| dosimetry | (noun) measuring the dose of radiation emitted by a radioactive source | - |
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| dowery | (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dower, dowry, portion |
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| dowry | (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dower, dowery, portion |
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| drapery | (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: curtain, drape, mantle, pall |
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| (noun) cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds | - |
| dreary | (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, gloomy, grim, sorry |
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| (adjective) lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise | Synonyms: drab |
| drollery | (noun) a quaint and amusing jest | Synonyms: waggery |
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| (noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: clowning, comedy, funniness |
| dromedary | (noun) one-humped camel of the hot deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia | Synonyms: Arabian camel, Camelus dromedarius |
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| drudgery | (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: donkeywork, grind, plodding |
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| dry | (adjective) free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet | - |
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| (adjective) not producing milk | - |
| (adjective) (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation | - |
| (adjective) opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages | - |
| (adjective) lacking moisture or volatile components | - |
| (adjective) without a mucous or watery discharge | - |
| (adjective) having a large proportion of strong liquor | - |
| (adjective) humorously sarcastic or mocking | Synonyms: ironic, ironical, wry |
| (adjective) practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages | Synonyms: teetotal |
| (adjective) used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones | - |
| (adjective) not shedding tears | - |
| (adjective) lacking warmth or emotional involvement | - |
| (adjective) unproductive especially of the expected results | - |
| (adjective) lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless | Synonyms: juiceless |
| (adjective) (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish | - |
| (adjective) having no adornment or coloration | - |
| (noun) a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: prohibitionist |
| (verb) become dry or drier | Synonyms: dry out |
| (verb) remove the moisture from and make dry | Synonyms: dry out |
| dryad | (noun) a deity or nymph of the woods | Synonyms: wood nymph |
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| drydock | (noun) a large dock from which water can be pumped out; used for building ships or for repairing a ship below its waterline | Synonyms: dry dock, graving dock |
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| (verb) maneuver (a ship) into a drydock | Synonyms: dry-dock |
| dryer | (noun) an appliance that removes moisture | Synonyms: drier |
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| drygoods | (noun) textiles or clothing and related merchandise | Synonyms: soft goods |
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| dryly | (adverb) in a dry laconic manner | Synonyms: drily, laconically |
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| dryness | (noun) objectivity and detachment | Synonyms: dispassion, dispassionateness |
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| (noun) moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or other drugs | Synonyms: sobriety |
| (noun) the condition of not containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water) | Synonyms: waterlessness, xerotes |
| dryopithecine | (noun) considered a possible ancestor to both anthropoid apes and humans | - |
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| drypis | (noun) spiny-leaved perennial herb of southern Europe having terminal clusters of small flowers | - |
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| drywall | (noun) a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses | Synonyms: dry wall, wallboard |
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| dupery | (noun) something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage | Synonyms: fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, put-on |
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| dysentery | (noun) an infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea | - |
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| eatery | (noun) a building where people go to eat | Synonyms: eating house, eating place, restaurant |
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| eery | (adjective) inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening | Synonyms: eerie |
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| effrontery | (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: assumption, presumption, presumptuousness |
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| elderberry | (noun) berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies | - |
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| (noun) a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies | Synonyms: black elder, bourtree, common elder, European elder, Sambucus nigra |
| electrocautery | (noun) application of a needle heated by an electric current to destroy tissue (as to remove warts) | - |
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| electrochemistry | (noun) branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of electricity and the production of electricity by chemical reactions | - |
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| electrosurgery | (noun) surgery performed with electrical devices (as in electrocautery) | - |
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| eleemosynary | (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, benevolent, philanthropic |
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| elementary | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education | - |
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| (adjective) of or being the essential or basic part | Synonyms: basal, elemental, primary |
| (adjective) easy and not involved or complicated | Synonyms: simple, uncomplicated, unproblematic |
| elocutionary | (adjective) of or relating to elocution | - |
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| (adjective) (used of style of speaking) overly embellished | - |
| embroidery | (noun) decorative needlework | Synonyms: fancywork |
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| (noun) elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail | Synonyms: embellishment |
| embryo | (noun) an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life | Synonyms: conceptus, fertilized egg |
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| (noun) (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium | - |
| embryologic | (adjective) of an organism prior to birth or hatching | Synonyms: embryonal, embryonic |
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| embryologist | (noun) a physician who specializes in embryology | - |
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| embryology | (noun) the branch of biology that studies the formation and early development of living organisms | - |
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| embryonal | (adjective) of an organism prior to birth or hatching | Synonyms: embryologic, embryonic |
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| embryonic | (adjective) in an early stage of development | Synonyms: embryotic |
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| (adjective) of an organism prior to birth or hatching | Synonyms: embryologic, embryonal |
| embryotic | (adjective) in an early stage of development | Synonyms: embryonic |
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| emery | (noun) a hard grey-black mineral consisting of corundum and either hematite or magnetite; used as an abrasive (especially as a coating on paper) | - |
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| emissary | (noun) someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else | Synonyms: envoy |
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| encrypt | (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encipher, inscribe, write in code |
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| encryption | (noun) the activity of converting data or information into code | Synonyms: encoding |
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| enginery | (noun) machinery consisting of engines collectively | - |
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| enquiry | (noun) a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest | Synonyms: inquiry |
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| (noun) a search for knowledge | Synonyms: inquiry, research |
| (noun) an instance of questioning | Synonyms: inquiry, interrogation, query, question |
| entry | (noun) the act of entering | Synonyms: entering, entrance, incoming, ingress |
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| (noun) the act of beginning something new | Synonyms: debut, first appearance, introduction, launching, unveiling |
| (noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entrance, entranceway, entree, entryway |
| (noun) something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition) | Synonyms: submission |
| (noun) an item inserted in a written record | - |
| (noun) a written record of a commercial transaction | Synonyms: accounting entry, ledger entry |
| entryphone | (noun) An intercom system which enables someone, without opening the door, to converse with the person who has rung the doorbell. | - |
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| entryway | (noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entrance, entranceway, entree, entry |
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| epistolary | (adjective) written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence | Synonyms: epistolatory |
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| epistolatory | (adjective) written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence | Synonyms: epistolary |
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| equerry | (noun) an official charged with the care of the horses of princes or nobles | - |
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| (noun) a personal attendant of the British royal family | - |
| eryngo | (noun) any plant of the genus Eryngium | Synonyms: eringo |
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| erysipelas | (noun) an acute streptococcal infection characterized by deep-red inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes | - |
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| erythema | (noun) abnormal redness of the skin resulting from dilation of blood vessels (as in sunburn or inflammation) | - |
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| erythematous | (adjective) relating to or characterized by erythema | - |
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| erythrina | (noun) any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds; cultivated as an ornamental | Synonyms: coral tree |
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| erythrite | (noun) a reddish mineral consisting of hydrated cobalt arsenate in monoclinic crystalline form and used in coloring glass; usually found in veins bearing cobalt and arsenic | Synonyms: cobalt bloom |
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| erythroblast | (noun) a nucleated cell in bone marrow from which red blood cells develop | - |
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| erythroblastosis | (noun) a blood disease characterized by the abnormal presence of erythroblasts in the blood | - |
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| erythrocyte | (noun) a mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues; a biconcave disc that has no nucleus | Synonyms: RBC, red blood cell |
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| erythrocytolysin | (noun) any substance that can cause lysis (destruction) of erythrocytes (red blood cells) and the release of their hemoglobin | Synonyms: erythrolysin, haemolysin, hemolysin |
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| erythroderma | (noun) any skin disorder involving abnormal redness | - |
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| erythroid | (adjective) relating to erythrocytes | - |
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| erythrolysin | (noun) any substance that can cause lysis (destruction) of erythrocytes (red blood cells) and the release of their hemoglobin | Synonyms: erythrocytolysin, haemolysin, hemolysin |
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| erythromycin | (noun) an antibiotic (trade name Erythrocin or E-Mycin or Ethril or Ilosone or Pediamycin) obtained from the actinomycete Streptomyces erythreus; effective against many Gram-positive bacteria and some Gram-negative | Synonyms: E-Mycin, Erythrocin, Ethril, Ilosone, Pediamycin |
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| erythropoiesis | (noun) the process of producing red blood cells by the stem cells in the bone marrow | - |
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| erythropoietic | (adjective) of or relating to the formation of red blood cells | - |
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| erythropoietin | (noun) a glycoprotein secreted by the kidneys that stimulates the production of red blood cells | - |
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| estuary | (noun) the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix | - |
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| eucaryote | (noun) an organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria; i.e. an organism with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei in its cells | Synonyms: eukaryote |
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| eucaryotic | (adjective) having cells with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: eukaryotic |
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| eukaryote | (noun) an organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria; i.e. an organism with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei in its cells | Synonyms: eucaryote |
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| eukaryotic | (adjective) having cells with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: eucaryotic |
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| euphory | (noun) a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation | Synonyms: euphoria |
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| eurypterid | (noun) large extinct scorpion-like arthropod considered related to horseshoe crabs | - |
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| eurythmics | (noun) the interpretation in harmonious bodily movements of the rhythm of musical compositions; used to teach musical understanding | Synonyms: eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmy |
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| eurythmy | (noun) the interpretation in harmonious bodily movements of the rhythm of musical compositions; used to teach musical understanding | Synonyms: eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmics |
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| every | (adjective) (used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception | - |
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| (adjective) each and all of a series of entities or intervals as specified | - |
| everyday | (adjective) commonplace and ordinary | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: casual, daily |
| (adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday |
| everydayness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonness, commonplaceness |
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| everyman | (noun) the ordinary person | - |
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| everyplace | (adverb) to or in any or all places; pronoun, location; quantifier: universal | Synonyms: all over, everywhere |
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| everything | (noun) all things that are of importance to a person | - |
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| everywhere | (adverb) to or in any or all places; pronoun, location; quantifier: universal | Synonyms: all over, everyplace |
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| evidentiary | (adjective) pertaining to or constituting evidence | - |
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| (adjective) serving as or based on evidence | Synonyms: evidential |
| evolutionary | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by evolution | - |
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| excitatory | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitant, excitative |
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| exclamatory | (adjective) sudden and strong | Synonyms: emphatic |
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| excretory | (adjective) of or relating to the process of excretion | - |
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| exculpatory | (adjective) clearing of guilt or blame | - |
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| excusatory | (adjective) offering or expressing apology | Synonyms: apologetic |
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| exemplary | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, cautionary, monitory, warning |
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| (adjective) being or serving as an illustration of a type | Synonyms: emblematic, typic |
| (adjective) worthy of imitation | Synonyms: model |
| exhortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, hortative, hortatory |
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| expeditionary | (adjective) (used of military forces) designed for military operations abroad | - |
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| expiatory | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiative, propitiatory |
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| expiratory | (adjective) of or relating to the breathing out phase of respiration | - |
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| expiry | (noun) the event of dying or departure from life | Synonyms: death, decease |
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| (noun) a coming to an end of a contract period | Synonyms: expiration, termination |
| explanatory | (adjective) serving or intended to explain or make clear | - |
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| exploitatory | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitative, exploitive |
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| exploratory | (adjective) serving in or intended for exploration or discovery | Synonyms: explorative |
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| expository | (adjective) serving to expound or set forth | Synonyms: expositive |
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