| pollinate | (verb) fertilize by transferring pollen | Synonyms: cross-pollinate, pollenate |
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| pollination | (noun) transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a plant | Synonyms: pollenation |
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| pollinator | (noun) an insect that carries pollen from one flower to another | - |
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| pollinium | (noun) a coherent mass of pollen grains (as in orchids) | - |
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| pollinosis | (noun) a seasonal rhinitis resulting from an allergic reaction to pollen | Synonyms: hay fever |
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| polliwog | (noun) a larval frog or toad | Synonyms: pollywog, tadpole |
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| pollock | (noun) important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod | Synonyms: Pollachius pollachius, pollack |
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| (noun) lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish | Synonyms: pollack |
| pollotarianism | (noun) the practice of following a diet that includes chicken or other poultry, but not meat from mammals. | - |
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| polls | (noun) the place where people vote | - |
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| pollster | (noun) someone who conducts surveys of public opinion | Synonyms: canvasser, headcounter, poll taker |
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| pollucite | (noun) a rare mineral that is an important source of cesium | - |
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| pollutant | (noun) waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil | - |
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| pollute | (verb) make impure | Synonyms: contaminate, foul |
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| polluted | (adjective) rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution | Synonyms: contaminated |
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| polluter | (noun) a person or organization that causes pollution of the environment | Synonyms: defiler |
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| pollution | (noun) the act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors | Synonyms: contamination |
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| (noun) undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities | - |
| (noun) the state of being polluted | Synonyms: befoulment, defilement |
| pollyannaish | (adjective) pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic | Synonyms: cheerful, upbeat |
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| pollyfish | (noun) gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth | Synonyms: parrotfish, polly fish |
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| pollywog | (noun) a larval frog or toad | Synonyms: polliwog, tadpole |
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| recollect | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, remember, retrieve, think |
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| recollection | (noun) the ability to recall past occurrences | Synonyms: anamnesis, remembrance |
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| (noun) the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort) | Synonyms: recall, reminiscence |
| (noun) something recalled to the mind | - |
| recollective | (adjective) good at remembering | Synonyms: long, retentive, tenacious |
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| redpoll | (noun) small siskin-like finch with a red crown and a rosy breast and rump | Synonyms: Carduelis flammea |
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| (noun) small siskin-like finch with a red crown | Synonyms: Carduelis hornemanni |
| roll | (noun) a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude | - |
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| (noun) the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling) | Synonyms: bowl |
| (noun) the act of throwing dice | Synonyms: cast |
| (noun) walking with a swaying gait | - |
| (noun) anything rolled up in cylindrical form | - |
| (noun) photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light | - |
| (noun) a list of names | Synonyms: roster |
| (noun) a document that can be rolled up (as for storage) | Synonyms: scroll |
| (noun) a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) | Synonyms: peal, pealing, rolling |
| (noun) a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore | Synonyms: roller, rolling wave |
| (noun) rotary motion of an object around its own axis | Synonyms: axial motion, axial rotation |
| (noun) the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously | Synonyms: drum roll, paradiddle |
| (noun) small rounded bread either plain or sweet | Synonyms: bun |
| (noun) a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.) | Synonyms: bankroll |
| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, scroll, whorl |
| (verb) execute a roll, in tumbling | - |
| (verb) take the shape of a roll or cylinder | - |
| (verb) show certain properties when being rolled | Synonyms: roll up |
| (verb) boil vigorously | Synonyms: seethe |
| (verb) shape by rolling | - |
| (verb) pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/ | - |
| (verb) arrange or coil around | Synonyms: twine, wind, wrap |
| (verb) begin operating or running | - |
| (verb) flatten or spread with a roller | Synonyms: roll out |
| (verb) move by turning over or rotating | Synonyms: turn over |
| (verb) move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle | Synonyms: wheel |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion | Synonyms: flap, undulate, wave |
| (verb) cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis | Synonyms: revolve |
| (verb) move, rock, or sway from side to side | - |
| (verb) emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound | - |
| (verb) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity | Synonyms: hustle, pluck |
| (verb) occur in soft rounded shapes | Synonyms: undulate |
| rollback | (noun) the act of forcing the enemy to withdraw | Synonyms: push back |
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| (noun) reducing prices back to some earlier level | - |
| rolled | (adjective) rolled up and secured | Synonyms: furled |
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| (adjective) especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward | Synonyms: involute |
| (adjective) uttered with a trill | Synonyms: rolling, trilled |
| roller | (noun) a grounder that rolls along the infield | - |
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| (noun) Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight; related to kingfishers | - |
| (noun) pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground | Synonyms: tumbler, tumbler pigeon |
| (noun) a cylinder that revolves | - |
| (noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: crimper, curler, hair curler |
| (noun) a small wheel without spokes (as on a roller skate) | - |
| (noun) a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore | Synonyms: roll, rolling wave |
| rollerblader | (noun) a skater who uses Rollerblades | - |
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| rollerblading | (noun) skating using Rollerblades | - |
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| rollick | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| rollicking | (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, frolicsome, sportive |
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| rollickingly | (adverb) in a carefree manner | Synonyms: boisterously |
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| rolling | (adjective) uttered with a trill | Synonyms: rolled, trilled |
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| (noun) propelling something on wheels | Synonyms: wheeling |
| (noun) the act of robbing a helpless person | - |
| (noun) a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) | Synonyms: peal, pealing, roll |
| rollmops | (noun) a pickled herring filet that has been rolled or wrapped around a pickle | - |
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| rollover | (noun) the act of changing the institution that invests your pension plan without incurring a tax penalty | - |
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| scollop | (noun) edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions | Synonyms: escallop, scallop |
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| (noun) edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces | Synonyms: escallop, scallop |
| (noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: cutlet, escallop, scallop |
| (verb) shape or cut in scallops | Synonyms: scallop |
| (verb) fish for scallops | Synonyms: scallop |
| (verb) form scallops in | Synonyms: scallop |
| scroll | (noun) a document that can be rolled up (as for storage) | Synonyms: roll |
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| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, roll, whorl |
| (verb) move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen | - |
| solleret | (noun) armor plate that protects the foot; consists of mail with a solid toe and heel | Synonyms: sabaton |
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| steamroll | (verb) make level or flat with a steamroller | Synonyms: steamroller |
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| (verb) overwhelm by using great force | Synonyms: steamroller |
| (verb) proceed with great force | Synonyms: steamroller |
| (verb) bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure | Synonyms: steamroller |
| steamroller | (noun) vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements | Synonyms: road roller |
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| (noun) a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way | Synonyms: juggernaut |
| (verb) make level or flat with a steamroller | Synonyms: steamroll |
| (verb) overwhelm by using great force | Synonyms: steamroll |
| (verb) crush with a steamroller as if to level | - |
| (verb) proceed with great force | Synonyms: steamroll |
| (verb) bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure | Synonyms: steamroll |
| stroll | (noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) | Synonyms: amble, perambulation, promenade, saunter |
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| (verb) walk leisurely and with no apparent aim | Synonyms: saunter |
| stroller | (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pram, pushchair, pusher |
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| (noun) someone who walks at a leisurely pace | Synonyms: ambler, saunterer |
| swollen | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, vain |
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| (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, distended, intumescent, puffy, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
| toll | (noun) value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something | Synonyms: cost, price |
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| (noun) the sound of a bell being struck | Synonyms: bell |
| (noun) a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges | - |
| (verb) ring slowly | - |
| (verb) charge a fee for using | - |
| tollbar | (noun) a gate or bar across a toll bridge or toll road which is lifted when the toll is paid | Synonyms: tollgate |
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| tollbooth | (noun) a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls | Synonyms: tolbooth, tollhouse |
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| toller | (noun) someone employed to collect tolls | Synonyms: toll agent, toll collector, toll taker, tollgatherer, tollkeeper, tollman |
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| (noun) a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation) | Synonyms: bell ringer, ringer |
| tollgate | (noun) a gate or bar across a toll bridge or toll road which is lifted when the toll is paid | Synonyms: tollbar |
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| tollgatherer | (noun) someone employed to collect tolls | Synonyms: toll agent, toll collector, toll taker, toller, tollkeeper, tollman |
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| tollhouse | (noun) a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls | Synonyms: tolbooth, tollbooth |
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| tollkeeper | (noun) someone employed to collect tolls | Synonyms: toll agent, toll collector, toll taker, toller, tollgatherer, tollman |
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| tollman | (noun) someone employed to collect tolls | Synonyms: toll agent, toll collector, toll taker, toller, tollgatherer, tollkeeper |
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| tollon | (noun) ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits; often placed in genus Photinia | Synonyms: Christmas berry, Christmasberry, Heteromeles arbutifolia, Photinia arbutifolia, toyon |
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| torticollis | (noun) an unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted | Synonyms: wryneck |
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| troll | (noun) angling by drawing a baited line through the water | Synonyms: trolling |
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| (noun) a fisherman's lure that is used in trolling | - |
| (noun) a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time | Synonyms: round |
| (noun) (Scandinavian folklore) a supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains | - |
| (verb) sing loudly and without inhibition | - |
| (verb) praise or celebrate in song | - |
| (verb) speak or recite rapidly or in a rolling voice | - |
| (verb) angle with a hook and line drawn through the water | - |
| (verb) sing the parts of (a round) in succession | - |
| (verb) cause to move round and round | - |
| (verb) circulate, move around | - |
| troller | (noun) a fisherman who uses a hook and line | Synonyms: angler |
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| trolley | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity | Synonyms: streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley car |
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| trolleybus | (noun) a passenger bus with an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires | Synonyms: trackless trolley, trolley coach |
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| trolling | (noun) angling by drawing a baited line through the water | Synonyms: troll |
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| trollop | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet |
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| (noun) a dirty untidy woman | Synonyms: slattern, slovenly woman, slut |
| (noun) A sexually loose woman | Synonyms: ho, hoe, hussy, slut |
| uncollected | (adjective) not brought together in one place | Synonyms: ungathered |
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| uncollectible | (adjective) not capable of being collected | Synonyms: bad |
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| uncontrollable | (adjective) incapable of being controlled or managed | Synonyms: uncorrectable, unmanageable |
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| (adjective) difficult to solve or alleviate | Synonyms: unmanageable |
| (adjective) impossible to repress or control | Synonyms: irrepressible |
| (adjective) incapable of being controlled | Synonyms: indocile, ungovernable, unruly |
| uncontrollably | (adverb) in an uncontrolled manner | - |
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| uncontrolled | (adjective) not being under control; out of control | - |
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| unfollow | (verb) to stop following a user on social media | - |
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| unpolluted | (adjective) free from admixture with noxious elements; clean | Synonyms: uncontaminated |
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| unroll | (verb) unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state | Synonyms: unfurl |
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| (verb) reverse the winding or twisting of | Synonyms: unwind, wind off |
| volley | (noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: burst, fusillade, salvo |
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| (noun) a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces | - |
| (verb) utter rapidly | - |
| (verb) make a volley | - |
| (verb) discharge in, or as if in, a volley | - |
| (verb) hit before it touches the ground | - |
| (verb) be dispersed in a volley | - |
| volleyball | (noun) a game in which two teams hit an inflated ball over a high net using their hands | Synonyms: volley ball, volleyball game |
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| (noun) an inflated ball used in playing volleyball | Synonyms: volley ball |
| wholly | (adverb) to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely | Synonyms: all, altogether, completely, entirely, right, totally, whole |
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| wollastonite | (noun) a white or greyish mineral typically found in metamorphic limestone; a silicate of calcium | - |
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| woollen | (adjective) of or related to or made of wool | Synonyms: woolen |
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| (noun) a fabric made from the hair of sheep | Synonyms: wool, woolen |
| woolliness | (noun) The state of resembling wool, in texture or shape. | - |
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| (noun) The state of being made of or bearing wool. | - |
| woolly | (adjective) confused and vague; used especially of thinking | Synonyms: addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly-headed, wooly-minded, wooly |
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| (adjective) covered with dense often matted or curly hairs | Synonyms: woolly-haired, wooly-haired, wooly |
| (adjective) having a fluffy character or appearance | Synonyms: flocculent, wooly |
| (adjective) covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments | Synonyms: lanate |