| dislocation | (noun) the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue | Synonyms: breakdown |
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| (noun) an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity | Synonyms: disruption |
| (noun) a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column) | - |
| dismission | (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
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| (noun) official notice that you have been fired from your job | Synonyms: dismissal, pink slip |
| disorganisation | (noun) the disturbance of a systematic arrangement causing disorder and confusion | Synonyms: disorganization |
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| (noun) a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted | Synonyms: disarrangement, disorganization |
| disorganization | (noun) the disturbance of a systematic arrangement causing disorder and confusion | Synonyms: disorganisation |
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| (noun) a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted | Synonyms: disarrangement, disorganisation |
| disorientation | (noun) a wild delusion (especially one induced by a hallucinogenic drug) | Synonyms: freak out |
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| (noun) confusion (usually transient) about where you are and how to proceed; uncertainty as to direction | - |
| dispassion | (noun) objectivity and detachment | Synonyms: dispassionateness, dryness |
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| dispensation | (noun) the act of dispensing (giving out in portions) | - |
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| (noun) an exemption from some rule or obligation | - |
| (noun) a share that has been dispensed or distributed | - |
| dispersion | (noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something | Synonyms: diffusion, dispersal, dissemination |
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| (noun) the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume | Synonyms: distribution |
| (noun) spreading widely or driving off | Synonyms: scattering |
| disposition | (noun) the act or means of getting rid of something | Synonyms: disposal |
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| (noun) your usual mood | Synonyms: temperament |
| (noun) a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing | - |
| (noun) an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others | Synonyms: inclination, tendency |
| dispossession | (noun) the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law | Synonyms: eviction, legal ouster |
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| (noun) freeing from evil spirits | Synonyms: exorcism |
| disproportion | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: dissymmetry, imbalance |
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| disputation | (noun) the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote) | Synonyms: debate, public debate |
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| (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, tilt |
| disqualification | (noun) the act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified | - |
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| (noun) unfitness that bars you from participation | - |
| disquisition | (noun) an elaborate analytical or explanatory essay or discussion | - |
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| disruption | (noun) the act of causing disorder | Synonyms: perturbation |
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| (noun) an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Synonyms: break, gap, interruption |
| (noun) an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity | Synonyms: dislocation |
| (noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult | Synonyms: commotion, disturbance, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do |
| dissatisfaction | (noun) the feeling of being displeased and discontent | - |
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| dissection | (noun) cutting so as to separate into pieces | - |
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| (noun) detailed critical analysis or examination one part at a time (as of a literary work) | - |
| (noun) a minute and critical analysis | - |
| dissemination | (noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something | Synonyms: diffusion, dispersal, dispersion |
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| (noun) the property of being diffused or dispersed | Synonyms: diffusion |
| (noun) the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate | Synonyms: airing, public exposure, spreading |
| dissension | (noun) disagreement among those expected to cooperate | Synonyms: discord |
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| (noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: disagreement, dissonance |
| dissertation | (noun) a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree | Synonyms: thesis |
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| dissimilation | (noun) breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy | Synonyms: catabolism, destructive metabolism, katabolism |
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| (noun) a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other | - |
| dissimulation | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissembling |
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| dissipation | (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissolution, licentiousness, looseness, profligacy |
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| (noun) useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly | Synonyms: waste, wastefulness |
| (noun) breaking up and scattering by dispersion | - |
| dissociation | (noun) the act of removing from association | - |
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| (noun) (chemistry) the temporary or reversible process in which a molecule or ion is broken down into smaller molecules or ions | - |
| (noun) a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently | Synonyms: disassociation |
| dissolution | (noun) the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations) | Synonyms: breakup |
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| (noun) the termination of a meeting | Synonyms: adjournment |
| (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissipation, licentiousness, looseness, profligacy |
| (noun) separation into component parts | Synonyms: disintegration |
| (noun) the process of going into solution | Synonyms: dissolving |
| dissuasion | (noun) persuading not to do or believe something; talking someone out of a belief or an intended course of action | - |
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| (noun) a communication that dissuades you | - |
| distension | (noun) the act of expanding by pressure from within | Synonyms: distention |
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| (noun) the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions | Synonyms: dilatation, distention |
| distention | (noun) the act of expanding by pressure from within | Synonyms: distension |
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| (noun) the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions | Synonyms: dilatation, distension |
| distillation | (noun) the process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors | Synonyms: distillment |
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| (noun) a purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distilling | Synonyms: distillate |
| distinction | (noun) a distinguishing difference between similar things or people | - |
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| (noun) a discrimination between things as different and distinct on the basis of their characteristics or attributes | Synonyms: differentiation |
| (noun) an honor awarded to someone in recognition of achievement or superiority | - |
| (noun) high status importance owing to marked superiority | Synonyms: eminence, note, preeminence |
| distortion | (noun) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean | Synonyms: overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting |
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| (noun) the mistake of misrepresenting the facts | - |
| (noun) a change for the worse | Synonyms: deformation |
| (noun) an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image | Synonyms: aberration, optical aberration |
| (noun) a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal) | - |
| (noun) a shape resulting from distortion | Synonyms: distorted shape |
| distraction | (noun) an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations | Synonyms: beguilement |
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| (noun) the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: misdirection |
| (noun) mental turmoil | - |
| (noun) an obstacle to attention | - |
| distribution | (noun) the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning | - |
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| (noun) the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer | - |
| (noun) the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume | Synonyms: dispersion |
| (noun) (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence | Synonyms: statistical distribution |
| disunion | (noun) the termination or destruction of union | - |
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| divagation | (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, diversion |
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| (noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, digression, excursus, parenthesis |
| divarication | (noun) branching at a wide angle | - |
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| diversification | (noun) the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered) | Synonyms: variegation |
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| (noun) the condition of being varied | - |
| diversion | (noun) an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates | Synonyms: recreation |
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| (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, divagation |
| (noun) an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack | Synonyms: diversionary attack |
| divination | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: foretelling, fortune telling, soothsaying |
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| (noun) a prediction uttered under divine inspiration | Synonyms: prophecy |
| (noun) successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck | - |
| division | (noun) the act or process of dividing | - |
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| (noun) an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed | - |
| (noun) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart | Synonyms: partition, partitioning, sectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation |
| (noun) one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole | Synonyms: part, section |
| (noun) discord that splits a group | Synonyms: variance |
| (noun) an army unit large enough to sustain combat | - |
| (noun) a group of ships of similar type | Synonyms: naval division |
| (noun) a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings | Synonyms: air division |
| (noun) an administrative unit in government or business | - |
| (noun) (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum | - |
| (noun) (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category | - |
| (noun) a league ranked by quality | Synonyms: class |
| dobson | (noun) large soft-bodied insect having long slender mandibles in the male; aquatic larvae often used as bait | Synonyms: Corydalus cornutus, dobson fly, dobsonfly |
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| (noun) large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait | Synonyms: hellgrammiate |
| documentation | (noun) documentary validation | Synonyms: support |
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| (noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: certification, corroboration |
| (noun) program listings or technical manuals describing the operation and use of programs | Synonyms: software documentation |
| dodecagon | (noun) a twelve-sided polygon | - |
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| dodecahedron | (noun) any polyhedron having twelve plane faces | - |
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| domestication | (noun) accommodation to domestic life | - |
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| (noun) the attribute of having been domesticated | Synonyms: tameness |
| (noun) adaptation to intimate association with human beings | - |
| domiciliation | (noun) temporary living quarters | Synonyms: diggings, digs, lodgings, pad |
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| domination | (noun) social control by dominating | - |
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| (noun) power to dominate or defeat | Synonyms: mastery, supremacy |
| dominion | (noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: district, territorial dominion, territory |
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| (noun) dominance or power through legal authority | Synonyms: rule |
| don | (noun) teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford) | Synonyms: preceptor |
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| (noun) the head of an organized crime family | Synonyms: father |
| (verb) put clothing on one's body | Synonyms: assume, get into, put on, wear |
| donation | (noun) act of giving in common with others for a common purpose especially to a charity | Synonyms: contribution |
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| (noun) a voluntary gift (as of money or service or ideas) made to some worthwhile cause | Synonyms: contribution |
| donjon | (noun) the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress | Synonyms: dungeon, keep |
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| dorsiflexion | (noun) the act of bending backward (of the body or a body part) | - |
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| doubleton | (noun) (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player | - |
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| doubloon | (noun) a former Spanish gold coin | - |
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| draftsperson | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsman, draughtsman |
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| dragon | (noun) any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body | Synonyms: flying dragon, flying lizard |
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| (noun) a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman | Synonyms: tartar |
| (noun) a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings | Synonyms: European dragon, firedrake |
| dragoon | (noun) a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen | - |
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| (verb) compel by coercion, threats, or crude means | Synonyms: railroad, sandbag |
| (verb) subjugate by imposing troops | - |
| dramatisation | (noun) a dramatic representation | Synonyms: dramatization |
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| (noun) conversion into dramatic form | Synonyms: dramatization |
| dramatization | (noun) a dramatic representation | Synonyms: dramatisation |
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| (noun) conversion into dramatic form | Synonyms: dramatisation |
| dudgeon | (noun) a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase `in high dudgeon') | Synonyms: high dudgeon |
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| dungeon | (noun) the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress | Synonyms: donjon, keep |
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| (noun) a dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be confined | - |
| duplication | (noun) the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something | Synonyms: gemination |
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| (noun) a copy that corresponds to an original exactly | Synonyms: duplicate |
| duration | (noun) continuance in time | Synonyms: length |
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| (noun) the property of enduring or continuing in time | Synonyms: continuance |
| (noun) the period of time during which something continues | Synonyms: continuance |
| durion | (noun) tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind | Synonyms: durian, durian tree, Durio zibethinus |
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| dysfunction | (noun) (medicine) any disturbance in the functioning of an organ or body part or a disturbance in the functioning of a social group | Synonyms: disfunction |
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| ebon | (adjective) of a very dark black | Synonyms: ebony |
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| ebullition | (noun) an unrestrained expression of emotion | Synonyms: blowup, effusion, gush, outburst |
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| eburnation | (noun) a change that occurs in degenerative joint disease in which bone is converted into a dense smooth substance resembling ivory | - |
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| echelon | (noun) a diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset | - |
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| (noun) a body of troops arranged in a line | - |
| (noun) status in a society or organization | - |
| echolocation | (noun) determining the location of something by measuring the time it takes for an echo to return from it | Synonyms: echo sounding |
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| ectozoon | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoan, epizoan, epizoon |
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| edification | (noun) uplifting enlightenment | Synonyms: sophistication |
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| edition | (noun) something a little different from others of the same type | Synonyms: variant, variation, version |
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| (noun) an issue of a newspaper | - |
| (noun) the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published | - |
| (noun) all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time | - |
| education | (noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: didactics, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy, teaching |
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| (noun) the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university) | - |
| (noun) the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior) | Synonyms: breeding, training |
| (noun) knowledge acquired by learning and instruction | - |
| (noun) the gradual process of acquiring knowledge | - |
| effectuation | (noun) the act of implementing (providing a practical means for accomplishing something); carrying into effect | Synonyms: implementation |
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| effusion | (noun) flow under pressure | - |
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| (noun) an unrestrained expression of emotion | Synonyms: blowup, ebullition, gush, outburst |
| egression | (noun) the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent | Synonyms: egress, emergence |
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| ejaculation | (noun) an abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion | Synonyms: interjection |
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| (noun) the discharge of semen in males | - |
| ejection | (noun) the act of forcing out someone or something | Synonyms: exclusion, expulsion, riddance |
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| (noun) the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting | Synonyms: expulsion, forcing out, projection |
| elaboration | (noun) developing in intricate and painstaking detail | Synonyms: working out |
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| (noun) addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail | Synonyms: amplification |
| (noun) marked by elaborately complex detail | Synonyms: elaborateness, intricacy, involution |
| (noun) a discussion that provides additional information | Synonyms: enlargement, expansion |
| (noun) the result of improving something | Synonyms: refinement |
| elation | (noun) a feeling of joy and pride | Synonyms: high spirits, lightness |
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| (noun) an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression | - |
| election | (noun) the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice | - |
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| (noun) a vote to select the winner of a position or political office | - |
| (noun) the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists) | - |
| (noun) the status or fact of being elected | - |
| electrification | (noun) the activity of thrilling or markedly exciting some person or group | - |
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| (noun) the act of providing electricity | - |
| electrocution | (noun) killing by electric shock | - |
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| (noun) execution by electricity | Synonyms: burning |
| electrodeposition | (noun) the deposition of a substance on an electrode by the action of electricity (especially by electrolysis) | - |
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| electrolocation | (noun) The use of electroreception to locate surrounding objects. | - |
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| electron | (noun) an elementary particle with negative charge | Synonyms: negatron |
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| elevation | (noun) the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something | Synonyms: aggrandisement, aggrandizement |
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| (noun) drawing of an exterior of a structure | - |
| (noun) distance of something above a reference point (such as sea level) | - |
| (noun) (ballet) the height of a dancer's leap or jump | - |
| (noun) the event of something being raised upward | Synonyms: lift, raising |
| (noun) a raised or elevated geological formation | Synonyms: natural elevation |
| (noun) angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object) | Synonyms: ALT, altitude, EL |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
| elicitation | (noun) stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors | Synonyms: evocation, induction |
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| elimination | (noun) the murder of a competitor | Synonyms: liquidation |
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| (noun) the act of removing or getting rid of something | Synonyms: riddance |
| (noun) the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations | - |
| (noun) analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives | Synonyms: reasoning by elimination |
| (noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter | Synonyms: evacuation, excreting, excretion, voiding |
| elision | (noun) a deliberate act of omission | Synonyms: exception, exclusion |
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| (noun) omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next) | - |
| elocution | (noun) an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture | - |
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| elongation | (noun) the act of lengthening something | - |
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| (noun) an addition to the length of something | Synonyms: extension |
| (noun) the quality of being elongated | - |
| elucidation | (noun) an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding | Synonyms: clarification, illumination |
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| (noun) an act of explaining that serves to clear up and cast light on | - |
| elucubration | (noun) a written work produced by elucubrating. | - |
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| elusion | (noun) the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) | Synonyms: eluding, slip |
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| elution | (noun) the process of extracting one material from another by washing with a solvent to remove adsorbed material from an adsorbent (as in washing of loaded ion-exchange resins to remove captured ions); used to obtain uranium ions | - |
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| elytron | (noun) either of the horny front wings in beetles and some other insects which cover and protect the functional hind wings | Synonyms: wing case |
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| emaciation | (noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | Synonyms: boniness, bonyness, gauntness, maceration |
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| emanation | (noun) the act of emitting; causing to flow forth | Synonyms: emission |
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| (noun) (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost | Synonyms: procession, rise |
| (noun) something that is emitted or radiated (as a gas or an odor or a light, etc.) | - |