| artillery | (noun) large but transportable armament | Synonyms: gun, heavy weapon, ordnance |
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| (noun) a means of persuading or arguing | Synonyms: weapon |
| (noun) an army unit that uses big guns | Synonyms: artillery unit |
| artilleryman | (noun) a serviceman in the artillery | Synonyms: cannoneer, gunner, machine gunner |
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| bastille | (noun) a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner) | - |
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| caimitillo | (noun) tropical American timber tree with dark hard heavy wood and small plumlike purple fruit | Synonyms: Chrysophyllum oliviforme, damson plum, satin leaf, satinleaf |
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| cantillate | (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: chant, intonate, intone |
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| cantillation | (noun) liturgical chanting | - |
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| cotillion | (noun) a lively dance originating in France in the 18th century | Synonyms: cotilion |
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| (noun) a ball at which young ladies are presented to society | Synonyms: cotilion |
| distill | (verb) give off (a liquid) | Synonyms: distil |
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| (verb) undergo the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil |
| (verb) extract by the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, extract |
| (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, make pure, purify, sublimate |
| (verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: condense, distil |
| distillate | (noun) a purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distilling | Synonyms: distillation |
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| distillation | (noun) the process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors | Synonyms: distillment |
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| (noun) a purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distilling | Synonyms: distillate |
| distiller | (noun) someone who distills alcoholic liquors | - |
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| distillery | (noun) a plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation | Synonyms: still |
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| distillment | (noun) the process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors | Synonyms: distillation |
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| flotilla | (noun) a fleet of small craft | - |
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| (noun) a United States Navy fleet consisting of two or more squadrons of small warships | - |
| fritillary | (noun) butterfly with brownish wings marked with black and silver | - |
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| (noun) any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria having nodding variously colored flowers | Synonyms: checkered lily |
| instill | (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: impregnate, infuse, tincture |
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| (verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | Synonyms: impress, ingrain |
| (verb) teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions | Synonyms: inculcate, infuse |
| (verb) enter drop by drop | Synonyms: instil |
| (verb) impart gradually | Synonyms: transfuse |
| instillation | (noun) the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop | Synonyms: instillment, instilment |
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| (noun) a liquid that is instilled drop by drop | - |
| instillator | (noun) medical apparatus that puts a liquid into a cavity drop by drop | - |
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| instilling | (noun) teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition | Synonyms: inculcation, ingraining |
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| instillment | (noun) the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop | Synonyms: instillation, instilment |
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| mantilla | (noun) a woman's silk or lace scarf | - |
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| (noun) short cape worn by women | Synonyms: mantelet |
| ocotillo | (noun) desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers | Synonyms: coachwhip, Fouquieria splendens, Jacob's staff, vine cactus |
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| octillion | (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 27 zeros | - |
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| pastille | (noun) a medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat | Synonyms: cough drop, pastil, troche |
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| pistillate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of carpels | Synonyms: carpellate |
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| (adjective) having gynoecia, or pistils, the ovule-bearing organ of a seed plant | - |
| pistillode | (noun) a sterile vestigial pistil remaining in a staminate flower | - |
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| pointillism | (noun) a genre of painting characterized by the application of paint in dots and small strokes; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th century France | - |
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| (noun) a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in 19th century France | - |
| pointillist | (adjective) of or relating to pointillism | Synonyms: pointillistic |
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| (noun) a painter who uses the technique of pointillism | - |
| pointillistic | (adjective) of or relating to pointillism | Synonyms: pointillist |
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| postillion | (noun) someone who rides the near horse of a pair in order to guide the horses pulling a carriage (especially a carriage without a coachman) | Synonyms: postilion |
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| quintillion | (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 18 zeros in the US | - |
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| quintillionth | (adjective) the ordinal number of one quintillion in counting order | - |
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| (noun) one part in a quintillion equal parts | Synonyms: one-quintillionth |
| scintilla | (noun) a sparkling glittering particle | - |
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| (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit |
| scintillant | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillating, sparkly |
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| scintillate | (verb) be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity | Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle |
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| (verb) fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon | - |
| (verb) emit or reflect light in a flickering manner | Synonyms: twinkle, winkle |
| (verb) give off | - |
| (verb) reflect brightly | Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle |
| scintillating | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, sparkly |
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| (adjective) brilliantly clever | - |
| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, effervescent, frothy, sparkly |
| scintillation | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glisten, glister, glitter, sparkle |
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| (noun) the twinkling of the stars caused when changes in the density of the earth's atmosphere produce uneven refraction of starlight | - |
| (noun) a brilliant display of wit | - |
| (noun) a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash | Synonyms: sparkling, twinkle |
| (noun) (physics) a flash of light that is produced in a phosphor when it absorbs a photon or ionizing particle | - |
| septillion | (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 24 zeros in the US | - |
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| sextillion | (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 21 zeros | - |
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| standstill | (noun) an interruption of normal activity | Synonyms: stand, tie-up |
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| (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, deadlock, impasse, stalemate |
| still | (adjective) not sparkling | Synonyms: noneffervescent |
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| (adjective) used of pictures; of a single or static photograph not presented so as to create the illusion of motion; or representing objects not capable of motion | - |
| (adjective) (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves | Synonyms: placid, quiet, smooth, tranquil, unruffled |
| (adjective) marked by absence of sound | Synonyms: silent, soundless |
| (adjective) not in physical motion | Synonyms: inactive, motionless, static |
| (adjective) free from noticeable current | - |
| (noun) an apparatus used for the distillation of liquids; consists of a vessel in which a substance is vaporized by heat and a condenser where the vapor is condensed | - |
| (noun) a static photograph (especially one taken from a movie and used for advertising purposes) | - |
| (noun) a plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation | Synonyms: distillery |
| (noun) (poetic) tranquil silence | Synonyms: hush, stillness |
| (adverb) to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons | Synonyms: even, yet |
| (adverb) with reference to action or condition; without change, interruption, or cessation | - |
| (adverb) without moving or making a sound | Synonyms: stock-still |
| (adverb) despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession) | Synonyms: all the same, at the same time, even so, however, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, withal, yet |
| (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush, hush up, quieten, shut up, silence |
| (verb) make motionless | - |
| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of or calm | Synonyms: allay, ease, relieve |
| stillbirth | (noun) a natural loss of the products of conception | Synonyms: miscarriage, spontaneous abortion |
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| stillborn | (adjective) (of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn | - |
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| (adjective) failing to accomplish an intended result | Synonyms: abortive, unsuccessful |
| stillness | (noun) (poetic) tranquil silence | Synonyms: hush, still |
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| (noun) calmness without winds | Synonyms: windlessness |
| (noun) a state of no motion or movement | Synonyms: lifelessness, motionlessness |
| stillroom | (noun) a pantry or storeroom connected with the kitchen (especially in a large house) for preparing tea and beverages and for storing liquors and preserves and tea etc | Synonyms: still room |
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| stilly | (adjective) (poetic) still or calm | - |
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| till | (noun) a strongbox for holding cash | Synonyms: cashbox, money box |
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| (noun) a treasury for government funds | Synonyms: public treasury, trough |
| (noun) unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together | Synonyms: boulder clay |
| (verb) work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation | - |
| tillable | (adjective) (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively | Synonyms: arable, cultivable, cultivatable |
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| tillage | (noun) the cultivation of soil for raising crops | - |
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| (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, plowland, tilled land, tilth |
| tilled | (adjective) turned or stirred by plowing or harrowing or hoeing | - |
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| tiller | (noun) lever used to turn the rudder on a boat | - |
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| (noun) a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture) | Synonyms: cultivator |
| (noun) someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops) | - |
| (noun) a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass | - |
| (verb) grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers | Synonyms: stool |
| tilling | (noun) cultivation of the land in order to raise crops | - |
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| titillate | (verb) excite pleasurably or erotically | - |
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| (verb) touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements | Synonyms: tickle, vellicate |
| titillated | (adjective) feeling mild pleasurable excitement | Synonyms: teased |
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| titillating | (adjective) giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing | Synonyms: erotic |
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| (adjective) pleasantly and superficially exciting | - |
| (adjective) exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements | Synonyms: tickling, tingling |
| titillation | (noun) the act of tickling | Synonyms: tickle, tickling |
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| (noun) an agreeable arousal | - |
| (noun) a tingling feeling of excitement (as from teasing or tickling) | - |
| tomatillo | (noun) small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk | Synonyms: husk tomato, Mexican husk tomato |
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| (noun) annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes | Synonyms: jamberry, Mexican husk tomato, Physalis ixocarpa |
| (noun) Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes | Synonyms: jamberry, miltomate, Physalis philadelphica, purple ground cherry |
| tortilla | (noun) thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour | - |
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| trichotillomania | (noun) an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair | - |
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| untilled | (adjective) not plowed or harrowed or hoed | - |
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