| cryptobiotic | (adjective) of or related to the state of cryptobiosis | - |
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| culotte | (noun) a divided skirt | - |
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| cyclothymia | (noun) a mild bipolar disorder that persists over a long time | Synonyms: cyclic disorder, cyclothymic disorder |
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| cyclothymic | (adjective) of or relating to or exhibiting cyclothymia | - |
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| cyclotron | (noun) an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles | - |
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| cytophotometer | (noun) a photometer that can be used to locate and identify chemical compounds in a cell by measuring the intensity of the light that passes through stained sections of the cytoplasm | - |
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| cytophotometric | (adjective) of or relating to the study of cells by means of a cytophotometer | - |
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| cytophotometrically | (adverb) by cytophotometric means | - |
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| cytophotometry | (noun) the study of chemical compounds inside a cell by means of a cytophotometer | - |
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| cytotoxic | (adjective) of or relating to substances that are toxic to cells | - |
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| cytotoxicity | (noun) the degree to which something is toxic to living cells | - |
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| cytotoxin | (noun) any substance that has a toxic effect on cells | - |
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| daguerreotype | (noun) a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor | - |
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| demote | (verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: break, bump, kick downstairs, relegate |
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| demotic | (adjective) of or for the common people | - |
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| demotion | (noun) act of lowering in rank or position | - |
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| denotation | (noun) the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to | Synonyms: extension, reference |
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| (noun) the act of indicating or pointing out by name | Synonyms: indication |
| denotative | (adjective) having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming | Synonyms: denotive |
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| (adjective) in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term | Synonyms: explicit |
| denotatum | (noun) an actual object referred to by a linguistic expression | - |
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| denote | (verb) have as a meaning | Synonyms: refer |
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| (verb) be a sign or indication of | - |
| (verb) make known; make an announcement | Synonyms: announce |
| denotive | (adjective) having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming | Synonyms: denotative |
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| deoxynucleotide | (noun) Any nucleotide that contains a deoxy sugar. | - |
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| depot | (noun) station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods | Synonyms: terminal, terminus |
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| (noun) a depository for goods | Synonyms: entrepot, storage, store, storehouse |
| despot | (noun) a cruel and oppressive dictator | Synonyms: autocrat, tyrant |
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| despotic | (adjective) belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot | Synonyms: despotical |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| (adjective) ruled by or characteristic of a despot | - |
| despotical | (adjective) belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot | Synonyms: despotic |
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| despotism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| (noun) dominance through threat of punishment and violence | Synonyms: absolutism, tyranny |
| devote | (verb) dedicate | Synonyms: give, pay |
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| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, consecrate, dedicate, give |
| (verb) set aside or apart for a specific purpose or use | - |
| devoted | (adjective) (followed by `to') dedicated exclusively to a purpose or use | - |
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| (adjective) zealous in devotion or affection | - |
| devotedly | (adverb) with devotion | - |
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| devotedness | (noun) feelings of ardent love | Synonyms: devotion |
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| devotee | (noun) an ardent follower and admirer | Synonyms: buff, fan, lover |
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| devotion | (noun) (usually plural) religious observance or prayers (usually spoken silently) | - |
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| (noun) commitment to some purpose | - |
| (noun) religious zeal; the willingness to serve God | Synonyms: cultism, veneration |
| (noun) feelings of ardent love | Synonyms: devotedness |
| devotional | (adjective) relating to worship | - |
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| (noun) a short religious service | - |
| dextrorotary | (adjective) rotating to the right | Synonyms: dextrorotatory, right-handed |
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| dextrorotation | (noun) rotation to the right | Synonyms: clockwise rotation |
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| dextrorotatory | (adjective) rotating to the right | Synonyms: dextrorotary, right-handed |
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| dhoti | (noun) a long loincloth worn by Hindu men | - |
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| diablotin | (noun) a thin round slice of bread usually served with soup, especially consomme. | - |
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| diazotize | (verb) convert (an amine) into a diazo compound | - |
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| dichotomisation | (noun) the act of dividing into two sharply different categories | Synonyms: dichotomization |
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| dichotomise | (verb) divide into two opposing groups or kinds | Synonyms: dichotomize |
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| dichotomization | (noun) the act of dividing into two sharply different categories | Synonyms: dichotomisation |
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| dichotomize | (verb) divide into two opposing groups or kinds | Synonyms: dichotomise |
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| dichotomous | (adjective) divided or dividing into two sharply distinguished parts or classifications | - |
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| dichotomously | (adverb) in a dichotomous manner | - |
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| dichotomy | (noun) being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses | Synonyms: duality |
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| dicot | (noun) flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside | Synonyms: dicotyledon, exogen, magnoliopsid |
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| dicotyledon | (noun) flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside | Synonyms: dicot, exogen, magnoliopsid |
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| dicotyledonous | (adjective) (of a flowering plant) having two cotyledons in the seed | - |
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| diplotene | (noun) the fourth stage of the prophase of meiosis | - |
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| discotheque | (noun) a public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music | Synonyms: disco |
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| dishcloth | (noun) a cloth for washing dishes | Synonyms: dishrag |
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| divot | (noun) a piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway (by an animals hooves or a golf club) | - |
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| (noun) (golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke | - |
| dizygotic | (adjective) derived from two separately fertilized eggs | Synonyms: dizygous |
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| dogtooth | (noun) a carved pyramidal ornament; used in 13th century England | - |
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| (noun) one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars | Synonyms: canine, canine tooth, cuspid, eye tooth, eyetooth |
| (noun) perennial woodland spring-flowering plant; widely cultivated | Synonyms: dog's-tooth violet, dogtooth violet |
| dogtrot | (noun) a steady trot like that of a dog | - |
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| dot | (noun) street name for lysergic acid diethylamide | Synonyms: acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen |
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| (noun) the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code | Synonyms: dit |
| (noun) a very small circular shape | Synonyms: point |
| (verb) mark with a dot | - |
| (verb) make a dot or dots | - |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dust, scatter, sprinkle |
| (verb) scatter or intersperse like dots or studs | Synonyms: constellate, stud |
| dotage | (noun) mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations | Synonyms: second childhood, senility |
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| dotard | (noun) an oldster in his dotage; someone whose age has impaired his intellect | - |
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| dote | (verb) shower with love; show excessive affection for | - |
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| (verb) be foolish or senile due to old age | - |
| doting | (adjective) extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent | Synonyms: adoring, fond |
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| dotrel | (noun) rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia | Synonyms: Charadrius morinellus, dotterel, Eudromias morinellus |
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| dotted | (adjective) having gaps or spaces | Synonyms: dashed |
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| (adjective) having a pattern of dots | Synonyms: flecked, specked, speckled, stippled |
| dotterel | (noun) rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia | Synonyms: Charadrius morinellus, dotrel, Eudromias morinellus |
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| dottily | (adverb) in a mildly insane manner | Synonyms: balmily, daftly, nuttily, wackily |
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| dottle | (noun) the residue of partially burnt tobacco left caked in the bowl of a pipe after smoking | - |
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| dotty | (adjective) intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with | Synonyms: crazy, gaga, wild |
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| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
| dovecote | (noun) a birdhouse for pigeons | Synonyms: columbarium, columbary |
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| dustcloth | (noun) a piece of cloth used for dusting | Synonyms: duster, dustrag |
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| earshot | (noun) the range within which a voice can be heard | Synonyms: earreach, hearing |
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| ecoterrorism | (noun) violence carried out to further the political or social objectives of the environmentalists | Synonyms: eco-warfare, ecological terrorism, ecological warfare |
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| ecotourism | (noun) tourism to exotic or threatened ecosystems to observe wildlife or to help preserve nature | - |
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| ectotherm | (noun) an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals | Synonyms: poikilotherm |
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| ectothermic | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: heterothermic, poikilothermic, poikilothermous |
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| egotism | (noun) an exaggerated opinion of your own importance | Synonyms: self-importance, swelled head |
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| (noun) an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others | Synonyms: ego, self-importance |
| egotist | (noun) a conceited and self-centered person | Synonyms: egoist, swellhead |
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| egotistic | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: conceited, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, swollen, vain |
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| (adjective) characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance | Synonyms: egotistical, narcissistic, self-loving |
| egotistical | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: conceited, egotistic, self-conceited, swollen-headed, swollen, vain |
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| (adjective) characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance | Synonyms: egotistic, narcissistic, self-loving |
| egotistically | (adverb) in an egotistical manner | Synonyms: selfishly |
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| egotrip | (verb) act in a way that attracts attention | - |
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| electromotive | (adjective) concerned with or producing electric current | - |
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| electrotherapist | (noun) someone who specializes in the treatment of disease by electricity | - |
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| electrotherapy | (noun) the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis) | Synonyms: electric healing, electrical healing, galvanism |
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| embryotic | (adjective) in an early stage of development | Synonyms: embryonic |
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| emote | (verb) give expression or emotion to, in a stage or movie role | - |
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| emoticon | (noun) a representation of a facial expression (as a smile or frown) created by typing a sequence of characters in sending email | - |
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| emotion | (noun) any strong feeling | - |
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| emotional | (adjective) of more than usual emotion | - |
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| (adjective) determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason | - |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to emotion | - |
| (adjective) (of persons) excessively affected by emotion | Synonyms: aroused, excited, worked up |
| emotionalism | (noun) emotional nature or quality | Synonyms: emotionality |
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| emotionality | (noun) emotional nature or quality | Synonyms: emotionalism |
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| emotionally | (adverb) with regard to emotions | - |
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| (adverb) in an emotional manner | - |
| emotionless | (adjective) unmoved by feeling | Synonyms: passionless |
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| emotionlessly | (adverb) without emotion; devoid of emotion | Synonyms: unemotionally |
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| emotionlessness | (noun) absence of emotion | Synonyms: unemotionality |
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| (noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: impassiveness, impassivity, indifference, phlegm, stolidity, unemotionality |
| emotive | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affectional, affective |
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| enclothe | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
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| endothelial | (adjective) of or relating to or located in the endothelium | - |
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| endothelium | (noun) an epithelium of mesoblastic origin; a thin layer of flattened cells that lines the inside of some body cavities | - |
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| endothermal | (adjective) (of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with absorption of heat | Synonyms: endothermic, heat-absorbing |
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