| jalapeno | (noun) hot green or red pepper of southwestern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: jalapeno pepper |
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| (noun) plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red | Synonyms: Capsicum annuum longum, cayenne, cayenne pepper, chili pepper, chilli pepper, long pepper |
| jello | (noun) fruit-flavored dessert (trade mark Jell-O) made from a commercially prepared gelatin powder | Synonyms: Jell-O |
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| jiao | (noun) 10 jiao equal 1 yuan in China | - |
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| jigaboo | (noun) (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person | Synonyms: nigga, nigger, nigra |
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| jingo | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: chauvinist, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingoist, patrioteer |
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| judo | (noun) a sport adapted from jujitsu (using principles of not resisting) and similar to wrestling; developed in Japan | - |
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| jumbo | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: elephantine, gargantuan, giant |
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| junco | (noun) small North American finch seen chiefly in winter | Synonyms: snowbird |
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| junto | (noun) a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue | Synonyms: cabal, camarilla, faction |
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| kangaroo | (noun) any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail | - |
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| kayo | (noun) a blow that renders the opponent unconscious | Synonyms: knockout, KO |
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| (verb) knock unconscious or senseless | Synonyms: knock cold, knock out |
| kazoo | (noun) a toy wind instrument that has a membrane that makes a sound when you hum into the mouthpiece | - |
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| keno | (noun) a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | Synonyms: beano, bingo, lotto |
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| kilo | (noun) one thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: kg, kilogram |
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| kimono | (noun) a loose robe; imitated from robes originally worn by Japanese | - |
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| kino | (noun) East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning | Synonyms: Pterocarpus marsupium |
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| (noun) a gum obtained from various tropical plants; used as an astringent and in tanning | Synonyms: gum kino, kino gum |
| kiwano | (noun) a fruit that has orange skin and lime green, jelly-like flesh with a refreshingly fruity taste, and texture similar to a passionfruit or pomegranate; grows on the annual vine Cucumis metuliferus. | - |
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| kobo | (noun) 100 kobos equal 1 naira in Nigeria | - |
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| koodoo | (noun) either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush | Synonyms: koudou, kudu |
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| koto | (noun) Japanese stringed instrument that resembles a zither; has a rectangular wooden sounding board and usually 13 silk strings that are plucked with the fingers | - |
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| lanugo | (noun) the fine downy hair covering a human fetus; normally shed during the ninth month of gestation | - |
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| larghetto | (adjective) (of tempo) less slow and broad than largo | - |
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| (noun) (music) a composition or passage played in a slow tempo slightly faster than largo but slower than adagio | - |
| larghissimo | (adjective) (of tempo) as slow and broad as possible | - |
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| largo | (adjective) very slow in tempo and broad in manner | - |
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| (noun) (music) a composition or passage that is to be performed in a slow and dignified manner | - |
| (adverb) slowly and broadly | - |
| lasso | (noun) a long noosed rope used to catch animals | Synonyms: lariat, reata, riata |
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| (verb) catch with a lasso | Synonyms: rope |
| lavabo | (noun) a basin for washing the hands | Synonyms: handbasin, wash-hand basin, washbasin, washbowl |
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| lazaretto | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazaret, lazarette, pesthouse |
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| (noun) a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship | Synonyms: glory hole |
| legato | (adjective) (music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected | Synonyms: smooth |
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| (adverb) connecting the notes; in music | - |
| lentigo | (noun) a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin | Synonyms: freckle |
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| lentissimo | (adjective) (of tempo) very slow | - |
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| lento | (adjective) (of tempo) slow | - |
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| (adverb) in music | Synonyms: slowly |
| libido | (noun) (psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire | - |
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| libretto | (noun) the words of an opera or musical play | - |
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| lido | (noun) a recreational facility including a swimming pool for water sports | - |
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| limbo | (noun) (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals) | - |
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| (noun) an imaginary place for lost or neglected things | - |
| (noun) the state of being disregarded or forgotten | Synonyms: oblivion |
| limo | (noun) large luxurious car; usually driven by a chauffeur | Synonyms: limousine |
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| lingo | (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, patois, slang, vernacular |
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| lino | (noun) a floor covering | Synonyms: linoleum |
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| livedo | (noun) skin disorder characterized by patchy bluish discolorations on the skin | - |
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| llano | (noun) an extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in Latin America) | - |
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| loco | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| logo | (noun) a company emblem or device | Synonyms: logotype |
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| loligo | (noun) somewhat flattened cylindrical squid | - |
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| loo | (noun) a toilet in Britain | Synonyms: closet, W.C., water closet |
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| lotto | (noun) a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | Synonyms: beano, bingo, keno |
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| ludo | (noun) a simple board game in which players move counters according to the throw of dice | - |
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| lumbago | (noun) backache affecting the lumbar region or lower back; can be caused by muscle strain or arthritis or vascular insufficiency or a ruptured intervertebral disc | Synonyms: lumbar pain |
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| machismo | (noun) exaggerated masculinity | - |
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| macho | (adjective) used of men; markedly masculine in appearance or manner | Synonyms: butch |
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| (noun) a male exhibiting or characterized by machismo | - |
| macro | (adjective) very large in scale or scope or capability | - |
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| (noun) a single computer instruction that results in a series of instructions in machine language | Synonyms: macro instruction |
| madrono | (noun) evergreen tree of the Pacific coast of North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries; wood used for furniture and bark for tanning | Synonyms: Arbutus menziesii, madrona, manzanita |
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| maestro | (noun) an artist of consummate skill | Synonyms: master |
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| mafioso | (noun) a member of the Mafia crime syndicate in the United States | - |
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| (noun) a member of the Sicilian Mafia | - |
| magneto | (noun) a small dynamo with a secondary winding that produces a high voltage enabling a spark to jump between the poles of a spark plug in a gasoline engine | Synonyms: magnetoelectric machine |
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| magnifico | (noun) a person of distinguished rank or appearance | - |
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| mako | (noun) powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific | Synonyms: mako shark |
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| makomako | (noun) graceful deciduous shrub or small tree having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine | Synonyms: Aristotelia racemosa, Aristotelia serrata, New Zealand wine berry, wineberry |
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| maleo | (noun) Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches | Synonyms: Macrocephalon maleo |
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| mambo | (noun) a Latin American dance similar in rhythm to the rumba | - |
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| (verb) dance a mambo | - |
| mamo | (noun) black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail; now extinct | - |
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| mamoncillo | (noun) tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp | Synonyms: genip, ginep, honey berry, Melicocca bijuga, Melicocca bijugatus, Spanish lime, Spanish lime tree |
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| mango | (noun) large oval tropical fruit having smooth skin, juicy aromatic pulp, and a large hairy seed | - |
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| (noun) large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval fruit | Synonyms: Mangifera indica, mango tree |
| manifesto | (noun) a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government) | Synonyms: pronunciamento |
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| maraschino | (noun) cherry preserved in true or imitation maraschino liqueur | Synonyms: maraschino cherry |
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| (noun) distilled from fermented juice of bitter wild marasca cherries | Synonyms: maraschino liqueur |
| matzo | (noun) brittle flat bread eaten at Passover | Synonyms: matzah, matzoh, unleavened bread |
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| mayo | (noun) egg yolks and oil and vinegar | Synonyms: mayonnaise |
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| medico | (noun) a licensed medical practitioner | Synonyms: doc, doctor, Dr., MD, physician |
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| (noun) a student in medical school | Synonyms: medical student |
| memento | (noun) a reminder of past events | Synonyms: souvenir |
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| memo | (noun) a written proposal or reminder | Synonyms: memoranda, memorandum |
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| merino | (noun) white sheep originating in Spain and producing a heavy fleece of exceptional quality | Synonyms: merino sheep |
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| mestizo | (noun) a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) | - |
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| metro | (noun) an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) | Synonyms: subway, subway system, tube, underground |
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| mezzo | (noun) the female singing voice between contralto and soprano | Synonyms: mezzo-soprano |
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| (noun) a soprano with a voice between soprano and contralto | Synonyms: mezzo-soprano |
| mho | (noun) a unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm | Synonyms: reciprocal ohm, S, siemens |
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| micro | (adjective) extremely small in scale or scope or capability | - |
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| mikado | (noun) the emperor of Japan; when regarded as a religious leader the emperor is called tenno | Synonyms: tenno |
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| milo | (noun) small drought-resistant sorghums having large yellow or whitish grains | Synonyms: milo maize |
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| mimeo | (noun) a rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo) | Synonyms: mimeograph, mimeograph machine, Roneo, Roneograph |
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| (verb) print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph | Synonyms: mimeograph |
| miro | (noun) New Zealand conifer used for lumber; the dark wood is used for interior carpentry | Synonyms: black pine, Podocarpus ferruginea, Prumnopitys ferruginea |
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| misdo | (verb) do wrongly or improperly | - |
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| miso | (noun) a thick paste made from fermented soybeans and barley or rice malt; used in Japanese cooking to make soups or sauces | - |
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| mo | (noun) an indefinitely short time | Synonyms: bit, minute, moment, second |
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| moderato | (adjective) (of tempo) moderate | - |
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| mojo | (noun) a magic power or magic spell | - |
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| molto | (adverb) much | - |
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| monggo | (noun) seed of the mung bean plant used for food; food from the seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, moong, mung, mung bean, munggo |
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| (noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food; seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, moong, mung, mung bean, munggo |
| mongo | (noun) 100 mongo equal 1 tugrik in Mongolia | - |
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| mono | (adjective) designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel | Synonyms: monophonic, single-channel |
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| (noun) an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing | Synonyms: glandular fever, infectious mononucleosis, kissing disease, mononucleosis |
| moo | (noun) the sound made by a cow or bull | - |
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| (verb) make a low noise, characteristic of bovines | Synonyms: low |
| morello | (noun) cultivated sour cherry with dark-colored skin and juice | - |
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| (noun) any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing fruit with dark skin and juice | Synonyms: Prunus cerasus austera |
| morocco | (noun) a soft pebble-grained leather made from goatskin; used for shoes and book bindings etc. | - |
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| mosquito | (noun) two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals | - |
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| motto | (noun) a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual | Synonyms: catchword, shibboleth, slogan |
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| moustachio | (noun) a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth) | Synonyms: handle-bars, mustachio |
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| mulatto | (noun) an offspring of a black and a white parent | - |
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| munggo | (noun) seed of the mung bean plant used for food; food from the seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung, mung bean |
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| (noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food; seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung, mung bean |
| mustachio | (noun) a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth) | Synonyms: handle-bars, moustachio |
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| nacho | (noun) a tortilla chip topped with cheese and chili-pepper and broiled | - |
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| nameko | (noun) one of the most important fungi cultivated in Japan | Synonyms: Pholiota nameko, viscid mushroom |
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| nardo | (noun) Australian clover fern | Synonyms: common nardoo, Marsilea drummondii, nardoo |
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