abeyance | (noun) temporary cessation or suspension | Synonyms: suspension |
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abeyant | (adjective) inactive but capable of becoming active | Synonyms: dormant |
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acrocyanosis | (noun) cyanosis of the extremities; can occur when a spasm of the blood vessels is caused by exposure to cold or by strong emotion | Synonyms: Raynaud's sign |
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annoyance | (noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoying, irritation, vexation |
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(noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: bother, botheration, infliction, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
(noun) anger produced by some annoying irritation | Synonyms: chafe, vexation |
(noun) an unpleasant person who is annoying or exasperating | Synonyms: aggravator |
(noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: botheration, irritation, vexation |
banyan | (noun) a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India | Synonyms: banian |
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(noun) East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks | Synonyms: banian, banian tree, banyan tree, East Indian fig tree, Ficus bengalensis, Indian banyan |
biryani | (noun) an Indian dish made with highly seasoned rice and meat or fish or vegetables | Synonyms: biriani |
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bryanthus | (noun) procumbent Old World mat-forming evergreen shrub with racemes of pinkish-white flowers | - |
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buoyancy | (noun) the property of something weightless and insubstantial | Synonyms: airiness |
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(noun) irrepressible liveliness and good spirit | Synonyms: irrepressibility |
(noun) the tendency to float in water or other liquid | - |
(noun) cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface | Synonyms: perkiness |
buoyant | (adjective) characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness | Synonyms: chirpy, perky |
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(adjective) tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas | Synonyms: floaty |
buoyantly | (adverb) in a cheerfully buoyant manner | Synonyms: chirpily |
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chatoyant | (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, iridescent, shot |
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clairvoyance | (noun) apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses | Synonyms: E.S.P., ESP, extrasensory perception, second sight |
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clairvoyant | (adjective) perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses | - |
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(adjective) foreseeing the future | Synonyms: precognitive, second-sighted |
(noun) someone who has the power of clairvoyance | - |
conveyance | (noun) act of transferring property title from one person to another | Synonyms: conveyance of title, conveyancing, conveying |
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(noun) the act of moving something from one location to another | Synonyms: transfer, transferral, transport, transportation |
(noun) something that serves as a means of transportation | Synonyms: transport |
(noun) the transmission of information | Synonyms: impartation, imparting |
(noun) document effecting a property transfer | - |
conveyancer | (noun) a lawyer who specializes in the business of conveying properties | - |
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conveyancing | (noun) act of transferring property title from one person to another | Synonyms: conveyance, conveyance of title, conveying |
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cyan | (adjective) of the blue-green color that is a primary subtractive color of light | - |
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(noun) a primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green color | - |
cyanamid | (noun) a weak soluble dibasic acid (the parent acid of cyanamide salts) | Synonyms: cyanamide |
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cyanamide | (noun) a weak soluble dibasic acid (the parent acid of cyanamide salts) | Synonyms: cyanamid |
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(noun) a compound used as a fertilizer and as a source of nitrogen compounds | Synonyms: calcium-cyanamide |
cyanide | (noun) an extremely poisonous salt of hydrocyanic acid | - |
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(noun) any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN | Synonyms: nitril, nitrile |
cyanite | (noun) a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock, used as a refractory | Synonyms: kyanite |
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cyanobacteria | (noun) predominantly photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms containing a blue pigment in addition to chlorophyll; occur singly or in colonies in diverse habitats; important as phytoplankton | Synonyms: blue-green algae |
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cyanobacterial | (adjective) relating to or caused by photosynthetic bacteria of the class Cyanobacteria | Synonyms: cyanophyte |
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cyanocobalamin | (noun) a B vitamin that is used to treat pernicious anemia | Synonyms: antipernicious anemia factor, cobalamin, vitamin B12 |
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cyanogen | (noun) a colorless toxic gas with a pungent almond odor; has been used in chemical warfare | - |
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cyanogenetic | (adjective) capable of producing cyanide | Synonyms: cyanogenic |
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cyanogenic | (adjective) capable of producing cyanide | Synonyms: cyanogenetic |
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cyanohydrin | (noun) any organic compound in which the cyano radical -CN and the hydroxyl radical -OH are attached to the same carbon atom | - |
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cyanophyte | (adjective) relating to or caused by photosynthetic bacteria of the class Cyanobacteria | Synonyms: cyanobacterial |
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cyanosis | (noun) a bluish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes | - |
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cyanuramide | (noun) a white crystalline organic base; used mainly in making melamine resins | Synonyms: melamine |
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ferricyanide | (noun) salt of ferricyanic acid obtained by oxidation of a ferrocyanide | - |
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ferrocyanide | (noun) salt of ferrocyanic acid usually obtained by a reaction of a cyanide with iron sulphate | - |
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flamboyance | (noun) extravagant elaborateness | Synonyms: floridity, floridness, showiness |
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flamboyant | (adjective) elaborately or excessively ornamented | Synonyms: aureate, florid |
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(adjective) marked by ostentation but often tasteless | Synonyms: showy, splashy |
(noun) showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana | Synonyms: Delonix regia, flame tree, peacock flower, Poinciana regia, royal poinciana |
flamboyantly | (adverb) in a fancy colorful manner | Synonyms: flashily, showily |
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isocyanate | (noun) a salt or ester of isocyanic acid | - |
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isothiocyanate | (noun) a family of compounds derived from horseradish and radishes and onions and mustards; source of the hotness of those plants and preparations | - |
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kyanite | (noun) a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock, used as a refractory | Synonyms: cyanite |
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minyan | (noun) the quorum required by Jewish law to be present for public worship (at least ten males over thirteen years of age) | - |
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phycocyanin | (noun) blue pigment in algae | - |
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pollyannaish | (adjective) pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic | Synonyms: cheerful, upbeat |
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polyandrist | (noun) a woman with two or more husbands | - |
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polyandrous | (adjective) having more than one husband at a time | - |
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polyandry | (noun) the state of having more than one husband at a time | - |
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polyanthus | (noun) florists' primroses; considered a complex hybrid derived from oxlip, cowslip, and common primrose | Synonyms: Primula polyantha |
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purveyance | (noun) the act of supplying something | - |
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pyocyanase | (noun) a yellow-green mixture of antibiotics obtained from the bacillus of green pus | - |
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pyocyanin | (noun) a toxic blue crystalline antibiotic found in green pus | - |
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thiocyanate | (noun) a salt of thiocyanic acid; formed when alkaline cyanides are fused with sulfur | - |
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yang | (noun) the bright positive masculine principle in Chinese dualistic cosmology | - |
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yank | (verb) pull, or move with a sudden movement | Synonyms: jerk |
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yanker | (noun) someone who gives a strong sudden pull | Synonyms: jerker |
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yanquapin | (noun) water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds | Synonyms: American lotus, Nelumbo lutea, water chinquapin |
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