afterpiece | (noun) a brief dramatic piece (usually comic) presented after a play | - |
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altarpiece | (noun) a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table | Synonyms: reredos |
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apiece | (adverb) to or from every one of two or more (considered individually) | Synonyms: each, for each one, from each one, to each one |
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canopied | (adjective) covered with or as with a canopy | - |
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centerpiece | (noun) something placed at the center of something else (as on a table) | Synonyms: centrepiece |
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(noun) the central or most important feature | Synonyms: centrepiece |
centrepiece | (noun) something placed at the center of something else (as on a table) | Synonyms: centerpiece |
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(noun) the central or most important feature | Synonyms: centerpiece |
cheekpiece | (noun) either of two straps of a bridle that connect the bit to the headpiece | - |
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chimneypiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece |
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codpiece | (noun) (15th-16th century) a flap for the crotch of men's tight-fitting breeches | - |
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copier | (noun) apparatus that makes copies of typed, written or drawn material | Synonyms: duplicator |
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cowpie | (noun) fecal matter of a cow | Synonyms: cow pie |
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crappie | (noun) small sunfishes of central United States rivers | - |
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(noun) small sunfishes of the genus Pomoxis of central United States rivers | - |
creampie | (noun) Ejaculate inside a vagina or anus | - |
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(verb) The act of ejaculating inside another person | - |
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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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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eyepiece | (noun) combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments | Synonyms: ocular |
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frontispiece | (noun) front illustration facing the title page of a book | - |
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(noun) an ornamental facade | - |
glockenspiel | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers | Synonyms: orchestral bells |
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groupie | (noun) an enthusiastic young fan (especially a young woman who follows rock groups around) | - |
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hairpiece | (noun) a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment | Synonyms: false hair, postiche |
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headpiece | (noun) a protective helmet for the head | - |
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(noun) the band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head | Synonyms: headstall |
hippie | (noun) someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle | Synonyms: flower child, hippy, hipster |
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hippies | (noun) a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music | Synonyms: flower people, hipsters |
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hydroisopieze | (noun) a line on a map connecting points of identical pressures in the water bearing stratum. | - |
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hyperpiesia | (noun) persistent and pathological high blood pressure for which no specific cause can be found | Synonyms: essential hypertension, hyperpiesis |
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hyperpiesis | (noun) persistent and pathological high blood pressure for which no specific cause can be found | Synonyms: essential hypertension, hyperpiesia |
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impiety | (noun) unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god | Synonyms: impiousness |
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incipience | (noun) beginning to exist or to be apparent | Synonyms: incipiency |
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incipiency | (noun) beginning to exist or to be apparent | Synonyms: incipience |
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incipient | (adjective) only partly in existence; imperfectly formed | Synonyms: inchoate |
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isopieze | (noun) a line on a map connecting places with equal ground water pressure. | Synonyms: isopiestic line |
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kelpie | (noun) an Australian sheepdog with pointed ears | - |
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(noun) (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders | Synonyms: kelpy |
koppie | (noun) a small hill rising up from the African veld | Synonyms: kopje |
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magpie | (noun) long-tailed black-and-white crow that utters a raucous chattering call | - |
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(noun) someone who collects things that have been discarded by others | Synonyms: pack rat, scavenger |
(noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterbox, chatterer, prater, spouter |
mantelpiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: chimneypiece, mantel, mantle, mantlepiece |
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mantlepiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: chimneypiece, mantel, mantelpiece, mantle |
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masterpiece | (noun) an outstanding achievement | - |
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(noun) the most outstanding work of a creative artist or craftsman | Synonyms: chef-d'oeuvre |
mouthpiece | (noun) the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly | Synonyms: embouchure |
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(noun) the tube of a pipe or cigarette holder that a smoker holds in the mouth | - |
(noun) an acoustic device; the part of a telephone into which a person speaks | - |
(noun) (especially boxing) equipment that protects an athlete's mouth | Synonyms: gumshield |
(noun) a part that goes over or into the mouth of a person | - |
(noun) a spokesperson (as a lawyer) | Synonyms: mouth |
neckpiece | (noun) an article of apparel worn about the neck | - |
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nosepiece | (noun) the link between two lenses; rests on the nose | Synonyms: bridge |
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(noun) armor plate that protects the nose | - |
(noun) a strap that is the part of a bridle that goes over the animal's nose | Synonyms: noseband |
occupied | (adjective) held or filled or in use | - |
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(adjective) seized and controlled as by military invasion | - |
(adjective) having ones attention or mind or energy engaged | Synonyms: engaged |
(adjective) resided in; having tenants | Synonyms: tenanted |
occupier | (noun) someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there | Synonyms: occupant, resident |
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(noun) a member of a military force who is residing in a conquered foreign country | - |
percipient | (adjective) characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving | Synonyms: clear |
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(noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, observer, perceiver |
photocopier | (noun) a copier that uses photographic methods of making copies | - |
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pie | (noun) dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top | - |
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piebald | (adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: calico, motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, pied, varicolored, varicoloured |
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piece | (noun) a separate part of a whole | - |
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(noun) game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games | Synonyms: man |
(noun) a portable gun | Synonyms: firearm, small-arm |
(noun) a work of art of some artistic value | Synonyms: art object, objet d'art |
(noun) an item that is an instance of some type | Synonyms: part |
(noun) a distance | - |
(noun) a musical work that has been created | Synonyms: composition, musical composition, opus, piece of music |
(noun) an artistic or literary composition | - |
(noun) an instance of some kind | Synonyms: bit |
(noun) a serving that has been cut from a larger portion | Synonyms: slice |
(noun) a portion of a natural object | Synonyms: part |
(noun) a share of something | Synonyms: slice |
(noun) a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition | Synonyms: patch, spell, while |
(verb) repair by adding pieces | Synonyms: patch |
(verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of | Synonyms: nibble, pick |
(verb) join during spinning | - |
(verb) to join or unite the pieces of | Synonyms: patch |
(verb) create by putting components or members together | Synonyms: assemble, put together, set up, tack, tack together |
piecemeal | (adjective) one thing at a time | Synonyms: bit-by-bit, in small stages, step-by-step, stepwise |
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(adverb) a little bit at a time | Synonyms: bit by bit, in stages, little by little |
piecework | (noun) work paid for according to the quantity produced | - |
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pied | (adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: calico, motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, varicolored, varicoloured |
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piedmont | (noun) a gentle slope leading from the base of a mountain to a region of flat land | - |
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pieplant | (noun) long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened | Synonyms: rhubarb |
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pier | (noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: dock, wharf, wharfage |
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(noun) a support for two adjacent bridge spans | - |
(noun) (architecture) a vertical supporting structure (as a portion of wall between two doors or windows) | - |
pierce | (verb) make a hole into | - |
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(verb) penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument | Synonyms: thrust |
(verb) cut or make a way through | - |
(verb) move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply | - |
(verb) sound sharply or shrilly | - |
pierced | (adjective) having a hole cut through | Synonyms: perforate, perforated, punctured |
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piercing | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, sharp |
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(adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, stabbing |
piercingly | (adverb) extremely and sharply | Synonyms: bitingly, bitter, bitterly |
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(adverb) in a shrill voice | Synonyms: shrilly |
pierid | (noun) any of numerous pale-colored butterflies having three pairs of well-developed legs | Synonyms: pierid butterfly |
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pieta | (noun) a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus | - |
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pietism | (noun) exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal | Synonyms: religionism, religiosity, religiousism |
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pietistic | (adjective) of or relating to Pietism | Synonyms: pietistical |
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(adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistical, sanctimonious, self-righteous |
pietistical | (adjective) of or relating to Pietism | Synonyms: pietistic |
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(adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistic, sanctimonious, self-righteous |
piety | (noun) righteousness by virtue of being pious | Synonyms: piousness |
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piezoelectric | (adjective) relating to or involving piezoelectricity | - |
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piezoelectricity | (noun) electricity produced by mechanical pressure on certain crystals (notably quartz or Rochelle salt); alternatively, electrostatic stress produces a change in the linear dimensions of the crystal | Synonyms: piezo effect, piezoelectric effect |
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piezometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring high pressures | - |
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porkpie | (noun) man's hat with a low, flat crown and a snap brim | Synonyms: porkpie hat |
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potpie | (noun) deep-dish meat and vegetable pie or a meat stew with dumplings | - |
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preoccupied | (adjective) having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something | Synonyms: haunted, obsessed, taken up |
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(adjective) deeply absorbed in thought | Synonyms: bemused, lost |
rapier | (noun) a straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges | Synonyms: tuck |
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recipient | (noun) the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: recipient role |
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(noun) a person who receives something | Synonyms: receiver |
sapience | (noun) ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight | Synonyms: wisdom |
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sapiens | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Homo sapiens | - |
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sapient | (adjective) acutely insightful and wise | Synonyms: perspicacious, sagacious |
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sapiential | (adjective) characterized by wisdom, especially the wisdom of God | - |
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sapiently | (adverb) in a shrewd manner | Synonyms: acutely, astutely, sagaciously, shrewdly |
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scrapie | (noun) a fatal disease of sheep characterized by chronic itching and loss of muscular control and progressive degeneration of the central nervous system | - |
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sharpie | (noun) a shallow-draft sailboat with a sharp prow, flat bottom, and triangular sail; formerly used along the northern Atlantic coast of the United States | - |
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(noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper, sharper, sharpy |
(noun) an alert and energetic person | Synonyms: busy bee, eager beaver, live wire, sharpy |
showpiece | (noun) the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection | Synonyms: collector's item, piece de resistance |
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spiegel | (noun) pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel | Synonyms: spiegel iron, spiegeleisen |
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spiegeleisen | (noun) pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel | Synonyms: spiegel, spiegel iron |
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spiel | (noun) plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson) | Synonyms: line of gab, patter |
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(verb) speak at great length (about something) | - |
(verb) replay (as a melody) | Synonyms: play |
tailpiece | (noun) appendage added to extend the length of something | - |
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timepiece | (noun) a measuring instrument or device for keeping time | Synonyms: horologe, timekeeper |
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unoccupied | (adjective) not held or filled or in use | - |
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(adjective) not seized and controlled | - |
(adjective) not leased to or occupied by a tenant | Synonyms: untenanted |
unpierced | (adjective) not pierced | - |
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workpiece | (noun) work consisting of a piece of metal being machined | - |
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yuppie | (noun) a young upwardly mobile professional individual; a well-paid middle-class professional who works in a city and has a luxurious life style | - |
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