| auberge | (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge |
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| aubergine | (noun) egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow | Synonyms: eggplant, mad apple |
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| (noun) hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable | Synonyms: brinjal, eggplant, eggplant bush, garden egg, mad apple, Solanum melongena |
| bedaubed | (adjective) ornamented in a vulgar or showy fashion | - |
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| blowtube | (noun) a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat | Synonyms: blow tube, blowpipe |
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| (noun) a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing | Synonyms: blow tube, blowgun, blowpipe |
| cube | (noun) a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube | Synonyms: square block |
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| (noun) any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone | - |
| (noun) the product of three equal terms | Synonyms: third power |
| (noun) a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces | Synonyms: regular hexahedron |
| (noun) a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides | Synonyms: block |
| (verb) raise to the third power | - |
| (verb) cut into cubes | Synonyms: dice |
| cubeb | (noun) a cigarette containing cubeb | Synonyms: cubeb cigarette |
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| (noun) tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits | Synonyms: cubeb vine, Java pepper, Piper cubeba |
| (noun) spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes | - |
| cubelike | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubical, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidal |
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| dauber | (noun) an unskilled painter | - |
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| exuberance | (noun) overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval | Synonyms: ebullience, enthusiasm |
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| (noun) joyful enthusiasm | - |
| exuberant | (adjective) produced or growing in extreme abundance | Synonyms: lush, luxuriant, profuse, riotous |
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| (adjective) joyously unrestrained | Synonyms: ebullient, high-spirited |
| (adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: excessive, extravagant, overweening |
| exuberantly | (adverb) in an exuberant manner | Synonyms: riotously |
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| (adverb) in an ebullient manner | Synonyms: ebulliently, expansively |
| exuberate | (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exult, jubilate, rejoice, triumph |
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| gubernatorial | (adjective) relating to a governor | - |
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| hauberk | (noun) a long (usually sleeveless) tunic of chain mail formerly worn as defensive armor | Synonyms: byrnie |
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| jujube | (noun) chewy fruit-flavored jellied candy (sometimes medicated to soothe a sore throat) | - |
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| (noun) dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees | Synonyms: Chinese date, Chinese jujube |
| (noun) spiny tree having dark red edible fruits | Synonyms: Christ's-thorn, Jerusalem thorn, jujube bush, Ziziphus jujuba |
| lube | (noun) a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery | Synonyms: lubricant, lubricating substance, lubricator |
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| (verb) apply a lubricant to | Synonyms: lubricate |
| nanotube | (noun) a fullerene molecule having a cylindrical or toroidal shape | Synonyms: carbon nanotube |
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| pickelhaube | (noun) a spiked helmet worn by German soldiers | - |
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| prepubertal | (adjective) (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth | Synonyms: prepubescent |
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| prepuberty | (noun) a period of two years immediately prior to the onset of puberty when growth and changes leading to sexual maturity occur | - |
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| prepubescent | (adjective) (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth | Synonyms: prepubertal |
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| protuberance | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, swelling |
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| (noun) the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out | - |
| protuberant | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulging, bulgy |
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| protuberate | (verb) form a rounded prominence | - |
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| (verb) cause to bulge out or project | - |
| pseudorubella | (noun) a viral disease of infants and young children; characterized by abrupt high fever and mild sore throat; a few days later there is a faint pinkish rash that lasts for a few hours to a few days | Synonyms: exanthema subitum, roseola infantilis, roseola infantum |
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| pubertal | (adjective) of or related to puberty | - |
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| puberty | (noun) the time of life when sex glands become functional | Synonyms: pubescence |
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| puberulent | (adjective) covered with fine soft hairs or down | Synonyms: downy, pubescent, sericeous |
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| pubes | (noun) the lower part of the abdomen just above the external genital organs | Synonyms: loins, pubic region |
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| pubescence | (noun) the time of life when sex glands become functional | Synonyms: puberty |
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| pubescent | (adjective) covered with fine soft hairs or down | Synonyms: downy, puberulent, sericeous |
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| (adjective) (of animals especially human beings) having arrived at the onset of puberty (the age at which sex glands become functional) but not yet fully mature | - |
| rube | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, hick, yahoo, yokel |
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| rubefacient | (noun) a medicine for external application that produces redness of the skin | - |
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| rubel | (noun) the basic unit of money in Belarus | - |
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| rubella | (noun) a contagious viral disease that is a milder form of measles lasting three or four days; can be damaging to a fetus during the first trimester | Synonyms: epidemic roseola, German measles, three-day measles |
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| rubeola | (noun) an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children | Synonyms: measles, morbilli |
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| subedit | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyedit, copyread |
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| subeditor | (noun) an assistant editor | - |
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| subentry | (noun) An entry, such as one in an account or reference work, that is included within a main entry. | - |
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| tube | (noun) conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases | Synonyms: tubing |
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| (noun) an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) | Synonyms: metro, subway, subway system, underground |
| (noun) electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope | Synonyms: electron tube, thermionic tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic valve, vacuum tube |
| (noun) (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure | Synonyms: tube-shaped structure |
| (noun) a hollow cylindrical shape | Synonyms: pipe |
| (verb) place or enclose in a tube | - |
| (verb) convey in a tube | - |
| (verb) ride or float on an inflated tube | - |
| (verb) provide with a tube or insert a tube into | - |
| tubed | (adjective) of a tire; having an inner tube | - |
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| tubeless | (adjective) of a tire; not needing an inner tube | - |
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| (noun) pneumatic tire not needing an inner tube to be airtight | Synonyms: tubeless tire |
| tubelike | (adjective) constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | Synonyms: cannular, tube-shaped, tubular, vasiform |
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| tuber | (noun) a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage | - |
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| tubercle | (noun) a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament | Synonyms: eminence, tuberosity |
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| (noun) small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant | Synonyms: nodule |
| (noun) a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis | - |
| tubercular | (adjective) relating to tuberculosis or those suffering from it | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to or of the nature of a normal tuberosity or tubercle | - |
| (adjective) characterized by the presence of tuberculosis lesions or tubercles | - |
| (adjective) constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus | Synonyms: tuberculous |
| (noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: consumptive, lunger |
| tuberculate | (adjective) covered with tubercles | - |
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| tuberculin | (noun) a sterile liquid containing a purified protein derivative of the tuberculosis bacterium; used in the diagnosis of tuberculosis | - |
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| tuberculoid | (adjective) resembling tuberculosis | - |
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| tuberculosis | (noun) infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages) | Synonyms: T.B., TB |
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| tuberculous | (adjective) constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus | Synonyms: tubercular |
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| tuberose | (noun) a tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lily-like waxy white flowers | Synonyms: Polianthes tuberosa |
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| tuberosity | (noun) a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament | Synonyms: eminence, tubercle |
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| tuberous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a tuber | - |
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| watertube | (noun) a boiler tube through which the water flows. | Synonyms: water tube |
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