| bareback | (adjective) riding without a saddle | Synonyms: barebacked |
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| (adverb) without a saddle | Synonyms: barebacked |
| barebacked | (adjective) riding without a saddle | Synonyms: bareback |
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| (adverb) without a saddle | Synonyms: bareback |
| bareboat | (noun) a vessel (such as a yacht) that can be chartered without a captain or crew or provisions | - |
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| bareboating | (noun) boating by chartering a bareboat and providing your own crew and provisions | - |
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| centreboard | (noun) a retractable fin keel used on sailboats to prevent drifting to leeward | Synonyms: centerboard, drop keel, sliding keel |
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| cerebellar | (adjective) relating to or associated with the cerebellum | - |
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| cerebellum | (noun) a major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans | - |
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| cerebral | (adjective) involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct | Synonyms: intellectual |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the cerebrum or brain | - |
| cerebrally | (adverb) in the brain | - |
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| (adverb) in an intellectual manner | - |
| cerebrate | (verb) use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments | Synonyms: cogitate, think |
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| cerebration | (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: intellection, mentation, thinking, thought, thought process |
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| cerebromeningitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges | Synonyms: encephalomeningitis, meningoencephalitis |
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| cerebroside | (noun) A cerebroside is any of various organic lipid compounds containing glucose or galactose and glucose; it occurs in the myelin sheath of cerebrospinal neurons. | - |
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| cerebrospinal | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and spinal cord | - |
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| cerebrovascular | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and the blood vessels that supply it | - |
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| cerebrum | (noun) anterior portion of the brain consisting of two hemispheres; dominant part of the brain in humans | - |
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| decerebrate | (verb) remove the cerebrum from (a human body) | - |
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| fibreboard | (noun) wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets | Synonyms: fiberboard, particle board |
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| fireball | (noun) the luminous center of a nuclear explosion | - |
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| (noun) a ball of fire (such as the sun or a ball-shaped discharge of lightning) | - |
| (noun) a highly energetic and indefatigable person | Synonyms: ball of fire, human dynamo, powerhouse |
| (noun) an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding) | Synonyms: bolide |
| firebase | (noun) an artillery base to support advancing troops | - |
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| firebird | (noun) eastern subspecies of northern oriole | Synonyms: Baltimore bird, Baltimore oriole, hangbird, Icterus galbula galbula |
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| (noun) the male is bright red with black wings and tail | Synonyms: Piranga olivacea, redbird, scarlet tanager |
| (noun) tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona; adult male has bright scarlet and black plumage | Synonyms: Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus, vermillion flycatcher |
| fireboat | (noun) a boat equipped to fight fires on ships or along a waterfront | - |
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| firebomb | (noun) a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel) | Synonyms: incendiary, incendiary bomb |
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| (verb) attack with incendiary bombs | - |
| firebox | (noun) a furnace (as on a steam locomotive) in which fuel is burned | - |
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| firebrand | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: inciter, instigant, instigator, provoker |
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| (noun) a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning | Synonyms: brand |
| firebrat | (noun) lives in warm moist areas e.g. around furnaces | Synonyms: Thermobia domestica |
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| firebreak | (noun) a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire | Synonyms: fireguard |
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| firebrick | (noun) brick made of fire clay; used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys | - |
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| firebug | (noun) a true bug: brightly colored bug that can exude a stain | - |
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| (noun) a criminal who illegally sets fire to property | Synonyms: arsonist, incendiary |
| forebear | (noun) a person from whom you are descended | Synonyms: forbear |
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| forebode | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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| foreboding | (adjective) ominously prophetic | Synonyms: fateful, portentous |
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| (noun) an unfavorable omen | - |
| (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: boding, premonition, presentiment |
| forebrain | (noun) the anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube | Synonyms: prosencephalon |
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| grebe | (noun) small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests; similar to loons but smaller and with lobate rather than webbed feet | - |
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| harebell | (noun) perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: bluebell, Campanula rotundifolia |
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| (noun) sometimes placed in genus Scilla | Synonyms: bluebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth |
| harebrained | (adjective) very foolish | Synonyms: insane, mad |
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| hereby | (adverb) (formal) by means of this | Synonyms: herewith |
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| intracerebral | (adjective) within the brain | - |
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| lyrebird | (noun) Australian bird that resembles a pheasant; the courting male displays long tail feathers in a lyre shape | - |
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| paleocerebellum | (noun) the anterior lobe of the cerebellum which was one of the earliest parts of the hindbrain to develop in mammals | - |
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| prebend | (noun) the stipend assigned by a cathedral to a canon | - |
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| prebendary | (noun) a canon who receives a prebend for serving the church | - |
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| pureblood | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pedigreed, pureblooded, thoroughbred |
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| (noun) a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | Synonyms: purebred, thoroughbred |
| pureblooded | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pedigreed, pureblood, thoroughbred |
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| purebred | (adjective) bred for many generations from member of a recognized breed or strain | - |
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| (noun) a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | Synonyms: pureblood, thoroughbred |
| rarebit | (noun) cheese melted with ale or beer served over toast | Synonyms: Welsh rabbit, Welsh rarebit |
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| rebarbative | (adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: repellant, repellent |
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| rebate | (noun) a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together | Synonyms: rabbet |
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| (noun) a refund of some fraction of the amount paid | Synonyms: discount |
| (verb) cut a rebate in (timber or stone) | - |
| (verb) join with a rebate | - |
| (verb) give a reduction in the price during a sale | - |
| rebato | (noun) a wired or starched collar of intricate lace; worn in 17th century | Synonyms: rabato |
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| rebel | (noun) a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) | Synonyms: freedom fighter, insurgent, insurrectionist |
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| (noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: maverick |
| (verb) take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance | Synonyms: arise, rise, rise up |
| (verb) break with established customs | Synonyms: renegade |
| rebellion | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising |
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| (noun) refusal to accept some authority or code or convention | - |
| rebellious | (adjective) discontented as toward authority | Synonyms: disaffected, ill-affected, malcontent |
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| (adjective) participating in organized resistance to a constituted government | - |
| (adjective) resisting control or authority | - |
| rebelliously | (adverb) in a rebellious manner | Synonyms: contumaciously, defiantly |
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| rebelliousness | (noun) an insubordinate act | Synonyms: insubordination |
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| (noun) intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude | Synonyms: defiance |
| rebind | (verb) provide with a new binding | - |
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| rebirth | (noun) a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life | Synonyms: conversion, spiritual rebirth |
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| (noun) the revival of learning and culture | Synonyms: Renaissance, Renascence |
| (noun) a second or new birth | Synonyms: reincarnation, renascence |
| (noun) after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body | Synonyms: metempsychosis |
| reboot | (verb) cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes | Synonyms: boot, bring up |
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| reborn | (adjective) spiritually reborn or converted | Synonyms: born-again |
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| (adjective) restored to new life and vigor | Synonyms: revitalised, revitalized |
| rebound | (noun) the act of securing possession of the rebounding basketball after a missed shot | - |
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| (noun) a reaction to a crisis or setback or frustration | - |
| (noun) a movement back from an impact | Synonyms: backlash, recoil, repercussion |
| (verb) return to a former condition | Synonyms: rally |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| reboxetine | (noun) an antidepressant drug that blocks the reuptake of norepinephrine | Synonyms: Edronax |
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| rebozo | (noun) a long woolen or linen scarf covering the head and shoulders (also used as a sling for holding a baby); traditionally worn by Latin-American women | - |
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| rebroadcast | (noun) a broadcast that repeated at a later time | - |
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| (verb) broadcast again, as of a film | Synonyms: rerun |
| rebuff | (noun) a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) | Synonyms: slight |
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| (noun) an instance of driving away or warding off | Synonyms: repulse, snub |
| (verb) reject outright and bluntly | Synonyms: repel, snub |
| (verb) force or drive back | Synonyms: drive back, fight off, repel, repulse |
| rebuild | (verb) build again | Synonyms: reconstruct |
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| rebuilding | (noun) building again | - |
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| rebuke | (noun) an act or expression of criticism and censure | Synonyms: reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval |
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| (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
| rebuker | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: reproacher, reprover, upbraider |
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| rebukingly | (adverb) in the manner of someone delivering a rebuke | - |
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| reburial | (noun) the act of burying again | Synonyms: reburying |
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| rebury | (verb) bury again | - |
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| reburying | (noun) the act of burying again | Synonyms: reburial |
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| rebus | (noun) a puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures representing syllables and words | - |
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| rebut | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect | Synonyms: controvert, refute |
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| (verb) overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof | Synonyms: refute |
| rebuttal | (noun) the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument | - |
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| (noun) (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder | Synonyms: rebutter |
| rebutter | (noun) (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder | Synonyms: rebuttal |
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| (noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: confuter, disprover, refuter |
| rerebrace | (noun) cannon that provides plate armor for the upper arm | Synonyms: upper cannon |
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| scoreboard | (noun) a large board for displaying the score of a contest (and some other information) | - |
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| shorebird | (noun) any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries | Synonyms: limicoline bird, shore bird |
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| surrebuttal | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rebutter | Synonyms: surrebutter |
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| surrebutter | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rebutter | Synonyms: surrebuttal |
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| terebinth | (noun) a Mediterranean tree yielding Chian turpentine | Synonyms: Pistacia terebinthus |
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| thereby | (adverb) by that means or because of that | - |
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| treble | (adjective) having or denoting a high range | Synonyms: soprano |
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| (adjective) three times as great or many | Synonyms: three-fold, threefold, triple |
| (adjective) having three units or components or elements | Synonyms: ternary, triple, triplex |
| (adjective) having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities | Synonyms: double, dual, three-fold, threefold, two-fold, twofold |
| (noun) the pitch range of the highest female voice | Synonyms: soprano |
| (verb) increase threefold | Synonyms: triple |
| (verb) sing treble | - |
| trebuchet | (noun) catapult that uses a swinging arm to throw a projectile | Synonyms: trebucket |
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| trebucket | (noun) catapult that uses a swinging arm to throw a projectile | Synonyms: trebuchet |
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