| crouton | (noun) a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads | - |
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| curbstone | (noun) a paving stone forming part of a curb | Synonyms: kerbstone |
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| cytoarchitectonic | (adjective) of or relating to cytoarchitecture | Synonyms: cytoarchitectural |
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| cytoarchitectonics | (noun) the cellular composition of a bodily structure | Synonyms: cytoarchitecture |
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| cytoskeleton | (noun) a microscopic network of actin filaments and microtubules in the cytoplasm of many living cells that gives the cell shape and coherence | - |
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| detonate | (verb) cause to burst with a violent release of energy | Synonyms: blow up, explode, set off |
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| (verb) burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction | Synonyms: blow up, explode |
| detonation | (noun) the act of detonating an explosive | - |
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| (noun) a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction | Synonyms: blowup, explosion |
| detonative | (adjective) exploding almost instantaneously | - |
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| detonator | (noun) a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive | Synonyms: cap, detonating device |
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| diatonic | (adjective) based on the standard major or minor scales consisting of 5 tones and 2 semitones without modulation by accidentals | - |
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| (adjective) based on or using the five tones and two semitones of the major or minor scales of western music | - |
| doubleton | (noun) (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player | - |
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| dripstone | (noun) a protective drip that is made of stone | Synonyms: hoodmold, hoodmould |
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| (noun) the form of calcium carbonate found in stalactites and stalagmites | - |
| earthtongue | (noun) any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum | Synonyms: earth-tongue |
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| endoskeleton | (noun) the internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates) | - |
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| eschaton | (noun) (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives | Synonyms: crack of doom, Day of Judgement, Day of Judgment, day of reckoning, Doomsday, doomsday, end of the world, Judgement Day, Judgment Day, Last Day, Last Judgement, Last Judgment |
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| exoskeleton | (noun) the exterior protective or supporting structure or shell of many animals (especially invertebrates) including bony or horny parts such as nails or scales or hoofs | - |
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| fieldstone | (noun) stone that occurs naturally in fields; often used as building material | - |
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| firestone | (noun) a sandstone that withstands intense heat; used to line fireplaces and furnaces and kilns | - |
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| (noun) a piece of flint that is struck to light a fire | - |
| flagstone | (noun) stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones | Synonyms: flag |
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| flintstone | (noun) pebbles of flint used in masonry construction | - |
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| freestone | (noun) fruit (especially peach) whose flesh does not adhere to the pit | - |
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| futon | (noun) mattress consisting of a pad of cotton batting that is used for sleeping on the floor or on a raised frame | - |
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| gallstone | (noun) a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts | Synonyms: bilestone |
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| gemstone | (noun) a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry | Synonyms: gem, stone |
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| gigatonne | (noun) a unit of weight equivalent to 1 billion tonnes. | Synonyms: Gt |
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| glutton | (noun) musteline mammal of northern Eurasia | Synonyms: Gulo gulo, wolverine |
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| (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman |
| gluttonise | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: fress, gluttonize |
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| gluttonize | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: fress, gluttonise |
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| gluttonous | (adjective) given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink | - |
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| gluttonously | (adverb) in a gluttonous manner | - |
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| gluttony | (noun) eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: gula, overeating |
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| (noun) habitual eating to excess | - |
| goldstone | (noun) aventurine spangled densely with fine gold-colored particles | - |
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| gravestone | (noun) a stone that is used to mark a grave | Synonyms: headstone, tombstone |
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| graviton | (noun) a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles | - |
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| grindstone | (noun) a revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or sharpen or polish edge tools | - |
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| gritstone | (noun) a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone | Synonyms: grit, gritrock |
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| guncotton | (noun) a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives | Synonyms: cellulose nitrate, nitrocellulose, nitrocotton |
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| haematohiston | (noun) a colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the oxygen carrying compound in red blood cells | Synonyms: globin, hematohiston |
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| hailstone | (noun) small pellet of ice that falls during a hailstorm | - |
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| halftone | (noun) an engraving used to reproduce an illustration | Synonyms: halftone engraving, photoengraving |
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| (noun) a print obtained from photoengraving | - |
| halogeton | (noun) a coarse annual herb introduced into North America from Siberia; dangerous to sheep and cattle on western rangelands because of its high oxalate content | Synonyms: Halogeton glomeratus |
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| headstone | (noun) the central building block at the top of an arch or vault | Synonyms: key, keystone |
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| (noun) a stone that is used to mark a grave | Synonyms: gravestone, tombstone |
| hearthstone | (noun) a stone that forms a hearth | - |
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| hematohiston | (noun) a colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the oxygen carrying compound in red blood cells | Synonyms: globin, haematohiston |
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| histone | (noun) a simple protein containing mainly basic amino acids; present in cell nuclei in association with nucleic acids | - |
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| holystone | (noun) a soft sandstone used for scrubbing the decks of a ship | - |
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| (verb) scrub with a holystone | - |
| honkytonk | (noun) a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall | Synonyms: dive |
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| hornstone | (noun) a fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of heat on clay rocks | Synonyms: hornfels |
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| hyperbaton | (noun) reversal of normal word order (as in `cheese I love') | - |
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| hypertonia | (noun) (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypertonic | Synonyms: hypertonicity, hypertonus |
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| hypertonic | (adjective) (of a solution) having a higher osmotic pressure than a comparison solution | - |
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| (adjective) (of living tissue) in a state of abnormally high tension | - |
| hypertonicity | (noun) (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypertonic | Synonyms: hypertonia, hypertonus |
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| (noun) (of a solution) the extent to which a solution has a higher osmotic pressure than some other | - |
| hypertonus | (noun) (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypertonic | Synonyms: hypertonia, hypertonicity |
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| hypotonia | (noun) (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic | Synonyms: hypotonicity, hypotonus |
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| hypotonic | (adjective) (of a solution) having a lower osmotic pressure than a comparison solution | - |
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| (adjective) (of living tissue) lacking normal tone or tension | - |
| hypotonicity | (noun) (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic | Synonyms: hypotonia, hypotonus |
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| (noun) (of a solution) the extent to which a solution has a lower osmotic pressure than some other | - |
| hypotonus | (noun) (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic | Synonyms: hypotonia, hypotonicity |
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| intonate | (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: cantillate, chant, intone |
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| (verb) speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone | Synonyms: intone |
| intonation | (noun) the act of singing in a monotonous tone | Synonyms: chanting |
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| (noun) singing by a soloist of the opening piece of plainsong | - |
| (noun) the production of musical tones (by voice or instrument); especially the exactitude of the pitch relations | - |
| (noun) rise and fall of the voice pitch | Synonyms: modulation, pitch contour |
| intone | (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: cantillate, chant, intonate |
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| (verb) speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone | Synonyms: intonate |
| (verb) utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically | Synonyms: chant, tone |
| intoned | (adjective) uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting | Synonyms: chantlike, singsong |
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| isotonic | (adjective) (used of solutions) having the same or equal osmotic pressure | Synonyms: isosmotic |
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| (adjective) of or involving muscular contraction in which tension is constant while length changes | - |
| (adjective) relating to or characterized by the equal intervals of a musical scale | - |
| (adjective) of two or more muscles; having equal tension | - |
| 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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| keratonosis | (noun) any abnormal condition of the outer skin (epidermis) | - |
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| keratonosus | (noun) any disease of the cornea | - |
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| kerbstone | (noun) a paving stone forming part of a curb | Synonyms: curbstone |
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| ketone | (noun) any of a class of organic compounds having a carbonyl group linked to a carbon atom in each of two hydrocarbon radicals | - |
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| ketonemia | (noun) an abnormal increase of ketone bodies in the blood as in diabetes mellitus | Synonyms: acetonemia, ketosis |
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| ketonuria | (noun) excessive amounts of ketone bodies in the urine as in diabetes mellitus or starvation | Synonyms: acetonuria, ketoaciduria |
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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 |
| kiloton | (noun) one thousand tons | - |
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| (noun) a measure of explosive power (of an atomic weapon) equal to that of 1000 tons of TNT | - |
| krypton | (noun) a colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; occurs in trace amounts in air | Synonyms: atomic number 36, Kr |
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| lactone | (noun) a cyclic intramolecular ester derived from a hydroxy acid. | - |
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| lepton | (noun) an elementary particle that participates in weak interactions; has a baryon number of 0 | - |
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| (noun) 100 lepta equal 1 drachma in Greece | - |
| limestone | (noun) a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals | - |
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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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| magneton | (noun) a unit of magnetic moment of a molecular or atomic or subatomic particle | - |
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| marlstone | (noun) metamorphic rock with approximately the same composition as marl | Synonyms: marlite |
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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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| megaton | (noun) one million tons | - |
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| (noun) a measure of explosive power (of an atomic weapon) equal to that of one million tons of TNT | - |
| melatonin | (noun) hormone secreted by the pineal gland | - |
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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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| metonym | (noun) a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing | - |
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| metonymic | (adjective) using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated | Synonyms: metonymical |
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| metonymical | (adjective) using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated | Synonyms: metonymic |
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| metonymically | (adverb) in a metonymic manner | - |
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| metonymy | (noun) substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads') | - |
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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 |
| monotone | (adjective) of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value | Synonyms: monotonic |
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| (adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch | Synonyms: flat, monotonic, monotonous |
| (noun) an unchanging intonation | Synonyms: drone, droning |
| (noun) a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts) | - |
| monotonic | (adjective) of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value | Synonyms: monotone |
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| (adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch | Synonyms: flat, monotone, monotonous |
| monotonous | (adjective) tediously repetitious or lacking in variety | Synonyms: humdrum |
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| (adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch | Synonyms: flat, monotone, monotonic |
| monotonously | (adverb) in a monotonous manner | - |
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| monotony | (noun) the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety | Synonyms: humdrum, sameness |
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| (noun) constancy of tone or pitch or inflection | - |
| 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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