| acidophile | (noun) an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment | Synonyms: acidophil |
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| acrylonitrile | (noun) a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene | Synonyms: propenonitrile, vinyl cyanide |
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| aerophile | (noun) a lover of aviation | - |
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| afebrile | (adjective) having no fever | - |
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| agile | (adjective) moving quickly and lightly | Synonyms: nimble, quick, spry |
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| (adjective) mentally quick | Synonyms: nimble |
| anglophile | (noun) an admirer of England and things English | Synonyms: anglophil |
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| anile | (adjective) of or like a feeble old woman | - |
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| audile | (adjective) of or relating to the process of hearing | Synonyms: auditive, auditory |
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| (noun) one whose mental imagery is auditory rather than visual or motor | - |
| automobile | (noun) a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine | Synonyms: auto, car, machine, motorcar |
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| (verb) travel in an automobile | - |
| awhile | (adverb) for a brief period | Synonyms: for a while |
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| axile | (adjective) relating to or attached to the axis | Synonyms: axial |
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| basophile | (noun) a leukocyte with basophilic granules easily stained by basic stains | Synonyms: basophil |
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| beguile | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| (verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: hoodwink, juggle |
| bibliophile | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: book lover, booklover |
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| bile | (noun) a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats | Synonyms: gall |
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| bloodmobile | (noun) a motor vehicle equipped to collect blood donations | - |
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| bookmobile | (noun) a van with shelves of books; serves as a mobile library or bookstore | - |
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| camachile | (noun) common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum | Synonyms: huamachil, manila tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce, wild tamarind |
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| camomile | (noun) Eurasian plant with apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally; in some classification systems placed in genus Anthemis | Synonyms: Anthemis nobilis, Chamaemelum nobilis, chamomile |
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| campanile | (noun) a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building | Synonyms: belfry |
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| cantabile | (adjective) smooth and flowing | Synonyms: singing |
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| centile | (noun) (statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total | Synonyms: percentile |
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| chamomile | (noun) Eurasian plant with apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally; in some classification systems placed in genus Anthemis | Synonyms: Anthemis nobilis, camomile, Chamaemelum nobilis |
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| chile | (noun) very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency | Synonyms: chili, chili pepper, chilli, chilly |
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| chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile | (noun) a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema | Synonyms: CS gas |
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| chrysotile | (noun) a grey or green fibrous mineral; an important source of commercial asbestos | - |
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| compile | (verb) put together out of existing material | Synonyms: compose |
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| (verb) use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed | - |
| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, collect, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| contractile | (adjective) capable of contracting or being contracted | - |
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| crocodile | (noun) large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body covered with bony plates; of sluggish tropical waters | - |
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| debile | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly |
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| decile | (noun) (statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores | - |
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| defile | (noun) a narrow pass (especially one between mountains) | Synonyms: gorge |
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| (verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: befoul, foul, maculate |
| (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: maculate, stain, sully, tarnish |
| (verb) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon | Synonyms: cloud, corrupt, sully, taint |
| docile | (adjective) willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed | - |
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| (adjective) easily handled or managed | Synonyms: gentle |
| (adjective) ready and willing to be taught | Synonyms: teachable |
| domicile | (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, dwelling, dwelling house, habitation, home |
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| (noun) (law) the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time | Synonyms: legal residence |
| (verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domiciliate, reside, shack |
| ductile | (adjective) capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out | Synonyms: malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile |
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| (adjective) easily influenced | Synonyms: malleable |
| enophile | (noun) someone who appreciates wine | Synonyms: oenophile |
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| ensile | (verb) store in a silo | - |
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| eosinophile | (noun) a leukocyte readily stained with eosin | Synonyms: eosinophil |
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| erectile | (adjective) capable of being raised to an upright position | - |
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| (adjective) filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood | Synonyms: cavernous |
| erstwhile | (adjective) belonging to some prior time | Synonyms: former, old, one-time, onetime, quondam, sometime |
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| (adverb) at a previous time | Synonyms: at one time, erst, formerly, once |
| exile | (noun) the act of expelling a person from their native land | Synonyms: deportation, expatriation, transportation |
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| (noun) a person who is expelled from home or country by authority | Synonyms: deportee |
| (noun) a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country | Synonyms: expat, expatriate |
| (verb) expel from a country | Synonyms: deport, expatriate |
| expansile | (adjective) (of gases) capable of expansion | Synonyms: expandable, expandible, expansible |
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| extensile | (adjective) capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out | Synonyms: extensible |
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| facile | (adjective) expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively | Synonyms: eloquent, fluent, silver-tongued, silver, smooth-spoken |
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| (adjective) performing adroitly and without effort | - |
| (adjective) superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject | Synonyms: neat, slick |
| facsimile | (noun) duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio | Synonyms: facsimile machine, fax |
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| (noun) an exact copy or reproduction | Synonyms: autotype |
| (verb) send something via a facsimile machine | Synonyms: fax, telefax |
| febrile | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by fever | Synonyms: feverish |
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| fertile | (adjective) capable of reproducing | - |
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| (adjective) marked by great fruitfulness | Synonyms: fat, productive, rich |
| (adjective) bearing in abundance especially offspring | Synonyms: prolific |
| (adjective) intellectually productive | Synonyms: fecund, prolific |
| fictile | (adjective) of or relating to the craft of pottery | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material) | Synonyms: moldable, plastic |
| (adjective) susceptible to being led or directed | Synonyms: pliable |
| file | (noun) a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal | - |
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| (noun) office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order | Synonyms: file cabinet, filing cabinet |
| (noun) a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together | Synonyms: data file |
| (noun) a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other | Synonyms: Indian file, single file |
| (verb) place in a container for keeping records | Synonyms: file away |
| (verb) file a formal charge against | Synonyms: charge, lodge |
| (verb) record in a public office or in a court of law | Synonyms: register |
| (verb) smooth with a file | - |
| (verb) proceed in line | - |
| fissile | (adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain | - |
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| (adjective) capable of undergoing nuclear fission | Synonyms: fissionable |
| flexile | (adjective) able to flex; able to bend easily | Synonyms: flexible |
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| fragile | (adjective) easily broken or damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: delicate, frail |
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| (adjective) vulnerably delicate | - |
| (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: flimsy, slight, tenuous, thin |
| futile | (adjective) unproductive of success | Synonyms: bootless, fruitless, sleeveless, vain |
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| (adjective) producing no result or effect | Synonyms: ineffectual, meaningless, otiose, unavailing |
| gentile | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of non-Jewish peoples | - |
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| (noun) a Christian as contrasted with a Jew | Synonyms: goy, non-Jew |
| (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: heathen, infidel, pagan |
| (noun) a person who is not a member of one's own religion; used in this sense by Mormons and Hindus | - |
| (noun) a Christian | - |
| gracile | (adjective) slender and graceful | Synonyms: willowy |
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| guile | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, chicanery, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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| (noun) the quality of being crafty | Synonyms: craftiness |
| (noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness |
| haemophile | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: bleeder, haemophiliac, hemophile, hemophiliac |
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| halophile | (noun) archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival | Synonyms: halophil |
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| hemophile | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: bleeder, haemophile, haemophiliac, hemophiliac |
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| homophile | (adjective) homosexual or arousing homosexual desires | Synonyms: gay, queer |
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| (noun) someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gay, homo, homosexual |
| hostile | (adjective) characterized by enmity or ill will | - |
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| (adjective) not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally | - |
| (adjective) unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business) | - |
| (adjective) very unfavorable to life or growth | Synonyms: uncongenial, unfriendly |
| (adjective) impossible to bring into friendly accord | - |
| (noun) troops belonging to the enemy's military forces | - |
| imbecile | (adjective) having a mental age of three to seven years | Synonyms: idiotic, imbecilic |
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| (noun) a person of subnormal intelligence | Synonyms: changeling, cretin, half-wit, idiot, moron, retard |
| immobile | (adjective) not capable of movement or of being moved | - |
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| (adjective) securely fixed in place | Synonyms: fast, firm |
| immotile | (adjective) (of spores or microorganisms) not capable of movement | Synonyms: nonmotile |
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| indocile | (adjective) incapable of being controlled | Synonyms: uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly |
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| infantile | (adjective) of or relating to infants or infancy | - |
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| (adjective) indicating a lack of maturity | Synonyms: childish |
| (adjective) being or befitting or characteristic of an infant | - |
| infertile | (adjective) incapable of reproducing | Synonyms: sterile, unfertile |
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| inutile | (adjective) not worth using | - |
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| juvenile | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people | - |
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| (adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, jejune, puerile |
| (noun) a young person, not fully developed | Synonyms: juvenile person |
| labile | (adjective) (chemistry, physics, biology) readily undergoing change or breakdown | - |
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| (adjective) liable to change | - |
| laetrile | (noun) a substance derived from amygdalin; publicized as an antineoplastic drug although there is no supporting evidence | - |
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| meanwhile | (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, lag, meantime |
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| (adverb) during the intervening time | Synonyms: in the meantime, meantime |
| (adverb) at the same time but in another place | - |
| mercantile | (adjective) of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of trade or traders | - |
| (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercenary, moneymaking |
| mile | (noun) a footrace extending one mile | - |
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| (noun) a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters | Synonyms: international mile, land mile, mi, stat mi, statute mile |
| (noun) a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km | Synonyms: mil, Swedish mile |
| (noun) an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards | Synonyms: Roman mile |
| (noun) a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude | Synonyms: air mile, international nautical mile, mi, naut mi, nautical mile |
| (noun) a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters) | Synonyms: sea mile |
| (noun) a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile | Synonyms: Admiralty mile, geographical mile, mi, naut mi, nautical mile |
| (noun) a large distance | - |
| missile | (noun) a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled | Synonyms: projectile |
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| (noun) a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control | - |
| mobile | (adjective) moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place) | - |
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| (adjective) having transportation available | - |
| (adjective) migratory | Synonyms: nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering |
| (adjective) affording change (especially in social status) | Synonyms: fluid |
| (adjective) capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another | - |
| (noun) sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents | - |
| motile | (adjective) (of spores or microorganisms) capable of movement | - |
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| (noun) one whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action | - |
| myrmecophile | (noun) an organism such as an insect that habitually shares the nest of a species of ant | - |
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| nailfile | (noun) a small flat file for shaping the nails | - |
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| narghile | (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, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| neuropile | (noun) the complex network of unmyelinated axones, dendrites, and glial branches that form the bulk of the central nervous system's grey matter and in which nerve cell bodies are embedded | Synonyms: neuropil |
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| neutrophile | (noun) the chief phagocytic leukocyte; stains with either basic or acid dyes | Synonyms: neutrophil |
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| nitrile | (noun) any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN | Synonyms: cyanide, nitril |
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| nonextensile | (adjective) not extensile | Synonyms: inextensible, nonprotractile |
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| nonfissile | (adjective) not fissile | - |
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| nonmotile | (adjective) (of spores or microorganisms) not capable of movement | Synonyms: immotile |
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| nonprehensile | (adjective) not prehensile | - |
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| nonprotractile | (adjective) not extensile | Synonyms: inextensible, nonextensile |
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| nonretractile | (adjective) not capable of being retracted | Synonyms: nonretractable |
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| nonvolatile | (adjective) not volatilizing readily | Synonyms: nonvolatilisable, nonvolatilizable |
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| nubile | (adjective) of girls or women who are eligible to marry | Synonyms: marriageable |
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| oenophile | (noun) someone who appreciates wine | Synonyms: enophile |
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| paedophile | (noun) an adult who is sexually attracted to children | Synonyms: pedophile |
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| pantile | (noun) a roofing tile with a S-shape; laid so that curves overlap | - |
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| pedophile | (noun) an adult who is sexually attracted to children | Synonyms: paedophile |
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| penile | (adjective) of or relating to the penis | Synonyms: penial |
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| percentile | (noun) (statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total | Synonyms: centile |
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| pile | (noun) a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy | Synonyms: atomic pile, atomic reactor, chain reactor |
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| (noun) battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta | Synonyms: galvanic pile, voltaic pile |
| (noun) the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave | Synonyms: nap |
| (noun) a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure | Synonyms: piling, spile, stilt |
| (noun) fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) | Synonyms: down |
| (noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other | Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, mound |
| (noun) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) | Synonyms: big bucks, big money, bundle, megabucks |
| (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, passel, peck, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (verb) arrange in stacks | Synonyms: heap, stack |
| (verb) place or lay as if in a pile | - |
| (verb) press tightly together or cram | Synonyms: jam, mob, pack, throng |
| polypropenonitrile | (noun) acrylic resin used to make a strong soft crease-resistant fabric (trade name Acrilan) | Synonyms: Acrilan |
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| prehensile | (adjective) adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object | - |
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| (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy |
| (adjective) having a keen intellect | - |