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allay
0
v 1: lessen the intensity of or calm; "The news eased my
conscience"; "still the fears" [syn: still, allay,
relieve, ease]
2: satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst" [syn:
quench, slake, allay, assuage]
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anchor
0
n 1: a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving
[syn: anchor, ground tackle]
2: a central cohesive source of support and stability; "faith is
his anchor"; "the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on
soft money"; "he is the linchpin of this firm" [syn:
anchor, mainstay, keystone, backbone, linchpin,
lynchpin]
3: a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which
several correspondents contribute [syn: anchor,
anchorman, anchorperson]
v 1: fix firmly and stably; "anchor the lamppost in concrete"
[syn: anchor, ground]
2: secure a vessel with an anchor; "We anchored at Baltimore"
[syn: anchor, cast anchor, drop anchor]
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array
0
n 1: an orderly arrangement; "an array of troops in battle
order"
2: an impressive display; "it was a bewildering array of books";
"his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall"
3: especially fine or decorative clothing [syn: array,
raiment, regalia]
4: an arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional
characteristics
v 1: lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line;
"lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments" [syn:
range, array, lay out, set out]
2: align oneself with a group or a way of thinking [syn:
align, array]
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astray
0
adv 1: away from the right path or direction; "he was led
astray"
2: far from the intended target; "the arrow went wide of the
mark"; "a bullet went astray and killed a bystander" [syn:
wide, astray]
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away
0
adv 1: from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is
obsolete); "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get away
from there"; "sent the children away to boarding school";
"the teacher waved the children away from the dead
animal"; "went off to school"; "they drove off"; "go
forth and preach" [syn: away, off, forth]
2: from one's possession; "he gave out money to the poor"; "gave
away the tickets" [syn: away, out]
3: out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts); "brush
the objections aside"; "pushed all doubts away" [syn:
aside, away]
4: out of existence; "the music faded away"; "tried to explain
away the affair of the letter"- H.E.Scudder; "idled the hours
away"; "her fingernails were worn away"
5: at a distance in space or time; "the boat was 5 miles off (or
away)"; "the party is still 2 weeks off (or away)"; "away
back in the 18th century" [syn: off, away]
6: indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily; "he
worked away at the project for more than a year"; "the child
kept hammering away as if his life depended on it"
7: so as to be removed or gotten rid of; "cleared the mess
away"; "the rotted wood had to be cut away"
8: freely or at will; "fire away!"
9: in or into a proper place (especially for storage or
safekeeping); "put the toys away"; "her jewels are locked
away in a safe"; "filed the letter away"
10: in a different direction; "turn aside"; "turn away one's
face"; "glanced away" [syn: away, aside]
11: in reserve; not for immediate use; "started setting aside
money to buy a car"; "put something by for her old age";
"has a nest egg tucked away for a rainy day" [syn: aside,
by, away]
adj 1: not present; having left; "he's away right now"; "you
must not allow a stranger into the house when your mother
is away"
2: used of an opponent's ground; "an away game" [ant: home(a)]
3: (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the
batter; "the pitch was away (or wide)"; "an outside pitch"
[syn: away, outside]
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awe
0
n 1: an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration; "he stared
over the edge with a feeling of awe"
2: a feeling of profound respect for someone or something; "the
fear of God"; "the Chinese reverence for the dead"; "the
French treat food with gentle reverence"; "his respect for
the law bordered on veneration" [syn: fear, reverence,
awe, veneration]
v 1: inspire awe in; "The famous professor awed the
undergraduates"
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ballet
0
n 1: a theatrical representation of a story that is performed to
music by trained dancers [syn: ballet, concert dance]
2: music written for a ballet
-
banker
0
n 1: a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank
2: the person in charge of the bank in a gambling game
-
bay
0
adj 1: (used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate
reddish-brown color
n 1: an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but
smaller than a gulf [syn: bay, embayment]
2: the sound of a hound on the scent
3: small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish
berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in
cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors [syn:
true laurel, bay, bay laurel, bay tree, Laurus
nobilis]
4: a compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a
hospital; "they put him in the sick bay"
5: a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose;
"he opened the bomb bay"
6: a small recess opening off a larger room [syn: alcove,
bay]
7: a horse of a moderate reddish-brown color
v 1: utter in deep prolonged tones
2: bark with prolonged noises, of dogs [syn: bay, quest]
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betray
0
v 1: reveal unintentionally; "Her smile betrayed her true
feelings" [syn: betray, bewray]
2: deliver to an enemy by treachery; "Judas sold Jesus"; "The
spy betrayed his country" [syn: betray, sell]
3: disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake; "His
sense of smell failed him this time"; "His strength finally
failed him"; "His children failed him in the crisis" [syn:
fail, betray]
4: be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She
cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"
[syn: cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wander]
5: give away information about somebody; "He told on his
classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: denounce,
tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit,
shop, snitch, stag]
6: cause someone to believe an untruth; "The insurance company
deceived me when they told me they were covering my house"
[syn: deceive, betray, lead astray] [ant: undeceive]
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blinker
0
n 1: a light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to
send messages [syn: blinker, flasher]
2: a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the
direction in which the vehicle is about to turn [syn:
blinker, turn signal, turn indicator, trafficator]
3: blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of
the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on
either side [syn: winker, blinker, blinder]
v 1: put blinders on (a horse)
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bouquet
0
n 1: an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a
present [syn: bouquet, corsage, posy, nosegay]
2: a pleasingly sweet olfactory property [syn: bouquet,
fragrance, fragrancy, redolence, sweetness]
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brae
0
n 1: a slope or hillside
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bray
0
n 1: the cry of an ass
v 1: braying characteristic of donkeys [syn: hee-haw, bray]
2: reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading;
"grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic" [syn:
grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute]
3: laugh loudly and harshly
-
buffet
0
n 1: a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining
room; has shelves and drawers [syn: buffet, counter,
sideboard]
2: a meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves
3: usually inexpensive bar [syn: snack bar, snack counter,
buffet]
v 1: strike against forcefully; "Winds buffeted the tent" [syn:
buffet, knock about, batter]
2: strike, beat repeatedly; "The wind buffeted him" [syn:
buffet, buff]
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bunker
0
n 1: a hazard on a golf course [syn: bunker, sand trap,
trap]
2: a large container for storing fuel; "the ship's bunkers were
full of coal"
3: a fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground
[syn: bunker, dugout]
v 1: hit a golf ball into a bunker
2: fill (a ship's bunker) with coal or oil
3: transfer cargo from a ship to a warehouse
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cache
0
n 1: a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)
2: a secret store of valuables or money [syn: hoard, cache,
stash]
3: (computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a
specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used
to optimize data transfers between system elements with
different characteristics [syn: cache, memory cache]
v 1: save up as for future use [syn: hoard, stash, cache,
lay away, hive up, squirrel away]
-
cafe
0
n 1: a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold [syn:
cafe, coffeehouse, coffee shop, coffee bar]
-
canker
0
n 1: a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized
damage to the bark
2: an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth)
[syn: canker, canker sore]
3: a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of;
"racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation";
"according to him, I was the canker in their midst" [syn:
pestilence, canker]
v 1: become infected with a canker
2: infect with a canker
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cay
0
n 1: a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida [syn: key,
cay, Florida key]
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chalet
0
n 1: a Swiss house with a sloping roof and wide eaves or a house
built in this style
-
chancre
0
n 1: a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a
pathogen (as syphilis)
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clay
0
n 1: a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but
hard when fired
2: water soaked soil; soft wet earth [syn: mud, clay]
3: United States general who commanded United States forces in
Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift
(1897-1978) [syn: Clay, Lucius Clay, Lucius DuBignon
Clay]
4: United States politician responsible for the Missouri
Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852) [syn:
Clay, Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser]
5: the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for
dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery
of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff
in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps
their clay" [syn: cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay,
remains]
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clinker
0
n 1: a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or
coal or charcoal fire [syn: cinder, clinker]
2: a hard brick used as a paving stone [syn: clinker, clinker
brick]
v 1: clear out the cinders and clinker from; "we clinkered the
fire frequently"
2: turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in
burning
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conker
0
n 1: the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut [syn:
buckeye, horse chestnut, conker]
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conquer
0
v 1: to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent
uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's
desires" [syn: suppress, stamp down, inhibit,
subdue, conquer, curb]
2: take possession of by force, as after an invasion; "the
invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants";
"The army seized the town"; "The militia captured the castle"
[syn: appropriate, capture, seize, conquer]
3: overcome by conquest; "conquer your fears"; "conquer a
country"
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convey
0
v 1: make known; pass on, of information; "She conveyed the
message to me"
2: serve as a means for expressing something; "The painting of
Mary carries motherly love"; "His voice carried a lot of
anger" [syn: carry, convey, express]
3: transfer to another; "communicate a disease" [syn: convey,
transmit, communicate]
4: transmit a title or property
5: transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound
carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound";
"Many metals conduct heat" [syn: impart, conduct,
transmit, convey, carry, channel]
6: take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; "Bring me
the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the
boss"; "This brings me to the main point" [syn: bring,
convey, take]
7: go or come after and bring or take back; "Get me those books
over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog
fetched the hat" [syn: bring, get, convey, fetch]
[ant: bear away, bear off, carry away, carry off,
take away]
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crochet
0
n 1: needlework done by interlocking looped stitches with a
hooked needle [syn: crochet, crocheting]
v 1: create by looping or crocheting; "crochet a bedspread"
2: make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread
with a hooked needle; "She sat there crocheting all day"
[syn: crochet, hook]
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croquet
0
n 1: a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series
of hoops; the winner is the first to traverse all the hoops
and hit a peg
v 1: drive away by hitting with one's ball, "croquet the
opponent's ball"
2: play a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a
series of hoops
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day
0
n 1: time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis;
"two days later they left"; "they put on two performances
every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day" [syn:
day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period,
24-hour interval, solar day, mean solar day]
2: some point or period in time; "it should arrive any day now";
"after that day she never trusted him again"; "those were the
days"; "these days it is not unusual"
3: a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance;
"Mother's Day"
4: the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light
outside; "the dawn turned night into day"; "it is easier to
make the repairs in the daytime" [syn: day, daytime,
daylight] [ant: dark, night, nighttime]
5: the recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially
those when you are working); "my day began early this
morning"; "it was a busy day on the stock exchange"; "she
called it a day and went to bed"
6: an era of existence or influence; "in the day of the
dinosaurs"; "in the days of the Roman Empire"; "in the days
of sailing ships"; "he was a successful pianist in his day"
7: the period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars)
to make a complete rotation on its axis; "how long is a day
on Jupiter?"
8: the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a
particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar
day [syn: sidereal day, day]
9: a period of opportunity; "he deserves his day in court";
"every dog has his day"
10: United States writer best known for his autobiographical
works (1874-1935) [syn: Day, Clarence Day, Clarence
Shepard Day Jr.]
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decay
0
n 1: the process of gradually becoming inferior
2: a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current [syn:
decay, decline]
3: the organic phenomenon of rotting [syn: decay,
decomposition]
4: an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying;
"the corpse was in an advanced state of decay"; "the house
had fallen into a serious state of decay and disrepair"
5: the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance
along with the emission of ionizing radiation [syn: decay,
radioactive decay, disintegration]
v 1: lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; "the
particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process"
[syn: disintegrate, decay, decompose]
2: fall into decay or ruin; "The unoccupied house started to
decay" [syn: decay, crumble, dilapidate]
3: undergo decay or decomposition; "The body started to decay
and needed to be cremated"
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dossier
0
n 1: a collection of papers containing detailed information
about a particular person or subject (usually a person's
record)
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drinker
0
n 1: a person who drinks liquids
2: a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to
excess) [syn: drinker, imbiber, toper, juicer] [ant:
abstainer, abstinent, nondrinker]
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flanker
0
n 1: a back stationed wide of the scrimmage line; used as a pass
receiver [syn: flanker back, flanker]
2: a soldier who is a member of a detachment assigned to guard
the flanks of a military formation
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freethinker
0
n 1: a person who believes that God created the universe and
then abandoned it [syn: deist, freethinker]
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ha
0
n 1: (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point
measured westward along the celestial equator from the
zenith crossing; the right ascension for an observer at a
particular location and time of day [syn: hour angle,
HA]
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hanker
0
v 1: desire strongly or persistently [syn: hanker, long,
yearn]
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hunker
0
v 1: sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth
while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect
themselves from the sandstorm" [syn: squat, crouch,
scrunch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker down]
-
macaw
0
n 1: long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central America
and South America; among the largest and showiest of
parrots
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okay
0
adv 1: in a satisfactory or adequate manner; "she'll do okay on
her own"; "held up all right under pressure"; (`alright'
is a nonstandard variant of `all right') [syn: okay,
O.K., all right, alright]
adj 1: being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition; "an all-
right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all
right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything's fine";
"things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine";
"another minute I'd have been fine" [syn: all right,
fine, o.k., ok, okay, hunky-dory]
n 1: an endorsement; "they gave us the O.K. to go ahead" [syn:
O.K., OK, okay, okey, okeh]
v 1: give sanction to; "I approve of his educational policies"
[syn: approve, O.K., okay, sanction] [ant:
disapprove, reject]
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punkah
0
n 1: a large fan consisting of a frame covered with canvas that
is suspended from the ceiling; used in India for
circulating air in a room
-
rancour
0
n 1: a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will [syn:
resentment, bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour]
-
ranker
0
n 1: a commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted
status
2: an enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed
forces
-
sinker
0
n 1: a small ring-shaped friedcake [syn: doughnut, donut,
sinker]
2: a weight that sinks (as to hold nets or fishing lines under
water)
3: a pitch that curves downward rapidly as it approaches the
plate
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spanker
0
n 1: a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open
hand; "someone slapped me on the back and I turned to see
who the slapper was"; "my father was the designated spanker
in our family" [syn: slapper, spanker]
2: a fore-and-aft sail set on the aftermost lower mast (usually
the mizzenmast) of a vessel
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spelunker
0
n 1: a person who explores caves [syn: potholer, spelunker,
speleologist, spelaeologist]
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stinker
0
n 1: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible;
"only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the
bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a
contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog,
rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke,
crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git]
2: anything that gives off an offensive odor (especially a cheap
cigar)
3: an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or
unsatisfactory [syn: lemon, stinker]
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tanker
0
n 1: a cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk [syn: oil
tanker, oiler, tanker, tank ship]
2: a soldier who drives a tank [syn: tanker, tank driver]
-
thinker
0
n 1: an important intellectual; "the great minds of the 17th
century" [syn: thinker, creative thinker, mind]
2: someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach
a decision)
-
tinker
0
n 1: a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines
and their parts [syn: tinker, tinkerer]
2: formerly a person (traditionally a Gypsy) who traveled from
place to place mending pots and kettles and other metal
utensils as a way to earn a living
3: small mackerel found nearly worldwide [syn: chub mackerel,
tinker, Scomber japonicus]
v 1: do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly;
"The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house"
[syn: putter, mess around, potter, tinker,
monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around]
2: work as a tinker or tinkerer
3: try to fix or mend; "Can you tinker with the T.V. set--it's
not working right"; "She always fiddles with her van on the
weekend" [syn: tinker, fiddle]
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winker
0
n 1: a person who winks
2: blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of
the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on
either side [syn: winker, blinker, blinder]
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junker
0
n 1: member of the Prussian aristocracy noted especially for
militarism
-
rancor
0
n 1: a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will [syn:
resentment, bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour]
-
ca
0
n 1: a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light;
the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an
important component of most plants and animals [syn:
calcium, Ca, atomic number 20]
2: a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd
largest state; known for earthquakes [syn: California,
Golden State, CA, Calif.]
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asea
0
adv 1: in the direction of the sea; "the sailor looked seaward"
[syn: seaward, seawards, asea]
-
inca
0
n 1: a ruler of the Incas (or a member of his family)
2: a member of the Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in
Peru [syn: Inca, Inka, Incan]
3: the small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru
who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to
create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the
Spanish conquest in the early 1530s [syn: Inca, Inka]
-
wanker
0
n 1: terms of abuse for a masturbator [syn: tosser, jerk-
off, wanker]
-
younker
0
n 1: a young person (especially a young man or boy) [syn: young
person, youth, younker, spring chicken]
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reconquer
0
v 1: conquer anew; "The country reconquered the territory lost
in the previous war"
-
stotinka
0
n 1: 100 stotinka equal 1 lev in Bulgaria
-
casablanca
0
n 1: a port on the Atlantic and the largest city of Morocco
-
glinka
0
n 1: Russian composer (1804-1857) [syn: Glinka, Mikhail
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka]
-
vinca
0
n 1: periwinkles: low creeping evergreen perennials [syn:
Vinca, genus Vinca]
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concha
0
n 1: (anatomy) a structure that resembles a shell in shape
-
tanka
0
n 1: a form of Japanese poetry; the 1st and 3rd lines have five
syllables and the 2nd, 4th, and 5th have seven syllables
2: a Tibetan religious painting on fabric
-
supertanker
0
n 1: the largest class of oil tankers
-
ah
0
-
debunker
0
-
franker
0
-
headshrinker
0
-
huh
0
-
inker
0
-
lunker
0
-
shrinker
0
-
ay
0
-
anker
0
-
minke
0
-
treblinka
0
-
bonker
0
-
bianca
0
-
cuenca
0
-
salamanca
0
-
finca
0
-
jinker
0
-
stonker
0