absorber | (noun) (physics) material in a nuclear reactor that absorbs radiation | - |
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adsorber | (noun) an apparatus used in the adhesion of atoms, ions, or molecules from a gas, liquid, or dissolved solid to a surface. | - |
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amber | (adjective) of a medium to dark brownish yellow color | Synonyms: brownish-yellow, yellow-brown |
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(noun) a deep yellow color | Synonyms: gold |
(noun) a hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry | - |
antechamber | (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: anteroom, entrance hall, foyer, hall, lobby, vestibule |
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barber | (noun) a hairdresser who cuts hair and shaves beards as a trade | - |
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(verb) perform the services of a barber: cut the hair and/or beard of | - |
beachcomber | (noun) a vagrant living on a beach | - |
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bedchamber | (noun) a room used primarily for sleeping | Synonyms: bedroom, chamber, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room |
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belieber | (noun) A fan of Justin Bieber | - |
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blabber | (noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: betrayer, informer, rat, squealer |
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(verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
blubber | (noun) excess bodily weight | Synonyms: avoirdupois, fat, fatness |
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(noun) an insulating layer of fat under the skin of whales and other large marine mammals; used as a source of oil | - |
(verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, sniffle, snivel, snuffle |
(verb) utter while crying | Synonyms: blubber out |
bobber | (noun) a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line | Synonyms: bob, bobfloat, cork |
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bomber | (noun) a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight | - |
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(noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
(noun) a person who plants bombs | - |
briber | (noun) someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act | Synonyms: suborner |
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caber | (noun) a heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) that is tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of northern Scotland) | - |
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caliber | (noun) a degree or grade of excellence or worth | Synonyms: calibre, quality |
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(noun) diameter of a tube or gun barrel | Synonyms: bore, calibre, gauge |
camber | (noun) the alignment of the wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the bottom than at the top | - |
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(noun) a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force | Synonyms: bank, cant |
(noun) a slight convexity (as of the surface of a road) | - |
(verb) curve upward in the middle | - |
chamber | (noun) a natural or artificial enclosed space | - |
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(noun) a room used primarily for sleeping | Synonyms: bedchamber, bedroom, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room |
(noun) a room where a judge transacts business | - |
(noun) an enclosed volume in the body | - |
(noun) a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly | - |
(verb) place in a chamber | - |
clabber | (noun) raw milk that has soured and thickened | - |
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(verb) turn into curds | Synonyms: clot, curdle |
clamber | (noun) an awkward climb | - |
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(verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
climber | (noun) an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | Synonyms: climbing iron, crampon, crampoon |
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(noun) someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains | - |
(noun) someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior | Synonyms: social climber |
(noun) someone who ascends on foot | Synonyms: mounter |
(noun) a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants | - |
clobber | (noun) informal terms for personal possessions | Synonyms: stuff |
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(verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, cream, drub, lick, thrash |
(verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: baste, batter |
clumber | (noun) a thickset spaniel with longish silky hair | Synonyms: clumber spaniel |
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cobber | (noun) Australian term for a pal | - |
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comber | (noun) a machine that separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool | - |
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(noun) a long curling sea wave | - |
(noun) a person who separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool | - |
cucumber | (noun) cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons | Synonyms: cuke |
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(noun) a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit | Synonyms: cucumber vine, Cucumis sativus |
cumber | (verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult | Synonyms: encumber, restrain |
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dauber | (noun) an unskilled painter | - |
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delimber | (noun) a machine for removing limbs from trees with a saw or flailing chains. | Synonyms: stroke delimber |
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dibber | (noun) a wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs | Synonyms: dibble |
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disencumber | (verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disentangle, extricate, untangle |
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dismember | (verb) separate the limbs from the body | - |
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(verb) divide into pieces | Synonyms: discerp, take apart |
disturber | (noun) a troubler who interrupts or interferes with peace and quiet; someone who causes disorder and commotion | - |
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ember | (noun) a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering | Synonyms: coal |
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encumber | (verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult | Synonyms: cumber, restrain |
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fibber | (noun) someone who tells lies | Synonyms: fabricator, storyteller |
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fiber | (noun) a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth | Synonyms: fibre, vulcanized fiber |
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(noun) the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions | Synonyms: character, fibre |
(noun) any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber) | Synonyms: fibre |
(noun) coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis | Synonyms: fibre, roughage |
(noun) a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn | Synonyms: fibre |
gibber | (noun) unintelligible talking | Synonyms: gibberish |
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(verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
(verb) chatter inarticulately; of monkeys | - |
goober | (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: earthnut, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut, peanut |
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grabber | (noun) an unpleasant person who grabs inconsiderately | - |
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graverobber | (noun) someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection | Synonyms: body snatcher, ghoul |
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(noun) someone who steals valuables from graves or crypts | - |
hobber | (noun) a special type of milling machine used for gear cutting, cutting splines, and cutting sprockets. | Synonyms: hobbing machine |
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imbiber | (noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: drinker, juicer, toper |
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jabber | (noun) rapid and indistinct speech | Synonyms: gabble, jabbering |
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(verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner | Synonyms: mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave, spout |
jobber | (noun) someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers | Synonyms: middleman, wholesaler |
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landlubber | (noun) an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage | Synonyms: landsman, lubber |
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(noun) a person who lives and works on land | Synonyms: landman, landsman |
libber | (noun) a supporter of feminism | Synonyms: feminist, women's liberationist, women's rightist |
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limber | (adjective) (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely | Synonyms: supple |
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(adjective) (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable | Synonyms: supple |
(adjective) (used of artifacts) easily bent | - |
(noun) a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used to pull a field gun or caisson | - |
(verb) cause to become limber | - |
(verb) attach the limber | Synonyms: limber up |
lubber | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lout, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
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(noun) an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage | Synonyms: landlubber, landsman |
lumber | (noun) an implement used in baseball by the batter | Synonyms: baseball bat |
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(noun) the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material | Synonyms: timber |
(verb) cut lumber, as in woods and forests | Synonyms: log |
(verb) move heavily or clumsily | Synonyms: pound |
member | (noun) an external body part that projects from the body | Synonyms: appendage, extremity |
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(noun) the male sex organ | Synonyms: penis, phallus |
(noun) an organization that is a member of another organization (especially a state that belongs to a group of nations) | - |
(noun) one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization) | Synonyms: fellow member |
(noun) anything that belongs to a set or class | - |
misremember | (verb) remember incorrectly | - |
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moneygrubber | (noun) someone whose main interest in life is moneymaking | - |
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nonmember | (noun) a person who is not a member | - |
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number | (noun) an item of clothing | - |
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(noun) the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals | Synonyms: figure |
(noun) a clothing measurement | - |
(noun) one of a series published periodically | Synonyms: issue |
(noun) a symbol used to represent a number | Synonyms: numeral |
(noun) a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification and may be attached to accounts, memberships, etc. | - |
(noun) the number is used in calling a particular telephone | Synonyms: phone number, telephone number |
(noun) a short performance that is part of a longer program | Synonyms: act, bit, routine, turn |
(noun) the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural) | - |
(noun) a numbered item in a series | - |
(noun) a select company of people | - |
(noun) a concept of quantity involving zero and units | - |
(verb) place a limit on the number of | Synonyms: keep down |
(verb) determine the number or amount of | Synonyms: count, enumerate, numerate |
(verb) enumerate | Synonyms: list |
(verb) give numbers to | - |
(verb) add up in number or quantity | Synonyms: add up, amount, come, total |
(verb) put into a group | Synonyms: count |
outnumber | (verb) be larger in number | - |
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plumber | (noun) a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances | Synonyms: pipe fitter |
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remember | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, recollect, retrieve, think |
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(verb) keep in mind for attention or consideration | Synonyms: think of |
(verb) recapture the past; indulge in memories | Synonyms: think back |
(verb) exercise, or have the power of, memory | - |
(verb) call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony | Synonyms: commemorate |
(verb) mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship | Synonyms: commend |
(verb) mention favorably, as in prayer | - |
(verb) show appreciation to | - |
robber | (noun) a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence | - |
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rubber | (adjective) returned for lack of funds | Synonyms: no-good |
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(noun) a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow | Synonyms: arctic, galosh, golosh, gumshoe |
(noun) contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse | Synonyms: condom, prophylactic, safe, safety |
(noun) an eraser made of rubber (or of a synthetic material with properties similar to rubber); commonly mounted at one end of a pencil | Synonyms: pencil eraser, rubber eraser |
(noun) a contest consisting of a series of successive matches between the same sides | - |
(noun) an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products | Synonyms: caoutchouc, gum elastic, India rubber, natural rubber |
(noun) any of various synthetic elastic materials whose properties resemble natural rubber | Synonyms: synthetic rubber |
(verb) coat or impregnate with rubber | Synonyms: rubberise, rubberize |
saber | (noun) a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back | Synonyms: cavalry sword, sabre |
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(noun) a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle | Synonyms: sabre |
(verb) kill with a saber | Synonyms: sabre |
(verb) cut or injure with a saber | Synonyms: sabre |
scriber | (noun) a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut | Synonyms: scratch awl, scribe |
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scrubber | (noun) a purifier that removes impurities from a gas | - |
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(noun) a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning | Synonyms: scrub brush, scrubbing brush |
(noun) a worker who uses a scrub brush to clean a surface (usually a floor or deck) | - |
slabber | (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool, slaver, slobber |
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slobber | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool |
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(verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool, slabber, slaver |
slumber | (noun) a dormant or quiescent state | - |
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(noun) a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended | Synonyms: sleep |
(verb) be asleep | Synonyms: catch some Z's, kip, log Z's, sleep |
sober | (adjective) not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | - |
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(adjective) completely lacking in playfulness | Synonyms: serious, unplayful |
(adjective) lacking brightness or color; dull | Synonyms: drab, somber, sombre |
(adjective) dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises | Synonyms: grave, sedate, solemn |
(verb) become sober after excessive alcohol consumption | Synonyms: sober up |
(verb) become more realistic | Synonyms: sober up |
(verb) cause to become sober | - |
somber | (adjective) lacking brightness or color; dull | Synonyms: drab, sober, sombre |
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(adjective) grave or even gloomy in character | Synonyms: melancholy, sombre |
stabber | (noun) someone who stabs another person | - |
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stockjobber | (noun) one who deals only with brokers or other jobbers | - |
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subscriber | (noun) someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money | Synonyms: contributor |
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(noun) someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication | Synonyms: reader |
(noun) someone who expresses strong approval | Synonyms: endorser, indorser, ratifier |
timber | (noun) a beam made of wood | - |
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(noun) a post made of wood | - |
(noun) (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) | Synonyms: quality, timbre, tone |
(noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timberland, woodland |
(noun) the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material | Synonyms: lumber |
transcriber | (noun) someone who makes a written version of spoken material | - |
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(noun) someone who represents the sounds of speech in phonetic notation | - |
(noun) a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance | Synonyms: adapter, arranger |
(noun) a person who translates written messages from one language to another | Synonyms: translator |
(noun) someone who rewrites in a different script | - |
tuber | (noun) a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage | - |
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umber | (adjective) of the color of any of various natural brown earth pigments | - |
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(noun) a medium brown to dark-brown color | Synonyms: burnt umber, chocolate, coffee, deep brown |
(noun) an earth pigment | - |
weber | (noun) a unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells | Synonyms: Wb |
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