| abducens | (noun) a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye | Synonyms: abducens nerve, abducent, abducent nerve, nervus abducens, sixth cranial nerve |
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| afterpains | (noun) pains felt by a woman after her baby is born; associated with contractions of the uterus | - |
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| avens | (noun) any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers | - |
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| banns | (noun) a public announcement of a proposed marriage | - |
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| buckskins | (noun) (used in the plural) breeches made of buckskin | - |
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| buns | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| candlepins | (noun) a bowling game using slender bowling pins | Synonyms: candlepin bowling |
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| chains | (noun) metal shackles; for hands or legs | Synonyms: irons |
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| chilblains | (noun) inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture | Synonyms: chilblain, pernio |
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| chitlins | (noun) small intestines of hogs prepared as food | Synonyms: chitlings, chitterlings |
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| collins | (noun) tall iced drink of liquor (usually gin) with fruit juice | Synonyms: Tom Collins |
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| commons | (noun) a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank | Synonyms: commonality, commonalty |
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| (noun) a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area | Synonyms: common, green, park |
| (noun) a pasture subject to common use | Synonyms: common land |
| communications | (noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmitting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.) | Synonyms: communication theory |
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| conditions | (noun) the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation | Synonyms: atmospheric condition, weather, weather condition |
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| (noun) the set of circumstances that affect someone's welfare | - |
| (noun) the prevailing context that influences the performance or the outcome of a process | - |
| congratulations | (noun) an expression of approval and commendation | Synonyms: extolment, kudos, praise |
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| corrections | (noun) the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole | - |
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| (noun) the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders | Synonyms: department of corrections |
| cremains | (noun) the remains of a dead body after cremation | - |
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| dickens | (noun) a word used in exclamations of confusion | Synonyms: deuce, devil |
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| dozens | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| duckpins | (noun) a bowling game using a pin smaller than a tenpin but proportionately wider | - |
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| environs | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environment, surround, surroundings |
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| (noun) an outer adjacent area of any place | Synonyms: purlieu |
| explanans | (noun) (logic) statements that explain the explicandum; the explanatory premises | - |
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| gens | (noun) family based on male descent | Synonyms: name |
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| glans | (noun) a small rounded structure; especially that at the end of the penis or clitoris | - |
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| greens | (noun) any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables | Synonyms: green, leafy vegetable |
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| gubbins | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| heavens | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, firmament, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
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| humans | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, man, mankind, world |
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| instructions | (noun) a manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it | Synonyms: book of instructions, instruction manual, operating instructions |
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| irons | (noun) metal shackles; for hands or legs | Synonyms: chains |
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| jeans | (noun) (used in the plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear | Synonyms: blue jeans, denim |
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| lens | (noun) a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images | Synonyms: lens system, lense |
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| (noun) electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons | Synonyms: electron lens |
| (noun) biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focus light on the retina | Synonyms: crystalline lens, lens of the eye |
| (noun) (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood | - |
| loins | (noun) the lower part of the abdomen just above the external genital organs | Synonyms: pubes, pubic region |
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| (noun) the region of the hips and groin and lower abdomen | - |
| matins | (noun) the first canonical hour; at daybreak | Synonyms: morning prayer |
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| means | (noun) to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end | Synonyms: agency, way |
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| (noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end | Synonyms: instrumentality, instrumentation |
| (noun) considerable capital (wealth or income) | Synonyms: substance |
| mons | (noun) a mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women | Synonyms: mons pubis, mons veneris |
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| muggins | (noun) a person who lacks good judgment | Synonyms: fool, sap, saphead, tomfool |
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| ninepins | (noun) a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins | Synonyms: skittles |
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| nylons | (noun) women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk) | Synonyms: nylon stocking, rayon stocking, rayons, silk stocking |
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| occasions | (noun) something you have to do | - |
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| operations | (noun) financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records | Synonyms: trading operations |
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| organs | (noun) edible viscera of a butchered animal | Synonyms: variety meat |
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| pains | (noun) an effortful attempt to attain a goal | Synonyms: nisus, strain, striving |
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| pons | (noun) a band of nerve fibers linking the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum with the midbrain | Synonyms: pons Varolii |
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| provisions | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provender, viands, victuals |
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| rayons | (noun) women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk) | Synonyms: nylon stocking, nylons, rayon stocking, silk stocking |
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| relations | (noun) mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups | Synonyms: dealings |
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| remains | (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: cadaver, clay, corpse, stiff |
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| (noun) any object that is left unused or still extant | - |
| (noun) a relic that has been excavated from the soil | Synonyms: archeological remains |
| sapiens | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Homo sapiens | - |
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| sens | (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sess, skunk, smoke, weed |
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| sevens | (noun) a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards | Synonyms: fantan, parliament |
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| siemens | (noun) a unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm | Synonyms: mho, reciprocal ohm, S |
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| simoleons | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, sugar, wampum |
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| smithereens | (noun) a collection of small fragments considered as a whole | - |
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| spillikins | (noun) a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others | Synonyms: jackstraws |
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| summons | (noun) a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant | Synonyms: process |
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| (noun) a request to be present | Synonyms: bidding |
| (noun) an order to appear in person at a given place and time | - |
| (verb) call in an official matter, such as to attend court | Synonyms: cite, summon |
| teens | (noun) all the numbers that end in -teen | - |
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| (noun) the time of life between the ages of 12 and 20 | - |
| tenpins | (noun) bowling down an alley at a target of ten wooden pins | Synonyms: tenpin bowling |
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| tons | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, wads |
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| transactions | (noun) a written account of what transpired at a meeting | Synonyms: minutes, proceedings |
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| twins | (noun) (mineralogy) two interwoven crystals that are mirror images on each other | - |
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