boulle | (noun) an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork | Synonyms: boule, buhl |
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buckminsterfullerene | (noun) a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene | Synonyms: buckyball |
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bullet | (noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity | Synonyms: fastball, heater, hummer, smoke |
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(noun) a projectile that is fired from a gun | Synonyms: slug |
(noun) a high-speed passenger train | Synonyms: bullet train |
bullethead | (noun) a head shaped like a bullet | - |
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bulletin | (noun) a brief report (especially an official statement issued for immediate publication or broadcast) | - |
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(verb) make public by bulletin | - |
bulletproof | (adjective) not penetrable by bullets | - |
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(adjective) without flaws or loopholes | Synonyms: ironclad, unassailable, unshakable, watertight |
(verb) make bulletproof | - |
cruller | (noun) small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts | Synonyms: twister |
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cullender | (noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods | Synonyms: colander |
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dulled | (adjective) deprived of color | Synonyms: greyed |
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(adjective) made dull or blunt | Synonyms: blunted |
(adjective) having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure | Synonyms: benumbed |
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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gullet | (noun) the passage between the pharynx and the stomach | Synonyms: esophagus, gorge, oesophagus |
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mullein | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers | Synonyms: flannel leaf, velvet plant |
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muller | (noun) a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone | Synonyms: pestle, pounder |
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(noun) a vessel in which wine is mulled | - |
(noun) a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation | Synonyms: muser, ponderer, ruminator |
mullet | (noun) bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin | - |
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(noun) freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide | Synonyms: gray mullet, grey mullet |
(noun) highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet | Synonyms: gray mullet, grey mullet |
puller | (noun) someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something | Synonyms: dragger, tugger |
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(noun) someone who applies force so as to cause motion toward herself or himself | - |
pullet | (noun) young hen usually less than a year old | - |
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(noun) flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying | Synonyms: frier, fryer |
pulley | (noun) a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope | Synonyms: block, pulley-block, pulley block |
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sculler | (noun) someone who sculls (moves a long oar pivoted on the back of the boat to propel the boat forward) | - |
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scullery | (noun) a small room (in large old British houses) next to the kitchen; where kitchen utensils are cleaned and kept and other rough household jobs are done | - |
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soulless | (adjective) lacking sensitivity or the capacity for deep feeling | - |
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soullessly | (adverb) in a soulless manner | - |
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sullen | (adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: heavy, lowering, threatening |
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(adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour |
sullenly | (adverb) in a sullen manner | Synonyms: dourly, glumly |
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sullenness | (noun) a sullen moody resentful disposition | Synonyms: moroseness, sourness, sulkiness |
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(noun) a gloomy ill-tempered feeling | Synonyms: glumness, moroseness |
surmullet | (noun) brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels | Synonyms: goatfish, Mullus surmuletus, red mullet |
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tulle | (noun) a fine (often starched) net used for veils or tutus or gowns | - |
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