| alliance | (noun) the act of forming an alliance or confederation | Synonyms: confederation |
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| (noun) a formal agreement establishing an association or alliance between nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim | - |
| (noun) an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: alignment, alinement, coalition |
| (noun) a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest | Synonyms: bond |
| (noun) the state of being allied or confederated | Synonyms: confederation |
| appliance | (noun) durable goods for home or office use | - |
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| (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
| bacchanalian | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic |
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| brilliance | (noun) a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted | Synonyms: blaze, glare |
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| (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: grandeur, grandness, magnificence, splendor, splendour |
| (noun) unusual mental ability | Synonyms: genius |
| brilliancy | (noun) a quality that outshines the usual | Synonyms: luster, lustre, splendor, splendour |
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| brilliant | (adjective) full of light; shining intensely | - |
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| (adjective) having strong or striking color | Synonyms: bright, vivid |
| (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: glorious, magnificent, splendid |
| (adjective) having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence | Synonyms: brainy, smart as a whip |
| (adjective) clear and sharp and ringing | Synonyms: bright |
| (adjective) of surpassing excellence | Synonyms: superb |
| brilliantine | (noun) a pomade to make the hair manageable and lustrous | - |
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| brilliantly | (adverb) in an extremely intelligent way | - |
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| (adverb) with brightness | Synonyms: bright, brightly |
| caecilian | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the family Caeciliidae | - |
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| (noun) any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions | Synonyms: blindworm |
| calliandra | (noun) any of various shrubs and small trees valued for their fine foliage and attractive spreading habit and clustered white to deep pink or red flowers | - |
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| carnelian | (noun) a translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: cornelian |
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| civilian | (adjective) associated with civil life or performed by persons who are not active members of the military | - |
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| (noun) a nonmilitary citizen | - |
| clianthus | (noun) any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Clianthus having compound leaves and pea-like red flowers in drooping racemes | Synonyms: glory pea |
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| compliance | (noun) the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another | Synonyms: submission |
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| (noun) acting according to certain accepted standards | Synonyms: abidance, conformation, conformity |
| (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliancy, deference, obligingness |
| compliancy | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliance, deference, obligingness |
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| compliant | (adjective) inclined to comply | - |
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| cornelian | (noun) a translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: carnelian |
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| crocodilian | (noun) extant archosaurian reptile | Synonyms: crocodilian reptile |
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| dalliance | (noun) the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working | Synonyms: dawdling, trifling |
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| (noun) playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest | Synonyms: coquetry, flirt, flirtation, flirting, toying |
| defoliant | (noun) a chemical that is sprayed on plants and causes their leaves to fall off | - |
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| helianthemum | (noun) any plant of the genus Helianthemum; vigorous plants of stony alpine meadows and dry scrub regions | Synonyms: sun rose, sunrose |
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| helianthus | (noun) any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays | Synonyms: sunflower |
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| holocephalian | (noun) fish with high compressed head and a body tapering off into a long tail | Synonyms: holocephalan |
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| kalian | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| kaoliang | (noun) sorghums of China and Manchuria having small white or brown grains (used for food) and dry pithy stalks (used for fodder, fuel and thatching) | - |
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| lacertilian | (adjective) of or relating to lizards | Synonyms: saurian |
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| liana | (noun) a woody climbing usually tropical plant | - |
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| mammalian | (adjective) of or relating to the class Mammalia | - |
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| (noun) any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk | Synonyms: mammal |
| marginocephalian | (noun) includes boneheaded (pachycephalosaurs) and horned (ceratopsian) dinosaurs | Synonyms: Marginocephalia, suborder Marginocephalia |
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| mephistophelian | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelean |
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| mesalliance | (noun) a marriage with a person of inferior social status | - |
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| misalliance | (noun) an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage) | - |
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| mongolianism | (noun) a congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome; results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation | Synonyms: Down's syndrome, Down syndrome, mongolism, trisomy 21 |
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| noncompliance | (noun) the failure to obey | Synonyms: disobedience |
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| noncompliant | (adjective) boldly resisting authority or an opposing force | Synonyms: defiant |
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| (noun) a person who refuses to comply | Synonyms: balker, baulker |
| overvaliant | (adjective) having or showing undue valor or boldness | - |
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| pliancy | (noun) adaptability of mind or character | Synonyms: pliability, pliantness, suppleness |
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| (noun) the property of being pliant and flexible | Synonyms: pliantness, suppleness |
| pliant | (adjective) able to adjust readily to different conditions | Synonyms: elastic, flexible, pliable |
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| (adjective) capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking | Synonyms: bendable, pliable, waxy |
| (adjective) capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out | Synonyms: ductile, malleable, pliable, tensile, tractile |
| (adjective) capable of being influenced or formed | Synonyms: plastic |
| pliantness | (noun) adaptability of mind or character | Synonyms: pliability, pliancy, suppleness |
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| (noun) the property of being pliant and flexible | Synonyms: pliancy, suppleness |
| reliance | (noun) certainty based on past experience | Synonyms: trust |
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| (noun) the state of relying on something | - |
| reliant | (adjective) relying on another for support | - |
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| reptilian | (adjective) of or relating to the class Reptilia | - |
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| (noun) any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms | Synonyms: reptile |
| sesquipedalian | (adjective) (of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables | Synonyms: polysyllabic |
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| (adjective) given to the overuse of long words | - |
| (noun) a very long word (a foot and a half long) | Synonyms: sesquipedalia |
| suppliant | (adjective) humbly entreating | Synonyms: supplicant, supplicatory |
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| (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: petitioner, requester, supplicant |
| valiance | (noun) the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle) | Synonyms: gallantry, heroism, valiancy, valor, valorousness, valour |
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| valiancy | (noun) the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle) | Synonyms: gallantry, heroism, valiance, valor, valorousness, valour |
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| valiant | (adjective) having or showing valor | Synonyms: valorous |
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| valiantly | (adverb) with valor; in a valiant manner | Synonyms: valorously |
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| vaudevillian | (noun) a performer who works in vaudeville | - |
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