| factorisation | (noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression | Synonyms: factoring, factorization |
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| factorise | (verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors | Synonyms: factorize |
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| factorization | (noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression | Synonyms: factoring, factorisation |
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| factorize | (verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors | Synonyms: factorise |
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| favorite | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favoured, favourite, pet, preferent, preferred |
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| (adjective) appealing to the general public | Synonyms: favourite |
| (noun) something regarded with special favor or liking | Synonyms: favourite |
| (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, ducky, favourite, pet |
| (noun) a competitor thought likely to win | Synonyms: favourite, front-runner |
| (verb) To mark an item as a personal favorite on social media | Synonyms: favourite |
| favoritism | (noun) unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice | Synonyms: discrimination, favouritism |
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| (noun) an inclination to favor some person or group | Synonyms: favouritism |
| femoris | (noun) the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee | Synonyms: femur, thighbone |
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| flavoring | (noun) something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts | Synonyms: flavorer, flavourer, flavouring, seasoner, seasoning |
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| flooring | (noun) the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure) | Synonyms: floor |
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| (noun) building material used in laying floors | - |
| floricultural | (adjective) of or relating to or involving floriculture | - |
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| floriculture | (noun) the cultivation of flowering plants | Synonyms: flower gardening |
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| florid | (adjective) elaborately or excessively ornamented | Synonyms: aureate, flamboyant |
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| (adjective) inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life | Synonyms: rubicund, ruddy, sanguine |
| floridity | (noun) extravagant elaborateness | Synonyms: flamboyance, floridness, showiness |
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| floridly | (adverb) in a florid manner | - |
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| floridness | (noun) extravagant elaborateness | Synonyms: flamboyance, floridity, showiness |
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| florilegium | (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: garland, miscellany |
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| florin | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Dutch florin, guilder, gulden |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: guilder, gulden |
| florist | (noun) a shop where flowers and ornamental plants are sold | Synonyms: florist shop, flower store |
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| (noun) someone who grows and deals in flowers | - |
| fluoridate | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridise, fluoridize |
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| fluoridation | (noun) the addition of a fluoride to the water supply (to prevent dental decay) | Synonyms: fluoridisation, fluoridization |
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| fluoride | (noun) a salt of hydrofluoric acid | - |
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| fluoridisation | (noun) the addition of a fluoride to the water supply (to prevent dental decay) | Synonyms: fluoridation, fluoridization |
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| fluoridise | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridate, fluoridize |
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| fluoridization | (noun) the addition of a fluoride to the water supply (to prevent dental decay) | Synonyms: fluoridation, fluoridisation |
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| fluoridize | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridate, fluoridise |
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| fluorine | (noun) a nonmetallic univalent element belonging to the halogens; usually a yellow irritating toxic flammable gas; a powerful oxidizing agent; recovered from fluorite or cryolite or fluorapatite | Synonyms: atomic number 9, F |
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| fluorite | (noun) a soft mineral (calcium fluoride) that is fluorescent in ultraviolet light; chief source of fluorine | Synonyms: fluor, fluorspar |
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| fluoroboride | (noun) a salt of fluoroboric acid | - |
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| folklorism | (noun) Invention or adaptation of folklore; including any use of a tradition outside the cultural context in which it was created. | - |
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| forint | (noun) the basic unit of money in Hungary | - |
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| fossorial | (adjective) (of limbs and feet) adapted for digging | - |
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| frigorific | (adjective) causing cold; cooling or chilling | - |
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| gladiatorial | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling gladiators or their combat | - |
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| glamorisation | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorization, glamourisation, glamourization |
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| glamorise | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, glamourize |
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| glamorization | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorisation, glamourisation, glamourization |
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| glamorize | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamourise, glamourize |
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| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamourise, romanticise, romanticize |
| glorification | (noun) the act of glorifying (as in worship) | - |
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| (noun) a portrayal of something as ideal | Synonyms: idealisation, idealization |
| (noun) a state of high honor | Synonyms: glory |
| glorified | (adjective) accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing | Synonyms: canonised, canonized |
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| glorify | (verb) bestow glory upon | - |
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| (verb) cause to seem more splendid | - |
| (verb) elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration | Synonyms: spiritualize, transfigure |
| (verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: exalt, extol, laud, proclaim |
| gloriole | (noun) an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint | Synonyms: aura, aureole, glory, halo, nimbus |
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| gloriosa | (noun) any plant of the genus Gloriosa of tropical Africa and Asia; a perennial herb climbing by means of tendrils at leaf tips having showy yellow to red or purple flowers; all parts are poisonous | Synonyms: climbing lily, creeping lily, Gloriosa superba, glory lily |
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| glorious | (adjective) having or deserving or conferring glory | - |
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| (adjective) having great beauty and splendor | Synonyms: resplendent, splendid, splendiferous |
| (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: brilliant, magnificent, splendid |
| gloriously | (adverb) blessedly or wonderfully | - |
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| (adverb) with glory or in a glorious manner | - |
| gorilla | (noun) largest anthropoid ape; terrestrial and vegetarian; of forests of central west Africa | Synonyms: Gorilla gorilla |
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| gubernatorial | (adjective) relating to a governor | - |
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| gustatorial | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatory |
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| haemosporidian | (noun) minute protozoans parasitic at some stage of the life cycle in blood cells of vertebrates including many pathogens | - |
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| haplosporidian | (noun) parasite in invertebrates and lower vertebrates of no known economic importance | - |
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| haustorium | (noun) a root-like attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host | - |
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| helleborine | (noun) any of several orchids of the genus Cephalanthera | - |
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| (noun) any of various orchids of the genus Epipactis | - |
| (noun) any of several small temperate and tropical orchids having mottled or striped leaves and spikes of small yellowish-white flowers in a twisted raceme | Synonyms: rattlesnake plantain |
| historian | (noun) a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it | Synonyms: historiographer |
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| historic | (adjective) important in history | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past | Synonyms: historical |
| historical | (adjective) used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time | Synonyms: diachronic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the study of history | - |
| (adjective) belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past | Synonyms: historic |
| (adjective) having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary | - |
| historically | (adverb) with respect to history | - |
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| (adverb) throughout history | - |
| historicalness | (noun) significance owing to its history | - |
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| (noun) the state of having in fact existed in the past | - |
| historicism | (noun) a theory that social and cultural events are determined by history | - |
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| historied | (adjective) having an illustrious past | Synonyms: celebrated, storied |
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| historiographer | (noun) a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it | Synonyms: historian |
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| historiography | (noun) the writing of history | - |
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| (noun) a body of historical literature | - |
| honorific | (adjective) conferring or showing honor or respect | - |
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| (noun) an expression of respect | - |
| honoring | (noun) conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | Synonyms: honouring, observance |
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| horizon | (noun) the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated | Synonyms: purview, view |
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| (noun) the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet | Synonyms: apparent horizon, sensible horizon, skyline, visible horizon |
| (noun) a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land | - |
| (noun) the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth | Synonyms: celestial horizon |
| horizontal | (adjective) parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line | - |
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| (noun) something that is oriented horizontally | - |
| horizontality | (noun) the quality of being parallel to the horizon | - |
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| horizontally | (adverb) in a horizontal direction | - |
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| humoring | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humouring, indulgence, indulging, pampering |
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| humorist | (noun) someone who acts, speaks or writes in an amusing way | Synonyms: humourist |
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| hydrochloride | (noun) a complex consisting of an organic base in association with hydrogen chloride | - |
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| hypochlorite | (noun) any salt or ester of hypochlorous acid | - |
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| hypocorism | (noun) a name of endearment (especially one using a diminutive suffix) | Synonyms: pet name |
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| illusoriness | (noun) The quality of resulting from an illusion; of being deceptive, imaginary, unreal. | - |
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| immemorial | (adjective) long past; beyond the limits of memory or tradition or recorded history | - |
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| imploring | (adjective) begging | Synonyms: beseeching, pleading |
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| imploringly | (adverb) in a beseeching manner | Synonyms: beseechingly, entreatingly, importunately, pleadingly |
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| inferiority | (noun) an inferior quality | Synonyms: low quality |
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| (noun) the quality of being a competitive disadvantage | Synonyms: unfavorable position |
| (noun) the state of being inferior | Synonyms: lower rank, lower status |
| infusorian | (noun) any member of the subclass Infusoria | - |
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| inglorious | (adjective) not bringing honor and glory | - |
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| (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, disgraceful, ignominious, opprobrious, shameful |
| ingloriously | (adverb) in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree | Synonyms: discreditably, disgracefully, dishonorably, dishonourably, ignominiously, shamefully |
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| inquisitorial | (adjective) especially indicating a form of prosecution in which proceedings are secret and the accused is questioned by a prosecutor who acts also as the judge | - |
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| (adjective) having the authority to conduct official investigations | - |
| (adjective) marked by inquisitive interest; especially suggestive of an ecclesiastical inquisitor | - |
| interiorise | (verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal | Synonyms: interiorize, internalise, internalize |
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| interiorize | (verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal | Synonyms: interiorise, internalise, internalize |
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| introductoriness | (noun) The quality of being introducing; of giving a preview or idea of. | - |
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| kilocalorie | (noun) a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food | Synonyms: Calorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie, nutritionist's calorie |
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| laboring | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: drudging, labouring, toiling |
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| laborious | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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| laboriously | (adverb) in a laborious manner | - |
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| laboriousness | (noun) the quality of requiring extended effort | Synonyms: operoseness, toilsomeness |
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| leporid | (noun) rabbits and hares | Synonyms: leporid mammal |
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| leporide | (noun) red breed of domestic rabbits; hybrid between Old World rabbit and hare | Synonyms: Belgian hare |
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| licorice | (noun) a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant | Synonyms: liquorice |
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| (noun) deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots | Synonyms: Glycyrrhiza glabra, liquorice |
| liquorice | (noun) a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant | Synonyms: licorice |
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| (noun) deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots | Synonyms: Glycyrrhiza glabra, licorice |
| lorica | (noun) a hard protective sheath (as secreted by certain protoctists, for example) | - |
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| lorikeet | (noun) any of various small lories | - |
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| majority | (noun) the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part | Synonyms: bulk |
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| (noun) (elections) more than half of the votes | Synonyms: absolute majority |
| (noun) the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs | Synonyms: legal age |
| mandatorily | (adverb) in a manner that cannot be evaded | Synonyms: compulsorily, obligatorily |
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| manorial | (adjective) of or relating to or based on the manor | - |
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| mediatorial | (adjective) of or relating to a mediator or the duties of a mediator | - |
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| meliorism | (noun) the belief that the world can be made better by human effort | - |
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| meliorist | (noun) a disputant who advocates reform | Synonyms: crusader, reformer, reformist, social reformer |
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