telethermometer | (noun) a thermometer that registers the temperature at some distant point | - |
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teletypewriter | (noun) a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter | Synonyms: teleprinter, teletype machine, telex, telex machine |
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tempter | (noun) a person who tempts others | - |
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tensimeter | (noun) a manometer for measuring vapor pressure | - |
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tensiometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the surface tension of a liquid | - |
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(noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the tension in a wire or fiber or beam | - |
(noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the moisture content of soil | - |
tenter | (noun) a framework with hooks used for stretching and drying cloth | - |
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tester | (noun) a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed) | - |
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(noun) someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications | Synonyms: examiner, quizzer |
tetrameter | (noun) a verse line having four metrical feet | - |
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theater | (noun) a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented | Synonyms: house, theatre |
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(noun) the art of writing and producing plays | Synonyms: dramatic art, dramatics, dramaturgy, theatre |
(noun) a region in which active military operations are in progress | Synonyms: field, field of operations, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations |
thereafter | (adverb) from that time on | Synonyms: thenceforth |
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thereinafter | (adverb) in the following part of a given matter, as in a document or speech | - |
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thermogravimeter | (noun) a hydrometer that includes a thermometer | Synonyms: thermohydrometer |
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thermohydrometer | (noun) a hydrometer that includes a thermometer | Synonyms: thermogravimeter |
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thermometer | (noun) measuring instrument for measuring temperature | - |
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thirster | (noun) a person with a strong desire for something | Synonyms: longer, yearner |
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throwster | (noun) a person who twists silk or rayon filaments into a thread or yarn | Synonyms: thrower |
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thruster | (noun) a small rocket engine that provides the thrust needed to maneuver a spacecraft | - |
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(noun) one who intrudes or pushes himself forward | Synonyms: pusher |
thwarter | (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructionist, obstructor, resister |
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thysanopter | (noun) an insect of the order Thysanoptera | Synonyms: thysanopteron, thysanopterous insect |
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tidewater | (noun) low-lying coastal land drained by tidal streams | - |
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tilter | (noun) a device for emptying a cask by tilting it without disturbing the dregs | - |
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(noun) someone who engages in a tilt or joust | - |
tinter | (noun) a hairdresser who tints hair | - |
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tintometer | (noun) a measuring instrument used in colorimetric analysis to determine the quantity of a substance from the color it yields with specific reagents | Synonyms: colorimeter |
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tipster | (noun) one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack) | Synonyms: tout |
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titer | (noun) the concentration of a solution as determined by titration | Synonyms: titre |
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titter | (noun) a nervous restrained laugh | - |
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(verb) laugh nervously | Synonyms: giggle |
toaster | (noun) a kitchen appliance (usually electric) for toasting bread | - |
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(noun) someone who who drinks to the health of someone or the success of some venture | Synonyms: wassailer |
toastmaster | (noun) the person who proposes toasts and introduces speakers at a banquet | Synonyms: symposiarch |
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tonometer | (noun) measuring instrument for measuring tension or pressure (especially for measuring intraocular pressure in testing for glaucoma) | - |
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tormenter | (noun) a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings | Synonyms: teaser, tormentor |
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(noun) someone who torments | Synonyms: persecutor, tormentor |
toter | (noun) someone whose employment involves carrying something | Synonyms: bearer, carrier |
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totter | (verb) move unsteadily, with a rocking motion | Synonyms: seesaw, teeter |
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(verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, paddle, toddle, waddle |
(verb) move without being stable, as if threatening to fall | - |
touter | (noun) someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way | Synonyms: tout |
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trainmaster | (noun) a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard | Synonyms: train dispatcher, yardmaster |
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transmitter | (noun) set used to broadcast radio or tv signals | Synonyms: sender |
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(noun) any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease | Synonyms: vector |
(noun) someone who transmits a message | Synonyms: sender |
transplanter | (noun) a gardener who moves plants to new locations | - |
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transporter | (noun) a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory) | Synonyms: conveyer, conveyer belt, conveyor, conveyor belt |
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(noun) a crane for moving material with dispatch as in loading and unloading ships | - |
(noun) a long truck for carrying motor vehicles | Synonyms: car transporter |
trapshooter | (noun) a person who engages in shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled into the air by a trap | - |
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treater | (noun) someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) | Synonyms: negotiant, negotiator |
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trickster | (noun) someone who plays practical jokes on others | Synonyms: cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, prankster, tricker |
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(noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker |
(noun) a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts | - |
trimester | (noun) a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided | - |
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(noun) one of three divisions of an academic year | - |
trochanter | (noun) one of the bony prominences developed near the upper extremity of the femur to which muscles are attached | - |
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trotter | (noun) a horse trained to trot; especially a horse trained for harness racing | Synonyms: trotting horse |
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(noun) foot of a pig or sheep especially one used as food | - |
troubleshooter | (noun) a worker whose job is to locate and fix sources of trouble (especially in mechanical devices) | Synonyms: trouble shooter |
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trumpeter | (noun) large gregarious crane-like bird of the forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated | - |
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(noun) large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry | Synonyms: Cygnus buccinator, trumpeter swan |
(noun) a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet | Synonyms: cornetist |
(noun) (formal) a person who announces important news | Synonyms: herald |
trustbuster | (noun) a federal agent who engages in trust busting | - |
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truster | (noun) a supporter who accepts something as true | Synonyms: believer |
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tweeter | (noun) a loudspeaker that reproduces higher audio frequency sounds | - |
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twister | (noun) small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts | Synonyms: cruller |
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(noun) a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground | Synonyms: tornado |
twitter | (noun) a series of chirps | Synonyms: chirrup |
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(verb) make high-pitched sounds, as of birds | Synonyms: chitter |
typesetter | (noun) one who sets written material into type | Synonyms: compositor, setter, typographer |
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typewriter | (noun) hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time | - |
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udometer | (noun) gauge consisting of an instrument to measure the quantity of precipitation | Synonyms: pluviometer, rain gage, rain gauge |
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ulster | (noun) loose long overcoat of heavy fabric; usually belted | - |
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unbitter | (adjective) having or showing no resentment or desire for revenge | - |
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unclutter | (verb) rid of obstructions | Synonyms: clear |
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underwater | (adjective) growing or remaining under water | Synonyms: subaquatic, subaqueous, submerged, submersed |
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(adjective) beneath the surface of the water | Synonyms: submerged, submersed |
underwriter | (noun) a financial institution that sells insurance | Synonyms: insurance company, insurance firm, insurance underwriter, insurer |
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(noun) a banker who deals chiefly in underwriting new securities | Synonyms: investment banker |
(noun) an agent who sells insurance | Synonyms: general agent, insurance agent, insurance broker |
upholster | (verb) provide furniture with padding, springs, webbing, and covers | - |
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uprooter | (noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: destroyer, ruiner, undoer, waster |
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upsetter | (noun) an unexpected winner; someone who defeats the favorite competitor | - |
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ureter | (noun) either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder | - |
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utter | (adjective) complete and absolute | Synonyms: blank |
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(adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated |
(verb) express in speech | Synonyms: mouth, speak, talk, verbalise, verbalize |
(verb) articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise | Synonyms: express, give tongue to, verbalise, verbalize |
(verb) express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words) | Synonyms: emit, let loose, let out |
(verb) put into circulation | - |
variometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring variations in a magnetic field | - |
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vaulter | (noun) an athlete who jumps over a high crossbar with the aid of a long pole | Synonyms: pole jumper, pole vaulter |
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vaunter | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, boaster, braggart, bragger, line-shooter |
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venter | (noun) the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis | Synonyms: abdomen, belly, stomach |
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(noun) a bulging body part (as the belly of a muscle) | - |
(noun) the womb | - |
(noun) a speaker who expresses or gives vent to a personal opinion or grievance | - |
viscometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring viscosity | Synonyms: viscosimeter |
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viscosimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring viscosity | Synonyms: viscometer |
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voltmeter | (noun) meter that measures the potential difference between two points | - |
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volumeter | (noun) a meter to measure the volume of gases, liquids, or solids (either directly or by displacement) | - |
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vomiter | (noun) a person who vomits | Synonyms: spewer |
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voter | (noun) a citizen who has a legal right to vote | Synonyms: elector |
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waiter | (noun) a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant) | Synonyms: server |
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(noun) a person who waits or awaits | - |
waldmeister | (noun) fragrant dark green leaves used to flavor May wine | Synonyms: sweet woodruff |
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(noun) Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula | Synonyms: Asperula odorata, fragrant bedstraw, Galium odoratum, sweet woodruff, woodruff |
wanter | (noun) a person who wants or needs something | Synonyms: needer |
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warranter | (noun) one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another | Synonyms: guarantor, surety, warrantor |
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waster | (noun) someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently | Synonyms: wastrel |
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(noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: destroyer, ruiner, undoer, uprooter |
wastewater | (noun) water mixed with waste matter | Synonyms: effluent, sewer water |
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water | (noun) a facility that provides a source of water | Synonyms: water supply, water system |
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(noun) a liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants | - |
(noun) the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean) | Synonyms: body of water |
(noun) binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent | Synonyms: H2O |
(noun) liquid excretory product | Synonyms: pee, piddle, piss, urine, weewee |
(noun) once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour phlegm | - |
(verb) secrete or form water, as tears or saliva | - |
(verb) supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams | Synonyms: irrigate |
(verb) fill with tears | - |
(verb) provide with water | - |
wattmeter | (noun) an instrument for measuring in watts the flow of power in an electrical circuit | - |
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webmaster | (noun) a technician who designs or maintains a website | - |
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weightlifter | (noun) an athlete who lifts barbells | Synonyms: lifter |
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welter | (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother |
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(verb) be immersed in | - |
(verb) roll around | Synonyms: wallow |
(verb) toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way | - |
wester | (noun) wind that blows from west to east | Synonyms: west wind |
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wetter | (noun) a workman who wets the work in a manufacturing process | - |
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(noun) someone suffering from enuresis; someone who urinates while asleep in bed | Synonyms: bed wetter, bedwetter |
(noun) a chemical agent capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved | Synonyms: surface-active agent, surfactant, wetting agent |
whitewater | (noun) frothy water as in rapids or waterfalls | Synonyms: white water |
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whoremaster | (noun) a pimp who procures whores | Synonyms: whoremonger |
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(noun) a prostitute's customer | Synonyms: john, trick, whoremonger |
wildcatter | (noun) an oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not known to be an oil field | - |
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windcheater | (noun) a kind of heavy jacket | Synonyms: anorak, parka, windbreaker |
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winter | (noun) the coldest season of the year; in the Northern Hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox | Synonyms: wintertime |
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(verb) spend the winter | Synonyms: overwinter |
woodcutter | (noun) cuts down trees and chops wood as a job | - |
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woolsorter | (noun) a person who sorts wool into different grades | Synonyms: wool stapler |
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wrester | (noun) someone who obtains something by pulling it violently with twisting movements | - |
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writer | (noun) writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) | Synonyms: author |
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(noun) a person who is able to write and has written something | - |
xylometer | (noun) an instrument used to determine the specific gravity of wood | - |
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yardmaster | (noun) a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard | Synonyms: train dispatcher, trainmaster |
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youngster | (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke |
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zoster | (noun) eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia | Synonyms: herpes zoster, shingles |
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