| automaker | (noun) a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles | Synonyms: auto maker, auto manufacturer, car maker, car manufacturer, carmaker |
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| automat | (noun) a cafeteria where food is served from machines | - |
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| (noun) a vending machine from which you can get food | - |
| automate | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automatise, automatize |
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| automated | (adjective) operated by automation | Synonyms: machine-controlled, machine-driven |
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| automatic | (adjective) operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control | - |
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| (adjective) without volition or conscious control | Synonyms: reflex, reflexive |
| (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatonlike, machinelike, robotic, robotlike |
| (noun) self-loading rifle capable of automatic fire | Synonyms: automatic rifle, machine rifle |
| (noun) a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released | Synonyms: automatic pistol |
| automatically | (adverb) in a reflex manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a mechanical manner; by a mechanism | Synonyms: mechanically |
| automation | (noun) the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware | Synonyms: mechanisation, mechanization |
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| (noun) equipment used to achieve automatic control or operation | - |
| (noun) the condition of being automatically operated or controlled | - |
| automatise | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automate, automatize |
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| (verb) turn into an automaton | Synonyms: automatize |
| automatism | (noun) any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy) | - |
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| automatize | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automate, automatise |
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| (verb) turn into an automaton | Synonyms: automatise |
| automaton | (noun) a mechanism that can move automatically | Synonyms: golem, robot |
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| (noun) a machine that operates on its own without the need for human control | - |
| (noun) someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way | Synonyms: zombi, zombie |
| automatonlike | (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatic, machinelike, robotic, robotlike |
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| autosemantic | (adjective) of a word or phrase meaningful in isolation, independent of context | - |
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| autosomal | (adjective) of or relating to an autosome | - |
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| axiomatic | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from axioms | Synonyms: axiomatical, postulational |
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| (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: aphoristic |
| (adjective) evident without proof or argument | Synonyms: self-evident, taken for granted |
| axiomatical | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from axioms | Synonyms: axiomatic, postulational |
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| axiomatically | (adverb) on the basis of axioms | - |
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| axolemma | (noun) outer membrane covering an axon | - |
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| backwoodsman | (noun) a man who lives on the frontier | Synonyms: frontiersman, mountain man |
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| baggageman | (noun) an attendant who takes care of baggage | - |
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| bagman | (noun) a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money | - |
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| (noun) a salesman who travels to call on customers | Synonyms: commercial traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, traveling salesman, travelling salesman |
| balletomane | (noun) a ballet enthusiast | - |
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| balletomania | (noun) extraordinary enthusiasm for ballets | - |
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| bandmaster | (noun) the conductor of a band | - |
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| bandsman | (noun) a player in a band (especially a military band) | - |
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| baptismal | (adjective) of or relating to baptism | - |
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| bargeman | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargee, lighterman |
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| barmaid | (noun) a female bartender | - |
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| barman | (noun) a male employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | - |
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| basketmaker | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketweaver |
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| batman | (noun) an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer | - |
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| batrachomyomachia | (noun) a silly altercation | - |
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| batsman | (noun) (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting | Synonyms: batter, hitter, slugger |
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| beadsman | (noun) a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another | Synonyms: bedesman |
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| bedesman | (noun) a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another | Synonyms: beadsman |
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| bedmate | (noun) a person with whom you share a bed | Synonyms: bedfellow |
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| beggarman | (noun) a man who is a beggar | - |
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| beggarwoman | (noun) a woman who is a beggar | - |
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| bellman | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellboy, bellhop |
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| bema | (noun) area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing | Synonyms: chancel, sanctuary |
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| benchmark | (noun) a standard by which something can be measured or judged | - |
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| (noun) a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point | Synonyms: bench mark |
| bibliomania | (noun) preoccupation with the acquisition and possession of books | - |
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| bibliomaniacal | (adjective) characteristic of or characterized by or noted for bibliomania | - |
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| bichromate | (noun) a salt of the hypothetical dichromic acid | Synonyms: dichromate |
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| bichromated | (adjective) treated or combined with bichromate | - |
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| bimanual | (adjective) requiring two hands or designed for two people | Synonyms: two-handed |
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| bioclimatic | (adjective) of or concerned with the relations of climate and living organisms | - |
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| bioclimatology | (noun) the study of effects of climate on living organisms | - |
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| biomass | (noun) the total mass of living matter in a given unit area | - |
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| (noun) plant materials and animal waste used as fuel | - |
| biosystematic | (adjective) of or relating to biosystematics | - |
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| biosystematics | (noun) use of data (e.g. cytogenetic or biochemical) to assess taxonomic relations especially within an evolutionary framework | Synonyms: biosystematy |
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| biosystematy | (noun) use of data (e.g. cytogenetic or biochemical) to assess taxonomic relations especially within an evolutionary framework | Synonyms: biosystematics |
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| birthmark | (noun) a blemish on the skin that is formed before birth | Synonyms: nevus |
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| bismark | (noun) a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam | Synonyms: Berlin doughnut, jelly doughnut |
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| bitmap | (noun) an image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixels | Synonyms: electronic image |
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| bitumastic | (noun) a protective coating of asphalt and filter used on structural metals that are exposed to weathering | - |
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| blackmail | (noun) extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information | - |
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| (verb) obtain through threats | - |
| (verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackjack, pressure |
| blackmailer | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: extortioner, extortionist |
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| blamable | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blameable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable, culpable |
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| blancmange | (noun) sweet almond-flavored milk pudding thickened with gelatin or cornstarch; usually molded | - |
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| blastema | (noun) a mass of undifferentiated cells from which an organ or body part develops | - |
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| blastemal | (adjective) of or relating to blastemata | Synonyms: blastematic, blastemic |
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| blastematic | (adjective) of or relating to blastemata | Synonyms: blastemal, blastemic |
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| blastocytoma | (noun) a tumor composed of immature undifferentiated cells | Synonyms: blastoma, embryonal carcinosarcoma |
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| blastodermatic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastoderm | Synonyms: blastodermic |
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| blastoma | (noun) a tumor composed of immature undifferentiated cells | Synonyms: blastocytoma, embryonal carcinosarcoma |
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| boatman | (noun) someone who drives or rides in a boat | Synonyms: boater, waterman |
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| boatmanship | (noun) skill in handling boats | - |
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| bogeyman | (noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: booger, boogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear |
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| bogmat | (noun) having narrow flat sickle-shaped submerged fronds; North America | Synonyms: mud midget, Wolffiella gladiata |
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| bondmaid | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondswoman, bondwoman |
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| (noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondswoman, bondwoman |
| bondman | (noun) a male slave | Synonyms: bondsman |
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| (noun) a male bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondsman |
| bondsman | (noun) a male slave | Synonyms: bondman |
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| (noun) a male bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondman |
| (noun) a male who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
| bondswoman | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondwoman |
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| (noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondwoman |
| (noun) a female who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
| bondwoman | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondswoman |
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| (noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondswoman |
| boogeyman | (noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: bogeyman, booger, bugaboo, bugbear |
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| bookmaker | (noun) a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races) | Synonyms: bookie |
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| (noun) a maker of books; someone who edits or publishes or binds books | - |
| bookman | (noun) a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines | Synonyms: scholar, scholarly person |
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| bookmark | (noun) a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place | Synonyms: bookmarker |
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| bookmarker | (noun) a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place | Synonyms: bookmark |
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| bootmaker | (noun) a maker of boots | Synonyms: boot maker |
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| bowman | (noun) a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow | Synonyms: archer |
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| brahman | (noun) the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category | Synonyms: brahmin |
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| (noun) a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas | Synonyms: brahmin |
| (noun) a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family) | Synonyms: brahmin |
| brakeman | (noun) a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes | - |
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| brandmark | (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brand, trademark |
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| bregma | (noun) the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and coronal sutures at the top of the cranium | - |
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| bregmatic | (adjective) of or relating to the bregma of the skull | - |
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| bridesmaid | (noun) an unmarried woman who attends the bride at a wedding | Synonyms: maid of honor |
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| brinkmanship | (noun) the policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety) | - |
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| bromance | (noun) non-sexual but intense relationship between two men | - |
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| bromate | (noun) a chemical compound that contains the bromate ion. | - |
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| (verb) treat with bromine | Synonyms: brominate |
| (verb) react with bromine | Synonyms: brominate |
| broodmare | (noun) a female horse used for breeding | Synonyms: stud mare |
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| brumal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to winter | Synonyms: hibernal, hiemal |
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| bulimarexia | (noun) a disorder of eating in which the person alternates between strong craving for food and aversion to food; characterized by excessive eating followed by periods of fasting or self-induced vomiting | Synonyms: binge-purge syndrome, binge-vomit syndrome, bulimia nervosa |
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| bunkmate | (noun) someone who occupies the same sleeping quarters as yourself | - |
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| burgomaster | (noun) a mayor of a municipality in Germany or Holland or Flanders or Austria | - |
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| bushman | (noun) a dweller in the Australian bush country | - |
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| businessman | (noun) a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) | Synonyms: man of affairs |
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| businesswoman | (noun) a female businessperson | - |
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| busman | (noun) someone who drives a bus | Synonyms: bus driver |
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