| crawlspace | (noun) low space beneath a floor of a building; gives workers access to wiring or plumbing | Synonyms: crawl space |
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| crispate | (adjective) wavy or notched and curled very irregularly | - |
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| crosspatch | (noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: churl, crank, grouch, grump |
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| cryopathy | (noun) destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene | Synonyms: frostbite |
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| culpability | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: blameworthiness, culpableness |
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| culpable | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable |
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| culpableness | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: blameworthiness, culpability |
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| culpably | (adverb) in a manner or to a degree deserving blame or censure | Synonyms: reprehensibly |
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| cuppa | (noun) a cup of tea | Synonyms: cupper |
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| cuspate | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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| cuspated | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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| cyberspace | (noun) a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange | Synonyms: internet, net |
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| cyclopaedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia |
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| cyclopropane | (noun) a colorless flammable gas sometimes used as an inhalation anesthetic | - |
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| cystoparalysis | (noun) paralysis of the urinary bladder | Synonyms: cystoplegia |
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| cytopathogenic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing pathological changes in cells | - |
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| deadpan | (adjective) deliberately impassive in manner | Synonyms: expressionless, impassive, poker-faced, unexpressive |
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| (adverb) without betraying any feeling | - |
| decoupage | (noun) the art of decorating a surface with shapes or pictures and then coating it with varnish or lacquer | - |
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| (noun) art produced by decorating a surface with cutouts and then coating it with several layers of varnish or lacquer | - |
| depart | (verb) go away or leave | Synonyms: quit, take leave |
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| (verb) depart for someplace | Synonyms: part, set forth, set off, set out, start, start out, take off |
| (verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: digress, sidetrack, straggle |
| (verb) move away from a place into another direction | Synonyms: go, go away |
| (verb) remove oneself from an association with or participation in | Synonyms: leave, pull up stakes |
| (verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: deviate, diverge, vary |
| departed | (adjective) dead | Synonyms: asleep, at peace, at rest, deceased, gone |
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| (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bygone, bypast, foregone, gone |
| (noun) someone who is no longer alive | Synonyms: dead person, dead soul, deceased, deceased person, decedent |
| departer | (noun) someone who leaves | Synonyms: goer, leaver |
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| departing | (adjective) that is going out or leaving | Synonyms: outbound, outward-bound, outward |
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| department | (noun) a specialized sphere of knowledge | - |
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| (noun) a specialized division of a large organization | Synonyms: section |
| (noun) the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France) | - |
| departmental | (adjective) of or relating to a department | - |
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| departmentally | (adverb) dependent on a department | - |
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| departure | (noun) the act of departing | Synonyms: going, going away, leaving |
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| (noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: exit, expiration, going, loss, passing, release |
| (noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: deviation, difference, divergence |
| despair | (noun) the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well | - |
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| (noun) a state in which all hope is lost or absent | Synonyms: desperation |
| (verb) abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart | - |
| despairing | (adjective) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | Synonyms: desperate |
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| despairingly | (adverb) with desperation | Synonyms: despondently |
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| despatch | (noun) the act of sending off something | Synonyms: dispatch, shipment |
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| (noun) killing a person or animal | Synonyms: dispatch |
| (noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness |
| (noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: communique, dispatch |
| (verb) send away towards a designated goal | Synonyms: dispatch, send off |
| diapason | (noun) either of the two main stops on a pipe organ | Synonyms: diapason stop |
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| diazepam | (noun) a tranquilizer (trade name Valium) used to relieve anxiety and relax muscles; acts by enhancing the inhibitory actions of the neurotransmitter GABA; can also be used as an anticonvulsant drug in cases of nerve agent poisoning | Synonyms: Valium |
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| discrepancy | (noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: disagreement, divergence, variance |
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| (noun) an event that departs from expectations | Synonyms: variance, variant |
| discrepant | (adjective) not in accord | Synonyms: at variance, dissonant |
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| (adjective) not in agreement | Synonyms: inconsistent |
| (adjective) not compatible with other facts | Synonyms: incompatible |
| dishpan | (noun) large pan for washing dishes | - |
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| disparage | (verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: belittle, pick at |
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| disparagement | (noun) the act of speaking contemptuously of | Synonyms: dispraise |
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| (noun) a communication that belittles somebody or something | Synonyms: depreciation, derogation |
| disparager | (noun) one who disparages or belittles the worth of something | Synonyms: depreciator, detractor, knocker |
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| disparaging | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogative, derogatory |
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| disparagingly | (adverb) in a disparaging manner | Synonyms: slightingly |
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| disparate | (adjective) fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind | - |
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| (adjective) including markedly dissimilar elements | - |
| disparateness | (noun) utter dissimilarity | Synonyms: distinctiveness |
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| disparity | (noun) inequality or difference in some respect | - |
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| dispassion | (noun) objectivity and detachment | Synonyms: dispassionateness, dryness |
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| dispassionate | (adjective) unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice | Synonyms: cold-eyed |
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| dispassionately | (adverb) in an impartially dispassionate manner | - |
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| dispassionateness | (noun) objectivity and detachment | Synonyms: dispassion, dryness |
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| dispatch | (noun) the act of sending off something | Synonyms: despatch, shipment |
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| (noun) killing a person or animal | Synonyms: despatch |
| (noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: despatch, expedition, expeditiousness |
| (noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: communique, despatch |
| (verb) kill without delay | - |
| (verb) send away towards a designated goal | Synonyms: despatch, send off |
| (verb) complete or carry out | Synonyms: complete, discharge |
| (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, hit, murder, off, polish off, remove, slay |
| (verb) dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently | - |
| dispatcher | (noun) the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition | Synonyms: starter |
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| (noun) employee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient service | - |
| disrepair | (noun) in need of repairs; in need of repair | - |
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| dissipate | (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
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| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: disperse, scatter, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, disperse, scatter |
| (verb) live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption | - |
| dissipated | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| (adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: betting, card-playing, gambling, sporting |
| dissipation | (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissolution, licentiousness, looseness, profligacy |
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| (noun) useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly | Synonyms: waste, wastefulness |
| (noun) breaking up and scattering by dispersion | - |
| dopa | (noun) amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain | Synonyms: dihydroxyphenylalanine |
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| dopamine | (noun) a monoamine neurotransmitter found in the brain and essential for the normal functioning of the central nervous system; as a drug (trade names Dopastat and Intropin) it is used to treat shock and hypotension | Synonyms: Dopastat, Intropin |
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| drippage | (noun) a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house) | Synonyms: dripping |
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| drupaceous | (adjective) of or related to a drupe | - |
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| dustpan | (noun) a short-handled receptacle into which dust can be swept | - |
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| (noun) the quantity that a dustpan will hold | Synonyms: dustpanful |
| dustpanful | (noun) the quantity that a dustpan will hold | Synonyms: dustpan |
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| ectoparasite | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon |
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| elecampane | (noun) tall coarse Eurasian herb having daisylike yellow flowers with narrow petals whose rhizomatous roots are used medicinally | Synonyms: Inula helenium |
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| emancipate | (verb) free from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: manumit |
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| (verb) give equal rights to; of women and minorities | Synonyms: liberate |
| emancipated | (adjective) free from traditional social restraints | Synonyms: liberated |
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| emancipation | (noun) freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child | - |
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| emancipationist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: abolitionist |
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| emancipative | (adjective) tending to set free | - |
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| emancipator | (noun) someone who frees others from bondage | Synonyms: manumitter |
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| empale | (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: impale, spike, transfix |
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| empanel | (verb) select from a list | Synonyms: impanel, panel |
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| (verb) enter into a list of prospective jurors | Synonyms: impanel |
| empathetic | (adjective) showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states | Synonyms: empathic |
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| empathetically | (adverb) in a sympathetic manner | Synonyms: sympathetically |
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| empathic | (adjective) showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states | Synonyms: empathetic |
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| empathise | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathize, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
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| empathize | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathise, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
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| empathy | (noun) understanding and entering into another's feelings | - |
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| encephalopathy | (noun) any disorder or disease of the brain | Synonyms: brain disease, brain disorder |
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| encompass | (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, cover, embrace |
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| encompassing | (adjective) closely encircling | Synonyms: circumferent, surrounding |
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| (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, extensive, panoptic, wide |
| encompassment | (noun) including entirely | - |
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| encyclopaedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopedia |
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| encyclopaedic | (adjective) comprehensive in scope or content (as an encyclopedia) | Synonyms: encyclopedic |
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| encyclopaedism | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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| encyclopaedist | (noun) a person who compiles information for encyclopedias | Synonyms: encyclopedist |
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| endoparasite | (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endozoan, entoparasite, entozoan, entozoon |
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| endoparasitic | (adjective) of or relating to parasites that live in the internal organs of animals | - |
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| enteropathy | (noun) a disease of the intestinal tract | - |
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| entoparasite | (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, endozoan, entozoan, entozoon |
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| epacris | (noun) any heathlike evergreen shrub of the genus Epacris grown for their showy and crowded spikes of small bell-shaped or tubular flowers | - |
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| epanalepsis | (noun) repetition after intervening words | - |
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| epanaphora | (noun) repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | Synonyms: anaphora |
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| epanodos | (noun) repetition of a group of words in reverse order | - |
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| (noun) recapitulation of the main ideas of a speech (especially in reverse order) | - |
| epanorthosis | (noun) immediate rephrasing for intensification or justification | - |
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| eparch | (noun) the governor or prefect of an eparchy in ancient Greece | - |
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| (noun) a bishop or metropolitan in charge of an eparchy in the Eastern Church | - |
| eparchial | (adjective) of or relating to an eparchy | - |
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| eparchy | (noun) a diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church | Synonyms: exarchate |
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| (noun) a province in ancient Greece | - |
| epaulet | (noun) adornment consisting of an ornamental cloth pad worn on the shoulder | Synonyms: epaulette |
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| epaulette | (noun) adornment consisting of an ornamental cloth pad worn on the shoulder | Synonyms: epaulet |
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| epauliere | (noun) armor plate that protects the shoulder | - |
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| epicarpal | (adjective) of or relating to the epicarp | - |
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| episcopacy | (noun) the collective body of bishops | Synonyms: episcopate |
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