| exploitative | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitatory, exploitive |
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| exploitatory | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitative, exploitive |
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| exploited | (adjective) developed or used to greatest advantage | - |
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| (adjective) (of persons) taken advantage of | Synonyms: ill-used, put-upon, used, victimised, victimized |
| exploiter | (noun) a person who uses something or someone selfishly or unethically | Synonyms: user |
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| exploitive | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitative, exploitatory |
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| exploration | (noun) a careful systematic search | - |
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| (noun) to travel for the purpose of discovery | Synonyms: geographic expedition |
| (noun) a systematic consideration | - |
| explorative | (adjective) serving in or intended for exploration or discovery | Synonyms: exploratory |
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| exploratory | (adjective) serving in or intended for exploration or discovery | Synonyms: explorative |
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| explore | (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: research, search |
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| (verb) travel to or penetrate into | - |
| (verb) inquire into a subject in detail | - |
| (verb) examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes | - |
| explorer | (noun) someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose) | Synonyms: adventurer |
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| explosion | (noun) the act of exploding or bursting | Synonyms: burst |
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| (noun) a golf shot from a bunker that typically moves sand as well as the golf ball | - |
| (noun) the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant | Synonyms: plosion |
| (noun) a sudden outburst | - |
| (noun) a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction | Synonyms: blowup, detonation |
| (noun) a sudden great increase | - |
| (noun) the noise caused by an explosion | - |
| explosive | (adjective) serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst | - |
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| (adjective) sudden and loud | - |
| (adjective) liable to lead to sudden change or violence | Synonyms: volatile |
| (noun) a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck | - |
| explosively | (adverb) suddenly and rapidly | - |
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| (adverb) in an explosive manner | - |
| faceplate | (noun) a protective covering for the front of a machine or device (as a door lock or computer component) | - |
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| farmplace | (noun) a farm together with its buildings | Synonyms: farm-place, farmstead |
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| fipple | (noun) a wooden plug forming a flue pipe (as the mouthpiece of a recorder) | - |
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| fireplace | (noun) an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built | Synonyms: hearth, open fireplace |
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| fireplug | (noun) an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire | Synonyms: fire hydrant, plug |
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| fishplate | (noun) metal plate bolted along sides of two rails or beams | - |
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| floatplane | (noun) a seaplane equipped with pontoons for landing or taking off from water | Synonyms: pontoon plane |
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| floodplain | (noun) a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding | Synonyms: flood plain |
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| footplate | (noun) the platform in the cab of a locomotive on which the engineer stands to operate the controls | - |
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| foreplay | (noun) mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse | Synonyms: arousal, stimulation |
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| gangplank | (noun) a temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside | Synonyms: gangboard, gangway |
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| goldplate | (verb) plate with gold | Synonyms: gold-plate, gold plate |
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| googolplex | (noun) a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by a googol of zeros (ten raised to the power of a googol) | - |
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| grapple | (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle, wrestling |
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| (noun) a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope | Synonyms: grapnel, grappler, grappling hook, grappling iron |
| (noun) a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam | Synonyms: clamshell |
| (verb) to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match | Synonyms: grip |
| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, cope, deal, get by, make do, make out, manage |
| grappler | (noun) a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope | Synonyms: grapnel, grapple, grappling hook, grappling iron |
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| (noun) combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground | Synonyms: matman, wrestler |
| grappling | (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grapple, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle, wrestling |
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| (noun) the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down | Synonyms: rassling, wrestling |
| gunplay | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunfight, shootout |
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| gyroplane | (noun) an aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller | Synonyms: autogiro, autogyro |
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| hairsplitter | (noun) a disputant who makes unreasonably fine distinctions | - |
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| hairsplitting | (adjective) developed in excessively fine detail | Synonyms: finespun |
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| (noun) making too fine distinctions of little importance | Synonyms: word-splitting |
| hapless | (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched |
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| haploid | (adjective) of a cell or organism having a single set of chromosomes | Synonyms: haploidic, monoploid |
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| (noun) (genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes | - |
| haploidic | (adjective) of a cell or organism having a single set of chromosomes | Synonyms: haploid, monoploid |
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| haploidy | (noun) the condition of being haploid | - |
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| haplosporidian | (noun) parasite in invertebrates and lower vertebrates of no known economic importance | - |
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| haplotype | (noun) (genetics) a combination of alleles (for different genes) that are located closely together on the same chromosome and that tend to be inherited together | - |
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| haply | (adverb) by accident | Synonyms: by chance, by luck |
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| helpless | (adjective) unable to manage independently | - |
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| (adjective) unable to function; without help | Synonyms: lost |
| (adjective) lacking in or deprived of strength or power | Synonyms: incapacitated |
| helplessly | (adverb) in a helpless manner | Synonyms: impotently |
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| helplessness | (noun) powerlessness revealed by an inability to act | Synonyms: impuissance, weakness |
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| (noun) a feeling of being unable to manage | - |
| (noun) the state of needing help from something | - |
| hemiplegia | (noun) paralysis of one side of the body | Synonyms: unilateral paralysis |
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| hemiplegic | (noun) a person who has hemiplegia (is paralyzed on one side of the body) | - |
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| heteroploid | (noun) (genetics) an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an even multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that species | - |
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| heteroploidy | (noun) the condition of being heteroploid | - |
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| hiplength | (adjective) extending to or just over the hips | Synonyms: hip-length |
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| hipless | (adjective) having or seeming to have no hips | - |
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| hipline | (noun) the line formed by the lower edge of hip-length garment | - |
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| (noun) the line formed by measuring the hip at its greatest part | - |
| hoopla | (noun) blatant or sensational promotion | Synonyms: ballyhoo, hype, plug |
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| hopple | (verb) strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison | Synonyms: hobble |
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| horseplay | (noun) rowdy or boisterous play | - |
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| hotplate | (noun) a portable electric appliance for heating or cooking or keeping food warm | Synonyms: hot plate |
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| houseplant | (noun) any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes | - |
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| hyaloplasm | (noun) the clear nongranular portion of the cytoplasm of a cell | Synonyms: ground substance |
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| hyaloplasmic | (adjective) of or relating to hyaloplasm | - |
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| hydroplane | (noun) an airplane that can land on or take off from water | Synonyms: seaplane |
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| (noun) a speedboat that is equipped with winglike structures that lift it so that it skims the water at high speeds | Synonyms: hydrofoil |
| (verb) glide on the water in a hydroplane | Synonyms: seaplane |
| hyperplasia | (noun) abnormal increase in number of cells | - |
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| hypersplenism | (noun) enlarged spleen and a decrease in one or more types of blood cells; associated with many disorders | - |
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| hypoplasia | (noun) underdevelopment of an organ because of a decrease in the number of cells | - |
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| implacable | (adjective) incapable of being placated | - |
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| implant | (noun) a prosthesis placed permanently in tissue | - |
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| (verb) put firmly in the mind | Synonyms: plant |
| (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, imbed, plant |
| (verb) become attached to and embedded in the uterus | - |
| implantation | (noun) the act of planting or setting in the ground | - |
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| (noun) a surgical procedure that places something in the human body | - |
| (noun) (embryology) the organic process whereby a fertilized egg becomes implanted in the lining of the uterus of placental mammals | Synonyms: nidation |
| implanted | (adjective) (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held | Synonyms: deep-rooted, deep-seated, ingrained, planted |
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| implausibility | (noun) the quality of provoking disbelief | Synonyms: implausibleness |
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| implausible | (adjective) having a quality that provokes disbelief | - |
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| implausibleness | (noun) the quality of provoking disbelief | Synonyms: implausibility |
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| implausibly | (adverb) not easy to believe | Synonyms: improbably, incredibly, unbelievably |
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| implement | (noun) instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end | - |
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| (verb) pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue | Synonyms: carry out, follow out, follow through, follow up, go through with, put through |
| (verb) ensure observance of laws and rules | Synonyms: apply, enforce |
| (verb) apply in a manner consistent with its purpose or design | - |
| implemental | (adjective) serving or acting as a means or aid | Synonyms: instrumental, subservient |
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| implementation | (noun) the act of implementing (providing a practical means for accomplishing something); carrying into effect | Synonyms: effectuation |
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| (noun) the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order | Synonyms: carrying out, execution |
| implemented | (adjective) forced or compelled or put in force | Synonyms: enforced |
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| implicate | (verb) impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result | Synonyms: entail |
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| (verb) bring into intimate and incriminating connection | - |
| implicated | (adjective) culpably involved | Synonyms: concerned |
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| implication | (noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | Synonyms: import, significance |
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| (noun) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) | Synonyms: deduction, entailment |
| (noun) an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection | - |
| (noun) a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement) | - |
| (noun) a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false | Synonyms: conditional relation, logical implication |
| implicational | (adjective) relating to or concerned with logical implication | - |
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| implicative | (adjective) tending to suggest or imply | Synonyms: suggestive |
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| implicit | (adjective) implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something | Synonyms: inexplicit |
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| (adjective) being without doubt or reserve | Synonyms: unquestioning |
| implicitly | (adverb) without ever expressing so clearly | - |
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| (adverb) without doubting or questioning | - |
| implicitness | (noun) inexplicitness as a consequence of being implied or indirect | - |
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| implike | (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked |
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| implode | (verb) burst inward | Synonyms: go off |
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| implore | (verb) call upon in supplication; entreat | Synonyms: beg, pray |
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| imploring | (adjective) begging | Synonyms: beseeching, pleading |
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| imploringly | (adverb) in a beseeching manner | Synonyms: beseechingly, entreatingly, importunately, pleadingly |
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| implosion | (noun) the initial occluded phase of a stop consonant | - |
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| (noun) a sudden inward collapse | - |
| imply | (verb) express or state indirectly | Synonyms: connote |
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| (verb) suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic | - |
| (verb) have as a logical consequence | Synonyms: entail, mean |
| (verb) have as a necessary feature | Synonyms: involve |
| (verb) suggest that someone is guilty | Synonyms: incriminate, inculpate |
| inapplicability | (noun) irrelevance by virtue of being inapplicable to the matter at hand | - |
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| inapplicable | (adjective) not capable of being applied | Synonyms: unsuitable |
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| incomplete | (adjective) not complete or total; not completed | Synonyms: uncomplete |
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| (adjective) not yet finished | Synonyms: uncompleted |
| incompletely | (adverb) not to a full degree or extent | - |
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| incompleteness | (noun) the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect | Synonyms: rawness |
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| indiscipline | (noun) the trait of lacking discipline | Synonyms: undiscipline |
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| inexplicable | (adjective) incapable of being explained or accounted for | Synonyms: incomprehensible |
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| inexplicably | (adverb) in a manner differing from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curiously, oddly, peculiarly |
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| inexplicit | (adjective) implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something | Synonyms: implicit |
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| inexplicitness | (noun) unclearness by virtue of not being explicit | - |
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| interdisciplinary | (adjective) drawing from or characterized by participation of two or more fields of study | - |
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| interplanetary | (adjective) between or among planets | - |
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