| institution | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, introduction, origination |
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| (noun) an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated | - |
| (noun) a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person | Synonyms: asylum, insane asylum, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital |
| (noun) a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society | - |
| (noun) an organization founded and united for a specific purpose | Synonyms: establishment |
| institutional | (adjective) organized as or forming an institution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or constituting or involving an institution | - |
| (adjective) characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative | Synonyms: uninteresting |
| institutionalise | (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalize, send |
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| institutionalised | (adjective) officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution | Synonyms: institutionalized |
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| (adjective) given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system | Synonyms: institutionalized |
| institutionalize | (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalise, send |
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| institutionalized | (adjective) officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution | Synonyms: institutionalised |
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| (adjective) given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system | Synonyms: institutionalised |
| institutionally | (adverb) by an institution | - |
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| interesting | (adjective) arousing or holding the attention | - |
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| interestingly | (adverb) in an interesting manner | - |
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| interestingness | (noun) the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.) | Synonyms: interest |
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| internationalistic | (adjective) influenced by or advocating internationalism | Synonyms: internationalist |
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| interscholastic | (adjective) used of competition or cooperation between secondary schools | Synonyms: interschool |
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| interstice | (noun) small opening between things | - |
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| (noun) a small structural space between tissues or parts of an organ | - |
| interstitial | (adjective) of or relating to interstices | - |
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| intestinal | (adjective) of or relating to or inside the intestines | Synonyms: enteral, enteric |
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| intestine | (noun) the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus | Synonyms: bowel, gut |
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| intralinguistic | (adjective) within a particular language | - |
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| investigate | (verb) investigate scientifically | Synonyms: look into |
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| (verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: enquire, inquire |
| investigating | (noun) the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically | Synonyms: investigation |
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| investigation | (noun) the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically | Synonyms: investigating |
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| (noun) an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities | Synonyms: probe |
| investigative | (adjective) designed to find information or ascertain facts | Synonyms: fact-finding, investigatory |
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| investigator | (noun) someone who investigates | - |
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| (noun) a scientist who devotes himself to doing research | Synonyms: research worker, researcher |
| (noun) a police officer who investigates crimes | Synonyms: detective, police detective, tec |
| investigatory | (adjective) designed to find information or ascertain facts | Synonyms: fact-finding, investigative |
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| investing | (noun) the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit | Synonyms: investment |
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| investiture | (noun) the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank | Synonyms: investment |
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| (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: coronation, enthronement, enthronisation, enthronization |
| irresistibility | (noun) the quality of being overpowering and impossible to resist | Synonyms: irresistibleness |
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| irresistible | (adjective) impossible to resist; overpowering | Synonyms: resistless |
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| (adjective) overpoweringly attractive | - |
| irresistibleness | (noun) the quality of being overpowering and impossible to resist | Synonyms: irresistibility |
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| irresistibly | (adverb) incapable of being resisted | Synonyms: overpoweringly, overwhelmingly |
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| isolationistic | (adjective) of or relating to isolationism | Synonyms: isolationist |
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| jesting | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jocose, jocular, joking |
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| jestingly | (adverb) in jest | Synonyms: jokingly |
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| jingoistic | (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: chauvinistic, flag-waving, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
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| journalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or having the characteristics of journalism | - |
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| journalistically | (adverb) by journalists | - |
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| joystick | (noun) a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane | Synonyms: control stick, stick |
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| (noun) a manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions; used as an input device to computers or to devices controlled by computers | - |
| juristic | (adjective) of or relating to law or to legal rights and obligations | Synonyms: jural |
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| justice | (noun) judgment involved in the determination of rights and the assignment of rewards and punishments | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being just or fair | Synonyms: justness |
| (noun) a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice | Synonyms: judge, jurist |
| justiciar | (noun) formerly a high judicial officer | Synonyms: justiciary |
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| justiciary | (noun) the jurisdiction of a justiciar | - |
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| (noun) formerly a high judicial officer | Synonyms: justiciar |
| justifiable | (adjective) capable of being justified | - |
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| justifiably | (adverb) with good reason | - |
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| justification | (noun) the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning | - |
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| (noun) something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary | - |
| (noun) a statement in explanation of some action or belief | - |
| justificative | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificatory |
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| (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificatory, vindicatory |
| justificatory | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificative |
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| (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificative, vindicatory |
| justified | (adjective) having words so spaced that lines have straight even margins | - |
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| justifiedly | (adverb) with honesty | Synonyms: justly, rightly |
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| justifier | (noun) a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution | Synonyms: apologist, vindicator |
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| justify | (verb) adjust the spaces between words | - |
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| (verb) show to be right by providing justification or proof | Synonyms: vindicate |
| (verb) (used of God) declare innocent; absolve from the penalty of sin | - |
| kabbalistic | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, qabalistic, sibylline |
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| langoustine | (noun) caught in European waters; slenderer than American lobster | Synonyms: Norwegian lobster, scampo |
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| lasting | (adjective) continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place | Synonyms: permanent |
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| (adjective) retained; not shed | Synonyms: persistent |
| (adjective) existing for a long time | Synonyms: durable, long-lasting, long-lived |
| (adjective) lasting a long time without change | - |
| lastingly | (adverb) in an enduring or permanent manner | - |
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| lastingness | (noun) permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force | Synonyms: durability, enduringness, strength |
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| lexicostatistic | (adjective) pertaining to statistical methods used in studying the relations between languages | - |
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| lexicostatistics | (noun) a statistical technique used in glottochronology; used to estimate how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language | - |
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| liberalistic | (adjective) having or demonstrating belief in the essential goodness of man and the autonomy of the individual; favoring civil and political liberties, government by law with the consent of the governed, and protection from arbitrary authority | - |
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| lightstick | (noun) A portable rod used for illumination. | - |
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| linguistic | (adjective) consisting of or related to language | Synonyms: lingual |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the scientific study of language | - |
| linguistically | (adverb) with respect to language | Synonyms: lingually |
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| (adverb) with respect to the science of linguistics | - |
| linguistics | (noun) the scientific study of language | - |
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| (noun) the humanistic study of language and literature | Synonyms: philology |
| lipstick | (noun) makeup that is used to color the lips | Synonyms: lip rouge |
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| (verb) apply lipstick to | - |
| (verb) form by tracing with lipstick | - |
| listing | (noun) the act of making a list of items | Synonyms: itemisation, itemization |
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| (noun) a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics) | Synonyms: list |
| lockstitch | (noun) machine stitch in which the top thread interlocks with the bobbin thread | - |
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| logistic | (adjective) of or relating to logistics | Synonyms: logistical |
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| logistical | (adjective) of or relating to logistics | Synonyms: logistic |
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| logistician | (noun) a person skilled at logic | Synonyms: logician |
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| logistics | (noun) handling an operation that involves providing labor and materials be supplied as needed | - |
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| lomustine | (noun) an antineoplastic drug often used to treat brain tumors or Hodgkin's disease | - |
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| lustily | (adverb) in a healthy manner | - |
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| lustiness | (noun) the property of being strong and healthy in constitution | Synonyms: hardiness, robustness |
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| mahlstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: maulstick |
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| majestic | (adjective) having or displaying great dignity or nobility | Synonyms: gallant, lofty, proud |
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| (adjective) belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler | Synonyms: imperial, purple, regal, royal |
| (adjective) majestic in manner or bearing; superior to mundane matters | Synonyms: olympian |
| majestically | (adverb) in a majestic manner | - |
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| maladjustive | (adjective) poorly adjusted | - |
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| masochistic | (adjective) deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from being abused or dominated | - |
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| masochistically | (adverb) in a masochistic manner | - |
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| mastic | (noun) an evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region that is cultivated for its resin | Synonyms: lentisk, mastic tree, Pistacia lentiscus |
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| (noun) an aromatic exudate from the mastic tree; used chiefly in varnishes | - |
| (noun) a pasty cement used as an adhesive or filler | - |
| masticate | (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, jaw, manducate |
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| (verb) grind and knead | - |
| mastication | (noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow | Synonyms: chew, chewing, manduction |
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| mastiff | (noun) an old breed of powerful deep-chested smooth-coated dog used chiefly as a watchdog and guard dog | - |
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| mastigophoran | (noun) a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals | Synonyms: flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophore |
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| mastigophore | (noun) a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals | Synonyms: flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran |
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| mastitis | (noun) inflammation of a breast (or udder) | - |
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| matchstick | (noun) a short thin stick of wood used in making matches | - |
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| materialistic | (adjective) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois, conservative |
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| (adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: mercenary, worldly-minded |
| materialistically | (adverb) in a materialistic manner | - |
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| maternalistic | (adjective) showing maternal instincts | - |
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| maulstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: mahlstick |
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| mechanistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical theory of mechanism | - |
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| (adjective) explained in terms of physical forces | - |
| mechanistically | (adverb) in a mechanistic manner | - |
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| mediastinum | (noun) the part of the thoracic cavity between the lungs that contains the heart and aorta and esophagus and trachea and thymus | - |
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| megaloblastic | (adjective) of or relating to megaloblasts | - |
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| mesoblastic | (adjective) relating to or derived from the mesoderm | Synonyms: mesodermal |
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| mestiza | (noun) a woman of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) | - |
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| mestizo | (noun) a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) | - |
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| meterstick | (noun) a rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters) | Synonyms: metrestick |
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| metrestick | (noun) a rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters) | Synonyms: meterstick |
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| militaristic | (adjective) imbued with militarism | - |
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| misestimate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: miscalculate |
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| (verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: miscalculate |