ametria | (noun) congenital absence of the uterus | - |
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atrial | (adjective) of or relating to a cavity or chamber in the body (especially one of the upper chambers of the heart) | - |
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bimestrial | (adjective) two months long; lasting two months | - |
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(adjective) occurring every two months | Synonyms: bimonthly |
ceftriaxone | (noun) a parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Rocephin) used for severe infection of the lungs or throat or ears or urinary tract | Synonyms: Rocephin |
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endometrial | (adjective) of or relating to the endometrium | - |
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equestrian | (adjective) of or relating to or featuring horseback riding | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to or composed of knights | - |
(noun) a person skilled in equitation | Synonyms: horseback rider |
expatriate | (noun) a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country | Synonyms: exile, expat |
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(verb) move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad | - |
(verb) expel from a country | Synonyms: deport, exile |
expatriation | (noun) the act of expelling a person from their native land | Synonyms: deportation, exile, transportation |
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(noun) migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another) | Synonyms: emigration, out-migration |
extraterrestrial | (adjective) originating or located or occurring outside Earth or its atmosphere | - |
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(noun) a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere | Synonyms: alien, extraterrestrial being |
industrial | (adjective) having highly developed industries | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to or resulting from industry | - |
(adjective) employed in industry | - |
(adjective) suitable to stand up to hard wear | - |
industrialisation | (noun) the development of industry on an extensive scale | Synonyms: industrial enterprise, industrialization |
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industrialise | (verb) develop industry; become industrial | Synonyms: industrialize |
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(verb) organize (the production of something) into an industry | Synonyms: industrialize |
industrialised | (adjective) made industrial; converted to industrialism | Synonyms: industrialized |
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industrialism | (noun) an economic system built on large industries rather than on agriculture or craftsmanship | - |
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industrialist | (noun) someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise | - |
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industrialization | (noun) the development of industry on an extensive scale | Synonyms: industrial enterprise, industrialisation |
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industrialize | (verb) develop industry; become industrial | Synonyms: industrialise |
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(verb) organize (the production of something) into an industry | Synonyms: industrialise |
industrialized | (adjective) made industrial; converted to industrialism | Synonyms: industrialised |
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industrially | (adverb) by industrial means | - |
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latria | (noun) the worship given to God alone | Synonyms: adoration |
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matriarch | (noun) a female head of a family or tribe | Synonyms: materfamilias |
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(noun) a feisty older woman with a big bosom (as drawn in cartoons) | - |
matriarchal | (adjective) characteristic of a matriarchy | - |
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matriarchate | (noun) a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line | Synonyms: matriarchy |
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matriarchic | (adjective) (of societies or families) having a female as the family head or having descent traced through the female line | - |
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matriarchy | (noun) a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line | Synonyms: matriarchate |
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mistrial | (noun) a trial that is invalid or inconclusive | - |
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nonindustrial | (adjective) not having highly developed manufacturing enterprises | - |
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nutria | (noun) aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver; bred for its fur | Synonyms: coypu, Myocastor coypus |
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paleostriatum | (noun) the inner pale yellow part of the lenticular nucleus | Synonyms: globus pallidus, pallidum |
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patrial | (noun) a person who has the right to be considered legally a British citizen (by virtue of the birth of a parent or grandparent) | - |
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patriarch | (noun) the male head of family or tribe | Synonyms: paterfamilias |
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(noun) any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race | - |
(noun) title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem) | - |
(noun) a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself | - |
patriarchal | (adjective) characteristic of a form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | - |
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(adjective) relating to or characteristic of a man who is older or higher in rank | - |
patriarchate | (noun) a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | Synonyms: patriarchy |
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(noun) the jurisdiction of a patriarch | - |
patriarchic | (adjective) (of societies) being ruled by or having descent traced through the male line | - |
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patriarchy | (noun) a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | Synonyms: patriarchate |
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pedestrian | (adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: earthbound, prosaic, prosy |
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(noun) a person who travels by foot | Synonyms: footer, walker |
postindustrial | (adjective) of or relating to a society or economy marked by a lessened importance of manufacturing and an increase of services, information, and research | - |
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pretrial | (noun) (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases | Synonyms: pretrial conference |
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repatriate | (noun) a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored | - |
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(verb) admit back into the country | - |
(verb) send someone back to his homeland against his will, as of refugees | - |
repatriation | (noun) the act of returning to the country of origin | - |
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retrial | (noun) a new trial in which issues already litigated and to which the court has already rendered a verdict or decision are reexamined by the same court; occurs when the initial trial is found to have been improper or unfair due to procedural errors | - |
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semestrial | (adjective) occurring every six months or during every period of six months | Synonyms: semestral |
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semiterrestrial | (adjective) chiefly but not exclusively terrestrial | - |
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stria | (noun) a stripe or stripes of contrasting color | Synonyms: band, banding, striation |
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(noun) any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue | Synonyms: striation |
striate | (adjective) marked with stria or striations | - |
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(verb) mark with striae or striations | - |
striation | (noun) a stripe or stripes of contrasting color | Synonyms: band, banding, stria |
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(noun) any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue | Synonyms: stria |
striatum | (noun) a striped mass of white and grey matter located in front of the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere; consists of the caudate nucleus and the lenticular nucleus | Synonyms: corpus striatum, striate body |
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terrestrial | (adjective) operating or living or growing on land | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | Synonyms: tellurian, telluric, terrene |
(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants | Synonyms: planetary |
(adjective) of this earth | Synonyms: sublunar, sublunary |
(adjective) concerned with the world or worldly matters | Synonyms: mundane |
terrestrially | (adverb) to a land environment | - |
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(adverb) in a worldly manner | Synonyms: mundanely |
triacetate | (noun) cellulose acetate that is relatively slow to burn; used instead of celluloid for motion-picture film | Synonyms: cellulose triacetate |
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triad | (noun) a three-note major or minor chord; a note and its third and fifth tones | Synonyms: common chord |
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(noun) three people considered as a unit | Synonyms: threesome, trinity, trio |
(noun) a set of three similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: trio, triple, triplet |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
triage | (noun) sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food | - |
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trial | (noun) the act of testing something | Synonyms: run, test |
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(noun) (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law | - |
(noun) the act of undergoing testing | Synonyms: test |
(noun) trying something to find out about it | Synonyms: test, trial run, tryout |
(noun) an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event | Synonyms: tribulation, visitation |
(noun) (sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications | - |
triamcinolone | (noun) a synthetic corticosteroid (trade names Aristocort or Aristopak or Kenalog) used as an anti-inflammatory agent | Synonyms: Aristocort, Aristopak, Kenalog |
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triangle | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle | - |
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(noun) any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles | - |
(noun) a three-sided polygon | Synonyms: trigon, trilateral |
(noun) something approximating the shape of a triangle | - |
triangular | (adjective) having three angles; forming or shaped like a triangle | - |
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(adjective) having three sides | Synonyms: three-sided, trilateral |
triangularity | (noun) the property of being shaped like a triangle | - |
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triangulate | (adjective) composed of or marked with triangles | - |
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(verb) survey by triangulation | - |
(verb) measure by using trigonometry | - |
(verb) divide into triangles or give a triangular form to | - |
triangulation | (noun) a method of surveying; the area is divided into triangles and the length of one side and its angles with the other two are measured, then the lengths of the other sides can be calculated | - |
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(noun) a trigonometric method of determining the position of a fixed point from the angles to it from two fixed points of a known distance apart; useful in navigation | - |
triazine | (noun) any of three isomeric compounds having three carbon and three nitrogen atoms in a six-membered ring | - |
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triazolam | (noun) a form of benzodiazepine (trade name Halcion) frequently prescribed as a sleeping pill; usually given to people who have trouble falling asleep | Synonyms: Halcion |
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unindustrialised | (adjective) not converted to industrialism | Synonyms: unindustrialized |
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unindustrialized | (adjective) not converted to industrialism | Synonyms: unindustrialised |
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