| fulgid | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| fulgurant | (adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning | Synonyms: dazzling, eye-popping, fulgurous |
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| fulgurating | (adjective) sharp and piercing | - |
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| fulgurous | (adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning | Synonyms: dazzling, eye-popping, fulgurant |
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| full | (adjective) containing as much or as many as is possible or normal | - |
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| (adjective) (of sound) having marked deepness and body | - |
| (adjective) having the normally expected amount | Synonyms: good |
| (adjective) complete in extent or degree and in every particular | Synonyms: total |
| (adjective) being at a peak or culminating point | Synonyms: broad |
| (adjective) filled to satisfaction with food or drink | Synonyms: replete |
| (adjective) constituting the full quantity or extent; complete | Synonyms: entire, total |
| (adjective) having ample fabric | Synonyms: wide-cut, wide |
| (noun) the time when the Moon is fully illuminated | Synonyms: full-of-the-moon, full moon, full phase of the moon |
| (adverb) to the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely; (`full' in this sense is used as a combining form) | Synonyms: fully, to the full |
| (verb) increase in phase | Synonyms: wax |
| (verb) make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering | - |
| (verb) beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening | - |
| fullback | (noun) (American football) the position of a back on a football team, generally larger in size than halfbacks | - |
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| (noun) (football) the running back who plays the fullback position on the offensive team | - |
| (verb) play the fullback | - |
| fuller | (noun) a workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a living | - |
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| fullerene | (noun) a form of carbon having a large molecule consisting of an empty cage of sixty or more carbon atoms | - |
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| fullness | (noun) greatness of volume | Synonyms: voluminosity, voluminousness |
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| (noun) the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing | Synonyms: mellowness, richness |
| (noun) the condition of being filled to capacity | - |
| (noun) completeness over a broad scope | Synonyms: comprehensiveness |
| fully | (adverb) to the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely; (`full' in this sense is used as a combining form) | Synonyms: full, to the full |
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| (adverb) referring to a quantity | Synonyms: in full |
| (adverb) sufficiently; more than adequately | Synonyms: amply |
| fulmar | (noun) heavy short-tailed oceanic bird of polar regions | Synonyms: fulmar petrel, Fulmarus glacialis |
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| fulminant | (adjective) sudden and severe | - |
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| fulminate | (noun) a salt or ester of fulminic acid | - |
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| (verb) cause to explode violently and with loud noise | - |
| (verb) come on suddenly and intensely | - |
| (verb) criticize severely | Synonyms: rail |
| fulmination | (noun) the act of exploding with noise and violence | - |
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| (noun) thunderous verbal attack | Synonyms: diatribe |
| fulsome | (adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: buttery, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
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| fulsomely | (adverb) in an unctuous manner | Synonyms: smarmily, unctuously |
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| fulsomeness | (noun) smug self-serving earnestness | Synonyms: oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unction, unctuousness |
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| (noun) excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm | Synonyms: smarm, unction |
| funambulism | (noun) walking on a tightrope or slack rope | Synonyms: tightrope walking |
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| funambulist | (noun) an acrobat who performs on a tightrope or slack rope | Synonyms: tightrope walker |
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| funicular | (adjective) relating to or operated by a cable | - |
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| (noun) a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars | Synonyms: cable railway, funicular railway |
| funiculitis | (noun) inflammation of a funiculus (especially an inflammation of the spermatic cord) | - |
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| funiculus | (noun) any of several body structure resembling a cord | - |
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| (noun) the stalk of a plant ovule or seed | Synonyms: funicle |
| furcula | (noun) a forked bone formed by the fusion of the clavicles of most birds | - |
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| furunculosis | (noun) acute skin disease characterized by the presence of many furuncles | - |
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| gainful | (adjective) yielding a fair profit | Synonyms: paid, paying |
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| gainfully | (adverb) in a gainful way | - |
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| gainfulness | (noun) the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit | Synonyms: lucrativeness, profitability, profitableness |
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| galbulus | (noun) the seed-producing cone of a cypress tree | - |
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| gallinule | (noun) any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens | Synonyms: marsh hen, swamphen, water hen |
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| garambulla | (noun) small berrylike fruit | - |
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| (noun) arborescent cactus of western Mexico bearing a small oblong edible berrylike fruit | Synonyms: garambulla cactus, Myrtillocactus geometrizans |
| garrulity | (noun) the quality of being wordy and talkative | Synonyms: garrulousness, loquaciousness, loquacity, talkativeness |
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| garrulous | (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, gabby, loquacious, talkative, talky |
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| garrulously | (adverb) in a chatty loquacious manner | Synonyms: loquaciously, talkatively, talkily |
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| garrulousness | (noun) the quality of being wordy and talkative | Synonyms: garrulity, loquaciousness, loquacity, talkativeness |
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| gastrula | (noun) double-walled stage of the embryo resulting from invagination of the blastula; the outer layer of cells is the ectoderm and the inner layer differentiates into the mesoderm and endoderm | - |
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| gastrulation | (noun) the process in which a gastrula develops from a blastula by the inward migration of cells | - |
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| gemmule | (noun) the physically discrete element that Darwin proposed as responsible for heredity | - |
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| geniculate | (adjective) bent at a sharp angle | - |
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| gesticulate | (verb) show, express or direct through movement | Synonyms: gesture, motion |
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| gesticulating | (adjective) making gestures while speaking | - |
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| gesticulation | (noun) a deliberate and vigorous gesture or motion | - |
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| ghoul | (noun) an evil spirit or ghost | - |
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| (noun) someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection | Synonyms: body snatcher, graverobber |
| ghoulish | (adjective) suggesting the horror of death and decay | Synonyms: morbid |
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| gladfulness | (noun) experiencing joy and pleasure | Synonyms: gladness, gladsomeness |
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| glandular | (adjective) relating to or affecting or functioning as a gland | - |
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| glassful | (noun) the quantity a glass will hold | Synonyms: glass |
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| gleeful | (adjective) full of high-spirited delight | Synonyms: elated, joyful, jubilant |
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| gleefully | (adverb) in a joyous and gleeful manner | Synonyms: joyfully, joyously |
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| gleefulness | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: glee, hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness |
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| globular | (adjective) having the shape of a sphere or ball | Synonyms: ball-shaped, global, globose, orbicular, spheric, spherical |
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| globularness | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object | Synonyms: globosity, rotundity, rotundness, sphericalness, sphericity |
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| globule | (noun) a small globe or ball | - |
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| globulin | (noun) a family of proteins found in blood and milk and muscle and in plant seed | - |
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| glomerular | (adjective) of or relating to glomeruli | - |
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| glomerule | (noun) a compacted or sessile cyme | - |
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| glomerulonephritis | (noun) nephritis marked by inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney; characterized by decreased production of urine and by the presence of blood and protein in the urine and by edema | - |
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| glomerulus | (noun) a small intertwined group of capillaries in the malpighian body; it filters the blood during urine formation | - |
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| gloomful | (adjective) depressingly dark | Synonyms: glooming, gloomy, sulky |
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| goulash | (noun) a rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika | Synonyms: gulyas, Hungarian goulash |
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| graceful | (adjective) characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution | - |
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| (adjective) suggesting taste, ease, and wealth | Synonyms: elegant, refined |
| gracefully | (adverb) in a graceful manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a gracious or graceful manner | Synonyms: graciously |
| gracefulness | (noun) beautiful carriage | - |
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| granular | (adjective) having a granular structure like that of chondrites | Synonyms: chondritic |
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| (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granulose, gritty, mealy |
| granularity | (noun) the quality of being composed of relatively large particles | Synonyms: coarseness, graininess |
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| granulate | (verb) form granulating tissue | - |
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| (verb) form into grains | Synonyms: grain |
| (verb) become granular | Synonyms: grain |
| granulated | (adjective) made grainy or formed into granules | - |
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| granulation | (noun) the act of forming something into granules or grains | - |
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| (noun) new connective tissue and tiny blood vessels that form on the surfaces of a wound during the healing process | Synonyms: granulation tissue |
| granulator | (noun) a machine that forms material (such as plastics, bottles, organics, etc.) into granules. | Synonyms: granulator machine |
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| granule | (noun) a tiny grain | - |
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| granuliferous | (adjective) producing or full of granules | - |
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| granulocyte | (noun) a leukocyte that has granules in its cytoplasm | - |
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| granulocytic | (adjective) of or relating to granulocytes | - |
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| granulocytopenia | (noun) an acute blood disorder (often caused by radiation or drug therapy) characterized by severe reduction in granulocytes | Synonyms: agranulocytosis, agranulosis |
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| granuloma | (noun) a tumor composed of granulation tissue resulting from injury or inflammation or infection | - |
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| granulomatous | (adjective) relating to or characterized by granulomas | - |
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| granulose | (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granular, gritty, mealy |
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| grateful | (adjective) feeling or showing gratitude | Synonyms: thankful |
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| (adjective) affording comfort or pleasure | - |
| gratefully | (adverb) in a thankful manner; with thanks | Synonyms: thankfully |
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| (adverb) with appreciation; in a grateful manner | Synonyms: appreciatively |
| gratefulness | (noun) warm friendly feelings of gratitude | Synonyms: appreciativeness, thankfulness |
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| graticule | (noun) a network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument | Synonyms: reticle, reticule |
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| gratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: congratulatory |
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| griseofulvin | (noun) a kind of penicillin (a fungicidal antibiotic with the trade name Fulvicin) produced by molds of the genus Penicillium | Synonyms: Fulvicin |
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| guayule | (noun) much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber | Synonyms: Parthenium argentatum |
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| guileful | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| gula | (noun) eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: gluttony, overeating |
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| gulag | (noun) a Russian prison camp for political prisoners | - |
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| gulch | (noun) a narrow gorge with a stream running through it | Synonyms: flume |
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| gulden | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Dutch florin, florin, guilder |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: florin, guilder |
| gulf | (noun) an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding) | Synonyms: disconnect, disconnection |
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| (noun) a deep wide chasm | - |
| (noun) an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay | - |
| gulfweed | (noun) brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea | Synonyms: sargasso, sargassum, Sargassum bacciferum |
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| gull | (noun) mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs | Synonyms: sea gull, seagull |
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| (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker |
| (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: befool, cod, dupe, fool, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in |
| (verb) make a fool or dupe of | Synonyms: befool, fool |
| gullet | (noun) the passage between the pharynx and the stomach | Synonyms: esophagus, gorge, oesophagus |
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| gullibility | (noun) tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived | Synonyms: credulousness |
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| gullible | (adjective) naive and easily deceived or tricked | Synonyms: fleeceable, green |
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| (adjective) easily tricked because of being too trusting | - |
| gully | (noun) deep ditch cut by running water (especially after a prolonged downpour) | - |
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| gulp | (noun) a large and hurried swallow | Synonyms: draft, draught, swig |
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| (noun) a spasmodic reflex of the throat made as if in swallowing | Synonyms: gulping |
| (verb) utter or make a noise, as when swallowing too quickly | - |
| (verb) to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught | Synonyms: quaff, swig |
| gulper | (noun) a drinker who swallows large amounts greedily | Synonyms: guzzler |
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| gulping | (noun) the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly | Synonyms: guzzling, swilling |
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| (noun) a spasmodic reflex of the throat made as if in swallowing | Synonyms: gulp |
| gulyas | (noun) a rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika | Synonyms: goulash, Hungarian goulash |
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| handful | (noun) the quantity that can be held in the hand | Synonyms: fistful |
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| (noun) a small number or amount | Synonyms: smattering |