| guitarfish | (noun) primitive tropical bottom-dwelling ray with a guitar-shaped body | - |
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| gulch | (noun) a narrow gorge with a stream running through it | Synonyms: flume |
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| gunsmith | (noun) someone who makes or repairs guns | - |
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| gush | (noun) an unrestrained expression of emotion | Synonyms: blowup, ebullition, effusion, outburst |
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| (noun) a sudden rapid flow (as of water) | Synonyms: flush, outpouring |
| (verb) praise enthusiastically | Synonyms: rave |
| (verb) issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth | Synonyms: jet |
| (verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: spirt, spout, spurt |
| gynandromorph | (noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made | Synonyms: androgyne, epicene, epicene person, hermaphrodite, intersex |
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| h | (noun) the 8th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: H |
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| (noun) the constant of proportionality relating the energy of a photon to its frequency; approximately 6.626 x 10^-34 joule-second | Synonyms: Planck's constant |
| hadith | (noun) (Islam) the way of life prescribed as normative for Muslims on the basis of the teachings and practices of Muhammad and interpretations of the Koran | Synonyms: Sunna, Sunnah |
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| hagfish | (noun) eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies | Synonyms: hag, slime eels |
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| hairbrush | (noun) a brush used to groom a person's hair | - |
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| haircloth | (noun) cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments | Synonyms: hair |
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| hairsbreadth | (noun) a very small distance or space | Synonyms: hair's-breadth, hair, whisker |
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| halfpennyworth | (noun) the amount that can be bought for a halfpenny | Synonyms: ha'p'orth |
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| hallah | (noun) (Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking | Synonyms: challah |
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| hallelujah | (noun) a shout or song of praise to God | - |
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| handbreadth | (noun) any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand | Synonyms: handsbreadth |
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| handsbreadth | (noun) any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand | Synonyms: handbreadth |
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| handwash | (verb) wash or launder by hand instead of with a machine | Synonyms: hand-wash |
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| harsh | (adjective) of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles | Synonyms: coarse |
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| (adjective) sharply disagreeable; rigorous | Synonyms: abrasive |
| (adjective) severe | - |
| (adjective) unkind or cruel or uncivil | Synonyms: rough |
| (adjective) unpleasantly stern | Synonyms: rough |
| (adjective) unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses | - |
| harvestfish | (noun) butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina | Synonyms: Paprilus alepidotus |
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| haschisch | (noun) purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: hash, hasheesh, hashish |
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| hash | (noun) purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: haschisch, hasheesh, hashish |
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| (noun) chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned | - |
| (verb) chop up | - |
| hasheesh | (noun) purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: haschisch, hash, hashish |
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| hashish | (noun) purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: haschisch, hash, hasheesh |
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| hatch | (noun) a movable barrier covering a hatchway | - |
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| (noun) a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open | Synonyms: hatchback, hatchback door, liftgate |
| (noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: crosshatch, hachure, hatching |
| (noun) the production of young from an egg | Synonyms: hatching |
| (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: brood, cover, incubate |
| (verb) emerge from the eggs | - |
| (verb) draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper | - |
| (verb) devise or invent | Synonyms: concoct, dream up, think of, think up |
| (verb) inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating | - |
| haunch | (noun) the loin and leg of a quadruped | - |
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| (noun) the hip and buttock and upper thigh in human beings | - |
| hawfinch | (noun) a common large finch of Eurasia | Synonyms: Coccothraustes coccothraustes |
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| hawkish | (adjective) disposed to warfare or hard-line policies | Synonyms: militant, warlike |
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| hawkmoth | (noun) any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed | Synonyms: hawk moth, hummingbird moth, sphingid, sphinx moth |
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| headfish | (noun) among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters | Synonyms: mola, ocean sunfish, sunfish |
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| health | (noun) a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease | Synonyms: wellness |
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| (noun) the general condition of body and mind | - |
| hearth | (noun) home symbolized as a part of the fireplace | Synonyms: fireside |
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| (noun) an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built | Synonyms: fireplace, open fireplace |
| (noun) an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room) | Synonyms: fireside |
| heath | (noun) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation | Synonyms: heathland |
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| (noun) a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers | - |
| heathenish | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathen, pagan |
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| hectograph | (noun) duplicator consisting of a gelatin plate from which ink can be taken to make a copy | Synonyms: heliotype |
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| (verb) copy on a duplicator | - |
| heliograph | (noun) an apparatus for sending telegraphic messages by using a mirror to turn the sun's rays off and on | - |
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| (verb) signal by means of a mirror and the using the sun's rays | - |
| hellish | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| (adjective) (informal) very unpleasant | Synonyms: beastly, god-awful |
| helminth | (noun) worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes | Synonyms: parasitic worm |
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| hemstitch | (noun) embroidery similar to drawnwork | - |
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| (noun) a stitch in which parallel threads are drawn and exposed threads are caught together in groups | Synonyms: hemstitching |
| (verb) sew with hemstitches | - |
| henceforth | (adverb) from this time forth; from now on | Synonyms: henceforward |
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| herewith | (adverb) (formal) by means of this | Synonyms: hereby |
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| heterotroph | (noun) an organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition | - |
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| heth | (noun) the 8th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| hiccough | (noun) (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion | Synonyms: hiccup, singultus |
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| (verb) breathe spasmodically, and make a sound | Synonyms: hiccup |
| hierarch | (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: archpriest, high priest, prelate, primate |
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| (noun) a person who holds a high position in a hierarchy | - |
| hieroglyph | (noun) a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt | Synonyms: hieroglyphic |
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| (noun) writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible) | Synonyms: hieroglyphic |
| high | (adjective) (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high') | - |
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| (adjective) greater than normal in quantity or amount | - |
| (adjective) used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency | Synonyms: high-pitched |
| (adjective) happy and excited and energetic | Synonyms: in high spirits |
| (adjective) slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana) | Synonyms: mellow |
| (adjective) (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted | Synonyms: gamey, gamy |
| (adjective) standing above others in quality or position | Synonyms: eminent |
| (noun) a forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest vehicle velocity for a given engine speed | Synonyms: high gear |
| (noun) a lofty level or position or degree | - |
| (noun) a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12 | Synonyms: high school, highschool, senior high, senior high school |
| (noun) a high place | Synonyms: heights |
| (noun) an air mass of higher than normal pressure | - |
| (noun) a state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or narcotics | - |
| (noun) a state of sustained elation | - |
| (adverb) at a great altitude | Synonyms: high up |
| (adverb) far up toward the source | - |
| (adverb) in or to a high position, amount, or degree | - |
| (adverb) in a rich manner | Synonyms: luxuriously, richly |
| hiplength | (adjective) extending to or just over the hips | Synonyms: hip-length |
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| hitch | (noun) the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg | Synonyms: hobble, limp |
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| (noun) a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot | - |
| (noun) a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls | - |
| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive |
| (noun) an unforeseen obstacle | Synonyms: hang-up, rub, snag |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, stay, stop, stoppage |
| (noun) a period of time spent in military service | Synonyms: duty tour, enlistment, term of enlistment, tour, tour of duty |
| (verb) to hook or entangle | Synonyms: catch |
| (verb) connect to a vehicle: | - |
| (verb) travel by getting free rides from motorists | Synonyms: hitchhike, thumb |
| (verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: gimp, hobble, limp |
| (verb) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched | Synonyms: buck, jerk |
| hogfish | (noun) found from Long Island southward | Synonyms: Orthopristis chrysopterus, pigfish |
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| (noun) large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout | Synonyms: hog snapper, Lachnolaimus maximus |
| hoggish | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish |
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| hogwash | (noun) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | Synonyms: buncombe, bunk, bunkum, guff, rot |
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| holograph | (noun) the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography | Synonyms: hologram |
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| (noun) handwritten book or document | Synonyms: manuscript |
| homeopath | (noun) a practitioner of homeopathy | Synonyms: homoeopath |
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| homestretch | (noun) the straight stretch of a racetrack leading to the finish line | - |
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| (noun) the end of an enterprise | - |
| homoeopath | (noun) a practitioner of homeopathy | Synonyms: homeopath |
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| homograph | (noun) two words are homographs if they are spelled the same way but differ in meaning (e.g. fair) | - |
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| hooch | (noun) an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor | Synonyms: hootch |
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| hookah | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| hootch | (noun) an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor | Synonyms: hooch |
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| hopscotch | (noun) a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone | - |
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| horsecloth | (noun) a cloth for the trapping of a horse | - |
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| horsefish | (noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish, horse-head, horsehead, moonfish, Selene setapinnis |
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| horseflesh | (noun) the flesh of horses as food | Synonyms: horsemeat |
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| horselaugh | (noun) a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing | Synonyms: ha-ha, haw-haw, hee-haw |
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| horseleech | (noun) any of several large freshwater leeches | - |
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| horseradish | (noun) grated horseradish root | - |
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| (noun) coarse Eurasian plant cultivated for its thick white pungent root | Synonyms: Armoracia rusticana, horse radish, red cole |
| (noun) the root of the horseradish plant; it is grated or ground and used for seasoning | Synonyms: horseradish root |
| hotchpotch | (noun) a stew (or thick soup) made with meat and vegetables | - |
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| (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
| hottish | (adjective) somewhat hot | - |
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| houdah | (noun) a (usually canopied) seat for riding on the back of a camel or elephant | Synonyms: howdah |
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| howdah | (noun) a (usually canopied) seat for riding on the back of a camel or elephant | Synonyms: houdah |
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| hoydenish | (adjective) used of girls; wild and boisterous | Synonyms: tomboyish |
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| huffish | (adjective) sullen or moody | Synonyms: sulky |
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| hunch | (noun) the act of bending yourself into a humped position | - |
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| (noun) an impression that something might be the case | Synonyms: intuition, suspicion |
| (verb) round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward | Synonyms: hump, hunch forward, hunch over |
| hundredth | (adjective) the ordinal number of one hundred in counting order | Synonyms: 100th, centesimal |
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| (noun) one part in a hundred equal parts | Synonyms: one-hundredth, one percent |
| (noun) position 100 in a countable series of things | - |
| hurrah | (noun) a victory cheer | Synonyms: hooray |
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| (verb) shout `hurrah!' | - |
| hush | (noun) (poetic) tranquil silence | Synonyms: still, stillness |
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| (verb) become quiet or still; fall silent | - |
| (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush up, quieten, shut up, silence, still |
| (verb) run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals | - |
| (verb) wash by removing particles | Synonyms: wash |
| (verb) become quiet or quieter | Synonyms: pipe down, quiesce, quiet, quiet down, quieten |
| hutch | (noun) a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals | - |
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| (noun) small crude shelter used as a dwelling | Synonyms: hovel, hut, shack, shanty |
| hutzpah | (noun) (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity | Synonyms: chutzpa, chutzpah |
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| hyacinth | (noun) any of numerous bulbous perennial herbs | - |
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| (noun) a red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone | Synonyms: jacinth |
| hydrolith | (noun) a saltlike binary compound (CaH2) used as a reducing agent and source of hydrogen | Synonyms: calcium hydride |
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| ideograph | (noun) a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it | Synonyms: ideogram |
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| impeach | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, criminate, incriminate |
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| (verb) charge (a public official) with an offense or misdemeanor committed while in office | - |
| (verb) challenge the honesty or veracity of | - |
| impish | (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked |
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| impoverish | (verb) take away | Synonyms: deprive |
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| (verb) make poor | - |
| inch | (noun) a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot | Synonyms: in |
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| (noun) a unit of measurement for advertising space | Synonyms: column inch |
| (verb) advance slowly, as if by inches | Synonyms: edge |
| ingrowth | (noun) something that grows inward | - |
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| inrush | (noun) an inflow | Synonyms: inpour, inpouring |
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| insomuch | (adverb) to such an extent or degree; so | - |
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| interchurch | (adjective) occurring between or among or common to different churches or denominations | Synonyms: interdenominational |
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| interfaith | (adjective) involving persons of different religious faiths | - |
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| intifadah | (noun) an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000 | Synonyms: intifada |
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| intrench | (verb) fix firmly or securely | Synonyms: entrench |
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| introvertish | (adjective) somewhat introverted | Synonyms: shut-in |
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| inveigh | (verb) complain bitterly | Synonyms: rail |
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| (verb) speak against in an impassioned manner | Synonyms: declaim |
| isopleth | (noun) a line drawn on a map connecting points having the same numerical value of some variable | Synonyms: isarithm, isogram |
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| isotach | (noun) a line joining points with constant wind speed. | - |
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| itch | (noun) an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch | Synonyms: itchiness, itching |
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| (noun) a strong restless desire | Synonyms: urge |
| (noun) a contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation | Synonyms: scabies |
| (verb) have a strong desire or urge to do something | Synonyms: spoil |
| (verb) have or perceive an itch | - |
| (verb) scrape or rub as if to relieve itching | Synonyms: rub, scratch |
| (verb) cause to perceive an itch | - |
| jacinth | (noun) a red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone | Synonyms: hyacinth |
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| jawfish | (noun) small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms; males brood egg balls in their mouths; popular aquarium fishes | - |
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| jellyfish | (noun) any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans | - |
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| (noun) large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles | Synonyms: man-of-war, Portuguese man-of-war |