crepitate | (verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crackle |
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crepitation | (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackle, crackling |
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crispiness | (noun) firm but easily broken | Synonyms: brittleness, crispness |
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crosspiece | (noun) a transverse brace | - |
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(noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crossbeam, trave, traverse |
croupier | (noun) someone who collects and pays bets at a gaming table | - |
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cuckoopint | (noun) common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum | Synonyms: Arum maculatum, jack-in-the-pulpit, lords-and-ladies |
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cupid | (noun) a symbol for love in the form of a cherubic naked boy with wings and a bow and arrow | - |
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cupidity | (noun) extreme greed for material wealth | Synonyms: avarice, avariciousness, covetousness |
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cupping | (noun) a treatment in which evacuated cups are applied to the skin to draw blood through the surface | - |
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cuspid | (noun) one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars | Synonyms: canine, canine tooth, dogtooth, eye tooth, eyetooth |
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cuspidal | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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cuspidate | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidated |
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cuspidated | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidate |
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cuspidation | (noun) a decoration using cusps | - |
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cuspidor | (noun) a receptacle for spit (usually in a public place) | Synonyms: spittoon |
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cyclopia | (noun) a developmental abnormality in which there is only one eye | - |
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dampish | (adjective) slightly wet | Synonyms: damp, moist |
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decapitate | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: behead, decollate |
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decapitated | (adjective) having had the head cut off | Synonyms: beheaded |
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decapitation | (noun) killing by cutting off the head | Synonyms: beheading |
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(noun) execution by cutting off the victim's head | Synonyms: beheading |
decrepit | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly |
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(adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: creaky, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
decrepitate | (verb) to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops | - |
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(verb) undergo decrepitation and crackle | - |
decrepitation | (noun) the crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated | - |
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decrepitude | (noun) a state of deterioration due to old age or long use | Synonyms: dilapidation |
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(noun) The quality or state of being wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age. | - |
depict | (verb) give a description of | Synonyms: describe, draw |
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(verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: picture, render, show |
(verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: limn, portray |
depicted | (adjective) represented graphically by sketch or design or lines | Synonyms: pictured, portrayed |
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depicting | (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depiction, portrayal, portraying |
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depiction | (noun) representation by drawing or painting etc | Synonyms: delineation, portrayal |
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(noun) a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects | Synonyms: delineation, limning, line drawing |
(noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depicting, portrayal, portraying |
(noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterisation, characterization, delineation, picture, word-painting, word picture |
depictive | (adjective) depicted in a recognizable manner | Synonyms: delineative |
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depigmentation | (noun) absence or loss of pigmentation (or less than normal pigmentation) in the skin or hair | - |
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depilate | (verb) remove body hair | Synonyms: epilate |
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depilation | (noun) the act of removing hair (as from an animal skin) | Synonyms: epilation |
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(noun) the condition of being void of hair | Synonyms: hairlessness |
depilator | (noun) a cosmetic for temporary removal of undesired hair | Synonyms: depilatory, epilator |
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depilatory | (adjective) able to remove hair or render hairless | - |
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(noun) a cosmetic for temporary removal of undesired hair | Synonyms: depilator, epilator |
(noun) a chemical (usually a sulfide) used to remove hair or wool or bristles from hides | - |
depilous | (adjective) completely hairless | - |
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despicability | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicableness, sordidness |
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despicable | (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: slimy, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched |
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despicableness | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicability, sordidness |
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despicably | (adverb) in a despicable manner | - |
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despisal | (noun) a feeling of scornful hatred | Synonyms: despising |
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despise | (verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: contemn, disdain, scorn |
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despised | (adjective) treated with dislike or contempt | Synonyms: detested, hated, scorned |
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despising | (noun) a feeling of scornful hatred | Synonyms: despisal |
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despite | (noun) contemptuous disregard | - |
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(noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: contempt, disdain, scorn |
despiteful | (adjective) showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite | Synonyms: spiteful, vindictive |
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despitefully | (adverb) in a maliciously spiteful manner | Synonyms: spitefully |
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deuteranopia | (noun) dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to green light resulting in an inability to distinguish green and purplish-red | Synonyms: Daltonism, green-blindness |
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deuteranopic | (adjective) inability to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red | Synonyms: green-blind |
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developing | (adjective) relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply | Synonyms: underdeveloped |
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(noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: development |
diapir | (noun) a domed rock formation where a core of rock has moved upward and pierced through the more brittle overlying strata | - |
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dilapidate | (verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: crumble, decay |
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(verb) bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse | - |
dilapidated | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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dilapidation | (noun) the process of becoming dilapidated | Synonyms: ruin |
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(noun) a state of deterioration due to old age or long use | Synonyms: decrepitude |
diplopia | (noun) visual impairment in which an object is seen as two objects | Synonyms: double vision |
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dispirit | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, get down |
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dispirited | (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
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(adjective) marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm | Synonyms: listless |
dispiritedly | (adverb) in a dispirited manner without hope | Synonyms: hopelessly |
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dispiritedness | (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dejectedness, downheartedness, low-spiritedness, lowness |
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dispiriting | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, demoralizing, disheartening |
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downspin | (noun) a swift and dangerous downturn | - |
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doxepin | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Adapin and Sinequan) with numerous side effects (dry mouth and sedation and gastrointestinal disturbances) | Synonyms: Adapin, doxepin hydrochloride, Sinequan |
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drainpipe | (noun) a pipe through which liquid is carried away | Synonyms: drain, waste pipe |
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drippily | (adverb) in a mawkish and emotional manner | Synonyms: mawkishly |
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drippiness | (noun) the physical property of being soft and drippy | - |
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(noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: mawkishness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
dripping | (noun) a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house) | Synonyms: drippage |
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(noun) the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop | Synonyms: drip |
(adverb) extremely wet | Synonyms: soaking, sopping |
drippings | (noun) fat that exudes from meat and drips off while it is being roasted or fried | - |
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drooping | (adjective) hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) | Synonyms: droopy, sagging |
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(adjective) weak from exhaustion | Synonyms: flagging |
(adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: cernuous, nodding, pendulous, weeping |
droopingly | (adverb) in a drooping manner | - |
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dropping | (adjective) coming down freely under the influence of gravity | Synonyms: falling |
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droppings | (noun) fecal matter of animals | Synonyms: dung, muck |
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dryopithecine | (noun) considered a possible ancestor to both anthropoid apes and humans | - |
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drypis | (noun) spiny-leaved perennial herb of southern Europe having terminal clusters of small flowers | - |
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duckpin | (noun) a bowling pin that is short and squat by comparison with a tenpin | - |
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duckpins | (noun) a bowling game using a pin smaller than a tenpin but proportionately wider | - |
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dumpiness | (noun) a short and stout physique | Synonyms: squattiness |
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dumping | (noun) selling goods abroad at a price below that charged in the domestic market | - |
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dystopia | (noun) a work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror | - |
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(noun) state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror | - |
dystopian | (adjective) as bad as can be; characterized by human misery | - |
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(adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling a dystopia | - |
earpiece | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear | Synonyms: earphone, headphone, phone |
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ectopia | (noun) abnormal position of a part or organ (especially at the time of birth) | - |
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ectopic | (adjective) exhibiting ectopia | - |
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elapid | (noun) any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres | Synonyms: elapid snake |
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electrotherapist | (noun) someone who specializes in the treatment of disease by electricity | - |
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emmetropia | (noun) (ophthalmology) the normal refractive condition of the eye in which there is clear focus of light on the retina | - |
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emmetropic | (adjective) of or relating to the normal condition of the eye in which visual images are in clear focus on the retina | - |
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empire | (noun) a monarchy with an emperor as head of state | - |
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(noun) a group of countries under a single authority | - |
(noun) a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization | Synonyms: conglomerate |
(noun) the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised | Synonyms: imperium |
empiric | (adjective) derived from experiment and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: empirical |
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(adjective) relying on medical quackery | Synonyms: empirical |
empirical | (adjective) derived from experiment and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: empiric |
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(adjective) relying on medical quackery | Synonyms: empiric |
empirically | (adverb) in an empirical manner | Synonyms: by trial and error, through empirical observation |
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empiricism | (noun) the application of empirical methods in any art or science | - |
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(noun) medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings | Synonyms: quackery |
(noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience | Synonyms: empiricist philosophy, sensationalism |
empiricist | (noun) a philosopher who subscribes to empiricism | - |
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endoscopic | (adjective) of or relating to endoscopy | - |
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enveloping | (adjective) surrounding and closing in on or hemming in | - |
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eolotropic | (adjective) having properties with different values along different axes | Synonyms: aeolotropic |
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epic | (adjective) constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic | Synonyms: epical |
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(adjective) very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale) | Synonyms: heroic, larger-than-life |
(noun) a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | Synonyms: epic poem, epos, heroic poem |
epical | (adjective) constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic | Synonyms: epic |
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epicalyx | (noun) a group of bracts simulating a calyx as in a carnation or hibiscus | Synonyms: calycle, calyculus, false calyx |
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epicanthic | (adjective) relating to the epicanthus | - |
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epicanthus | (noun) a vertical fold of skin over the nasal canthus; typical for many east Asian peoples; sometimes occurs in Down's syndrome | Synonyms: epicanthic fold |
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epicardia | (noun) the short part of the esophagus extending downward from the diaphragm to the stomach | - |
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