adder | (noun) small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia | Synonyms: common viper, Vipera berus |
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(noun) a machine that adds numbers | - |
(noun) a person who adds numbers | - |
bedder | (noun) an ornamental plant suitable for planting in a flowerbed | Synonyms: bedding plant |
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bidder | (noun) someone who makes an offer | - |
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(noun) someone who makes a bid at cards | - |
bladder | (noun) a bag that fills with air | - |
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(noun) a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) | Synonyms: vesica |
didder | (verb) move with or as if with a tremor | Synonyms: shake |
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dodder | (noun) a leafless annual parasitic vine of the genus Cuscuta having whitish or yellow filamentous stems; obtain nourishment through haustoria | - |
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(verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, paddle, toddle, totter, waddle |
fodder | (noun) coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop | - |
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(noun) soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire | Synonyms: cannon fodder, fresh fish |
(verb) give fodder (to domesticated animals) | - |
gallbladder | (noun) a muscular sac attached to the liver that stores bile (secreted by the liver) until it is needed for digestion | Synonyms: gall bladder |
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judder | (verb) shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively | Synonyms: shake |
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ladder | (noun) steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs; for climbing up or down | - |
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(noun) a row of unravelled stitches | Synonyms: ravel, run |
(noun) ascending stages by which somebody or something can progress | - |
(verb) come unraveled or undone as if by snagging | Synonyms: run |
madder | (noun) Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin | Synonyms: Rubia tinctorum |
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(verb) color a moderate to strong red | - |
mudder | (noun) a racehorse that runs well on a muddy racetrack | - |
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padder | (noun) a highwayman who robs on foot | Synonyms: footpad |
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plodder | (noun) someone who moves slowly | Synonyms: slowcoach, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud |
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(noun) someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours | Synonyms: slogger |
(noun) someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner | Synonyms: slogger, trudger |
rudder | (noun) (nautical) steering mechanism consisting of a hinged vertical plate mounted at the stern of a vessel | - |
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(noun) a hinged vertical airfoil mounted at the tail of an aircraft and used to make horizontal course changes | - |
shedder | (noun) an attacker who sheds or spills blood | Synonyms: spiller |
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shredder | (noun) a device that shreds documents (usually in order to prevent the wrong people from reading them) | - |
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shudder | (noun) an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear) | Synonyms: tremor |
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(noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, frisson, quiver, shiver, thrill, tingle |
(verb) shake, as from cold | Synonyms: shiver |
(verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shiver, thrill, throb |
skidder | (noun) a tractor used to haul logs over rough terrain | - |
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(noun) a worker who uses a skid to move logs | - |
(noun) a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction | Synonyms: slider, slipper |
sledder | (noun) someone who rides a sled | - |
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stepladder | (noun) a folding portable ladder hinged at the top | Synonyms: step ladder |
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udder | (noun) mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats) | Synonyms: bag |
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