| disappointingly | (adverb) in a disappointing manner | - |
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| disappointment | (noun) an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone | Synonyms: dashing hopes |
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| (noun) a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized | Synonyms: letdown |
| disapprobation | (noun) an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable | Synonyms: condemnation |
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| disapproval | (noun) the act of disapproving or condemning | - |
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| (noun) an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group | Synonyms: disfavor, disfavour, dislike |
| (noun) the expression of disapproval | - |
| (noun) a feeling of disliking something or what someone is doing | - |
| disapprove | (verb) consider bad or wrong | - |
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| (verb) deem wrong or inappropriate | Synonyms: reject |
| disapproving | (adjective) expressing or manifesting disapproval | - |
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| disapprovingly | (adverb) showing disapproval | - |
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| disarm | (verb) remove offensive capability from | Synonyms: demilitarise, demilitarize |
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| (verb) take away the weapons from; render harmless | Synonyms: unarm |
| (verb) make less hostile; win over | - |
| disarmament | (noun) act of reducing or depriving of arms | Synonyms: disarming |
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| disarmer | (noun) someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes | Synonyms: pacificist, pacifist |
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| disarming | (adjective) capable of allaying hostility | - |
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| (noun) act of reducing or depriving of arms | Synonyms: disarmament |
| disarrange | (verb) disturb the arrangement of | - |
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| (verb) destroy the arrangement or order of | - |
| disarranged | (adjective) having the arrangement disturbed; not in order | - |
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| disarrangement | (noun) a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted | Synonyms: disorganisation, disorganization |
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| disarray | (noun) untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance) | Synonyms: disorderliness |
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| (noun) a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior | Synonyms: confusedness, confusion, mental confusion, muddiness |
| (verb) bring disorder to | Synonyms: disorder |
| disarrayed | (adjective) in disarray | - |
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| disarticulate | (verb) separate at the joints | Synonyms: disjoint |
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| disassemble | (verb) take apart into its constituent pieces | Synonyms: break apart, break up, dismantle, take apart |
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| disassembly | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: dismantlement, dismantling |
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| disassociate | (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divorce |
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| disassociation | (noun) a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently | Synonyms: dissociation |
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| (noun) the state of being unconnected in memory or imagination | - |
| disaster | (noun) an act that has disastrous consequences | - |
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| (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | Synonyms: calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, tragedy |
| (noun) a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune | Synonyms: catastrophe |
| disastrous | (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, calamitous, fatal, fateful |
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| disastrously | (adverb) in a disastrous manner | - |
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| disavow | (verb) refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with | - |
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| disavowable | (adjective) capable of being disavowed | - |
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| disavowal | (noun) denial of any connection with or knowledge of | Synonyms: disclaimer |
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| disbursal | (noun) the act of spending or disbursing money | Synonyms: disbursement, outlay, spending |
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| (noun) amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) | Synonyms: disbursement, expense |
| discussant | (noun) a participant in a formal discussion | - |
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| dismissal | (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
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| (noun) a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial | Synonyms: judgement of dismissal, judgment of dismissal |
| (noun) official notice that you have been fired from your job | Synonyms: dismission, pink slip |
| (noun) permission to go; the sending away of someone | - |
| disorganisation | (noun) the disturbance of a systematic arrangement causing disorder and confusion | Synonyms: disorganization |
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| (noun) a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted | Synonyms: disarrangement, disorganization |
| dispensability | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you can get along without | Synonyms: dispensableness |
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| dispensable | (adjective) capable of being dispensed with or done without | - |
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| dispensableness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you can get along without | Synonyms: dispensability |
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| dispensary | (noun) clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed | - |
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| dispensation | (noun) the act of dispensing (giving out in portions) | - |
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| (noun) an exemption from some rule or obligation | - |
| (noun) a share that has been dispensed or distributed | - |
| dispersal | (noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something | Synonyms: diffusion, dispersion, dissemination |
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| disposable | (adjective) designed to be disposed of after use | - |
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| (adjective) free or available for use or disposition | - |
| (noun) an item that can be disposed of after it has been used | - |
| disposal | (noun) the act or means of getting rid of something | Synonyms: disposition |
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| (noun) a method of tending to or managing the affairs of some group of people (especially the group's business affairs) | Synonyms: administration |
| (noun) a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage | Synonyms: electric pig, garbage disposal |
| (noun) the power to use something or someone | - |
| dissatisfaction | (noun) the feeling of being displeased and discontent | - |
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| dissatisfactory | (adjective) not up to expectations | Synonyms: disappointing, unsatisfying |
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| dissatisfied | (adjective) in a state of sulky dissatisfaction | Synonyms: disgruntled |
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| dissatisfy | (verb) fail to satisfy | - |
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| dorsal | (adjective) belonging to or on or near the back or upper surface of an animal or organ or part | - |
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| (adjective) facing away from the axis of an organ or organism | Synonyms: abaxial |
| dorsally | (adverb) in a dorsal location or direction | - |
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| dosage | (noun) a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time | Synonyms: dose |
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| (noun) the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time | Synonyms: dose |
| dossal | (noun) an ornamental hanging of rich fabric hung behind the altar of a church or at the sides of a chancel | Synonyms: dossel |
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| dramatisation | (noun) a dramatic representation | Synonyms: dramatization |
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| (noun) conversion into dramatic form | Synonyms: dramatization |
| dressage | (noun) maneuvers of a horse in response to body signals by the rider | - |
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| dromaeosaur | (noun) a kind of maniraptor | - |
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| dysaphia | (noun) a disorder in the sense of touch | - |
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| dysarthria | (noun) impaired articulatory ability resulting from defects in the peripheral motor nerves or in the speech musculature | - |
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| edaphosaurus | (noun) heavy-bodied reptile with a dorsal sail or crest; of the late Paleozoic | - |
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| edmontosaurus | (noun) duck-billed dinosaur from Canada found as a fossilized mummy with skin | - |
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| embassador | (noun) a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another | Synonyms: ambassador |
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| emissary | (noun) someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else | Synonyms: envoy |
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| endopsammon | (noun) The microscopic fauna of sand and mud. | - |
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| enthronisation | (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: coronation, enthronement, enthronization, investiture |
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| envisage | (verb) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | Synonyms: conceive of, ideate, imagine |
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| epipsammon | (noun) Microscopic flora and fauna found on the surface of and/or attached to sand grains. | - |
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| equalisation | (noun) the act of making equal or uniform | Synonyms: equalization, leveling |
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| erasable | (adjective) capable of being effaced | Synonyms: effaceable |
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| ersatz | (adjective) artificial and inferior | Synonyms: substitute |
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| (noun) an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation | - |
| espousal | (noun) the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception | Synonyms: acceptance, acceptation, adoption |
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| (noun) archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast | Synonyms: bridal |
| (noun) the act of becoming betrothed or engaged | Synonyms: betrothal |
| essay | (noun) a tentative attempt | - |
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| (noun) an analytic or interpretive literary composition | - |
| (verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: assay, attempt, seek, try |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: examine, prove, test, try, try out |
| essayer | (noun) one who tries | Synonyms: attempter, trier |
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| essayist | (noun) a writer of literary works | Synonyms: litterateur |
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| excusable | (adjective) capable of being overlooked | - |
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| (adjective) easily excused or forgiven | Synonyms: forgivable, venial |
| excusably | (adverb) in an excusable manner or to an excusable degree | Synonyms: forgivably, pardonably |
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| excusatory | (adjective) offering or expressing apology | Synonyms: apologetic |
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| expressage | (noun) rapid transport of goods | Synonyms: express |
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| exsanguine | (adjective) destitute of blood or apparently so | Synonyms: bloodless, exsanguinous |
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| exsanguinous | (adjective) destitute of blood or apparently so | Synonyms: bloodless, exsanguine |
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| extemporisation | (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporization, improvisation |
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| exteriorisation | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorization, externalisation, externalization |
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| externalisation | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, exteriorization, externalization |
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| (noun) attributing to outside causes | Synonyms: externalization |
| extravasate | (verb) cause molten material, such as lava, to pour forth | - |
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| (verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: belch, erupt |
| (verb) force out or cause to escape from a proper vessel or channel | - |
| extravasation | (noun) the process of exuding or passing out of a vessel into surrounding tissues; said of blood or lymph or urine | - |
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| (noun) (of volcanoes) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed) | Synonyms: eructation, eruption |
| (noun) an extravasated liquid (blood or lymph or urine); the product of extravasation | - |
| factorisation | (noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression | Synonyms: factoring, factorization |
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| familiarisation | (noun) the experience of becoming familiar with something | Synonyms: familiarization |
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| federalisation | (noun) the act of being put under federal control | Synonyms: federalization |
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| (noun) the state of being under federal control | Synonyms: federalization |
| feminisation | (noun) the process of becoming feminized; the development of female characteristics (loss of facial hair or breast enlargement) in a male because of hormonal disorders or castration | Synonyms: feminization |
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| fertilisation | (noun) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | Synonyms: fecundation, fertilization, impregnation |
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| (noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: dressing, fecundation, fertilization |
| fictionalisation | (noun) writing in a fictional form | Synonyms: fabrication, fictionalization |
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| (noun) a literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction | Synonyms: fictionalization |
| finalisation | (noun) the act of finalizing | Synonyms: finalization |
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| flindosa | (noun) tall Australian timber tree yielding tough hard wood used for staves etc | Synonyms: Flindersia australis, flindosy, native beech |
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| flotsam | (noun) the floating wreckage of a ship | Synonyms: jetsam |
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| fluoridisation | (noun) the addition of a fluoride to the water supply (to prevent dental decay) | Synonyms: fluoridation, fluoridization |
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| focalisation | (noun) the act of bringing into focus | Synonyms: focalization, focusing |
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| (noun) the confinement of an infection to a limited area | Synonyms: focalization |
| foresail | (noun) the lowest sail on the foremast of a square-rigged vessel | - |
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| formalisation | (noun) the act of making formal (as by stating formal rules governing classes of expressions) | Synonyms: formalization |
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| forsake | (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: abandon, desert, desolate |
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| forsaking | (noun) the act of giving something up | Synonyms: abandonment, desertion |
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| (noun) the act of forsaking | Synonyms: giving up |
| fossa | (noun) largest carnivore of Madagascar; intermediate in some respects between cats and civets | Synonyms: Cryptoprocta ferox, fossa cat |
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| (noun) a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression) | Synonyms: pit |
| fossilisation | (noun) becoming inflexible or out of date | Synonyms: fossilization |
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| (noun) the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone | Synonyms: fossilization |
| fraternisation | (noun) associating with others in a brotherly or friendly way; especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternization |
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| fretsaw | (noun) fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines | Synonyms: jigsaw, scroll saw |
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| fusain | (noun) a stick of black carbon material used for drawing | Synonyms: charcoal |
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| gaffsail | (noun) a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff | Synonyms: gaff-headed sail |
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| gainsay | (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: challenge, dispute |
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