| helmet | (noun) a protective headgear made of hard material to resist blows | - |
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| (noun) armor plate that protects the head | - |
| helpmeet | (noun) a helpful partner | Synonyms: helpmate |
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| het | (adjective) made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated') | Synonyms: heated, heated up, het up |
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| hogget | (noun) a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared | Synonyms: hog, hogg |
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| hornet | (noun) large stinging paper wasp | - |
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| hypermarket | (noun) a huge supermarket (usually built on the outskirts of a town) | - |
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| imaret | (noun) a hostel for pilgrims in Turkey | - |
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| indiscreet | (adjective) lacking discretion; injudicious | - |
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| inlet | (noun) an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container | Synonyms: intake |
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| (noun) an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands) | Synonyms: recess |
| inset | (noun) a piece of material used to strengthen or enlarge a garment | Synonyms: gusset |
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| (noun) an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted | Synonyms: insert |
| (noun) a small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one | - |
| (verb) set or place in | - |
| internet | (noun) a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange | Synonyms: cyberspace, net |
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| interpret | (verb) make sense of; assign a meaning to | Synonyms: construe, see |
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| (verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: read, translate, understand |
| (verb) give an interpretation or explanation to | Synonyms: rede |
| (verb) restate (words) from one language into another language | Synonyms: render, translate |
| (verb) give an interpretation or rendition of | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) create an image or likeness of | Synonyms: represent |
| intranet | (noun) a restricted computer network; a private network created using World Wide Web software | - |
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| islet | (noun) a small island | Synonyms: isle |
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| jacket | (noun) a short coat | - |
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| (noun) an outer wrapping or casing | - |
| (noun) (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth | Synonyms: cap, crown, crownwork, jacket crown |
| (noun) the tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition | - |
| (noun) the outer skin of a potato | - |
| (verb) put a jacket on | - |
| (verb) provide with a thermally non-conducting cover | - |
| jaconet | (noun) a lightweight cotton cloth with a smooth and slightly stiff finish; used for clothing and bandages | - |
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| jennet | (noun) female donkey | Synonyms: jenny, jenny ass |
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| jet | (adjective) of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal | Synonyms: coal-black, jet-black, pitchy, sooty |
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| (noun) an airplane powered by one or more jet engines | Synonyms: jet-propelled plane, jet plane |
| (noun) an artificially produced flow of water | Synonyms: fountain |
| (noun) street names for ketamine | Synonyms: cat valium, green, honey oil, K, special K, super acid, super C |
| (noun) the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) | Synonyms: spirt, spurt, squirt |
| (noun) atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward | Synonyms: blue jet, reverse lightning |
| (noun) a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation | - |
| (verb) issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth | Synonyms: gush |
| (verb) fly a jet plane | - |
| jumbojet | (noun) a very large jet plane | Synonyms: jumbo jet |
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| junket | (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, expedition, jaunt, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
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| (noun) a trip taken by an official at public expense | - |
| (noun) dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet | - |
| (verb) partake in a feast or banquet | Synonyms: banquet, feast |
| (verb) provide a feast or banquet for | Synonyms: banquet, feast |
| (verb) go on a pleasure trip | Synonyms: junketeer |
| kinglet | (noun) small birds resembling warblers but having some of the habits of titmice | - |
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| kismet | (noun) (Islam) the will of Allah | Synonyms: kismat |
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| lancelet | (noun) small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates | Synonyms: amphioxus |
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| lancet | (noun) a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions | Synonyms: lance |
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| (noun) an acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance | Synonyms: lancet arch |
| langset | (noun) East Indian tree bearing an edible yellow berry | Synonyms: langsat, lanseh tree, Lansium domesticum |
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| lanset | (noun) East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit | Synonyms: lansa, lansat, lanseh |
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| lappet | (noun) medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars | Synonyms: lappet moth |
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| (noun) a small lap on a garment or headdress | - |
| (noun) a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards | Synonyms: wattle |
| latchet | (noun) a leather strap or thong used to attach a sandal or shoe to the foot | - |
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| lazaret | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazarette, lazaretto, pesthouse |
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| leaflet | (noun) a thin triangular flap of a heart valve | Synonyms: cusp |
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| (noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: booklet, brochure, folder, pamphlet |
| (noun) part of a compound leaf | - |
| leatherjacket | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherfish |
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| (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjack |
| (noun) tough-skinned larva of certain crane flies | - |
| let | (noun) a serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court; the ball must be served again | Synonyms: net ball |
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| (verb) leave unchanged | - |
| (verb) cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition | Synonyms: get, have |
| (verb) actively cause something to happen | - |
| (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: allow, countenance, permit |
| (verb) grant use or occupation of under a term of contract | Synonyms: lease, rent |
| (verb) make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen | Synonyms: allow, permit |
| leveret | (noun) a young hare especially one in its first year | - |
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| limpet | (noun) any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas | - |
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| (noun) mollusk with a low conical shell | - |
| linnet | (noun) small Old World finch whose male has a red breast and forehead | Synonyms: Carduelis cannabina, lintwhite |
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| (noun) small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico | Synonyms: Carpodacus mexicanus, house finch |
| lionet | (noun) a small or young lion | - |
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| locket | (noun) a small ornamental case; usually contains a picture or a lock of hair and is worn on a necklace | - |
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| lorikeet | (noun) any of various small lories | - |
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| lowset | (adjective) lower than average | Synonyms: low-set |
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| magnet | (noun) (physics) a device that attracts iron and produces a magnetic field | - |
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| (noun) a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts | Synonyms: attracter, attraction, attractive feature, attractor |
| mainsheet | (noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind | Synonyms: sheet, shroud, tack, weather sheet |
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| mallet | (noun) a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing | Synonyms: beetle |
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| (noun) a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc. | Synonyms: hammer |
| (noun) a sports implement with a long handle and a head like a hammer; used in sports (polo or croquet) to hit a ball | - |
| mantelet | (noun) short cape worn by women | Synonyms: mantilla |
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| (noun) portable bulletproof shelter | Synonyms: mantlet |
| mantlet | (noun) portable bulletproof shelter | Synonyms: mantelet |
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| market | (noun) the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold | Synonyms: market place, marketplace |
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| (noun) a marketplace where groceries are sold | Synonyms: food market, grocery, grocery store |
| (noun) an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up | Synonyms: market place, marketplace, mart |
| (noun) the customers for a particular product or service | - |
| (noun) the securities markets in the aggregate | Synonyms: securities industry |
| (verb) make commercial | Synonyms: commercialise, commercialize |
| (verb) engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of | - |
| (verb) deal in a market | - |
| (verb) buy household supplies | - |
| marmoset | (noun) small soft-furred South American and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails | - |
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| martinet | (noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | Synonyms: disciplinarian, moralist |
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| matchet | (noun) a large heavy knife used as a weapon or for cutting vegetation | Synonyms: machete, panga |
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| meet | (adjective) being precisely fitting and right | Synonyms: fitting |
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| (noun) a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held | Synonyms: sports meeting |
| (verb) contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle | Synonyms: encounter, play, take on |
| (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fill, fit, fulfil, fulfill, satisfy |
| (verb) be in direct physical contact with; make contact | Synonyms: adjoin, contact, touch |
| (verb) come together | Synonyms: come across, encounter, run across, run into, see |
| (verb) meet by design; be present at the arrival of | - |
| (verb) undergo or suffer | Synonyms: suffer |
| (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, foregather, forgather, gather |
| (verb) get together socially or for a specific purpose | Synonyms: get together |
| (verb) get to know; get acquainted with | - |
| (verb) experience as a reaction | Synonyms: encounter, receive |
| (verb) be adjacent or come together | Synonyms: converge |
| midget | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, lilliputian, petite, tiny |
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| (noun) a person who is markedly small | Synonyms: dwarf, nanus |
| millet | (noun) small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica | - |
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| (noun) any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine | - |
| minaret | (noun) slender tower with balconies | - |
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| mindset | (noun) a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations | Synonyms: mentality, mind-set, outlook |
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| minuet | (noun) a stately court dance in the 17th century | - |
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| (noun) a stately piece of music composed for dancing the minuet; often incorporated into a sonata or suite | - |
| misinterpret | (verb) interpret wrongly | Synonyms: misread |
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| (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misunderstand |
| (verb) interpret falsely | - |
| moppet | (noun) a little girl (usually one you are fond of) | - |
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| motet | (noun) an unaccompanied choral composition with sacred lyrics; intended to be sung as part of a church service; originated in the 13th century | - |
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| mullet | (noun) bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin | - |
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| (noun) freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide | Synonyms: gray mullet, grey mullet |
| (noun) highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet | Synonyms: gray mullet, grey mullet |
| munjeet | (noun) perennial East Indian creeping or climbing herb used for dye in the orient | Synonyms: Indian madder, Rubia cordifolia |
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| musket | (noun) a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen | - |
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| necklet | (noun) decoration worn about the neck (fur piece or tight necklace) as an ornament | - |
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| net | (adjective) remaining after all deductions | Synonyms: nett |
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| (adjective) conclusive in a process or progression | Synonyms: final, last |
| (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshing, meshwork, network |
| (noun) a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange | Synonyms: cyberspace, internet |
| (noun) a trap made of netting to catch fish or birds or insects | - |
| (noun) game equipment consisting of a strip of netting dividing the playing area in tennis or badminton | - |
| (noun) a goal lined with netting (as in soccer or hockey) | - |
| (noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: earnings, lucre, net income, net profit, profit, profits |
| (verb) catch with a net | Synonyms: nett |
| (verb) construct or form a web, as if by weaving | Synonyms: web |
| (verb) make as a net profit | Synonyms: clear, sack, sack up |
| (verb) yield as a net profit | Synonyms: clear |
| newmarket | (noun) a long close-fitting coat worn for riding in the 19th century | - |
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| newssheet | (noun) report or open letter giving informal or confidential news of interest to a special group | Synonyms: newsletter |
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| nonsweet | (adjective) not containing sugar | Synonyms: sugarless |
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| nugget | (noun) a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth | - |
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| nutlet | (noun) a small nut | - |
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| nymphet | (noun) a sexually attractive young woman | - |
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| octet | (noun) a musical composition written for eight performers | Synonyms: octette |
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| (noun) eight people considered as a unit | Synonyms: eightsome, octette |
| (noun) a set of eight similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: octette |
| (noun) eight performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: octette |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eight, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octonary, ogdoad, VIII |
| offset | (noun) structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly | Synonyms: set-back, setoff |
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| (noun) a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper | Synonyms: offset printing |
| (noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: branch, offshoot, outgrowth |
| (noun) a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips | Synonyms: runner, stolon |
| (noun) a compensating equivalent | Synonyms: counterbalance |
| (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
| (verb) produce by offset printing | - |
| (verb) create an offset in | - |
| (verb) cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface | - |
| (verb) make up for | Synonyms: cancel, set off |
| (verb) compensate for or counterbalance | Synonyms: countervail |
| omelet | (noun) beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set; may be folded around e.g. ham or cheese or jelly | Synonyms: omelette |
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| onset | (noun) (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Synonyms: attack, onrush, onslaught |
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| (noun) the beginning or early stages | Synonyms: oncoming |
| outlet | (noun) activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion | Synonyms: release, vent |
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| (noun) an opening that permits escape or release | Synonyms: exit, issue, way out |
| (noun) a place of business for retailing goods | Synonyms: mercantile establishment, retail store, sales outlet |
| (noun) receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices | Synonyms: electric outlet, electric receptacle, electrical outlet, wall plug, wall socket |
| outset | (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, showtime, start, starting time |
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| owlet | (noun) young owl | - |
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| packet | (noun) a small package or bundle | - |
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| (noun) a boat for carrying mail | Synonyms: mail boat, mailboat, packet boat |
| (noun) (computer science) a message or message fragment | - |
| (noun) a collection of things wrapped or boxed together | Synonyms: bundle, package, parcel |
| pallet | (noun) a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed | - |
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| (noun) board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used | Synonyms: palette |
| (noun) a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay | - |
| (noun) a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it | - |
| (noun) the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art | Synonyms: palette |
| pamphlet | (noun) a brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet | Synonyms: tract |
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| (noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: booklet, brochure, folder, leaflet |
| panchayet | (noun) a village council in India or southern Pakistan | Synonyms: panchayat, punchayet |
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| parakeet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: paraquet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquet |
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| paramagnet | (noun) magnet made of a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it | - |
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| parapet | (noun) fortification consisting of a low wall | Synonyms: breastwork |
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| (noun) a low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony | - |
| paraquet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: parakeet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquet |
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| parget | (noun) plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys | Synonyms: pargeting, pargetting |
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| (verb) apply ornamental plaster to | - |
| paroquet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: parakeet, paraquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquet |
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| parquet | (noun) seating on the main floor between the orchestra and the parquet circle | - |
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| (noun) a floor made of parquetry | Synonyms: parquet floor |
| parrakeet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: parakeet, paraquet, paroquet, parroket, parroquet |
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| parroket | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: parakeet, paraquet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroquet |
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| parroquet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: parakeet, paraquet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket |
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| paysheet | (noun) a list of employees and their salaries | Synonyms: payroll |
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| (noun) the total amount of money paid in wages | Synonyms: payroll |
| pellet | (noun) a solid missile discharged from a firearm | Synonyms: shot |
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| (noun) a small rounded mass of a substance | - |
| pelmet | (noun) a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing | Synonyms: cornice, valance, valance board |
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| pet | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, favourite, preferent, preferred |
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| (noun) a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement | - |
| (noun) a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight) | - |
| (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, ducky, favorite, favourite |
| (verb) stroke or caress gently | - |
| (verb) stroke or caress in an erotic manner, as during lovemaking | - |
| picket | (noun) a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake | Synonyms: piquet |
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| (noun) a wooden strip forming part of a fence | Synonyms: pale |
| (noun) a vehicle performing sentinel duty | - |
| (noun) a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack | - |
| (noun) a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work | - |
| (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch |
| (verb) fasten with a picket | - |
| (verb) serve as pickets or post pickets | - |
| pickpocket | (noun) a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places | Synonyms: cutpurse, dip |
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| piculet | (noun) small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers | - |
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| piglet | (noun) a young pig | Synonyms: piggy, shoat, shote |
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| piolet | (noun) an ax used by mountain climbers for cutting footholds in ice | Synonyms: ice ax, ice axe |
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| pipet | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the tube | Synonyms: pipette |
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| piquet | (noun) a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards | - |
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| (noun) a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake | Synonyms: picket |