| contradance | (noun) a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line | Synonyms: contra danse, contredanse, country-dance, country dancing |
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| (verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contredanse, country-dance |
| contrivance | (noun) the act of devising something | Synonyms: devisal |
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| (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, convenience, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
| (noun) any improvised arrangement for temporary use | Synonyms: lash-up |
| (noun) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade | Synonyms: dodge, stratagem |
| (noun) the faculty of contriving; inventive skill | - |
| (noun) an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. | - |
| convalescence | (noun) gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury | Synonyms: recovery, recuperation |
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| convenience | (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, contrivance, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
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| (noun) a toilet that is available to the public | Synonyms: comfort station, public convenience, public lavatory, public toilet, restroom, toilet facility, wash room |
| (noun) the quality of being useful and convenient | - |
| (noun) the state of being suitable or opportune | - |
| conveniences | (noun) things that make you comfortable and at ease | Synonyms: amenities, comforts, creature comforts |
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| convergence | (noun) the act of converging (coming closer) | Synonyms: convergency, converging |
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| (noun) the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit | Synonyms: convergency |
| (noun) a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena | Synonyms: intersection, overlap |
| (noun) the occurrence of two or more things coming together | - |
| conversance | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversancy, familiarity |
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| conveyance | (noun) act of transferring property title from one person to another | Synonyms: conveyance of title, conveyancing, conveying |
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| (noun) the act of moving something from one location to another | Synonyms: transfer, transferral, transport, transportation |
| (noun) something that serves as a means of transportation | Synonyms: transport |
| (noun) the transmission of information | Synonyms: impartation, imparting |
| (noun) document effecting a property transfer | - |
| conveyancer | (noun) a lawyer who specializes in the business of conveying properties | - |
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| convince | (verb) make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something | Synonyms: convert, win over |
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| convinced | (adjective) having a strong belief or conviction | - |
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| (adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: confident, positive |
| coreference | (noun) the grammatical relation between two words that have a common referent | - |
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| corpulence | (noun) the property of excessive fatness | Synonyms: adiposis, overweight, stoutness |
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| correspondence | (noun) similarity by virtue of corresponding | Synonyms: parallelism |
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| (noun) compatibility of observations | Synonyms: agreement |
| (noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, symmetricalness, symmetry |
| (noun) communication by the exchange of letters | - |
| (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: commensurateness, proportionateness |
| countenance | (noun) the appearance conveyed by a person's face | Synonyms: visage |
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| (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: kisser, mug, phiz, physiognomy, smiler, visage |
| (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: endorsement, imprimatur, indorsement, sanction, warrant |
| (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: allow, let, permit |
| counterbalance | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser, equalizer |
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| (noun) a compensating equivalent | Synonyms: offset |
| (noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: balance, equilibrium, equipoise |
| (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counteract, countervail, neutralize |
| (verb) contrast with equal weight or force | Synonyms: oppose |
| (verb) adjust for | Synonyms: compensate, correct, even off, even out, even up, make up |
| counterbalanced | (adjective) brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another | Synonyms: counterpoised |
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| counterevidence | (noun) (philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis. | Synonyms: counter-evidence |
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| counterintelligence | (noun) intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism | - |
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| countertransference | (noun) the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction | - |
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| covalence | (noun) valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share | Synonyms: covalency |
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| covariance | (noun) (statistics) the mean value of the product of the deviations of two variates from their respective means | - |
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| crapulence | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, drink, drinking, drunkenness |
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| credence | (noun) a kind of sideboard or buffet | Synonyms: credenza |
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| (noun) the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true | Synonyms: acceptance |
| dalliance | (noun) the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working | Synonyms: dawdling, trifling |
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| (noun) playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest | Synonyms: coquetry, flirt, flirtation, flirting, toying |
| dance | (noun) taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music | Synonyms: dancing, saltation, terpsichore |
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| (noun) an artistic form of nonverbal communication | - |
| (noun) a party for social dancing | - |
| (noun) a party of people assembled for dancing | - |
| (verb) move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance | Synonyms: trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe |
| (verb) move in a graceful and rhythmical way | - |
| (verb) skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways | - |
| danceable | (adjective) suitable for dancing | - |
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| dancer | (noun) a performer who dances professionally | Synonyms: professional dancer, terpsichorean |
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| (noun) a person who participates in a social gathering arranged for dancing (as a ball) | Synonyms: social dancer |
| decadence | (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadency, degeneracy, degeneration |
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| decalescence | (noun) phenomenon that occurs when a metal is being heated and there is a sudden slowing in the rate of temperature increase; slowing is caused by a change in the internal crystal structure of the metal | - |
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| deconcentrate | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralise, decentralize |
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| defence | (noun) (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies | Synonyms: defense, defensive measure |
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| (noun) the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury | Synonyms: defense |
| (noun) a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | Synonyms: defense, demurrer, denial |
| (noun) protection from harm | Synonyms: defense |
| (noun) a structure used to defend against attack | Synonyms: defense, defensive structure |
| (noun) the justification for some act or belief | Synonyms: defense, vindication |
| (noun) the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions | Synonyms: defense, refutation |
| (noun) the defendant and his legal advisors collectively | Synonyms: defense, defense lawyers, defense team |
| (noun) (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring | Synonyms: defending team, defense |
| (noun) an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack | Synonyms: defence force, defense, defense force |
| (noun) (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires | Synonyms: defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defense mechanism, defense reaction |
| defenceless | (adjective) lacking weapons for self-defense | Synonyms: defenseless |
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| (adjective) lacking protection or support | Synonyms: defenseless |
| (adverb) without defense | Synonyms: defencelessly, defenseless, defenselessly |
| defencelessly | (adverb) without defense | Synonyms: defenceless, defenseless, defenselessly |
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| defencelessness | (noun) the property of being helpless in the face of attack | Synonyms: defenselessness, unprotectedness |
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| deference | (noun) a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard | Synonyms: respect |
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| (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliance, compliancy, obligingness |
| (noun) courteous regard for people's feelings | Synonyms: respect, respectfulness |
| defervescence | (noun) abatement of a fever as indicated by a reduction in body temperature | - |
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| defiance | (noun) a defiant act | - |
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| (noun) intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude | Synonyms: rebelliousness |
| (noun) a hostile challenge | - |
| dehiscence | (noun) (biology) release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body to release seeds or spores or the bursting open of a surgically closed wound | - |
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| deliverance | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: delivery, rescue, saving |
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| denounce | (verb) speak out against | - |
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| (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, give away, grass, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
| (verb) announce the termination of, as of treaties | - |
| (verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: brand, mark, stigmatise, stigmatize |
| denouncement | (noun) a public act of denouncing | Synonyms: denunciation |
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| dependance | (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependence, dependency |
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| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependence, dependency, habituation |
| dependence | (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependance, dependency |
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| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependance, dependency, habituation |
| despondence | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondency, disconsolateness, heartsickness |
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| detergence | (noun) detergent quality; the quality of having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergency |
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| deterrence | (noun) the act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by instilling fear or doubt or anxiety | - |
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| (noun) a communication that makes you afraid to try something | Synonyms: determent, intimidation |
| (noun) a negative motivational influence | Synonyms: disincentive |
| detumescence | (noun) diminution of swelling; the subsidence of anything swollen | - |
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| deviance | (noun) deviate behavior | Synonyms: deviation |
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| (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration |
| diencephalon | (noun) the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon | Synonyms: betweenbrain, interbrain, thalmencephalon |
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| difference | (noun) the quality of being unlike or dissimilar | - |
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| (noun) a disagreement or argument about something important | Synonyms: conflict, difference of opinion, dispute |
| (noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, deviation, divergence |
| (noun) the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend | Synonyms: remainder |
| (noun) a significant change | - |
| diffidence | (noun) lack of self-confidence | Synonyms: self-distrust, self-doubt |
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| diligence | (noun) a diligent effort | Synonyms: application |
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| (noun) persevering determination to perform a task | Synonyms: industriousness, industry |
| (noun) conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation | - |
| disappearance | (noun) the act of leaving secretly or without explanation | Synonyms: disappearing |
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| (noun) gradually ceasing to be visible | Synonyms: fade |
| (noun) the event of passing out of sight | - |
| (noun) ceasing to exist | - |
| disconcert | (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discomfit, discompose, untune, upset |
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| (verb) cause to feel embarrassment | Synonyms: confuse, flurry, put off |
| disconcerted | (adjective) having self-possession upset; thrown into confusion | Synonyms: discombobulated |
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| disconcerting | (adjective) causing an emotional disturbance | Synonyms: upsetting |
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| disconcertingly | (adverb) in a disturbing or embarrassing manner | - |
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| disconcertion | (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertment |
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| disconcertment | (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion |
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| discontinuance | (noun) the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) | Synonyms: discontinuation |
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| discordance | (noun) strife resulting from a lack of agreement | Synonyms: discord |
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| (noun) a harsh mixture of sounds | Synonyms: discord |
| discountenance | (verb) show disapproval by discouraging | - |
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| (verb) look with disfavor on | - |
| disincentive | (noun) a negative motivational influence | Synonyms: deterrence |
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| disinheritance | (noun) the act by a donor that terminates the right of a person to inherit | - |
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| disobedience | (noun) the failure to obey | Synonyms: noncompliance |
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| (noun) the trait of being unwilling to obey | - |
| dissidence | (noun) disagreement; especially disagreement with the government | - |
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| dissilience | (noun) the emergence of seeds as seed pods burst open when they are ripe | - |
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| dissonance | (noun) disagreeable sounds | - |
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| (noun) the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience | Synonyms: noise, racket |
| (noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: disagreement, dissension |
| distance | (noun) the property created by the space between two objects or points | - |
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| (noun) size of the gap between two places | Synonyms: length |
| (noun) indifference by personal withdrawal | Synonyms: aloofness |
| (noun) a distant region | - |
| (noun) the interval between two times | Synonyms: space |
| (noun) a remote point in time | - |
| (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: outdistance, outstrip |
| (verb) keep at a distance | - |
| disturbance | (noun) the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion | - |
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| (noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: affray, fray, ruffle |
| (noun) activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption | Synonyms: perturbation |
| (noun) electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication | Synonyms: interference, noise |
| (noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult | Synonyms: commotion, disruption, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness | Synonyms: folie, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder |
| (noun) an unhappy and worried mental state | Synonyms: perturbation, upset |
| divergence | (noun) the act of moving away in different direction from a common point | Synonyms: divergency |
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| (noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: disagreement, discrepancy, variance |
| (noun) an infinite series that has no limit | Synonyms: divergency |
| (noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, deviation, difference |
| divulgence | (noun) the act of disclosing something that was secret or private | Synonyms: divulgement |
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| dominance | (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, authorization, potency, say-so |
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| (noun) superior development of one side of the body | Synonyms: laterality |
| (noun) the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not | - |
| (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control |
| dunce | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| durance | (noun) imprisonment (especially for a long time) | - |
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| ebullience | (noun) overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval | Synonyms: enthusiasm, exuberance |
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| echoencephalogram | (noun) a graphical image of the brain produced by an echoencephalograph | - |
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| echoencephalograph | (noun) a sonograph that creates an image of the brain and its abnormalities | - |
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| echoencephalography | (noun) a noninvasive diagnostic procedure that uses ultrasound to study the anatomy of the brain | - |
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| effervescence | (noun) the property of giving off bubbles | Synonyms: bubbliness, frothiness |
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| (noun) the process of bubbling as gas escapes | - |
| efflorescence | (noun) a powdery deposit on a surface | Synonyms: bloom |
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| (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
| (noun) any red eruption of the skin | Synonyms: rash, roseola, skin rash |
| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
| effluence | (noun) the process of flowing out | Synonyms: efflux, outflow |
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| effulgence | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine |
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| eightpence | (noun) a coin worth eight pennies | - |
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| elastance | (noun) The capacity of a dielectric for opposing an electric charge | Synonyms: electrical elastance |
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| electroencephalogram | (noun) a graphical record of electrical activity of the brain; produced by an electroencephalograph | Synonyms: EEG, encephalogram |
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| electroencephalograph | (noun) medical instrument that records electric currents generated by the brain | - |
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| electroencephalographic | (adjective) of or relating to an electroencephalograph | - |
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| elegance | (noun) a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste | - |
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| (noun) a quality of neatness and ingenious simplicity in the solution of a problem (especially in science or mathematics) | - |
| eloquence | (noun) powerful and effective language | Synonyms: fluency, smoothness |
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| emergence | (noun) the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent | Synonyms: egress, egression |
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| (noun) the act of emerging | Synonyms: emersion |
| (noun) the becoming visible | Synonyms: egress, issue |
| (noun) the gradual beginning or coming forth | Synonyms: growth, outgrowth |
| eminence | (noun) a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament | Synonyms: tubercle, tuberosity |
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| (noun) high status importance owing to marked superiority | Synonyms: distinction, note, preeminence |
| enceinte | (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, large, with child |
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| encephalartos | (noun) any of numerous cycads of the genus Encephalartos having stout cylindrical trunks and a terminal crown of long often spiny pinnate leaves | - |
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| encephalitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (`phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use) | Synonyms: cephalitis, phrenitis |
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| encephalocele | (noun) protrusion of brain tissue through a congenital fissure in the skull | - |
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| encephalogram | (noun) an X ray of the brain made by replacing spinal fluid with a gas (usually oxygen) to improve contrast | Synonyms: pneumoencephalogram |
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| (noun) a graphical record of electrical activity of the brain; produced by an electroencephalograph | Synonyms: EEG, electroencephalogram |
| encephalograph | (noun) Any apparatus used to produce an encephalogram by recording electric currents generated by the brain. | - |
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| encephalography | (noun) roentgenography of the brain after spinal fluid has been replaced by a gas (usually oxygen); produces an encephalogram | - |
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