| extemporary | (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extempore, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhand, offhanded, unrehearsed |
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| extraordinary | (adjective) beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable; special | - |
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| (adjective) far more than usual or expected | Synonyms: over-the-top, sinful |
| (adjective) (of an official) serving an unusual or special function in addition to those of the regular officials | - |
| extrasensory | (adjective) seemingly outside normal sensory channels | Synonyms: paranormal |
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| eyry | (noun) any habitation at a high altitude | Synonyms: aerie, aery, eyrie |
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| (noun) the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle) | Synonyms: aerie, aery, eyrie |
| facilitatory | (adjective) inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity | - |
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| factory | (noun) a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing | Synonyms: manufactory, manufacturing plant, mill |
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| faery | (noun) the enchanted realm of fairies | Synonyms: faerie, fairyland |
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| (noun) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers | Synonyms: faerie, fairy, fay, sprite |
| fairy | (noun) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers | Synonyms: faerie, faery, fay, sprite |
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| (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
| fairyland | (noun) something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality) | Synonyms: fantasy world, phantasy world |
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| (noun) the enchanted realm of fairies | Synonyms: faerie, faery |
| fairytale | (noun) a story about fairies; told to amuse children | Synonyms: fairy story, fairy tale |
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| (noun) an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse | Synonyms: cock-and-bull story, fairy story, fairy tale, song and dance |
| fakery | (noun) the act of faking (or the product of faking) | - |
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| falconry | (noun) the art of training falcons to hunt and return | - |
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| farkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: sparkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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| feathery | (adjective) adorned with feathers or plumes | Synonyms: feathered, plumy |
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| (adjective) characterized by a covering of feathers | - |
| (adjective) resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers | Synonyms: featherlike |
| femtochemistry | (noun) the branch of chemistry that studies elementary (often very fast) chemical reactions as they occur; the experimental methods are often based on the use of femtosecond laser pulses | - |
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| ferry | (noun) transport by boat or aircraft | Synonyms: ferrying |
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| (noun) a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule | Synonyms: ferryboat |
| (verb) travel by ferry | - |
| (verb) transport by ferry | - |
| (verb) transport from one place to another | - |
| ferryboat | (noun) a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule | Synonyms: ferry |
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| ferrying | (noun) transport by boat or aircraft | Synonyms: ferry |
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| ferryman | (noun) a man who operates a ferry | - |
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| feryaz | (noun) a broad kaftan with long sleeves, worn by the nobility in Russia in the 16th and 17th centuries. | - |
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| festoonery | (noun) flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration | Synonyms: festoon |
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| fetometry | (noun) measurement of a fetus (especially the diameter of the head) | Synonyms: foetometry |
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| feudatory | (adjective) of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord | - |
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| (adjective) owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign | - |
| (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: liege, liege subject, liegeman, vassal |
| fiduciary | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another) | Synonyms: fiducial |
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| (noun) a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary | - |
| fiery | (adjective) like or suggestive of fire | Synonyms: igneous |
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| (adjective) passionate or quick-tempered | Synonyms: flaming |
| (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: ardent, fervent, fervid, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
| finery | (noun) elaborate or showy attire and accessories | - |
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| fishery | (noun) a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold | Synonyms: piscary |
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| flattery | (noun) excessive or insincere praise | - |
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| floury | (adjective) resembling flour in fine powdery texture | - |
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| flowery | (adjective) of or relating to or suggestive of flowers | - |
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| (adjective) marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details | Synonyms: ornate |
| flummery | (noun) meaningless ceremonies and flattery | Synonyms: mummery |
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| (noun) a bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal | - |
| flurry | (noun) a rapid active commotion | Synonyms: ado, bustle, fuss, hustle, stir |
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| (noun) a light brief snowfall and gust of wind (or something resembling that) | Synonyms: snow flurry |
| (verb) cause to feel embarrassment | Synonyms: confuse, disconcert, put off |
| (verb) move in an agitated or confused manner | - |
| foetometry | (noun) measurement of a fetus (especially the diameter of the head) | Synonyms: fetometry |
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| foolery | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, indulgence, lunacy, tomfoolery |
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| forestry | (noun) the science of planting and caring for forests and the management of growing timber | - |
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| forgery | (noun) criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud | - |
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| (noun) a copy that is represented as the original | Synonyms: counterfeit |
| formicary | (noun) a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest | Synonyms: anthill |
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| formulary | (adjective) of or relating to or of the nature of a formula | - |
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| (noun) (pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation | Synonyms: pharmacopeia |
| foryml | (noun) (chemistry) the negative univalent acyl radical CHO that occurs in aldehydes | - |
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| foundry | (noun) factory where metal castings are produced | Synonyms: metalworks |
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| foxberry | (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, lingberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
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| fragmentary | (adjective) consisting of small disconnected parts | Synonyms: fragmental |
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| freemasonry | (noun) a natural or instinctive fellowship between people of similar interests | - |
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| friary | (noun) a monastery of friars | - |
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| frippery | (noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: bagatelle, fluff, frivolity |
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| fritillary | (noun) butterfly with brownish wings marked with black and silver | - |
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| (noun) any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria having nodding variously colored flowers | Synonyms: checkered lily |
| fry | (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
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| (verb) cook in hot fat or oil | - |
| (verb) kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair | Synonyms: electrocute |
| (verb) be excessively hot | - |
| fryer | (noun) A kitchen appliance for deep frying; its size depends on intended use. | Synonyms: deep fat fryer, deep fryer, frier, fryolator |
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| (noun) flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying | Synonyms: frier, pullet |
| frying | (noun) cooking in fat or oil in a pan or griddle | Synonyms: sauteing |
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| fryolator | (noun) A kitchen appliance for deep frying; its size depends on intended use. | Synonyms: deep fat fryer, deep fryer, frier, fryer |
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| frypan | (noun) a pan used for frying foods | Synonyms: frying pan, skillet |
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| fumitory | (noun) delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: Fumaria officinalis, fumeroot, fumewort |
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| functionary | (noun) a worker who holds or is invested with an office | Synonyms: official |
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| funerary | (adjective) of or for or relating to a funeral | - |
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| furry | (adjective) covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs | Synonyms: furred |
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| fury | (noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, vehemence, violence, wildness |
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| (noun) a feeling of intense anger | Synonyms: madness, rage |
| (noun) state of violent mental agitation | Synonyms: craze, delirium, frenzy, hysteria |
| gadgetry | (noun) appliances collectively | - |
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| gallantry | (noun) polite attentiveness to women | - |
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| (noun) the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle) | Synonyms: heroism, valiance, valiancy, valor, valorousness, valour |
| (noun) courtesy towards women | Synonyms: chivalry, politesse |
| gallberry | (noun) evergreen holly of eastern North America with oblong leathery leaves and small black berries | Synonyms: evergreen winterberry, gall-berry, Ilex glabra, inkberry |
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| gallery | (noun) narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade | - |
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| (noun) a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns) | - |
| (noun) a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose | - |
| (noun) a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited | Synonyms: art gallery, picture gallery |
| (noun) a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) | Synonyms: veranda, verandah |
| (noun) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine | Synonyms: drift, heading |
| (noun) spectators at a golf or tennis match | - |
| gallimaufry | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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| gantry | (noun) a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc. | Synonyms: gauntry |
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| gaudery | (noun) cheap or pretentious or vain display | Synonyms: pomp |
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| gauntry | (noun) a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc. | Synonyms: gantry |
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| gendarmery | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmerie |
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| genitourinary | (adjective) of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions | Synonyms: GU |
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| gentry | (noun) the most powerful members of a society | Synonyms: aristocracy |
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| geochemistry | (noun) the chemistry of the earth's crust | - |
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| geometry | (noun) the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces | - |
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| geostationary | (adjective) of or having a geosynchronous orbit such that the position in such an orbit is fixed with respect to the earth | - |
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| gerrymander | (noun) an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage) | - |
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| (verb) divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts | - |
| gharry | (noun) a horse-drawn carriage in India | - |
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| gimcrackery | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery |
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| gimmickry | (noun) a collection of gimmicks | - |
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| gingery | (adjective) (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color | Synonyms: ginger |
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| (adjective) having a taste like that of ginger | - |
| glary | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring |
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| glimmery | (adjective) shining softly and intermittently | - |
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| glittery | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| glory | (noun) brilliant radiant beauty | Synonyms: resplendence, resplendency |
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| (noun) an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint | Synonyms: aura, aureole, gloriole, halo, nimbus |
| (noun) a state of high honor | Synonyms: glorification |
| (verb) rejoice proudly | - |
| glossary | (noun) an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field | Synonyms: gloss |
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| glossopharyngeal | (adjective) pertaining to the tongue and throat | - |
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| glyceryl | (noun) a trivalent radical derived from glycerol by removing the three hydroxyl radicals | - |
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| goldsmithery | (noun) the work, art, or trade of a one who makes or deals in articles of gold. | - |
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| gooseberry | (noun) currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies | - |
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| (noun) spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries | Synonyms: gooseberry bush, Ribes grossularia, Ribes uva-crispa |
| gory | (adjective) covered with blood | Synonyms: bloodstained |
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| (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous |
| gradatory | (adjective) taking place by degrees | Synonyms: gradational, graduated |
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| grammatolatry | (noun) the worship of words | Synonyms: verbolatry, word-worship |
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| granary | (noun) a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed | Synonyms: garner |
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| gratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: congratulatory |
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| gravimetry | (noun) the measurement of specific gravity | Synonyms: hydrometry |
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| greenery | (noun) green foliage | Synonyms: verdure |
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| greengrocery | (noun) a greengrocer's grocery store | - |
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| (noun) groceries sold by a greengrocer | - |
| grocery | (noun) a marketplace where groceries are sold | Synonyms: food market, grocery store, market |
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| (noun) (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer | Synonyms: foodstuff |
| grotesquery | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesqueness, grotesquerie |
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| groundberry | (noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia | Synonyms: Astroloma humifusum, cranberry heath, ground-berry, native cranberry, Styphelia humifusum |
| grouseberry | (noun) shrub of northwestern North America bearing red berries | Synonyms: grouse-berry, grouse whortleberry, Vaccinium scoparium |
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| gryphon | (noun) winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion | Synonyms: griffin, griffon |
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| gunnery | (noun) guns collectively | - |
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| gustatory | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatorial |
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| gynaeolatry | (noun) the worship of women | Synonyms: gyneolatry, woman-worship |
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