-
bravura
0
n 1: brilliant and showy technical skill; "in a final bravura
the ballerina appeared to be floating in water"; "the music
ends with a display of bravura"
-
bureau
0
n 1: an administrative unit of government; "the Central
Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of
Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority" [syn:
agency, federal agency, government agency, bureau,
office, authority]
2: furniture with drawers for keeping clothes [syn: chest of
drawers, chest, bureau, dresser]
-
chiaroscuro
0
n 1: a monochrome picture made by using several different shades
of the same color
-
coloratura
0
n 1: a lyric soprano who specializes in coloratura vocal music
[syn: coloratura, coloratura soprano]
2: singing with florid ornamentation
-
pleura
0
n 1: the thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls
of the chest
-
au
0
n 1: a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent)
metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and
alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but
is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia [syn: gold, Au,
atomic number 79]
2: a unit of length used for distances within the solar system;
equal to the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun
(approximately 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers)
[syn: Astronomical Unit, AU]
-
sura
0
n 1: one of the sections (or chapters) in the Koran; "the Quran
is divided in 114 suras"
2: the muscular back part of the shank [syn: calf, sura]
-
dura
0
n 1: the outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges [syn: dura
mater, dura]
-
euro
0
n 1: the basic monetary unit of most members of the European
Union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve European nations
(Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,
Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Finland)
adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned
their traditional currencies
-
datura
0
n 1: thorn apple [syn: Datura, genus Datura]
-
bujumbura
0
n 1: the capital and largest city of Burundi; "Usumbura was
renamed Bujumbura when Burundi became independent in 1962"
[syn: Bujumbura, Usumbura, capital of Burundi]
-
nomenklatura
0
n 1: the system of patronage in communist countries; controlled
by committees in the Communist Party
-
cicero
0
n 1: a linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an
em
2: a Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of
Latin prose (106-43 BC) [syn: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Cicero, Tully]
-
sapporo
0
n 1: a commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido
-
aux
0
-
bureaux
0
-
chura
0
-
bonura
0
-
chmura
0
-
contura
0
-
bonaventura
0
-
altamuro
0
-
buhrow
0
-
burow
0
-
curro
0
-
arturo
0
-
dimuro
0
-
duro
0
-
vigoro
0
-
truro
0
-
oruro
0