adventuristic | (adjective) of or pertaining to adventurism | - |
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agriculturist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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amorist | (noun) one dedicated to love and lovemaking especially one who writes about love | - |
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amoristic | (adjective) of or pertaining to romantic love | - |
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aorist | (noun) a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation | - |
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aoristic | (adjective) of or relating to the aorist tense | - |
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aphorist | (noun) someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms | - |
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aphoristic | (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: axiomatic |
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(adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: apothegmatic, epigrammatic |
apiarist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiculturist, beekeeper |
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apiculturist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, beekeeper |
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arboriculturist | (noun) someone trained in forestry | Synonyms: forester, tree farmer |
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arborist | (noun) a specialist in treating damaged trees | Synonyms: tree surgeon |
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arista | (noun) bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies | - |
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aristocracy | (noun) a privileged class holding hereditary titles | Synonyms: nobility |
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(noun) the most powerful members of a society | Synonyms: gentry |
aristocrat | (noun) a member of the aristocracy | Synonyms: blue blood, patrician |
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aristocratic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratical, blue-blooded, blue, gentle, patrician |
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aristocratical | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, blue-blooded, blue, gentle, patrician |
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aristocratically | (adverb) in an aristocratic manner | - |
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aristocratism | (noun) the principles, practices or characteristics of aristocracy. | - |
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barrister | (noun) a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution | - |
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behaviorist | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behavioristic, behaviourist, behaviouristic |
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(noun) a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviourist |
behavioristic | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behaviourist, behaviouristic |
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behaviourist | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behavioristic, behaviouristic |
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(noun) a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist |
behaviouristic | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behavioristic, behaviourist |
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belletristic | (adjective) written and regarded for aesthetic value rather than content | - |
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bristle | (noun) a stiff hair | - |
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(noun) a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic | - |
(verb) react in an offended or angry manner | - |
(verb) rise up as in fear | Synonyms: stand up, uprise |
(verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: abound, burst |
(verb) have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles | - |
bristled | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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bristlegrass | (noun) grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet | Synonyms: bristle grass |
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bristlelike | (adjective) resembling a bristle | - |
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bristletail | (noun) small wingless insect with a long bristlelike tail | - |
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bristliness | (noun) the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines | Synonyms: prickliness, spininess, thorniness |
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bristly | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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(adjective) very irritable | Synonyms: prickly, splenetic, waspish |
careerist | (noun) a professional who is intent on furthering his or her career by any possible means and often at the expense of their own integrity | - |
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caricaturist | (noun) someone who parodies in an exaggerated manner | - |
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centrist | (adjective) supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative | Synonyms: middle-of-the-road |
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(noun) a person who takes a position in the political center | Synonyms: middle of the roader, moderate, moderationist |
characteristic | (adjective) typical or distinctive | - |
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(noun) a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something | - |
(noun) any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions | Synonyms: device characteristic |
(noun) a prominent attribute or aspect of something | Synonyms: feature |
(noun) the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2 | - |
characteristically | (adverb) in characteristic manner | - |
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characteristicness | (noun) The quality or state of being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing. | - |
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chorister | (noun) a singer in a choir | - |
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christ | (noun) any expected deliverer | Synonyms: messiah |
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christella | (noun) any of several tropical ferns of the genus Christella having thin brittle fronds | - |
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christen | (verb) administer baptism to | Synonyms: baptise, baptize |
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christening | (noun) giving a Christian name at baptism | - |
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christian | (adjective) following the teachings or manifesting the qualities or spirit of Jesus Christ | - |
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christianly | (adjective) becoming to or like a Christian | - |
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christless | (adjective) not believing in Christ | Synonyms: nonchristian |
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christlike | (adjective) resembling or showing the spirit of Christ | Synonyms: christly |
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christly | (adjective) resembling or showing the spirit of Christ | Synonyms: christlike |
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colorist | (noun) a painter able to achieve special effects with color | - |
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counterterrorist | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterror |
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(noun) someone who attempts to prevent terrorism | - |
cristal | (noun) street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine | Synonyms: Adam, disco biscuit, ecstasy, go, hug drug, X, XTC |
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cristobalite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of silica; found in volcanic rocks | - |
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czarist | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a czar | Synonyms: czaristic, tsarist, tsaristic, tzarist |
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czaristic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a czar | Synonyms: czarist, tsarist, tsaristic, tzarist |
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denturist | (noun) someone who makes dental appliances (bridges and dentures) | Synonyms: dental technician |
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diarist | (noun) someone who keeps a diary or journal | Synonyms: diary keeper, journalist |
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econometrist | (noun) an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods | Synonyms: econometrician |
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eristic | (adjective) given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments | Synonyms: eristical |
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(noun) the art of logical disputation (especially if specious) | - |
(noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: controversialist, disputant |
eristical | (adjective) given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments | Synonyms: eristic |
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florist | (noun) a shop where flowers and ornamental plants are sold | Synonyms: florist shop, flower store |
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(noun) someone who grows and deals in flowers | - |
futurist | (adjective) of or relating to futurism | Synonyms: futuristic |
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(noun) someone who predicts the future | Synonyms: fantast |
(noun) a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) will be fulfilled in the future | - |
futuristic | (adjective) of or relating to futurism | Synonyms: futurist |
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futuristics | (noun) the study or prediction of future developments on the basis of existing conditions | Synonyms: futurology |
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glossarist | (noun) a scholiast who writes glosses or glossaries | - |
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grist | (noun) grain intended to be or that has been ground | - |
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gristle | (noun) tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults | Synonyms: cartilage |
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gristly | (adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: cartilaginous, rubbery |
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gristmill | (noun) a mill for grinding grain (especially the customer's own grain) | - |
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guitarist | (noun) a musician who plays the guitar | Synonyms: guitar player |
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heuristic | (adjective) of or relating to or using a general formulation that serves to guide investigation | - |
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(noun) a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem | Synonyms: heuristic program, heuristic rule |
horticulturist | (noun) an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants) | Synonyms: plantsman |
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humorist | (noun) someone who acts, speaks or writes in an amusing way | Synonyms: humourist |
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humourist | (noun) someone who acts, speaks or writes in an amusing way | Synonyms: humorist |
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jurist | (noun) a legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations | Synonyms: legal expert |
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(noun) a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice | Synonyms: judge, justice |
juristic | (adjective) of or relating to law or to legal rights and obligations | Synonyms: jural |
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lapidarist | (noun) an expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them | Synonyms: lapidary |
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lepidopterist | (noun) an entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths | Synonyms: butterfly collector, lepidopterologist |
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lyrist | (noun) a person who writes the words for songs | Synonyms: lyricist |
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manicurist | (noun) a beautician who cleans and trims and polishes the fingernails | - |
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meliorist | (noun) a disputant who advocates reform | Synonyms: crusader, reformer, reformist, social reformer |
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meristem | (noun) undifferentiated tissue from which new cells are formed, as at the tip of a stem or root | - |
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mesmerist | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotist, hypnotizer, mesmerizer |
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mifepristone | (noun) an abortion-inducing drug (trade name RU 486) developed in France; when taken during the first five weeks of pregnancy it blocks the action of progesterone so that the uterus sloughs off the embryo | Synonyms: abortion pill, RU 486 |
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militarist | (noun) a person who advocates war or warlike policies | Synonyms: warmonger |
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militaristic | (adjective) imbued with militarism | - |
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millenarist | (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: chiliast, millenarian |
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miniaturist | (noun) someone who paints tiny pictures in great detail | - |
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monetarist | (noun) an advocate of the theory that economic fluctuations are caused by increases or decreases in the supply of money | - |
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motorist | (noun) someone who drives (or travels in) an automobile | Synonyms: automobilist |
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naturist | (noun) a person who practices nudity for reasons of health or religion | Synonyms: nudist |
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naturistic | (adjective) in accord with naturism | - |
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nonchristian | (adjective) not believing in Christ | Synonyms: christless |
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optometrist | (noun) a person skilled in testing for defects of vision in order to prescribe corrective glasses | Synonyms: oculist |
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panegyrist | (noun) an orator who delivers eulogies or panegyrics | Synonyms: eulogist |
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particularistic | (adjective) relating to particularism (exclusive interest in one group or class or sect etc.) | - |
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patristic | (adjective) of or relating to the writings of the early church fathers | Synonyms: patristical |
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patristical | (adjective) of or relating to the writings of the early church fathers | Synonyms: patristic |
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patristics | (noun) the study of the lives, writings, and doctrines of the Church Fathers | Synonyms: patrology |
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(noun) the writings of the early Church Fathers | Synonyms: patrology |
pediatrist | (noun) a specialist in the care of babies | Synonyms: baby doctor, paediatrician, pediatrician |
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peristalsis | (noun) the process of wavelike muscle contractions of the alimentary tract that moves food along | Synonyms: vermiculation |
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