| heaps | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| heliopsis | (noun) any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers | Synonyms: oxeye |
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| hemianopsia | (noun) blindness in one half of the visual field of one or both eyes | Synonyms: hemianopia |
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| hipster | (noun) someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle | Synonyms: flower child, hippie, hippy |
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| hipsters | (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, hippies |
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| hoops | (noun) a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop | Synonyms: basketball, basketball game |
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| hoopskirt | (noun) a skirt stiffened with hoops | Synonyms: crinoline |
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| hops | (noun) twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer | Synonyms: hop |
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| hopsack | (noun) a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing | Synonyms: hopsacking |
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| hopsacking | (noun) a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing | Synonyms: hopsack |
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| hopscotch | (noun) a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone | - |
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| hydroisohypse | (noun) a line on a map connecting points of equal level on the piezometric surface. | - |
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| hydrops | (noun) swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities | Synonyms: dropsy, edema, oedema |
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| hypsography | (noun) measurement of the elevation of land above sea level | Synonyms: hypsometry |
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| (noun) the scientific study of the earth's configuration above sea level (emphasizing the measurement of land altitudes relative to sea level) | - |
| hypsometer | (noun) an altimeter that uses the boiling point of water to determine land elevation | - |
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| hypsometry | (noun) measurement of the elevation of land above sea level | Synonyms: hypsography |
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| hysterocatalepsy | (noun) hysteria with cataleptic symptoms | - |
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| iodopsin | (noun) a violet photopigment in the retinal cones of the eyes of most vertebrates; plays a role in daylight vision | - |
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| ipsedixitism | (noun) an unsupported dogmatic assertion | Synonyms: ipse dixit |
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| ipsilateral | (adjective) on or relating to the same side (of the body) | - |
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| jumpstart | (noun) starting an automobile engine that has a weak battery by means of jumper cables to another car | Synonyms: jump-start |
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| (verb) start or re-start vigorously | Synonyms: jump-start |
| (verb) start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery | Synonyms: jump-start, jump |
| jumpsuit | (noun) one-piece garment fashioned after a parachutist's uniform | Synonyms: jump suit |
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| keepsake | (noun) something of sentimental value | Synonyms: relic, souvenir, token |
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| knapsack | (noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder | Synonyms: back pack, backpack, haversack, packsack, rucksack |
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| lampshade | (noun) a protective ornamental covering for a lamp, used to screen a light bulb from direct view | Synonyms: lamp shade, shade |
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| lampshell | (noun) marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide | Synonyms: brachiopod, lamp shell |
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| lapse | (noun) a mistake resulting from inattention | Synonyms: oversight |
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| (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
| (noun) a break or intermission in the occurrence of something | - |
| (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, recidivate, regress, relapse, retrogress |
| (verb) drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards | Synonyms: backslide |
| (verb) end, at least for a long time | - |
| (verb) for time to move forward | Synonyms: elapse, glide by, go along, go by, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by |
| (verb) pass into a specified state or condition; sink into | Synonyms: pass, sink |
| (verb) let slip | - |
| lapsed | (adjective) no longer active or practicing | Synonyms: nonchurchgoing |
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| lapsing | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
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| liliopsid | (noun) a monocotyledonous flowering plant; the stem grows by deposits on its inside | Synonyms: endogen, monocot, monocotyledon |
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| lipstick | (noun) makeup that is used to color the lips | Synonyms: lip rouge |
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| (verb) apply lipstick to | - |
| (verb) form by tracing with lipstick | - |
| lithops | (noun) any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones | Synonyms: flowering stone, living stone, stone-face, stone life face, stone plant, stoneface |
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| lopsided | (adjective) having one side lower or smaller or lighter than the other | - |
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| (adjective) turned or twisted toward one side | Synonyms: askew, awry, cockeyed, skew-whiff, wonky |
| lopsidedly | (adverb) in a crooked lopsided manner | Synonyms: crookedly |
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| lopsidedness | (noun) an oblique or slanting asymmetry | Synonyms: skewness |
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| lumpsucker | (noun) any of several very small lumpfishes | - |
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| magnoliopsid | (noun) flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside | Synonyms: dicot, dicotyledon, exogen |
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| metalepsis | (noun) substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another | - |
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| metamorphopsia | (noun) a defect of vision in which objects appear to be distorted; usually due to a defect in the retina | - |
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| metempsychosis | (noun) after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body | Synonyms: rebirth |
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| midships | (adverb) at or near or toward the center of a ship | Synonyms: amidship, amidships |
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| monopsony | (noun) (economics) a market in which goods or services are offered by several sellers but there is only one buyer | - |
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| mumps | (noun) an acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands | Synonyms: epidemic parotitis |
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| mumpsimus | (noun) a traditional notion that is obstinately held although it is unreasonable | - |
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| narcolepsy | (noun) a sleep disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable episodes of deep sleep | - |
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| necropsy | (noun) an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease | Synonyms: autopsy, PM, post-mortem, post-mortem examination, postmortem, postmortem examination |
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| neuropsychiatric | (adjective) of or relating to neuropsychiatry | - |
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| neuropsychiatry | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders attributable to diseases of the nervous system | - |
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| neuropsychological | (adjective) of or concerned with neuropsychology | - |
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| neuropsychology | (noun) the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes | Synonyms: physiological psychology, psychophysiology |
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| noncollapsable | (adjective) not capable of collapsing | Synonyms: noncollapsible |
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| noncollapsible | (adjective) not capable of collapsing | Synonyms: noncollapsable |
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| nonpsychoactive | (adjective) not affecting the mind or mental processes | - |
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| nympholepsy | (noun) a frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable | - |
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| omphaloskepsis | (noun) literally, the contemplation of one's navel, which is an idiom usually meaning complacent self-absorption | Synonyms: navel-gazing |
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| opsin | (noun) retinal protein formed by the action of light on rhodopsin | - |
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| opsonin | (noun) an antibody in blood serum that attaches to invading microorganisms and other antigens to make them more susceptible to the action of phagocytes | - |
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| opsonisation | (noun) process whereby opsonins make an invading microorganism more susceptible to phagocytosis | Synonyms: opsonization |
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| opsonization | (noun) process whereby opsonins make an invading microorganism more susceptible to phagocytosis | Synonyms: opsonisation |
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| opsonize | (verb) make (cells) more susceptible to the action of phagocytes | - |
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| palimpsest | (noun) a manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible | - |
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| paraleipsis | (noun) suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted | Synonyms: paralepsis, paralipsis, preterition |
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| paralepsis | (noun) suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted | Synonyms: paraleipsis, paralipsis, preterition |
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| paralipsis | (noun) suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted | Synonyms: paraleipsis, paralepsis, preterition |
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| parapsychological | (adjective) beyond normal physical explanation | - |
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| parapsychologist | (noun) someone who studies the evidence for such psychological phenomena as psychokinesis and telepathy and clairvoyance | - |
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| parapsychology | (noun) phenomena that appear to contradict physical laws and suggest the possibility of causation by mental processes | Synonyms: psychic phenomena, psychic phenomenon |
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| paratroops | (noun) infantry trained and equipped to parachute | - |
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| peepshow | (noun) a short pornographic film shown in a small coin-operated booth | - |
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| (noun) an exhibition of pictures or objects viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass | Synonyms: raree-show |
| pepsin | (noun) an enzyme produced in the stomach that splits proteins into peptones | - |
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| pepsinogen | (noun) precursor of pepsin; stored in the stomach walls and converted to pepsin by hydrochloric acid in the stomach | - |
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| perhaps | (adverb) by chance | Synonyms: maybe, mayhap, peradventure, perchance, possibly |
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| periapsis | (noun) (astronomy) the point in an orbit closest to the body being orbited | Synonyms: point of periapsis |
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| phillipsite | (noun) a group of white or reddish crystalline minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium and aluminum | - |
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| pipsissewa | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Chimaphila | Synonyms: prince's pine |
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| polydipsia | (noun) excessive thirst (as in cases of diabetes or kidney dysfunction) | - |
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| popsicle | (noun) ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick | Synonyms: ice lolly, lollipop, lolly |
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| preeclampsia | (noun) abnormal state of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and fluid retention and albuminuria; can lead to eclampsia if untreated | Synonyms: pre-eclampsia |
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| prelapsarian | (adjective) of or relating to the time before the Fall of Adam and Eve | - |
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| prolapse | (noun) the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus) | Synonyms: descensus, prolapsus |
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| (verb) slip or fall out of place, as of body parts | - |
| prolapsus | (noun) the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus) | Synonyms: descensus, prolapse |
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| prolepsis | (noun) anticipating and answering objections in advance | - |
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| props | (noun) proper respect | - |
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| protoceratops | (noun) small horned dinosaur | - |
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| psalm | (noun) any sacred song used to praise the deity | - |
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| (verb) sing or celebrate in psalms | - |
| psalmist | (noun) a composer of sacred songs | - |
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| psalmody | (noun) the act of singing psalms or hymns | Synonyms: hymnody |
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| psalterium | (noun) the third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant | Synonyms: omasum, third stomach |
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| psaltery | (noun) an ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre or zither but having a trapezoidal sounding board under the strings | - |
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| psammoma | (noun) a tumor derived from fibrous tissue of the meninges or choroid plexus or certain other structures associated with the brain; characterized by sandlike particles | Synonyms: sand tumor |
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| psephologist | (noun) a sociologist who studies election trends | - |
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| psephology | (noun) the branch of sociology that studies election trends (as by opinion polls) | - |
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| pseud | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| pseudo | (adjective) (often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of | - |
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| (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, role player, sham, shammer |
| pseudobulb | (noun) a solid bulblike enlargement of the stem of some orchids | - |
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| pseudocarp | (noun) fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry | Synonyms: accessory fruit |
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| pseudocyesis | (noun) physiological state in which a woman exhibits symptoms of pregnancy but is not pregnant | Synonyms: false pregnancy |
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| pseudoephedrine | (noun) poisonous crystalline alkaloid occurring with ephedrine and isomorphic with it | - |
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| pseudohallucination | (noun) an image vivid enough to be a hallucination but recognized as unreal | - |
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| pseudohermaphrodite | (adjective) having internal reproductive organs of one sex and external sexual characteristics of the other sex | Synonyms: pseudohermaphroditic |
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| (noun) someone having external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex; not a true hermaphrodite because there is no ambiguity in the sex of the external genitalia and hence no question about gender at birth | - |