| acropetal | (adjective) of leaves or flowers; developing or opening in succession from base to apex | - |
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| apetalous | (adjective) (of flowers) having no petals | Synonyms: petalless |
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| aposiopetic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of aposiopesis | - |
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| appetence | (noun) a feeling of craving something | Synonyms: appetency, appetite |
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| appetency | (noun) a feeling of craving something | Synonyms: appetence, appetite |
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| appetent | (adjective) marked by eager desire | - |
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| appetiser | (noun) food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) | Synonyms: appetizer, starter |
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| appetising | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetizing |
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| appetisingness | (noun) the property of stimulating the appetite | Synonyms: appetizingness |
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| appetite | (noun) a feeling of craving something | Synonyms: appetence, appetency |
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| appetitive | (adjective) of or relating to appetite | - |
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| appetizer | (noun) food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) | Synonyms: appetiser, starter |
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| appetizing | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetising |
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| appetizingness | (noun) the property of stimulating the appetite | Synonyms: appetisingness |
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| basipetal | (adjective) of leaves or flowers; developing or opening in succession from apex to base | - |
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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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| 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 |
| compete | (verb) compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others | Synonyms: contend, vie |
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| competence | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competency |
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| competency | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competence |
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| competent | (adjective) properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient | - |
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| (adjective) legally qualified or sufficient | - |
| (adjective) adequate, but not outstanding or exceptional | - |
| competently | (adverb) with competence; in a competent capable manner | Synonyms: ably, aptly, capably |
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| competition | (noun) the act of competing as for profit or a prize | Synonyms: contention, rivalry |
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| (noun) an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants | Synonyms: contest |
| (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competitor, contender, rival |
| (noun) a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers | - |
| competitive | (adjective) involving competition or competitiveness | Synonyms: competitory |
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| (adjective) showing a fighting disposition | Synonyms: militant |
| (adjective) subscribing to capitalistic competition | Synonyms: free-enterprise, private-enterprise |
| competitively | (adverb) in competition | - |
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| competitiveness | (noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: fight |
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| competitor | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competition, contender, rival |
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| competitory | (adjective) involving competition or competitiveness | Synonyms: competitive |
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| corticipetal | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticoafferent |
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| crapette | (noun) solitaire with two players using separate packs | Synonyms: Russian bank |
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| crumpet | (noun) a thick soft cake with a porous texture; cooked on a griddle | - |
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| gamopetalous | (adjective) having a corolla composed of partially or wholly fused petals forming a corolla shaped like a tube or funnel | Synonyms: sympetalous |
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| herpetologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies reptiles and amphibians | - |
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| herpetology | (noun) the branch of zoology concerned with reptiles and amphibians | - |
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| hypethral | (adjective) partly or entirely open to the sky | Synonyms: hypaethral |
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| immunocompetence | (noun) the ability to develop an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
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| immunocompetent | (adjective) capable of developing an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
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| impetiginous | (adjective) of or relating to or having impetigo | - |
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| impetigo | (noun) a very contagious infection of the skin; common in children; localized redness develops into small blisters that gradually crust and erode | - |
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| impetuosity | (noun) rash impulsiveness | Synonyms: impetuousness |
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| impetuous | (adjective) marked by violent force | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impulsive, madcap, tearaway |
| impetuously | (adverb) in an impulsive or impetuous way; without taking cautions | Synonyms: impulsively |
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| impetuousness | (noun) rash impulsiveness | Synonyms: impetuosity |
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| impetus | (noun) the act of applying force suddenly | Synonyms: impulse, impulsion |
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| (noun) a force that moves something along | Synonyms: drift, impulsion |
| incompetence | (noun) lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications | Synonyms: incompetency |
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| (noun) inability of a part or organ to function properly | - |
| incompetency | (noun) lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications | Synonyms: incompetence |
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| incompetent | (adjective) not qualified or suited for a purpose | - |
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| (adjective) legally not qualified or sufficient | Synonyms: unqualified |
| (adjective) not doing a good job | Synonyms: unskilled |
| (adjective) not meeting requirements | Synonyms: incapable, unequal to |
| (adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: bungling, clumsy, fumbling |
| (noun) someone who is not competent to take effective action | Synonyms: incompetent person |
| incompetently | (adverb) in an incompetent manner | Synonyms: displaying incompetence |
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| lappet | (noun) medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars | Synonyms: lappet moth |
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| (noun) a small lap on a garment or headdress | - |
| (noun) a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards | Synonyms: wattle |
| limpet | (noun) any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas | - |
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| (noun) mollusk with a low conical shell | - |
| moppet | (noun) a little girl (usually one you are fond of) | - |
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| noncompetitive | (adjective) not involving competition or competitiveness | - |
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| noncompetitively | (adverb) in a noncompetitive manner | - |
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| nonrepetitive | (adjective) marked by the absence of repetition | - |
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| osteopetrosis | (noun) an inherited disorder characterized by an increase in bone density; in severe forms the bone marrow cavity may be obliterated | Synonyms: Albers-Schonberg disease, marble bones disease |
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| parapet | (noun) fortification consisting of a low wall | Synonyms: breastwork |
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| (noun) a low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony | - |
| peripeteia | (noun) a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work) | Synonyms: peripetia, peripety |
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| peripetia | (noun) a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work) | Synonyms: peripeteia, peripety |
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| peripety | (noun) a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work) | Synonyms: peripeteia, peripetia |
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| perpetrate | (verb) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation | Synonyms: commit, pull |
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| perpetration | (noun) the act of committing a crime | Synonyms: commission, committal |
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| perpetrator | (noun) someone who perpetrates wrongdoing | Synonyms: culprit |
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| perpetual | (adjective) uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | Synonyms: ceaseless, constant, incessant, never-ending, unceasing, unremitting |
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| (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, eternal, everlasting, unceasing, unending |
| perpetually | (adverb) invariably | Synonyms: always, constantly, forever, incessantly |
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| (adverb) everlastingly; for all time | - |
| perpetuate | (verb) cause to continue or prevail | - |
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| perpetuation | (noun) the act of prolonging something | Synonyms: lengthening, prolongation, protraction |
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| perpetuity | (noun) the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless) | Synonyms: sempiternity |
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| pet | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, favourite, preferent, preferred |
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| (noun) a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement | - |
| (noun) a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight) | - |
| (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, ducky, favorite, favourite |
| (verb) stroke or caress gently | - |
| (verb) stroke or caress in an erotic manner, as during lovemaking | - |
| petabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 terabits or 10^15 bits | Synonyms: Pb, Pbit |
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| petabyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibytes or 2^50 bytes | Synonyms: PB, pebibyte, PiB |
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| (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 terabytes or 10^15 bytes | Synonyms: PB |
| petaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one quadrillion floating-point operations a second. | Synonyms: PFLOPS |
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| petal | (noun) part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored | Synonyms: flower petal |
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| petaled | (adjective) (of flowers) having petals | Synonyms: petalled, petalous |
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| petalled | (adjective) (of flowers) having petals | Synonyms: petaled, petalous |
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| petalless | (adjective) (of flowers) having no petals | Synonyms: apetalous |
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| petallike | (adjective) resembling a petal | Synonyms: petal-like |
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| petaloid | (adjective) resembling a flower petal | - |
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| petalous | (adjective) (of flowers) having petals | Synonyms: petaled, petalled |
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| petard | (noun) an explosive device used to break down a gate or wall | - |
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| petchary | (noun) a kingbird that breeds in the southeastern United States and winters in tropical America; similar to but larger than the eastern kingbird | Synonyms: gray kingbird, grey kingbird, Tyrannus domenicensis domenicensis |
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| petcock | (noun) regulator consisting of a small cock or faucet or valve for letting out air or releasing compression or draining | - |
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| petechia | (noun) a minute red or purple spot on the surface of the skin as the result of tiny hemorrhages of blood vessels in the skin (as in typhoid fever) | - |
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| petfood | (noun) food prepared for animal pets | Synonyms: pet-food, pet food |
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| petiole | (noun) the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf | Synonyms: leafstalk |
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| petiolule | (noun) the stalk of a leaflet | - |
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| petite | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, tiny |
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| (noun) a garment size for short or slender women | - |
| petiteness | (noun) the property of being very small in size | Synonyms: diminutiveness, minuteness, tininess, weeness |
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| petitio | (noun) the logical fallacy of assuming the conclusion in the premises; begging the question | Synonyms: petitio principii |
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| petition | (noun) a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority | Synonyms: postulation, request |
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| (noun) reverent petition to a deity | Synonyms: orison, prayer |
| (verb) write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing | - |
| petitionary | (adjective) of the nature of or expressing a petition | - |
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| petitioner | (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: requester, suppliant, supplicant |
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| (noun) someone who petitions a court for redress of a grievance or recovery of a right | Synonyms: suer |
| petrel | (noun) relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land | - |
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| petrifaction | (noun) a rock created by petrifaction; an organic object infiltrated with mineral matter and preserved in its original form | - |
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| (noun) the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape | Synonyms: petrification |
| petrification | (noun) the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape | Synonyms: petrifaction |
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