| plainclothesman | (noun) a detective who wears civilian clothes on duty | - |
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| pleurothallis | (noun) any of numerous small tufted orchids of the genus Pleurothallis having leathery to fleshy leaves and racemes of 1 to many small flowers | - |
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| pneumothorax | (noun) abnormal presence of air in the pleural cavity resulting in the collapse of the lung; may be spontaneous (due to injury to the chest) or induced (as a treatment for tuberculosis) | - |
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| poikilotherm | (noun) an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals | Synonyms: ectotherm |
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| poikilothermic | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, heterothermic, poikilothermous |
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| poikilothermous | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, heterothermic, poikilothermic |
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| pothead | (noun) someone who smokes marijuana habitually | - |
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| pother | (noun) an excited state of agitation | Synonyms: dither, flap, fuss, tizzy |
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| (verb) make a fuss; be agitated | Synonyms: dither, flap |
| (verb) make upset or troubled | - |
| potherb | (noun) any of various herbaceous plants whose leaves or stems or flowers are cooked and used for food or seasoning | - |
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| potholder | (noun) an insulated pad for holding hot pots | - |
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| pothole | (noun) a pit or hole produced by wear or weathering (especially in a road surface) | Synonyms: chuckhole |
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| potholed | (adjective) used of paved surfaces having holes or pits | Synonyms: pocked, pockmarked |
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| potholer | (noun) a person who explores caves | Synonyms: spelaeologist, speleologist, spelunker |
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| pothook | (noun) an S-shaped hook to suspend a pot over a fire | - |
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| pothos | (noun) any of various tropical lianas of the genus Scindapsus | - |
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| (noun) evergreen liana widely cultivated for its variegated foliage | Synonyms: Epipremnum aureum, golden pothos, ivy arum, Scindapsus aureus |
| pothouse | (noun) tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals | Synonyms: gin mill, pub, public house, saloon, taphouse |
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| pothunter | (noun) a nonprofessional archeologist | - |
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| (noun) someone who participates in contests in order to collect trophies | - |
| (noun) someone who hunts for food (not for sport) | - |
| prothalamion | (noun) a song in celebration of a marriage | Synonyms: prothalamium |
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| prothalamium | (noun) a song in celebration of a marriage | Synonyms: prothalamion |
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| prothorax | (noun) the anterior part of an insect's thorax; bears the first pair of legs | - |
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| prothrombin | (noun) a protein in blood plasma that is the inactive precursor of thrombin | Synonyms: factor II |
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| prothrombinase | (noun) coagulation factor that is converted to an enzyme that converts prothrombin to thrombin in a reaction that depends on calcium ions and other coagulation factors | Synonyms: factor X |
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| prototherian | (noun) primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea | - |
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| psychotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing psychotherapy | - |
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| (adjective) emotionally purging | Synonyms: cathartic |
| psychotherapeutics | (noun) the branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods | Synonyms: mental hygiene, psychotherapy |
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| psychotherapist | (noun) a therapist who deals with mental and emotional disorders | Synonyms: clinical psychologist |
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| psychotherapy | (noun) the treatment of mental or emotional problems by psychological means | - |
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| (noun) the branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods | Synonyms: mental hygiene, psychotherapeutics |
| radiotherapist | (noun) a medical specialist who uses radioactive substances and X-rays in the treatment of disease | Synonyms: radiologist |
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| radiotherapy | (noun) (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance | Synonyms: actinotherapy, irradiation, radiation, radiation therapy |
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| radiothorium | (noun) radioactive isotope of thorium with mass number 228 | Synonyms: thorium-228 |
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| sabertooth | (noun) any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene | Synonyms: saber-toothed tiger |
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| sabertoothed | (adjective) having teeth that resemble sabers | Synonyms: saber-toothed, sabre-toothed |
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| sackcloth | (noun) a coarse cloth resembling sacking | - |
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| (noun) a garment made of coarse sacking; formerly worn as an indication of remorse | - |
| saddlecloth | (noun) stable gear consisting of a blanket placed under the saddle | Synonyms: horse blanket, saddle blanket |
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| sailcloth | (noun) a strong fabric (such as cotton canvas) used for making sails and tents | - |
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| sawtooth | (noun) a serration on a saw blade | - |
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| schizothymia | (noun) resembling schizophrenia but remaining within the bounds of normality | - |
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| sloth | (noun) apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: acedia, laziness |
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| (noun) any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits | Synonyms: tree sloth |
| (noun) a disinclination to work or exert yourself | Synonyms: slothfulness |
| slothful | (adjective) disinclined to work or exertion | Synonyms: faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, work-shy |
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| slothfulness | (noun) a disinclination to work or exert yourself | Synonyms: sloth |
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| smooth | (adjective) having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities | - |
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| (adjective) of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth | - |
| (adjective) (music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected | Synonyms: legato |
| (adjective) of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence | - |
| (adjective) (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves | Synonyms: placid, quiet, still, tranquil, unruffled |
| (adjective) smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication | Synonyms: bland, politic, suave |
| (adjective) lacking obstructions or difficulties | - |
| (adjective) smooth and unconstrained in movement | Synonyms: fluent, fluid, liquid |
| (noun) the act of smoothing | - |
| (verb) make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing | Synonyms: smoothen |
| (verb) make (a surface) shine | Synonyms: polish, shine, smoothen |
| (verb) free from obstructions | Synonyms: smooth out |
| smoothbark | (noun) any of several Australian eucalypts having the bark smooth except at or near the base of the trunk | - |
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| smoothbore | (adjective) of a firearm; not having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel | Synonyms: unrifled |
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| (noun) a firearm that has no rifling | - |
| smoothed | (adjective) made smooth by ironing | Synonyms: smoothened |
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| smoothen | (verb) become smooth | - |
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| (verb) make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing | Synonyms: smooth |
| (verb) make (a surface) shine | Synonyms: polish, shine, smooth |
| smoothened | (adjective) made smooth by ironing | Synonyms: smoothed |
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| smoother | (noun) a power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor | Synonyms: drum sander, electric sander, sander |
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| smoothhound | (noun) smooth dogfish of European coastal waters | Synonyms: Mustelus mustelus, smoothhound shark |
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| smoothie | (noun) a thick smooth drink consisting of fresh fruit pureed with ice cream or yoghurt or milk | - |
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| (noun) someone with an assured and ingratiating manner | Synonyms: charmer, smoothy, sweet talker |
| smoothly | (adverb) with no problems or difficulties | Synonyms: swimmingly |
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| (adverb) in a smooth and diplomatic manner | - |
| smoothness | (noun) a texture without roughness; smooth to the touch | - |
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| (noun) the quality of having a level and even surface | - |
| (noun) the quality of being free from errors or interruptions | - |
| (noun) the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner | Synonyms: blandness, suaveness, suavity |
| (noun) powerful and effective language | Synonyms: eloquence, fluency |
| smoothy | (noun) someone with an assured and ingratiating manner | Synonyms: charmer, smoothie, sweet talker |
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| smother | (noun) a stifling cloud of smoke | - |
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| (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, welter |
| (verb) deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing | Synonyms: asphyxiate, suffocate |
| (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, repress, stifle, strangle |
| (verb) envelop completely | Synonyms: surround |
| (verb) deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion | Synonyms: put out |
| (verb) form an impenetrable cover over | - |
| smothered | (adjective) completely covered | - |
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| (adjective) held in check with difficulty | Synonyms: stifled, strangled, suppressed |
| smotherer | (noun) a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses | Synonyms: stifler |
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| smothering | (adjective) causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat | Synonyms: choking, suffocating, suffocative |
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| sooth | (noun) truth or reality | - |
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| soothe | (verb) cause to feel better | - |
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| (verb) give moral or emotional strength to | Synonyms: comfort, console, solace |
| soothing | (adjective) affording physical relief | - |
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| (adjective) freeing from fear and anxiety | Synonyms: assuasive |
| soothingly | (adverb) in a soothing manner | - |
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| soothsayer | (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: forecaster, predictor, prognosticator |
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| soothsaying | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: divination, foretelling, fortune telling |
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| stepbrother | (noun) a brother who has only one parent in common with you | Synonyms: half-brother, half brother |
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| stepmother | (noun) the wife of your father by a subsequent marriage | - |
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| streptothricin | (noun) a basic antibiotic derived from a soil actinomycete | - |
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| tablecloth | (noun) a covering spread over a dining table | - |
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| terrycloth | (noun) a pile fabric (usually cotton) with uncut loops on both sides; used to make bath towels and bath robes | Synonyms: terry, terry cloth |
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| tetraiodothyronine | (noun) hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells | Synonyms: T, thyroxin, thyroxine |
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| thermotherapy | (noun) the use of heat to treat a disease or disorder; heating pads or hot compresses or hot-water bottles are used to promote circulation in peripheral vascular disease or to relax tense muscles | - |
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| thiothixene | (noun) a tranquilizer (trade name Navane) used to treat schizophrenia | Synonyms: Navane |
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| timothy | (noun) a grass grown for hay | - |
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| (noun) grass with long cylindrical spikes grown in northern United States and Europe for hay | Synonyms: herd's grass, Phleum pratense |
| tolbooth | (noun) a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls | Synonyms: tollbooth, tollhouse |
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| tollbooth | (noun) a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls | Synonyms: tolbooth, tollhouse |
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| tooth | (noun) a means of enforcement | - |
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| (noun) toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell | - |
| (noun) something resembling the tooth of an animal | - |
| (noun) one of a number of uniform projections on a gear | - |
| (noun) hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense | - |
| toothache | (noun) an ache localized in or around a tooth | Synonyms: odontalgia |
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| toothbrush | (noun) small brush; has long handle; used to clean teeth | - |
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| (noun) slang for a mustache | Synonyms: soup-strainer |
| toothed | (adjective) having teeth especially of a certain number or type; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed | Synonyms: erose, jagged, jaggy, notched |
| (adjective) notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex | Synonyms: notched, saw-toothed, serrate, serrated |
| toothless | (adjective) lacking teeth | - |
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| (adjective) lacking necessary force for effectiveness | - |
| toothlessness | (noun) The state or condition of being toothless; lack of teeth. | - |
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| toothlike | (adjective) resembling a tooth | - |
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| toothpaste | (noun) a dentifrice in the form of a paste | - |
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| toothpick | (noun) pick consisting of a small strip of wood or plastic; used to pick food from between the teeth | - |
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| toothpowder | (noun) a dentifrice in the form of a powder | Synonyms: tooth powder |
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| toothsome | (adjective) acceptable to the taste or mind | Synonyms: palatable |
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| (adjective) having strong sexual appeal | Synonyms: juicy, luscious, lush, red-hot, voluptuous |
| (adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delectable, delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, yummy |
| toothsomeness | (noun) extreme appetizingness | Synonyms: delectability, deliciousness, lusciousness |
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| toothwort | (noun) North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots | Synonyms: Cardamine diphylla, crinkle-root, crinkle root, crinkleroot, Dentaria diphylla, pepper root |
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| toothy | (adjective) having or showing prominent teeth | - |
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| triiodothyronine | (noun) thyroid hormone similar to thyroxine but with one less iodine atom per molecule and produced in smaller quantity; exerts the same biological effects as thyroxine but is more potent and briefer | Synonyms: liothyronine, T |
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| troth | (noun) a solemn pledge of fidelity | Synonyms: plight |
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| (noun) a mutual promise to marry | Synonyms: betrothal, engagement |
| tyrothricin | (noun) a mixture of antibiotics applied locally to infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria | - |
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| unclothe | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, undress |
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| (verb) take the covers off | - |
| (verb) strip | - |
| unclothed | (adjective) not wearing clothing | - |
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| underclothed | (adjective) inadequately clothed | Synonyms: half-clothed, scantily clad |
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| underclothes | (noun) undergarment worn next to the skin and under the outer garments | Synonyms: underclothing, underwear |
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| underclothing | (noun) undergarment worn next to the skin and under the outer garments | Synonyms: underclothes, underwear |
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| unsmooth | (adjective) having or caused by an irregular surface | Synonyms: rough |
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| unsmoothed | (adjective) not having been made smooth by having hands run over the surface | - |
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| untoothed | (adjective) having no notches | Synonyms: unnotched |
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| waistcloth | (noun) a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers | Synonyms: cincture, girdle, sash, waistband |
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| washcloth | (noun) bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body | Synonyms: face cloth, flannel, washrag |
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