appurtenant | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, auxiliary |
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assonant | (adjective) having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables | - |
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(adjective) having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables | - |
benignant | (adjective) pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence | Synonyms: benign |
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(adjective) characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects | Synonyms: gracious |
complainant | (noun) a person who brings an action in a court of law | Synonyms: plaintiff |
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consonant | (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: accordant, agreeable, concordant, conformable |
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(adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: harmonic, harmonical, harmonised, harmonized |
(noun) a speech sound that is not a vowel | - |
(noun) a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant | - |
contaminant | (noun) a substance that contaminates | Synonyms: contamination |
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cotenant | (noun) one of two or more tenants holding title to the same property | - |
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covenant | (noun) a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action | Synonyms: compact, concordat |
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(noun) (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return | - |
(verb) enter into a covenant or formal agreement | - |
(verb) enter into a covenant | - |
determinant | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinative, determining |
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(noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinative, determiner, determining factor |
(noun) a square matrix used to solve simultaneous equations | - |
(noun) the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself | Synonyms: antigenic determinant, epitope |
dissonant | (adjective) not in accord | Synonyms: at variance, discrepant |
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(adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: discordant, disharmonious, inharmonic |
(adjective) characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved | Synonyms: unresolved |
dominant | (adjective) exercising influence or control | - |
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(adjective) (of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar | - |
(adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: predominant, prevailing, prevalent, rife |
(noun) an allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different | Synonyms: dominant allele |
(noun) (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale | - |
fulminant | (adjective) sudden and severe | - |
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illuminant | (noun) something that can serve as a source of light | - |
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indignant | (adjective) angered at something unjust or wrong | Synonyms: incensed, outraged, umbrageous |
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lieutenant | (noun) an officer in a police force | Synonyms: police lieutenant |
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(noun) a commissioned military officer | - |
(noun) an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent | Synonyms: deputy |
(noun) an officer holding a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant commander and above lieutenant junior grade | - |
malignant | (adjective) dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor) | - |
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mellisonant | (adjective) pleasing to the ear | Synonyms: dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, sweet |
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nonpregnant | (adjective) not pregnant | - |
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nonresonant | (adjective) not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberate | Synonyms: unreverberant |
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nonruminant | (adjective) not ruminant | - |
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pennant | (noun) a long flag; often tapering | Synonyms: pennon, streamer, waft |
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(noun) a flag longer than it is wide (and often tapering) | - |
(noun) the award given to the champion | Synonyms: crown |
poignant | (adjective) arousing affect | Synonyms: affecting, touching |
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(adjective) keenly distressing to the mind or feelings | - |
predominant | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominate, preponderant, preponderating |
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(adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: dominant, prevailing, prevalent, rife |
pregnant | (adjective) carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life | - |
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(adjective) filled with or attended with | Synonyms: fraught |
(adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: meaning, significant |
recombinant | (adjective) of or relating to recombinant DNA | - |
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(noun) a cell or organism in which genetic recombination has occurred | - |
regnant | (adjective) exercising power or authority | Synonyms: reigning, ruling |
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remnant | (noun) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold | Synonyms: end, oddment, remainder |
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(noun) a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists | Synonyms: leftover |
repugnant | (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repulsive |
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resonant | (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: evocative, redolent, remindful, reminiscent |
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(adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative |
revenant | (adjective) of or relating to or typical of a revenant | - |
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(adjective) coming back | Synonyms: recurring |
(noun) someone who has returned from the dead | - |
(noun) a person who returns after a lengthy absence | - |
ruminant | (adjective) related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud | - |
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(noun) any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments | - |
sonant | (adjective) produced with vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: soft, voiced |
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(noun) a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords | Synonyms: voiced sound |
stagnant | (adjective) not circulating or flowing | Synonyms: dead |
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(adjective) not growing or changing; without force or vitality | Synonyms: moribund |
subdominant | (noun) (music) the fourth note of the diatonic scale | - |
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sublieutenant | (noun) an officer ranking next below a lieutenant | - |
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tenant | (noun) someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else | Synonyms: renter |
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(noun) any occupant who dwells in a place | - |
(noun) a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease) | - |
(verb) occupy as a tenant | - |