abecedarian | (adjective) alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers) | - |
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(noun) a novice learning the rudiments of some subject | - |
ablepharia | (noun) a congenital absence of eyelids (partial or complete) | - |
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acariasis | (noun) infestation with itch mites | Synonyms: acaridiasis, acariosis |
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accessorial | (adjective) nonessential but helpful | - |
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accusatorial | (adjective) specifically indicating a form of prosecution in which one is publicly accused of and tried for a crime and in which the judge is not also the prosecutor | - |
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acetonuria | (noun) excessive amounts of ketone bodies in the urine as in diabetes mellitus or starvation | Synonyms: ketoaciduria, ketonuria |
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achlorhydria | (noun) an abnormal deficiency or absence of free hydrochloric acid in the gastric juice; often associated with severe anemias and cancer of the stomach | - |
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acromicria | (noun) abnormally small extremities (underdeveloped fingers and toes) | Synonyms: acromikria |
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acromikria | (noun) abnormally small extremities (underdeveloped fingers and toes) | Synonyms: acromicria |
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actiniarian | (noun) any sea anemone or related animal | Synonyms: actinia, actinian |
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actuarial | (adjective) of or relating to the work of an actuary | - |
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advertorial | (noun) an advertisement that is written and presented in the style of an editorial or journalistic report | - |
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aerial | (adjective) existing or living or growing or operating in the air | - |
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(adjective) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air | Synonyms: aeriform, aery, airy, ethereal |
(noun) a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer | Synonyms: forward pass |
(noun) an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals | Synonyms: antenna, transmitting aerial |
aerialist | (noun) an acrobat who performs in the air (as on a rope or trapeze) | - |
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aerially | (adverb) by means of aircraft | - |
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agrarian | (adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agricultural, farming |
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albuminuria | (noun) the presence of excessive protein (chiefly albumin but also globulin) in the urine; usually a symptom of kidney disorder | Synonyms: proteinuria |
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alcaptonuria | (noun) a rare recessive metabolic anomaly marked by ochronosis and the presence of alkapton in the urine | Synonyms: alkaptonuria |
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alfilaria | (noun) European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage | Synonyms: alfileria, clocks, Erodium cicutarium, filaree, filaria, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
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alfileria | (noun) European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage | Synonyms: alfilaria, clocks, Erodium cicutarium, filaree, filaria, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
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alkalinuria | (noun) a condition in which the urine (which is normally slightly acidic) is alkaline | Synonyms: alkaluria |
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alkaluria | (noun) a condition in which the urine (which is normally slightly acidic) is alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinuria |
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alkaptonuria | (noun) a rare recessive metabolic anomaly marked by ochronosis and the presence of alkapton in the urine | Synonyms: alcaptonuria |
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alstroemeria | (noun) any of various South American plants of the genus Alstroemeria valued for their handsome umbels of beautiful flowers | - |
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ambassadorial | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of ambassadors | - |
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ametria | (noun) congenital absence of the uterus | - |
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aminoaciduria | (noun) abnormal presence of amino acids in the urine; usually a symptom of metabolic defects | - |
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ammoniuria | (noun) excessive ammonia in the urine | - |
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anarthria | (noun) partial or total loss of articulate speech resulting from lesions of the central nervous system | - |
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antiauthoritarian | (adjective) opposed to authoritarianism | - |
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antibacterial | (adjective) destroying bacteria or inhibiting their growth | - |
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(noun) any drug that destroys bacteria or inhibits their growth | Synonyms: antibacterial drug, bactericide |
antiestablishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentism |
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antimalarial | (noun) a medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria | Synonyms: antimalarial drug |
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antiquarian | (adjective) of or relating to antiques or antiquities | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to persons who study or deal in antiques or antiquities | - |
(noun) an expert or collector of antiquities | Synonyms: antiquary, archaist |
anuria | (noun) inability to urinate | Synonyms: anuresis |
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apiarian | (adjective) relating to bees or beekeeping | - |
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appendicularia | (noun) free-swimming tadpole-shaped pelagic tunicate resembling larvae of other tunicates | - |
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appropriable | (adjective) that can be appropriated | - |
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appropriate | (adjective) suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc | - |
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(adjective) meant or adapted for an occasion or use | Synonyms: suitable, suited |
(verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: allow, earmark, reserve, set aside |
(verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: capture, conquer, seize |
appropriately | (adverb) in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances | Synonyms: befittingly, duly, fitly, fittingly, properly, suitably |
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appropriateness | (noun) the quality of being specially suitable | - |
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(noun) appropriate conduct; doing the right thing | Synonyms: rightness |
appropriation | (noun) a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner | - |
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(noun) incorporation by joining or uniting | Synonyms: annexation |
(noun) money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose | - |
appropriative | (adjective) of or relating to or given to the act of taking for yourself | - |
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appropriator | (noun) someone who takes for his or her own use (especially without permission) | - |
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araucaria | (noun) any of several tall South American or Australian trees with large cones and edible seeds | - |
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archaebacteria | (noun) considered ancient life forms that evolved separately from bacteria and blue-green algae | Synonyms: archaebacterium, archaeobacteria, archeobacteria |
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archaeobacteria | (noun) considered ancient life forms that evolved separately from bacteria and blue-green algae | Synonyms: archaebacteria, archaebacterium, archeobacteria |
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archeobacteria | (noun) considered ancient life forms that evolved separately from bacteria and blue-green algae | Synonyms: archaebacteria, archaebacterium, archaeobacteria |
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archesporial | (adjective) of or relating to the cells in a sporangium that give rise to spores | - |
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archosaurian | (adjective) of or relating to reptiles of the subclass Archosauria | - |
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(noun) extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, thecodonts | Synonyms: archosaur, archosaurian reptile |
aria | (noun) an elaborate song for solo voice | - |
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arianist | (noun) an adherent of Arianism (the belief that Jesus Christ was not truly God) | - |
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armorial | (adjective) of or relating to heraldry or heraldic arms | - |
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arteria | (noun) a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body | Synonyms: arterial blood vessel, artery |
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arterial | (adjective) of or involving or contained in the arteries | - |
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arterialise | (verb) change venous blood into arterial blood | Synonyms: arterialize |
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arterialize | (verb) change venous blood into arterial blood | Synonyms: arterialise |
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ascariasis | (noun) infestation of the human intestine with Ascaris roundworms | - |
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asteriated | (adjective) (of some crystals especially gemstones) exhibiting asterism | - |
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atrial | (adjective) of or relating to a cavity or chamber in the body (especially one of the upper chambers of the heart) | - |
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auctorial | (adjective) of or by or typical of an author | Synonyms: authorial |
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authorial | (adjective) of or by or typical of an author | Synonyms: auctorial |
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authoritarian | (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: dictatorial, overbearing |
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(adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
(noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: dictator |
authoritarianism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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azoturia | (noun) excess of urea in the urine | - |
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bacteria | (noun) (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants | Synonyms: bacterium |
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bacteriacide | (noun) any chemical agent that destroys bacteria | Synonyms: bactericide |
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bacteriaemia | (noun) transient presence of bacteria (or other microorganisms) in the blood | Synonyms: bacteremia, bacteriemia |
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bacterial | (adjective) relating to or caused by bacteria | - |
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bacterially | (adverb) by bacteria | - |
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barbarian | (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbaric, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild |
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(noun) a member of an uncivilized people | Synonyms: savage |
(noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement | Synonyms: boor, churl, Goth, peasant, tike, tyke |
bibliothecarial | (adjective) of or relating to a library or bibliotheca or a librarian | Synonyms: bibliothecal |
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bimestrial | (adjective) two months long; lasting two months | - |
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(adjective) occurring every two months | Synonyms: bimonthly |
biriani | (noun) an Indian dish made with highly seasoned rice and meat or fish or vegetables | Synonyms: biryani |
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bivariate | (adjective) having two variables | - |
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briar | (noun) a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath | Synonyms: briar pipe |
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(noun) evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: brier, Erica arborea, tree heath |
(noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: brier, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
(noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | Synonyms: brier, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier |
briard | (noun) old French breed of large strong usually black dogs having a long tail and long wavy and slightly stiff coat | - |
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briarroot | (noun) hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea | - |
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briarwood | (noun) wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: brier-wood, brierwood |
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briary | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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burial | (noun) concealing something under the ground | Synonyms: burying |
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(noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave | Synonyms: entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture |
caesarian | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, cesarean, cesarian |
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(noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
cafeteria | (noun) a restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier | - |
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calceolaria | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip | Synonyms: slipperwort |
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calvaria | (noun) the dome of the skull | Synonyms: skullcap |
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carpenteria | (noun) California evergreen shrub having glossy opposite leaves and terminal clusters of a few fragrant white flowers | Synonyms: Carpenteria californica |
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carriage | (noun) a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses | Synonyms: equipage, rig |
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(noun) a railcar where passengers ride | Synonyms: coach, passenger car |
(noun) a machine part that carries something else | - |
(noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pram, pushchair, pusher, stroller |
(noun) characteristic way of bearing one's body | Synonyms: bearing, posture |
carriageway | (noun) one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only usually in two or three lanes | - |
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categorial | (adjective) of or relating to the concept of categories | - |
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ceftriaxone | (noun) a parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Rocephin) used for severe infection of the lungs or throat or ears or urinary tract | Synonyms: Rocephin |
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celeriac | (noun) thickened edible aromatic root of a variety of celery plant | Synonyms: celery root |
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(noun) grown for its thickened edible aromatic root | Synonyms: Apium graveolens rapaceum, celery root, knob celery, root celery, turnip-rooted celery |
censorial | (adjective) belonging or relating to a censor or a censor's functions | - |
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centenarian | (adjective) being at least 100 years old | - |
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(noun) someone who is at least 100 years old | - |
cercaria | (noun) tadpole-shaped parasitic larva of a trematode worm; tail disappears in adult stage | - |
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cercarial | (adjective) of or relating to cercaria | - |
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cesarian | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, caesarian, cesarean |
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(noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian section |
cineraria | (noun) herb of Canary Islands widely cultivated for its blue or purple or red or variegated daisylike flowers | Synonyms: Pericallis cruenta, Senecio cruentus |
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clamatorial | (adjective) of or relating to Clamatores | - |
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cnidarian | (noun) radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms | Synonyms: coelenterate |
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combinatorial | (adjective) relating to the combination and arrangement of elements in sets | - |
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(adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatory |