bismuth | (noun) a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals | Synonyms: atomic number 83, Bi |
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bismuthal | (adjective) of or relating to bismuth | - |
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bismuthic | (adjective) containing bismuth (especially in the pentavalent state) | - |
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cornsmut | (noun) a smut fungus attacking Indian corn | Synonyms: corn smut |
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smut | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: erotica, porn, porno, pornography |
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(noun) an offensive or indecent word or phrase | Synonyms: dirty word, filth, obscenity, vulgarism |
(noun) any fungus of the order Ustilaginales | Synonyms: smut fungus |
(noun) destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores | - |
(noun) a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink | Synonyms: carbon black, crock, lampblack, soot |
(verb) affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn | - |
(verb) stain with a dirty substance, such as soot | - |
(verb) become affected with smut | - |
(verb) make obscene | - |
smutch | (verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging | Synonyms: blur, smear, smudge |
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smuttily | (adverb) in a smutty manner | Synonyms: vulgarly |
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smuttiness | (noun) obscenity in speech or writing | Synonyms: dirtiness |
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(noun) the state of being dirty with soot | Synonyms: sootiness |
smutty | (adjective) soiled with dirt or soot | Synonyms: black |
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(adjective) characterized by obscenity | Synonyms: cruddy, filthy, foul, nasty |
transmutability | (noun) the quality of being commutable | Synonyms: commutability |
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transmutable | (adjective) capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy | Synonyms: convertible, transformable, translatable |
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transmutation | (noun) an act that changes the form or character or substance of something | Synonyms: transubstantiation |
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(noun) a qualitative change | Synonyms: shift, transformation |
(noun) (physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment) | - |
transmute | (verb) change in outward structure or looks | Synonyms: metamorphose, transform |
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(verb) alter the nature of (elements) | - |
(verb) change or alter in form, appearance, or nature | Synonyms: transform, transubstantiate |
untransmutable | (adjective) not capable of being changed into something else | Synonyms: inconvertible |
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