| ammonal | (noun) Ammonal is an explosive made up of ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder. | - |
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| ammonia | (noun) a pungent gas compounded of nitrogen and hydrogen (NH3) | - |
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| (noun) a water solution of ammonia | Synonyms: ammonia water, ammonium hydroxide |
| ammoniac | (adjective) pertaining to or containing or similar to ammonia | Synonyms: ammoniacal |
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| (noun) the aromatic gum of the ammoniac plant | Synonyms: gum ammoniac |
| ammoniacal | (adjective) pertaining to or containing or similar to ammonia | Synonyms: ammoniac |
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| ammoniate | (verb) treat with ammonia | - |
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| ammoniated | (adjective) combined or treated with ammonia | - |
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| ammonification | (noun) impregnation with ammonia or a compound of ammonia | - |
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| ammonify | (verb) treat with ammonia; cause to undergo ammonification | - |
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| ammonite | (noun) one of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mollusks | Synonyms: ammonoid |
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| ammonitic | (adjective) of or related to an order of fossil cephalopods | - |
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| ammonium | (noun) the ion NH4 derived from ammonia; behaves in many respects like an alkali metal ion | Synonyms: ammonium ion |
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| ammoniuria | (noun) excessive ammonia in the urine | - |
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| ammonoid | (noun) one of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mollusks | Synonyms: ammonite |
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| backgammon | (noun) a board game for two players; pieces move according to throws of the dice | - |
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| common | (adjective) having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public | - |
| (adjective) commonly encountered | Synonyms: usual |
| (adjective) of low or inferior quality or value | Synonyms: coarse |
| (adjective) being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language | Synonyms: vernacular, vulgar |
| (adjective) of or associated with the great masses of people | Synonyms: plebeian, unwashed, vulgar |
| (adjective) to be expected; standard | - |
| (adjective) common to or shared by two or more parties | Synonyms: mutual |
| (adjective) lacking refinement or cultivation or taste | Synonyms: coarse, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar |
| (noun) a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area | Synonyms: commons, green, park |
| commonage | (noun) property held in common | - |
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| commonality | (noun) sharing of common attributes | Synonyms: commonness |
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| (noun) a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank | Synonyms: commonalty, commons |
| commonalty | (noun) a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank | Synonyms: commonality, commons |
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| commoner | (noun) a person who holds no title | Synonyms: common man, common person |
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| commonly | (adverb) under normal conditions | Synonyms: normally, ordinarily, unremarkably, usually |
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| commonness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonplaceness, everydayness |
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| (noun) sharing of common attributes | Synonyms: commonality |
| (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: coarseness, grossness, raunch, vulgarism, vulgarity |
| (noun) the state of being that is commonly observed | Synonyms: expectedness |
| commonplace | (adjective) not challenging; dull and lacking excitement | Synonyms: humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous |
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| (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
| (adjective) completely ordinary and unremarkable | - |
| (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: banality, bromide, cliche, platitude |
| commonplaceness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonness, everydayness |
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| commons | (noun) a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank | Synonyms: commonality, commonalty |
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| (noun) a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area | Synonyms: common, green, park |
| (noun) a pasture subject to common use | Synonyms: common land |
| commonsense | (adjective) exhibiting native good judgment | Synonyms: commonsensible, commonsensical |
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| commonsensible | (adjective) exhibiting native good judgment | Synonyms: commonsense, commonsensical |
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| commonsensical | (adjective) exhibiting native good judgment | Synonyms: commonsense, commonsensible |
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| commonweal | (noun) the good of a community | Synonyms: common good |
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| commonwealth | (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, country, land, nation, res publica, state |
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| (noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | Synonyms: democracy, republic |
| (noun) a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another | - |
| (noun) the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) | - |
| endopsammon | (noun) The microscopic fauna of sand and mud. | - |
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| epipsammon | (noun) Microscopic flora and fauna found on the surface of and/or attached to sand grains. | - |
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| gammon | (noun) meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) | Synonyms: ham, jambon |
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| (noun) hind portion of a side of bacon | - |
| mammon | (noun) wealth regarded as an evil influence | - |
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| persimmon | (noun) orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe | - |
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| (noun) any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros | Synonyms: persimmon tree |
| scammony | (noun) twining plant of Asia Minor having cream-colored to purple flowers and long thick roots yielding a cathartic resin | Synonyms: Convolvulus scammonia |
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| (noun) resin from the root of Convolvulus scammonia | - |
| (noun) tropical American morning glory | Synonyms: Ipomoea orizabensis |
| scammonyroot | (noun) tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato | Synonyms: Ipomoea fastigiata, Ipomoea panurata, man-of-the-earth, manroot, wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine |
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| summon | (verb) make ready for action or use | Synonyms: marshal, mobilise, mobilize |
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| (verb) call in an official matter, such as to attend court | Synonyms: cite, summons |
| (verb) ask to come | - |
| (verb) gather or bring together | Synonyms: come up, muster, muster up, rally |
| (verb) cause to become available for use, either literally or figuratively | Synonyms: call up |
| summoning | (noun) calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations | Synonyms: evocation |
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| summons | (noun) a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant | Synonyms: process |
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| (noun) a request to be present | Synonyms: bidding |
| (noun) an order to appear in person at a given place and time | - |
| (verb) call in an official matter, such as to attend court | Synonyms: cite, summon |
| uncommon | (adjective) not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind | - |
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| (adjective) marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind | Synonyms: rare |
| uncommonly | (adverb) exceptionally | - |
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| uncommonness | (noun) extraordinariness as a consequence of being rare and seldom encountered | - |
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| (noun) extraordinariness as a consequence of being marked by an uncommon or superlative quality | - |