afghan | (noun) a blanket knitted or crocheted in strips or squares; sometimes used as a shawl | - |
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(noun) a coat made of sheepskin | Synonyms: sheepskin coat |
agnathan | (noun) eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms | Synonyms: jawless fish, jawless vertebrate |
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astrakhan | (noun) the fur of young lambs | - |
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chaetognathan | (adjective) of or relating to arrowworms | Synonyms: chaetognathous |
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khan | (noun) an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans | Synonyms: caravan inn, caravansary, caravanserai |
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(noun) a title given to rulers or other important people in Asian countries | - |
levallorphan | (noun) drug (trade name Lorfan) that is related to morphine but that counteracts the respiratory depression produced by morphine poisoning but without affecting its analgesic effects | Synonyms: Lorfan |
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leviathan | (noun) the largest or most massive thing of its kind | - |
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(noun) monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament | - |
lohan | (noun) a Buddhist who has attained nirvana | Synonyms: Arhant, Arhat |
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mithan | (noun) ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur | Synonyms: Bibos frontalis, gayal |
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orphan | (noun) a young animal without a mother | - |
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(noun) the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column | - |
(noun) a child who has lost both parents | - |
(noun) someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision | - |
(verb) deprive of parents | - |
polyurethan | (noun) any of various polymers containing the urethane radical; a wide variety of synthetic forms are made and used as adhesives or plastics or paints or rubber | Synonyms: polyurethane |
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tryptophan | (noun) an amino acid that occurs in proteins; is essential for growth and normal metabolism; a precursor of niacin | Synonyms: tryptophane |
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yataghan | (noun) a long Turkish knife with a curved blade having a single edge | - |
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