| commanding | (adjective) used of a height or viewpoint | Synonyms: dominating, overlooking |
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| commandment | (noun) a doctrine that is taught | Synonyms: precept, teaching |
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| (noun) something that is commanded | - |
| commando | (noun) an amphibious military unit trained for raids into enemy territory | - |
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| (noun) a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids | Synonyms: ranger |
| committeeman | (noun) a man who is a member of committee | - |
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| committeewoman | (noun) a woman who is a member of a committee | - |
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| conformance | (noun) correspondence in form or appearance | Synonyms: conformity |
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| congressman | (noun) a male member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
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| congresswoman | (noun) a female member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
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| councilman | (noun) a man who is a council member | - |
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| councilwoman | (noun) a woman who is a council member | - |
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| counterman | (noun) a male who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
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| countermand | (noun) a contrary command cancelling or reversing a previous command | - |
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| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
| counterwoman | (noun) a female who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
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| countryman | (noun) a man from your own country | - |
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| (noun) a man who lives in the country and has country ways | Synonyms: ruralist |
| countrywoman | (noun) a woman from your own country | - |
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| (noun) a woman who lives in the country and has country ways | - |
| cowman | (noun) a male hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cattleman, cowboy |
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| cracksman | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: safebreaker, safecracker |
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| craftsman | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, artisan, journeyman |
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| (noun) a creator of great skill in the manual arts | Synonyms: crafter |
| (noun) a professional whose work is consistently of high quality | - |
| craftsmanship | (noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craft, workmanship |
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| cragsman | (noun) a climber of vertical rock faces | Synonyms: rock climber |
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| crewman | (noun) a member of a work crew | - |
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| (noun) a member of a flight crew | Synonyms: crew member |
| (noun) any member of a ship's crew | Synonyms: sailor |
| dairyman | (noun) the owner or manager of a dairy | Synonyms: dairy farmer |
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| (noun) a man who works in a dairy | - |
| dalesman | (noun) a person who lives in the dales of northern England | - |
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| decalcomania | (noun) the art of transferring designs from specially prepared paper to a wood or glass or metal surface | - |
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| (noun) either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface | Synonyms: decal |
| dehumanisation | (noun) the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities | Synonyms: dehumanization |
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| dehumanise | (verb) make mechanical or routine | Synonyms: dehumanize |
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| (verb) deprive of human qualities | Synonyms: dehumanize |
| dehumanised | (adjective) divested of human qualities or attributes | Synonyms: dehumanized, unhuman |
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| dehumanization | (noun) the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities | Synonyms: dehumanisation |
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| dehumanize | (verb) make mechanical or routine | Synonyms: dehumanise |
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| (verb) deprive of human qualities | Synonyms: dehumanise |
| dehumanized | (adjective) divested of human qualities or attributes | Synonyms: dehumanised, unhuman |
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| deliveryman | (noun) someone employed to make deliveries | Synonyms: deliverer, delivery boy |
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| demand | (noun) the act of demanding | - |
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| (noun) required activity | Synonyms: requirement |
| (noun) an urgent or peremptory request | - |
| (noun) the ability and desire to purchase goods and services | - |
| (noun) a condition requiring relief | Synonyms: need |
| (verb) request urgently and forcefully | - |
| (verb) claim as due or just | Synonyms: exact |
| (verb) summon to court | - |
| (verb) ask to be informed of | - |
| (verb) lay legal claim to | - |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take |
| demander | (noun) a person who makes demands | - |
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| demanding | (adjective) requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill | - |
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| demandingly | (adverb) in a demanding manner | - |
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| demantoid | (noun) a green andradite used as a gemstone | - |
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| deskman | (noun) the police sergeant on duty in a police station | Synonyms: desk sergeant, station keeper |
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| diamante | (noun) adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing | Synonyms: sequin, spangle |
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| (noun) fabric covered with glittering ornaments such as sequins or rhinestones | - |
| diamantine | (adjective) consisting of diamonds or resembling diamonds | - |
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| dipsomania | (noun) an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: alcoholism, potomania |
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| dipsomaniac | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, lush, soaker, souse |
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| dismantle | (verb) take off or remove | Synonyms: strip |
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| (verb) take apart into its constituent pieces | Synonyms: break apart, break up, disassemble, take apart |
| (verb) tear down so as to make flat with the ground | Synonyms: level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down |
| dismantled | (adjective) torn down and broken up | Synonyms: demolished, razed |
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| dismantlement | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: disassembly, dismantling |
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| dismantling | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: disassembly, dismantlement |
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| dolman | (noun) a woman's cloak with dolman sleeves | - |
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| (noun) a hussar's jacket worn over the shoulders | Synonyms: dolman jacket |
| doorman | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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| dormancy | (noun) quiet and inactive restfulness | Synonyms: quiescence, quiescency, sleeping |
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| (noun) a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction | Synonyms: quiescence, quiescency |
| dormant | (adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct | Synonyms: inactive |
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| (adjective) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation | Synonyms: hibernating, torpid |
| (adjective) inactive but capable of becoming active | Synonyms: abeyant |
| (adjective) lying with head on paws as if sleeping | Synonyms: sleeping |
| draftsman | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsperson, draughtsman |
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| (noun) an artist skilled at drawing | Synonyms: drawer |
| draftsmanship | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: drafting, drawing |
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| dragoman | (noun) an interpreter and guide in the Near East; in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries a translator of European languages for the Turkish and Arab authorities and most dragomans were Greek (many reached high positions in the government) | - |
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| draughtsman | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsman, draftsperson |
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| dustman | (noun) someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse | Synonyms: garbage carter, garbage collector, garbage hauler, garbage man, garbageman, refuse collector |
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| earthman | (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthling, tellurian, worldling |
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| egomania | (noun) an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs | - |
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| egomaniac | (noun) an abnormally egotistical person | - |
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| emanate | (verb) give out (breath or an odor) | Synonyms: exhale, give forth |
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| (verb) proceed or issue forth, as from a source | - |
| emanation | (noun) the act of emitting; causing to flow forth | Synonyms: emission |
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| (noun) (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost | Synonyms: procession, rise |
| (noun) something that is emitted or radiated (as a gas or an odor or a light, etc.) | - |
| emancipate | (verb) free from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: manumit |
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| (verb) give equal rights to; of women and minorities | Synonyms: liberate |
| emancipated | (adjective) free from traditional social restraints | Synonyms: liberated |
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| emancipation | (noun) freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child | - |
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| emancipationist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: abolitionist |
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| emancipative | (adjective) tending to set free | - |
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| emancipator | (noun) someone who frees others from bondage | Synonyms: manumitter |
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| engelmannia | (noun) common erect hairy perennial of plains and prairies of southern and central United States having flowers that resemble sunflowers | - |
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| everyman | (noun) the ordinary person | - |
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| exciseman | (noun) someone who collects taxes for the government | Synonyms: collector of internal revenue, internal revenue agent, tax collector, taxman |
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| ferryman | (noun) a man who operates a ferry | - |
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| fieldsman | (noun) a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting | Synonyms: fielder |
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| fireman | (noun) play in which children pretend to put out a fire | - |
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| (noun) a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires | Synonyms: fire-eater, fire fighter, firefighter |
| (noun) a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) | Synonyms: stoker |
| (noun) a pitcher who does not start the game | Synonyms: relief pitcher, reliever |
| fisherman | (noun) someone whose occupation is catching fish | Synonyms: fisher |
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| foeman | (noun) an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force) | Synonyms: enemy, foe, opposition |
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| footman | (noun) a man employed as a servant in a large establishment (as a palace) to run errands and do chores | - |
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| foreman | (noun) a person who exercises control over workers | Synonyms: boss, chief, gaffer, honcho |
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| (noun) a man who is foreperson of a jury | - |
| foremanship | (noun) the position of foreman | - |
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| forewoman | (noun) a woman in charge of a group of workers | - |
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| (noun) a woman who is foreperson of a jury | Synonyms: forelady |
| freedman | (noun) a male person who has been freed from slavery | - |
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| freedwoman | (noun) a female person who has been freed from slavery | - |
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| freeman | (noun) a male person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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| freewoman | (noun) a female person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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| freshman | (adjective) used of a person in the first year of an experience (especially in United States high school or college) | Synonyms: first-year |
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| (noun) a first-year undergraduate | Synonyms: fresher |
| (noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: entrant, fledgeling, fledgling, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter |
| frogman | (noun) someone who works underwater | Synonyms: diver, underwater diver |
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| frontiersman | (noun) a man who lives on the frontier | Synonyms: backwoodsman, mountain man |
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| frontierswoman | (noun) a woman who lives on the frontier | - |
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| fugleman | (noun) a leader and organizer and spokesman (especially a political leader) | - |
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| gagman | (noun) someone who writes comic material for public performers | Synonyms: gagster, gagwriter |
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| (noun) a comedian who uses gags | Synonyms: standup comedian |
| gamesmanship | (noun) the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win a game | - |
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| garbageman | (noun) someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse | Synonyms: dustman, garbage carter, garbage collector, garbage hauler, garbage man, refuse collector |
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| gasman | (noun) someone employed by a gas company | - |
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| gentleman | (noun) a man of refinement | - |
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| (noun) a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer | Synonyms: gentleman's gentleman, man, valet, valet de chambre |
| gentlemanlike | (adjective) befitting a man of good breeding | Synonyms: gentlemanly |
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| gentlemanliness | (noun) Gentlemanly behaviour, characteristics of or pertaining to being a gentleman. | - |
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| gentlemanly | (adjective) befitting a man of good breeding | Synonyms: gentlemanlike |
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| gentlewoman | (noun) a woman of refinement | Synonyms: dame, lady, ma'am, madam |
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| geomancer | (noun) one who practices geomancy | - |
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| geomancy | (noun) divination by means of signs connected with the earth (as points taken at random or the arrangement of particles thrown down at random or from the configuration of a region and its relation to another) | - |
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| germander | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Teucrium | - |
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| germane | (adjective) relevant and appropriate | - |
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| germaneness | (noun) pertinence by virtue of a close relation to the matter at hand | - |
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