| asper | (noun) 20 aspers equal 1 kurus in Turkey | - |
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| aspergill | (noun) a short-handled device with a globe containing a sponge; used for sprinkling holy water | Synonyms: aspersorium |
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| aspergillosis | (noun) an opportunistic infection by a fungus of the genus Aspergillus; characterized by inflammation and lesions of the ear and other organs | - |
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| (noun) disease especially in agricultural workers caused by inhalation of Aspergillus spores causing lumps in skin and ears and respiratory organs | - |
| (noun) severe respiratory disease of birds that takes the form of an acute rapidly fatal pneumonia in young chickens and turkeys | Synonyms: brooder pneumonia |
| asperity | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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| (noun) harshness of manner | Synonyms: sharpness |
| asperse | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| aspersion | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: calumny, defamation, denigration, slander |
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| (noun) the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) | Synonyms: sprinkling |
| (noun) a disparaging remark | Synonyms: slur |
| aspersorium | (noun) the basin or other vessel that holds holy water in Roman Catholic Churches | - |
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| (noun) a short-handled device with a globe containing a sponge; used for sprinkling holy water | Synonyms: aspergill |
| attemper | (verb) modify the temperature of | - |
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| audiotape | (noun) magnetic tape for use in recording sound | - |
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| (noun) a tape recording of sound | - |
| auriscope | (noun) medical instrument consisting of a magnifying lens and light; used for examining the external ear (the auditory meatus and especially the tympanic membrane) | Synonyms: auroscope, otoscope |
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| auroscope | (noun) medical instrument consisting of a magnifying lens and light; used for examining the external ear (the auditory meatus and especially the tympanic membrane) | Synonyms: auriscope, otoscope |
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| auspex | (noun) (ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy | Synonyms: augur |
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| autostereotype | (noun) the standardized mental picture held in common by members of a cultural group depicting an oversimplified image of themselves and their behaviour. | - |
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| autotype | (noun) an exact copy or reproduction | Synonyms: facsimile |
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| (noun) process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment | Synonyms: autotypy |
| backpedal | (verb) modify one's opinion, make it less strong | - |
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| (verb) pedal backwards on a bicycle | - |
| (verb) step backwards, in boxing | - |
| backslapper | (noun) someone who demonstrates enthusiastic or excessive cordiality | - |
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| bagpipe | (noun) a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone | - |
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| bagpiper | (noun) someone who plays the bagpipe | Synonyms: piper |
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| ballpen | (noun) a pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper | Synonyms: ballpoint, ballpoint pen, Biro |
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| barkeeper | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, bartender, mixologist |
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| basipetal | (adjective) of leaves or flowers; developing or opening in succession from apex to base | - |
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| bathyscape | (noun) navigable deep diving vessel for underwater exploration | Synonyms: bathyscaph, bathyscaphe |
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| beekeeper | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, apiculturist |
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| beeper | (noun) an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged | Synonyms: pager |
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| benzylpenicillin | (noun) the penicillin that constitutes the principal component of many commercial antibiotics | Synonyms: penicillin G |
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| bespeak | (verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, call for, quest, request |
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| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: betoken, indicate, point, signal |
| bespeckle | (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: speckle |
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| bespectacled | (adjective) wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass | Synonyms: monocled, spectacled |
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| bioscope | (noun) a kind of early movie projector | - |
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| (noun) a South African movie theater | - |
| biotype | (noun) organisms sharing a specified genotype or the genotype (or peculiarities) so shared | - |
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| biped | (adjective) having two feet | Synonyms: bipedal, two-footed |
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| (noun) an animal with two feet | - |
| bipedal | (adjective) having two feet | Synonyms: biped, two-footed |
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| bipedalism | (noun) the bodily attribute of being bipedal; having two feet | - |
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| blooper | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| blowpipe | (noun) a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat | Synonyms: blow tube, blowtube |
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| (noun) a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing | Synonyms: blow tube, blowgun, blowtube |
| bondsperson | (noun) someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
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| bookkeeper | (noun) someone who records the transactions of a business | - |
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| bopeep | (noun) a game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say boo! | Synonyms: peekaboo |
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| bronchoscope | (noun) a slender tubular instrument used to examine the bronchial tubes | - |
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| bullpen | (noun) a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily | Synonyms: detention cell, detention centre |
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| (noun) a place on a baseball field where relief pitchers can warm up during a game | - |
| bumper | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of bars at either end of a vehicle to absorb shock and prevent serious damage | - |
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| (noun) a glass filled to the brim (especially as a toast) | - |
| businesspeople | (noun) people who transact business (especially business executives) | Synonyms: business people |
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| businessperson | (noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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| caliper | (noun) an instrument for measuring the distance between two points | Synonyms: calliper |
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| (verb) measure the diameter of something with calipers | Synonyms: calliper |
| calliope | (noun) a musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles played from a keyboard | Synonyms: steam organ |
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| calliper | (noun) an instrument for measuring the distance between two points | Synonyms: caliper |
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| (verb) measure the diameter of something with calipers | Synonyms: caliper |
| campeachy | (noun) spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye | Synonyms: bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood, logwood tree |
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| camper | (noun) a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling | Synonyms: camping bus, motor home |
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| (noun) someone living temporarily in a tent or lodge for recreation | - |
| campestral | (adjective) of fields or open country | - |
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| canape | (noun) an appetizer consisting usually of a thin slice of bread or toast spread with caviar or cheese or other savory food | - |
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| cantaloupe | (noun) the fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh | Synonyms: cantaloup |
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| (noun) a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh | Synonyms: cantaloup, cantaloup vine, cantaloupe vine, Cucumis melo cantalupensis |
| cape | (noun) a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter | Synonyms: mantle |
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| (noun) a strip of land projecting into a body of water | Synonyms: ness |
| capelan | (noun) very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes | Synonyms: capelin, caplin |
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| capelet | (noun) a small cape that covers the shoulders and is worn predominantly by women. | - |
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| capelin | (noun) very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes | Synonyms: capelan, caplin |
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| caper | (noun) gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement | Synonyms: frolic, gambol, play, romp |
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| (noun) a crime (especially a robbery) | Synonyms: job |
| (noun) a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement | Synonyms: antic, joke, prank, put-on, trick |
| (noun) a playful leap or hop | Synonyms: capriole |
| (noun) pickled flower buds used as a pungent relish in various dishes and sauces | - |
| (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis | - |
| (verb) jump about playfully | - |
| capercaillie | (noun) large black Old World grouse | Synonyms: capercailzie, horse of the wood, Tetrao urogallus |
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| capercailzie | (noun) large black Old World grouse | Synonyms: capercaillie, horse of the wood, Tetrao urogallus |
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| capeweed | (noun) European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears | Synonyms: California dandelion, cat's-ear, gosmore, Hypochaeris radicata |
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| capped | (adjective) covered as if with a cap or crown especially of a specified kind | - |
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| (adjective) used especially of front teeth having (artificial) crowns | - |
| cappelletti | (noun) small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings | Synonyms: ravioli |
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| cardsharper | (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, sharper, sharpie, sharpy |
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| carpel | (noun) a simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil | - |
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| carpellary | (adjective) belonging to or forming or containing carpels | - |
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| carpellate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of carpels | Synonyms: pistillate |
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| carpenter | (noun) a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects | - |
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| (verb) work as a carpenter | - |
| carpenteria | (noun) California evergreen shrub having glossy opposite leaves and terminal clusters of a few fragrant white flowers | Synonyms: Carpenteria californica |
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| carpentry | (noun) the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood | Synonyms: woodwork, woodworking |
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| carper | (noun) someone who constantly criticizes in a petty way | Synonyms: niggler |
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| carpet | (noun) floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile) | Synonyms: carpeting, rug |
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| (noun) a natural object that resembles or suggests a carpet | - |
| (verb) cover with a carpet | - |
| (verb) cover completely, as if with a carpet | - |
| (verb) form a carpet-like cover (over) | - |
| carpetbag | (adjective) following the practices or characteristic of carpetbaggers | - |
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| (adjective) presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality | Synonyms: carpetbagging |
| (noun) traveling bag made of carpet; widely used in 19th century | - |
| carpetbagger | (noun) an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously | - |
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| carpetbagging | (adjective) presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality | Synonyms: carpetbag |
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| carpeted | (adjective) covered with or as if with carpeting or with carpeting as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| carpeting | (noun) floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile) | Synonyms: carpet, rug |
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| carpetweed | (noun) annual prostrate mat-forming weed having whorled leaves and small greenish-white flowers; widespread throughout North America | Synonyms: Indian chickweed, Molluga verticillata |
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| catchpenny | (adjective) designed to sell quickly without concern for quality | - |
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| cefoperazone | (noun) a parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Cefobid) used for severe infections | Synonyms: Cefobid |
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| centipede | (noun) chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors | - |
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| centripetal | (adjective) tending to move toward a center | - |
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| (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system | Synonyms: receptive, sensory |
| (adjective) tending to unify | Synonyms: unifying |
| chairperson | (noun) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | Synonyms: chair, president |
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| champerty | (noun) an unethical agreement between an attorney and client that the attorney would sue and pay the costs of the client's suit in return for a portion of the damages awarded | - |
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| chapeau | (noun) headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim | Synonyms: hat, lid |
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| chapel | (noun) a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar | Synonyms: chapel service |
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| (noun) a place of worship that has its own altar | - |
| chapelgoer | (noun) a Protestant in England who is not a member of the Church of England | Synonyms: Nonconformist |
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| chaperon | (noun) one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people | Synonyms: chaperone |
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| (verb) accompany as a chaperone | Synonyms: chaperone |
| chaperone | (noun) one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people | Synonyms: chaperon |
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| (verb) accompany as a chaperone | Synonyms: chaperon |
| chapped | (adjective) used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure | Synonyms: cracked, roughened |
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| cheapen | (verb) lower the grade of something; reduce its worth | Synonyms: degrade |
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| chemotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutical |
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| chemotherapeutical | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutic |
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| chichipe | (noun) tall treelike Mexican cactus with edible red fruit | Synonyms: Lemaireocereus chichipe |
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| chickpea | (noun) large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried | Synonyms: garbanzo |
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| (noun) Asiatic herb cultivated for its short pods with one or two edible seeds | Synonyms: chickpea plant, Cicer arietinum, Egyptian pea |
| (noun) the seed of the chickpea plant | Synonyms: garbanzo |
| chimneysweeper | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, sweep |
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| chipper | (adjective) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air | Synonyms: debonair, debonaire, jaunty |
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| chopped | (adjective) prepared by cutting | Synonyms: shredded, sliced |
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| chopper | (noun) a grounder that bounces high in the air | Synonyms: chop |
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| (noun) a butcher's knife having a large square blade | Synonyms: cleaver, meat cleaver |
| (noun) an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades | Synonyms: eggbeater, helicopter, whirlybird |
| (noun) informal terms for a human `tooth' | Synonyms: pearly |
| chronoscope | (noun) an instrument for accurate measurements of small intervals of time | - |
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| circumspect | (adjective) heedful of potential consequences | Synonyms: discreet |
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| circumspection | (noun) the trait of being circumspect and prudent | Synonyms: caution |
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| (noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: discreetness, discretion, prudence |