phonetically | (adverb) by phonetics | - |
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phonetician | (noun) a specialist in phonetics | - |
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phonetics | (noun) the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis | - |
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phrenetic | (adjective) excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion | Synonyms: frantic, frenetic, frenzied |
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phylogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to the evolutionary development of organisms | Synonyms: phyletic |
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phylogenetically | (adverb) with regard to phylogeny | - |
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pinetum | (noun) an area planted with pine trees or related conifers | - |
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planet | (noun) (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction | Synonyms: major planet |
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(noun) any celestial body (other than comets or satellites) that revolves around a star | - |
(noun) a person who follows or serves another | Synonyms: satellite |
planetal | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets | Synonyms: planetary |
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planetarium | (noun) an apparatus or model for representing the solar systems | - |
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(noun) an optical device for projecting images of celestial bodies and other astronomical phenomena onto the inner surface of a hemispherical dome | - |
(noun) a building housing an instrument for projecting the positions of the planets onto a domed ceiling | - |
planetary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets | Synonyms: planetal |
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(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants | Synonyms: terrestrial |
(adjective) involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope | Synonyms: global, world-wide, world, worldwide |
(adjective) having no fixed course | Synonyms: erratic, wandering |
planetesimal | (noun) one of many small solid celestial bodies thought to have existed at an early stage in the development of the solar system | - |
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planetoid | (noun) any of numerous small celestial bodies that move around the sun | Synonyms: minor planet |
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psychogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to the origin and development of the mind | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the psychological cause of a disorder | Synonyms: psychogenic |
psychokinetic | (adjective) moving an object without apparent use of physical means | - |
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punnet | (noun) a small light basket used as a measure for fruits | - |
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pyrogenetic | (adjective) produced by or producing fever | Synonyms: pyrogenic, pyrogenous |
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rennet | (noun) a substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket | - |
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sarcenet | (noun) a fine soft silk fabric often used for linings | Synonyms: sarsenet |
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sarsenet | (noun) a fine soft silk fabric often used for linings | Synonyms: sarcenet |
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satinet | (noun) a fabric with a finish resembling satin but made partly or wholly from cotton or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: satinette |
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satinette | (noun) a fabric with a finish resembling satin but made partly or wholly from cotton or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: satinet |
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signet | (noun) a seal (especially one used to mark documents officially) | - |
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somatogenetic | (adjective) of or arising from physiological causes rather than being psychogenic in origin | Synonyms: somatogenic |
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sonnet | (noun) a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme | - |
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(verb) compose a sonnet | - |
(verb) praise in a sonnet | - |
sonneteer | (noun) a poet who writes sonnets | - |
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spinet | (noun) early model harpsichord with only one string per note | - |
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(noun) a small and compactly built upright piano | - |
splenetic | (adjective) of or relating to the spleen | Synonyms: lienal, splenic |
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(adjective) very irritable | Synonyms: bristly, prickly, waspish |
stockinet | (noun) knit used especially for infants' wear and undergarments | Synonyms: stockinette |
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stockinette | (noun) knit used especially for infants' wear and undergarments | Synonyms: stockinet |
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sunbonnet | (noun) a large bonnet that shades the face; worn by girls and women | - |
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technetium | (noun) a crystalline metallic element not found in nature; occurs as one of the fission products of uranium | Synonyms: atomic number 43, Tc |
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tenet | (noun) a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof | Synonyms: dogma |
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toucanet | (noun) small toucan | - |
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unethical | (adjective) not conforming to approved standards of social or professional behavior | - |
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unethically | (adverb) in an unethical manner | - |
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vignette | (noun) a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books) | - |
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(noun) a photograph whose edges shade off gradually | - |
(noun) a brief literary description | Synonyms: sketch |
wordnet | (noun) any of the machine-readable lexical databases modeled after the Princeton WordNet | - |
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