| garrotte | (noun) an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation | Synonyms: garotte, garrote, iron collar |
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| (verb) strangle with an iron collar | Synonyms: garotte, garrote, scrag |
| garrotter | (noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: choker, garroter, strangler, throttler |
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| gavotte | (noun) an old formal French dance in quadruple time | - |
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| (noun) music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte | - |
| gazette | (noun) a newspaper or official journal | - |
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| (verb) publish in a gazette | - |
| gazetteer | (noun) a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas) | - |
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| (noun) a journalist who writes for a gazette | - |
| georgette | (noun) a thin silk dress material | - |
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| gettable | (adjective) capable of being obtained | Synonyms: getable, obtainable, procurable |
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| getting | (noun) the act of acquiring something | Synonyms: acquiring |
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| ghatti | (noun) an Indian gum from the dhawa tree; used as a substitute for gum arabic | Synonyms: ghatti gum |
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| ghetto | (noun) formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live | - |
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| (noun) a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions | - |
| (noun) any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping | - |
| ghettoise | (verb) put in a ghetto | Synonyms: ghettoize |
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| ghettoize | (verb) put in a ghetto | Synonyms: ghettoise |
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| gittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, cittern |
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| glitter | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glisten, glister, scintillation, sparkle |
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| (noun) the occurrence of a small flash or spark | Synonyms: coruscation, sparkle |
| (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, shine |
| glittering | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| glittery | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| globetrotter | (noun) someone who travels widely and often | Synonyms: world traveler |
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| glottal | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by the glottis | - |
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| glottis | (noun) the vocal apparatus of the larynx; the true vocal folds and the space between them where the voice tone is generated | - |
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| glottochronological | (adjective) pertaining to the study of the evolution of languages from a common source | - |
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| glottochronology | (noun) the determination of how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language | - |
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| glutted | (adjective) exceeding demand | Synonyms: overfull |
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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 | - |
| greenbottle | (noun) blowfly with brilliant coppery green body | Synonyms: greenbottle fly |
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| gritty | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamey, gamy, mettlesome, spirited, spunky |
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| (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granular, granulose, mealy |
| grotto | (noun) a small cave (usually with attractive features) | Synonyms: grot |
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| grotty | (adjective) very unpleasant or offensive | - |
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| guncotton | (noun) a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives | Synonyms: cellulose nitrate, nitrocellulose, nitrocotton |
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| gutter | (noun) a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater | Synonyms: trough |
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| (noun) a tool for gutting fish | - |
| (noun) a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.) | - |
| (noun) misfortune resulting in lost effort or money | Synonyms: sewer, toilet |
| (verb) provide with gutters | - |
| (verb) wear or cut gutters into | - |
| (verb) flow in small streams | - |
| (verb) burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker | - |
| guttersnipe | (noun) a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas | Synonyms: street urchin |
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| guttle | (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: devour, pig, raven |
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| guttural | (adjective) relating to or articulated in the throat | - |
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| (adjective) like the sounds of frogs and crows | Synonyms: croaky |
| (noun) a consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat | Synonyms: guttural consonant, pharyngeal, pharyngeal consonant |
| gutturally | (adverb) in a guttural manner | - |
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| hairsplitter | (noun) a disputant who makes unreasonably fine distinctions | - |
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| hairsplitting | (adjective) developed in excessively fine detail | Synonyms: finespun |
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| (noun) making too fine distinctions of little importance | Synonyms: word-splitting |
| handwritten | (adjective) written by hand | - |
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| harmattan | (noun) a dusty wind from the Sahara that blows toward the western coast of Africa during the winter | - |
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| hatted | (adjective) wearing a hat or a hat of a particular kind | - |
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| hatter | (noun) someone who makes and sells hats | Synonyms: hatmaker, milliner, modiste |
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| headbutt | (verb) butt with the head | - |
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| heartthrob | (noun) an object of infatuation | - |
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| hitter | (noun) (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting | Synonyms: batsman, batter, slugger |
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| (noun) someone who hits | Synonyms: striker |
| hitting | (noun) the act of contacting one thing with another | Synonyms: hit, striking |
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| hottish | (adjective) somewhat hot | - |
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| inattention | (noun) lack of attention | - |
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| inattentive | (adjective) showing a lack of attention or care | - |
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| (adjective) not showing due care or attention | Synonyms: neglectful |
| inattentively | (adverb) in an absentminded or preoccupied manner | Synonyms: absently, absentmindedly, abstractedly |
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| inattentiveness | (noun) the trait of not being considerate and thoughtful of others | - |
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| (noun) a lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people) | Synonyms: heedlessness |
| intermittence | (noun) the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping | Synonyms: intermittency |
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| intermittency | (noun) the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping | Synonyms: intermittence |
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| intermittent | (adjective) stopping and starting at irregular intervals | - |
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| intermittently | (adverb) in an intermittent manner | - |
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| jetting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: spouting, spurting, squirting |
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| jettison | (verb) throw as from an airplane | - |
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| (verb) throw away, of something encumbering | - |
| jetty | (noun) a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away | Synonyms: breakwater, bulwark, groin, groyne, mole, seawall |
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| jitter | (noun) small rapid variations in a waveform resulting from fluctuations in the voltage supply or mechanical vibrations or other sources | - |
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| (noun) a small irregular movement | - |
| jitterbug | (noun) a jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s | - |
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| (verb) do the jitterbug | - |
| jitteriness | (noun) the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters | Synonyms: jumpiness, nervousness, restiveness |
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| jittering | (adjective) undergoing small rapid variations | - |
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| jitters | (noun) extreme nervousness | Synonyms: heebie-jeebies, screaming meemies |
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| jittery | (adjective) characterized by jerky movements | - |
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| (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight |
| jotter | (noun) a small notebook for rough notes | - |
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| jotting | (noun) a brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note | Synonyms: jot |
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| jutting | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out |
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| (noun) the act of projecting out from something | Synonyms: jut, projection, protrusion |
| kettle | (noun) a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid | Synonyms: boiler |
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| (noun) a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it | Synonyms: kettledrum, timpani, tympani, tympanum |
| (noun) (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits | Synonyms: kettle hole |
| (noun) the quantity a kettle will hold | Synonyms: kettleful |
| kettledrum | (noun) a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it | Synonyms: kettle, timpani, tympani, tympanum |
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| kettleful | (noun) the quantity a kettle will hold | Synonyms: kettle |
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| kilowatt | (noun) a unit of power equal to 1000 watts | Synonyms: kW |
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| kitchenette | (noun) small kitchen | - |
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| kittee | (noun) a form of torture used by American Indians in which sensitive parts of the body were squeezed between two boards until the victim could bear no more | - |
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| kitten | (noun) young domestic cat | Synonyms: kitty |
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| (verb) give birth to kittens | - |
| kittenish | (adjective) playful like a lively kitten | Synonyms: frisky |
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| kittiwake | (noun) small pearl-grey gull of northern regions; nests on cliffs and has a rudimentary hind toe | - |
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| kittul | (noun) fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago | Synonyms: Caryota urens, jaggery palm, kitul, kitul tree, toddy palm, wine palm |
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| kitty | (noun) informal terms referring to a domestic cat | Synonyms: kitty-cat, puss, pussy, pussycat |
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| (noun) young domestic cat | Synonyms: kitten |
| (noun) the combined stakes of the betters | Synonyms: pool |
| (noun) the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker) | Synonyms: jackpot, pot |
| knitted | (adjective) made by intertwining threads in a series of connected loops rather than by weaving | - |
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| knitter | (noun) someone who makes garments (or fabrics) by intertwining yarn or thread | - |
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| knitting | (noun) creating knitted wear | - |
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| (noun) needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine | Synonyms: knit, knitwork |
| knotted | (adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | Synonyms: gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knotty |
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| (adjective) tied with a knot | - |
| knottiness | (noun) puzzling complexity | Synonyms: complicatedness, complication, tortuousness |
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| knotty | (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous |
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| (adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | Synonyms: gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knotted |
| (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, elusive, problematic, problematical, tough |
| (adjective) tangled in knots or snarls | Synonyms: snarled, snarly |
| larghetto | (adjective) (of tempo) less slow and broad than largo | - |
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| (noun) (music) a composition or passage played in a slow tempo slightly faster than largo but slower than adagio | - |
| latte | (noun) strong espresso coffee with a topping of frothed steamed milk | Synonyms: caffe latte |
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| latten | (noun) brass (or a yellow alloy resembling brass) that was hammered into thin sheets; formerly used for church utensils | - |
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| latter | (adjective) referring to the second of two things or persons mentioned (or the last one or ones of several) | - |
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| (noun) the second of two or the second mentioned of two | - |
| latterly | (adverb) in the recent past | Synonyms: late, lately, of late, recently |
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| lattice | (noun) framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal | Synonyms: fretwork, latticework |
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| (noun) small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted | Synonyms: grille, wicket |
| (noun) an arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern in 2 or 3 dimensions | - |
| latticed | (adjective) having a pattern of fretwork or latticework | Synonyms: fretted, interlaced, latticelike |
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| latticelike | (adjective) having a pattern of fretwork or latticework | Synonyms: fretted, interlaced, latticed |
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| latticework | (noun) framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal | Synonyms: fretwork, lattice |
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| launderette | (noun) a self-service laundry (service mark Laundromat) where coin-operated washing machines are available to individual customers | Synonyms: Laundromat |
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| layette | (noun) kit consisting of a complete outfit (clothing and accessories) for a new baby | - |
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| lazarette | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazaret, lazaretto, pesthouse |
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| lazaretto | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazaret, lazarette, pesthouse |
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| (noun) a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship | Synonyms: glory hole |
| leatherette | (noun) fabric made to look like leather | Synonyms: imitation leather |
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