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barbital
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n 1: a barbiturate used as a hypnotic [syn: barbital,
veronal, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid,
diethylmalonylurea]
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capital
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adj 1: first-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea"
2: of primary importance; "our capital concern was to avoid
defeat"
3: uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts
are in majuscule script" [syn: capital, great,
majuscule]
n 1: assets available for use in the production of further
assets [syn: capital, working capital]
2: wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or
business and human resources of economic value
3: a seat of government
4: one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first
letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for
emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for
small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the
upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case
letters" [syn: capital, capital letter, uppercase,
upper-case letter, majuscule] [ant: lower-case letter,
lowercase, minuscule, small letter]
5: a center that is associated more than any other with some
activity or product; "the crime capital of Italy"; "the drug
capital of Columbia"
6: the federal government of the United States [syn: Capital,
Washington]
7: a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic
theories [syn: Das Kapital, Capital]
8: the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
[syn: capital, chapiter, cap]
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capitol
0
n 1: a building occupied by a state legislature
2: the government building in Washington where the United States
Senate and the House of Representatives meet [syn: Capitol,
Capitol Building]
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centripetal
0
adj 1: tending to move toward a center; "centripetal force"
[ant: centrifugal]
2: tending to unify [syn: centripetal, unifying(a)]
3: of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing
toward the central nervous system; "sensory neurons" [syn:
centripetal, receptive, sensory(a)]
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coital
0
adj 1: of or relating to coitus or copulation [syn: coital,
copulatory]
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congenital
0
adj 1: present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired
during fetal development [syn: congenital, inborn,
innate]
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digital
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adj 1: displaying numbers rather than scale positions; "digital
clock"; "digital readout"
2: relating to or performed with the fingers; "digital
examination"
3: of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits;
"digital computer" [ant: analog, analogue, linear]
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extramarital
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adj 1: characterized by adultery; "an adulterous relationship";
"extramarital affairs"; "the extracurricular activities
of a philandering husband" [syn: adulterous,
extramarital, extracurricular]
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genital
0
adj 1: of or relating to the external sex organs; "genital
herpes"; "venereal disease" [syn: genital, venereal]
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marital
0
adj 1: of or relating to the state of marriage; "marital
status"; "marital fidelity"; "married bliss" [syn:
marital, matrimonial, married]
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occipital
0
adj 1: of or relating to the occiput; "occipital bone"
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orbital
0
adj 1: of or relating to an orbit; "orbital revolution";
"orbital velocity"
2: of or relating to the eye socket; "orbital scale"; "orbital
arch"
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palatal
0
adj 1: relating to or lying near the palate; "palatal index";
"the palatine tonsils" [syn: palatal, palatine]
2: produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the
hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the
hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin') [syn:
palatal, palatalized, palatalised]
n 1: a semivowel produced with the tongue near the palate (like
the initial sound in the English word `yeast')
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parietal
0
adj 1: of or relating to or associated with the parietal bones
in the cranium; "parietal lobe"
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pentobarbital
0
n 1: a barbiturate (trade name Nembutal) used as a sedative and
hypnotic and antispasmodic [syn: pentobarbital sodium,
pentobarbital, Nembutal, yellow jacket]
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pivotal
0
adj 1: being of crucial importance; "a pivotal event"; "Its
pivotal location has also exposed it to periodic
invasions"- Henry Kissinger; "the polar events of this
study"; "a polar principal" [syn: pivotal, polar]
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premarital
0
adj 1: relating to events before a marriage; "prenuptial
agreement" [syn: prenuptial, premarital,
antenuptial] [ant: postnuptial]
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pubertal
0
adj 1: of or related to puberty
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skeletal
0
adj 1: of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton;
"the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal
muscles"
2: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
"emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men
and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small
pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim
concentration" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated,
gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted]
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societal
0
adj 1: relating to human society and its members; "social
institutions"; "societal evolution"; "societal forces";
"social legislation" [syn: social, societal]
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vegetal
0
adj 1: composed of vegetation or plants; "regions rich in
vegetal products"; "vegetational cover"; "the decaying
vegetative layer covering a forest floor" [syn:
vegetal, vegetational, vegetative]
2: (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes [syn:
vegetal, vegetative]
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varietal
0
n 1: a wine made principally from one grape and carrying the
name of that grape [syn: varietal, varietal wine] [ant:
generic, generic wine]
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basipetal
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adj 1: of leaves or flowers; developing or opening in succession
from apex to base [ant: acropetal]
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urogenital
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adj 1: of or relating to the urinary and reproductive systems
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ancipital
0
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sincipital
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