androglossia | (noun) a woman's voice with male qualities | - |
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ankyloglossia | (noun) a congenital anomaly in which the mucous membrane under the tongue is too short limiting the mobility of the tongue | Synonyms: tongue tie |
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bossism | (noun) domination of a political organization by a party boss | - |
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crossing | (noun) a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean) | - |
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(noun) traveling across | - |
(noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding |
(noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossover, crosswalk |
(noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossroad, crossway, intersection |
(noun) a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect | - |
(noun) a shallow area in a stream that can be forded | Synonyms: ford |
deossification | (noun) the loss of the mineral content of bone tissue | - |
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dossier | (noun) a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record) | - |
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engrossing | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, fascinating, gripping, riveting |
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fossil | (adjective) characteristic of a fossil | - |
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(noun) the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil | - |
(noun) someone whose style is out of fashion | Synonyms: dodo, fogey, fogy |
fossiliferous | (adjective) bearing or containing fossils | - |
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fossilisation | (noun) becoming inflexible or out of date | Synonyms: fossilization |
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(noun) the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone | Synonyms: fossilization |
fossilise | (verb) convert to a fossil | Synonyms: fossilize |
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(verb) become mentally inflexible | Synonyms: fossilize |
fossilised | (adjective) set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs | Synonyms: fossilized, ossified |
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fossilist | (noun) a specialist in paleontology | Synonyms: palaeontologist, paleontologist |
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fossilization | (noun) becoming inflexible or out of date | Synonyms: fossilisation |
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(noun) the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone | Synonyms: fossilisation |
fossilize | (verb) convert to a fossil | Synonyms: fossilise |
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(verb) become mentally inflexible | Synonyms: fossilise |
fossilized | (adjective) set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs | Synonyms: fossilised, ossified |
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fossilology | (noun) the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains | Synonyms: palaeontology, paleontology |
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glossily | (adverb) in a glossy manner | - |
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glossina | (noun) bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc. | Synonyms: tsetse, tsetse fly, tzetze, tzetze fly |
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glossiness | (noun) the property of being smooth and shiny | Synonyms: burnish, gloss, polish |
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glossitis | (noun) inflammation of the tongue | - |
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gossip | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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(noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: comment, scuttlebutt |
(noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
(verb) wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies | Synonyms: dish the dirt |
(verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
gossiper | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
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gossiping | (noun) a conversation that spreads personal information about other people | Synonyms: gossipmongering |
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gossipmonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
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gossipmongering | (noun) a conversation that spreads personal information about other people | Synonyms: gossiping |
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gossipy | (adjective) prone to friendly informal communication | Synonyms: chatty, newsy |
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impossibility | (noun) an alternative that is not available | Synonyms: impossible action |
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(noun) incapability of existing or occurring | Synonyms: impossibleness |
impossible | (adjective) not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with | - |
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(adjective) (used of persons or their behavior) not acceptable or reasonable | Synonyms: unacceptable |
(adjective) totally unlikely | Synonyms: inconceivable, out of the question, unimaginable |
(noun) something that cannot be done | - |
impossibleness | (noun) incapability of existing or occurring | Synonyms: impossibility |
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impossibly | (adverb) to a degree impossible of achievement | - |
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macroglossia | (noun) a congenital disorder characterized by an abnormally large tongue; often seen in cases of Down's syndrome | - |
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microfossil | (noun) a fossil that must be studied microscopically | - |
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ossicle | (noun) a small bone; especially one in the middle ear | Synonyms: bonelet, ossiculum |
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ossicular | (adjective) pertaining to the ossicles in the middle ear | Synonyms: ossiculate |
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ossiculate | (adjective) pertaining to the ossicles in the middle ear | Synonyms: ossicular |
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ossiculum | (noun) a small bone; especially one in the middle ear | Synonyms: bonelet, ossicle |
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ossiferous | (adjective) containing bones (especially fossil bones) | - |
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ossification | (noun) hardened conventionality | Synonyms: conformity |
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(noun) the developmental process of bone formation | - |
(noun) the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior | - |
(noun) the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material | - |
ossified | (adjective) set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs | Synonyms: fossilised, fossilized |
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ossify | (verb) become bony | - |
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(verb) cause to become hard and bony | - |
(verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern | Synonyms: petrify, rigidify |
overcrossing | (noun) a bridge designed for pedestrians | Synonyms: footbridge, pedestrian bridge |
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possibility | (noun) a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena | Synonyms: hypothesis, theory |
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(noun) a possible alternative | Synonyms: opening, possible action |
(noun) a future prospect or potential | - |
(noun) capability of existing or happening or being true | Synonyms: possibleness |
possible | (adjective) capable of happening or existing | - |
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(adjective) existing in possibility | Synonyms: potential |
(noun) something that can be done | - |
(noun) an applicant who might be suitable | - |
possibleness | (noun) capability of existing or happening or being true | Synonyms: possibility |
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possibly | (adverb) by chance | Synonyms: maybe, mayhap, peradventure, perchance, perhaps |
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(adverb) to a degree possible of achievement or by possible means | - |
salpiglossis | (noun) any plant of the genus Salpiglossis | - |
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