| knitwork | (noun) needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine | Synonyms: knit, knitting |
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| knock | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: belt, rap, whack, whang |
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| (noun) negative criticism | Synonyms: roast |
| (noun) a vigorous blow | Synonyms: bang, bash, belt, smash |
| (noun) the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing) | Synonyms: knocking |
| (noun) a bad experience | - |
| (verb) find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws | Synonyms: criticise, criticize, pick apart |
| (verb) knock against with force or violence | Synonyms: bump |
| (verb) rap with the knuckles | - |
| (verb) deliver a sharp blow or push | Synonyms: strike hard |
| (verb) make light, repeated taps on a surface | Synonyms: pink, rap, tap |
| (verb) sound like a car engine that is firing too early | Synonyms: ping, pink |
| kolkhoznik | (noun) a member of a kolkhoz | - |
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| kook | (noun) someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group | Synonyms: odd fellow, odd fish, odd man out, queer bird, queer duck |
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| kopeck | (noun) 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia | Synonyms: copeck, kopek |
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| kopek | (noun) 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia | Synonyms: copeck, kopeck |
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| kweek | (noun) trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India | Synonyms: Bahama grass, Bermuda grass, Cynodon dactylon, devil grass, doob, scutch grass, star grass |
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| lacebark | (noun) small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage | Synonyms: Hoheria populnea, houhere, ribbonwood |
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| lacework | (noun) work consisting of (or resembling) lace fabric | - |
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| lack | (noun) the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Synonyms: deficiency, want |
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| (verb) be without | Synonyms: miss |
| (verb) To be insufficiently prepared | - |
| lampblack | (noun) a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink | Synonyms: carbon black, crock, smut, soot |
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| landmark | (noun) an anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken | - |
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| (noun) a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land | - |
| (noun) an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend | Synonyms: turning point, watershed |
| (noun) the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape | - |
| lank | (adjective) long and thin and often limp | - |
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| (adjective) long and lean | Synonyms: spindly |
| lark | (noun) any carefree episode | Synonyms: escapade |
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| (noun) any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing | - |
| (noun) a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage | Synonyms: pipit, titlark |
| (noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: meadowlark |
| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
| latticework | (noun) framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal | Synonyms: fretwork, lattice |
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| laughingstock | (noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: butt, goat, stooge |
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| leafstalk | (noun) the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf | Synonyms: petiole |
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| leak | (noun) unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information | Synonyms: news leak |
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| (noun) the discharge of a fluid from some container | Synonyms: escape, leakage, outflow |
| (noun) an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape | - |
| (noun) a euphemism for urination | Synonyms: making water, passing water, wetting |
| (noun) soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi | - |
| (verb) have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out | - |
| (verb) enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure | - |
| (verb) tell anonymously | - |
| (verb) be leaked | Synonyms: leak out |
| leatherback | (noun) wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle | Synonyms: Dermochelys coriacea, leatherback turtle, leathery turtle |
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| leatherjack | (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leatherneck | (noun) a member of the United States Marine Corps | Synonyms: devil dog, Marine, shipboard soldier |
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| leatherwork | (noun) work made of leather | - |
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| leek | (noun) related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves | - |
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| (noun) plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum | Synonyms: Allium porrum, scallion |
| lek | (noun) the basic unit of money in Albania | - |
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| lentisk | (noun) an evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region that is cultivated for its resin | Synonyms: mastic, mastic tree, Pistacia lentiscus |
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| lick | (noun) touching with the tongue | Synonyms: lap |
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| (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: biff, clout, poke, punch, slug |
| (noun) a salt deposit that animals regularly lick | Synonyms: salt lick |
| (verb) find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of | Synonyms: figure out, puzzle out, solve, work, work out |
| (verb) take up with the tongue | Synonyms: lap, lap up |
| (verb) pass the tongue over | Synonyms: lap |
| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, drub, thrash |
| lifehack | (verb) make one's day-to-day activities more efficient | - |
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| lifework | (noun) the principal work of your career | - |
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| lightstick | (noun) A portable rod used for illumination. | - |
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| limerick | (noun) a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba | - |
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| link | (noun) a fastener that serves to join or connect | Synonyms: linkup, tie-in, tie |
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| (noun) a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network | Synonyms: radio link |
| (noun) an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data | Synonyms: data link |
| (noun) a channel for communication between groups | Synonyms: contact, inter-group communication, liaison |
| (noun) (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list | - |
| (noun) a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain | - |
| (noun) the means of connection between things linked in series | Synonyms: nexus |
| (noun) a connecting shape | Synonyms: connection, connexion |
| (noun) the state of being connected | Synonyms: connectedness, connection |
| (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, colligate, connect, link up, relate, tie in |
| (verb) connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces | Synonyms: connect, link up, tie |
| (verb) link with or as with a yoke | Synonyms: yoke |
| (verb) be or become joined or united or linked | Synonyms: connect, join, link up, unite |
| linstock | (noun) a stick about a meter long with a point on one end (to stick in the ground) and a forked head on the other end (to hold a lighted match); formerly used to fire cannons | - |
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| lipstick | (noun) makeup that is used to color the lips | Synonyms: lip rouge |
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| (verb) apply lipstick to | - |
| (verb) form by tracing with lipstick | - |
| littleneck | (noun) a young quahog | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
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| (noun) a quahog when young and small; usually eaten raw; an important food popular in New York | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
| livestock | (noun) any animals kept for use or profit | Synonyms: farm animal, stock |
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| lobsterback | (noun) British soldier; so-called because of his red coat (especially during the American Revolution) | Synonyms: redcoat |
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| lock | (noun) any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured | - |
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| (noun) a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed | - |
| (noun) a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key | Synonyms: ignition lock |
| (noun) enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it | Synonyms: lock chamber |
| (noun) a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun | - |
| (noun) a strand or cluster of hair | - |
| (verb) become rigid or immoveable | - |
| (verb) fasten with a lock | - |
| (verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: engage, mesh, operate |
| (verb) place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape | Synonyms: lock away, lock in, lock up, put away, shut away, shut up |
| (verb) become engaged or intermeshed with one another | Synonyms: interlock |
| (verb) hold in a locking position | Synonyms: interlace, interlock |
| (verb) build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels | - |
| (verb) hold fast (in a certain state) | - |
| (verb) pass by means through a lock in a waterway | - |
| logbook | (noun) a book in which the log is written | - |
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| look | (noun) the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; look | Synonyms: looking, looking at |
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| (noun) physical appearance | - |
| (noun) the feelings expressed on a person's face | Synonyms: aspect, expression, face, facial expression |
| (noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, smell, spirit, tone |
| (verb) to physically appear a certain way to another individual or group | - |
| (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: await, expect, wait |
| (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, count, depend, reckon, rely, swear |
| (verb) convey by one's expression | - |
| (verb) perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards; look | - |
| (verb) give a certain impression of being something or having a certain aspect | Synonyms: appear, seem |
| (verb) search or seek | Synonyms: search |
| (verb) take charge of or deal with | Synonyms: attend, see, take care |
| (verb) be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to | Synonyms: face, front |
| (verb) accord in appearance with | - |
| lovesick | (adjective) languishing because of love | - |
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| luck | (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: chance, fortune, hazard |
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| (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome | Synonyms: fortune |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, lot, portion |
| lumberjack | (noun) a short warm outer jacket | Synonyms: lumber jacket |
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| (noun) a person who fells trees | Synonyms: faller, feller, logger, lumberman |
| lurk | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, scupper, waylay |
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| (verb) to monitor a web forum or similar without making your presence pubilc | - |
| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| (verb) lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner | Synonyms: skulk |
| lutefisk | (noun) dried cod soaked in a lye solution before boiling to give it a gelatinous consistency | Synonyms: lutfisk |
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| lutfisk | (noun) dried cod soaked in a lye solution before boiling to give it a gelatinous consistency | Synonyms: lutefisk |
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| mack | (noun) a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric | Synonyms: mac, macintosh, mackintosh |
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| mahlstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: maulstick |
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| malik | (noun) the leader of a town or community in some parts of Asia Minor and the Indian subcontinent | - |
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| mark | (noun) something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal | Synonyms: bell ringer, bull's eye, home run |
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| (noun) an indication of damage | Synonyms: scar, scrape, scratch |
| (noun) a marking that consists of lines that cross each other | Synonyms: crisscross, cross |
| (noun) the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember | - |
| (noun) a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance) | Synonyms: grade, score |
| (noun) a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation) | - |
| (noun) a symbol of disgrace or infamy | Synonyms: brand, stain, stigma |
| (noun) a distinguishing symbol | Synonyms: marker, marking |
| (noun) a visible indication made on a surface | Synonyms: print |
| (noun) a reference point to shoot at | Synonyms: target |
| (noun) a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened) | Synonyms: sign |
| (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker |
| (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in Germany | Synonyms: Deutsche Mark, Deutschmark, German mark |
| (verb) make or leave a mark on | - |
| (verb) insert punctuation marks into | Synonyms: punctuate |
| (verb) assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation | Synonyms: grade, score |
| (verb) celebrate by some ceremony or observation | Synonyms: commemorate |
| (verb) put a check mark on or near or next to | Synonyms: check, check off, mark off, tick, tick off |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish |
| (verb) make underscoring marks | Synonyms: score |
| (verb) remove from a list | Synonyms: cross off, cross out, strike off, strike out |
| (verb) designate as if by a mark | - |
| (verb) establish as the highest level or best performance | Synonyms: set |
| (verb) make small marks into the surface of | Synonyms: nock, score |
| (verb) mark with a scar | Synonyms: pit, pock, scar |
| (verb) attach a tag or label to | Synonyms: label, tag |
| (verb) notice or perceive | Synonyms: note, notice |
| (verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: brand, denounce, stigmatise, stigmatize |
| mask | (noun) activity that tries to conceal something | - |
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| (noun) a covering to disguise or conceal the face | - |
| (noun) a protective covering worn over the face | - |
| (noun) a party of guests wearing costumes and masks | Synonyms: masque, masquerade, masquerade party |
| (verb) put a mask on or cover with a mask | - |
| (verb) shield from light | Synonyms: block out |
| (verb) cover with a sauce | - |
| (verb) hide under a false appearance | Synonyms: cloak, dissemble |
| (verb) make unrecognizable | Synonyms: disguise |
| matchbook | (noun) a small folder of paper safety matches | - |
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| matchlock | (noun) an early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge | - |
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| matchstick | (noun) a short thin stick of wood used in making matches | - |
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| mattock | (noun) a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat blade set at right angles to the handle | - |
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| maulstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: mahlstick |
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| maverick | (adjective) independent in behavior or thought | Synonyms: irregular, unorthodox |
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| (noun) an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it | - |
| (noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: rebel |
| meadowlark | (noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: lark |
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| medick | (noun) any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves | Synonyms: medic, trefoil |
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| meek | (adjective) very docile | Synonyms: tame |
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| (adjective) humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness | Synonyms: mild, modest |
| (adjective) evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant | Synonyms: spiritless |
| meshwork | (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshing, net, network |
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| metalwork | (noun) the activity of making things out of metal in a skillful manner | Synonyms: metalworking |
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| (noun) the metal parts of something | - |
| meterstick | (noun) a rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters) | Synonyms: metrestick |
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| metrestick | (noun) a rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters) | Synonyms: meterstick |
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| midweek | (noun) the middle of a week | - |
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| (adverb) in the middle of the week | - |
| milk | (noun) produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young | - |
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| (noun) a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings | - |
| (noun) any of several nutritive milklike liquids | - |
| (verb) take milk from female mammals | - |
| (verb) add milk to | - |
| (verb) exploit as much as possible | - |
| millwork | (noun) woodwork that has been machined at a mill | - |
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| mindfuck | (noun) Something that intentionally destabilizes, confuses or manipulates the mind of another person | - |
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| mink | (noun) slender-bodied semiaquatic mammal having partially webbed feet; valued for its fur | - |
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| (noun) fur coat made from the soft lustrous fur of minks | Synonyms: mink coat |
| (noun) the expensive fur of a mink | - |
| mintmark | (noun) a mark on a coin that identifies the mint where it was produced | - |
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| misspeak | (verb) pronounce a word incorrectly | Synonyms: mispronounce |
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| mock | (adjective) constituting a copy or imitation of something | - |
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| (noun) the act of mocking or ridiculing | - |
| (verb) treat with contempt | Synonyms: bemock |
| (verb) imitate with mockery and derision | - |
| mohawk | (noun) haircut in which the head is shaved except for a band of hair down the middle of the scalp | Synonyms: mohawk haircut |
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| mollusk | (noun) invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | Synonyms: mollusc, shellfish |
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| mollymawk | (noun) large web-footed birds of the Southern Hemisphere having long narrow wings; noted for powerful gliding flight | Synonyms: albatross |
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| monk | (noun) a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work | Synonyms: monastic |
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| moonstruck | (adjective) insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon | Synonyms: lunatic |
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| moonwalk | (noun) an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon | - |
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| (noun) a kind of dance step in which the dancer seems to be sliding on the spot | - |
| moorcock | (noun) male red grouse | - |
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| mossback | (noun) an extremely old-fashioned conservative | - |
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| motortruck | (noun) an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling | Synonyms: truck |
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| moujik | (noun) a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) | Synonyms: mujik, muzhik, muzjik |
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| mountebank | (noun) a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes | Synonyms: charlatan |
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| muck | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, gook, goop, guck, gunk, ooze, slime, sludge |
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| (noun) fecal matter of animals | Synonyms: droppings, dung |
| (verb) remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine | - |
| (verb) soil with mud, muck, or mire | Synonyms: mire, muck up, mud |
| (verb) spread manure, as for fertilization | Synonyms: manure |
| mujik | (noun) a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) | Synonyms: moujik, muzhik, muzjik |
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| murk | (noun) an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance | Synonyms: fog, fogginess, murkiness |
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| (verb) make dark, dim, or gloomy | - |
| musk | (noun) the scent of a greasy glandular secretion from the male musk deer | - |
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| (noun) an odorous glandular secretion from the male musk deer; used as a perfume fixative | - |
| muzhik | (noun) a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) | Synonyms: moujik, mujik, muzjik |
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| muzjik | (noun) a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) | Synonyms: moujik, mujik, muzhik |
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| nainsook | (noun) a soft lightweight muslin used especially for babies | - |
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| nark | (noun) an informer or spy working for the police | Synonyms: copper's nark |
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| (noun) a lawman concerned with narcotics violations | Synonyms: narc, narcotics agent |
| (verb) inform or spy (for the police) | - |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| natterjack | (noun) common brownish-yellow short-legged toad of western Europe; runs rather than hops | Synonyms: Bufo calamita |
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| neck | (noun) an opening in a garment for the neck of the wearer; a part of the garment near the wearer's neck | Synonyms: neck opening |
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| (noun) a narrow part of an artifact that resembles a neck in position or form | - |
| (noun) the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body | Synonyms: cervix |
| (noun) a cut of meat from the neck of an animal | - |
| (noun) a narrow elongated projecting strip of land | - |
| (verb) kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion | Synonyms: make out |
| needlework | (noun) work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle | Synonyms: needlecraft |
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| (noun) a creation created or assembled by needle and thread | Synonyms: needlecraft |
| network | (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshing, meshwork, net |
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| (noun) (broadcasting) a communication system consisting of a group of broadcasting stations that all transmit the same programs | - |
| (noun) (electronics) a system of interconnected electronic components or circuits | Synonyms: electronic network |
| (noun) a system of intersecting lines or channels | - |
| (noun) an interconnected system of things or people | Synonyms: web |
| (verb) communicate with and within a group | - |
| newsbreak | (noun) a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story | Synonyms: flash, news bulletin, newsflash |
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| newspeak | (noun) deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public | - |
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| niblick | (noun) an iron with considerable loft | Synonyms: nine iron |
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| nick | (noun) a small cut | Synonyms: notch, snick |
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| (noun) (British slang) a prison | - |
| (noun) an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) | Synonyms: dent, ding, gouge |
| (verb) mate successfully; of livestock | - |
| (verb) divide or reset the tail muscles of | - |
| (verb) cut a nick into | Synonyms: chip |
| (verb) cut slightly, with a razor | Synonyms: snick |
| nicknack | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknack, knickknackery, whatnot |
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| nighthawk | (noun) mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker | Synonyms: bullbat, mosquito hawk |
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| (noun) a person who likes to be active late at night | Synonyms: night owl, nightbird |