| ailurophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of cats | - |
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| alkaluria | (noun) a condition in which the urine (which is normally slightly acidic) is alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinuria |
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| allure | (noun) the power to entice or attract through personal charm | Synonyms: allurement, temptingness |
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| (verb) dispose or incline or entice to | Synonyms: tempt |
| allurement | (noun) the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money) | Synonyms: solicitation |
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| (noun) the power to entice or attract through personal charm | Synonyms: allure, temptingness |
| (noun) attractiveness | - |
| alluring | (adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: beguiling, enticing, tempting |
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| blur | (noun) a hazy or indistinct representation | Synonyms: fuzz |
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| (verb) become vague or indistinct | Synonyms: dim, slur |
| (verb) make dim or indistinct | Synonyms: blear |
| (verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: confuse, obnubilate, obscure |
| (verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging | Synonyms: smear, smudge, smutch |
| (verb) to make less distinct or clear | - |
| (verb) become glassy; lose clear vision | Synonyms: film over, glaze over |
| blurb | (noun) a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books) | Synonyms: endorsement, indorsement |
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| blurred | (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy |
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| (adjective) unclear in form or expression | Synonyms: clouded |
| blurriness | (noun) the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines | Synonyms: fogginess, fuzziness, indistinctness, softness |
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| blurry | (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurred, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy |
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| blurt | (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder, blunder out, blurt out, ejaculate |
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| diethylmalonylurea | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, veronal |
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| encolure | (noun) the mane of a horse | - |
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| enflurane | (noun) a nonflammable liquid (trade name Ethrane) used as an inhalation general anesthetic | Synonyms: Ethrane |
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| failure | (noun) an act that fails | - |
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| (noun) an unexpected omission | - |
| (noun) an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose | - |
| (noun) a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently | Synonyms: loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person |
| (noun) lack of success | - |
| (noun) loss of ability to function normally | - |
| (noun) inability to discharge all your debts as they come due | Synonyms: bankruptcy |
| flurazepam | (noun) tranquilizer (trade name Dalmane) used to treat insomnia | Synonyms: Dalmane, flurazepam hydrochloride |
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| flurbiprofen | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Ansaid) that is administered only orally | Synonyms: Ansaid |
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| flurry | (noun) a rapid active commotion | Synonyms: ado, bustle, fuss, hustle, stir |
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| (noun) a light brief snowfall and gust of wind (or something resembling that) | Synonyms: snow flurry |
| (verb) cause to feel embarrassment | Synonyms: confuse, disconcert, put off |
| (verb) move in an agitated or confused manner | - |
| hyaluronidase | (noun) an enzyme (trade name Hyazyme) that splits hyaluronic acid and so lowers its viscosity and increases the permeability of connective tissue and the absorption of fluids | Synonyms: Hyazyme, spreading factor |
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| isoflurane | (noun) a widely used inhalation anesthetic | - |
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| kaluresis | (noun) the presence of excess potassium in the urine | Synonyms: kaliuresis |
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| lurch | (noun) an unsteady uneven gait | Synonyms: stagger, stumble |
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| (noun) the act of moving forward suddenly | Synonyms: lunge |
| (noun) abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance) | Synonyms: pitch, pitching |
| (noun) a decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage) | - |
| (verb) defeat by a lurch | Synonyms: skunk |
| (verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: pitch, shift |
| (verb) move slowly and unsteadily | - |
| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, keel, reel, stagger, swag |
| (verb) loiter about, with no apparent aim | Synonyms: prowl |
| lurcher | (noun) someone waiting in concealment | Synonyms: lurker, skulker |
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| lure | (noun) something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed | Synonyms: bait, decoy |
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| (noun) qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward | Synonyms: come-on, enticement |
| (noun) anything that serves as an enticement | Synonyms: bait, come-on, hook, sweetener |
| (verb) provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion | Synonyms: entice, tempt |
| lurid | (adjective) shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke | - |
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| (adjective) ghastly pale | - |
| (adjective) glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism | Synonyms: shocking |
| (adjective) horrible in fierceness or savagery | - |
| luridly | (adverb) in a lurid manner | - |
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| luridness | (noun) the quality of being ghastly | Synonyms: ghastliness, grimness, gruesomeness |
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| (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: achromasia, lividity, lividness, paleness, pallidness, pallor, wanness |
| (noun) the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes | Synonyms: sensationalism |
| lurk | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, scupper, waylay |
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| (verb) to monitor a web forum or similar without making your presence pubilc | - |
| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| (verb) lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner | Synonyms: skulk |
| lurker | (noun) someone waiting in concealment | Synonyms: lurcher, skulker |
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| malonylurea | (noun) a white crystalline acid derived from pyrimidine; used in preparing barbiturate drugs | Synonyms: barbituric acid |
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| metallurgic | (adjective) of or relating to metallurgy | Synonyms: metallurgical |
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| metallurgical | (adjective) of or relating to metallurgy | Synonyms: metallurgic |
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| metallurgist | (noun) an engineer trained in the extraction and refining and alloying and fabrication of metals | Synonyms: metallurgical engineer |
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| metallurgy | (noun) the science and technology of metals | - |
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| plural | (adjective) grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units | - |
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| (adjective) composed of more than one member, set, or kind | - |
| (noun) the form of a word that is used to denote more than one | Synonyms: plural form |
| pluralisation | (noun) the act of pluralizing or attributing plurality to | Synonyms: pluralization |
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| pluralise | (verb) mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural | Synonyms: pluralize |
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| pluralism | (noun) the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time | - |
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| (noun) the doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements | - |
| (noun) a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated | - |
| pluralist | (noun) someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society | - |
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| (noun) a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature | - |
| (noun) a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time | - |
| pluralistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of pluralism | - |
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| plurality | (noun) (in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less than half of the votes) | Synonyms: relative majority |
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| (noun) a large indefinite quantity | Synonyms: battalion, large number, multitude, pack |
| (noun) the state of being plural | - |
| pluralization | (noun) the act of pluralizing or attributing plurality to | Synonyms: pluralisation |
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| pluralize | (verb) mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural | Synonyms: pluralise |
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| silurid | (noun) Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin | Synonyms: silurid fish |
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| slur | (noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, daub, smear, smirch, smudge, spot |
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| (noun) a disparaging remark | Synonyms: aspersion |
| (noun) (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato | - |
| (verb) become vague or indistinct | Synonyms: blur, dim |
| (verb) utter indistinctly | - |
| (verb) speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur | - |
| (verb) play smoothly or legato | - |
| slurp | (verb) eat noisily | - |
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| slurred | (adjective) spoken as if with a thick tongue | Synonyms: thick |
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| slurry | (noun) a suspension of insoluble particles (as plaster of Paris or lime or clay etc.) usually in water | - |
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| soilure | (noun) the act of soiling something | Synonyms: dirtying, soiling |
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| splurge | (noun) any act of immoderate indulgence | Synonyms: binge, orgy |
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| (noun) an ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.) | - |
| (verb) be showy or ostentatious | - |
| (verb) indulge oneself | Synonyms: fling |
| sulfonylurea | (noun) antidiabetic consisting of any of several drugs that reduce the level of glucose in the blood; used to treat diabetes mellitus | - |
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| tellurian | (adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | Synonyms: telluric, terrene, terrestrial |
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| (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthling, earthman, worldling |
| telluric | (adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | Synonyms: tellurian, terrene, terrestrial |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or containing the chemical element tellurium | - |
| telluride | (noun) any binary compound of tellurium with other more electropositive elements | - |
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| tellurium | (noun) a brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur; it is used in alloys and as a semiconductor; occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of copper and nickel and silver and gold | Synonyms: atomic number 52, Te |
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| unflurried | (adjective) free from emotional agitation or nervous tension | Synonyms: unflustered, unperturbed, unruffled |
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