| amberbell | (noun) eastern North American dogtooth having solitary yellow flowers marked with brown or purple and spotted interiors | Synonyms: Erythronium americanum, trout lily, yellow adder's tongue |
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| barbell | (noun) a bar to which heavy discs are attached at each end; used in weightlifting | - |
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| bell | (noun) a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck | - |
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| (noun) a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed | Synonyms: buzzer, doorbell |
| (noun) the flared opening of a tubular device | - |
| (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument | Synonyms: chime, gong |
| (noun) the sound of a bell being struck | Synonyms: toll |
| (noun) the shape of a bell | Synonyms: bell shape, campana |
| (noun) (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. | Synonyms: ship's bell |
| (verb) attach a bell to | - |
| bluebell | (noun) one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas | Synonyms: Eustoma grandiflorum, prairie gentian, tulip gentian |
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| (noun) perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: Campanula rotundifolia, harebell |
| (noun) sometimes placed in genus Scilla | Synonyms: harebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth |
| bombshell | (noun) an explosive bomb or artillery shell | - |
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| (noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: thunderbolt, thunderclap |
| (noun) an entertainer who has a sensational effect | - |
| carrell | (noun) small individual study area in a library | Synonyms: carrel, cubicle, stall |
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| cell | (noun) (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals | - |
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| (noun) a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction | Synonyms: electric cell |
| (noun) a room where a prisoner is kept | Synonyms: jail cell, prison cell |
| (noun) small room in which a monk or nun lives | Synonyms: cubicle |
| (noun) any small compartment | - |
| (noun) a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver | Synonyms: cellphone, cellular phone, cellular telephone, mobile phone |
| (noun) a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement | Synonyms: cadre |
| clamshell | (noun) the shell of a clam | - |
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| (noun) a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam | Synonyms: grapple |
| cockleshell | (noun) a small light flimsy boat | - |
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| cowbell | (noun) a bell hung around the neck of cow so that the cow can be easily located | - |
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| dell | (noun) a small wooded hollow | Synonyms: dingle |
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| doorbell | (noun) a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed | Synonyms: bell, buzzer |
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| dumbbell | (noun) an exercising weight; two spheres connected by a short bar that serves as a handle | - |
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| (noun) an ignorant or foolish person | Synonyms: boob, booby, dope, dummy, pinhead |
| dwell | (verb) think moodily or anxiously about something | Synonyms: brood |
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| (verb) come back to | Synonyms: harp |
| (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: inhabit, live, populate |
| (verb) originate (in) | Synonyms: consist, lie, lie in |
| (verb) exist or be situated within | Synonyms: inhabit |
| eggshell | (noun) the exterior covering of a bird's egg | Synonyms: shell |
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| ell | (noun) an extension at the end and at right angles to the main building | - |
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| farewell | (noun) the act of departing politely | Synonyms: leave-taking, leave, parting |
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| (noun) an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting | Synonyms: word of farewell |
| fell | (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, roughshod, savage, vicious |
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| (noun) the act of felling something (as a tree) | - |
| (noun) seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges | Synonyms: felled seam |
| (noun) the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal) | Synonyms: hide |
| (verb) cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow | Synonyms: cut down, drop, strike down |
| (verb) sew a seam by folding the edges | - |
| (verb) pass away rapidly | Synonyms: fly, vanish |
| fingerspell | (verb) communicate by means of specific gestures, as an alternative to sign language | Synonyms: finger-spell |
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| foretell | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, harbinger, herald |
| gromwell | (noun) European perennial branching plant; occurs in hedgerows and at the edge of woodlands | Synonyms: Lithospermum officinale |
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| handbell | (noun) a bell that is held in the hand | - |
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| harebell | (noun) perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: bluebell, Campanula rotundifolia |
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| (noun) sometimes placed in genus Scilla | Synonyms: bluebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth |
| hell | (noun) noisy and unrestrained mischief | Synonyms: blaze |
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| (noun) a cause of difficulty and suffering | Synonyms: blaze |
| (noun) any place of pain and turmoil | Synonyms: hell on earth, hellhole, inferno, snake pit, the pits |
| indwell | (verb) to exist as an inner activating spirit, force, or principle | - |
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| inkwell | (noun) a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped | Synonyms: inkstand |
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| jell | (verb) become gelatinous | Synonyms: congeal, set |
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| knell | (noun) the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something | - |
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| (verb) ring as in announcing death | - |
| (verb) make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification | Synonyms: ring |
| lampshell | (noun) marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide | Synonyms: brachiopod, lamp shell |
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| maxwell | (noun) a cgs unit of magnetic flux equal to the flux perpendicular to an area of 1 square centimeter in a magnetic field of 1 gauss | Synonyms: Mx |
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| misspell | (verb) spell incorrectly | - |
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| moonshell | (noun) marine gastropods having smooth rounded shells that form short spires | Synonyms: moon shell |
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| nutshell | (noun) the shell around the kernel of a nut | - |
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| outsell | (verb) sell more than others | - |
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| (verb) be sold more often than other, similar products | - |
| photocell | (noun) a transducer used to detect and measure light and other radiations | Synonyms: electric eye, magic eye, photoconductive cell, photoelectric cell |
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| quell | (verb) suppress or crush completely | Synonyms: quench, squelch |
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| (verb) overcome or allay | Synonyms: appease, stay |
| rakehell | (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, profligate, rake, rip, roue |
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| resell | (verb) sell (something) again after having bought it | - |
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| retell | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate |
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| (verb) render verbally | Synonyms: recite |
| (verb) make into fiction | Synonyms: fictionalise, fictionalize |
| seashell | (noun) the shell of a marine organism | - |
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| sell | (noun) the activity of persuading someone to buy | - |
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| (verb) persuade somebody to accept something | - |
| (verb) exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent | - |
| (verb) do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood | Synonyms: deal, trade |
| (verb) give up for a price or reward | - |
| (verb) deliver to an enemy by treachery | Synonyms: betray |
| (verb) be sold at a certain price or in a certain way | - |
| (verb) be responsible for the sale of | - |
| (verb) be approved of or gain acceptance | - |
| shell | (noun) the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod | - |
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| (noun) hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles | Synonyms: carapace, cuticle, shield |
| (noun) ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun | - |
| (noun) a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) | Synonyms: plate, scale |
| (noun) the housing or outer covering of something | Synonyms: case, casing |
| (noun) a very light narrow racing boat | Synonyms: racing shell |
| (noun) a rigid covering that envelops an object | - |
| (noun) the exterior covering of a bird's egg | Synonyms: eggshell |
| (noun) the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts | - |
| (noun) the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals | - |
| (verb) remove from its shell or outer covering | - |
| (verb) remove the husks from | Synonyms: husk |
| (verb) use explosives on | Synonyms: blast |
| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, trounce, vanquish |
| (verb) hit the pitches of hard and regularly | - |
| (verb) look for and collect shells by the seashore | - |
| (verb) fall out of the pod or husk | - |
| (verb) create by using explosives | Synonyms: blast |
| smell | (noun) the act of perceiving the odor of something | Synonyms: smelling |
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| (noun) any property detected by the olfactory system | Synonyms: aroma, odor, odour, olfactory property, scent |
| (noun) the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents | Synonyms: olfaction, olfactory modality, sense of smell |
| (noun) the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form | Synonyms: odor, odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation |
| (noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, spirit, tone |
| (verb) become aware of not through the senses but instinctively | Synonyms: sense, smell out |
| (verb) emit an odor | - |
| (verb) inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense | - |
| (verb) smell bad | - |
| (verb) have an element suggestive (of something) | Synonyms: reek, smack |
| snowbell | (noun) small tree native to Japan | Synonyms: Styrax obassia |
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| speedwell | (noun) any plant of the genus Veronica | Synonyms: veronica |
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| spell | (noun) a verbal formula believed to have magical force | Synonyms: charm, magic spell, magical spell |
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| (noun) a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation | Synonyms: enchantment, trance |
| (noun) a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) | Synonyms: go, tour, turn |
| (noun) a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition | Synonyms: patch, piece, while |
| (verb) take turns working | - |
| (verb) orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of | Synonyms: spell out |
| (verb) indicate or signify | Synonyms: import |
| (verb) place under a spell | - |
| (verb) write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word) | Synonyms: write |
| (verb) relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn | - |
| stairwell | (noun) a vertical well around which there is a stairway | - |
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| swell | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing |
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| (noun) a crescendo followed by a decrescendo | - |
| (noun) the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea | Synonyms: crestless wave |
| (noun) a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor) | - |
| (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik |
| (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: intumesce, swell up, tumefy, tumesce |
| (verb) cause to become swollen | - |
| (verb) increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity | - |
| (verb) come up, as of a liquid | Synonyms: well |
| (verb) become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger | Synonyms: puff up |
| (verb) come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things) | Synonyms: well up |
| tell | (verb) discern or comprehend | - |
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| (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell apart |
| (verb) let something be known | - |
| (verb) narrate or give a detailed account of | Synonyms: narrate, recite, recount |
| (verb) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | Synonyms: enjoin, order, say |
| (verb) give evidence | Synonyms: evidence |
| (verb) express in words | Synonyms: say, state |
| (verb) inform positively and with certainty and confidence | Synonyms: assure |
| tortoiseshell | (noun) a cat having black and cream-colored and yellowish markings | Synonyms: calico cat, tortoiseshell-cat |
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| (noun) brilliantly colored; larvae feed on nettles | Synonyms: tortoiseshell butterfly |
| (noun) the mottled horny substance of the shell of some turtles | - |
| undersell | (verb) sell cheaper than one's competition | Synonyms: undercut |
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| unspell | (verb) release from a spell | - |
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| unwell | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather |
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| well | (adjective) in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury | - |
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| (adjective) wise or advantageous and hence advisable | - |
| (adjective) resulting favorably | Synonyms: good |
| (noun) a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine | - |
| (noun) an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps | - |
| (noun) an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway) | - |
| (noun) a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid | - |
| (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: fountainhead, wellspring |
| (adverb) (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well') | Synonyms: good |
| (adverb) without unusual distress or resentment; with good humor | - |
| (adverb) indicating high probability; in all likelihood | Synonyms: easily |
| (adverb) thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form | - |
| (adverb) favorably; with approval | - |
| (adverb) to a suitable or appropriate extent or degree | - |
| (adverb) in financial comfort | Synonyms: comfortably |
| (adverb) in a manner affording benefit or advantage | Synonyms: advantageously |
| (adverb) to a great extent or degree | Synonyms: considerably, substantially |
| (adverb) with skill or in a pleasing manner | - |
| (adverb) with prudence or propriety | - |
| (adverb) with great or especially intimate knowledge | Synonyms: intimately |
| (adverb) (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully | - |
| (verb) come up, as of a liquid | Synonyms: swell |
| yell | (noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition | Synonyms: call, cry, outcry, shout, vociferation |
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| (noun) a loud utterance of emotion (especially when inarticulate) | Synonyms: cry |
| (verb) utter or declare in a very loud voice | Synonyms: scream |
| (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, squall |