| anal | (adjective) a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated on the anal region; fixation at this stage is said to result in orderliness, meanness, stubbornness, compulsiveness, etc. | Synonyms: anal retentive |
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| (adjective) of or related to the anus | - |
| bacchanal | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic |
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| (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
| (noun) someone who engages in drinking bouts | Synonyms: bacchant, drunken reveler, drunken reveller |
| (noun) a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus | Synonyms: bacchant |
| banal | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
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| canal | (noun) long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation | - |
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| (noun) a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance | Synonyms: channel, duct, epithelial duct |
| (noun) (astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion | - |
| (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canalise, canalize |
| chanal | (noun) thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries | Synonyms: chanar, Geoffroea decorticans |
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| ethanal | (noun) a colorless volatile water-soluble liquid aldehyde used chiefly in the manufacture of acetic acid and perfumes and drugs | Synonyms: acetaldehyde |
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| methanal | (noun) a colorless poisonous gas; made by the oxidation of methanol | Synonyms: formaldehyde |
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| perianal | (adjective) around the anus | - |
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| preanal | (adjective) situated in front of the anus | - |
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| propanal | (noun) a colorless liquid aldehyde | Synonyms: propionaldehyde |
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