| adsorbate | (adjective) capable of being adsorbed or accumulated on a surface of a solid | Synonyms: adsorbable |
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| (noun) a material that has been or is capable of being adsorbed | - |
| adsorbent | (adjective) having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: adsorptive, surface-assimilative |
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| (noun) a material having capacity or tendency to adsorb another substance | Synonyms: adsorbent material |
| adsorber | (noun) an apparatus used in the adhesion of atoms, ions, or molecules from a gas, liquid, or dissolved solid to a surface. | - |
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| adsorption | (noun) the accumulation of molecules of a gas to form a thin film on the surface of a solid | Synonyms: surface assimilation |
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| adsorptive | (adjective) having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: adsorbent, surface-assimilative |
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| adulator | (noun) a person who uses flattery | Synonyms: flatterer |
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| adulatory | (adjective) obsequiously complimentary | Synonyms: flattering |
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| adulterator | (noun) a changer who lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance | - |
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| (noun) any substance that lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance | Synonyms: adulterant |
| advertorial | (noun) an advertisement that is written and presented in the style of an editorial or journalistic report | - |
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| advisor | (noun) an expert who gives advice | Synonyms: adviser, consultant |
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| advisory | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: consultative, consultatory, consultive |
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| (noun) an announcement that usually advises or warns the public of some threat | - |
| advocator | (noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocate, exponent, proponent |
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| aeciospore | (noun) spore of a rust fungus formed in an aecium | - |
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| aepyornis | (noun) huge (to 9 ft.) extinct flightless bird of Madagascar | Synonyms: elephant bird |
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| aerator | (noun) an apparatus for exposing something to the air (as sewage) | - |
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| aeriform | (adjective) resembling air or having the form of air | Synonyms: airlike |
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| (adjective) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air | Synonyms: aerial, aery, airy, ethereal |
| aerogenerator | (noun) generator that extracts usable energy from winds | Synonyms: wind generator, windmill |
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| affirmatory | (adjective) affirming or giving assent | Synonyms: affirmative |
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| afford | (verb) be able to spare or give up | - |
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| (verb) be the cause or source of | Synonyms: give, yield |
| (verb) afford access to | Synonyms: give, open |
| (verb) have the financial means to do something or buy something | - |
| affordable | (adjective) that you have the financial means for | Synonyms: low-cost, low-priced |
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| afforest | (verb) establish a forest on previously unforested land | Synonyms: forest |
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| afforestation | (noun) the conversion of bare or cultivated land into forest (originally for the purpose of hunting) | - |
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| aforementioned | (adjective) being the one previously mentioned or spoken of | Synonyms: aforesaid, said |
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| aforesaid | (adjective) being the one previously mentioned or spoken of | Synonyms: aforementioned, said |
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| aforethought | (adjective) with planning and intention | Synonyms: planned, plotted |
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| afterworld | (noun) the place where you are after you die | - |
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| agglomerator | (noun) a device that causes material to gather into rounded balls | - |
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| aggravator | (noun) an unpleasant person who is annoying or exasperating | Synonyms: annoyance |
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| aggregator | (noun) a person who collects things | Synonyms: collector |
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| aggressor | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: assailant, assaulter, attacker |
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| (noun) a confident assertive person who acts as instigator | - |
| agitator | (noun) one who agitates; a political troublemaker | Synonyms: fomenter |
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| agora | (noun) 100 agorot equal 1 shekel in Israel | - |
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| (noun) a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece | Synonyms: public square |
| (noun) the marketplace in ancient Greece | - |
| agoraphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of open spaces (as fear of being caught alone in some public place) | - |
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| agoraphobic | (adjective) suffering from agoraphobia; abnormally afraid of open or public places | - |
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| ahistorical | (adjective) unconcerned with or unrelated to history or to historical development or to tradition | - |
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| ahorse | (adjective) traveling on horseback | Synonyms: ahorseback |
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| (adverb) on the back of a horse | Synonyms: ahorseback, horseback |
| ahorseback | (adjective) traveling on horseback | Synonyms: ahorse |
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| (adverb) on the back of a horse | Synonyms: ahorse, horseback |
| airborne | (adjective) moved or conveyed by or through air | - |
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| airforce | (noun) the airborne branch of a country's armed forces | Synonyms: air force |
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| airport | (noun) an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo | Synonyms: aerodrome, airdrome, drome |
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| airworthiness | (noun) fitness to fly | - |
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| airworthy | (adjective) (of aircraft) fit to fly | - |
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| albacore | (noun) large pelagic tuna the source of most canned tuna; reaches 93 pounds and has long pectoral fins; found worldwide in tropical and temperate waters | Synonyms: long-fin tunny, Thunnus alalunga |
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| (noun) relatively small tuna with choice white flesh; major source of canned tuna | - |
| aleatory | (adjective) dependent on chance | - |
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| algorism | (noun) computation with Arabic figures | - |
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| (noun) the Arabic (or decimal) system of numeration | - |
| algorithm | (noun) a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem | Synonyms: algorithmic program, algorithmic rule |
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| algorithmic | (adjective) of or relating to or having the characteristics of an algorithm | - |
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| alienator | (noun) an unpleasant person who causes friendly people to become indifferent or unfriendly or hostile | - |
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| alienor | (noun) someone from whom the title of property is transferred | - |
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| aliform | (adjective) having or resembling wings | Synonyms: alar, alary, wing-shaped |
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| allegoresis | (noun) the interpretation of written, oral, or artistic expression as allegory. | - |
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| allegoric | (adjective) used in or characteristic of or containing allegory | Synonyms: allegorical |
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| allegorical | (adjective) used in or characteristic of or containing allegory | Synonyms: allegoric |
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| allegorically | (adverb) in an allegorical manner | - |
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| allegoricalness | (noun) The state or quality of being allegorical. | - |
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| allegorise | (verb) make into an allegory | Synonyms: allegorize |
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| (verb) interpret as an allegory | Synonyms: allegorize |
| allegoriser | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegorizer |
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| allegorize | (verb) make into an allegory | Synonyms: allegorise |
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| (verb) interpret as an allegory | Synonyms: allegorise |
| allegorizer | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegoriser |
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| allegory | (noun) a short moral story (often with animal characters) | Synonyms: apologue, fable, parable |
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| (noun) an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor | - |
| (noun) a visible symbol representing an abstract idea | Synonyms: emblem |
| allelomorph | (noun) (genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and that control the same character | Synonyms: allele |
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| allelomorphic | (adjective) of or relating to alleles | Synonyms: allelic |
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| alleviator | (noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing | Synonyms: alleviant, palliative |
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| (noun) a therapist who makes suffering more endurable | - |
| alleviatory | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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| alligator | (noun) either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts | Synonyms: gator |
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| (noun) leather made from alligator's hide | - |
| (verb) crack and acquire the appearance of alligator hide, as from weathering or improper application; of paint and varnishes | - |
| alligatored | (adjective) of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide | Synonyms: cracked |
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| alligatorfish | (noun) small very elongate sea poachers | Synonyms: Aspidophoroides monopterygius |
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| alliterator | (noun) a speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration | - |
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| allocator | (noun) a person with authority to allot or deal out or apportion | Synonyms: distributor |
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| allomorph | (noun) a variant phonological representation of a morpheme | - |
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| (noun) any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound | - |
| allomorphic | (adjective) pertaining to allomorphs | - |
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| alternator | (noun) an old term for an electric generator that produces alternating current (especially in automobiles) | - |
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| amalgamator | (noun) a businessman who arranges an amalgamation of two or more commercial companies | - |
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| amatory | (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amorous, romantic |
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| ambassador | (noun) a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another | Synonyms: embassador |
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| (noun) an informal representative | - |
| ambassadorial | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of ambassadors | - |
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| ambassadorship | (noun) the post of ambassador | - |
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| amboceptor | (noun) an immune body formed in the blood during infection or immunization that serves to link the complement to the antigen. | - |
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| ambulatory | (adjective) relating to or adapted for walking | - |
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| (adjective) able to walk about | Synonyms: ambulant |
| (noun) a covered walkway (as in a cloister) | - |
| ameliorate | (verb) get better | Synonyms: better, improve, meliorate |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: amend, better, improve, meliorate |
| ameliorating | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative |
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| amelioration | (noun) the act of relieving ills and changing for the better | Synonyms: betterment, melioration |
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| ameliorative | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, amelioratory, meliorative |
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| amelioratory | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, ameliorative, meliorative |
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| amendatory | (adjective) effecting amendment | - |
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| amenorrhea | (noun) absence or suppression of normal menstrual flow | Synonyms: amenia, amenorrhoea |
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| amenorrheal | (adjective) related to the suppression of normal menstrual flow for any reason other than pregnancy | Synonyms: amenorrheic, amenorrhoeal, amenorrhoeic |
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| amenorrheic | (adjective) related to the suppression of normal menstrual flow for any reason other than pregnancy | Synonyms: amenorrheal, amenorrhoeal, amenorrhoeic |
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| amenorrhoea | (noun) absence or suppression of normal menstrual flow | Synonyms: amenia, amenorrhea |
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| amenorrhoeal | (adjective) related to the suppression of normal menstrual flow for any reason other than pregnancy | Synonyms: amenorrheal, amenorrheic, amenorrhoeic |
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| amenorrhoeic | (adjective) related to the suppression of normal menstrual flow for any reason other than pregnancy | Synonyms: amenorrheal, amenorrheic, amenorrhoeal |
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| amora | (noun) one of a group of rabbis (active AD 250-500) who discussed the Mishnaic law in the law schools of Palestine and Mesopotamia where they explained and applied earlier teachings and whose discussions are recorded in the Talmud; they emphasized the study of Torah and the importance of personal action and the fulfillment of the commandments | - |
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| amoralism | (noun) the doctrine that moral distinctions are invalid | - |
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| amoralist | (noun) someone who adheres to the doctrine that ordinary moral distinctions are invalid | - |
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| amorality | (noun) the quality of being amoral | - |
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| amorally | (adverb) without regard for morality | Synonyms: immorally |
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| amorist | (noun) one dedicated to love and lovemaking especially one who writes about love | - |
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| amoristic | (adjective) of or pertaining to romantic love | - |
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| amorous | (adjective) inclined toward or displaying love | Synonyms: amative |
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| (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amatory, romantic |
| amorously | (adverb) in an amorous manner | - |
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