| answer | (noun) a nonverbal reaction | - |
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| (noun) the speech act of replying to a question | - |
| (noun) a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation | Synonyms: reply, response |
| (noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: resolution, result, solution, solvent |
| (noun) the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims | - |
| (verb) give the correct answer or solution to | - |
| (verb) respond to a signal | - |
| (verb) understand the meaning of | Synonyms: resolve |
| (verb) react to a stimulus or command | - |
| (verb) react verbally | Synonyms: reply, respond |
| (verb) give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument) | - |
| (verb) be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of | - |
| (verb) match or correspond | - |
| (verb) be liable or accountable | - |
| (verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: do, serve, suffice |
| avower | (noun) someone who admits or acknowledges openly and boldly | - |
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| (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, asseverator, declarer |
| bellflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: campanula |
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| bellower | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
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| bestower | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: conferrer, donor, giver, presenter |
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| blower | (noun) large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales, dolphins, porpoises, narwhals | Synonyms: cetacean, cetacean mammal |
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| (noun) a device that produces a current of air | - |
| (noun) a fan run by an electric motor | Synonyms: electric fan |
| borrower | (noun) someone who receives something on the promise to return it or its equivalent | - |
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| bower | (noun) a framework that supports climbing plants | Synonyms: arbor, arbour, pergola |
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| (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: embower |
| brainpower | (noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brain, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit |
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| brewer | (noun) the owner or manager of a brewery | - |
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| (noun) someone who brews beer or ale from malt and hops and water | Synonyms: beer maker |
| butterflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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| candlepower | (noun) luminous intensity measured in candelas | Synonyms: light intensity |
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| cauliflower | (noun) compact head of white undeveloped flowers | - |
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| (noun) a plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds | Synonyms: Brassica oleracea botrytis |
| cheeseflower | (noun) erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States | Synonyms: cheese, high mallow, Malva sylvestris, tall mallow |
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| chewer | (noun) someone who chews (especially someone who chews tobacco) | - |
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| chiggerflower | (noun) erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers | Synonyms: Asclepias tuberosa, butterfly weed, chigger flower, Indian paintbrush, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, tuber root |
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| coneflower | (noun) any of various perennials of the eastern United States having thick rough leaves and long-stalked showy flowers with drooping rays and a conelike center | - |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Rudbeckia cultivated for their large usually yellow daisies with prominent central cones | - |
| (noun) a wildflower of the genus Ratibida | - |
| cornflower | (noun) an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: bachelor's button, bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus |
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| (noun) plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried | Synonyms: strawflower, Uvularia grandiflora |
| cower | (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: crawl, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel |
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| (verb) crouch or curl up | Synonyms: huddle |
| cuckooflower | (noun) a bitter cress of Europe and America | Synonyms: Cardamine pratensis, cuckoo flower, lady's smock, meadow cress |
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| cupflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Nierembergia having upturned bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: nierembergia |
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| (noun) Mexican evergreen climbing plant having large solitary funnel-shaped fragrant yellow flowers with purple-brown ridges in the throat | Synonyms: chalice vine, Solandra guttata, trumpet flower |
| dayflower | (noun) any plant of the family Commelinaceae | Synonyms: spiderwort |
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| deflower | (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: impair, mar, spoil, vitiate |
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| (verb) deprive of virginity | Synonyms: ruin |
| dower | (noun) a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband | - |
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| (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dowery, dowry, portion |
| (verb) furnish with an endowment | Synonyms: endow |
| drawer | (noun) a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out | - |
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| (noun) an artist skilled at drawing | Synonyms: draftsman |
| (noun) the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else | - |
| embower | (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: bower |
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| empower | (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorise, authorize |
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| (verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: endow, endue, gift, indue, invest |
| ewer | (noun) an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring | Synonyms: pitcher |
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| fewer | (adjective) (comparative of `few' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning a smaller number of | - |
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| fingerflower | (noun) tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, fairy bell, finger-flower, finger-root, fingerroot |
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| firepower | (noun) (military) the relative capacity for delivering fire on a target | - |
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| flameflower | (noun) plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots | Synonyms: flame-flower, flame flower, Talinum aurantiacum |
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| (noun) a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers | Synonyms: flame-flower, flame flower, kniphofia, tritoma |
| flamethrower | (noun) a weapon that squirts ignited fuel for several yards | - |
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| flower | (noun) a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms | - |
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| (noun) reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts | Synonyms: bloom, blossom |
| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
| (verb) produce or yield flowers | Synonyms: bloom, blossom |
| foamflower | (noun) stoloniferous white-flowered spring-blooming woodland plant | Synonyms: coolwart, false miterwort, false mitrewort, Tiarella cordifolia |
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| follower | (noun) a person who accepts the leadership of another | - |
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| (noun) someone who travels behind or pursues another | - |
| gillyflower | (noun) Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors | Synonyms: carnation, clove pink, Dianthus caryophyllus |
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| (noun) any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers | Synonyms: stock |
| glassblower | (noun) someone skilled in blowing bottles from molten glass | - |
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| globeflower | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Trollius having globose yellow flowers | Synonyms: globe flower |
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| glower | (noun) an angry stare | Synonyms: glare |
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| (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: frown, lour, lower |
| (verb) look at with a fixed gaze | Synonyms: glare |
| gnawer | (noun) relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing | Synonyms: rodent |
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| grower | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, agriculturist, cultivator, raiser |
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| helmetflower | (noun) a herbaceous plant of the genus Scutellaria which has a calyx that, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised | Synonyms: skullcap |
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| (noun) a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite | Synonyms: Aconitum napellus, helmet flower, monkshood |
| (noun) any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped lip process | Synonyms: helmet orchid |
| hewer | (noun) a person who hews | - |
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| honeyflower | (noun) Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously | Synonyms: honey-flower, Protea mellifera |
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| (noun) erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar | Synonyms: honey-flower, Lambertia formosa, mountain devil |
| horsepower | (noun) a unit of power equal to 746 watts | Synonyms: H.P., HP |
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| interviewer | (noun) a person who conducts an interview | - |
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| knower | (noun) a person who knows or apprehends | Synonyms: apprehender |
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| lower | (adjective) the bottom one of two | - |
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| (noun) the lower of two berths | Synonyms: lower berth |
| (verb) make lower or quieter | Synonyms: lour, turn down |
| (verb) set lower | Synonyms: lour |
| (verb) cause to drop or sink | Synonyms: depress |
| (verb) move something or somebody to a lower position | Synonyms: bring down, get down, let down, take down |
| (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: frown, glower, lour |
| lyreflower | (noun) garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers | Synonyms: bleeding heart, Dicentra spectabilis, lyre-flower |
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| manpower | (noun) the force of workers available | Synonyms: hands, men, work force, workforce |
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| mayflower | (noun) low-growing evergreen shrub of eastern North America with leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers | Synonyms: Epigaea repens, trailing arbutus |
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| mistflower | (noun) rhizomatous plant of central and southeastern United States and West Indies having large showy heads of clear blue flowers; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium | Synonyms: ageratum, Conoclinium coelestinum, Eupatorium coelestinum, mist-flower |
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| moonflower | (noun) pantropical climber having white fragrant nocturnal flowers | Synonyms: belle de nuit, Ipomoea alba |
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| mower | (noun) garden tool for mowing grass on lawns | Synonyms: lawn mower |
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| overpower | (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overmaster, overwhelm |
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| (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm |
| pasqueflower | (noun) any plant of the genus Pulsatilla; sometimes included in genus Anemone | Synonyms: pasque flower |
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| passionflower | (noun) any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit | Synonyms: passionflower vine |
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| pawer | (noun) a person who handles or caresses in a clumsy or overfamiliar manner | - |
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| plower | (noun) a man who plows | Synonyms: ploughman, plowman |
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| power | (noun) possession of controlling influence | Synonyms: powerfulness |
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| (noun) physical strength | Synonyms: might, mightiness |
| (noun) possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done | Synonyms: ability |
| (noun) a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself | Synonyms: exponent, index |
| (noun) a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world | Synonyms: great power, major power, superpower, world power |
| (noun) one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority | Synonyms: force |
| (noun) a very wealthy or powerful businessman | Synonyms: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, top executive, tycoon |
| (noun) (physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second) | - |
| (noun) energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor | Synonyms: electrical energy, electricity |
| (noun) (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power | Synonyms: office |
| (verb) supply the force or power for the functioning of | - |
| reviewer | (noun) a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day | Synonyms: commentator |
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| (noun) someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication | Synonyms: reader, referee |
| rower | (noun) someone who rows a boat | - |
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| safflower | (noun) thistlelike Eurasian plant widely grown for its red or orange flower heads and seeds that yield a valuable oil | Synonyms: Carthamus tinctorius, false saffron |
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| sewer | (noun) a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water | Synonyms: cloaca, sewerage |
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| (noun) misfortune resulting in lost effort or money | Synonyms: gutter, toilet |
| (noun) someone who sews | - |
| shadflower | (noun) annual weed of Europe and North America having a rosette of basal leaves and tiny flowers followed by oblong seed capsules | Synonyms: Draba verna, shad-flower, whitlow grass |
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| shadower | (noun) a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements | Synonyms: shadow, tail |
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| shellflower | (noun) showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple | Synonyms: Chelone glabra, shell-flower, snake-head, snakehead, turtlehead |
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| (noun) cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes | Synonyms: Alpinia speciosa, Alpinia Zerumbet, Languas speciosa, shall-flower, shell ginger |
| shower | (noun) washing yourself by standing upright under water sprayed from a nozzle | Synonyms: shower bath |
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| (noun) a plumbing fixture that sprays water over you | - |
| (noun) a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower | Synonyms: cascade |
| (noun) a party of friends assembled to present gifts (usually of a specified kind) to a person | - |
| (noun) a brief period of precipitation | Synonyms: rain shower |
| (noun) someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see | Synonyms: exhibitioner, exhibitor |
| (verb) take a shower; wash one's body in the shower | - |
| (verb) provide abundantly with | - |
| (verb) spray or sprinkle with | - |
| (verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | Synonyms: lavish |
| (verb) rain abundantly | Synonyms: shower down |
| skewer | (noun) a long pin for holding meat in position while it is being roasted | - |
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| (verb) drive a skewer through | Synonyms: spit |
| slower | (adverb) more slowly | - |
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| snailflower | (noun) perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus | Synonyms: corkscrew flower, Phaseolus caracalla, snail-flower, snail bean, snail flower, Vigna caracalla |
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| sorrower | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: griever, lamenter, mourner |
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| sower | (noun) someone who sows | - |
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| spewer | (noun) a person who vomits | Synonyms: vomiter |
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| spiderflower | (noun) any of various often strong-smelling plants of the genus Cleome having showy spider-shaped flowers | Synonyms: cleome |
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| spoonflower | (noun) tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes | Synonyms: malanga, tannia, Xanthosoma atrovirens, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, yautia |
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| starflower | (noun) common Old World herb having grasslike leaves and clusters of star-shaped white flowers with green stripes; naturalized in the eastern United States | Synonyms: Ornithogalum umbellatum, sleepy dick, summer snowflake |
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| strawflower | (noun) Australian plant naturalized in Spain having flowers of lemon yellow to deep gold; the frequent choice of those who love dried flowers | Synonyms: golden everlasting, Helichrysum bracteatum, yellow paper daisy |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Helipterum | - |
| (noun) plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried | Synonyms: cornflower, Uvularia grandiflora |
| sunflower | (noun) any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays | Synonyms: helianthus |
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| superpower | (noun) a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world | Synonyms: great power, major power, power, world power |
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| swanflower | (noun) any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan | Synonyms: swan-flower, swan-neck, swan orchid, swanneck |
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| tailflower | (noun) any of various tropical American plants cultivated for their showy foliage and flowers | Synonyms: anthurium, tail-flower |
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| thrower | (noun) someone who projects something (especially by a rapid motion of the arm) | - |
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| (noun) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln | Synonyms: ceramicist, ceramist, potter |
| (noun) a person who twists silk or rayon filaments into a thread or yarn | Synonyms: throwster |
| thundershower | (noun) a short rainstorm accompanied by thunder and lightning | - |
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| tongueflower | (noun) orchid having blue to purple flowers with tongue-shaped or strap-shaped protuberances (calli) at the lip base | Synonyms: tongue-flower |
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| tower | (noun) a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building | - |
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| (noun) anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower | Synonyms: column, pillar |
| (noun) a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships | Synonyms: towboat, tug, tugboat |
| (verb) appear very large or occupy a commanding position | Synonyms: hulk, loom, predominate |
| twinflower | (noun) creeping evergreen subshrub of the northern parts of Europe and Asia with delicate fragrant tubular bell-shaped usually pink flowers borne in pairs | Synonyms: Linnaea borealis |
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| viewer | (noun) an optical device for viewing photographic transparencies | - |
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| (noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | Synonyms: looker, spectator, watcher, witness |
| vower | (noun) someone who makes a solemn promise to do something or behave in a certain way | - |
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| wallflower | (noun) remains on sidelines at social event | - |
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| (noun) perennial of southern Europe having clusters of fragrant flowers of all colors especially yellow and orange; often naturalized on old walls or cliffs; sometimes placed in genus Erysimum | Synonyms: Cheiranthus cheiri, Erysimum cheiri |
| (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Erysimum having fragrant yellow or orange or brownish flowers | - |
| wandflower | (noun) tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall | Synonyms: beetleweed, coltsfoot, galax, Galax urceolata, galaxy |
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| (noun) a showy often-cultivated plant with tawny yellow often purple-spotted flowers | Synonyms: Sparaxis tricolor |
| watchtower | (noun) an observation tower for a lookout to watch over prisoners or watch for fires or enemies | - |
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| waterpower | (noun) the power to do work that is latent in a head of water | - |
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| waxflower | (noun) small waxy white or pinkish-white saprophytic woodland plant having scalelike leaves and a nodding flower; turns black with age | Synonyms: Indian pipe, Monotropa uniflora |
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| (noun) epiphytic clusia of British Guiana | Synonyms: Clusia insignis |
| (noun) twining woody vine of Madagascar having thick dark waxy evergreen leaves and clusters of large fragrant waxy white flowers along the stems; widely cultivated in warm regions | Synonyms: Madagascar jasmine, Stephanotis floribunda |
| whistleblower | (noun) an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it | Synonyms: whistle-blower, whistle blower |
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| widower | (noun) a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried | Synonyms: widowman |
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| wildflower | (noun) wild or uncultivated flowering plant | Synonyms: wild flower |
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| willpower | (noun) the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior | Synonyms: possession, self-command, self-control, self-possession, self-will, will power |
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| windflower | (noun) any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves | Synonyms: anemone |
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