| chieftainship | (noun) the position of chieftain | Synonyms: chieftaincy |
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| chimneysweep | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweeper, sweep |
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| chimp | (noun) intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests | Synonyms: chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes |
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| chip | (noun) the act of chipping something | Synonyms: chipping, splintering |
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| (noun) (golf) a low running approach shot | Synonyms: chip shot |
| (noun) electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit | Synonyms: micro chip, microchip, microprocessor chip, silicon chip |
| (noun) a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling | Synonyms: poker chip |
| (noun) a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line | - |
| (noun) a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something | Synonyms: check |
| (noun) a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat | Synonyms: crisp, potato chip, Saratoga chip |
| (noun) a small fragment of something broken off from the whole | Synonyms: bit, flake, fleck, scrap |
| (noun) a piece of dried bovine dung | Synonyms: buffalo chip, cow chip, cow dung |
| (verb) break a small piece off from | Synonyms: break off, cut off, knap |
| (verb) break off (a piece from a whole) | Synonyms: break away, break off, chip off, come off |
| (verb) form by chipping | - |
| (verb) cut a nick into | Synonyms: nick |
| (verb) play a chip shot | - |
| chirp | (noun) a sharp sound made by small birds or insects | - |
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| (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: cheep, chirrup, peep |
| (verb) sing in modulation | Synonyms: tweedle |
| chirrup | (noun) a series of chirps | Synonyms: twitter |
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| (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: cheep, chirp, peep |
| chokedamp | (noun) the atmosphere in a mine following an explosion; high in carbon dioxide and incapable of supporting life | Synonyms: blackdamp |
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| chomp | (noun) the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws | Synonyms: bite |
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| (verb) chew noisily or vigorously | Synonyms: champ |
| chop | (noun) a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball | Synonyms: chop shot |
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| (noun) a grounder that bounces high in the air | Synonyms: chopper |
| (noun) a jaw | - |
| (noun) a small cut of meat including part of a rib | - |
| (noun) the irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind blowing in a direction opposite to the tide) | - |
| (verb) hit sharply | - |
| (verb) cut with a hacking tool | Synonyms: hack |
| (verb) cut into pieces with repeated blows | Synonyms: chop up |
| (verb) strike sharply, as in some sports | - |
| (verb) form or shape by chopping | - |
| (verb) move suddenly | - |
| chump | (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker |
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| citizenship | (noun) conduct as a citizen | - |
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| (noun) the status of a citizen with rights and duties | - |
| clamp | (noun) a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together | Synonyms: clinch |
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| (verb) impose or inflict forcefully | - |
| (verb) fasten or fix with a clamp | - |
| clap | (noun) a sudden very loud noise | Synonyms: bam, bang, blast, eruption |
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| (noun) a sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be repeated | Synonyms: clack |
| (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra | Synonyms: gonorrhea, gonorrhoea |
| (verb) clap one's hands together | Synonyms: spat |
| (verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval | Synonyms: acclaim, applaud, spat |
| (verb) strike together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise | - |
| (verb) strike with the flat of the hand; usually in a friendly way, as in encouragement or greeting | - |
| (verb) put quickly or forcibly | - |
| (verb) strike the air in flight | - |
| (verb) cause to strike the air in flight | - |
| claptrap | (noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing | Synonyms: blah, bombast, fustian, rant |
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| clasp | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, grip, hold |
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| (noun) a fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together | - |
| (verb) hold firmly and tightly | - |
| (verb) grasp firmly | - |
| (verb) fasten with a buckle or buckles | Synonyms: buckle |
| (verb) fasten with or as if with a brooch | Synonyms: brooch |
| cleanup | (noun) the act of making something clean | Synonyms: cleaning, cleansing |
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| (noun) (baseball) the fourth position in the batting order (usually filled by the best batter on the team) | Synonyms: cleanup position, cleanup spot |
| (noun) a very large profit | Synonyms: killing |
| cleistocarp | (noun) closed spore-bearing structure of some fungi (especially Aspergillaceae and Erysiphaceae) from which spores are released only by decay or disintegration | Synonyms: cleistothecium |
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| clerkship | (noun) the job of clerk | - |
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| clip | (noun) the act of clipping or snipping | Synonyms: clipping, snip |
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| (noun) a sharp slanting blow | - |
| (noun) a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun | Synonyms: cartridge clip, cartridge holder, magazine |
| (noun) any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together | - |
| (noun) an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress | - |
| (noun) an instance or single occasion for some event | Synonyms: time |
| (verb) terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent | Synonyms: curtail, cut short |
| (verb) attach with a clip | - |
| (verb) sever or remove by pinching or snipping | Synonyms: nip, nip off, snip, snip off |
| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: crop, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip, trim |
| (verb) run at a moderately swift pace | Synonyms: jog, trot |
| clomp | (verb) walk clumsily | Synonyms: clump |
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| clop | (noun) the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | Synonyms: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clopping, clumping, clunking |
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| (verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clump, clunk, plunk |
| closeup | (noun) a photograph taken at close range | - |
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| clump | (noun) a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) | Synonyms: clunk, thud, thump, thumping |
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| (noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: bunch, cluster, clustering |
| (noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: ball, chunk, clod, glob, lump |
| (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, bundle, cluster |
| (verb) walk clumsily | Synonyms: clomp |
| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: cluster, constellate, flock |
| (verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clop, clunk, plunk |
| coachwhip | (noun) a whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico; tail resembles a braided whip | Synonyms: coachwhip snake, Masticophis flagellum |
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| (noun) desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers | Synonyms: Fouquieria splendens, Jacob's staff, ocotillo, vine cactus |
| cockup | (noun) something badly botched or muddled | Synonyms: balls-up, ballup, mess-up |
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| codswallop | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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| commandership | (noun) the position or office of commander | Synonyms: commandery |
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| comp | (noun) an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge | Synonyms: comprehensive, comprehensive examination |
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| companionship | (noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: company, fellowship, society |
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| comptrollership | (noun) the position of comptroller | - |
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| comradeship | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: camaraderie, chumminess, comradeliness, comradery |
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| connoisseurship | (noun) love of or taste for fine objects of art | Synonyms: vertu, virtu |
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| consulship | (noun) the post of consul | - |
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| containership | (noun) a cargo ship designed to hold containerized cargoes | Synonyms: container ship, container vessel |
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| controllership | (noun) the position of controller | - |
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| coop | (noun) an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept | Synonyms: cage |
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| (noun) a farm building for housing poultry | Synonyms: chicken coop, hencoop, henhouse |
| cop | (noun) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman | Synonyms: bull, copper, fuzz, pig |
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| (verb) take into custody | Synonyms: apprehend, arrest, collar, nab, nail, pick up |
| (verb) take by theft | Synonyms: glom, hook, knock off, snitch, thieve |
| copartnership | (noun) a partnership in which employees get a share of the profits in addition to their wages | - |
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| corbiestep | (noun) (architecture) a step on the top of a gable wall | Synonyms: corbel step, corbie-step, crow step |
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| corp | (noun) a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state | Synonyms: corporation |
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| councillorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councilorship |
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| councilorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councillorship |
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| counsellorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counselorship |
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| counselorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counsellorship |
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| countercoup | (noun) a sudden and decisive overthrow of a government that gained power by a coup d'etat | - |
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| countertop | (noun) the top side of a counter | - |
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| coup | (noun) a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force | Synonyms: coup d'etat, putsch, takeover |
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| (noun) a brilliant and notable success | - |
| courtship | (noun) a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage) | Synonyms: courting, suit, wooing |
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| cowslip | (noun) early spring flower common in British isles having fragrant yellow or sometimes purple flowers | Synonyms: paigle, Primula veris |
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| (noun) swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups | Synonyms: Caltha palustris, kingcup, marsh marigold, May blob, meadow bright, water dragon |
| craftsmanship | (noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craft, workmanship |
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| cramp | (noun) a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together | Synonyms: cramp iron |
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| (noun) a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued | - |
| (noun) a painful and involuntary muscular contraction | Synonyms: muscle spasm, spasm |
| (verb) suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle | - |
| (verb) affect with or as if with a cramp | - |
| (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: halter, hamper, strangle |
| (verb) secure with a cramp | - |
| crap | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, dogshit, horseshit, Irish bull, shit |
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| (noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: dirt, poop, shit, shite, turd |
| (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, defecate, make, shit, stool, take a crap, take a shit |
| creep | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, crawling, creeping |
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| (noun) a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot | - |
| (noun) a slow longitudinal movement or deformation | - |
| (noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: spook, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy |
| (verb) move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground | Synonyms: crawl |
| (verb) to go stealthily or furtively | Synonyms: mouse, pussyfoot, sneak |
| (verb) grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface) | - |
| (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, cringe, fawn, grovel |
| crimp | (noun) a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled | - |
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| (noun) someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers | Synonyms: crimper |
| (noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crease, flexure, fold, plication |
| (verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, frizz, frizzle, kink, kink up |
| (verb) make ridges into by pinching together | Synonyms: pinch |
| crisp | (adjective) pleasantly cold and invigorating | Synonyms: frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy |
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| (adjective) brief and to the point; effectively cut short | Synonyms: curt, laconic, terse |
| (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: frizzly, frizzy, kinky, nappy |
| (adjective) (of something seen or heard) clearly defined | Synonyms: sharp |
| (adjective) pleasingly firm and fresh | - |
| (adjective) tender and brittle | Synonyms: crispy |
| (noun) a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat | Synonyms: chip, potato chip, Saratoga chip |
| (verb) make brown and crisp by heating | Synonyms: crispen, toast |
| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
| crop | (noun) a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food | Synonyms: craw |
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| (noun) the stock or handle of a whip | - |
| (noun) the output of something in a season | - |
| (noun) a collection of people or things appearing together | - |
| (noun) the yield from plants in a single growing season | Synonyms: harvest |
| (noun) a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale | - |
| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip, trim |
| (verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: browse, graze, pasture, range |
| (verb) cut short | - |
| (verb) let feed in a field or pasture or meadow | Synonyms: graze, pasture |
| (verb) yield crops | - |
| (verb) prepare for crops | Synonyms: cultivate, work |
| croup | (noun) the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | Synonyms: croupe, hindquarters, rump |
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| (noun) a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing | Synonyms: spasmodic laryngitis |
| crump | (verb) explode heavily or with a loud dull noise | - |
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| (verb) bombard with heavy shells | - |
| (verb) make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants | Synonyms: scrunch, thud |
| cup | (noun) a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle | - |
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| (noun) a large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition | Synonyms: loving cup |
| (noun) the hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green | - |
| (noun) a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl | - |
| (noun) cup-shaped plant organ | - |
| (noun) the quantity a cup will hold | Synonyms: cupful |
| (noun) a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces | - |
| (noun) any cup-shaped concavity | - |
| (verb) treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin | Synonyms: transfuse |
| (verb) form into the shape of a cup | - |
| (verb) put into a cup | - |
| curatorship | (noun) the position of curator | - |
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| cusp | (noun) point formed by two intersecting arcs (as from the intrados of a Gothic arch) | - |
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| (noun) small elevation on the grinding surface of a tooth | - |
| (noun) a thin triangular flap of a heart valve | Synonyms: leaflet |
| custodianship | (noun) the position of custodian | - |
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| damp | (adjective) slightly wet | Synonyms: dampish, moist |
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| (noun) a slight wetness | Synonyms: dampness, moistness |
| (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, dampen, soften, weaken |
| (verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: dampen, deaden |
| (verb) restrain or discourage | - |
| (verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: dampen, dull, muffle, mute, tone down |
| dealership | (noun) a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area | Synonyms: franchise |
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| deanship | (noun) the position or office of a dean | Synonyms: deanery |
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| deathtrap | (noun) any structure that is very unsafe; where people are likely to be killed | - |
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| decamp | (verb) leave suddenly | Synonyms: skip, vamoose |
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| (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, absquatulate, bolt, go off, make off, run off |
| (verb) leave a camp | Synonyms: break camp |
| deep | (adjective) having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply | - |
| (adjective) exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy | - |
| (adjective) strong; intense | Synonyms: rich |
| (adjective) very distant in time or space | - |
| (adjective) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge | Synonyms: abstruse, recondite |
| (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying |
| (adjective) intense or extreme | - |
| (adjective) large in quantity or size | - |
| (adjective) with head or back bent low | - |
| (adjective) having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range | Synonyms: bass |
| (adjective) marked by depth of thinking | - |
| (adjective) relatively thick from top to bottom | - |
| (adjective) extending relatively far inward | - |
| (adjective) (of darkness) densely dark | Synonyms: thick |
| (noun) a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor | Synonyms: oceanic abyss, trench |
| (noun) literary term for an ocean | - |
| (noun) the central and most intense or profound part | - |
| (adverb) to a great depth; far down or in | Synonyms: deeply |
| (adverb) to an advanced time | Synonyms: late |
| (adverb) to a great distance | - |
| derp | (adjective) appearing silly or stupid especially in a cute manner | - |
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| (noun) someone who is silly or stupid especially when seeming cute | - |
| (adverb) reacting to a stupid but cute action | - |
| desktop | (noun) (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear | Synonyms: background, screen background |
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| (noun) the top of a desk | - |
| develop | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: acquire, get, grow, produce |
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| (verb) grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment | - |
| (verb) cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development | Synonyms: make grow |
| (verb) happen | Synonyms: break, recrudesce |
| (verb) change the use of and make available or usable | Synonyms: build up |
| (verb) be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest | - |
| (verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: acquire, evolve |
| (verb) become technologically advanced | Synonyms: modernise, modernize |
| (verb) grow emotionally or mature | Synonyms: grow |
| (verb) expand in the form of a series | - |
| (verb) elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme | - |
| (verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: educate, prepare, train |
| (verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | Synonyms: explicate, formulate |
| (verb) move into a strategically more advantageous position | - |
| (verb) move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions | - |
| (verb) superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry | - |
| (verb) work out | Synonyms: evolve, germinate |
| (verb) make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation | - |
| (verb) generate gradually | - |
| (verb) make visible by means of chemical solutions | - |
| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, grow, originate, rise, spring up, uprise |
| dewdrop | (noun) a drop of dew | - |
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| dewlap | (noun) a hanging fold of loose skin on an elderly person's neck | - |
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| dictatorship | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| dip | (noun) a brief swim in water | Synonyms: plunge |
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| (noun) a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms | - |
| (noun) a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow | - |
| (noun) a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity | Synonyms: drop, fall, free fall |
| (noun) a brief immersion | - |
| (noun) tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped | - |
| (noun) a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places | Synonyms: cutpurse, pickpocket |
| (noun) (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon | Synonyms: angle of dip, inclination, magnetic dip, magnetic inclination |
| (noun) a depression in an otherwise level surface | - |
| (verb) stain an object by immersing it in a liquid | - |
| (verb) go down momentarily | - |
| (verb) dip into a liquid while eating | Synonyms: dunk |
| (verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: douse, dunk, plunge, souse |
| (verb) plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container | - |
| (verb) immerse in a disinfectant solution | - |
| (verb) scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface | - |
| (verb) place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax | - |
| (verb) dip into a liquid | Synonyms: douse, duck |
| (verb) appear to move downward | Synonyms: sink |
| (verb) slope downwards | - |
| (verb) lower briefly | - |
| (verb) switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam | Synonyms: dim |
| (verb) take a small amount from | - |
| dipterocarp | (noun) tree of the family Dipterocarpaceae | - |
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| directorship | (noun) the position of a director of a business concern | - |
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| discerp | (verb) divide into pieces | Synonyms: dismember, take apart |
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| (verb) cut off from a whole | Synonyms: lop, sever |
| discipleship | (noun) the position of disciple | - |
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| dollop | (noun) a small measure (usually of food) | - |
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| doorstep | (noun) the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway | Synonyms: doorsill, threshold |
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| doorstop | (noun) a stop that keeps open doors from moving | Synonyms: doorstopper |
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| draftsmanship | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: drafting, drawing |
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| drip | (noun) (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway) | Synonyms: drip mold, drip mould |
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| (noun) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid | Synonyms: dribble, trickle |
| (noun) the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop | Synonyms: dripping |
| (verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: dribble, drop |
| (verb) fall in drops | - |
| droop | (noun) a shape that sags | Synonyms: sag |
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| (verb) become limp | Synonyms: wilt |
| (verb) droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness | Synonyms: flag, sag, swag |
| (verb) hang loosely or laxly | Synonyms: loll |
| drop | (noun) the act of dropping something | - |
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| (noun) a central depository where things can be left or picked up | - |
| (noun) a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery | Synonyms: drop cloth, drop curtain |
| (noun) a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity | Synonyms: dip, fall, free fall |
| (noun) a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity | Synonyms: fall |
| (noun) a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property) | - |
| (noun) a steep high face of rock | Synonyms: cliff, drop-off |
| (noun) a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid) | Synonyms: drib, driblet |
| (noun) a shape that is spherical and small | Synonyms: bead, pearl |
| (verb) give birth; used for animals | - |
| (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: degenerate, deteriorate, devolve |
| (verb) go down in value | - |
| (verb) stop pursuing or acting | Synonyms: knock off |
| (verb) change from one level to another | - |
| (verb) lower the pitch of (musical notes) | Synonyms: flatten |
| (verb) fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death | - |
| (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
| (verb) omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing | - |
| (verb) utter with seeming casualness | - |
| (verb) lose (a game) | - |
| (verb) take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth | - |
| (verb) remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave | Synonyms: discharge, drop off, put down, set down, unload |
| (verb) to remove | Synonyms: cast, cast off, shake off, shed, throw, throw away, throw off |
| (verb) cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow | Synonyms: cut down, fell, strike down |
| (verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: dribble, drip |
| (verb) to fall vertically | - |
| (verb) let fall to the ground | - |
| (verb) fall or descend to a lower place or level | Synonyms: drop down, sink |
| (verb) pay out | Synonyms: expend, spend |
| (verb) stop associating with | Synonyms: dismiss, send away, send packing |
| (verb) terminate an association with | - |
| (verb) hang loosely | Synonyms: dangle, swing |
| dubstep | (noun) A genre of electronic music descended from 2-step garage, characterised by its dark mood, sparse, half-step and two-step rhythms, an average bpm of 140 and an emphasis on sub-bass. | - |
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| dump | (noun) a place where supplies can be stored | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs | - |
| (noun) a piece of land where waste materials are dumped | Synonyms: dumpsite, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, waste-yard, wasteyard |
| (noun) a coarse term for defecation | Synonyms: shit |
| (verb) knock down with force | Synonyms: coldcock, deck, floor, knock down |
| (verb) drop (stuff) in a heap or mass | - |
| (verb) fall abruptly | Synonyms: plunge |
| (verb) throw away as refuse | - |
| (verb) sell at artificially low prices | Synonyms: underprice |
| (verb) sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly | Synonyms: ditch |
| dustmop | (noun) a dry swab for dusting floors | Synonyms: dry mop, dust mop |
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| dustup | (noun) an angry dispute | Synonyms: quarrel, row, run-in, words, wrangle |
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| eardrop | (noun) an earring with a pendant ornament | Synonyms: drop earring, pendant earring |
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| earflap | (noun) one of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm | Synonyms: earlap |
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| earlap | (noun) one of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm | Synonyms: earflap |
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| eavesdrop | (verb) listen without the speaker's knowledge | Synonyms: listen in |
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| editorship | (noun) the position of editor | - |
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| eggcup | (noun) dishware consisting of a small cup for serving a boiled egg | Synonyms: egg cup |
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| egotrip | (verb) act in a way that attracts attention | - |
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| eldership | (noun) the office of elder | - |
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| electrosleep | (noun) unconsciousness brought about by the passage of a low voltage electric current through the brain | - |
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| encamp | (verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camp, camp out, tent |
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