| capillarity | (noun) a phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries | Synonyms: capillary action |
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| capillary | (adjective) of or relating to hair | - |
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| (adjective) long and slender with a very small internal diameter | Synonyms: hairlike |
| (noun) a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action | Synonyms: capillary tube, capillary tubing |
| (noun) any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules | Synonyms: capillary vessel |
| caterpillar | (noun) a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth | - |
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| overspill | (noun) the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity | Synonyms: overflow, runoff |
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| (noun) the relocation of people from overcrowded cities; they are accommodated in new houses or apartments in smaller towns | - |
| papilla | (noun) a small projection of tissue at the base of a hair or tooth or feather | - |
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| (noun) a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell | - |
| (noun) (botany) a tiny outgrowth on the surface of a petal or leaf | - |
| papillary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling papilla | Synonyms: papillose |
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| papillate | (adjective) resembling or covered with papillae | - |
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| papilledema | (noun) swelling of the optic disc (where the optic nerve enters the eyeball); usually associated with an increase in intraocular pressure | - |
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| papilliform | (adjective) shaped like a papilla | - |
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| papilloma | (noun) a benign epithelial tumor forming a rounded mass | Synonyms: papillary tumor, papillary tumour, villoma |
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| papillon | (noun) small slender toy spaniel with erect ears and a black-spotted brown to white coat | - |
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| papillose | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling papilla | Synonyms: papillary |
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| pill | (noun) a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet | Synonyms: lozenge, tab, tablet |
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| (noun) something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size | - |
| (noun) a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception | Synonyms: anovulant, anovulatory drug, birth control pill, contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive, oral contraceptive pill |
| (noun) something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured | - |
| (noun) a unpleasant or tiresome person | - |
| pillage | (noun) the act of stealing valuable things from a place | Synonyms: pillaging, plundering |
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| (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, loot, plunder, prize, swag |
| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| pillaged | (adjective) having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence | Synonyms: despoiled, raped, ravaged, sacked |
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| (adjective) wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value | Synonyms: looted, plundered, ransacked |
| pillager | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, looter, plunderer, raider, spoiler |
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| pillaging | (noun) the act of stealing valuable things from a place | Synonyms: pillage, plundering |
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| pillar | (noun) (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure | Synonyms: column |
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| (noun) a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument) | Synonyms: column |
| (noun) a fundamental principle or practice | - |
| (noun) a prominent supporter | Synonyms: mainstay |
| (noun) anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower | Synonyms: column, tower |
| pillared | (adjective) having pillars | - |
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| pillbox | (noun) a small enclosed gun emplacement (usually of fortified concrete) | - |
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| (noun) a small case for holding pills | - |
| (noun) a small round woman's hat | Synonyms: toque, turban |
| pillion | (noun) a seat behind the rider of a horse or motorbike etc. | - |
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| pillock | (noun) a person who is not very bright | Synonyms: dolt, dullard, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person |
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| pillory | (noun) a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the wrists and neck; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn | - |
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| (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: blast, crucify, savage |
| (verb) punish by putting in a pillory | - |
| (verb) expose to ridicule or public scorn | Synonyms: gibbet |
| pillow | (noun) a cushion to support the head of a sleeping person | - |
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| (verb) rest on or as if on a pillow | Synonyms: rest |
| pillowcase | (noun) bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow | Synonyms: case, pillow slip, slip |
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| pillwort | (noun) European water fern found around margins of bodies of water or in wet acid soil having small globose sporocarps | Synonyms: Pilularia globulifera |
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| pupillary | (adjective) of or relating to the pupil of the eye | - |
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| spill | (noun) the act of allowing a fluid to escape | Synonyms: release, spillage |
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| (noun) a sudden drop from an upright position | Synonyms: fall, tumble |
| (noun) a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction | Synonyms: spillway, wasteweir |
| (noun) liquid that is spilled | - |
| (verb) reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail) | - |
| (verb) reveal information | Synonyms: talk |
| (verb) cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over | Synonyms: disgorge, shed |
| (verb) pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities | Synonyms: pour forth, shed |
| (verb) cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container | Synonyms: slop, splatter |
| (verb) flow, run or fall out and become lost | Synonyms: run out |
| spillage | (noun) the act of allowing a fluid to escape | Synonyms: release, spill |
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| (noun) the amount that has spilled | - |
| spiller | (noun) a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) | Synonyms: setline, trawl, trawl line, trotline |
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| (noun) an attacker who sheds or spills blood | Synonyms: shedder |
| spillikin | (noun) a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws | Synonyms: jackstraw |
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| spillikins | (noun) a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others | Synonyms: jackstraws |
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| spillover | (noun) (economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure | - |
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| spillway | (noun) a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction | Synonyms: spill, wasteweir |
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| trompillo | (noun) weedy nightshade with silvery foliage and violet or blue or white flowers; roundish berry widely used to curdle milk; central United States to South America | Synonyms: prairie berry, purple nightshade, silver-leaved nettle, silver-leaved nightshade, silverleaf nightshade, Solanum elaeagnifolium, white horse nettle |
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| unpillared | (adjective) lacking pillars | - |
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