| execution | (noun) putting a condemned person to death | Synonyms: capital punishment, death penalty, executing |
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| (noun) unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being | Synonyms: murder, slaying |
| (noun) the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it | Synonyms: carrying into action, carrying out, performance |
| (noun) the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order | Synonyms: carrying out, implementation |
| (noun) a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out | Synonyms: writ of execution |
| (noun) (law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable | Synonyms: execution of instrument |
| (noun) (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer | Synonyms: instruction execution |
| exemplification | (noun) a representational or typifying form or model | Synonyms: typification |
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| (noun) showing by example | Synonyms: illustration |
| exemption | (noun) an act exempting someone | Synonyms: granting immunity, immunity |
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| (noun) a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of his status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.) | - |
| (noun) immunity from an obligation or duty | Synonyms: freedom |
| exenteration | (noun) surgical removal of the organs within a body cavity (as those of the pelvis) | - |
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| exertion | (noun) use of physical or mental energy; hard work | Synonyms: effort, elbow grease, sweat, travail |
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| exfoliation | (noun) a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin | Synonyms: scale, scurf |
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| (noun) the peeling off in flakes or scales of bark or dead skin | - |
| exhalation | (noun) the act of expelling air from the lungs | Synonyms: breathing out, expiration |
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| (noun) exhaled breath | Synonyms: halitus |
| exhaustion | (noun) the act of exhausting something entirely | - |
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| (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: debilitation, enervation, enfeeblement |
| (noun) extreme fatigue | - |
| exhibition | (noun) the act of exhibiting | - |
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| (noun) a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display | Synonyms: expo, exposition |
| exhilaration | (noun) the feeling of lively and cheerful joy | Synonyms: excitement |
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| exhortation | (noun) the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion | Synonyms: incitement |
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| (noun) a communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action | - |
| exhumation | (noun) the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried | Synonyms: digging up, disinterment |
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| exon | (noun) sequence of a gene's DNA that transcribes into protein structures | Synonyms: coding DNA |
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| exoneration | (noun) the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc. | Synonyms: vindication |
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| (noun) the condition of being relieved from blame or obligation | - |
| exoskeleton | (noun) the exterior protective or supporting structure or shell of many animals (especially invertebrates) including bony or horny parts such as nails or scales or hoofs | - |
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| expansion | (noun) the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope | Synonyms: enlargement |
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| (noun) adding information or detail | Synonyms: expanding upon |
| (noun) a discussion that provides additional information | Synonyms: elaboration, enlargement |
| (noun) a function expressed as a sum or product of terms | - |
| expatiation | (noun) a discussion (spoken or written) that enlarges on a topic or theme at length or in detail | - |
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| expatriation | (noun) the act of expelling a person from their native land | Synonyms: deportation, exile, transportation |
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| (noun) migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another) | Synonyms: emigration, out-migration |
| expectation | (noun) belief about (or mental picture of) the future | Synonyms: outlook, prospect |
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| (noun) the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values | Synonyms: arithmetic mean, expected value, first moment |
| (noun) the feeling that something is about to happen | - |
| (noun) anticipating with confidence of fulfillment | Synonyms: anticipation |
| expectoration | (noun) the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva) | Synonyms: spit, spitting |
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| (noun) the process of coughing up and spitting out | - |
| expedition | (noun) a journey organized for a particular purpose | - |
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| (noun) a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country | Synonyms: hostile expedition, military expedition |
| (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
| (noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch, expeditiousness |
| (noun) an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose | - |
| experimentation | (noun) the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation | Synonyms: experiment |
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| (noun) the testing of an idea | Synonyms: experiment |
| expiation | (noun) the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity) | Synonyms: atonement, propitiation |
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| (noun) compensation for a wrong | Synonyms: atonement, satisfaction |
| expiration | (noun) the act of expelling air from the lungs | Synonyms: breathing out, exhalation |
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| (noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, exit, going, loss, passing, release |
| (noun) a coming to an end of a contract period | Synonyms: expiry, termination |
| explanation | (noun) thought that makes something comprehensible | - |
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| (noun) a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc. | Synonyms: account |
| (noun) the act of explaining; making something plain or intelligible | - |
| explication | (noun) a detailed explanation of the meaning of something | - |
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| (noun) the act of making clear or removing obscurity from the meaning of a word or symbol or expression etc. | - |
| exploitation | (noun) the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful | Synonyms: development |
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| (noun) an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly) | Synonyms: using, victimisation, victimization |
| exploration | (noun) a careful systematic search | - |
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| (noun) to travel for the purpose of discovery | Synonyms: geographic expedition |
| (noun) a systematic consideration | - |
| explosion | (noun) the act of exploding or bursting | Synonyms: burst |
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| (noun) a golf shot from a bunker that typically moves sand as well as the golf ball | - |
| (noun) the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant | Synonyms: plosion |
| (noun) a sudden outburst | - |
| (noun) a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction | Synonyms: blowup, detonation |
| (noun) a sudden great increase | - |
| (noun) the noise caused by an explosion | - |
| exponentiation | (noun) the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power | Synonyms: involution |
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| exportation | (noun) the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country | Synonyms: exporting |
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| (noun) commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country | Synonyms: export |
| exposition | (noun) a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic | Synonyms: expounding |
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| (noun) an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse | - |
| (noun) (music) the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur | - |
| (noun) a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display | Synonyms: exhibition, expo |
| expostulation | (noun) the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest | Synonyms: objection, remonstrance, remonstration |
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| (noun) an exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof | - |
| expression | (noun) the act of forcing something out by squeezing or pressing | - |
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| (noun) the feelings expressed on a person's face | Synonyms: aspect, face, facial expression, look |
| (noun) a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations | Synonyms: locution, saying |
| (noun) the style of expressing yourself | Synonyms: formulation |
| (noun) expression without words | Synonyms: manifestation, reflection, reflexion |
| (noun) a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement | Synonyms: formula |
| (noun) the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions | Synonyms: verbal expression, verbalism |
| (noun) a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit | Synonyms: construction, grammatical construction |
| (noun) (genetics) the process of expressing a gene | - |
| expropriation | (noun) taking out of an owner's hands (especially taking property by public authority) | - |
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| expulsion | (noun) the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting | Synonyms: ejection, forcing out, projection |
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| (noun) the act of forcing out someone or something | Synonyms: ejection, exclusion, riddance |
| (noun) squeezing out by applying pressure | Synonyms: extrusion |
| expunction | (noun) deletion by an act of expunging or erasing | Synonyms: erasure, expunging |
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| expurgation | (noun) the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work | Synonyms: castration |
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| extemporisation | (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporization, improvisation |
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| extemporization | (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporisation, improvisation |
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| extension | (noun) an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students | Synonyms: extension service, university extension |
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| (noun) act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb | - |
| (noun) act of expanding in scope; making more widely available | - |
| (noun) an addition that extends a main building | Synonyms: annex, annexe, wing |
| (noun) an addition to the length of something | Synonyms: elongation |
| (noun) an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line | Synonyms: extension phone, telephone extension |
| (noun) amount or degree or range to which something extends | Synonyms: lengthiness, prolongation |
| (noun) the ability to raise the working leg high in the air | - |
| (noun) the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to | Synonyms: denotation, reference |
| (noun) a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename | Synonyms: file name extension, filename extension |
| (noun) the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions | Synonyms: propagation |
| (noun) a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt | - |
| extenuation | (noun) to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious | Synonyms: mitigation, palliation |
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| (noun) a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances | Synonyms: mitigation |
| exteriorisation | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorization, externalisation, externalization |
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| exteriorization | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, externalisation, externalization |
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| extermination | (noun) the act of exterminating | Synonyms: liquidation |
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| (noun) complete annihilation | Synonyms: extinction |
| externalisation | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, exteriorization, externalization |
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| (noun) attributing to outside causes | Synonyms: externalization |
| externalization | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, exteriorization, externalisation |
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| (noun) attributing to outside causes | Synonyms: externalisation |
| exteroception | (noun) sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body | - |
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| extinction | (noun) the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning | Synonyms: extinguishing, quenching |
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| (noun) a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus | Synonyms: experimental extinction |
| (noun) complete annihilation | Synonyms: extermination |
| (noun) the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation | - |
| (noun) no longer in existence | Synonyms: defunctness |
| (noun) no longer active; extinguished | - |
| extirpation | (noun) surgical removal of a body part or tissue | Synonyms: ablation, cutting out, excision |
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| (noun) the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence | Synonyms: deracination, excision |
| extortion | (noun) the felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence) | - |
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| (noun) unjust exaction (as by the misuse of authority) | - |
| (noun) an exorbitant charge | - |
| extraction | (noun) the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force) | - |
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| (noun) properties attributable to your ancestry | Synonyms: descent, origin |
| (noun) the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means | - |
| extradition | (noun) the surrender of an accused or convicted person by one state or country to another (usually under the provisions of a statute or treaty) | - |
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| extrapolation | (noun) (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function outside the range of known values | - |
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| (noun) an inference about the future (or about some hypothetical situation) based on known facts and observations | - |
| extravasation | (noun) the process of exuding or passing out of a vessel into surrounding tissues; said of blood or lymph or urine | - |
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| (noun) (of volcanoes) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed) | Synonyms: eructation, eruption |
| (noun) an extravasated liquid (blood or lymph or urine); the product of extravasation | - |
| extraversion | (noun) (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self | Synonyms: extroversion |
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| extrication | (noun) the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition | Synonyms: disentanglement, unsnarling, untangling |
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| extrospection | (noun) examination or observation of what is outside oneself, as opposed to introspection. | - |
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| extroversion | (noun) (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self | Synonyms: extraversion |
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| extrusion | (noun) squeezing out by applying pressure | Synonyms: expulsion |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
| exudation | (noun) the process of exuding; the slow escape of liquids from blood vessels through pores or breaks in the cell membranes | Synonyms: transudation |
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| (noun) a substance that oozes out from plant pores | Synonyms: exudate |
| exultation | (noun) the utterance of sounds expressing great joy | Synonyms: jubilation, rejoicing |
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| (noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: jubilance, jubilancy, jubilation |
| fabrication | (noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials | Synonyms: manufacture, manufacturing |
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| (noun) the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: assembly |
| (noun) writing in a fictional form | Synonyms: fictionalisation, fictionalization |
| (noun) the deliberate act of deviating from the truth | Synonyms: lying, prevarication |
| (noun) a deliberately false or improbable account | Synonyms: fable, fiction |
| facilitation | (noun) act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something | - |
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| (noun) (neurophysiology) phenomenon that occurs when two or more neural impulses that alone are not enough to trigger a response in a neuron combine to trigger an action potential | - |
| (noun) the condition of being made easy (or easier) | - |
| faction | (noun) a dissenting clique | Synonyms: sect |
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| (noun) a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue | Synonyms: cabal, camarilla, junto |
| factorisation | (noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression | Synonyms: factoring, factorization |
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| factorization | (noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression | Synonyms: factoring, factorisation |
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| falchion | (noun) a short broad slightly convex medieval sword with a sharp point | - |
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| falcon | (noun) diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight | - |
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| (verb) hunt with falcons | - |
| falsification | (noun) the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting | Synonyms: falsehood |
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| (noun) the act of determining that something is false | Synonyms: disproof, falsifying, refutal, refutation |
| (noun) a willful perversion of facts | Synonyms: misrepresentation |
| (noun) any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something | Synonyms: disproof, refutation |
| familiarisation | (noun) the experience of becoming familiar with something | Synonyms: familiarization |
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| familiarization | (noun) the experience of becoming familiar with something | Synonyms: familiarisation |
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| fanion | (noun) a small flag used by surveyors or soldiers to mark a position | - |
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| fasciculation | (noun) muscular twitching of contiguous groups of muscle fibers | - |
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| fascination | (noun) the capacity to attract intense interest | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual | Synonyms: captivation, enchantment, enthrallment |
| (noun) the state of being intensely interested (as by awe or terror) | Synonyms: captivation |
| fashion | (noun) characteristic or habitual practice | - |
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| (noun) consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode | - |
| (noun) how something is done or how it happens | Synonyms: manner, mode, style, way |
| (noun) the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior | - |
| (verb) make out of components (often in an improvising manner) | Synonyms: forge |
| fecundation | (noun) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | Synonyms: fertilisation, fertilization, impregnation |
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| (noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: dressing, fertilisation, fertilization |
| federalisation | (noun) the act of being put under federal control | Synonyms: federalization |
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| (noun) the state of being under federal control | Synonyms: federalization |
| federalization | (noun) the act of being put under federal control | Synonyms: federalisation |
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| (noun) the state of being under federal control | Synonyms: federalisation |
| federation | (noun) the act of constituting a political unity out of a number of separate states or colonies or provinces so that each member retains the management of its internal affairs | - |
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| (noun) a union of political organizations | Synonyms: confederacy, confederation |
| (noun) an organization formed by merging several groups or parties | - |
| felicitation | (noun) the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration | Synonyms: congratulation |
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| (noun) (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another | Synonyms: congratulation |
| fellation | (noun) oral stimulation of the penis | Synonyms: fellatio |
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| felon | (noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: criminal, crook, malefactor, outlaw |
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| (noun) a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail | Synonyms: whitlow |
| feminisation | (noun) the process of becoming feminized; the development of female characteristics (loss of facial hair or breast enlargement) in a male because of hormonal disorders or castration | Synonyms: feminization |
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| feminization | (noun) the process of becoming feminized; the development of female characteristics (loss of facial hair or breast enlargement) in a male because of hormonal disorders or castration | Synonyms: feminisation |
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| fenestration | (noun) surgical procedure that creates a new fenestra to the cochlea in order to restore hearing lost because of osteosclerosis | - |
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| (noun) the arrangement of windows in a building | - |
| fermentation | (noun) a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol | Synonyms: ferment, fermenting, zymolysis, zymosis |
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| (noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development | Synonyms: agitation, ferment, tempestuousness, unrest |
| fermion | (noun) any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle | - |
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| fertilisation | (noun) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | Synonyms: fecundation, fertilization, impregnation |
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| (noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: dressing, fecundation, fertilization |
| fertilization | (noun) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | Synonyms: fecundation, fertilisation, impregnation |
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| (noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: dressing, fecundation, fertilisation |
| festination | (noun) involuntary shortening of stride and quickening of gait that occurs in some diseases (e.g., Parkinson's disease) | - |
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| festoon | (noun) flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration | Synonyms: festoonery |
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| (noun) an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work | - |
| (noun) a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves | - |
| (verb) decorate with strings of flowers | - |
| fibrillation | (noun) act or process of forming fibrils | - |
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| (noun) muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination | - |
| fiction | (noun) a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact | - |
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| (noun) a deliberately false or improbable account | Synonyms: fable, fabrication |
| fictionalisation | (noun) writing in a fictional form | Synonyms: fabrication, fictionalization |
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| (noun) a literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction | Synonyms: fictionalization |
| fictionalization | (noun) writing in a fictional form | Synonyms: fabrication, fictionalisation |
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| (noun) a literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction | Synonyms: fictionalisation |
| figuration | (noun) decorating with a design | - |
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| (noun) representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory | - |
| filiation | (noun) inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline | Synonyms: ancestry, derivation, lineage |
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| (noun) the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors | Synonyms: descent, line of descent, lineage |
| filtration | (noun) the act of changing a fluid by passing it through a filter | - |
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| (noun) the process whereby fluids pass through a filter or a filtering medium | - |
| finalisation | (noun) the act of finalizing | Synonyms: finalization |
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