| aftercare | (noun) care and treatment of a convalescent patient | - |
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| altercate | (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: argufy, dispute, quarrel, scrap |
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| altercation | (noun) noisy quarrel | Synonyms: affray, fracas |
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| battercake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake, pancake |
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| bittercress | (noun) any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic | Synonyms: bitter cress |
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| buttercrunch | (noun) lettuce with delicate and relatively crunchy leaves | - |
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| buttercup | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, butterflower, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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| catercorner | (adjective) slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | Synonyms: cata-cornered, catacorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered |
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| counterchallenge | (verb) challenge in turn | - |
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| counterchange | (verb) cause to change places | Synonyms: interchange, transpose |
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| countercharge | (noun) a retaliatory charge | - |
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| (noun) a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser | - |
| countercheck | (noun) something that checks the correctness of a previous check | Synonyms: double check |
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| (noun) a check that restrains another check | - |
| (verb) check a second time | - |
| (verb) oppose or check by a counteraction | Synonyms: counteract |
| counterclaim | (noun) a claim filed in opposition to another claim in a legal action | - |
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| (verb) set up a claim in opposition to a previous claim | - |
| counterclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, contraclockwise |
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| (adverb) in a direction opposite to the direction in which the hands of a clock move | Synonyms: anticlockwise |
| countercoup | (noun) a sudden and decisive overthrow of a government that gained power by a coup d'etat | - |
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| counterculture | (noun) a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture | - |
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| countercurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: crosscurrent |
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| (noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: crosscurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
| intercalary | (adjective) having a day or month inserted to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year: | - |
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| intercalate | (verb) insert (days) in a calendar | - |
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| intercalation | (noun) an insertion into a calendar | Synonyms: embolism |
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| intercede | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intermediate, liaise, mediate |
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| intercellular | (adjective) located between cells | - |
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| intercept | (noun) the point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis | - |
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| (verb) seize on its way | Synonyms: stop |
| (verb) tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information | Synonyms: bug, tap, wiretap |
| interception | (noun) the act of intercepting; preventing something from proceeding or arriving | - |
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| (noun) (American football) the act of catching a football by a player on the opposing team | - |
| interceptor | (noun) a fast maneuverable fighter plane designed to intercept enemy aircraft | - |
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| intercessio | (noun) the right of veto possessed by Roman magistrates. | - |
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| intercession | (noun) the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.) | Synonyms: intervention |
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| (noun) a prayer to God on behalf of another person | - |
| intercessor | (noun) a negotiator who acts as a link between parties | Synonyms: go-between, intermediary, intermediator, mediator |
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| interchange | (noun) the act of changing one thing for another thing | Synonyms: exchange |
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| (noun) mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information) | Synonyms: give-and-take, reciprocation |
| (noun) reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries) | Synonyms: exchange |
| (noun) a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams | - |
| (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, flip, switch, tack |
| (verb) cause to change places | Synonyms: counterchange, transpose |
| (verb) give to, and receive from, one another | Synonyms: change, exchange |
| (verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items | Synonyms: exchange, replace, substitute |
| interchangeability | (noun) the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange | Synonyms: exchangeability, fungibility, interchangeableness |
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| interchangeable | (adjective) capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability | Synonyms: exchangeable, similar, standardised, standardized |
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| (adjective) (mathematics, logic) such that the arguments or roles can be interchanged | - |
| interchangeableness | (noun) the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange | Synonyms: exchangeability, fungibility, interchangeability |
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| interchangeably | (adverb) in an interchangeable manner | - |
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| interchurch | (adjective) occurring between or among or common to different churches or denominations | Synonyms: interdenominational |
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| intercollegiate | (adjective) used of competition between colleges or universities | - |
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| intercom | (noun) a communication system linking different rooms within a building or ship etc | Synonyms: intercommunication system |
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| intercommunicate | (verb) transmit thoughts or feelings | Synonyms: communicate |
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| (verb) be interconnected, afford passage | - |
| intercommunication | (noun) mutual communication; communication with each other | - |
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| intercommunion | (noun) participation in Holy Communion by members of more than one church (eg Catholic and Orthodox) | - |
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| interconnect | (verb) cause to be interconnected or interwoven | Synonyms: interlink |
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| (verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: complect, interlink |
| interconnected | (adjective) operating as a unit | Synonyms: co-ordinated, coordinated, unified |
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| (adjective) reciprocally connected | Synonyms: interrelated |
| interconnectedness | (noun) a state of being connected reciprocally | Synonyms: interconnection |
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| interconnection | (noun) (computer science) the act of interconnecting (wires or computers or theories etc.) | - |
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| (noun) a state of being connected reciprocally | Synonyms: interconnectedness |
| intercontinental | (adjective) extending or taking place between or among continents | - |
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| intercostal | (adjective) located or occurring between the ribs | - |
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| (noun) muscles between the ribs; they contract during inspiration | Synonyms: intercostal muscle, musculus intercostalis |
| intercourse | (noun) sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur | Synonyms: carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, copulation, relation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation |
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| (noun) communication between individuals | Synonyms: social intercourse |
| intercrossed | (adjective) produced by crossbreeding | Synonyms: hybrid |
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| lettercard | (noun) a postcard that folds so the message is inside | - |
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| noninterchangeable | (adjective) such that the terms of an expression cannot be interchanged without changing the meaning | - |
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| outercourse | (noun) sexual stimulation without vaginal penetration | - |
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| oystercatcher | (noun) black-and-white shorebird with stout legs and bill; feed on oysters etc. | Synonyms: oyster catcher |
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| quatercentenary | (noun) the 400th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: quatercentennial |
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| quatercentennial | (noun) the 400th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: quatercentenary |
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| stercobilinogen | (noun) a chromogen formed in the intestine from the breakdown of bilirubin; yields urobilins on oxidation; some is excreted in the feces and some is resorbed and excreted in bile or urine | Synonyms: urobilinogen |
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| stercolith | (noun) a hard mass of fecal matter | Synonyms: coprolith, faecalith, fecalith |
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| sterculia | (noun) any tree of the genus Sterculia | - |
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| terce | (noun) the third canonical hour; about 9 a.m. | Synonyms: tierce |
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| tercel | (noun) male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon | Synonyms: tercelet, tiercel |
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| tercelet | (noun) male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon | Synonyms: tercel, tiercel |
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| tercentenary | (noun) the 300th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: tercentennial, triennial |
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| tercentennial | (noun) the 300th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: tercentenary, triennial |
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| tercet | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
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| watercannon | (noun) a hose (carried on a truck) that fires water under high pressure to disperse crowds (especially crowds of rioters) | Synonyms: water cannon |
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| watercolor | (noun) the art or technique of painting with watercolors | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolour |
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| (noun) a painting produced with watercolors | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolour |
| (noun) a water-base paint (with water-soluble pigments); used by artists | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolour |
| (noun) water-soluble pigment | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolour |
| (verb) paint with watercolors | Synonyms: watercolour |
| watercolorist | (noun) a painter who paints with watercolors | Synonyms: watercolourist |
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| watercolour | (noun) the art or technique of painting with watercolors | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolor |
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| (noun) a painting produced with watercolors | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolor |
| (noun) a water-base paint (with water-soluble pigments); used by artists | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolor |
| (noun) water-soluble pigment | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolor |
| (verb) paint with watercolors | Synonyms: watercolor |
| watercolourist | (noun) a painter who paints with watercolors | Synonyms: watercolorist |
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| watercourse | (noun) a conduit through which water flows | Synonyms: waterway |
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| (noun) a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth | Synonyms: stream |
| (noun) natural or artificial channel through which water flows | - |
| watercraft | (noun) a craft designed for water transportation | Synonyms: vessel |
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| (noun) skill in the management of boats | - |
| watercress | (adjective) of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green | Synonyms: cress green, cresson |
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| (noun) cresses that grow in clear ponds and streams | - |
| (noun) any of several water-loving cresses | - |