| genteel | (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, civilized, cultivated, cultured, polite |
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| gimel | (noun) the 3rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| glockenspiel | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers | Synonyms: orchestral bells |
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| glycerogel | (noun) a medicated skin preparation made from glycerin and glycerinated gelatin | Synonyms: glycerogelatin |
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| gospel | (noun) a doctrine that is believed to be of great importance | - |
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| (noun) the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group | Synonyms: church doctrine, creed, religious doctrine |
| (noun) an unquestionable truth | Synonyms: gospel truth |
| (noun) folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United States and featuring call and response; influential on the development of other genres of popular music (especially soul) | Synonyms: gospel singing |
| grapnel | (noun) a light anchor for small boats | Synonyms: grapnel anchor |
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| (noun) a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope | Synonyms: grapple, grappler, grappling hook, grappling iron |
| gravel | (noun) rock fragments and pebbles | Synonyms: crushed rock |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| (verb) cover with gravel | - |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| groenendael | (noun) black-coated sheepdog with a heavily plumed tail | - |
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| groundsel | (noun) Eurasian weed with heads of small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Senecio vulgaris |
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| grovel | (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, creep, cringe, fawn |
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| gruel | (noun) a thin porridge (usually oatmeal or cornmeal) | - |
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| gunnel | (noun) small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic | Synonyms: bracketed blenny |
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| (noun) wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel | Synonyms: gun rest, gunwale |
| gymel | (noun) the technique, found in some medieval English music, of singing voice parts in parallel thirds. | - |
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| handwheel | (noun) control consisting of a wheel whose rim serves as the handle by which a part is operated | - |
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| (noun) a wheel worked by hand | - |
| hatchel | (noun) a comb for separating flax fibers | Synonyms: heckle |
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| (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hackle, heckle |
| hazel | (adjective) of a light brown or yellowish brown color | - |
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| (noun) a shade of brown that is yellowish or reddish; it is a greenish shade of brown when used to describe the color of someone's eyes | - |
| (noun) any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk | Synonyms: hazelnut, hazelnut tree |
| (noun) Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts | Synonyms: hazel tree, Pomaderris apetala |
| (noun) the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris) | - |
| heel | (noun) the bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground and provides elevation | - |
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| (noun) (golf) the part of the clubhead where it joins the shaft | - |
| (noun) the lower end of a ship's mast | - |
| (noun) the back part of the human foot | - |
| (noun) one of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread | - |
| (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: blackguard, bounder, cad, dog, hound |
| (verb) put a new heel on | Synonyms: reheel |
| (verb) strike with the heel of the club | - |
| (verb) perform with the heels | - |
| (verb) follow at the heels of a person | - |
| (verb) tilt to one side | Synonyms: list |
| hostel | (noun) inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips) | Synonyms: student lodging, youth hostel |
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| (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: auberge, hostelry, inn, lodge |
| hotel | (noun) a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services | - |
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| hovel | (noun) small crude shelter used as a dwelling | Synonyms: hut, hutch, shack, shanty |
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| hydrogel | (noun) a colloidal gel in which water is the dispersion medium | - |
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| hydromel | (noun) honey diluted in water; becomes mead when fermented | - |
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| impanel | (verb) select from a list | Synonyms: empanel, panel |
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| (verb) enter into a list of prospective jurors | Synonyms: empanel |
| impel | (verb) cause to move forward with force | Synonyms: propel |
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| (verb) urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate | Synonyms: force |
| infidel | (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: gentile, heathen, pagan |
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| isohel | (noun) an isogram connecting points receiving equal amounts of sunshine | - |
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| jewel | (noun) a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry | Synonyms: gem, precious stone |
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| (noun) a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry | Synonyms: gem |
| (verb) adorn or decorate with precious stones | Synonyms: bejewel |
| jezebel | (noun) a shameless impudent scheming woman | - |
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| keel | (noun) one of the main longitudinal beams (or plates) of the hull of a vessel; can extend vertically into the water to provide lateral stability | - |
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| (noun) the median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly | - |
| (noun) a projection or ridge that suggests a keel | - |
| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, lurch, reel, stagger, swag |
| kennel | (noun) outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog | Synonyms: dog house, doghouse |
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| (verb) put up in a kennel | - |
| kernel | (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
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| (noun) a single whole grain of a cereal | - |
| (noun) the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone | Synonyms: meat |
| kestrel | (noun) small Old World falcon that hovers in the air against a wind | Synonyms: Falco tinnunculus |
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| (noun) small North American falcon | Synonyms: American kestrel, Falco sparverius, sparrow hawk |
| knawel | (noun) widely distributed low-growing Eurasian herb having narrow leaves and inconspicuous green flowers | Synonyms: knawe, Scleranthus annuus |
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| kneel | (noun) supporting yourself on your knees | Synonyms: kneeling |
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| (verb) rest one's weight on one's knees | - |
| kummel | (noun) liqueur flavored with caraway seed or cumin | - |
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| label | (noun) an identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object | - |
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| (noun) a brief description given for purposes of identification | - |
| (noun) trade name of a company that produces musical recordings | Synonyms: recording label |
| (noun) a radioactive isotope that is used in a compound in order to trace the mechanism of a chemical reaction | - |
| (verb) distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions | - |
| (verb) distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atom | - |
| (verb) assign a label to; designate with a label | - |
| (verb) pronounce judgment on | Synonyms: judge, pronounce |
| (verb) attach a tag or label to | Synonyms: mark, tag |
| lapel | (noun) lap at the front of a coat; continuation of the coat collar | - |
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| laurel | (noun) (antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory | Synonyms: bay wreath, laurel wreath |
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| (noun) any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family | - |
| lenticel | (noun) one of many raised pores on the stems of woody plants that allow the interchange of gas between the atmosphere and the interior tissue | - |
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| level | (adjective) of the score in a contest | Synonyms: even, tied |
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| (adjective) being on a precise horizontal plane | - |
| (adjective) not showing abrupt variations | Synonyms: unwavering |
| (adjective) having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another | Synonyms: flat, plane |
| (adjective) oriented at right angles to the plumb | - |
| (noun) indicator that establishes the horizontal when a bubble is centered in a tube of liquid | Synonyms: spirit level |
| (noun) a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale | Synonyms: floor, storey, story |
| (noun) a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line | Synonyms: horizontal surface |
| (noun) a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality | Synonyms: degree, grade |
| (noun) height above ground | - |
| (noun) an abstract place usually conceived as having depth | Synonyms: layer, stratum |
| (noun) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | Synonyms: degree, point, stage |
| (noun) a relative position or degree of value in a graded group | Synonyms: grade, tier |
| (verb) become level or even | Synonyms: level off |
| (verb) talk frankly with; lay it on the line | - |
| (verb) direct into a position for use | Synonyms: charge, point |
| (verb) aim at | - |
| (verb) make level or straight | Synonyms: even, even out, flush |
| (verb) tear down so as to make flat with the ground | Synonyms: dismantle, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down |
| libel | (noun) a false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person | - |
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| (noun) the written statement of a plaintiff explaining the cause of action (the defamation) and any relief he seeks | - |
| (verb) print slanderous statements against | - |
| lintel | (noun) horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window | Synonyms: header |
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| lorchel | (noun) a large fungus of the family Helvellaceae | - |
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| mackerel | (noun) any of various fishes of the family Scombridae | - |
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| (noun) flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fish | - |
| mandrel | (noun) any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts | Synonyms: arbor, mandril, spindle |
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| mangonel | (noun) catapult operated by manpower pulling cords attached to a lever and slign to launch projectiles | Synonyms: bricole, traction trebuchet |
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| mantel | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: chimneypiece, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece |
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| marcel | (noun) a hairdo characterized by deep regular waves that are made by a heated curling iron | - |
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| (verb) make a marcel in a woman's hair | - |
| marvel | (noun) something that causes feelings of wonder | Synonyms: wonder |
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| (verb) express astonishment or surprise about something | - |
| (verb) be amazed at | Synonyms: wonder |
| materiel | (noun) equipment and supplies of a military force | Synonyms: equipage |
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| millwheel | (noun) water wheel that is used to drive machinery in a mill | Synonyms: mill wheel |
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| minstrel | (noun) a singer of folk songs | Synonyms: folk singer, jongleur, poet-singer, troubadour |
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| (noun) a performer in a minstrel show | - |
| (verb) celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels | - |
| mispickel | (noun) a silver-white or grey ore of arsenic | Synonyms: arsenopyrite |
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| model | (adjective) worthy of imitation | Synonyms: exemplary |
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| (noun) the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: modeling, modelling |
| (noun) representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: simulation |
| (noun) a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process | Synonyms: framework, theoretical account |
| (noun) something to be imitated | Synonyms: example, exemplar, good example |
| (noun) a representative form or pattern | Synonyms: example |
| (noun) a type of product | - |
| (noun) a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor | Synonyms: poser |
| (noun) someone worthy of imitation | Synonyms: role model |
| (noun) a woman who wears clothes to display fashions | Synonyms: fashion model, manakin, manikin, mannequin, mannikin |
| (verb) form in clay, wax, etc | Synonyms: mold, mould |
| (verb) construct a model in the likeness of | Synonyms: mock up |
| (verb) plan or create according to a model or models | Synonyms: pattern |
| (verb) create a representation or simulation of | Synonyms: simulate |
| (verb) display (clothes) as a mannequin | - |
| (verb) assume a posture as for artistic purposes | Synonyms: pose, posture, sit |
| mongrel | (noun) an inferior dog or one of mixed breed | Synonyms: cur, mutt |
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| (noun) derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin | Synonyms: bastard |
| morel | (noun) any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap | - |
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| morsel | (noun) a small amount of solid food; a mouthful | Synonyms: bit, bite |
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| (noun) a small quantity of anything | - |
| motel | (noun) a motor hotel | - |
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| multilevel | (adjective) of a building having more than one level | - |
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| muscadel | (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadelle, muscat, muscatel |
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| muscatel | (noun) sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine | Synonyms: muscat, muscat grape |
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| (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscadelle, muscat |
| mussel | (noun) marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc. | - |
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| (noun) black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine | - |
| navel | (noun) a scar where the umbilical cord was attached | Synonyms: belly button, bellybutton, omphalos, omphalus, umbilicus |
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| (noun) the center point or middle of something | Synonyms: navel point |
| newel | (noun) the central pillar of a circular staircase | - |
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| (noun) the post at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs; it supports the handrail | Synonyms: newel post |
| newsreel | (noun) a short film and commentary about current events | - |
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| nickel | (noun) a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar | - |
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| (noun) five dollars worth of a drug | Synonyms: nickel note |
| (noun) a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite | Synonyms: atomic number 28, Ni |
| (verb) plate with nickel | - |
| nonparallel | (adjective) of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations | Synonyms: in series, serial |
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| (adjective) (of e.g. lines or paths) not parallel; converging | - |
| norethynodrel | (noun) a progesterone derivative used in oral contraceptives and in the control of menstruation and the treatment of abnormal uterine bleeding | - |
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| norgestrel | (noun) synthetic progestin used in oral contraceptives | - |
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| nosewheel | (noun) a wheel located under the nose of an airplane that is part of the plane's landing gear | - |
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| novel | (adjective) pleasantly new or different | Synonyms: refreshing |
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| (adjective) original and of a kind not seen before | Synonyms: fresh, new |
| (noun) a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction | - |
| (noun) an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story | - |
| oenomel | (noun) wine mixed with honey | - |
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| oriel | (noun) a projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall | Synonyms: oriel window |
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| ousel | (noun) common black European thrush | Synonyms: blackbird, European blackbird, merl, merle, ouzel, Turdus merula |
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| ouzel | (noun) common black European thrush | Synonyms: blackbird, European blackbird, merl, merle, ousel, Turdus merula |
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| overmantel | (noun) a shelf over a mantelpiece | - |
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| paddlewheel | (noun) a large wheel fitted with paddles and driven by an engine in order to propel a boat | Synonyms: paddle wheel |
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| panel | (noun) sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something | - |
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| (noun) electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices | Synonyms: board, control board, control panel, instrument panel |
| (noun) a soft pad placed under a saddle | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a small temporary window in a graphical user interface that appears in order to request information from the user; after the information has been provided the user dismisses the box with `okay' or `cancel' | Synonyms: dialog box |
| (noun) a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails | Synonyms: gore |
| (noun) a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc | - |
| (noun) a committee appointed to judge a competition | Synonyms: jury |
| (noun) (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen) | Synonyms: venire |
| (verb) select from a list | Synonyms: empanel, impanel |
| (verb) decorate with panels | - |
| parallel | (adjective) being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations | - |
| (noun) something having the property of being analogous to something else | Synonyms: analog, analogue |
| (noun) an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator | Synonyms: latitude, line of latitude, parallel of latitude |
| (noun) (mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes) | - |
| (verb) make or place parallel to something | Synonyms: collimate |
| (verb) be parallel to | - |
| (verb) duplicate or match | Synonyms: duplicate, twin |
| parcel | (noun) the allotment of some amount by dividing something | Synonyms: portion, share |
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| (noun) a wrapped container | Synonyms: package |
| (noun) a collection of things wrapped or boxed together | Synonyms: bundle, package, packet |
| (noun) an extended area of land | Synonyms: parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract |
| (verb) make into a wrapped container | - |
| (verb) cover with strips of canvas | - |
| (verb) divide into parts | - |
| parimutuel | (noun) betting where winners share the total amount wagered | - |
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| passel | (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
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| pastel | (adjective) lacking in body or vigor | - |
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| (adjective) delicate and pale in color | - |
| (noun) any of various pale or light colors | - |
| pedicel | (noun) a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle | Synonyms: pedicle |
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| peel | (noun) the rind of a fruit or vegetable | Synonyms: skin |
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| (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, disrobe, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
| (verb) remove the skin from | Synonyms: pare, skin |
| (verb) come off in flakes or thin small pieces | Synonyms: flake, flake off, peel off |
| pel | (noun) (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot) | Synonyms: picture element, pixel |
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| pennoncel | (noun) a small pennant borne on a lance | Synonyms: pennoncelle, penoncel |
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| penoncel | (noun) a small pennant borne on a lance | Synonyms: pennoncel, pennoncelle |
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| personnel | (noun) group of people willing to obey orders | Synonyms: force |
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| (noun) the department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for setting policies for personnel management | Synonyms: personnel department, personnel office, staff office |
| petrel | (noun) relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land | - |
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| pickerel | (noun) any of several North American species of small pike | - |
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| (noun) flesh of young or small pike | - |
| pimpernel | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Anagallis | - |
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| (noun) European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads | Synonyms: burnet bloodwort, Poterium sanguisorba, salad burnet |
| pinwheel | (noun) a circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire | Synonyms: catherine wheel |
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| (noun) a toy consisting of vanes of colored paper or plastic that is pinned to a stick and spins when it is pointed into the wind | Synonyms: pinwheel wind collector |
| (noun) a wheel that has numerous pins that are set at right angles to its rim | - |
| (noun) perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels | Synonyms: Aeonium haworthii |
| pipistrel | (noun) small European brown bat | Synonyms: pipistrelle, Pipistrellus pipistrellus |
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| pixel | (noun) (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot) | Synonyms: pel, picture element |
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| pointel | (noun) a tool used by an engraver | Synonyms: graver, graving tool, pointrel |
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| pointrel | (noun) a tool used by an engraver | Synonyms: graver, graving tool, pointel |
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| pommel | (noun) handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle | Synonyms: saddlebow |
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| (noun) an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger | Synonyms: knob |
| (noun) a handgrip that a gymnast uses when performing exercises on a pommel horse | - |
| (verb) strike, usually with the fist | Synonyms: biff, pummel |
| pretzel | (noun) glazed and salted cracker typically in the shape of a loose knot | - |
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| propel | (verb) cause to move forward with force | Synonyms: impel |
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| (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, incite, motivate, move, prompt |