| acyclovir | (noun) an oral antiviral drug (trade name Zovirax) used to treat genital herpes; does not cure the disease but relieves the symptoms | Synonyms: Zovirax |
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| adenovirus | (noun) any of a group of viruses including those that in humans cause upper respiratory infections or infectious pinkeye | - |
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| approving | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approbatory, plausive |
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| (noun) the formal act of approving | Synonyms: approval, blessing |
| approvingly | (adverb) in an approving manner | - |
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| arbovirus | (noun) a large heterogeneous group of RNA viruses divisible into groups on the basis of the virions; they have been recovered from arthropods, bats, and rodents; most are borne by arthropods; they are linked by the epidemiologic concept of transmission between vertebrate hosts by arthropod vectors (mosquitoes, ticks, sandflies, midges, etc.) that feed on blood; they can cause mild fevers, hepatitis, hemorrhagic fever, and encephalitis | Synonyms: arborvirus |
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| audiovisual | (adjective) involving both hearing and seeing (usually relating to teaching aids) | - |
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| (noun) materials using sight or sound to present information | Synonyms: audiovisual aid |
| bloviate | (verb) orate verbosely and windily | - |
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| bovid | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle) | Synonyms: bovine |
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| (noun) hollow-horned ruminants | - |
| bovine | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle) | Synonyms: bovid |
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| (adjective) dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox | - |
| (noun) any of various members of the genus Bos | - |
| coville | (noun) desert shrub of southwestern United States and New Mexico having persistent resinous aromatic foliage and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: creosote bush, hediondilla, Larrea tridentata |
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| cytomegalovirus | (noun) any of a group of herpes viruses that enlarge epithelial cells and can cause birth defects; can affect humans with impaired immunological systems | Synonyms: CMV |
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| disapproving | (adjective) expressing or manifesting disapproval | - |
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| disapprovingly | (adverb) showing disapproval | - |
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| dovish | (adjective) opposed to war | Synonyms: pacifist, pacifistic |
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| dovishness | (noun) any political orientation favoring compromise to avoid conflict | - |
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| echovirus | (noun) any of a group of viruses associated with various diseases including viral meningitis and mild respiratory disorders and diarrhea in newborn infants | - |
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| enterovirus | (noun) any of a group of picornaviruses that infect the gastrointestinal tract and can spread to other areas (especially the nervous system) | - |
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| ergonovine | (noun) an alkaloid derived from ergot (trade name Ergotrate Maleate) that is less toxic than ergot; induces muscular contraction of the uterus and is administered after childbirth or abortion | Synonyms: Ergotrate Maleate |
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| filovirus | (noun) animal viruses belonging to the family Filoviridae | - |
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| flerovium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element | Synonyms: Fl |
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| grooving | (noun) the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm | Synonyms: rifling |
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| hypovitaminosis | (noun) any of several diseases caused by deficiency of one or more vitamins | Synonyms: avitaminosis |
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| improvidence | (noun) a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources | Synonyms: shortsightedness |
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| improvident | (adjective) not provident; not providing for the future | - |
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| (adjective) not given careful consideration | Synonyms: ill-considered, ill-judged, shortsighted |
| improvidently | (adverb) in an improvident manner | - |
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| improving | (adjective) getting higher or more vigorous | Synonyms: up |
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| improvisation | (noun) an unplanned expedient | Synonyms: temporary expedient |
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| (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporisation, extemporization |
| (noun) a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation) | - |
| improvise | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, extemporize, improvize |
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| (verb) manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand | Synonyms: extemporize |
| improvised | (adjective) done or made using whatever is available | Synonyms: jury-rigged, makeshift |
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| improvize | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, extemporize, improvise |
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| jovial | (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: gay, jocund, jolly, merry, mirthful |
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| joviality | (noun) a jovial nature | Synonyms: conviviality |
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| (noun) feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor | Synonyms: jolliness, jollity |
| jovially | (adverb) in a jovial manner | - |
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| loving | (adjective) feeling or showing love and affection | - |
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| lovingly | (adverb) with fondness; with love | Synonyms: fondly |
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| lovingness | (noun) a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love | Synonyms: affectionateness, fondness, warmth |
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| (noun) a loving feeling | Synonyms: caring |
| movie | (noun) a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement | Synonyms: film, flick, motion-picture show, motion picture, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture, picture show |
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| moviegoer | (noun) someone who goes to see movies | Synonyms: motion-picture fan |
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| moviemaking | (noun) the production of movies | Synonyms: film making, movie making |
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| moving | (adjective) arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion | - |
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| (adjective) in motion | - |
| (adjective) used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion | - |
| movingly | (adverb) in a moving manner | - |
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| mucoviscidosis | (noun) the most common hereditary disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in a single gene; no cure is known | Synonyms: CF, cystic fibrosis, fibrocystic disease of the pancreas, pancreatic fibrosis |
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| muscovite | (noun) a colorless or pale brown mica with potassium | - |
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| myxovirus | (noun) any of a group of RNA viruses including those that cause influenza and mumps | - |
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| nonmoving | (adjective) not in motion | Synonyms: unmoving |
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| novice | (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: beginner, initiate, tiro, tyro |
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| (noun) someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows | Synonyms: novitiate |
| noviciate | (noun) the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order) | Synonyms: novitiate |
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| novillada | (noun) a bullfight in which the bulls are less than four years old | - |
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| novillero | (noun) a bullfighter who is required to fight bulls less than four years of age | - |
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| novitiate | (noun) someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows | Synonyms: novice |
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| (noun) the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order) | Synonyms: noviciate |
| orthomyxovirus | (noun) a group of viruses including those causing influenza | - |
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| oviduct | (noun) either of a pair of tubes conducting the egg from the ovary to the uterus | Synonyms: Fallopian tube, uterine tube |
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| oviform | (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, ovoid, prolate |
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| ovine | (adjective) of or pertaining to or of the nature of or characteristic of a sheep or sheep | - |
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| oviparous | (adjective) egg-laying | - |
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| ovipositor | (noun) egg-laying tubular structure at the end of the abdomen in many female insects and some fishes | - |
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| oviraptorid | (noun) advanced carnivorous theropods, characterized by their toothless, parrot-like beaks and, in several cases, elaborate crests | - |
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| ovoviviparous | (adjective) producing living young from eggs that hatch within the body | - |
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| paramyxovirus | (noun) a group of viruses including those causing mumps and measles | - |
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| parvovirus | (noun) any of a group of viruses containing DNA in an icosahedral protein shell and causing disease in dogs and cattle; not known to be associated with any human disease | Synonyms: parvo |
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| poliovirus | (noun) the virus causing poliomyelitis | - |
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| provide | (verb) take measures in preparation for | - |
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| (verb) determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation | - |
| (verb) give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance | Synonyms: cater, ply, supply |
| (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: furnish, offer, render, supply |
| (verb) supply means of subsistence; earn a living | Synonyms: bring home the bacon |
| (verb) mount or put up | Synonyms: offer, put up |
| (verb) make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain | Synonyms: allow, allow for, leave |
| providence | (noun) the guardianship and control exercised by a deity | - |
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| (noun) the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources | - |
| (noun) a manifestation of God's foresightful care for his creatures | - |
| provident | (adjective) providing carefully for the future | - |
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| (adjective) careful in regard to your own interests | - |
| providential | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of providence | - |
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| (adjective) peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention | Synonyms: heaven-sent, miraculous |
| (adjective) resulting from divine providence | Synonyms: divine |
| providentially | (adverb) in a providential manner; as determined by providence | - |
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| (adverb) in a fortunately providential manner | - |
| (adverb) in a prudent manner | Synonyms: prudently |
| providently | (adverb) in a provident manner | - |
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| provider | (noun) someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity | Synonyms: supplier |
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| (noun) someone who provides the means for subsistence | - |
| province | (noun) the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation | Synonyms: state |
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| (noun) the proper sphere or extent of your activities | Synonyms: responsibility |
| provincial | (adjective) characteristic of the provinces or their people | - |
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| (adjective) of or associated with a province | - |
| (noun) a country person | Synonyms: bucolic, peasant |
| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order | - |
| provincialism | (noun) a partiality for some particular place | Synonyms: localism, sectionalism |
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| (noun) a lack of sophistication | - |
| provincially | (adverb) by the province; through the province | - |
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| provirus | (noun) cDNA copy of the RNA genome of a retrovirus; the genetic material of a virus as incorporated into and able to replicate with the genome of a host cell | - |
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| provision | (noun) the activity of supplying or providing something | Synonyms: supply, supplying |
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| (noun) the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening | Synonyms: planning, preparation |
| (noun) a stipulated condition | Synonyms: proviso |
| (noun) a store or supply of something (especially of food or clothing or arms) | - |
| (verb) supply with provisions | Synonyms: purvey |
| provisional | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: probationary, provisionary, tentative |
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| provisionally | (adverb) temporarily and conditionally | - |
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| provisionary | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: probationary, provisional, tentative |
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| provisioner | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: sutler, victualer, victualler |
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| provisions | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provender, viands, victuals |
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| proviso | (noun) a stipulated condition | Synonyms: provision |
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| provisory | (adjective) subject to a proviso | - |
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| provitamin | (noun) vitamin precursor; a substance that is converted into a vitamin in animal tissues | - |
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| reovirus | (noun) any of a group of non-arboviruses including the rotavirus causing infant enteritis | - |
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| reproving | (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonishing, admonitory, reproachful |
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| reprovingly | (adverb) in a reproving or reproachful manner | Synonyms: reproachfully |
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| retrovirus | (noun) any of a group of viruses that contain two single-strand linear RNA molecules per virion and reverse transcriptase (RNA to DNA); the virus transcribes its RNA into a cDNA provirus that is then incorporated into the host cell | - |
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| retrovision | (noun) a vision of events in the distant past | - |
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| rhabdovirus | (noun) any of a group of arboviruses including those causing rabies | - |
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| rhinovirus | (noun) any of a group of picornaviruses that are responsible for many upper respiratory infections | - |
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| roving | (adjective) migratory | Synonyms: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, wandering |
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| (noun) travelling about without any clear destination | Synonyms: vagabondage, wandering |
| slivovitz | (noun) a colorless plum brandy popular in the Balkans | - |
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| soviet | (noun) an elected governmental council in a communist country (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) | - |
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| sovietise | (verb) model a country's social, political, and economic structure on the Soviet Union | Synonyms: sovietize |
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| (verb) bring under Soviet control, of a country | Synonyms: sovietize |
| sovietism | (noun) Soviet communism | Synonyms: Bolshevism, collectivism |
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| sovietize | (verb) model a country's social, political, and economic structure on the Soviet Union | Synonyms: sovietise |
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| (verb) bring under Soviet control, of a country | Synonyms: sovietise |
| synovia | (noun) viscid lubricating fluid secreted by the membrane lining joints and tendon sheaths etc. | Synonyms: synovial fluid |
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| synovial | (adjective) relating to or secreting synovia | - |
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| synovitis | (noun) inflammation of the synovial membrane that lines a synovial joint; results in pain and swelling | - |
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| synovium | (noun) a thin membrane in synovial (freely moving) joints that lines the joint capsule and secretes synovial fluid | Synonyms: synovial membrane |
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| tendosynovitis | (noun) inflammation of a tendon and its enveloping sheath | Synonyms: tendonous synovitis, tenosynovitis |
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