| furfuran | (noun) a colorless toxic flammable liquid used in the synthesis of nylon | Synonyms: furan, furane |
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| fustian | (noun) a strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap | - |
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| (noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing | Synonyms: blah, bombast, claptrap, rant |
| gagman | (noun) someone who writes comic material for public performers | Synonyms: gagster, gagwriter |
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| (noun) a comedian who uses gags | Synonyms: standup comedian |
| gallinacean | (noun) heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds | Synonyms: gallinaceous bird |
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| gamelan | (noun) a traditional Indonesian ensemble typically including many tuned percussion instruments including bamboo xylophones and wooden or bronze chimes and gongs | - |
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| garbageman | (noun) someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse | Synonyms: dustman, garbage carter, garbage collector, garbage hauler, garbage man, refuse collector |
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| gargantuan | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: elephantine, giant, jumbo |
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| gasman | (noun) someone employed by a gas company | - |
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| gean | (noun) wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting | Synonyms: mazzard, mazzard cherry |
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| gentian | (noun) any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis | - |
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| gentleman | (noun) a man of refinement | - |
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| (noun) a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer | Synonyms: gentleman's gentleman, man, valet, valet de chambre |
| gentlewoman | (noun) a woman of refinement | Synonyms: dame, lady, ma'am, madam |
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| geometrician | (noun) a mathematician specializing in geometry | Synonyms: geometer |
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| geriatrician | (noun) a specialist in gerontology | Synonyms: gerontologist |
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| glean | (verb) gather, as of natural products | Synonyms: harvest, reap |
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| gorgonian | (noun) corals having a horny or calcareous branching skeleton | Synonyms: gorgonian coral |
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| grammarian | (noun) a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax | Synonyms: syntactician |
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| gran | (noun) the mother of your father or mother | Synonyms: grandma, grandmother, grannie, granny, nan, nanna |
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| groan | (noun) an utterance expressing pain or disapproval | Synonyms: moan |
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| (verb) indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure | Synonyms: moan |
| groomsman | (noun) a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding | - |
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| groundsman | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundkeeper, groundskeeper |
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| guan | (noun) any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae; native to jungles of tropical America; resembling the curassows and valued as food | - |
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| guardian | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: defender, protector, shielder |
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| guardsman | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a unit called `the guard' or `guards' | - |
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| gunman | (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman |
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| (noun) a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) | Synonyms: gun |
| haemosporidian | (noun) minute protozoans parasitic at some stage of the life cycle in blood cells of vertebrates including many pathogens | - |
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| handyman | (noun) a man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks | Synonyms: jack of all trades, odd-job man |
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| hangman | (noun) an executioner who hangs the condemned person | - |
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| hanuman | (noun) langur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India | Synonyms: entellus, Presbytes entellus, Semnopithecus entellus |
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| haplosporidian | (noun) parasite in invertebrates and lower vertebrates of no known economic importance | - |
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| hardpan | (noun) crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions | Synonyms: caliche |
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| hardwareman | (noun) someone who sells hardware | Synonyms: ironmonger |
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| harmattan | (noun) a dusty wind from the Sahara that blows toward the western coast of Africa during the winter | - |
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| harridan | (noun) a scolding (even vicious) old woman | - |
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| harvestman | (noun) spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs | Synonyms: daddy longlegs, Phalangium opilio |
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| hazan | (noun) the official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos | Synonyms: cantor |
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| headman | (noun) the head of a tribe or clan | Synonyms: chief, chieftain, tribal chief |
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| (noun) an executioner who beheads the condemned person | Synonyms: headsman |
| headsman | (noun) an executioner who beheads the condemned person | Synonyms: headman |
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| heliozoan | (noun) protozoa with spherical bodies and stiff radiating pseudopods | - |
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| helmsman | (noun) the person who steers a ship | Synonyms: steerer, steersman |
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| hemipteran | (noun) insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis | Synonyms: bug, hemipteron, hemipterous insect |
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| henchman | (noun) someone who assists in a plot | Synonyms: collaborator, confederate, partner in crime |
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| herculean | (adjective) extremely difficult; requiring the strength of a Hercules | - |
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| (adjective) displaying superhuman strength or power | Synonyms: powerful |
| herdsman | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: drover, herder |
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| hessian | (noun) (19th century) a man's high tasseled boot | Synonyms: Hessian boot, jackboot, Wellington, Wellington boot |
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| heterostracan | (noun) extinct jawless fish with the anterior part of the body covered with bony plates; of the Silurian and Devonian | - |
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| highwayman | (noun) a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it | Synonyms: highjacker, hijacker, road agent |
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| hirudinean | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: bloodsucker, leech |
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| historian | (noun) a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it | Synonyms: historiographer |
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| hitman | (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, shooter, torpedo, triggerman |
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| hodman | (noun) a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers | Synonyms: hod carrier |
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| hogan | (noun) a Navajo lodge covered with earth; traditionally built with the entrance facing east | - |
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| holocephalan | (noun) fish with high compressed head and a body tapering off into a long tail | Synonyms: holocephalian |
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| holocephalian | (noun) fish with high compressed head and a body tapering off into a long tail | Synonyms: holocephalan |
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| holothurian | (noun) echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders | Synonyms: sea cucumber |
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| hominian | (adjective) characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures | Synonyms: hominid |
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| homopteran | (noun) insects having membranous forewings and hind wings | Synonyms: homopterous insect |
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| hooligan | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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| hooman | (noun) human, mispronounced for comic effect | - |
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| horsebean | (noun) large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States | Synonyms: Jerusalem thorn, Parkinsonia aculeata |
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| (noun) seed of the broad-bean plant | Synonyms: broad bean, fava bean |
| horseman | (noun) a person who breeds and cares for horses | Synonyms: horse fancier |
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| (noun) a man skilled in equitation | - |
| horsewoman | (noun) a woman horseman | - |
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| hotelman | (noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hosteller, hotel manager, hotelier, hotelkeeper |
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| houseclean | (verb) clean and tidy up the house | Synonyms: clean, clean house |
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| houseman | (noun) an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience | Synonyms: intern, interne, medical intern |
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| human | (adjective) having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of humanity | - |
| (adjective) relating to a person | - |
| (noun) any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage | Synonyms: homo, human being, man |
| humanitarian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of humanitarianism | - |
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| (adjective) marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare | Synonyms: human-centered, human-centred, humanist, humanistic |
| (noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, improver |
| (noun) an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans | Synonyms: humanist |
| huntsman | (noun) someone who hunts game | Synonyms: hunter |
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| husbandman | (noun) a person who operates a farm | Synonyms: farmer, granger, sodbuster |
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| hydrozoan | (noun) colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant | Synonyms: hydroid |
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| hymenopteran | (noun) insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing | Synonyms: hymenopter, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect |
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| iceman | (noun) someone who cuts and delivers ice | - |
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| (noun) a professional killer | Synonyms: hatchet man |
| infantryman | (noun) fights on foot with small arms | Synonyms: foot soldier, footslogger, marcher |
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| infrahuman | (adjective) belonging to a group below humans in evolutionary development | - |
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| infusorian | (noun) any member of the subclass Infusoria | - |
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| inhuman | (adjective) without compunction or human feeling | Synonyms: cold-blooded, cold, insensate |
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| (adjective) belonging to or resembling something nonhuman | - |
| insectan | (adjective) of or relating to the class Insecta | - |
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| inspan | (verb) attach a yoke or harness to | - |
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| ironman | (noun) a strong man of exceptional physical endurance | Synonyms: iron man |
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| isopteran | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of insects of the order Isoptera | - |
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| isthmian | (adjective) of or relating to or forming an isthmus | - |
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| jampan | (noun) a kind of sedan chair used in India | - |
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| japan | (noun) lacquer with a durable glossy black finish, originally from the orient | - |
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| (noun) lacquerware decorated and varnished in the Japanese manner with a glossy durable black lacquer | - |
| (verb) coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan | - |
| jawan | (noun) (India) a private soldier or male constable | - |
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| jazzman | (noun) a musician who plays or composes jazz music | Synonyms: jazz musician |
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| jean | (noun) a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric | Synonyms: denim, dungaree |
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| journeyman | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, artisan, craftsman |
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| juryman | (noun) a male who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury | - |
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| jurywoman | (noun) a female who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury | - |
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| kaftan | (noun) a (cotton or silk) cloak with full sleeves and sash reaching down to the ankles; worn by men in the Levant | Synonyms: caftan |
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| (noun) a woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East | Synonyms: caftan |
| kalian | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| kentan | (noun) east Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spotted flowers with reflexed petals | Synonyms: devil lily, Lilium lancifolium, tiger lily |
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| khan | (noun) an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans | Synonyms: caravan inn, caravansary, caravanserai |
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| (noun) a title given to rulers or other important people in Asian countries | - |
| kinsman | (noun) a male relative | - |
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| kinswoman | (noun) a female relative | - |
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| kirpan | (noun) a ceremonial four-inch curved dagger that Sikh men and women are obliged to wear at all times | - |
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| kneepan | (noun) a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint | Synonyms: kneecap, patella |
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| koan | (noun) a paradoxical anecdote or a riddle that has no solution; used in Zen Buddhism to show the inadequacy of logical reasoning | - |
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| korlan | (noun) the fruit from the korlan tree. | - |
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| kurakkan | (noun) East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient | Synonyms: African millet, coracan, corakan, Eleusine coracana, finger millet, ragee, ragi |
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