most structures other than the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: palaeencephalon, paleoencephalon |
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| parolee | (noun) someone released on probation or on parole | Synonyms: probationer |
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| pistoleer | (noun) someone armed with a pistol (especially a soldier so armed) | - |
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| shirtsleeve | (noun) the sleeve of a shirt | - |
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| shirtsleeves | (noun) not wearing a jacket | - |
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| sleek | (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silken, silklike, silky, slick |
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| (adjective) well-groomed and neatly tailored; especially too well-groomed | - |
| (adjective) designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow | Synonyms: aerodynamic, flowing, streamlined |
| (verb) make slick or smooth | Synonyms: slick |
| sleekly | (adverb) in a sleek glossy manner | - |
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| sleekness | (noun) the smooth feel of silk fabric | Synonyms: silkiness |
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| (noun) the quality of being well-groomed and neatly tailored | - |
| sleep | (noun) a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended | Synonyms: slumber |
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| (noun) euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb) | Synonyms: eternal rest, eternal sleep, quietus, rest |
| (noun) a torpid state resembling deep sleep | Synonyms: sopor |
| (noun) a period of time spent sleeping | Synonyms: nap |
| (verb) be asleep | Synonyms: catch some Z's, kip, log Z's, slumber |
| (verb) be able to accommodate for sleeping | - |
| sleeper | (noun) an unexpected hit | - |
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| (noun) tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water | Synonyms: sleeper goby |
| (noun) a passenger car that has berths for sleeping | Synonyms: sleeping car, wagon-lit |
| (noun) one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track | Synonyms: crosstie, railroad tie, tie |
| (noun) a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed | - |
| (noun) pajamas with feet; worn by children | - |
| (noun) a rester who is sleeping | Synonyms: slumberer |
| (noun) an unexpected achiever of success | - |
| (noun) a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal | - |
| sleepily | (adverb) in a sleepy manner | - |
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| sleepiness | (noun) a very sleepy state | Synonyms: drowsiness, somnolence |
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| sleeping | (adjective) lying with head on paws as if sleeping | Synonyms: dormant |
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| (noun) the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate | - |
| (noun) quiet and inactive restfulness | Synonyms: dormancy, quiescence, quiescency |
| (noun) the state of being asleep | - |
| sleepless | (adjective) always watchful | Synonyms: lidless |
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| (adjective) experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness | Synonyms: insomniac, watchful |
| sleeplessly | (adverb) without sleep; in a sleepless manner | - |
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| sleeplessness | (noun) a temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep | Synonyms: wakefulness |
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| sleepover | (noun) an occasion of spending a night away from home or having a guest spend the night in your home (especially as a party for children) | - |
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| sleepwalk | (verb) walk in one's sleep | Synonyms: somnambulate |
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| sleepwalker | (noun) someone who walks about in their sleep | Synonyms: noctambulist, somnambulist |
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| sleepwalking | (noun) walking by a person who is asleep | Synonyms: noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulation, somnambulism |
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| sleepwear | (noun) garments designed to be worn in bed | Synonyms: nightclothes, nightwear |
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| sleepy | (adjective) ready to fall asleep | Synonyms: sleepy-eyed, sleepyheaded |
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| sleepyhead | (noun) a sleepy person | - |
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| sleepyheaded | (adjective) ready to fall asleep | Synonyms: sleepy-eyed, sleepy |
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| sleet | (noun) partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow) | - |
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| (verb) precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow | - |
| sleety | (adjective) consisting of or of the nature of frozen or partially frozen rain | - |
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| sleeve | (noun) the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm | Synonyms: arm |
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| (noun) small case into which an object fits | - |
| sleeved | (adjective) made with sleeves or sleeves especially as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| sleeveless | (adjective) having no sleeves | - |
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| (adjective) unproductive of success | Synonyms: bootless, fruitless, futile, vain |
| spleen | (noun) a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses | Synonyms: lien |
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| (noun) a feeling of resentful anger | Synonyms: irascibility, quick temper, short temper |
| spleenwort | (noun) any of various chiefly rock-inhabiting ferns of the genus Asplenium | - |
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| unsleeping | (adjective) fully awake | Synonyms: wide-awake |
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