germanite | (noun) a rare reddish-grey mineral consisting of a copper iron germanium sulfide | - |
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germanium | (noun) a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite | Synonyms: atomic number 32, Ge |
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gerrymander | (noun) an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage) | - |
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(verb) divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts | - |
gormandise | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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gormandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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gourmand | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmandizer, trencherman |
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gourmandism | (noun) the disposition and habits of a gourmand | - |
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gourmandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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gourmandizer | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmand, trencherman |
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groomsman | (noun) a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding | - |
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groundsman | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundkeeper, groundskeeper |
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guardsman | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a unit called `the guard' or `guards' | - |
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gunman | (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman |
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(noun) a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) | Synonyms: gun |
haemangioma | (noun) benign angioma consisting of a mass of blood vessels; some appear as birthmarks | Synonyms: hemangioma |
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handyman | (noun) a man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks | Synonyms: jack of all trades, odd-job man |
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hangman | (noun) an executioner who hangs the condemned person | - |
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hanuman | (noun) langur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India | Synonyms: entellus, Presbytes entellus, Semnopithecus entellus |
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hardwareman | (noun) someone who sells hardware | Synonyms: ironmonger |
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harvestman | (noun) spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs | Synonyms: daddy longlegs, Phalangium opilio |
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hausmannite | (noun) a mineral consisting of manganese tetroxide; a source of manganese | - |
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headman | (noun) the head of a tribe or clan | Synonyms: chief, chieftain, tribal chief |
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(noun) an executioner who beheads the condemned person | Synonyms: headsman |
headsman | (noun) an executioner who beheads the condemned person | Synonyms: headman |
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helmsman | (noun) the person who steers a ship | Synonyms: steerer, steersman |
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hemangioma | (noun) benign angioma consisting of a mass of blood vessels; some appear as birthmarks | Synonyms: haemangioma |
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henchman | (noun) someone who assists in a plot | Synonyms: collaborator, confederate, partner in crime |
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herdsman | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: drover, herder |
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highwayman | (noun) a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it | Synonyms: highjacker, hijacker, road agent |
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hitman | (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, shooter, torpedo, triggerman |
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hodman | (noun) a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers | Synonyms: hod carrier |
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hooman | (noun) human, mispronounced for comic effect | - |
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horseman | (noun) a person who breeds and cares for horses | Synonyms: horse fancier |
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(noun) a man skilled in equitation | - |
horsemanship | (noun) skill in handling and riding horses | - |
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horsewoman | (noun) a woman horseman | - |
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hotelman | (noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hosteller, hotel manager, hotelier, hotelkeeper |
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houseman | (noun) an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience | Synonyms: intern, interne, medical intern |
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human | (adjective) having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings | - |
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(adjective) characteristic of humanity | - |
(adjective) relating to a person | - |
(noun) any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage | Synonyms: homo, human being, man |
humane | (adjective) marked or motivated by concern with the alleviation of suffering | - |
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(adjective) pertaining to or concerned with the humanities | Synonyms: humanist, humanistic |
(adjective) showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement | - |
humanely | (adverb) in a humane manner | - |
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humaneness | (noun) the quality of compassion or consideration for others (people or animals) | - |
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humanisation | (noun) the act of making more human | Synonyms: humanization |
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humanise | (verb) make more humane | Synonyms: humanize |
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humanism | (noun) the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason; rejects religion and the supernatural | Synonyms: secular humanism |
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(noun) the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare | Synonyms: humanitarianism |
(noun) the cultural movement of the Renaissance; based on classical studies | - |
humanist | (adjective) pertaining to or concerned with the humanities | Synonyms: humane, humanistic |
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(adjective) of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion | Synonyms: humanistic |
(adjective) of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism | Synonyms: humanistic |
(adjective) marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare | Synonyms: human-centered, human-centred, humanistic, humanitarian |
(noun) a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts | - |
(noun) an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans | Synonyms: humanitarian |
humanistic | (adjective) pertaining to or concerned with the humanities | Synonyms: humane, humanist |
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(adjective) of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion | Synonyms: humanist |
(adjective) of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism | Synonyms: humanist |
(adjective) marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare | Synonyms: human-centered, human-centred, humanist, humanitarian |
humanitarian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of humanitarianism | - |
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(adjective) marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare | Synonyms: human-centered, human-centred, humanist, humanistic |
(noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, improver |
(noun) an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans | Synonyms: humanist |
humanitarianism | (noun) the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare | Synonyms: humanism |
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humanities | (noun) studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills) | Synonyms: arts, humanistic discipline, liberal arts |
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humanity | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humankind, humans, man, mankind, world |
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(noun) the quality of being humane | - |
(noun) the quality of being human | Synonyms: humanness, manhood |
humanization | (noun) the act of making more human | Synonyms: humanisation |
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humanize | (verb) make more humane | Synonyms: humanise |
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humankind | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humans, man, mankind, world |
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humanlike | (adjective) suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things | Synonyms: anthropomorphic, anthropomorphous |
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humanly | (adverb) in the manner of human beings | - |
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humanness | (noun) the quality of being human | Synonyms: humanity, manhood |
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humanoid | (noun) an automaton that resembles a human being | Synonyms: android, mechanical man |
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humans | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, man, mankind, world |
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huntsman | (noun) someone who hunts game | Synonyms: hunter |
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husbandman | (noun) a person who operates a farm | Synonyms: farmer, granger, sodbuster |
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hydromancer | (noun) one who practices hydromancy | - |
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hydromancy | (noun) divination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides) | - |
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iceman | (noun) someone who cuts and delivers ice | - |
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(noun) a professional killer | Synonyms: hatchet man |
immanence | (noun) the state of being within or not going beyond a given domain | Synonyms: immanency |
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immanency | (noun) the state of being within or not going beyond a given domain | Synonyms: immanence |
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immanent | (adjective) of a mental act performed entirely within the mind | Synonyms: subjective |
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(adjective) of qualities that are spread throughout something | - |
impermanence | (noun) the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations | Synonyms: impermanency |
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impermanency | (noun) the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations | Synonyms: impermanence |
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impermanent | (adjective) not permanent; not lasting | Synonyms: temporary |
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(adjective) existing or enduring for a limited time only | - |
infantryman | (noun) fights on foot with small arms | Synonyms: foot soldier, footslogger, marcher |
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informant | (noun) a person who supplies information | Synonyms: source |
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(noun) someone who sees an event and reports what happened | Synonyms: witness, witnesser |
infrahuman | (adjective) belonging to a group below humans in evolutionary development | - |
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inhuman | (adjective) without compunction or human feeling | Synonyms: cold-blooded, cold, insensate |
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(adjective) belonging to or resembling something nonhuman | - |
inhumane | (adjective) lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion | - |
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inhumanely | (adverb) in an inhumane manner | - |
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inhumaneness | (noun) the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others | Synonyms: inhumanity |
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inhumanity | (noun) an act of atrocious cruelty | Synonyms: atrocity |
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(noun) the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others | Synonyms: inhumaneness |
ironman | (noun) a strong man of exceptional physical endurance | Synonyms: iron man |
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jazzman | (noun) a musician who plays or composes jazz music | Synonyms: jazz musician |
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journeyman | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, artisan, craftsman |
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juryman | (noun) a male who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury | - |
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jurywoman | (noun) a female who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury | - |
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kinsman | (noun) a male relative | - |
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kinswoman | (noun) a female relative | - |
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kleptomania | (noun) an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive | - |
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kleptomaniac | (noun) someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive | - |
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landman | (noun) a person who lives and works on land | Synonyms: landlubber, landsman |
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landsman | (noun) an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage | Synonyms: landlubber, lubber |
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(noun) a person who lives and works on land | Synonyms: landlubber, landman |
laundryman | (noun) a man who operates an industrial washing machine | Synonyms: washerman |
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laundrywoman | (noun) a working woman who takes in washing | Synonyms: laundress, washerwoman, washwoman |
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lawman | (noun) an officer of the law | Synonyms: law officer, peace officer |
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layman | (noun) someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person | Synonyms: layperson, secular |
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ledgeman | (noun) a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone | Synonyms: breaker |
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leishmaniasis | (noun) sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies | Synonyms: kala azar, leishmaniosis |
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leishmaniosis | (noun) sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies | Synonyms: kala azar, leishmaniasis |
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lemanderin | (noun) hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel | Synonyms: Citrus limonia, rangpur, rangpur lime |
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lensman | (noun) someone who takes photographs professionally | Synonyms: photographer |
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letterman | (noun) an athlete who has earned a letter in a school sport | - |
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liegeman | (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudatory, liege, liege subject, vassal |
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liftman | (noun) a man employed to operate an elevator | Synonyms: elevator boy, elevator man |
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lighterman | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargee, bargeman |
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liman | (noun) a long narrow lagoon near the mouth of a river | - |
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