| abstainer | (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstinent, nondrinker |
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| (noun) someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline | Synonyms: ascetic |
| adrenergic | (adjective) relating to epinephrine (its release or action) | Synonyms: sympathomimetic |
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| (noun) drug that has the effects of epinephrine | Synonyms: adrenergic drug |
| aerogenerator | (noun) generator that extracts usable energy from winds | Synonyms: wind generator, windmill |
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| afterburner | (noun) a device that injects fuel into a hot exhaust for extra thrust | - |
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| airliner | (noun) a commercial airplane that carries passengers | - |
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| almoner | (noun) an official in a British hospital who looks after the social and material needs of the patients | Synonyms: medical social worker |
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| anergy | (noun) reduction or lack of an immune response to a specific antigen | - |
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| (noun) inactivity and lack of energy | - |
| aneroid | (adjective) containing no liquid or actuated without the use of liquid | - |
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| (noun) a barometer that measures pressure without using fluids | Synonyms: aneroid barometer |
| antiadrenergic | (adjective) relating to blocking or reducing adrenergic effects in the body | - |
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| anticholinergic | (adjective) inhibiting or blocking the action of acetylcholine at a receptor site | - |
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| (noun) a substance that opposes or blocks the action of acetylcholine | Synonyms: anticholinergic drug |
| asynergia | (noun) absence of coordination of organs or body parts that usually work together harmoniously | Synonyms: asynergy |
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| asynergic | (adjective) of or relating to the state of asynergy; lacking synergy | - |
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| asynergy | (noun) absence of coordination of organs or body parts that usually work together harmoniously | Synonyms: asynergia |
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| banner | (adjective) unusually good; outstanding | - |
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| (noun) long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising | Synonyms: streamer |
| (noun) any distinctive flag | Synonyms: standard |
| (noun) a newspaper headline that runs across the full page | Synonyms: streamer |
| banneret | (noun) a knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command | Synonyms: knight banneret, knight of the square flag |
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| bannerlike | (adverb) like a banner | - |
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| bargainer | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: dealer, monger, trader |
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| (noun) negotiator of the terms of a transaction | - |
| barnburner | (noun) an impressively successful event | - |
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| (noun) someone who burns down a barn | - |
| beaner | (noun) a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head | Synonyms: beanball |
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| beginner | (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: initiate, novice, tiro, tyro |
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| (noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: father, founder, founding father |
| bigeneric | (adjective) resulting from a cross between species of different genera | - |
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| bludgeoner | (noun) an assailant who uses a bludgeon | - |
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| boner | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| breadwinner | (noun) one whose earnings are the primary source of support for their dependents | - |
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| buffoonery | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: clowning, frivolity, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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| burner | (noun) an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse) | - |
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| (noun) the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking | - |
| campaigner | (noun) a politician who is running for public office | Synonyms: candidate, nominee |
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| cannery | (noun) a factory where food is canned | - |
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| carabiner | (noun) an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes | Synonyms: karabiner, snap ring |
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| catacorner | (adjective) slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | Synonyms: cata-cornered, cater-cornered, catercorner, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered |
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| catercorner | (adjective) slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | Synonyms: cata-cornered, catacorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered |
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| centner | (noun) a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds | Synonyms: cental, cwt, hundredweight, quintal, short hundredweight |
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| (noun) in some European countries: a unit of weight equivalent to 50 kilograms | - |
| (noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: doppelzentner, hundredweight, metric hundredweight |
| chicanery | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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| cholinergic | (adjective) releasing or activated by acetylcholine or a related compound | - |
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| cineraria | (noun) herb of Canary Islands widely cultivated for its blue or purple or red or variegated daisylike flowers | Synonyms: Pericallis cruenta, Senecio cruentus |
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| cinerarium | (noun) a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead | Synonyms: columbarium |
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| cinerary | (adjective) containing or used for ashes of the cremated dead | - |
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| cleaner | (noun) a preparation used in cleaning something | Synonyms: cleanser, cleansing agent |
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| (noun) someone whose occupation is cleaning | - |
| (noun) the operator of dry-cleaning establishment | Synonyms: dry cleaner |
| cleaners | (noun) shop where dry cleaning is done | Synonyms: dry cleaners |
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| coiner | (noun) a skilled worker who coins or stamps money | Synonyms: minter, moneyer |
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| (noun) someone who is a source of new words or new expressions | - |
| (noun) a maker of counterfeit coins | - |
| commissioner | (noun) a government administrator | - |
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| (noun) a member of a commission | - |
| commoner | (noun) a person who holds no title | Synonyms: common man, common person |
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| complainer | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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| concessioner | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessionaire |
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| conditioner | (noun) exercise that conditions the body | - |
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| (noun) a substance used in washing (clothing or hair) to make things softer | - |
| (noun) a trainer of athletes | - |
| confectioner | (noun) someone who makes candies and other sweets | Synonyms: candymaker |
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| confectionery | (noun) the occupation and skills of a confectioner | - |
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| (noun) a confectioner's shop | Synonyms: candy store, confectionary |
| (noun) candy and other sweets considered collectively | - |
| congener | (noun) a whole (a thing or person) of the same kind or category as another | - |
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| (noun) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) | Synonyms: congenator, congeneric, relative |
| (noun) a minor chemical constituent that gives a wine or liquor its distinctive character | - |
| congeneric | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congenerical, congenerous |
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| (noun) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) | Synonyms: congenator, congener, relative |
| congenerical | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congeneric, congenerous |
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| congenerous | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congeneric, congenerical |
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| consigner | (noun) the person who delivers over or commits merchandise | Synonyms: consignor |
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| container | (noun) any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) | - |
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| containerful | (noun) the quantity that a container will hold | - |
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| containerise | (verb) package in a container | Synonyms: containerize |
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| containerize | (verb) package in a container | Synonyms: containerise |
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| containership | (noun) a cargo ship designed to hold containerized cargoes | Synonyms: container ship, container vessel |
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| convener | (noun) the member of a group whose duty it is to convene meetings | - |
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| copartner | (noun) a joint partner (as in a business enterprise) | - |
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| copartnership | (noun) a partnership in which employees get a share of the profits in addition to their wages | - |
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| corner | (noun) the intersection of two streets | Synonyms: street corner, turning point |
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| (noun) (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone | Synonyms: quoin |
| (noun) an interior angle formed by two meeting walls | Synonyms: nook |
| (noun) the point where two lines meet or intersect | - |
| (noun) the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect | - |
| (noun) a place off to the side of an area | - |
| (noun) a remote area | - |
| (noun) a projecting part where two sides or edges meet | - |
| (noun) a small concavity | Synonyms: niche, recess, recession |
| (noun) a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade | - |
| (noun) a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible | Synonyms: box |
| (verb) turn a corner | - |
| (verb) force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape | Synonyms: tree |
| (verb) gain control over | - |
| cornerback | (noun) a defensive football player stationed outside the linebackers | - |
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| cornered | (adjective) forced to turn and face attackers | Synonyms: at bay, trapped, treed |
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| cornerstone | (noun) a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls | - |
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| (noun) a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies | - |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, foundation, fundament, groundwork |
| coroner | (noun) a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes | Synonyms: medical examiner |
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| cosigner | (noun) one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration) | Synonyms: cosignatory |
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| (noun) a signer in addition to the principal signer (to verify the authenticity of the principal signature or to provide surety) | - |
| crooner | (noun) a singer of popular ballads | Synonyms: balladeer |
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| cunner | (noun) common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States | Synonyms: bergall, Tautogolabrus adspersus |
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| dampener | (noun) a device that dampens or moistens something | Synonyms: moistener |
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| darner | (noun) a person who mends by darning | - |
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| deanery | (noun) the position or office of a dean | Synonyms: deanship |
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| (noun) the official residence of a dean | - |
| degeneracy | (noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: corruption, depravation, depravity, putrefaction |
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| (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadence, decadency, degeneration |
| degenerate | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: deviant, deviate, perv, perve, pervert |
| (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: deteriorate, devolve, drop |
| degeneration | (noun) passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form | Synonyms: retrogression |
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| (noun) the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality | Synonyms: devolution |
| (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadence, decadency, degeneracy |
| degenerative | (adjective) (of illness) marked by gradual deterioration of organs and cells along with loss of function | - |
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| dejeuner | (noun) a midday meal | Synonyms: lunch, luncheon, tiffin |
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| demineralisation | (noun) the removal of minerals and mineral salts from a liquid (especially from water) | Synonyms: demineralization |
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| (noun) abnormal loss of mineral salts (especially from bone) | Synonyms: demineralization |
| demineralise | (verb) remove the minerals or salts from | Synonyms: demineralize |
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| demineralization | (noun) the removal of minerals and mineral salts from a liquid (especially from water) | Synonyms: demineralisation |
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| (noun) abnormal loss of mineral salts (especially from bone) | Synonyms: demineralisation |
| demineralize | (verb) remove the minerals or salts from | Synonyms: demineralise |
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| designer | (noun) someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings) | Synonyms: architect |
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| (noun) someone who designs clothing | Synonyms: clothes designer, couturier, fashion designer |
| (noun) a person who specializes in interior design | Synonyms: interior designer |
| (noun) a person who devises plots or intrigues | Synonyms: intriguer |
| (noun) someone who specializes in graphic design | Synonyms: graphic designer |
| determiner | (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determinative, determining factor |
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| (noun) one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | Synonyms: determinative |
| (noun) an argument that is conclusive | Synonyms: clincher, determining factor |
| diner | (noun) a passenger car where food is served in transit | Synonyms: buffet car, dining car, dining compartment |
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| (noun) a restaurant that resembles a dining car | - |
| (noun) a person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant) | - |
| dinero | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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| dinner | (noun) the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday | - |
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| (noun) a party of people assembled to have dinner together | Synonyms: dinner party |
| dinnertime | (noun) the customary or habitual hour for the evening meal | Synonyms: suppertime |
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| dinnerware | (noun) the tableware (plates and platters and serving bowls etc.) used in serving a meal | - |
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| directioner | (noun) a fan on the band One Direction | - |
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| diviner | (noun) someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers | - |
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| doppelzentner | (noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: centner, hundredweight, metric hundredweight |
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| downer | (noun) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person | Synonyms: depressant, sedative, sedative drug |
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| dyssynergia | (noun) inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait | Synonyms: ataxia, ataxy, motor ataxia |
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| earner | (noun) someone who earn wages in return for their labor | Synonyms: wage earner |
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| easterner | (noun) an inhabitant of an eastern area; especially of the U.S. | - |
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| electrocutioner | (noun) an executioner who uses electricity to kill the condemned person | - |
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| energetic | (adjective) possessing or exerting or displaying energy | - |
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| (adjective) working hard to promote an enterprise | Synonyms: gumptious, industrious, up-and-coming |
| energetically | (adverb) in an energetic manner | - |
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| energetism | (noun) the philosophical theory that energy is the substrate of all phenomena and that all observable changes can be interpreted as transformations of one kind of energy into another. | Synonyms: energetic monism |
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| energid | (noun) a biological unit consisting of a nucleus and the body of cytoplasm with which it interacts | Synonyms: protoplast |
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| energise | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, brace, energize, perk up, stimulate |
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| (verb) raise to a higher energy level | Synonyms: energize, excite |