| historical | (adjective) used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time | Synonyms: diachronic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the study of history | - |
| (adjective) belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past | Synonyms: historic |
| (adjective) having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary | - |
| historically | (adverb) with respect to history | - |
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| (adverb) throughout history | - |
| historicalness | (noun) significance owing to its history | - |
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| (noun) the state of having in fact existed in the past | - |
| historicism | (noun) a theory that social and cultural events are determined by history | - |
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| historied | (adjective) having an illustrious past | Synonyms: celebrated, storied |
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| historiographer | (noun) a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it | Synonyms: historian |
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| historiography | (noun) the writing of history | - |
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| (noun) a body of historical literature | - |
| history | (noun) the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings | - |
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| (noun) all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge | - |
| (noun) a record or narrative description of past events | Synonyms: account, chronicle, story |
| (noun) the aggregate of past events | - |
| (noun) the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future | - |
| holystone | (noun) a soft sandstone used for scrubbing the decks of a ship | - |
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| (verb) scrub with a holystone | - |
| hornstone | (noun) a fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of heat on clay rocks | Synonyms: hornfels |
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| ileostomy | (noun) surgical procedure that creates an opening from the ileum through the abdominal wall to function as an anus; performed in cases of cancer of the colon or ulcerative colitis | - |
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| immunohistochemistry | (noun) an assay that shows specific antigens in tissues by the use of markers that are either fluorescent dyes or enzymes (such as horseradish peroxidase) | - |
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| impasto | (noun) painting that applies the pigment thickly so that brush or palette knife marks are visible | - |
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| impostor | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| investor | (noun) someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns | - |
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| jackstones | (noun) a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball | Synonyms: jacks, knucklebones |
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| (noun) game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks | Synonyms: jack |
| jadestone | (noun) a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite | Synonyms: jade |
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| jejunostomy | (noun) surgical creation of an opening between the jejunum and the anterior abdominal wall; will allow artificial feeding | - |
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| kerbstone | (noun) a paving stone forming part of a curb | Synonyms: curbstone |
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| keystone | (noun) the central building block at the top of an arch or vault | Synonyms: headstone, key |
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| (noun) a central cohesive source of support and stability | Synonyms: anchor, backbone, linchpin, lynchpin, mainstay |
| laughingstock | (noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: butt, goat, stooge |
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| limestone | (noun) a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals | - |
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| linstock | (noun) a stick about a meter long with a point on one end (to stick in the ground) and a forked head on the other end (to hold a lighted match); formerly used to fire cannons | - |
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| livestock | (noun) any animals kept for use or profit | Synonyms: farm animal, stock |
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| loadstone | (noun) a permanent magnet consisting of magnetite that possess polarity and has the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically | Synonyms: lodestone |
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| lodestone | (noun) a permanent magnet consisting of magnetite that possess polarity and has the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically | Synonyms: loadstone |
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| manifesto | (noun) a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government) | Synonyms: pronunciamento |
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| marlstone | (noun) metamorphic rock with approximately the same composition as marl | Synonyms: marlite |
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| mastocyte | (noun) a large connective tissue cell that contains histamine and heparin and serotonin which are released in allergic reactions or in response to injury or inflammation | Synonyms: labrocyte, mast cell |
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| mastodon | (noun) extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth | Synonyms: mastodont |
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| mastodont | (noun) extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth | Synonyms: mastodon |
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| mastoid | (adjective) relating to or resembling a nipple | Synonyms: mastoidal |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or in the region of the mastoid process | - |
| (noun) process of the temporal bone behind the ear at the base of the skull | Synonyms: mastoid bone, mastoid process, mastoidal |
| mastoidal | (adjective) relating to or resembling a nipple | Synonyms: mastoid |
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| (noun) process of the temporal bone behind the ear at the base of the skull | Synonyms: mastoid, mastoid bone, mastoid process |
| mastoidale | (noun) the craniometric point at the lowest point of the mastoid process | - |
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| mastoidectomy | (noun) surgical removal of some or all of the mastoid process | - |
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| mastoiditis | (noun) inflammation of the mastoid | - |
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| mastopathy | (noun) any pathology of the breast | Synonyms: mazopathy |
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| mastopexy | (noun) plastic surgery to lift or reshape the breasts | - |
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| mearstone | (noun) an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab | Synonyms: meerestone, merestone |
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| meerestone | (noun) an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab | Synonyms: mearstone, merestone |
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| mephistophelean | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelian |
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| mephistophelian | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelean |
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| merestone | (noun) an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab | Synonyms: mearstone, meerestone |
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| methyltestosterone | (noun) an androgenic compound contained in drugs that are used to treat testosterone deficiency and female breast cancer and to stimulate growth and weight gain | - |
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| mifepristone | (noun) an abortion-inducing drug (trade name RU 486) developed in France; when taken during the first five weeks of pregnancy it blocks the action of progesterone so that the uterus sloughs off the embryo | Synonyms: abortion pill, RU 486 |
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| milestone | (noun) stone post at side of a road to show distances | Synonyms: milepost |
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| (noun) a significant event in your life (or in a project) | - |
| millstone | (noun) one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain | - |
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| (noun) any load that is difficult to carry | - |
| (noun) (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps | Synonyms: albatross |
| misunderstood | (adjective) wrongly understood | - |
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| moonstone | (noun) a transparent or translucent gemstone with a pearly luster; some specimens are orthoclase feldspar and others are plagioclase feldspar | - |
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| mosstone | (adjective) of a moderate somewhat dull yellow-green color | Synonyms: moss green |
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| multistorey | (adjective) having more than one story | Synonyms: multistoried, multistory |
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| multistoried | (adjective) having more than one story | Synonyms: multistorey, multistory |
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| multistory | (adjective) having more than one story | Synonyms: multistorey, multistoried |
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| nephroblastoma | (noun) malignant renal tumor of young children characterized by hypertension and blood in the urine and the presence of a palpable mass | Synonyms: adenomyosarcoma, embryoma of the kidney, Wilms' tumor, Wilms tumour |
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| neuroblastoma | (noun) malignant tumor containing embryonic nerve cells; usually metastasizes quickly | - |
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| nonstop | (adjective) at all times | Synonyms: around-the-clock, day-and-night, round-the-clock |
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| (adjective) (of a journey especially a flight) occurring without stops | - |
| (noun) a flight made without intermediate stops between source and destination | Synonyms: nonstop flight |
| (adverb) without stopping | - |
| nostoc | (noun) found in moist places as rounded jellylike colonies | - |
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| oilstone | (noun) a whetstone for use with oil | - |
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| oilstove | (noun) heater that burns oil (as kerosine) for heating or cooking | Synonyms: kerosene heater, kerosine heater, oil heater |
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| osteoblastoma | (noun) benign tumor of bone and fibrous tissue; occurs in the vertebrae or femur or tibia or arm bones (especially in young adults) | - |
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| ostomy | (noun) surgical procedure that creates an artificial opening for the elimination of bodily wastes | - |
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| overstock | (verb) stock excessively | - |
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| pastor | (noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: curate, minister, minister of religion, parson, rector |
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| pastoral | (adjective) of or relating to a pastor | - |
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| (adjective) relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle | Synonyms: bucolic |
| (adjective) (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic | Synonyms: arcadian, bucolic |
| (noun) a musical composition that evokes rural life | Synonyms: idyl, idyll, pastorale |
| (noun) a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds) | - |
| (noun) a letter from a pastor to the congregation | - |
| pastorale | (noun) a musical composition that evokes rural life | Synonyms: idyl, idyll, pastoral |
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| pastorate | (noun) the position of pastor | Synonyms: pastorship |
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| (noun) pastors collectively | - |
| pastorship | (noun) the position of pastor | Synonyms: pastorate |
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| penstock | (noun) conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate | Synonyms: sluice, sluiceway |
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| (noun) regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice | Synonyms: floodgate, head gate, sluice valve, sluicegate, water gate |
| pentastomid | (noun) wormlike arthropod having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth; parasitic in nasal sinuses of mammals | Synonyms: tongue worm |
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| peristome | (noun) region around the mouth in various invertebrates | - |
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| (noun) (botany) fringe of toothlike appendages surrounding the mouth of a moss capsule | - |
| pesto | (noun) a sauce typically served with pasta; contains crushed basil leaves and garlic and pine nuts and Parmesan cheese in olive oil | - |
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| phlogiston | (noun) a hypothetical substance once believed to be present in all combustible materials and to be released during burning | - |
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| pistol | (noun) a firearm that is held and fired with one hand | Synonyms: handgun, shooting iron, side arm |
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| pistoleer | (noun) someone armed with a pistol (especially a soldier so armed) | - |
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| piston | (noun) mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion | Synonyms: plunger |
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| pistonphone | (noun) an acoustical calibrator (sound source) that uses a closed coupling volume to generate a precise sound pressure for the calibration of measurement microphones. | - |
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| pitchstone | (noun) dark acid granitic glass | - |
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| postoperative | (adjective) happening or done after a surgical operation | - |
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| postoperatively | (adverb) after the operation | - |
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| prehistoric | (adjective) of or relating to times before written history | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to or existing in times before recorded history | Synonyms: prehistorical |
| (adjective) outdated | - |
| prehistorical | (adjective) belonging to or existing in times before recorded history | Synonyms: prehistoric |
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| prehistory | (noun) the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word | Synonyms: prehistoric culture |
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| presto | (adjective) (of tempo) very fast | - |
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| (adverb) suddenly | - |
| (adverb) at a very fast tempo (faster than allegro) | - |
| progestogen | (noun) any of a group of steroid hormones that have the effect of progesterone | Synonyms: progestin |
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| protohistory | (noun) the study of humans prior to the invention of writing | Synonyms: protoanthropology |
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| pycnodysostosis | (noun) a form of dwarfism accompanied by fragile bones and bad teeth | - |
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| quaestor | (noun) any of several public officials of ancient Rome (usually in charge of finance and administration) | - |
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| rainstorm | (noun) a storm with rain | - |
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| resistor | (noun) an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current | Synonyms: resistance |
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| restock | (verb) stock again | - |
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| restoration | (noun) the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state | - |
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| (noun) getting something back again | Synonyms: regaining, restitution, return |
| (noun) some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed | - |
| (noun) a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc. | - |
| (noun) the state of being restored to its former good condition | Synonyms: refurbishment, renovation |
| restorative | (adjective) promoting recuperation | Synonyms: recuperative |
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| (adjective) tending to impart new life and vigor to | Synonyms: renewing, revitalising, revitalizing, reviving |
| (noun) a device for treating injury or disease | Synonyms: corrective |
| (noun) a medicine that strengthens and invigorates | Synonyms: tonic |
| restore | (verb) get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate | Synonyms: regenerate, rejuvenate |
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| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, touch on |
| (verb) give or bring back | Synonyms: restitute |
| (verb) bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | Synonyms: reestablish, reinstate |
| (verb) return to its original or usable and functioning condition | Synonyms: reconstruct |
| restorer | (noun) a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture | Synonyms: preserver, refinisher, renovator |
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| retinoblastoma | (noun) malignant ocular tumor of retinal cells; usually occurs before the third year of life; composed of primitive small round retinal cells | - |
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| rhinestone | (noun) an imitation diamond made from rock crystal or glass or paste | - |
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| rootstock | (noun) root or part of a root used for plant propagation; especially that part of a grafted plant that supplies the roots | - |
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| (noun) a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure | Synonyms: rhizome, rootstalk |
| rottenstone | (noun) a weathered and decomposed siliceous limestone; in powdered form it is used in polishing | Synonyms: tripoli |
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| rudderstock | (noun) a vertical post at the forward edge of a rudder that enables the rudder to pivot | Synonyms: rudderpost |
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| sandstone | (noun) a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.) | - |
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