accoutrement | (noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accessory, accouterment |
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acquirement | (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquisition, attainment, skill |
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aforementioned | (adjective) being the one previously mentioned or spoken of | Synonyms: aforesaid, said |
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allurement | (noun) the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money) | Synonyms: solicitation |
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(noun) the power to entice or attract through personal charm | Synonyms: allure, temptingness |
(noun) attractiveness | - |
arbitrement | (noun) the act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment | Synonyms: arbitrament, arbitration |
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bacteremia | (noun) transient presence of bacteria (or other microorganisms) in the blood | Synonyms: bacteriaemia, bacteriemia |
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bacteremic | (adjective) of or relating to or having bacteremia | - |
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bioremediation | (noun) the act of treating waste or pollutants by the use of microorganisms (as bacteria) that can break down the undesirable substances | - |
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(noun) the branch of biotechnology that uses biological process to overcome environmental problems | - |
categorem | (noun) a categorematic expression; a term capable of standing alone as the subject or predicate of a logical proposition | Synonyms: categoreme |
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categorematic | (adjective) of a term or phrase capable of standing as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition | - |
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categoreme | (noun) a categorematic expression; a term capable of standing alone as the subject or predicate of a logical proposition | Synonyms: categorem |
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cerement | (noun) burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped | Synonyms: pall, shroud, winding-clothes, winding-sheet |
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ceremonial | (adjective) marked by pomp or ceremony or formality | - |
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(noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial occasion, ceremony, observance |
ceremonially | (adverb) in a ceremonial manner | Synonyms: ritually |
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(adverb) in a ceremonious manner | Synonyms: ceremoniously |
ceremonious | (adjective) characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display | Synonyms: pompous |
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(adjective) rigidly formal or bound by convention | Synonyms: conventional |
ceremoniously | (adverb) in a ceremonious manner | Synonyms: ceremonially |
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ceremoniousness | (noun) a ceremonial manner | - |
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ceremony | (noun) the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion | - |
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(noun) any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way | - |
(noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, observance |
cremains | (noun) the remains of a dead body after cremation | - |
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cremate | (verb) reduce to ashes | - |
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cremation | (noun) the incineration of a dead body | - |
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crematorium | (noun) a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes | Synonyms: cremation chamber, crematory |
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(noun) a mortuary where corpses are cremated | Synonyms: crematory |
crematory | (noun) a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes | Synonyms: cremation chamber, crematorium |
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(noun) a mortuary where corpses are cremated | Synonyms: crematorium |
decrement | (noun) the amount by which something decreases | Synonyms: decrease |
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(noun) a process of becoming smaller or shorter | Synonyms: decrease |
decrementation | (noun) the operation of subtracting one from the operand. | - |
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disfigurement | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: defacement, disfiguration, mutilation |
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(noun) an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen | Synonyms: deformity, disfiguration |
entremets | (noun) a dish that is served with, but is subordinate to, a main course | Synonyms: side dish, side order |
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epicheirema | (noun) a syllogism in which some statement supporting one or both of the premises is introduced with the premises themselves. | - |
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eremite | (noun) a Christian recluse | - |
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eremitic | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living | Synonyms: eremitical |
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(adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: anchoritic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical |
eremitical | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living | Synonyms: eremitic |
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(adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: anchoritic, eremitic, hermitic, hermitical |
eremitism | (noun) monasticism characterized by solitude in which the social dimension of life is sacrificed to the primacy of religious experience | - |
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excrement | (noun) waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body | Synonyms: body waste, excreta, excretion, excretory product |
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extreme | (adjective) most distant in any direction | - |
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(adjective) far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree | - |
(adjective) of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity | Synonyms: utmost, uttermost |
(adjective) beyond a norm in views or actions | - |
(noun) the furthest or highest degree of something | - |
(noun) the point located farthest from the middle of something | Synonyms: extreme point, extremum |
extremely | (adverb) to an extreme degree | Synonyms: deathly, exceedingly, super |
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(adverb) to a high degree or extent; favorably or with much respect | Synonyms: highly |
extremeness | (noun) the quality of being extreme | - |
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extremism | (noun) any political theory favoring immoderate uncompromising policies | - |
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extremist | (adjective) (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm | Synonyms: radical, ultra |
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(noun) a person who holds extreme views | - |
extremity | (noun) an external body part that projects from the body | Synonyms: appendage, member |
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(noun) that part of a limb that is farthest from the torso | - |
(noun) the outermost or farthest region or point | - |
(noun) the greatest or utmost degree | - |
(noun) an extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease) | - |
extremum | (noun) the point located farthest from the middle of something | Synonyms: extreme, extreme point |
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(noun) the most extreme possible amount or value | Synonyms: peak |
fireman | (noun) play in which children pretend to put out a fire | - |
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(noun) a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires | Synonyms: fire-eater, fire fighter, firefighter |
(noun) a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) | Synonyms: stoker |
(noun) a pitcher who does not start the game | Synonyms: relief pitcher, reliever |
foreman | (noun) a person who exercises control over workers | Synonyms: boss, chief, gaffer, honcho |
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(noun) a man who is foreperson of a jury | - |
foremanship | (noun) the position of foreman | - |
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foremast | (noun) the mast nearest the bow in vessels with two or more masts | - |
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foremilk | (noun) milky fluid secreted for the first day or two after parturition | Synonyms: colostrum |
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foremost | (adjective) ranking above all others | Synonyms: first, world-class |
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(adjective) situated closest to the bow | - |
(adjective) preceding all others in spatial position | Synonyms: frontmost |
(adverb) prominently forward | Synonyms: first |
(adverb) before anything else | Synonyms: first, first of all, first off, firstly |
foremother | (noun) a female ancestor | - |
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gremlin | (noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous | Synonyms: brownie, elf, hob, imp, pixie, pixy |
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hardwareman | (noun) someone who sells hardware | Synonyms: ironmonger |
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harem | (noun) living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household | Synonyms: hareem, seraglio, serail |
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hydremia | (noun) blood disorder in which there is excess fluid volume compared with the cell volume of the blood | - |
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hypercholesteremia | (noun) the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the blood; associated with the risk of atherosclerosis | Synonyms: hypercholesterolemia |
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hyperemesis | (noun) severe and excessive vomiting | - |
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hyperemia | (noun) increased blood in an organ or other body part | Synonyms: hyperaemia |
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hyperemic | (adjective) relating to or caused by hyperemia | - |
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hypernatremia | (noun) excessive amounts of sodium in the blood; possibly indicating diabetes insipidus | - |
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hyponatremia | (noun) abnormally low level of sodium in the blood; associated with dehydration | - |
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immurement | (noun) the state of being imprisoned | Synonyms: captivity, imprisonment, incarceration |
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increment | (noun) the amount by which something increases | Synonyms: increase |
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(noun) a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important | Synonyms: growth, increase |
incremental | (adjective) increasing gradually by regular degrees or additions | - |
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incrementation | (noun) the operation of adding one to the operand. | - |
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irremediable | (adjective) impossible to remedy or correct or redress | - |
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irremovability | (noun) the quality or state of not being removable. | - |
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irremovable | (adjective) incapable of being removed or away or dismiss | - |
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jeremiad | (noun) a long and mournful complaint | - |
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kremlin | (noun) citadel of a Russian town | - |
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longshoreman | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, lumper, stevedore |
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maturement | (noun) coming to full development; becoming mature | Synonyms: maturation, ripening |
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measurement | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measuring, mensuration |
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millirem | (noun) a dosage of ionizing radiation equivalent to one thousandth (1/1000) of a rem | Synonyms: mrem |
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misremember | (verb) remember incorrectly | - |
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monoreme | (noun) a galley that has one bank of oars. | - |
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monotreme | (noun) the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria | Synonyms: egg-laying mammal |
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mrem | (noun) a dosage of ionizing radiation equivalent to one thousandth (1/1000) of a rem | Synonyms: millirem |
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nierembergia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Nierembergia having upturned bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: cupflower |
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nonremittal | (noun) loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid | Synonyms: default, nonpayment |
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(noun) act of failing to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: default, nonpayment |
overemotional | (adjective) excessively or abnormally emotional | Synonyms: sloppy |
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overemphasis | (noun) too much emphasis | - |
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overemphasise | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasize, overstress |
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overemphasize | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasise, overstress |
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peremptorily | (adverb) in an imperative and commanding manner | Synonyms: imperatively |
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peremptory | (adjective) putting an end to all debate or action | - |
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(adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial |
(adjective) not allowing contradiction or refusal | - |
premarital | (adjective) relating to events before a marriage | Synonyms: antenuptial, prenuptial |
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premature | (adjective) born after a gestation period of less than the normal time | - |
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(adjective) uncommonly early or before the expected time | Synonyms: untimely |
(adjective) too soon or too hasty | Synonyms: previous |
prematurely | (adverb) too soon; in a premature manner | Synonyms: untimely |
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(adverb) (of childbirth) before the end of the normal period of gestation | - |
prematureness | (noun) the state of being premature | Synonyms: prematurity |
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prematurity | (noun) the state of being premature | Synonyms: prematureness |
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premedical | (adjective) preparing for the study of medicine | - |
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(adjective) preceding and preparing for the study of medicine | - |
premeditate | (verb) consider, ponder, or plan (an action) beforehand | - |
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(verb) think or reflect beforehand or in advance | - |
premeditated | (adjective) characterized by deliberate purpose and some degree of planning | - |
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premeditation | (noun) planning or plotting in advance of acting | Synonyms: forethought |
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(noun) (law) thought and intention to commit a crime well in advance of the crime; goes to show criminal intent | - |
premenopausal | (adjective) prior to menopause | - |
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premenstrual | (adjective) of or relating to or occurring during the time just before menstruation | - |
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premie | (noun) an infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation | Synonyms: preemie, premature baby, premature infant, preterm baby, preterm infant |
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premier | (adjective) preceding all others in time | Synonyms: premiere |
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(adjective) first in rank or degree | Synonyms: prime |
(noun) the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom | Synonyms: PM, Prime Minister |
(noun) the person who is head of government (in several countries) | Synonyms: chancellor, prime minister |
(verb) perform a work for the first time | Synonyms: premiere |
(verb) be performed for the first time | Synonyms: premiere |
premiere | (adjective) preceding all others in time | Synonyms: premier |
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(noun) the first public performance of a play or movie | - |
(verb) perform a work for the first time | Synonyms: premier |
(verb) be performed for the first time | Synonyms: premier |
premiership | (noun) the office of premier | - |
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premise | (noun) a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn | Synonyms: assumption, premiss |
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(verb) take something as preexisting and given | Synonyms: premiss |
(verb) set forth beforehand, often as an explanation | - |
(verb) furnish with a preface or introduction | Synonyms: introduce, precede, preface |
premises | (noun) land and the buildings on it | - |
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premiss | (noun) a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn | Synonyms: assumption, premise |
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(verb) take something as preexisting and given | Synonyms: premise |