| artwork | (noun) photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication | Synonyms: art, graphics, nontextual matter |
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| basketweaver | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketmaker |
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| batwing | (adjective) formed or shaped like a bat's wing | - |
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| (noun) one of a pair of swinging doors (as at the entrance to a western saloon) | - |
| beltway | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: bypass, ring road, ringway |
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| bentwood | (noun) wood that is steamed until it becomes pliable and then is shaped for use in making furniture | - |
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| between | (adverb) in between | Synonyms: 'tween |
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| (adverb) in the interval | Synonyms: betwixt |
| betweenbrain | (noun) the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon | Synonyms: diencephalon, interbrain, thalmencephalon |
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| betwixt | (adverb) in the interval | Synonyms: between |
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| bratwurst | (noun) a small pork sausage | Synonyms: brat |
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| breastwork | (noun) fortification consisting of a low wall | Synonyms: parapet |
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| buttweld | (verb) join by a butt weld | Synonyms: butt-weld |
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| cabinetwork | (noun) the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality) | Synonyms: cabinetry |
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| (noun) woodwork finished by hand by a cabinetmaker | - |
| carpetweed | (noun) annual prostrate mat-forming weed having whorled leaves and small greenish-white flowers; widespread throughout North America | Synonyms: Indian chickweed, Molluga verticillata |
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| cartwheel | (noun) acrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheel | - |
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| (noun) a wheel that has wooden spokes and a metal rim | - |
| (noun) a dollar made of silver | Synonyms: silver dollar |
| (verb) do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet | - |
| cartwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons | - |
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| catwalk | (noun) narrow pathway high in the air (as above a stage or between parts of a building or along a bridge) | - |
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| (noun) narrow platform extending out into an auditorium | - |
| coastward | (adverb) in the direction of the coast | - |
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| coastwise | (adjective) along or following a coast | Synonyms: coastal |
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| (adverb) by way of, or along the coast | - |
| creditworthiness | (noun) trustworthiness with money as based on a person's credit history; a general qualification for borrowing | - |
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| creditworthy | (adjective) having an acceptable credit rating | Synonyms: responsible |
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| cutwork | (noun) embroidery in which the design is outlined in a buttonhole stitch and the intervening material is cut away | - |
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| cutworm | (noun) North American moth whose larvae feed on young plant stems cutting them off at the ground | - |
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| driftwood | (noun) wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore | - |
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| eastward | (adjective) moving toward the east | Synonyms: eastbound |
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| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees | Synonyms: due east, E, east |
| (adverb) toward the east | Synonyms: eastwards |
| eastwards | (adverb) toward the east | Synonyms: eastward |
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| entwine | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, interlace, intertwine, lace, twine |
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| (verb) tie or link together | Synonyms: knit |
| erstwhile | (adjective) belonging to some prior time | Synonyms: former, old, one-time, onetime, quondam, sometime |
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| (adverb) at a previous time | Synonyms: at one time, erst, formerly, once |
| fatwa | (noun) a ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority | - |
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| fatwah | (noun) (Islam) a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar | - |
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| flatware | (noun) silverware eating utensils | Synonyms: silver |
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| (noun) tableware that is relatively flat and fashioned as a single piece | - |
| flatwork | (noun) ironing that can be done mechanically | Synonyms: flat wash |
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| flatworm | (noun) parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body | Synonyms: platyhelminth |
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| footwall | (noun) the lower wall of an inclined fault | - |
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| footwear | (noun) covering for a person's feet | Synonyms: footgear |
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| (noun) clothing worn on a person's feet | - |
| footwork | (noun) the manner of using the feet | - |
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| (noun) skillful maneuvering or dealing | - |
| fretwork | (noun) framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal | Synonyms: lattice, latticework |
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| frontward | (adverb) at or to or toward the front; forward | Synonyms: forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontwards |
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| frontwards | (adverb) at or to or toward the front; forward | Synonyms: forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontward |
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| frostweed | (noun) perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers; so-called because ice crystals form on it during first frosts | Synonyms: Crocanthemum canadense, frost-weed, frostwort, Helianthemum canadense |
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| (noun) tall perennial herb having clusters of white flowers; the eastern United States | Synonyms: frost-weed, Verbesina virginica, Virginia crownbeard |
| frostwort | (noun) perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers; so-called because ice crystals form on it during first frosts | Synonyms: Crocanthemum canadense, frost-weed, frostweed, Helianthemum canadense |
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| fruitwood | (noun) wood of various fruit trees (as apple or cherry or pear) used especially in cabinetwork | - |
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| ghostwrite | (verb) write for someone else | Synonyms: ghost |
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| ghostwriter | (noun) a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else | Synonyms: ghost |
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| guestworker | (noun) a person with temporary permission to work in another country | Synonyms: guest worker |
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| heartwarming | (adjective) causing gladness and pleasure | - |
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| heartwood | (noun) the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood | Synonyms: duramen |
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| intertwine | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, entwine, interlace, lace, twine |
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| (verb) make a loop in | Synonyms: loop |
| (verb) make lacework by knotting or looping | Synonyms: tat |
| jointworm | (noun) larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains | Synonyms: strawworm |
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| knitwear | (noun) knitted clothing | - |
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| knitwork | (noun) needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine | Synonyms: knit, knitting |
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| leastways | (adverb) if nothing else (`leastwise' is informal and `leastways' is colloquial) | Synonyms: at any rate, at least, leastwise |
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| leastwise | (adverb) if nothing else (`leastwise' is informal and `leastways' is colloquial) | Synonyms: at any rate, at least, leastways |
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| lightweight | (adjective) weighing relatively little compared with another item or object of similar use | - |
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| (adjective) having no importance or influence | - |
| (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the featherweight division and lighter than those in the welterweight division. | - |
| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds | - |
| (noun) a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds | - |
| (noun) someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous | Synonyms: jackanapes, whippersnapper |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds | - |
| lightwood | (noun) tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber | Synonyms: Acacia melanoxylon |
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| lintwhite | (noun) small Old World finch whose male has a red breast and forehead | Synonyms: Carduelis cannabina, linnet |
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| meltwater | (noun) melted snow or ice | - |
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| network | (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshing, meshwork, net |
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| (noun) (broadcasting) a communication system consisting of a group of broadcasting stations that all transmit the same programs | - |
| (noun) (electronics) a system of interconnected electronic components or circuits | Synonyms: electronic network |
| (noun) a system of intersecting lines or channels | - |
| (noun) an interconnected system of things or people | Synonyms: web |
| (verb) communicate with and within a group | - |
| networklike | (adjective) having a network of veins or ribs | - |
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| nightwalker | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, red worm, wiggler |
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| nightwear | (noun) garments designed to be worn in bed | Synonyms: nightclothes, sleepwear |
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| nightwork | (noun) work to be done at night | - |
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| nitweed | (noun) annual wiry-stemmed North American weed with minute scalelike leaves and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Hypericum gentianoides, orange grass, pine-weed, pineweed |
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| nitwit | (noun) a stupid incompetent person | Synonyms: dimwit, doofus, half-wit |
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| nitwitted | (adjective) (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment | Synonyms: senseless, soft-witted, witless |
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| northeastward | (adjective) toward the northeast | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees | Synonyms: NE, nor'-east, northeast |
| (adverb) in a northeastward direction | Synonyms: northeastwardly |
| northeastwardly | (adverb) in a northeastward direction | Synonyms: northeastward |
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| northwestward | (adjective) toward the northwest | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between north and west; at 315 degrees | Synonyms: nor'-west, northwest, NW |
| (adverb) in a northwestward direction | Synonyms: northwestwardly |
| northwestwardly | (adverb) in a northwestward direction | Synonyms: northwestward |
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| notwithstanding | (adverb) despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession) | Synonyms: all the same, at the same time, even so, however, nevertheless, nonetheless, still, withal, yet |
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| outward | (adjective) relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or the mind | - |
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| (adjective) that is going out or leaving | Synonyms: departing, outbound, outward-bound |
| (adverb) toward the outside | Synonyms: outwards |
| outwardly | (adverb) in outward appearance | - |
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| (adverb) with respect to the outside | Synonyms: externally |
| outwardness | (noun) the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior | Synonyms: externality |
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| (noun) a concern with or responsiveness to outward things (especially material objects as opposed to ideal concepts) | - |
| (noun) concern with outward things or material objects as opposed to the mind and spirit | - |
| outwards | (adverb) toward the outside | Synonyms: outward |
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| outwear | (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
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| (verb) last longer than others | - |
| outweigh | (verb) be heavier than | - |
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| (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, overbalance, preponderate |
| outwit | (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, overreach |
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| outwork | (noun) subsidiary defensive structure lying outside the main fortified area | - |
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| portwatcher | (noun) a watchman on a wharf | Synonyms: port watcher |
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| postwar | (adjective) belonging to the period after a war | - |
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| rabbitweed | (noun) low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads | Synonyms: broom snakeroot, broom snakeweed, Gutierrezia sarothrae, rabbit-weed, snakeweed, turpentine weed |
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| rabbitwood | (noun) shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes | Synonyms: buffalo nut, Pyrularia pubera |
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| saltwater | (noun) water containing salts | Synonyms: brine, seawater |
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| saltworks | (noun) a plant where salt is produced commercially | - |
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| saltwort | (noun) low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves | Synonyms: Batis maritima |
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| (noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: barilla, glasswort, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda |
| scriptwriter | (noun) someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas | - |
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| selectwoman | (noun) a female elected member of a board of officials who run New England towns | - |
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| shirtwaist | (noun) a blouse with buttons down the front | Synonyms: shirtwaister |
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| shirtwaister | (noun) a blouse with buttons down the front | Synonyms: shirtwaist |
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| shitwork | (noun) trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores | Synonyms: scut work |
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| slantways | (adverb) at a slant; moving or directed in a slantwise position or direction | Synonyms: slantwise |
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| slantwise | (adverb) at a slant; moving or directed in a slantwise position or direction | Synonyms: slantways |
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| software | (noun) (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory | Synonyms: computer software, package, software package, software program, software system |
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| softwood | (noun) wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir) | Synonyms: deal |
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| southeastward | (adjective) toward the southeast | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees | Synonyms: SE, sou'-east, southeast |
| (adverb) in a southeastward direction | Synonyms: southeastwardly |
| southeastwardly | (adverb) in a southeastward direction | Synonyms: southeastward |
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| southwestward | (adjective) toward the southwest | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees | Synonyms: sou'-west, southwest, SW |
| (adverb) in a southwestward direction | Synonyms: southwestwardly |
| southwestwardly | (adverb) in a southwestward direction | Synonyms: southwestward |
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| splitworm | (noun) greyish-brown moth whose larva is the potato tuberworm | Synonyms: Phthorimaea operculella, potato moth, potato tuber moth |
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| spotweld | (verb) make circular welds | Synonyms: spot-weld |
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| straightway | (adverb) in a direct course | - |
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| (adverb) at once | - |