| aitchbone | (noun) a cut of beef including the H-shaped rump bone | - |
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| apparatchik | (noun) a communist who was a member of the administrative system of a communist party | - |
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| (noun) a humorous but derogatory term for an official of a large organization (especially a political organization) | - |
| backscratcher | (noun) a long-handled scratcher for scratching your back | - |
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| (noun) someone who is willing to trade favors or services for mutual advantage | - |
| backstitch | (noun) an overlapping stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle of the preceding one | - |
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| (verb) do backstitches | - |
| batch | (noun) a collection of things or persons to be handled together | Synonyms: clutch |
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| (noun) all the loaves of bread baked at the same time | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (verb) batch together; assemble or process as a batch | - |
| bewitch | (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind |
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| (verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: enchant, glamour, hex, jinx, witch |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| bewitched | (adjective) captured, as if under a spell | Synonyms: ensorcelled |
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| bewitchery | (noun) magnetic personal charm | Synonyms: animal magnetism, beguilement |
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| bewitching | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
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| bewitchingly | (adverb) in a bewitching manner | Synonyms: captivatingly, enchantingly, enthrallingly |
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| bewitchment | (noun) a magical spell | Synonyms: enchantment |
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| birdwatch | (verb) watch and study birds in their natural habitat | Synonyms: bird |
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| bitch | (noun) female of any member of the dog family | - |
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| (noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, gripe, kick, squawk |
| (noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked | Synonyms: cunt |
| (noun) an unpleasant difficulty | - |
| (verb) say mean things | Synonyms: backbite |
| (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, crab, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
| bitchery | (noun) aggressive remarks and behavior like that of a spiteful malicious woman | - |
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| bitchiness | (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: cattiness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness |
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| bitchy | (adjective) marked by or arising from malice | Synonyms: cattish, catty |
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| blotch | (noun) an irregularly shaped spot | Synonyms: splodge, splotch |
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| (verb) mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained | Synonyms: mottle, streak |
| blotched | (adjective) marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots | Synonyms: blotchy, splotched |
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| blotchy | (adjective) marred by discolored spots or blotches | - |
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| (adjective) marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots | Synonyms: blotched, splotched |
| botch | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| botched | (adjective) spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness | Synonyms: bungled |
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| botcher | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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| botchy | (adjective) poorly done | Synonyms: butcherly, unskillful |
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| brierpatch | (noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier, brier patch |
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| britches | (noun) (used in the plural) informal term for breeches | - |
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| butch | (adjective) (of male or female homosexuals) characterized by stereotypically male traits or appearance | - |
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| (adjective) used of men; markedly masculine in appearance or manner | Synonyms: macho |
| (noun) a closely cropped haircut; usually for men or boys | Synonyms: crew cut, flattop |
| (noun) (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine | Synonyms: dike, dyke |
| butcher | (noun) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | Synonyms: slaughterer |
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| (noun) a brutal indiscriminate murderer | - |
| (noun) a retailer of meat | Synonyms: meatman |
| (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
| (verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption | Synonyms: slaughter |
| butcherbird | (noun) shrikes that impale their prey on thorns | - |
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| (noun) large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns | - |
| butchering | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchery |
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| butcherly | (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous |
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| (adjective) poorly done | Synonyms: botchy, unskillful |
| butchery | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchering |
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| (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
| (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse |
| butterscotch | (noun) a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar | - |
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| bycatch | (noun) unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species | Synonyms: by-catch |
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| caoutchouc | (noun) an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products | Synonyms: gum elastic, India rubber, natural rubber, rubber |
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| catch | (noun) the act of catching an object with the hands | Synonyms: grab, snap, snatch |
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| (noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: apprehension, arrest, collar, pinch, taking into custody |
| (noun) a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth | - |
| (noun) a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window | - |
| (noun) a restraint that checks the motion of something | Synonyms: stop |
| (noun) a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident | Synonyms: gimmick |
| (noun) a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion) | - |
| (noun) anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching) | - |
| (noun) a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect | Synonyms: match |
| (noun) the quantity that was caught | Synonyms: haul |
| (verb) come down with | - |
| (verb) be struck or affected by | - |
| (verb) delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned | - |
| (verb) detect a blunder or misstep | Synonyms: trip up |
| (verb) discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state | - |
| (verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) become aware of | - |
| (verb) be the catcher | - |
| (verb) catch up with and possibly overtake | Synonyms: catch up with, overtake |
| (verb) take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of | Synonyms: grab |
| (verb) succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase | Synonyms: capture, get |
| (verb) capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping | Synonyms: capture |
| (verb) to hook or entangle | Synonyms: hitch |
| (verb) attract and fix | Synonyms: arrest, get |
| (verb) cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled | - |
| (verb) spread or be communicated | - |
| (verb) take in and retain | - |
| (verb) reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) apprehend and reproduce accurately | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| (verb) reach in time | - |
| (verb) hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers | Synonyms: overhear, take in |
| (verb) perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily | Synonyms: pick up |
| (verb) see or watch | Synonyms: see, take in, view, watch |
| (verb) suffer from the receipt of | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) perceive by hearing | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly | - |
| (verb) check oneself during an action | - |
| (verb) start burning | - |
| catchall | (noun) an enclosure or receptacle for odds and ends | - |
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| catcher | (noun) the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws | - |
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| (noun) (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher | Synonyms: backstop |
| catchfly | (noun) mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone | Synonyms: lychnis |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Silene | Synonyms: campion, silene |
| catching | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable |
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| (noun) (baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team | - |
| (noun) the act of detecting something; catching sight of something | Synonyms: detection, espial, spotting, spying |
| (noun) becoming infected | Synonyms: contracting |
| catchment | (noun) a structure in which water is collected (especially a natural drainage area) | - |
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| catchpenny | (adjective) designed to sell quickly without concern for quality | - |
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| catchphrase | (noun) a phrase that has become a catchword | Synonyms: catch phrase |
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| catchweed | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: cleavers, clivers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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| catchword | (noun) a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual | Synonyms: motto, shibboleth, slogan |
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| (noun) a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page | Synonyms: guide word, guideword |
| catchy | (adjective) likely to attract attention | Synonyms: attention-getting |
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| (adjective) having concealed difficulty | Synonyms: tricky |
| cetchup | (noun) thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes | Synonyms: catsup, ketchup, tomato ketchup |
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| chitchat | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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| (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
| clutch | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutches, grasp, grip, hold |
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| (noun) a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism | - |
| (noun) a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism | Synonyms: clutch pedal |
| (noun) a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand | Synonyms: clutch bag |
| (noun) a collection of things or persons to be handled together | Synonyms: batch |
| (noun) a number of birds hatched at the same time | - |
| (noun) a tense critical situation | - |
| (verb) affect | Synonyms: get hold of, seize |
| (verb) take into your hands deliberately | Synonyms: prehend, seize, take hold, take hold of |
| (verb) hold firmly, usually with one's hands | Synonyms: cling to, hold close, hold tight |
| clutches | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutch, grasp, grip, hold |
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| cowcatcher | (noun) an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track | Synonyms: buffer, fender, pilot |
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| crosshatch | (noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: hachure, hatch, hatching |
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| (verb) shade with multiple crossing lines | - |
| crosshatched | (adjective) shaded by means of fine parallel or crossed lines | Synonyms: hatched |
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| crosspatch | (noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: churl, crank, grouch, grump |
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| crotch | (noun) the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk | Synonyms: fork |
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| (noun) external sex organ | Synonyms: genital organ, genitalia, genitals, private parts, privates |
| (noun) the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches | Synonyms: fork |
| crotchet | (noun) a small tool or hooklike implement | - |
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| (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness |
| (noun) a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note | Synonyms: quarter note |
| (noun) a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook | Synonyms: hook |
| crotchetiness | (noun) a fussy and eccentric disposition | Synonyms: contrariness, crankiness, grumpiness |
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| crotchety | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: cantankerous, ornery |
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| crutch | (noun) anything that serves as an expedient | - |
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| (noun) a wooden or metal staff that fits under the armpit and reaches to the ground; used by disabled person while walking | - |
| cutch | (noun) tannin extract derived from any of several mangrove barks of Pacific areas | Synonyms: kutch |
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| deathwatch | (noun) bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death | Synonyms: deathwatch beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum |
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| (noun) minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers | Synonyms: book louse, booklouse, Liposcelis divinatorius |
| declutch | (verb) disengage the clutch of a car | - |
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| despatch | (noun) the act of sending off something | Synonyms: dispatch, shipment |
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| (noun) killing a person or animal | Synonyms: dispatch |
| (noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness |
| (noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: communique, dispatch |
| (verb) send away towards a designated goal | Synonyms: dispatch, send off |
| dispatch | (noun) the act of sending off something | Synonyms: despatch, shipment |
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| (noun) killing a person or animal | Synonyms: despatch |
| (noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: despatch, expedition, expeditiousness |
| (noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: communique, despatch |
| (verb) kill without delay | - |
| (verb) send away towards a designated goal | Synonyms: despatch, send off |
| (verb) complete or carry out | Synonyms: complete, discharge |
| (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, hit, murder, off, polish off, remove, slay |
| (verb) dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently | - |
| dispatcher | (noun) the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition | Synonyms: starter |
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| (noun) employee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient service | - |
| ditch | (noun) a long narrow excavation in the earth | - |
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| (noun) any small natural waterway | - |
| (verb) crash or crash-land | - |
| (verb) cut a trench in, as for drainage | Synonyms: trench |
| (verb) make an emergency landing on water | - |
| (verb) forsake | - |
| (verb) throw away | Synonyms: chuck |
| (verb) sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly | Synonyms: dump |
| ditchmoss | (noun) submerged freshwater perennials | Synonyms: Elodea, genus Elodea, pondweed |
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| dogwatch | (noun) either of two short watches: from 4-6 pm or 6-8 pm | - |
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| dowitcher | (noun) shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe | - |
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| eldritch | (adjective) suggesting the operation of supernatural influences | Synonyms: uncanny, unearthly, weird |
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| escutcheon | (noun) a shield; especially one displaying a coat of arms | Synonyms: scutcheon |
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| (noun) (nautical) a plate on a ship's stern on which the name is inscribed | - |
| (noun) a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc) to prevent soiling by dirty fingers | Synonyms: finger plate, scutcheon |
| etch | (verb) selectively dissolve the surface of (a semiconductor or printed circuit) with a solvent, laser, or stream of electrons | - |
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| (verb) carve or cut a design or letters into | Synonyms: engrave |
| (verb) make an etching of | - |
| (verb) carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block | Synonyms: engrave |
| (verb) cause to stand out or be clearly defined or visible | - |
| etched | (adjective) cut or impressed into a surface | Synonyms: engraved, graven, incised, inscribed |
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| etcher | (noun) someone who etches | - |
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| etching | (noun) making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them | Synonyms: engraving |
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| (noun) an etched plate made with the use of acid | - |
| (noun) an impression made from an etched plate | - |
| eyepatch | (noun) a protective cloth covering for an injured eye | Synonyms: patch |
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| farfetched | (adjective) (of an idea or story) so exaggerated or ludicrous as to be improbable | Synonyms: far-fetched |
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| (adjective) (of a theory or explanation) highly imaginative but unlikely and unconvincing | Synonyms: far-fetched |
| fetch | (noun) the action of fetching | - |
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| (verb) go or come after and bring or take back | Synonyms: bring, convey, get |
| (verb) remove | - |
| (verb) be sold for a certain price | Synonyms: bring, bring in |
| fetching | (adjective) very attractive; capturing interest | Synonyms: taking, winning |
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| fitch | (noun) dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened | Synonyms: foulmart, foumart, Mustela putorius, polecat |
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| flitch | (noun) salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork | Synonyms: side of bacon |
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| (noun) fish steak usually cut from a halibut | - |
| flycatcher | (noun) any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing | Synonyms: Old World flycatcher, true flycatcher |
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| (noun) large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing | Synonyms: New World flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher |
| glitch | (noun) a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine | Synonyms: bug |
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| (verb) To suffer a minor malfunction | - |
| gnatcatcher | (noun) very small North American and South American warblers | - |
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| handstitched | (adjective) sewn by hand rather than machine | Synonyms: handsewn |
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| hatch | (noun) a movable barrier covering a hatchway | - |
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| (noun) a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open | Synonyms: hatchback, hatchback door, liftgate |
| (noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: crosshatch, hachure, hatching |
| (noun) the production of young from an egg | Synonyms: hatching |
| (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: brood, cover, incubate |
| (verb) emerge from the eggs | - |
| (verb) draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper | - |
| (verb) devise or invent | Synonyms: concoct, dream up, think of, think up |
| (verb) inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating | - |
| hatchback | (noun) a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open | Synonyms: hatch, hatchback door, liftgate |
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| (noun) a car having a hatchback door | - |
| hatched | (adjective) emerged from an egg | - |
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| (adjective) shaded by means of fine parallel or crossed lines | Synonyms: crosshatched |
| hatchel | (noun) a comb for separating flax fibers | Synonyms: heckle |
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| (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hackle, heckle |
| hatchery | (noun) a place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions (especially fish eggs) | - |
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| hatchet | (noun) a small ax with a short handle used with one hand (usually to chop wood) | - |
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| (noun) weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American Indians | Synonyms: tomahawk |
| hatching | (noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: crosshatch, hachure, hatch |
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| (noun) the production of young from an egg | Synonyms: hatch |
| hatchling | (noun) any recently hatched animal (especially birds) | - |
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| hatchway | (noun) an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship | Synonyms: opening, scuttle |
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| hemstitch | (noun) embroidery similar to drawnwork | - |
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| (noun) a stitch in which parallel threads are drawn and exposed threads are caught together in groups | Synonyms: hemstitching |
| (verb) sew with hemstitches | - |
| hemstitching | (noun) a stitch in which parallel threads are drawn and exposed threads are caught together in groups | Synonyms: hemstitch |
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| hitch | (noun) the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg | Synonyms: hobble, limp |
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| (noun) a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot | - |
| (noun) a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls | - |
| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive |
| (noun) an unforeseen obstacle | Synonyms: hang-up, rub, snag |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, stay, stop, stoppage |
| (noun) a period of time spent in military service | Synonyms: duty tour, enlistment, term of enlistment, tour, tour of duty |
| (verb) to hook or entangle | Synonyms: catch |
| (verb) connect to a vehicle: | - |
| (verb) travel by getting free rides from motorists | Synonyms: hitchhike, thumb |
| (verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: gimp, hobble, limp |
| (verb) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched | Synonyms: buck, jerk |
| hitchhike | (verb) travel by getting free rides from motorists | Synonyms: hitch, thumb |
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| hitchhiker | (noun) a person who travels by getting free rides from passing vehicles | - |
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| hitchrack | (noun) a fixed horizontal rail to which a horse can be hitched to prevent it from straying | Synonyms: hitching bar |
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| homestretch | (noun) the straight stretch of a racetrack leading to the finish line | - |
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| (noun) the end of an enterprise | - |