termite | (noun) whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood | Synonyms: white ant |
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textolite | (noun) a laminated composite material used for electrotechnical components, inserts and bearings. | - |
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theodolite | (noun) a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod | Synonyms: transit |
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thorite | (noun) a radioactive mineral consisting of thorium silicate; it is a source of thorium that is found in coarse granite | - |
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thortveitite | (noun) a mineral consisting of scandium yttrium silicate; a source of scandium | - |
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transvestite | (adjective) receiving sexual gratification from wearing clothing of the opposite sex | Synonyms: transvestic |
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(noun) someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: cross-dresser |
tremolite | (noun) a white or pale green mineral (calcium magnesium silicate) of the amphibole group used as a form of asbestos | - |
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tridymite | (noun) a mineral form of silica | - |
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trilobite | (noun) an extinct arthropod that was abundant in Paleozoic times; had an exoskeleton divided into three parts | - |
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tripartite | (adjective) involving three parties or elements | Synonyms: three-party, three-way |
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trite | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, well-worn |
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trophozoite | (noun) a sporozoan in the active feeding stage of its life cycle | - |
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typewrite | (verb) write by means of a keyboard with types | Synonyms: type |
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underwrite | (verb) protect by insurance | Synonyms: cover, insure |
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(verb) guarantee financial support of | Synonyms: subvent, subvention |
unite | (verb) become one | Synonyms: merge, unify |
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(verb) join or combine | Synonyms: merge, unify |
(verb) act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief | Synonyms: unify |
(verb) bring together for a common purpose or action or ideology or in a shared situation | Synonyms: unify |
(verb) have or possess in combination | Synonyms: combine |
(verb) be or become joined or united or linked | Synonyms: connect, join, link, link up |
uraninite | (noun) a mineral consisting of uranium oxide and trace amounts of radium and thorium and polonium and lead and helium; uraninite in massive form is called pitchblende which is the chief uranium ore | Synonyms: pitchblende |
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vanadinite | (noun) a mineral consisting of chloride and vanadate of lead; a source of vanadium | - |
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vermiculite | (noun) any of a group of yellow or brown hydrous silicate minerals having a micaceous structure | - |
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vesuvianite | (noun) a green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone | Synonyms: idocrase, vesuvian |
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vulcanite | (noun) a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber | Synonyms: ebonite, hard rubber |
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website | (noun) a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web; a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web | Synonyms: internet site, site, web site |
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white | (adjective) being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light | - |
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(adjective) of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration | - |
(adjective) anemic looking from illness or emotion | Synonyms: ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid |
(adjective) marked by the presence of snow | Synonyms: snowy |
(adjective) (of coffee) having cream or milk added | - |
(adjective) (of a surface) not written or printed on | Synonyms: blank, clean |
(adjective) benevolent; without malicious intent | - |
(adjective) glowing white with heat | Synonyms: white-hot |
(adjective) of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets | - |
(adjective) free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied | - |
(adjective) restricted to whites only | Synonyms: lily-white |
(adjective) (of hair) having lost its color | Synonyms: whitened |
(noun) (board games) the lighter pieces | - |
(noun) (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth | Synonyms: flannel, gabardine, tweed |
(noun) the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black) | Synonyms: whiteness |
(noun) the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water | Synonyms: albumen, egg white, ovalbumin |
(verb) turn white | Synonyms: whiten |
wolframite | (noun) a mineral consisting of iron and manganese tungstate in crystalline form; the principal ore of tungsten; found in quartz veins associated with granitic rocks | Synonyms: iron manganese tungsten |
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wollastonite | (noun) a white or greyish mineral typically found in metamorphic limestone; a silicate of calcium | - |
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write | (verb) communicate or express by writing | - |
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(verb) record data on a computer | Synonyms: save |
(verb) contact in writing | Synonyms: drop a line |
(verb) produce a literary work | Synonyms: compose, indite, pen |
(verb) mark or trace words or symbols on a surface | - |
(verb) write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word) | Synonyms: spell |
(verb) write music | Synonyms: compose |
(verb) create code, write a computer program | - |
wulfenite | (noun) a yellow to orange or brown mineral used as a molybdenum ore | - |
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wurtzite | (noun) a brownish-black mineral consisting of zinc sulfide | - |
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ytterbite | (noun) a mineral that is a source of rare earths; consists of silicates of iron and beryllium and cerium and yttrium and erbium | Synonyms: gadolinite |
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zeolite | (noun) any of a family of glassy minerals analogous to feldspar containing hydrated aluminum silicates of calcium or sodium or potassium; formed in cavities in lava flows and in plutonic rocks | - |
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zinkenite | (noun) a steel grey metallic mineral (a sulphide of lead and antimony) | - |
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zinnwaldite | (noun) a mica containing iron and lithium | - |
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