| anaphrodisia | (noun) decline or absence of sexual desire | - |
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| anaphrodisiac | (adjective) tending to diminish sexual desire | - |
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| 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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| 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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| apodictic | (adjective) of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain | Synonyms: apodeictic |
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| argyrodite | (noun) a rare steel-grey mineral consisting of silver and germanium and sulfur | - |
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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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| 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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| biodiversity | (noun) the diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole) | - |
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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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| 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 | - |
| bodice | (noun) part of a dress above the waist | - |
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| bodied | (adjective) having a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate |
| bodiless | (adjective) not having a material body | Synonyms: discorporate, disembodied, unbodied, unembodied |
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| (adjective) having no trunk or main part | Synonyms: bodyless |
| bodily | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the body | - |
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| (adjective) having or relating to a physical material body | - |
| (adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit | Synonyms: corporal, corporeal, somatic |
| (adverb) in bodily form | - |
| boding | (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: foreboding, premonition, presentiment |
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| brodiaea | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Brodiaea having basal grasslike leaves and globose flower heads on leafless stems resembling those of genus Allium | - |
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| bronchodilator | (noun) a drug that relaxes and dilates the bronchial passageways and improves the passages of air into the lungs | - |
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| brooding | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| (noun) persistent morbid meditation on a problem | Synonyms: pensiveness |
| (noun) sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body | Synonyms: incubation |
| busybodied | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
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| cathodic | (adjective) of or at or pertaining to a cathode | - |
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| chiropodist | (noun) a specialist in care for the feet | Synonyms: foot doctor, podiatrist |
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| codicil | (noun) a supplement to a will; a testamentary instrument intended to alter an already executed will | - |
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| codification | (noun) the act of codifying; arranging in a systematic order | - |
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| (noun) a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones) | Synonyms: code |
| codified | (adjective) enacted by a legislative body | Synonyms: statute |
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| codify | (verb) organize into a code or system, such as a body of law | - |
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| coding | (noun) act of writing in code or cipher | Synonyms: cryptography, secret writing, steganography |
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| collodion | (noun) a colorless syrupy solution of pyroxylin in ether and alcohol; used as a coating for wounds or photographic films | - |
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| commodious | (adjective) large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: convenient |
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| commodiousness | (noun) spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building) | Synonyms: capaciousness, roominess, spaciousness |
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| commodity | (noun) a raw material that is sold in large quantities, usually to other businesses for manufacturing or production purposes | Synonyms: good, trade good |
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| corroding | (noun) erosion by chemical action | Synonyms: corrosion, erosion |
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| crocodile | (noun) large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body covered with bony plates; of sluggish tropical waters | - |
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| crocodilian | (noun) extant archosaurian reptile | Synonyms: crocodilian reptile |
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| custodial | (adjective) providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding | Synonyms: tutelar, tutelary |
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| custodian | (noun) one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals | Synonyms: keeper, steward |
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| custodianship | (noun) the position of custodian | - |
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| daffodil | (noun) any of numerous varieties of Narcissus plants having showy often yellow flowers with a trumpet-shaped central crown | Synonyms: Narcissus pseudonarcissus |
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| decoding | (noun) the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text | Synonyms: decipherment, decryption |
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| dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane | (noun) an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the United States since 1972 | Synonyms: DDT |
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| disembodied | (adjective) not having a material body | Synonyms: bodiless, discorporate, unbodied, unembodied |
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| doodia | (noun) any fern of the genus Doodia having pinnate fronds with sharply dentate pinnae | Synonyms: rasp fern |
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| duodiode | (noun) an electron tube having two diodes in the same envelope, with either a common cathode or separate cathodes. | - |
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| embodied | (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporal, corporate, incarnate |
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| embodiment | (noun) giving concrete form to an abstract concept | - |
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| (noun) a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept | Synonyms: shape |
| (noun) a new personification of a familiar idea | Synonyms: avatar, incarnation |
| encoding | (noun) the activity of converting data or information into code | Synonyms: encryption |
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| episodic | (adjective) of writing or narration; divided into or composed of episodes | - |
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| (adjective) limited in duration to a single episode | - |
| (adjective) occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals | Synonyms: occasional |
| episodically | (adverb) in an episodic manner | - |
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| episodicity | (noun) The quality of being sporadic, happening infrequently and irregularly. | - |
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| ergodic | (adjective) positive recurrent aperiodic state of stochastic systems; tending in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions | - |
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| ergodicity | (noun) an attribute of stochastic systems; generally, a system that tends in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions | - |
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| eroding | (noun) (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it), also figuratively | Synonyms: eating away, erosion, wearing, wearing away |
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| flooding | (noun) a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them | Synonyms: implosion therapy |
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| foodie | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, epicurean, gastronome, gourmet |
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| foreboding | (adjective) ominously prophetic | Synonyms: fateful, portentous |
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| (noun) an unfavorable omen | - |
| (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: boding, premonition, presentiment |
| goodish | (adjective) large in amount or extent or degree | Synonyms: goodly, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy |
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| (adjective) moderately good of its kind | - |
| haemodialysis | (noun) dialysis of the blood to remove toxic substances or metabolic wastes from the bloodstream; used in the case of kidney failure | Synonyms: hemodialysis |
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| hemodialysis | (noun) dialysis of the blood to remove toxic substances or metabolic wastes from the bloodstream; used in the case of kidney failure | Synonyms: haemodialysis |
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| hemodialyzer | (noun) a machine that uses dialysis to remove impurities and waste products from the bloodstream before returning the blood to the patient's body | Synonyms: artificial kidney |
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| hermaphrodism | (noun) congenital condition in which external genitalia and internal sex organs have both male and female characteristics | Synonyms: hermaphroditism |
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| hermaphrodite | (adjective) of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs | Synonyms: hermaphroditic |
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| (noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made | Synonyms: androgyne, epicene, epicene person, gynandromorph, intersex |
| hermaphroditic | (adjective) of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs | Synonyms: hermaphrodite |
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| (adjective) of or relating to monoclinous plants | - |
| hermaphroditism | (noun) showing characteristics of both sexes | Synonyms: androgyny, bisexuality |
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| (noun) congenital condition in which external genitalia and internal sex organs have both male and female characteristics | Synonyms: hermaphrodism |
| incommodious | (adjective) uncomfortably or inconveniently small | - |
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| incommodiousness | (noun) an inconvenient discomfort | Synonyms: inconvenience |
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| iodide | (noun) a salt or ester of hydriodic acid | - |
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| iodin | (noun) a nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; used especially in medicine and photography and in dyes; occurs naturally only in combination in small quantities (as in sea water or rocks) | Synonyms: atomic number 53, I, iodine |
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| iodinate | (verb) cause to combine with iodine | - |
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| iodinated | (adjective) treated with iodine | Synonyms: iodised, iodized |
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| iodinating | (adjective) combining or causing to combine with iodine | - |
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| iodination | (noun) the substitution or addition of iodine atoms in organic compounds | - |
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| iodine | (noun) a tincture consisting of a solution of iodine in ethyl alcohol; applied topically to wounds as an antiseptic | Synonyms: tincture of iodine |
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| (noun) a nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; used especially in medicine and photography and in dyes; occurs naturally only in combination in small quantities (as in sea water or rocks) | Synonyms: atomic number 53, I, iodin |
| iodise | (verb) treat with iodine so as to prevent infection | Synonyms: iodize |
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| (verb) treat with iodine | Synonyms: iodize |
| iodised | (adjective) treated with iodine | Synonyms: iodinated, iodized |
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| iodize | (verb) treat with iodine so as to prevent infection | Synonyms: iodise |
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| (verb) treat with iodine | Synonyms: iodise |
| iodized | (adjective) treated with iodine | Synonyms: iodinated, iodised |
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| ixodid | (noun) ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head | Synonyms: hard tick |
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| melodic | (adjective) containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody | Synonyms: melodious, musical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to melody | - |
| melodically | (adverb) with respect to melody | - |
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| melodious | (adjective) containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody | Synonyms: melodic, musical |
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| (adjective) having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune | Synonyms: tuneful |
| melodiously | (adverb) in a melodious manner | Synonyms: tunefully |
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| melodiousness | (noun) the property of having a melody | Synonyms: tunefulness |
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| melodise | (verb) supply a melody for | Synonyms: melodize |
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| melodize | (verb) supply a melody for | Synonyms: melodise |
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| methodical | (adjective) characterized by method and orderliness | - |
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| methodically | (adverb) in a methodical manner | - |
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| methodicalness | (noun) the quality of appreciating method and system | Synonyms: orderliness |
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| modicum | (noun) a small or moderate or token amount | - |
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| modifiable | (adjective) capable of being modified in form or character or strength (especially by making less extreme) | - |
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| modification | (noun) the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) | Synonyms: adjustment, alteration |
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| (noun) slightly modified copy; not an exact copy | - |
| (noun) an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another | Synonyms: alteration, change |
| (noun) the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase | Synonyms: limiting, qualifying |
| modified | (adjective) changed in form or character | - |
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| (adjective) mediocre | Synonyms: limited |
| modifier | (noun) a gene that modifies the effect produced by another gene | Synonyms: modifier gene |
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| (noun) a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb | Synonyms: qualifier |
| (noun) a person who changes something | Synonyms: changer |
| (noun) a moderator who makes less extreme or uncompromising | - |