| adultery | (noun) extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations | Synonyms: criminal conversation, fornication |
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| artery | (noun) a major thoroughfare that bears important traffic | - |
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| (noun) a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body | Synonyms: arteria, arterial blood vessel |
| baptistery | (noun) bowl for baptismal water | Synonyms: baptismal font, baptistry, font |
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| battery | (noun) an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact | Synonyms: assault and battery |
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| (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, bombardment, shelling |
| (noun) a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series | Synonyms: electric battery |
| (noun) a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores | Synonyms: stamp battery |
| (noun) a collection of related things intended for use together | - |
| (noun) group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place | - |
| (noun) a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher | - |
| blistery | (adjective) hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters | Synonyms: blistering |
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| (adjective) covered with small blisters | Synonyms: blebby |
| blustery | (adjective) noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others | Synonyms: bullying |
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| (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blustering, blusterous |
| buttery | (adjective) resembling or containing or spread with butter | - |
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| (adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
| (noun) a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals | - |
| (noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | Synonyms: larder, pantry |
| cautery | (noun) the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing | Synonyms: cauterisation, cauterization |
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| (noun) an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (e.g., removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it | Synonyms: cauterant |
| cemetery | (noun) a tract of land used for burials | Synonyms: burial ground, burial site, burying ground, graveyard, memorial park, necropolis |
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| clattery | (adjective) a rattling sound as of hard things striking together | - |
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| cryocautery | (noun) application of a substance that destroys tissue by freezing it | - |
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| (noun) an instrument for destroying tissue by freezing it | - |
| dysentery | (noun) an infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea | - |
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| eatery | (noun) a building where people go to eat | Synonyms: eating house, eating place, restaurant |
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| effrontery | (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: assumption, presumption, presumptuousness |
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| electrocautery | (noun) application of a needle heated by an electric current to destroy tissue (as to remove warts) | - |
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| flattery | (noun) excessive or insincere praise | - |
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| glittery | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| jittery | (adjective) characterized by jerky movements | - |
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| (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight |
| lepidoptery | (noun) the branch of entomology dealing with Lepidoptera | Synonyms: lepidopterology |
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| lottery | (noun) players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots | Synonyms: drawing |
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| (noun) something that is regarded as a chance event | - |
| mastery | (noun) the act of mastering or subordinating someone | Synonyms: subordination |
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| (noun) great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | Synonyms: command, control |
| (noun) power to dominate or defeat | Synonyms: domination, supremacy |
| mesentery | (noun) a double layer of peritoneum that attaches to the back wall of the abdominal cavity and supports the small intestines | - |
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| monastery | (noun) the residence of a religious community | - |
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| mystery | (noun) something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained | Synonyms: closed book, enigma, secret |
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| (noun) a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie | Synonyms: mystery story, whodunit |
| phrontistery | (noun) an establishment for study and learning (sometimes including modern universities) | - |
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| phylactery | (noun) (Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer | Synonyms: tefillin |
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| pottery | (noun) the craft of making earthenware | - |
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| (noun) ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln | Synonyms: clayware |
| (noun) a workshop where clayware is made | - |
| presbytery | (noun) building reserved for the officiating clergy | - |
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| psaltery | (noun) an ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre or zither but having a trapezoidal sounding board under the strings | - |
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| rettery | (noun) a place or establishment where flax is retted. | - |
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| serictery | (noun) silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spiders | Synonyms: sericterium, silk gland |
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| smeltery | (noun) an industrial plant for smelting | Synonyms: smelter |
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| splintery | (adjective) resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points | Synonyms: slivery |
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| (adjective) subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces | - |
| thermocautery | (noun) cautery (destruction of tissue) by heat | - |
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| tottery | (adjective) unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age | Synonyms: tottering |
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| upholstery | (noun) the craft of upholstering | - |
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| (noun) covering (padding and springs and webbing and fabric) on a piece of furniture | - |
| watery | (adjective) overly diluted; thin and insipid | Synonyms: washy, weak |
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| (adjective) relating to or resembling or consisting of water | - |
| (adjective) wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears | Synonyms: reeking |
| (adjective) filled with water | - |
| wintery | (adjective) characteristic of or occurring in winter | Synonyms: wintry |
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