| absolve | (verb) let off the hook | Synonyms: free |
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| (verb) grant remission of a sin to | Synonyms: shrive |
| absolved | (adjective) freed from any question of guilt | Synonyms: clear, cleared, exculpated, exonerated, vindicated |
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| absolver | (noun) someone who grants absolution | - |
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| alveolar | (adjective) pertaining to the tiny air sacs of the lungs | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to the sockets of the teeth or that part of the upper jaw | - |
| (noun) a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the gum ridge | Synonyms: alveolar consonant, dental, dental consonant |
| alveolate | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: cavitied, faveolate, honeycombed, pitted |
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| alveolitis | (noun) inflammation of the alveoli in the lungs caused by inhaling dust; with repeated exposure the condition may become chronic | - |
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| (noun) inflammation in the socket of a tooth; sometimes occurs after a tooth is extracted and a blood clot fails to form | Synonyms: dry socket |
| alveolus | (noun) a tiny sac for holding air in the lungs; formed by the terminal dilation of tiny air passageways | Synonyms: air cell, air sac |
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| (noun) a bony socket in the alveolar ridge that holds a tooth | Synonyms: tooth socket |
| belvedere | (noun) a gazebo sited to command a fine view | - |
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| (noun) densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn | Synonyms: Bassia scoparia, burning bush, fire-bush, fire bush, Kochia scoparia, summer cypress |
| bivalve | (adjective) used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) | Synonyms: bivalved |
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| (noun) marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Synonyms: lamellibranch, pelecypod |
| bivalved | (adjective) used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) | Synonyms: bivalve |
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| calve | (verb) give birth to (a calf) | Synonyms: have young |
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| (verb) release ice | Synonyms: break up |
| circumvolve | (verb) cause to turn on an axis or center | Synonyms: rotate |
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| convolve | (verb) curl, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: convolute |
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| culverin | (noun) a medieval musket | - |
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| (noun) a heavy cannon with a long barrel used in the 16th and 17th centuries | - |
| culvert | (noun) a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway | - |
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| delve | (verb) turn up, loosen, or remove earth | Synonyms: cut into, dig, turn over |
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| devolve | (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: degenerate, deteriorate, drop |
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| (verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: fall, pass, return |
| (verb) pass on or delegate to another | - |
| devolvement | (noun) the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government) | Synonyms: devolution |
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| disinvolve | (verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disembroil, disentangle |
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| dissolve | (noun) (film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out | - |
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| (verb) pass into a solution | - |
| (verb) cause to go into a solution | Synonyms: break up, resolve |
| (verb) come to an end | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) grow less and less substantial until it disappears | Synonyms: fade away, fade out |
| (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dethaw, melt, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw |
| (verb) bring the association of to an end or cause to break up | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) declare void | Synonyms: dismiss |
| (verb) cause to fade away | - |
| (verb) lose control emotionally | - |
| (verb) cause to lose control emotionally | - |
| (verb) stop functioning or cohering as a unit | Synonyms: disband |
| dissolved | (adjective) (of solid matter) reduced to a liquid form | - |
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| dissolvent | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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| dissolver | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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| elver | (noun) young eel | - |
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| (noun) young eel; may be sauteed or batter-fried | - |
| elves | (noun) an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources; extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec) electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km diameter) in the ionosphere | - |
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| evolve | (verb) undergo development or evolution | - |
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| (verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: acquire, develop |
| (verb) work out | Synonyms: develop, germinate |
| halve | (verb) divide by two; divide into halves | - |
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| helve | (noun) the handle of a weapon or tool | Synonyms: haft |
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| helvella | (noun) any fungus of the genus Helvella having the ascocarps stalked or pleated or often in folds | - |
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| insolvency | (noun) the lack of financial resources | - |
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| insolvent | (adjective) unable to meet or discharge financial obligations | - |
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| (noun) someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts | Synonyms: bankrupt |
| involve | (verb) make complex or intricate or complicated | - |
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| (verb) occupy or engage the interest of | - |
| (verb) have as a necessary feature | Synonyms: imply |
| (verb) connect closely and often incriminatingly | Synonyms: affect, regard |
| (verb) contain as a part | - |
| (verb) engage as a participant | - |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take |
| involved | (adjective) connected by participation or association or use | - |
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| (adjective) emotionally involved | - |
| (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous |
| (adjective) enveloped | - |
| (adjective) entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire | Synonyms: mired |
| involvement | (noun) the act of sharing in the activities of a group | Synonyms: engagement, involution, participation |
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| (noun) a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something | Synonyms: interest |
| (noun) a connection of inclusion or containment | - |
| (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, affaire, amour, intimacy, liaison |
| (noun) the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.) | Synonyms: participation |
| malversate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, misappropriate, peculate |
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| malversation | (noun) misconduct in public office | - |
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| postalveolar | (noun) (phonetics) Any sound articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge. | Synonyms: post-alveolar, post-alveolar consonant, postalveolar consonant |
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| pulverisation | (noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust | Synonyms: grind, mill, pulverization |
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| (noun) annihilation by pulverizing something | Synonyms: pulverization |
| (noun) a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized | Synonyms: powder, pulverization |
| pulverise | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderise, powderize, pulverize |
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| (verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverize |
| (verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: demolish, pulverize |
| pulverised | (adjective) consisting of fine particles | Synonyms: fine-grained, powdered, powdery, pulverized, small-grained |
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| pulverization | (noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust | Synonyms: grind, mill, pulverisation |
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| (noun) annihilation by pulverizing something | Synonyms: pulverisation |
| (noun) a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized | Synonyms: powder, pulverisation |
| pulverize | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderise, powderize, pulverise |
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| (verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverise |
| (verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: demolish, pulverise |
| pulverized | (adjective) consisting of fine particles | Synonyms: fine-grained, powdered, powdery, pulverised, small-grained |
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| quicksilver | (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: erratic, fickle, mercurial |
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| (noun) a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures | Synonyms: atomic number 80, Hg, hydrargyrum, mercury |
| resolve | (noun) the trait of being resolute | Synonyms: firmness, firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolution |
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| (noun) a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote | Synonyms: declaration, resolution |
| (verb) cause to go into a solution | Synonyms: break up, dissolve |
| (verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: adjudicate, decide, settle |
| (verb) reach a decision | Synonyms: purpose |
| (verb) find the solution | Synonyms: solve |
| (verb) understand the meaning of | Synonyms: answer |
| (verb) reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation | Synonyms: conclude |
| (verb) make clearly visible | - |
| resolved | (adjective) explained or answered | Synonyms: solved |
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| (adjective) determined | Synonyms: single-minded |
| resolvent | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, solvent |
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| revolve | (verb) turn on or around an axis or a center | Synonyms: go around, rotate |
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| (verb) move in an orbit | Synonyms: orb, orbit |
| (verb) cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis | Synonyms: roll |
| revolved | (adjective) turned in a circle around an axis | Synonyms: rotated |
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| revolver | (noun) a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets) | Synonyms: six-gun, six-shooter |
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| (noun) a door consisting of four orthogonal partitions that rotate about a central pivot; a door designed to equalize the air pressure in tall buildings | Synonyms: revolving door |
| salve | (noun) anything that remedies or heals or soothes | - |
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| (noun) semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation | Synonyms: balm, ointment, unction, unguent |
| (verb) apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing | - |
| (verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: relieve, salvage, save |
| salver | (noun) a tray (or large plate) for serving food or drinks; usually made of silver | - |
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| salverform | (adjective) of or concerning a gamopetalous that has a slender tube and an abruptly expanded tip | - |
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| selvedge | (noun) the edge of a fabric that is woven so that it will not ravel or fray | Synonyms: selvage |
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| (noun) border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet | Synonyms: selvage |
| shelve | (verb) place on a shelf | - |
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| (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, table |
| shelver | (noun) a worker who puts things (as books) on shelves | - |
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| silver | (adjective) of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver | Synonyms: argent, silverish, silvery |
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| (adjective) expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively | Synonyms: eloquent, facile, fluent, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken |
| (adjective) having the white lustrous sheen of silver | Synonyms: silvern, silvery |
| (adjective) made from or largely consisting of silver | - |
| (noun) silverware eating utensils | Synonyms: flatware |
| (noun) a trophy made of silver (or having the appearance of silver) that is usually awarded for winning second place in a competition | Synonyms: silver medal |
| (noun) a light shade of grey | Synonyms: ash gray, ash grey, silver gray, silver grey |
| (noun) coins made of silver | - |
| (noun) a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography | Synonyms: Ag, atomic number 47 |
| (verb) make silver in color | - |
| (verb) turn silver | - |
| (verb) coat with a layer of silver or a silver amalgam | - |
| silverback | (noun) an adult male gorilla with grey hairs across the back | - |
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| silverberry | (noun) deciduous unarmed North American shrub with silvery leaves and fruits | Synonyms: Elaeagnus commutata, silver-bush, silver berry, silverbush |
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| silverbush | (noun) deciduous unarmed North American shrub with silvery leaves and fruits | Synonyms: Elaeagnus commutata, silver-bush, silver berry, silverberry |
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| (noun) silvery hairy European shrub with evergreen foliage and pale yellow flowers | Synonyms: Anthyllis barba-jovis, Jupiter's beard, silver-bush |
| silverfish | (noun) a silvery variety of Carassius auratus | - |
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| (noun) silver-grey wingless insect found in houses feeding on book bindings and starched clothing | Synonyms: Lepisma saccharina |
| silverish | (adjective) of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver | Synonyms: argent, silver, silvery |
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| silvern | (adjective) having the white lustrous sheen of silver | Synonyms: silver, silvery |
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| (adjective) resembling or reminiscent of silver | Synonyms: silvery |
| silverplate | (verb) plate with silver | Synonyms: silver-plate |
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| silverpoint | (noun) a drawing made on specially prepared paper with an instrument having a silver tip (15th and 16th centuries) | - |
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| silverrod | (noun) plant of eastern North America having creamy white flowers | Synonyms: Solidago bicolor |
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| silverside | (noun) small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States | Synonyms: silversides |
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| silversides | (noun) small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States | Synonyms: silverside |
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| (noun) the common North American shiner | Synonyms: common shiner, Notropis cornutus |
| silversmith | (noun) someone who makes or repairs articles of silver | Synonyms: silver-worker, silverworker |
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| silverspot | (noun) butterfly with silver spots on the underside of the hind wings | - |
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| silversword | (noun) low-growing plant found only in volcanic craters on Hawaii having rosettes of narrow pointed silver-green leaves and clusters of profuse red-purple flowers on a tall stem | Synonyms: Argyroxiphium sandwicense |
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| silvertip | (noun) powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America | Synonyms: grizzly, grizzly bear, silver-tip, Ursus arctos horribilis, Ursus horribilis |
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| silvervine | (noun) ornamental vine of eastern Asia having yellow edible fruit and leaves with silver-white markings | Synonyms: Actinidia polygama, silver vine |
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| silverware | (noun) tableware made of silver or silver plate or pewter or stainless steel | - |
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| silverweed | (noun) any of various twining shrubs of the genus Argyreia having silvery leaves and showy purple flowers | - |
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| (noun) low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath; northern United States, Europe, Asia | Synonyms: goose-tansy, goose grass, Potentilla anserina |
| silverwork | (noun) decorative work made of silver | - |
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| silverworker | (noun) someone who makes or repairs articles of silver | Synonyms: silver-worker, silversmith |
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| silvery | (adjective) of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver | Synonyms: argent, silver, silverish |
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| (adjective) having the white lustrous sheen of silver | Synonyms: silver, silvern |
| (adjective) resembling or reminiscent of silver | Synonyms: silvern |
| silvex | (noun) a herbicide that is effective in controlling woody plants but is toxic to animals | - |
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| solve | (verb) find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of | Synonyms: figure out, lick, puzzle out, work, work out |
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| (verb) find the solution | Synonyms: resolve |
| (verb) settle, as of a debt | Synonyms: clear |
| solved | (adjective) explained or answered | Synonyms: resolved |
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| solvency | (noun) the ability to meet maturing obligations as they come due | - |
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| solvent | (adjective) capable of meeting financial obligations | - |
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| (noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: answer, resolution, result, solution |
| (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent |
| solver | (noun) a thinker who focuses on the problem as stated and tries to synthesize information and knowledge to achieve a solution | Synonyms: convergent thinker, problem solver |
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| twelve | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units | Synonyms: 12, dozen, xii |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one | Synonyms: 12, dozen, XII |
| twelvemonth | (noun) a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days | Synonyms: year, yr |
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| undissolved | (adjective) retaining a solid form | - |
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| uninvolved | (adjective) not involved | - |
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| (adjective) showing lack of emotional involvement | Synonyms: degage, detached |
| univalve | (adjective) used of mollusks, especially gastropods, as snails etc. | - |
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| (noun) a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes | Synonyms: gastropod |
| unresolved | (adjective) not solved | Synonyms: unsolved |
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| (adjective) characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved | Synonyms: dissonant |
| (adjective) not brought to a conclusion; subject to further thought | Synonyms: open, undecided, undetermined |
| unsolved | (adjective) not solved | Synonyms: unresolved |
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| valve | (noun) one of the paired hinged shells of certain molluscs and of brachiopods | - |
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| (noun) the entire one-piece shell of a snail and certain other molluscs | - |
| (noun) control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid | - |
| (noun) device in a brass wind instrument for varying the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone | - |
| (noun) a structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it | - |
| valved | (adjective) (of brass instruments) having valves | - |
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| valvelet | (noun) a small valve | Synonyms: valvula, valvule |
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| velvet | (adjective) smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste | Synonyms: velvet-textured, velvety |
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| (adjective) resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface | Synonyms: velvety |
| (noun) a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back | - |
| velveteen | (noun) a usually cotton fabric with a short pile imitating velvet | - |
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| velvetiness | (noun) Quality of velvet: velvety appearance, feeling, or taste. | - |
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| velvetleaf | (noun) tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States | Synonyms: Abutilon theophrasti, butter-print, China jute, Indian mallow, velvet-leaf, velvetweed |
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| (noun) arborescent perennial shrub having palmately lobed furry leaves and showy red-purple flowers; southwestern United States | Synonyms: Lavatera arborea, tree mallow, velvet-leaf |
| velvetweed | (noun) tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States | Synonyms: Abutilon theophrasti, butter-print, China jute, Indian mallow, velvet-leaf, velvetleaf |
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| velvety | (adjective) smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste | Synonyms: velvet-textured, velvet |
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| (adjective) resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface | Synonyms: velvet |