| afterglow | (noun) the pleasure of remembering some pleasant event | - |
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| (noun) a glow sometimes seen in the sky after sunset | - |
| aglow | (adjective) softly bright or radiant | Synonyms: lambent, lucent, luminous |
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| airflow | (noun) the flow of air | Synonyms: air flow, flow of air |
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| allow | (verb) allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something | Synonyms: take into account |
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| (verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: appropriate, earmark, reserve, set aside |
| (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: countenance, let, permit |
| (verb) allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting | Synonyms: permit, tolerate |
| (verb) let have | Synonyms: grant |
| (verb) grant as a discount or in exchange | - |
| (verb) make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen | Synonyms: let, permit |
| (verb) allow the other (baseball) team to score | Synonyms: give up |
| (verb) make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain | Synonyms: allow for, leave, provide |
| (verb) afford possibility | Synonyms: admit |
| allowable | (adjective) that may be permitted especially as according to rule | Synonyms: permissible |
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| (adjective) deserving to be allowed or considered | - |
| (adjective) deductible according to the tax laws | - |
| allowably | (adverb) in a permissible manner | Synonyms: permissibly |
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| allowance | (noun) the act of allowing | - |
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| (noun) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits | Synonyms: leeway, margin, tolerance |
| (noun) an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period) | - |
| (noun) an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances | Synonyms: adjustment |
| (noun) a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses | - |
| (noun) a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets | Synonyms: allowance account, valuation account, valuation reserve |
| (verb) put on a fixed allowance, as of food | - |
| backflow | (noun) a flow that returns toward its source | Synonyms: backflowing |
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| backflowing | (noun) a flow that returns toward its source | Synonyms: backflow |
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| bedfellow | (noun) a person with whom you share a bed | Synonyms: bedmate |
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| (noun) a temporary associate | - |
| bellflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: campanula |
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| bellow | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| (verb) shout loudly and without restraint | Synonyms: bawl |
| (verb) make a loud noise, as of animal | Synonyms: roar |
| bellower | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
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| bellowing | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| bellows | (noun) (used in the plural) a mechanical device that blows a strong current of air; used to make a fire burn more fiercely or to sound a musical instrument | - |
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| below | (adverb) (in writing) at a later place | Synonyms: infra |
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| (adverb) in or to a place that is lower | Synonyms: at a lower place, beneath, to a lower place |
| (adverb) further down | Synonyms: under |
| (adverb) on a floor below | Synonyms: down the stairs, downstairs, on a lower floor |
| belowground | (adjective) underneath the ground | - |
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| (adjective) under the level of the ground | Synonyms: underground |
| billow | (noun) a large sea wave | Synonyms: surge |
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| (verb) become inflated | Synonyms: balloon, inflate |
| (verb) rise and move, as in waves or billows | Synonyms: heave, surge |
| (verb) rise up as if in waves | Synonyms: wallow |
| (verb) move with great difficulty | - |
| billowing | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowy, surging |
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| billowy | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowing, surging |
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| blow | (noun) a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon | - |
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| (noun) forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth | Synonyms: puff |
| (noun) street names for cocaine | Synonyms: C, coke, nose candy, snow |
| (noun) an impact (as from a collision) | Synonyms: bump |
| (noun) an unpleasant or disappointing surprise | Synonyms: shock |
| (noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, reversal, reverse, setback |
| (noun) a strong current of air | Synonyms: blast, gust |
| (verb) exhale hard | - |
| (verb) free of obstruction by blowing air through | - |
| (verb) melt, break, or become otherwise unusable | Synonyms: blow out, burn out |
| (verb) burst suddenly | - |
| (verb) shape by blowing | - |
| (verb) show off | Synonyms: bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
| (verb) cause to be revealed and jeopardized | - |
| (verb) allow to regain its breath | - |
| (verb) deposit eggs (of insects) | - |
| (verb) be in motion due to some air or water current | Synonyms: be adrift, drift, float |
| (verb) cause to move by means of an air current | - |
| (verb) leave; informal or rude | Synonyms: shove along, shove off |
| (verb) cause air to go in, on, or through | - |
| (verb) spout moist air from the blowhole | - |
| (verb) play or sound a wind instrument | - |
| (verb) make a sound as if blown | - |
| (verb) sound by having air expelled through a tube | - |
| (verb) provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation | Synonyms: fellate, go down on, suck |
| (verb) spend lavishly or wastefully on | - |
| (verb) spend thoughtlessly; throw away | Synonyms: squander, waste |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| (verb) be inadequate or objectionable | Synonyms: suck |
| (verb) be blowing or storming | - |
| blowback | (noun) Blowback is a system of operation for self-loading firearms that obtains energy from the motion of the cartridge case as it is pushed to the rear by expanding gases created by the ignition of the propellant charge. | - |
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| (noun) misinformation resulting from the recirculation into the source country of disinformation previously planted abroad by that country's intelligence service | - |
| (noun) the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired | Synonyms: backfire |
| blowball | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Taraxacum having long tap roots and deeply notched leaves and bright yellow flowers followed by fluffy seed balls | Synonyms: dandelion |
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| blowbang | (noun) A sexual activity where fellatio is performed on multiple men | - |
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| blower | (noun) large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales, dolphins, porpoises, narwhals | Synonyms: cetacean, cetacean mammal |
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| (noun) a device that produces a current of air | - |
| (noun) a fan run by an electric motor | Synonyms: electric fan |
| blowfish | (noun) any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers | Synonyms: globefish, puffer, pufferfish |
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| (noun) delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver | Synonyms: puffer, pufferfish, sea squab |
| blowfly | (noun) large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds | Synonyms: blow fly |
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| blowgun | (noun) a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing | Synonyms: blow tube, blowpipe, blowtube |
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| blowhard | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: boaster, braggart, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
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| blowhole | (noun) a hole for the escape of gas or air | Synonyms: vent-hole, vent, venthole |
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| (noun) the spiracle of a cetacean located far back on the skull | - |
| blowing | (noun) processing that involves blowing a gas | - |
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| blowjob | (noun) slang for fellatio | Synonyms: cock sucking |
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| blowlamp | (noun) a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame | Synonyms: blowtorch, torch |
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| blown | (adjective) breathing laboriously or convulsively | Synonyms: pursy, short-winded, winded |
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| (adjective) being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor | - |
| blowout | (noun) a gay festivity | Synonyms: gala, gala affair, jamboree |
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| (noun) a sudden malfunction of a part or apparatus | - |
| (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: laugher, romp, runaway, shoo-in, walkaway |
| blowpipe | (noun) a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat | Synonyms: blow tube, blowtube |
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| (noun) a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing | Synonyms: blow tube, blowgun, blowtube |
| blowsy | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowzy, slatternly, sluttish |
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| blowtorch | (noun) a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame | Synonyms: blowlamp, torch |
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| blowtube | (noun) a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat | Synonyms: blow tube, blowpipe |
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| (noun) a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing | Synonyms: blow tube, blowgun, blowpipe |
| blowup | (noun) a photographic print that has been enlarged | Synonyms: enlargement, magnification |
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| (noun) an unrestrained expression of emotion | Synonyms: ebullition, effusion, gush, outburst |
| (noun) a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction | Synonyms: detonation, explosion |
| blowy | (adjective) abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes | Synonyms: breezy, windy |
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| blowzy | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowsy, slatternly, sluttish |
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| bungalow | (noun) a small house with a single story | Synonyms: cottage |
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| butterflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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| callow | (adjective) young and inexperienced | Synonyms: fledgling, unfledged |
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| callowness | (noun) lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life | Synonyms: jejuneness, juvenility |
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| cauliflower | (noun) compact head of white undeveloped flowers | - |
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| (noun) a plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds | Synonyms: Brassica oleracea botrytis |
| cheeseflower | (noun) erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States | Synonyms: cheese, high mallow, Malva sylvestris, tall mallow |
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| chiggerflower | (noun) erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers | Synonyms: Asclepias tuberosa, butterfly weed, chigger flower, Indian paintbrush, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, tuber root |
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| clowder | (noun) a group of cats | - |
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| clown | (noun) a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior | Synonyms: buffoon, goof, goofball, merry andrew |
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| (noun) a rude or vulgar fool | Synonyms: buffoon |
| (verb) act as or like a clown | Synonyms: antic, clown around |
| clowning | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, frivolity, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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| (noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: comedy, drollery, funniness |
| clownish | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: buffoonish, clownlike, zany |
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| clownlike | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: buffoonish, clownish, zany |
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| coneflower | (noun) any of various perennials of the eastern United States having thick rough leaves and long-stalked showy flowers with drooping rays and a conelike center | - |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Rudbeckia cultivated for their large usually yellow daisies with prominent central cones | - |
| (noun) a wildflower of the genus Ratibida | - |
| cornflower | (noun) an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: bachelor's button, bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus |
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| (noun) plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried | Synonyms: strawflower, Uvularia grandiflora |
| counterblow | (noun) a return blow; a retaliatory blow | - |
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| counterglow | (noun) a faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space | Synonyms: gegenschein |
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| cuckooflower | (noun) a bitter cress of Europe and America | Synonyms: Cardamine pratensis, cuckoo flower, lady's smock, meadow cress |
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| cumswallow | (verb) to swallow ejaculate | - |
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| cupflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Nierembergia having upturned bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: nierembergia |
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| (noun) Mexican evergreen climbing plant having large solitary funnel-shaped fragrant yellow flowers with purple-brown ridges in the throat | Synonyms: chalice vine, Solandra guttata, trumpet flower |
| dayflower | (noun) any plant of the family Commelinaceae | Synonyms: spiderwort |
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| deathblow | (noun) the blow that kills (usually mercifully) | Synonyms: coup de grace |
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| deflower | (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: impair, mar, spoil, vitiate |
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| (verb) deprive of virginity | Synonyms: ruin |
| disallow | (verb) command against | Synonyms: forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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| fallow | (adjective) undeveloped but potentially useful | - |
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| (adjective) left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season | - |
| (noun) cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons | - |
| fellow | (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, gent, lad |
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| (noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: beau, boyfriend, swain |
| (noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: associate, companion, comrade, familiar |
| (noun) a person who is member of one's class or profession | Synonyms: colleague, confrere |
| (noun) an informal form of address for a man | Synonyms: buster, dude |
| (noun) a member of a learned society | - |
| (noun) one of a pair | Synonyms: mate |
| fellowship | (noun) an association of people who share common beliefs or activities | Synonyms: family |
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| (noun) money granted (by a university or foundation or other agency) for advanced study or research | - |
| (noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: companionship, company, society |
| fingerflower | (noun) tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, fairy bell, finger-flower, finger-root, fingerroot |
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| flameflower | (noun) plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots | Synonyms: flame-flower, flame flower, Talinum aurantiacum |
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| (noun) a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers | Synonyms: flame-flower, flame flower, kniphofia, tritoma |
| flow | (noun) the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression | Synonyms: stream |
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| (noun) the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) | Synonyms: flowing |
| (noun) dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas | Synonyms: current, stream |
| (noun) any uninterrupted stream or discharge | - |
| (noun) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | Synonyms: catamenia, menses, menstruation, menstruum, period |
| (noun) something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously | Synonyms: stream |
| (noun) the amount of fluid that flows in a given time | Synonyms: flow rate, rate of flow |
| (verb) undergo menstruation | Synonyms: menstruate |
| (verb) cover or swamp with water | - |
| (verb) fall or flow in a certain way | Synonyms: fall, hang |
| (verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: course, feed, run |
| (verb) move or progress freely as if in a stream | Synonyms: flux |
| (verb) cause to flow | - |
| (verb) be abundantly present | - |
| flowage | (noun) the act of flooding; filling to overflowing | Synonyms: flood |
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| (noun) a body of water that has been created by deliberately flooding an area | - |
| (noun) gradual internal motion or deformation of a solid body (as by heat) | - |
| flowchart | (noun) a diagram of the sequence of operations in a computer program or an accounting system | Synonyms: flow chart, flow diagram, flow sheet |
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| flower | (noun) a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms | - |
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| (noun) reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts | Synonyms: bloom, blossom |
| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
| (verb) produce or yield flowers | Synonyms: bloom, blossom |
| flowerbed | (noun) a bed in which flowers are growing | Synonyms: bed of flowers, flower bed |
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| flowered | (adjective) resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers | Synonyms: floral |
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| floweret | (noun) a diminutive flower (especially one that is part of a composite flower) | Synonyms: floret |
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| flowering | (adjective) when a plant is in a state of possessing one or multiple flowers and/or blooms | - |
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| (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, inflorescence |
| (noun) a developmental process | Synonyms: unfolding |
| flowerless | (adjective) without flower or bloom and not producing seeds | Synonyms: nonflowering |
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| flowerpot | (noun) a container in which plants are cultivated | Synonyms: pot |
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| flowery | (adjective) of or relating to or suggestive of flowers | - |
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| (adjective) marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details | Synonyms: ornate |
| flowing | (adjective) designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow | Synonyms: aerodynamic, sleek, streamlined |
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| (noun) the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) | Synonyms: flow |
| flyblown | (adjective) blemished, especially of reputation | - |
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| (adjective) foul and run-down and repulsive | Synonyms: sordid, squalid |
| (adjective) spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies | Synonyms: maggoty |
| foamflower | (noun) stoloniferous white-flowered spring-blooming woodland plant | Synonyms: coolwart, false miterwort, false mitrewort, Tiarella cordifolia |
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| follow | (verb) behave in accordance or in agreement with | Synonyms: conform to |
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| (verb) keep informed | Synonyms: keep abreast, keep up |
| (verb) keep to | Synonyms: stick to, stick with |
| (verb) follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something | Synonyms: trace |
| (verb) grasp the meaning | - |
| (verb) imitate in behavior; take as a model | Synonyms: take after |
| (verb) perform an accompaniment to | Synonyms: accompany, play along |
| (verb) to travel behind, go after, come after | - |
| (verb) travel along a certain course | Synonyms: travel along |
| (verb) follow in or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: pursue |
| (verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: surveil, survey |
| (verb) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans | Synonyms: adopt, espouse |
| (verb) to subscribe to someone's updates on social media | - |
| (verb) to be subscribed to updates from another user on social media | - |
| (verb) act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes | Synonyms: abide by, comply |
| (verb) be the successor (of) | Synonyms: come after, succeed |
| (verb) follow with the eyes or the mind | Synonyms: keep an eye on, observe, watch, watch over |
| (verb) work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function | Synonyms: be |
| (verb) accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of | - |
| (verb) adhere to or practice | - |
| (verb) be later in time | Synonyms: postdate |
| (verb) come after in time, as a result | Synonyms: come after |
| (verb) be next | - |
| (verb) to bring something about at a later time than | - |
| (verb) to be the product or result | Synonyms: come |
| (verb) come as a logical consequence; follow logically | Synonyms: fall out |
| follower | (noun) a person who accepts the leadership of another | - |
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| (noun) someone who travels behind or pursues another | - |
| followers | (noun) a group of followers or enthusiasts | Synonyms: following |
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| following | (adjective) going or proceeding or coming after in the same direction | - |
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| (adjective) in the desired direction | - |
| (adjective) about to be mentioned or specified | Synonyms: undermentioned |
| (adjective) immediately following in time or order | Synonyms: next |
| (noun) the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture | Synonyms: chase, pursual, pursuit |
| (noun) a group of followers or enthusiasts | Synonyms: followers |
| followup | (noun) a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment | Synonyms: follow-up, reexamination, review |
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| (noun) an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done | Synonyms: follow-up |
| (noun) a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work | Synonyms: follow-up |
| furbelow | (noun) a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim | Synonyms: flounce, frill, ruffle |
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| gallows | (noun) an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging | - |
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| gillyflower | (noun) Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors | Synonyms: carnation, clove pink, Dianthus caryophyllus |
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| (noun) any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers | Synonyms: stock |
| glassblower | (noun) someone skilled in blowing bottles from molten glass | - |
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| globeflower | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Trollius having globose yellow flowers | Synonyms: globe flower |
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| glow | (noun) light from nonthermal sources | Synonyms: luminescence |
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| (noun) an appearance of reflected light | Synonyms: gleam, gleaming, lambency |
| (noun) a feeling of considerable warmth | - |
| (noun) the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised | Synonyms: incandescence |
| (noun) the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface | Synonyms: glowing, radiance |
| (noun) a steady even light without flames | - |
| (noun) an alert and refreshed state | Synonyms: freshness |
| (verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: beam, radiate, shine |
| (verb) be exuberant or high-spirited | - |
| (verb) emit a steady even light without flames | - |
| (verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: beam, radiate, shine |
| (verb) shine intensely, as if with heat | Synonyms: burn |
| glower | (noun) an angry stare | Synonyms: glare |
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| (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: frown, lour, lower |
| (verb) look at with a fixed gaze | Synonyms: glare |
| glowering | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
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| gloweringly | (adverb) in a glowering manner | - |
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| glowing | (adjective) highly enthusiastic | - |
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| (noun) the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface | Synonyms: glow, radiance |
| glowingly | (adverb) in an enthusiastically glowing manner | - |
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