| canistel | (noun) ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies | Synonyms: eggfruit |
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| (noun) tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit | Synonyms: canistel tree, Pouteria campechiana nervosa |
| canister | (noun) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour | Synonyms: cannister, tin |
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| (noun) a metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm | Synonyms: canister shot, case shot |
| cannister | (noun) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour | Synonyms: canister, tin |
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| canonisation | (noun) (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints | Synonyms: canonization |
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| canonise | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonize, saint |
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| (verb) treat as a sacred person | Synonyms: canonize |
| canonised | (adjective) accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing | Synonyms: canonized, glorified |
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| canonist | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of a body of rules and principles accepted as axiomatic; e.g. "canonist communism" | - |
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| (noun) a specialist in canon law | - |
| caponise | (verb) convert a cock into a capon | Synonyms: caponize |
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| carbonisation | (noun) the destructive distillation of coal (as in coke ovens) | Synonyms: carbonization |
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| carbonise | (verb) turn into carbon, as by burning | Synonyms: carbonize |
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| (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonize, carburise, carburize |
| cartoonist | (noun) a person who draws cartoons | - |
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| charlatanism | (noun) the dishonesty of a charlatan | Synonyms: quackery |
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| chauvinism | (noun) activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women | Synonyms: antifeminism, male chauvinism |
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| (noun) fanatical patriotism | Synonyms: jingoism, superpatriotism, ultranationalism |
| chauvinist | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, jingoist, patrioteer |
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| (noun) a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind | - |
| chauvinistic | (adjective) of or relating to persons convinced of the superiority of their own gender or kind | - |
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| (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: flag-waving, jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
| clannish | (adjective) characteristic of a clan especially in being unified | - |
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| (adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: cliquish, clubby, snobbish, snobby |
| clannishly | (adverb) in a clannish manner | Synonyms: cliquishly |
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| clannishness | (noun) tendency to associate with only a select group | Synonyms: cliquishness, exclusiveness |
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| clownish | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: buffoonish, clownlike, zany |
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| cocainise | (verb) anesthetize with cocaine | Synonyms: cocainize |
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| cognisable | (adjective) capable of being known | Synonyms: cognizable, cognoscible, knowable |
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| cognisance | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| cognisant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognizant |
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| cognise | (verb) be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about | Synonyms: cognize, know |
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| collaborationism | (noun) act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | Synonyms: collaboration, quislingism |
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| collaborationist | (noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborator, quisling |
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| colonisation | (noun) the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies | Synonyms: colonization, settlement |
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| colonise | (verb) settle as colonists or establish a colony (in) | Synonyms: colonize |
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| (verb) settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world | Synonyms: colonize |
| colonised | (adjective) inhabited by colonists | Synonyms: colonized, settled |
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| coloniser | (noun) someone who helps to found a colony | Synonyms: colonizer |
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| colonist | (noun) a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country | Synonyms: settler |
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| columnist | (noun) a journalist who writes editorials | Synonyms: editorialist |
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| communisation | (noun) the organization of a nation of the basis of communism | Synonyms: communization |
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| (noun) a change from private property to public property owned by the community | Synonyms: communization |
| (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communization, nationalisation, nationalization |
| communise | (verb) make into property owned by the state | Synonyms: communize |
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| (verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevise, bolshevize, communize |
| communism | (noun) a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society | - |
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| (noun) a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership | - |
| communist | (adjective) relating to or marked by communism | Synonyms: communistic |
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| (noun) a socialist who advocates communism | Synonyms: commie |
| communistic | (adjective) relating to or marked by communism | Synonyms: communist |
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| concertinist | (noun) a person who plays the concertina | - |
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| configurationism | (noun) (psychology) a theory of psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties | Synonyms: Gestalt psychology |
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| conservationist | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | Synonyms: environmentalist |
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| contortionist | (noun) an acrobat able to twist into unusual positions | - |
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| conversationist | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationalist, schmoozer |
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| coreligionist | (noun) someone having the same religion as another person | - |
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| counterrevolutionist | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionary |
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| creationism | (noun) the literal belief in the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis | - |
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| cretinism | (noun) severe hypothyroidism resulting in physical and mental stunting | - |
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| culteranismo | (noun) an esoteric style of writing that attempted to elevate poetic language and themes by re-Latinizing them, using classical allusions, vocabulary, syntax, and word order. | Synonyms: Gongorismo |
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| danish | (noun) light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruits or cheese | Synonyms: danish pastry |
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| decarbonise | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonize, decarburise, decarburize, decoke |
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| decolonisation | (noun) the action of changing from colonial to independent status | Synonyms: decolonization |
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| decolonise | (verb) grant independence to (a former colony) | Synonyms: decolonize |
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| deconstructionism | (noun) a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | Synonyms: deconstruction |
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| deconstructionist | (adjective) of or concerned with the philosophical theory of literature known as deconstructionism | - |
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| defeminise | (verb) remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats) | Synonyms: defeminize |
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| dehumanisation | (noun) the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities | Synonyms: dehumanization |
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| dehumanise | (verb) make mechanical or routine | Synonyms: dehumanize |
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| (verb) deprive of human qualities | Synonyms: dehumanize |
| dehumanised | (adjective) divested of human qualities or attributes | Synonyms: dehumanized, unhuman |
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| demasculinise | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinize, emasculate |
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| demonisation | (noun) to represent as diabolically evil | Synonyms: demonization |
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| demonise | (verb) make into a demon | Synonyms: demonize |
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| demonism | (noun) a belief in and reverence for devils (especially Satan) | Synonyms: diabolism, Satanism |
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| derecognise | (verb) cause to be no longer approved or accepted | Synonyms: decertify, derecognize |
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| desalinisation | (noun) the removal of salt (especially from sea water) | Synonyms: desalination, desalinization |
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| desalinise | (verb) remove salt from | Synonyms: desalinate, desalinize, desalt |
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| destalinisation | (noun) social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor | Synonyms: de-Stalinisation, de-Stalinization, destalinization |
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| destalinise | (verb) counteract the effects and policies of Stalinism | Synonyms: destalinize |
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| desynchronisation | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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| desynchronise | (verb) cause to become desynchronized; cause to occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: desynchronize |
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| determinism | (noun) (philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free will | - |
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| determinist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: fatalist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
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| deterministic | (adjective) an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes | - |
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| deviationism | (noun) ideological defection from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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| deviationist | (noun) an ideological defector from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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| diflunisal | (noun) nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (trade name Dolobid) used to treat arthritis and other inflammatory conditions | Synonyms: Dolobid |
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| diminish | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, fall, lessen |
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| (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: belittle |
| diminished | (adjective) (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use | Synonyms: atrophied, wasted |
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| (adjective) impaired by diminution | Synonyms: lessened, vitiated, weakened |
| (adjective) made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) | Synonyms: belittled, small |
| (adjective) (of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval | - |
| diminishing | (adjective) becoming smaller or less or appearing to do so | - |
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| disorganisation | (noun) the disturbance of a systematic arrangement causing disorder and confusion | Synonyms: disorganization |
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| (noun) a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted | Synonyms: disarrangement, disorganization |
| disorganise | (verb) remove the organization from | Synonyms: disorganize |
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| disorganised | (adjective) lacking order or methodical arrangement or function | Synonyms: disorganized |
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| distortionist | (noun) a painter who introduces distortions | - |
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| diversionist | (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: saboteur, wrecker |
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| donnish | (adjective) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | Synonyms: academic, pedantic |
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| ebonise | (verb) stain black to make it look like ebony | Synonyms: ebonize |
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| ecumenism | (noun) (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity | Synonyms: ecumenicalism, ecumenicism |
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| (noun) a movement promoting union between religions (especially between Christian churches) | Synonyms: oecumenism |
| educationist | (noun) a specialist in the theory of education | Synonyms: educationalist |
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| effeminise | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminize, feminise, feminize, womanize |
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| egalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: equalitarianism |
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| elocutionist | (noun) a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery | - |
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| emancipationist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: abolitionist |
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| endaemonism | (noun) an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason | Synonyms: eudemonism |
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| enthronisation | (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: coronation, enthronement, enthronization, investiture |
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| epicureanism | (noun) a doctrine of hedonism that was defended by several ancient Greek philosophers | - |
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| equalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: egalitarianism |
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| establishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of supporting the social or political establishment | Synonyms: establishmentism |
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| eternise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| eudemonism | (noun) an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason | Synonyms: endaemonism |
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| euthanise | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanatize, euthanize, mercy kill |
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| evolutionism | (noun) (biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals | Synonyms: theory of evolution, theory of organic evolution |
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| evolutionist | (noun) a person who believes in organic evolution | - |
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