| absconder | (noun) a fugitive who runs away and hides to avoid arrest or prosecution | - |
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| absentminded | (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, abstracted, scatty |
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| absentmindedly | (adverb) in an absentminded or preoccupied manner | Synonyms: absently, abstractedly, inattentively |
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| absentmindedness | (noun) preoccupation so great that the ordinary demands on attention are ignored | - |
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| allemande | (noun) egg-thickened veloute | Synonyms: allemande sauce |
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| amended | (adjective) of legislation | - |
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| (adjective) modified for the better | - |
| andelmin | (noun) any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira | Synonyms: angelim |
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| andesite | (noun) a dark grey volcanic rock | - |
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| appendectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the vermiform appendix | Synonyms: appendicectomy |
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| apprehended | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: appreciated, comprehended |
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| apprehender | (noun) a person who seizes or arrests (especially a person who seizes or arrests in the name of justice) | - |
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| (noun) a person who knows or apprehends | Synonyms: knower |
| ascendence | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendency, control, dominance |
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| ascendency | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, control, dominance |
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| ascendent | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascensive |
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| (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendant, dominating |
| (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, root |
| (noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendant |
| ascender | (noun) (printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters | - |
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| (noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters | - |
| (noun) someone who ascends | - |
| astounded | (adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | Synonyms: amazed, astonied, astonished, stunned |
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| asunder | (adjective) widely separated especially in space | - |
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| (adverb) into parts or pieces | Synonyms: apart |
| asyndetic | (adjective) lacking conjunctions | - |
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| asyndeton | (noun) the omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used | - |
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| attainder | (noun) cancellation of civil rights | Synonyms: civil death |
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| attended | (adjective) playing or singing with instrumental or vocal accompaniment | Synonyms: accompanied |
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| (adjective) having a caretaker or other watcher | Synonyms: tended to |
| attendee | (noun) a person who is present and participates in a meeting | Synonyms: attendant, attender, meeter |
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| attender | (noun) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another | Synonyms: attendant, tender |
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| (noun) a person who is present and participates in a meeting | Synonyms: attendant, attendee, meeter |
| (noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: auditor, hearer, listener |
| babyminder | (noun) a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working | Synonyms: baby minder, minder |
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| backgrounder | (noun) a press conference or interview in which a government official explains to reporters the background of an action or policy | - |
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| backhanded | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: backhand |
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| (adjective) roundabout or ambiguous | - |
| backhander | (noun) a backhanded blow | - |
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| bandeau | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bra, brassiere |
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| banded | (adjective) identified with a band especially around a leg | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by a band of especially white around the body | - |
| (adjective) marked with bands or strips of contrasting color or texture | - |
| bandelet | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelette, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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| bandelette | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelet, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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| banderilla | (noun) a decorated dart that is implanted in the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight | - |
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| banderillero | (noun) the bullfighter who implants decorated darts (banderillas) into the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight | - |
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| barehanded | (adjective) with bare hands | - |
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| bartender | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, barkeeper, mixologist |
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| bended | (adjective) used of the back and knees; stooped | Synonyms: bent |
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| bender | (noun) revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party | Synonyms: booze-up, carousal, carouse, toot |
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| (noun) a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter | Synonyms: breaking ball, curve, curve ball |
| (noun) a tool for bending | - |
| binder | (noun) something used to tie or bind | Synonyms: ligature |
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| (noun) holds loose papers or magazines | Synonyms: ring-binder |
| (noun) a machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves | Synonyms: reaper binder |
| (noun) something used to bind separate particles together or facilitate adhesion to a surface | - |
| bindery | (noun) a workshop where books are bound | - |
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| blende | (noun) an ore that is the chief source of zinc; consists largely of zinc sulfide in crystalline form | Synonyms: sphalerite, zinc blende |
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| blended | (adjective) combined or mixed together so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable | - |
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| blender | (noun) an electrically powered mixer with whirling blades that mix or chop or liquefy foods | Synonyms: liquidiser, liquidizer |
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| blinded | (adjective) deprived of sight | - |
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| blinder | (noun) blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side | Synonyms: blinker, winker |
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| blonde | (adjective) being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes | Synonyms: blond, light-haired |
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| (noun) a light grayish yellow to near white | Synonyms: blond |
| (noun) a female person with fair skin and hair | - |
| blunder | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder out, blurt, blurt out, ejaculate |
| (verb) make one's way clumsily or blindly | Synonyms: fumble |
| (verb) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake | Synonyms: boob, drop the ball, goof, sin |
| blunderbuss | (noun) a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle | - |
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| blunderer | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: botcher, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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| bonderise | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderize |
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| bonderize | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderise |
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| bookbinder | (noun) a worker whose trade is binding books | - |
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| bookbindery | (noun) a bookbinder's workshop; a place for binding books | - |
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| bounded | (adjective) having the limits or boundaries established | Synonyms: delimited |
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| boundedness | (noun) the quality of being finite | Synonyms: finiteness, finitude |
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| bounden | (adjective) morally obligatory | - |
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| bounder | (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: blackguard, cad, dog, heel, hound |
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| (noun) someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition) | Synonyms: leaper |
| bounderish | (adjective) (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace | Synonyms: ill-bred, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish |
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| branded | (adjective) marked with a brand | - |
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| (adjective) (of goods and merchandise) marked or labeled by a distinctive word or symbol indicating exclusive rights | - |
| brinded | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brindle, brindled, tabby |
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| bystander | (noun) a nonparticipant spectator | - |
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| calender | (noun) a machine that smooths or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers | - |
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| (verb) press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets | - |
| calendered | (adjective) (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers | Synonyms: glossy |
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| candela | (noun) the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin | Synonyms: candle, cd, standard candle |
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| candelabra | (noun) branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights | Synonyms: candelabrum |
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| candelabrum | (noun) branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights | Synonyms: candelabra |
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| candelilla | (noun) wax-coated shrub of northern Mexico and southwestern United States | Synonyms: Euphorbia antisyphilitica |
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| (noun) wax-coated Mexican shrub related to Euphorbia antisyphilitica | Synonyms: Pedilanthus bracteatus, Pedilanthus pavonis |
| candent | (adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: incandescent |
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| candescent | (adjective) glowing from great heat | - |
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| chandelier | (noun) branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling | Synonyms: pendant, pendent |
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| chandelle | (noun) a flight maneuver consisting of a steep climbing turn executed to gain altitude while changing direction | - |
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| (verb) climb suddenly and steeply | - |
| cinder | (noun) a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire | Synonyms: clinker |
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| clandestine | (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
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| cofounder | (noun) one of a group of founders | - |
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| colander | (noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods | Synonyms: cullender |
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| commandeer | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: highjack, hijack, pirate |
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| commander | (noun) an officer in command of a military unit | Synonyms: commandant, commanding officer |
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| (noun) a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a lieutenant commander and below a captain | - |
| (noun) an officer in the airforce | Synonyms: air force officer |
| (noun) someone in an official position of authority who can command or control others | - |
| commandership | (noun) the position or office of commander | Synonyms: commandery |
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| commandery | (noun) the position or office of commander | Synonyms: commandership |
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| compander | (noun) a system for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal at a transmitter or recorder by first compressing the volume range of the signal and then restoring it to its original amplitude level at the receiving or reproducing apparatus. | - |
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| compounded | (adjective) combined into or constituting a chemical compound | - |
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| comprehended | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: appreciated, apprehended |
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| condemn | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: decry, excoriate, objurgate, reprobate |
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| (verb) pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law | Synonyms: doom, sentence |
| (verb) declare or judge unfit for use or habitation | - |
| (verb) demonstrate the guilt of (someone) | - |
| (verb) appropriate (property) for public use | - |
| (verb) compel or force into a particular state or activity | - |
| condemnable | (adjective) bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure | Synonyms: criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious |
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| condemnation | (noun) (law) the act of condemning (as land forfeited for public use) or judging to be unfit for use (as a food product or an unsafe building) | - |
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| (noun) (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed | Synonyms: conviction, judgment of conviction, sentence |
| (noun) an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable | Synonyms: disapprobation |
| (noun) an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group | Synonyms: curse, execration |
| (noun) the condition of being strongly disapproved of | - |
| condemnatory | (adjective) containing or imposing condemnation or censure | Synonyms: condemning |
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| condemning | (adjective) containing or imposing condemnation or censure | Synonyms: condemnatory |
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| condensate | (noun) atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold | Synonyms: condensation |
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| (noun) a product of condensation | - |
| condensation | (noun) the act of increasing the density of something | Synonyms: condensing |
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| (noun) (psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams | - |
| (noun) a shortened version of a written work | Synonyms: abridgement, abridgment, capsule |
| (noun) the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together | Synonyms: compression, contraction |
| (noun) atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold | Synonyms: condensate |
| (noun) the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state | - |
| condense | (verb) make more concise | Synonyms: concentrate, digest |
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| (verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: distil, distill |
| (verb) cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid | - |
| (verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: concentrate, contract |
| (verb) remove water from | - |
| (verb) become more compact or concentrated | - |
| (verb) develop due to condensation | - |
| condenser | (noun) lens used to concentrate light on an object | Synonyms: optical condenser |
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| (noun) an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge | Synonyms: capacitance, capacitor, electrical condenser |
| (noun) a hollow coil that condenses by abstracting heat | - |
| (noun) an apparatus that converts vapor into liquid | - |
| condensing | (noun) the act of increasing the density of something | Synonyms: condensation |
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| condescend | (verb) treat condescendingly | Synonyms: patronise, patronize |
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| (verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: deign, descend |
| (verb) behave in a patronizing and condescending manner | - |
| (verb) debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way | Synonyms: lower oneself, stoop |
| condescending | (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: arch, patronising, patronizing |
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| condescendingly | (adverb) with condescension; in a patronizing manner | Synonyms: patronisingly, patronizingly |
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| condescendingness | (noun) affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank | Synonyms: condescension |
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| condescension | (noun) the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior | Synonyms: disdainfulness, superciliousness |
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| (noun) affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank | Synonyms: condescendingness |
| (noun) a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient | Synonyms: disdain, patronage |
| confounded | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| confoundedly | (adverb) in a perplexed manner | Synonyms: perplexedly |
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| contender | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competition, competitor, rival |
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| corespondent | (noun) the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding | Synonyms: co-respondent |
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