-
airliner
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n 1: a commercial airplane that carries passengers
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amphisbaena
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n 1: (classical mythology) a serpent with a head at each end of
its body
2: type genus of the Amphisbaenidae [syn: Amphisbaena, genus
Amphisbaena, Amphisbaenia, genus Amphisbaenia]
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angina
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n 1: any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic
attacks of intense suffocative pain
2: a heart condition marked by paroxysms of chest pain due to
reduced oxygen to the heart [syn: angina pectoris,
angina]
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arena
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n 1: a particular environment or walk of life; "his social
sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment";
"he's out of my orbit" [syn: sphere, domain, area,
orbit, field, arena]
2: the central area of an ancient Roman amphitheater where
contests and spectacles were held; especially an area that
was strewn with sand
3: a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments [syn:
stadium, bowl, arena, sports stadium]
4: a playing field where sports events take place [syn: arena,
scene of action]
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assignor
0
n 1: (law) the party who makes an assignment
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ballerina
0
n 1: a female ballet dancer [syn: ballerina, danseuse]
-
carina
0
n 1: a keel-shaped constellation in the southern hemisphere;
contains the start Canopus
2: any of various keel-shaped structures or ridges such as that
on the breastbone of a bird or that formed by the fused
petals of a pea blossom
-
catena
0
n 1: a chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so
arranged that each member is closely related to the
preceding and following members (especially a series of
patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma)
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china
0
n 1: a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern
Asia; the most populous country in the world [syn: China,
People's Republic of China, mainland China, Communist
China, Red China, PRC, Cathay]
2: high quality porcelain originally made only in China
3: a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by
Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the
Communists led by Mao Zedong [syn: Taiwan, China,
Nationalist China, Republic of China]
4: dishware made of high quality porcelain [syn: chinaware,
china]
-
cleaner
0
n 1: a preparation used in cleaning something [syn: cleansing
agent, cleanser, cleaner]
2: the operator of dry-cleaning establishment [syn: cleaner,
dry cleaner]
3: someone whose occupation is cleaning
-
concertina
0
n 1: coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle
2: free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its
ends together to force air through the reeds
v 1: collapse like a concertina
-
congener
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n 1: a minor chemical constituent that gives a wine or liquor
its distinctive character
2: an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as
related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
[syn: relative, congener, congenator, congeneric]
3: a whole (a thing or person) of the same kind or category as
another; "lard was also used, though its congener, butter,
was more frequently employed"; "the American shopkeeper
differs from his European congener"
-
consignor
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n 1: the person who delivers over or commits merchandise [syn:
consigner, consignor]
-
convener
0
n 1: the member of a group whose duty it is to convene meetings
-
demeanour
0
n 1: (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward
other people [syn: demeanor, demeanour, behavior,
behaviour, conduct, deportment]
-
designer
0
n 1: a person who specializes in designing architectural
interiors and their furnishings [syn: interior designer,
designer, interior decorator, house decorator, room
decorator, decorator]
2: someone who creates plans to be used in making something
(such as buildings) [syn: architect, designer]
3: someone who specializes in graphic design [syn: graphic
designer, designer]
4: a person who devises plots or intrigues; "he is believed to
be the principal designer of the terrorist bombing attack"
[syn: designer, intriguer]
5: someone who designs clothing [syn: couturier, fashion
designer, clothes designer, designer]
-
diner
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n 1: a person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant)
2: a passenger car where food is served in transit [syn: dining
car, diner, dining compartment, buffet car]
3: a restaurant that resembles a dining car
-
diviner
0
n 1: someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the
aid of supernatural powers
-
eyeliner
0
n 1: makeup applied to emphasize the shape of the eyes
-
farina
0
n 1: fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often
used as a cooked cereal or in puddings
-
galena
0
n 1: soft blue-grey mineral; lead sulfide; a major source of
lead
-
gleaner
0
n 1: someone who picks up grain left in the field by the
harvesters
2: someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g.
information) slowly and carefully
-
headliner
0
n 1: a performer who receives prominent billing [syn:
headliner, star]
-
hyena
0
n 1: doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that
feeds chiefly on carrion [syn: hyena, hyaena]
-
jetliner
0
n 1: a large jet plane that carries passengers
-
karabiner
0
n 1: an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in
mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect
two ropes [syn: carabiner, karabiner, snap ring]
-
kina
0
n 1: the basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea
-
liner
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n 1: (baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter;
"the batter hit a liner to the shortstop" [syn: liner,
line drive]
2: a protective covering that protects an inside surface [syn:
lining, liner]
3: a piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a
garment [syn: liner, lining]
4: a large commercial ship (especially one that carries
passengers on a regular schedule) [syn: liner, ocean
liner]
-
marina
0
n 1: a fancy dock for small yachts and cabin cruisers
-
miner
0
n 1: laborer who works in a mine [syn: miner, mineworker]
-
minor
0
adj 1: of lesser importance or stature or rank; "a minor poet";
"had a minor part in the play"; "a minor official"; "many
of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen"; "minor
back roads" [ant: major]
2: lesser in scope or effect; "had minor differences"; "a minor
disturbance" [ant: major]
3: inferior in number or size or amount; "a minor share of the
profits"; "Ursa Minor" [ant: major]
4: of a scale or mode; "the minor keys"; "in B flat minor" [ant:
major]
5: not of legal age; "minor children" [syn: minor, nonaged,
underage] [ant: major]
6: of lesser seriousness or danger; "suffered only minor
injuries"; "some minor flooding"; "a minor tropical
disturbance" [ant: major]
7: of your secondary field of academic concentration or
specialization [ant: major]
8: of the younger of two boys with the same family name; "Jones
minor"
9: warranting only temporal punishment; "venial sin" [syn:
minor, venial]
10: limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper
with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-
size country" [syn: minor, modest, small, small-
scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized]
n 1: a young person of either sex; "she writes books for
children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British
term for youngster" [syn: child, kid, youngster,
minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler,
tike, tyke, fry, nestling]
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misdemeanour
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n 1: a crime less serious than a felony [syn: misdemeanor,
misdemeanour, infraction, violation, infringement]
-
mynah
0
n 1: tropical Asian starlings [syn: myna, mynah, mina,
minah, myna bird, mynah bird]
-
novena
0
n 1: a Roman Catholic devotion consisting of prayers on nine
consecutive days
-
ocarina
0
n 1: egg-shaped terra cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece
and finger holes [syn: ocarina, sweet potato]
-
patina
0
n 1: a fine coating of oxide on the surface of a metal
-
refiner
0
n 1: one whose work is to refine a specific thing; "he was a
sugar refiner"
-
screener
0
n 1: a guard at an airport who checks passengers or their
luggage at a security checkpoint
-
semolina
0
n 1: milled product of durum wheat (or other hard wheat) used in
pasta
-
shiner
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n 1: a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye [syn:
shiner, black eye, mouse]
2: something that shines (with emitted or reflected light)
3: important food fish of the northern Atlantic and
Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and
small if any scales [syn: common mackerel, shiner,
Scomber scombrus]
4: any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes
especially of the genus Notropis
-
signer
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n 1: someone who can use sign language to communicate
2: someone who signs and is bound by a document [syn: signer,
signatory]
-
subpoena
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n 1: a writ issued by court authority to compel the attendance
of a witness at a judicial proceeding; disobedience may be
punishable as a contempt of court [syn: subpoena,
subpoena ad testificandum]
v 1: serve or summon with a subpoena; "The witness and her
records were subpoenaed"
-
trichina
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n 1: parasitic nematode occurring in the intestines of pigs and
rats and human beings and producing larvae that form cysts
in skeletal muscles [syn: trichina, Trichinella
spiralis]
-
tsarina
0
n 1: the wife or widow of a czar [syn: czarina, tsarina,
tzarina, czaritza, tsaritsa]
-
vagina
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n 1: the lower part of the female reproductive tract; a moist
canal in female mammals extending from the labia minora to
the uterus; "the vagina receives the penis during coitus";
"the vagina is elastic enough to allow the passage of a
fetus"
-
vena
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n 1: a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries
toward the heart; "all veins except the pulmonary vein
carry unaerated blood" [syn: vein, vena, venous blood
vessel]
-
verbena
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n 1: any of numerous tropical or subtropical American plants of
the genus Verbena grown for their showy spikes of variously
colored flowers [syn: verbena, vervain]
-
whiner
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n 1: a person given to excessive complaints and crying and
whining [syn: whiner, complainer, moaner,
sniveller, crybaby, bellyacher, grumbler,
squawker]
-
wiener
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n 1: United States mathematician and founder of cybernetics
(1894-1964) [syn: Wiener, Norbert Wiener]
2: a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually
smoked; often served on a bread roll [syn: frank,
frankfurter, hotdog, hot dog, dog, wiener,
wienerwurst, weenie]
-
twiner
0
n 1: someone who intertwines (e.g. threads) or forms something
by twisting or interlacing
-
medina
0
n 1: a city in western Saudi Arabia; site of the tomb of
Muhammad; the second most holy city of Islam [syn:
Medina, Al Madinah]
2: the ancient quarter of many cities in northern Africa
-
carolina
0
n 1: the area of the states of North Carolina and South Carolina
[syn: Carolina, Carolinas]
-
nina
0
n 1: the Babylonian goddess of the watery deep and daughter of
Ea
-
athena
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n 1: (Greek mythology) goddess of wisdom and useful arts and
prudent warfare; guardian of Athens; identified with Roman
Minerva [syn: Athena, Athene, Pallas, Pallas
Athena, Pallas Athene]
-
cortina
0
n 1: a cobwebby partial veil consisting of silky fibrils
-
gallina
0
n 1: small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to
domestic fowl [syn: jungle fowl, gallina]
-
messina
0
n 1: a port city in northeastern Sicily on the Strait of Messina
-
regina
0
n 1: the provincial capital of Saskatchewan
-
salina
0
n 1: a town in central Kansas
-
sardina
0
n 1: pilchards [syn: Sardina, genus Sardina, genus
Sardinia]
-
argentina
0
n 1: a republic in southern South America; second largest
country in South America [syn: Argentina, Argentine
Republic]
2: type genus of the Argentinidae: argentines [syn: Argentina,
genus Argentina]
-
cartagena
0
n 1: a port in southeastern Spain on the Mediterranean
2: a port city in northwestern Colombia on the Caribbean
-
constantina
0
n 1: a Romanian resort city on the Black Sea
-
magdalena
0
n 1: a river that rises in the Andes mountains in southwestern
Colombia and flows generally northward to empty into the
Caribbean Sea at Barranquilla [syn: Magdalena, Magdalena
River]
-
proserpina
0
n 1: goddess of the underworld; counterpart of Greek Persephone
[syn: Proserpina, Proserpine]
-
lena
0
n 1: a Russian river in Siberia; flows northward into the Laptev
Sea [syn: Lena, Lena River]
-
mina
0
n 1: tropical Asian starlings [syn: myna, mynah, mina,
minah, myna bird, mynah bird]
-
czarina
0
n 1: the wife or widow of a czar [syn: czarina, tsarina,
tzarina, czaritza, tsaritsa]
-
hyaena
0
n 1: doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that
feeds chiefly on carrion [syn: hyena, hyaena]
-
kachina
0
n 1: a masked dancer during a Pueblo religious ceremony who is
thought to embody some particular spirit
2: a deified spirit of the Pueblo people
3: a carved doll wearing the costume of a particular Pueblo
spirit; usually presented to a child as a gift
-
casuarina
0
n 1: any of various trees and shrubs of the genus Casuarina
having jointed stems and whorls of scalelike leaves; some
yield heavy hardwood
-
pasadena
0
n 1: a city in southwestern California to the east of Los
Angeles
-
scarlatina
0
n 1: an acute communicable disease (usually in children)
characterized by fever and a red rash [syn: scarlet
fever, scarlatina]
-
signorina
0
n 1: an Italian courtesy title for an unmarried woman;
equivalent to `Miss', it is either used alone or before a
name
2: an Italian title or form of address for an unmarried woman
-
sonatina
0
n 1: a short and simple sonata
-
steiner
0
n 1: Austrian philosopher who founded anthroposophy (1861-1925)
[syn: Steiner, Rudolf Steiner]
-
recliner
0
n 1: an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be
raised to allow the sitter to recline in it [syn:
recliner, reclining chair, lounger]
-
intervenor
0
n 1: (law) a party who interposes in a pending proceeding
-
thenar
0
adj 1: of or relating to the palm of the hand or to the area at
the base of the thumb [syn: thenal, thenar]
n 1: the fleshy area of the palm at the base of the thumb
2: the inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of
the fingers [syn: palm, thenar]
-
globigerina
0
n 1: marine protozoan having a rounded shell with spiny
processes
-
hardliner
0
n 1: a conservative who is uncompromising
-
carabiner
0
n 1: an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in
mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect
two ropes [syn: carabiner, karabiner, snap ring]
-
landsteiner
0
n 1: United States pathologist (born in Austria) who discovered
human blood groups (1868-1943) [syn: Landsteiner, Karl
Landsteiner]
-
moonshiner
0
n 1: someone who makes or sells illegal liquor [syn:
bootlegger, moonshiner]
-
assigner
0
-
cantina
0
-
cavatina
0
-
contravener
0
-
coquina
0
-
decliner
0
-
definer
0
-
freightliner
0
-
incliner
0
-
intervener
0
-
mainliner
0
-
sestina
0
-
weaner
0
-
shriner
0
-
preener
0
-
heine
0