abode | (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, habitation, home |
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(noun) any address at which you dwell more than temporarily | Synonyms: residence |
accommodate | (verb) make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose | Synonyms: adapt |
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(verb) make (one thing) compatible with (another) | Synonyms: conciliate, reconcile |
(verb) provide a service or favor for someone | Synonyms: oblige |
(verb) provide with something desired or needed | - |
(verb) be agreeable or acceptable to | Synonyms: fit, suit |
(verb) provide housing for | Synonyms: lodge |
(verb) have room for; hold without crowding | Synonyms: admit, hold |
accommodating | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodative |
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(adjective) obliging; willing to do favors | - |
accommodatingly | (adverb) in accommodation | Synonyms: obligingly |
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accommodation | (noun) the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need | - |
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(noun) (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye | - |
(noun) living quarters provided for public convenience | - |
(noun) in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality | - |
(noun) a settlement of differences | - |
(noun) making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances | Synonyms: adjustment, fitting |
accommodational | (adjective) of or relating to the accommodation of the lens of the eye | - |
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accommodative | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodating |
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(adjective) tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony | Synonyms: reconciling |
(adjective) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement | Synonyms: cooperative |
accommodator | (noun) someone who performs a service or does a favor | Synonyms: obliger |
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acrodont | (noun) an animal having teeth consolidated with the summit of the alveolar ridge without sockets | - |
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actinopod | (noun) protozoa having stiff rodlike radiating pseudopods | - |
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adulthood | (noun) the state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity | - |
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(noun) the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed | Synonyms: maturity |
aerodontalgia | (noun) pain in the teeth that results from a change in air pressure (as in flying or mountain climbing) | - |
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aerodrome | (noun) an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo | Synonyms: airdrome, airport, drome |
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aerodynamic | (adjective) of or relating to aerodynamics | - |
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(adjective) designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow | Synonyms: flowing, sleek, streamlined |
aerodynamics | (noun) the branch of mechanics that deals with the motion of gases (especially air) and their effects on bodies in the flow | Synonyms: aeromechanics |
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allgood | (noun) European plant naturalized in North America; often collected from the wild as a potherb | Synonyms: Chenopodium bonus-henricus, fat hen, good-king-henry, wild spinach |
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alloantibody | (noun) an antibody that occurs naturally against foreign tissues from a person of the same species | Synonyms: isoantibody |
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amiodarone | (noun) an antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Cordarone) that has potentially fatal side effects and is used to control serious heart rhythm problems only when safer agents have been ineffective | Synonyms: Cordarone |
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amphipod | (noun) a kind of malacostracan crustacean | - |
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anaphrodisia | (noun) decline or absence of sexual desire | - |
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anaphrodisiac | (adjective) tending to diminish sexual desire | - |
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anodal | (adjective) of or at or relating to an anode | Synonyms: anodic |
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anode | (noun) a positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device | - |
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(noun) the negatively charged terminal of a voltaic cell or storage battery that supplies current | - |
anodic | (adjective) of or at or relating to an anode | Synonyms: anodal |
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anodise | (verb) coat a metal with an oxide coat | Synonyms: anodize |
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anodize | (verb) coat a metal with an oxide coat | Synonyms: anodise |
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anodyne | (adjective) capable of relieving pain | Synonyms: analgesic, analgetic |
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(noun) a medicine used to relieve pain | Synonyms: analgesic, pain pill, painkiller |
antibody | (noun) any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the body or produced in response to an antigen which it neutralizes, thus producing an immune response | - |
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antinode | (noun) (physics) the point of maximum displacement in a periodic system | - |
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antipodal | (adjective) relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth | Synonyms: antipodean |
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(noun) the relation of opposition along a diameter | Synonyms: antipodal opposition, diametrical opposition |
antipode | (noun) direct opposite | - |
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antipodean | (adjective) relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth | Synonyms: antipodal |
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antipodes | (noun) any two places or regions on diametrically opposite sides of the Earth | - |
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antispasmodic | (noun) a drug used to relieve or prevent spasms (especially of the smooth muscles) | Synonyms: antispasmodic agent, spasmolytic |
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aperiodic | (adjective) not recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: nonperiodic |
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aphrodisia | (noun) a desire for heterosexual intimacy | - |
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aphrodisiac | (adjective) stimulating sexual desire | Synonyms: aphrodisiacal, sexy |
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(noun) a drug or other agent that stimulates sexual desire | - |
aphrodisiacal | (adjective) stimulating sexual desire | Synonyms: aphrodisiac, sexy |
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apodal | (adjective) (of snakes and eels) naturally footless | Synonyms: apodous |
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apodeictic | (adjective) of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain | Synonyms: apodictic |
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apodeme | (noun) ridge-like ingrowth of the exoskeleton of an arthropod that supports internal organs and provides attachment points for muscles | - |
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apodictic | (adjective) of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain | Synonyms: apodeictic |
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apodous | (adjective) (of snakes and eels) naturally footless | Synonyms: apodal |
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applewood | (noun) wood of any of various apple trees of the genus Malus | - |
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argyrodite | (noun) a rare steel-grey mineral consisting of silver and germanium and sulfur | - |
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arthrodesis | (noun) the surgical fixation of a joint which is intended to result in bone fusion | - |
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arthropod | (noun) invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin | - |
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arthropodal | (adjective) of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda | Synonyms: arthropodan, arthropodous |
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arthropodan | (adjective) of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda | Synonyms: arthropodal, arthropodous |
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arthropodous | (adjective) of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda | Synonyms: arthropodal, arthropodan |
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artiodactyl | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to mammals of the order Artiodactyla | Synonyms: artiodactylous, even-toed |
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(noun) placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot | Synonyms: artiodactyl mammal, even-toed ungulate |
artiodactylous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to mammals of the order Artiodactyla | Synonyms: artiodactyl, even-toed |
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asphodel | (noun) any of various chiefly Mediterranean plants of the genera Asphodeline and Asphodelus having linear leaves and racemes of white or pink or yellow flowers | - |
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astrodome | (noun) a transparent dome on top of an airplane where the navigator can make celestial observations | - |
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astrodynamics | (noun) the branch of astronomy that studies the motion of natural and artificial bodies in space | - |
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atherodyde | (noun) a simple type of jet engine; must be launched at high speed | Synonyms: athodyd, flying drainpipe, ramjet, ramjet engine |
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athodyd | (noun) a simple type of jet engine; must be launched at high speed | Synonyms: atherodyde, flying drainpipe, ramjet, ramjet engine |
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autoantibody | (noun) an antibody acting against tissues of the organism that produces it | - |
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autodidact | (noun) a person who has taught himself | - |
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autodidactic | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of an autodidact | - |
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babyhood | (noun) the earliest state of immaturity | Synonyms: infancy |
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(noun) the early stage of growth or development | Synonyms: early childhood, infancy |
bachelorhood | (noun) the state of being an unmarried man | - |
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(noun) the time of a man's life prior to marriage | - |
backwoods | (noun) a remote and undeveloped area | Synonyms: back country, boondocks, hinterland |
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backwoodsman | (noun) a man who lives on the frontier | Synonyms: frontiersman, mountain man |
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basswood | (noun) any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber | Synonyms: lime, lime tree, linden, linden tree |
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(noun) soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork | Synonyms: linden |
bearwood | (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
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beechwood | (noun) wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles | Synonyms: beech |
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beefwood | (noun) a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber | Synonyms: balata, balata tree, bully tree, Manilkara bidentata |
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(noun) any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork | - |
(noun) tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood | Synonyms: Grevillea striata |
(noun) tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood | Synonyms: scrub beefwood, Stenocarpus salignus |
(noun) any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork | - |
bentwood | (noun) wood that is steamed until it becomes pliable and then is shaped for use in making furniture | - |
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benzodiazepine | (noun) any of several similar lipophilic amines used as tranquilizers or sedatives or hypnotics or muscle relaxants; chronic use can lead to dependency | - |
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bimodal | (adjective) of a distribution; having or occurring with two modes | - |
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biodefence | (noun) procedures involved in taking defensive measures against attacks using biological agents | Synonyms: biodefense, biological defence, biological defense |
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biodefense | (noun) procedures involved in taking defensive measures against attacks using biological agents | Synonyms: biodefence, biological defence, biological defense |
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biodegradable | (adjective) capable of being decomposed by e.g. bacteria | - |
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biodegrade | (verb) break down naturally through the action of biological agents | - |
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biodiversity | (noun) the diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole) | - |
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biodynamics | (noun) the branch of biology dealing with energy or the activity of living organisms. | - |
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bitterwood | (noun) handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark | Synonyms: quassia, Quassia amara |
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(noun) West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia | Synonyms: Jamaica quassia, Picrasma excelsa, Picrasma excelsum |
(noun) medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits | Synonyms: paradise tree, Simarouba glauca |
blackbody | (noun) a hypothetical object capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it | Synonyms: black body, full radiator |
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blackwood | (noun) any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood | Synonyms: blackwood tree |
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(noun) very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees | - |
bladderpod | (noun) any of several hairy North American herbs having yellow racemose flowers and inflated pods | - |
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(noun) any of several plants of the genus Physaria having racemose yellow flowers and inflated pods | - |
(noun) annual or perennial herbs with inflated seed pods; some placed in genus Lesquerella | - |
(noun) North American wild lobelia having small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic | Synonyms: Indian tobacco, Lobelia inflata |
blastoderm | (noun) a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula | Synonyms: blastodisc, germinal area, germinal disc |
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blastodermatic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastoderm | Synonyms: blastodermic |
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blastodermic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastoderm | Synonyms: blastodermatic |
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blastodisc | (noun) a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula | Synonyms: blastoderm, germinal area, germinal disc |
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blood | (noun) temperament or disposition | - |
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(noun) the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets | - |
(noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
(noun) people viewed as members of a group | - |
(noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: profligate, rake, rakehell, rip, roue |
(verb) smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill | - |
bloodbath | (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodletting, bloodshed |
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bloodberry | (noun) bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas | Synonyms: blood berry, Rivina humilis, rouge plant, rougeberry |
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bloodcurdling | (adjective) extremely alarming | Synonyms: hair-raising, nightmarish |
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blooded | (adjective) of unmixed ancestry | Synonyms: full-blood, full-blooded |
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bloodguilt | (noun) the state of being guilty of bloodshed and murder | - |
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bloodguilty | (adjective) guilty of murder or bloodshed | - |
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bloodhound | (noun) a breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking | Synonyms: sleuthhound |
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bloodily | (adverb) involving a great bloodshed | - |
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bloodiness | (noun) a disposition to shed blood | Synonyms: bloodthirstiness |
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(noun) the state of being bloody | - |
bloodleaf | (noun) any plant of the genus Iresine having colored foliage | - |
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bloodless | (adjective) free from blood or bloodshed | - |
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(adjective) anemic looking from illness or emotion | Synonyms: ashen, blanched, livid, white |
(adjective) destitute of blood or apparently so | Synonyms: exsanguine, exsanguinous |
(adjective) devoid of human emotion or feeling | - |
(adjective) without vigor or zest or energy | - |
bloodlessly | (adverb) without bloodshed; in a bloodless manner; without shedding blood | - |
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bloodletting | (noun) formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) | - |
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(noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodbath, bloodshed |
bloodline | (noun) ancestry of a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree |
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(noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |