| orchestra | (noun) seating on the main floor in a theater | - |
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| (noun) a musical organization consisting of a group of instrumentalists including string players | - |
| orchestral | (adjective) relating to or composed for an orchestra | - |
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| orchestrate | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, engineer, mastermind, organise, organize |
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| (verb) write an orchestra score for | - |
| orchestrated | (adjective) arranged for performance by an orchestra | - |
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| orchestration | (noun) the act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments | Synonyms: instrumentation |
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| (noun) an arrangement of events that attempts to achieve a maximum effect | - |
| (noun) an arrangement of a piece of music for performance by an orchestra or band | - |
| orchestrator | (noun) an arranger who writes for orchestras | - |
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| orchid | (noun) any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors | Synonyms: orchidaceous plant |
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| orchidalgia | (noun) pain in the testes | - |
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| orchidectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both testicles | Synonyms: orchiectomy |
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| orchiectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both testicles | Synonyms: orchidectomy |
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| orchil | (noun) any of various lecanoras that yield the dye archil | Synonyms: archil |
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| (noun) a purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens | Synonyms: archil, cudbear |
| orchiopexy | (noun) operation to bring an undescended testicle into the scrotum | - |
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| orchis | (noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, ballock, bollock, egg, nut, testicle, testis |
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| (noun) any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes | - |
| orchitis | (noun) inflammation of one or both testes; characterized by pain and swelling | - |
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| orchotomy | (noun) surgical incision into the testis to obtain material for analysis (as in cases of abnormally low sperm count) | - |
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| outmarch | (verb) march longer distances and for a longer time than | - |
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| overarch | (verb) form an arch over | Synonyms: arch over |
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| (verb) be central or dominant | - |
| overcharge | (noun) a price that is too high | - |
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| (verb) place too much a load on | Synonyms: overload, surcharge |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
| parch | (verb) cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat | Synonyms: sear |
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| parched | (adjective) toasted or roasted slightly | - |
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| (adjective) dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight | Synonyms: adust, baked, scorched, sunbaked |
| parchesi | (noun) an ancient board game resembling backgammon; played on a cross-shaped board | Synonyms: pachisi, parchisi |
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| parchisi | (noun) an ancient board game resembling backgammon; played on a cross-shaped board | Synonyms: pachisi, parchesi |
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| parchment | (noun) skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on | Synonyms: lambskin, sheepskin |
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| (noun) a superior paper resembling sheepskin | - |
| patriarch | (noun) the male head of family or tribe | Synonyms: paterfamilias |
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| (noun) any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race | - |
| (noun) title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem) | - |
| (noun) a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself | - |
| patriarchal | (adjective) characteristic of a form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a man who is older or higher in rank | - |
| patriarchate | (noun) a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | Synonyms: patriarchy |
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| (noun) the jurisdiction of a patriarch | - |
| patriarchic | (adjective) (of societies) being ruled by or having descent traced through the male line | - |
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| patriarchy | (noun) a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | Synonyms: patriarchate |
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| perch | (noun) spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes | - |
| (noun) support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird) | - |
| (noun) any of numerous fishes of America and Europe | - |
| (noun) an elevated place serving as a seat | - |
| (noun) a linear measure of 16.5 feet | Synonyms: pole, rod |
| (noun) a square rod of land | Synonyms: pole, rod |
| (verb) sit, as on a branch | Synonyms: rest, roost |
| (verb) cause to perch or sit | - |
| (verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: alight, light |
| perchance | (adverb) through chance | Synonyms: by chance |
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| (adverb) by chance | Synonyms: maybe, mayhap, peradventure, perhaps, possibly |
| percher | (noun) a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists | Synonyms: Insessores, order Insessores, perching bird |
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| (noun) a person situated on a perch | - |
| perchlorate | (noun) a salt of perchloric acid | - |
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| perchloride | (noun) a chloride containing an unusually high proportion of chlorine | - |
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| perchloromethane | (noun) a colorless nonflammable liquid used as a solvent for fats and oils; because of its toxicity its use as a cleaning fluid or fire extinguisher has declined | Synonyms: carbon tet, carbon tetrachloride, tetrachloromethane |
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| porch | (noun) a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance | - |
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| protoarchaeology | (noun) the study of prehistoric human artifacts and human fossils | Synonyms: protoarcheology |
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| protoarcheology | (noun) the study of prehistoric human artifacts and human fossils | Synonyms: protoarchaeology |
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| purchasable | (adjective) available for purchase | Synonyms: for sale |
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| (adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: bribable, corruptible, dishonest, venal |
| purchase | (noun) the acquisition of something for payment | - |
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| (noun) the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever | Synonyms: leverage |
| (noun) a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage | - |
| (noun) something acquired by purchase | - |
| (verb) obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction | Synonyms: buy |
| purchaser | (noun) a person who buys | Synonyms: buyer, emptor, vendee |
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| purchasing | (noun) the act of buying | Synonyms: buying |
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| recherche | (adjective) lavishly elegant and refined | Synonyms: exquisite |
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| repurchase | (noun) the act of purchasing back something previously sold | Synonyms: buyback, redemption |
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| (verb) buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away | Synonyms: buy back |
| research | (noun) systematic investigation to establish facts | - |
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| (noun) a search for knowledge | Synonyms: enquiry, inquiry |
| (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: explore, search |
| (verb) attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner | - |
| researcher | (noun) a scientist who devotes himself to doing research | Synonyms: investigator, research worker |
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| routemarch | (noun) a long training march for troops | - |
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| schnorchel | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: breather, schnorkel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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| scorch | (noun) a discoloration caused by heat | - |
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| (noun) a surface burn | Synonyms: singe |
| (noun) a plant disease that produces a browning or scorched appearance of plant tissues | - |
| (verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color | Synonyms: blacken, char, sear |
| (verb) make very hot and dry | Synonyms: sear |
| (verb) become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions | - |
| (verb) destroy completely by or as if by fire | - |
| (verb) become superficially burned | Synonyms: sear, singe |
| (verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: blister, scald, whip |
| scorched | (adjective) having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy | - |
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| (adjective) dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight | Synonyms: adust, baked, parched, sunbaked |
| scorcher | (noun) a very hard hit ball | Synonyms: screamer |
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| (noun) an extremely hot day | - |
| scorching | (adjective) hot and dry enough to burn or parch a surface | - |
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| (adverb) capable of causing burns | - |
| scorchingness | (noun) The quality of being scorching; extreme heat. | - |
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| search | (noun) the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone | Synonyms: hunt, hunting |
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| (noun) boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas | - |
| (noun) an investigation seeking answers | - |
| (noun) the examination of alternative hypotheses | - |
| (noun) an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property | Synonyms: lookup |
| (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: explore, research |
| (verb) try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of | Synonyms: look for, seek |
| (verb) subject to a search | - |
| (verb) search or seek | Synonyms: look |
| searcher | (noun) large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America | Synonyms: Calosoma scrutator, searcher beetle |
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| (noun) someone making a search or inquiry | Synonyms: quester, seeker |
| (noun) a customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items | - |
| searching | (adjective) exploring thoroughly | - |
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| (adjective) diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation | Synonyms: inquisitory, probing |
| (adjective) having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect | Synonyms: trenchant |
| searchingly | (adverb) in a searching manner | - |
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| searchlight | (noun) a light source with reflectors that projects a beam of light in a particular direction | - |
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| smirch | (noun) an act that brings discredit to the person who does it | Synonyms: blot, smear, spot, stain |
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| (noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, daub, slur, smear, smudge, spot |
| (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, sully |
| (verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained | Synonyms: besmirch |
| squirearchy | (noun) the gentry who own land (considered as a class) | Synonyms: landed gentry |
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| starch | (noun) a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles | Synonyms: amylum |
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| (noun) a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering | - |
| (verb) stiffen with starch | - |
| starches | (noun) foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread) | - |
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| starchless | (adjective) lacking starch | - |
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| starchlike | (adjective) resembling starch | Synonyms: amylaceous, amyloid, amyloidal, farinaceous |
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| starchy | (adjective) consisting of or containing starch | - |
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| (adjective) rigidly formal | Synonyms: buckram, stiff |
| sunporch | (noun) a room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to the sun | Synonyms: solarium, sun lounge, sun parlor, sun parlour, sun porch, sunroom |
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| supercharge | (verb) increase the pressure on a gas or liquid | Synonyms: pressurise, pressurize |
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| (verb) increase or raise | Synonyms: advance, boost |
| supercharged | (adjective) fraught with great emotion | Synonyms: charged |
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| (adjective) (of e.g. an engine) having the power increased by fitting with a supercharger | - |
| supercharger | (noun) compressor that forces increased oxygen into the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine | - |
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| surcharge | (noun) an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill) | - |
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| (verb) show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given | - |
| (verb) fill to an excessive degree | - |
| (verb) place too much a load on | Synonyms: overcharge, overload |
| (verb) print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote | - |
| (verb) fill to capacity with people | - |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak |
| (verb) charge an extra fee, as for a special service | - |
| surfperch | (noun) small to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the Pacific coast of North America | Synonyms: surf fish, surffish |
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| symposiarch | (noun) the person who proposes toasts and introduces speakers at a banquet | Synonyms: toastmaster |
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| thelarche | (noun) the start of breast development in a woman at the beginning of puberty | - |
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| torch | (noun) a small portable battery-powered electric lamp | Synonyms: flashlight |
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| (noun) a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame | Synonyms: blowlamp, blowtorch |
| (noun) a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance | - |
| (noun) tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches | Synonyms: Aaron's rod, common mullein, flannel mullein, great mullein, Verbascum thapsus, woolly mullein |
| (verb) burn maliciously, as by arson | - |
| torchbearer | (noun) a leader in a campaign or movement | - |
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| torchlight | (noun) light from a torch or torches | - |
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| unchurch | (verb) exclude from a church or a religious community | Synonyms: curse, excommunicate |
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| undercharge | (noun) an insufficient charge | - |
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| (noun) a price that is too low | - |
| (verb) charge (someone) too little money | - |
| unmerchantable | (adjective) not fit for sale | Synonyms: unmarketable, unvendible |
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| urchin | (noun) poor and often mischievous city child | - |
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