alopecia | (noun) loss of hair (especially on the head) or loss of wool or feathers; in humans it can result from heredity or hormonal imbalance or certain diseases or drugs and treatments (chemotherapy for cancer) | - |
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alopecic | (adjective) pertaining to loss of hair or wool or feathers | - |
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antelope | (noun) graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles, springboks, impalas, addax, gerenuks, blackbucks, dik-diks | - |
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aslope | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping |
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cyclopean | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops | - |
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cyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia |
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developed | (adjective) being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful | - |
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(adjective) (of real estate) made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads | - |
(adjective) (used of societies) having high industrial development | Synonyms: highly-developed |
developer | (noun) photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film | - |
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(noun) someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use) | - |
downslope | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, fall |
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elope | (verb) run away secretly with one's beloved | Synonyms: run off |
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elopement | (noun) the act of running away with a lover (usually to get married) | - |
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encyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopaedia |
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encyclopedic | (adjective) comprehensive in scope or content (as an encyclopedia) | Synonyms: encyclopaedic |
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encyclopedism | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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encyclopedist | (noun) a person who compiles information for encyclopedias | Synonyms: encyclopaedist |
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envelope | (noun) any wrapper or covering | - |
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(noun) a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc. | - |
(noun) the bag containing the gas in a balloon | Synonyms: gasbag |
(noun) the maximum operating capability of a system (especially an aircraft) | - |
(noun) a natural covering (as by a fluid) | - |
(noun) a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves | - |
haloperidol | (noun) tranquilizer (trade name Haldol) used to treat some psychotic disorders and Tourette's syndrome | Synonyms: Haldol |
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interlope | (verb) encroach on the rights of others, as in trading without a proper license | - |
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interloper | (noun) someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission | Synonyms: intruder, trespasser |
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lope | (noun) a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop | Synonyms: canter |
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(noun) a slow pace of running | Synonyms: jog, trot |
(verb) run easily | - |
malope | (noun) western Mediterranean annual having deep purple-red flowers subtended by 3 large cordate bracts | Synonyms: Malope trifida |
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salopettes | (noun) trousers usually of stretch material and kept taut by a strap under the foot, worn for skiing or as a fashion garment. | Synonyms: ski pants |
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scalloped | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenate, crenated |
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scolopendrium | (noun) a fern thought to resemble a millipede | - |
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slope | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal | Synonyms: gradient |
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(noun) an elevated geological formation | Synonyms: incline, side |
(verb) be at an angle | Synonyms: incline, pitch |
sloped | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloping |
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underdeveloped | (adjective) not yet fully developed | - |
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(adjective) relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply | Synonyms: developing |
undeveloped | (adjective) not developed, mature, or fully formulated | - |
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(adjective) not developed, improved, exploited or used | Synonyms: unexploited |
unsloped | (adjective) in a vertical position; not sloping | Synonyms: upright |
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walloper | (noun) a gross untruth; a blatant lie | Synonyms: whopper |
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(noun) a winner by a wide margin | - |
(noun) a very hard hitter | - |