| abutter | (noun) the owner of contiguous property | - |
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| aflutter | (adjective) excited in anticipation | Synonyms: nervous |
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| butte | (noun) a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides | - |
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| butter | (noun) an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use | - |
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| (noun) a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head | - |
| (verb) spread butter on | - |
| butterball | (noun) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, bufflehead, dipper |
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| (noun) a rotund individual | Synonyms: fat person, fatso, fatty, roly-poly |
| butterbean | (noun) small flat green bean similar to lima beans | Synonyms: butter bean, civet bean, sieva bean |
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| butterbur | (noun) small Eurasian herb having broad leaves and lilac-pink rayless flowers; found in moist areas | Synonyms: bog rhubarb, Petasites hybridus, Petasites vulgaris |
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| buttercrunch | (noun) lettuce with delicate and relatively crunchy leaves | - |
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| buttercup | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, butterflower, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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| butterfat | (noun) the fatty substance of milk from which butter is made | - |
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| butterfingered | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, bungling, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| butterfingers | (noun) someone who drops things (especially one who cannot catch a ball) | - |
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| butterfish | (noun) small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines | Synonyms: stromateid, stromateid fish |
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| (noun) slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: Pholis gunnellus, rock gunnel |
| (noun) any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin | - |
| butterflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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| butterfly | (noun) a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down | Synonyms: butterfly stroke |
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| (noun) diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings | - |
| (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance |
| (verb) cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking | - |
| (verb) flutter like a butterfly | - |
| butterflyfish | (noun) tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins | Synonyms: flying gurnard, flying robin |
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| buttermilk | (noun) residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture | - |
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| butternut | (noun) oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family | - |
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| (noun) North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye | Synonyms: butternut tree, Juglans cinerea, white walnut |
| butterscotch | (noun) a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar | - |
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| butterweed | (noun) any of several yellow-flowered plants of the genus Packera; often placed in genus Senecio | - |
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| (noun) American ragwort with yellow flowers | Synonyms: ragwort, Senecio glabellus |
| butterwort | (noun) any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects | - |
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| buttery | (adjective) resembling or containing or spread with butter | - |
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| (adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
| (noun) a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals | - |
| (noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | Synonyms: larder, pantry |
| canecutter | (noun) a wood rabbit of southeastern United States swamps and lowlands | Synonyms: swamp hare, swamp rabbit, Sylvilagus aquaticus |
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| clutter | (noun) unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen | - |
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| (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter |
| (verb) fill a space in a disorderly way | Synonyms: clutter up |
| cluttered | (adjective) filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish | Synonyms: littered |
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| cutter | (noun) a cutting implement; a tool for cutting | Synonyms: cutlery, cutting tool |
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| (noun) a boat for communication between ship and shore | Synonyms: pinnace, ship's boat, tender |
| (noun) a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop | - |
| (noun) someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments) | - |
| (noun) someone who carves the meat | Synonyms: carver |
| (noun) someone who cuts or carves stone | Synonyms: stonecutter |
| flutter | (noun) the act of moving back and forth | Synonyms: flicker, waver |
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| (noun) the motion made by flapping up and down | Synonyms: flap, flapping, fluttering |
| (noun) abnormally rapid beating of the auricles of the heart (especially in a regular rhythm); can result in heart block | - |
| (noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult | Synonyms: commotion, disruption, disturbance, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do |
| (verb) wink briefly | Synonyms: bat |
| (verb) beat rapidly | Synonyms: palpitate |
| (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, quiver, waver |
| (verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: dart, fleet, flit |
| (verb) flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements | - |
| fluttering | (noun) the motion made by flapping up and down | Synonyms: flap, flapping, flutter |
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| glutted | (adjective) exceeding demand | Synonyms: overfull |
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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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| mutter | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, muttering |
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| (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, muttering |
| (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, gnarl, grumble, murmur |
| (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mumble, mussitate |
| mutterer | (noun) a person who speaks softly and indistinctly | Synonyms: mumbler, murmurer |
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| muttering | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, mutter |
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| (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, mutter |
| nutter | (noun) a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad | Synonyms: wacko, whacko |
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| puttee | (noun) a strip of cloth wound around the leg to form legging; used by soldiers in World War I | - |
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| putter | (noun) the iron normally used on the putting green | Synonyms: putting iron |
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| (noun) a golfer who is putting | - |
| (verb) move around aimlessly | Synonyms: potter, potter around, putter around |
| (verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, tinker |
| (verb) work lightly | Synonyms: potter |
| putterer | (noun) a person who putters about | Synonyms: potterer |
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| rebutter | (noun) (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder | Synonyms: rebuttal |
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| (noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: confuter, disprover, refuter |
| rutted | (adjective) full of ruts | Synonyms: rutty |
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| shutter | (noun) a hinged blind for a window | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure | - |
| (verb) close with shutters | - |
| shutterbug | (noun) a photography enthusiast | - |
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| shuttered | (adjective) provided with shutters or shutters as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| splutter | (noun) an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage) | Synonyms: sputter |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, sputter, sputtering |
| (verb) spit up in an explosive manner | Synonyms: spit out, sputter |
| (verb) utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage | Synonyms: sputter |
| sputter | (noun) an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage) | Synonyms: splutter |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputtering |
| (verb) spit up in an explosive manner | Synonyms: spit out, splutter |
| (verb) cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed | - |
| (verb) utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage | Synonyms: splutter |
| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle |
| (verb) make an explosive sound | - |
| sputtering | (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputter |
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| stonecutter | (noun) someone who cuts or carves stone | Synonyms: cutter |
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| stutter | (noun) a speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds | Synonyms: stammer |
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| (verb) speak haltingly | Synonyms: bumble, falter, stammer |
| stutterer | (noun) someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions | Synonyms: stammerer |
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| surrebutter | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rebutter | Synonyms: surrebuttal |
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| suttee | (noun) the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband | - |
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| unclutter | (verb) rid of obstructions | Synonyms: clear |
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| uncluttered | (adjective) having nothing extraneous | Synonyms: unlittered |
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| unshuttered | (adjective) not provided with shutters or having the shuttered open | - |
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| unutterable | (adjective) defying expression or description | Synonyms: indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, untellable |
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| (adjective) too sacred to be uttered | Synonyms: ineffable, unnameable, unspeakable |
| (adjective) very difficult to pronounce correctly | Synonyms: unpronounceable |
| unutterably | (adverb) to an inexpressible degree | Synonyms: indescribably, ineffably, inexpressibly, unspeakably |
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| unuttered | (adjective) not made explicit | Synonyms: unexpressed, unsaid, unspoken, unstated, unverbalised, unverbalized, unvoiced |
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| utter | (adjective) complete and absolute | Synonyms: blank |
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| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated |
| (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: mouth, speak, talk, verbalise, verbalize |
| (verb) articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise | Synonyms: express, give tongue to, verbalise, verbalize |
| (verb) express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words) | Synonyms: emit, let loose, let out |
| (verb) put into circulation | - |
| utterable | (adjective) capable of being uttered in words or sentences | Synonyms: speakable |
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| utterance | (noun) the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication | Synonyms: vocalization |
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| uttered | (adjective) communicated in words | Synonyms: expressed, verbalised, verbalized, voiced |
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| utterer | (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: speaker, talker, verbaliser, verbalizer |
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| (noun) someone who circulates forged banknotes or counterfeit coins | - |
| (noun) an organism that can utter vocal sounds | Synonyms: vocaliser, vocalizer |
| utterly | (adverb) completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolutely, dead, perfectly |
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| uttermost | (adjective) (comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order | Synonyms: farthermost, farthest, furthermost, furthest, utmost |
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| (adjective) of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity | Synonyms: extreme, utmost |
| (noun) the greatest possible degree | Synonyms: level best, maximum, utmost |
| utterness | (noun) the quality of being complete or utter or extreme | Synonyms: absoluteness, starkness |
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| woodcutter | (noun) cuts down trees and chops wood as a job | - |
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