| amidships | (adverb) at or near or toward the center of a ship | Synonyms: amidship, midships |
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| anomalops | (noun) fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico | Synonyms: flashlight fish |
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| biceps | (noun) any skeletal muscle having two origins (but especially the muscle that flexes the forearm) | - |
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| bps | (noun) (computer science) the rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem) | Synonyms: bits per second |
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| chips | (noun) strips of potato fried in deep fat | Synonyms: french-fried potatoes, french fries, fries |
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| contretemps | (noun) an awkward clash | - |
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| corps | (noun) an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support | Synonyms: army corps |
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| (noun) a body of people associated together | - |
| cps | (noun) the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz) | Synonyms: cycle, cycle per second, cycles/second, hertz, Hz |
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| craps | (noun) a gambling game played with two dice; a first throw of 7 or 11 wins and a first throw of 2, 3, or 12 loses and a first throw of any other number must be repeated to win before a 7 is thrown, which loses the bet and the dice | - |
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| (noun) expressions used when two dice are thrown and both come up showing one spot | Synonyms: snake eyes |
| creamcups | (noun) California plant with small pale yellow flowers | Synonyms: Platystemon californicus |
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| creeps | (noun) a feeling of fear and revulsion | - |
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| (noun) a disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait | - |
| cyclops | (noun) minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms | Synonyms: water flea |
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| dumps | (noun) an informal expression for a mildly depressed state | Synonyms: mopes |
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| flaps | (noun) a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag | Synonyms: flap |
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| forceps | (noun) an extractor consisting of a pair of pincers used in medical treatment (especially for the delivery of babies) | - |
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| gramps | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: grandad, granddad, granddaddy, grandfather, grandpa |
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| heaps | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| (adverb) very much | - |
| hoops | (noun) a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop | Synonyms: basketball, basketball game |
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| hops | (noun) twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer | Synonyms: hop |
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| hydrops | (noun) swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities | Synonyms: dropsy, edema, oedema |
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| lithops | (noun) any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones | Synonyms: flowering stone, living stone, stone-face, stone life face, stone plant, stoneface |
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| midships | (adverb) at or near or toward the center of a ship | Synonyms: amidship, amidships |
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| mumps | (noun) an acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands | Synonyms: epidemic parotitis |
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| paratroops | (noun) infantry trained and equipped to parachute | - |
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| perhaps | (adverb) by chance | Synonyms: maybe, mayhap, peradventure, perchance, possibly |
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| props | (noun) proper respect | - |
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| protoceratops | (noun) small horned dinosaur | - |
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| quadriceps | (noun) a muscle of the thigh that extends the leg | Synonyms: musculus quadriceps femoris, quad, quadriceps femoris |
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| rollmops | (noun) a pickled herring filet that has been rolled or wrapped around a pickle | - |
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| schnapps | (noun) any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes | Synonyms: schnaps |
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| schnaps | (noun) any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes | Synonyms: schnapps |
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| scraps | (noun) food that is discarded (as from a kitchen) | Synonyms: food waste, garbage, refuse |
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| slops | (noun) cheap clothing (as formerly issued to sailors in Britain) | - |
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| (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigswill, pigwash, slop, swill |
| snips | (noun) (plural) hand shears for cutting sheet metal | Synonyms: tinsnips |
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| sops | (noun) piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid | Synonyms: sop |
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| steps | (noun) a flight of stairs or a flight of steps | Synonyms: stairs |
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| (noun) the course along which a person has walked or is walking in | - |
| stops | (noun) a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card | Synonyms: boodle, Chicago, Michigan, Newmarket |
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| sundrops | (noun) a day-flowering biennial or perennial of the genus Oenothera | Synonyms: Oenothera fruticosa |
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| taps | (noun) (military) signal to turn the lights out | Synonyms: lights-out |
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| thrips | (noun) any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive | Synonyms: thrip, thripid |
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| tidytips | (noun) California annual having flower heads with yellow rays tipped with white | Synonyms: Layia platyglossa, tidy tips |
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| tinsnips | (noun) (plural) hand shears for cutting sheet metal | Synonyms: snips |
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| tops | (adjective) of the highest quality | Synonyms: A-one, ace, crack, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch |
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| triceps | (noun) any skeletal muscle having three origins (but especially the triceps brachii) | - |
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| triceratops | (noun) huge ceratopsian dinosaur having three horns and the neck heavily armored with a very solid frill | - |
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| troops | (noun) soldiers collectively | Synonyms: military personnel, soldiery |
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| turps | (noun) volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally | Synonyms: oil of turpentine, spirit of turpentine, turpentine |
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| yips | (noun) nervous tension that causes an athlete to fail (especially causes golfers to miss short putts) | - |
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