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amah
0
n 1: a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else [syn: wet
nurse, wet-nurse, wetnurse, amah]
2: a female domestic [syn: maid, maidservant, housemaid,
amah]
-
armour
0
n 1: a military unit consisting of armored fighting vehicles
[syn: armor, armour]
2: protective covering made of metal and used in combat [syn:
armor, armour]
3: tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or
plant [syn: armor, armour]
v 1: equip with armor [syn: armor, armour]
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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"
-
baccarat
0
n 1: a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters
gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3
cards that total closest to nine [syn: baccarat, chemin
de fer]
-
blah
0
n 1: pompous or pretentious talk or writing [syn: bombast,
fustian, rant, claptrap, blah]
-
bourgeois
0
adj 1: (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-
owning class and exploitive of the working class
2: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle
class; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: bourgeois,
conservative, materialistic]
3: belonging to the middle class
n 1: a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial
enterprise [syn: businessperson, bourgeois]
2: a member of the middle class [syn: bourgeois, burgher]
-
bra
0
n 1: an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts
[syn: brassiere, bra, bandeau]
-
charmer
0
n 1: someone with an assured and ingratiating manner [syn:
smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker, charmer]
2: a person who charms others (usually by personal
attractiveness) [syn: charmer, beguiler]
-
cyclorama
0
n 1: a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous
scene [syn: panorama, cyclorama, diorama]
-
dharma
0
n 1: basic principles of the cosmos; also: an ancient sage in
Hindu mythology worshipped as a god by some lower castes;
-
diorama
0
n 1: a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous
scene [syn: panorama, cyclorama, diorama]
-
disarmer
0
n 1: someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes
[syn: pacifist, pacificist, disarmer]
-
drama
0
n 1: a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a
stage; "he wrote several plays but only one was produced on
Broadway" [syn: play, drama, dramatic play]
2: an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional [syn:
drama, dramatic event]
3: the literary genre of works intended for the theater
4: the quality of being arresting or highly emotional
-
embalmer
0
n 1: a mortician who treats corpses with preservatives
-
farmer
0
n 1: a person who operates a farm [syn: farmer, husbandman,
granger, sodbuster]
2: United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the
Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920) [syn: Farmer,
James Leonard Farmer]
3: an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many
editions (1857-1915) [syn: Farmer, Fannie Farmer, Fannie
Merritt Farmer]
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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]
-
hurrah
0
n 1: a victory cheer; "let's give the team a big hurrah" [syn:
hurrah, hooray]
v 1: shout `hurrah!'
-
karma
0
n 1: (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions
that determine his destiny in his next incarnation
-
la
0
n 1: a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily;
occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as
a rare earth [syn: lanthanum, La, atomic number 57]
2: a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one
of the Confederate states during the American Civil War [syn:
Louisiana, Pelican State, LA]
3: the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or
minor scale in solmization [syn: la, lah]
-
lama
0
n 1: a Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism
2: llamas [syn: Lama, genus Lama]
-
law
0
n 1: the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization
presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for
jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" [syn:
law, jurisprudence]
2: legal document setting forth rules governing a particular
kind of activity; "there is a law against kidnapping"
3: a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature
and essential to or binding upon human society [syn: law,
natural law]
4: a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in
nature; "the laws of thermodynamics" [syn: law, law of
nature]
5: the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the
principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
[syn: jurisprudence, law, legal philosophy]
6: the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in
a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system;
"he studied law at Yale" [syn: law, practice of law]
7: the force of policemen and officers; "the law came looking
for him" [syn: police, police force, constabulary,
law]
-
llama
0
n 1: wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal
related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump
-
ma
0
n 1: informal terms for a mother [syn: ma, mama, mamma,
mom, momma, mommy, mammy, mum, mummy]
2: a master's degree in arts and sciences [syn: Master of
Arts, MA, Artium Magister, AM]
3: one thousandth of an ampere [syn: milliampere, mA]
4: a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies [syn:
Massachusetts, Bay State, Old Colony, MA]
-
melodrama
0
n 1: an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than
characterization
-
pa
0
n 1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby
talk [syn: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa,
pop]
2: a short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from
uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead
[syn: protactinium, protoactinium, Pa, atomic number
91]
3: a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter [syn:
pascal, Pa]
4: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn:
Pennsylvania, Keystone State, PA]
5: an electronic amplification system used as a communication
system in public areas [syn: public address system, P.A.
system, PA system, P.A., PA]
-
palmer
0
n 1: United States golfer (born in 1929) [syn: Palmer, Arnold
Palmer, Arnold Daniel Palmer]
-
panorama
0
n 1: the visual percept of a region; "the most desirable feature
of the park are the beautiful views" [syn: view,
aspect, prospect, scene, vista, panorama]
2: a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous
scene [syn: panorama, cyclorama, diorama]
-
pasha
0
n 1: a civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt [syn:
pasha, pacha]
-
pyjama
0
n 1: a pair of loose trousers tied by a drawstring around the
waist; worn by men and women in some Asian countries [syn:
pajama, pyjama]
2: (usually plural) loose-fitting nightclothes worn for sleeping
or lounging; have a jacket top and trousers [syn: pajama,
pyjama, pj's, jammies]
-
raw
0
adj 1: (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or
manufactured using only simple or minimal processes;
"natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw
sugar"; "bales of rude cotton" [syn: natural, raw(a),
rude(a)]
2: having the surface exposed and painful; "a raw wound"
3: not treated with heat to prepare it for eating [ant:
cooked]
4: not processed or refined; "raw sewage"
5: devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and
pure; "naked ambition"; "raw fury"; "you may kill someone
someday with your raw power" [syn: naked, raw]
6: brutally unfair or harsh; "received raw treatment from his
friends"; "a raw deal"
7: not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw
cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics" [syn:
crude, raw]
8: untempered and unrefined; "raw talent"; "raw beauty"
9: hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw" [syn: sensitive,
sore, raw, tender]
10: unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North
Atlantic" [syn: bleak, cutting, raw]
11: used of wood and furniture; "raw wood" [syn: raw(a),
unsanded]
12: lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to
fight"; "raw recruits" [syn: raw, new]
13: (used informally) completely unclothed [syn: bare-assed,
bare-ass, in the altogether, in the buff, in the
raw, raw, peeled, naked as a jaybird, stark naked]
n 1: informal terms for nakedness; "in the raw"; "in the
altogether"; "in his birthday suit" [syn: raw,
altogether, birthday suit]
-
shah
0
n 1: title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran [syn:
Shah, Shah of Iran]
-
spa
0
n 1: a health resort near a spring or at the seaside [syn:
watering place, watering hole, spa]
2: a fashionable hotel usually in a resort area [syn: resort
hotel, spa]
3: a place of business with equipment and facilities for
exercising and improving physical fitness [syn: health spa,
spa, health club]
-
da
0
n 1: an official prosecutor for a judicial district [syn:
district attorney, DA]
-
ka
0
n 1: unknown god; an epithet of Prajapati and Brahma
-
na
0
n 1: a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal
group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially
in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts
violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral
halite (rock salt) [syn: sodium, Na, atomic number
11]
-
ra
0
n 1: an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in
minute amounts in uranium ores [syn: radium, Ra,
atomic number 88]
2: ancient Egyptian sun god with the head of a hawk; a universal
creator; he merged with the god Amen as Amen-Ra to become the
king of the gods [syn: Ra, Re]
3: (astronomy) the equatorial coordinate specifying the angle,
measured eastward along the celestial equator, from the
vernal equinox to the intersection of the hour circle that
passes through an object in the sky; usually expressed in
hours and minutes and seconds; used with declination to
specify positions on the celestial sphere; "one hour of right
ascension equals fifteen degrees" [syn: right ascension,
RA, celestial longitude]
-
ta
0
n 1: a hard grey lustrous metallic element that is highly
resistant to corrosion; occurs in niobite and fergusonite
and tantalite [syn: tantalum, Ta, atomic number 73]
-
wa
0
n 1: a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific [syn:
Washington, Evergreen State, WA]
-
artois
0
n 1: a former province of northern France near the English
Channel (between Picardy and Flanders)
-
brahma
0
n 1: the Creator; one of the three major deities in the later
Hindu pantheon
2: any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large
American heat and tick resistant greyish humped breed evolved
in the Gulf States by interbreeding Indian cattle and now
used chiefly for crossbreeding [syn: Brahman, Brahma,
Brahmin, Bos indicus]
-
kama
0
n 1: Hindu god of love and erotic desire; opposite of Mara
-
docudrama
0
n 1: a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or
event [syn: documentary, docudrama, documentary film,
infotainment]
-
rama
0
n 1: avatar of Vishnu whose name is synonymous with God; any of
three incarnations: Ramachandra or Parashurama or Balarama;
"in Hindu folklore Rama is the epitome of chivalry and
courage and obedience to sacred law"
-
pajama
0
n 1: a pair of loose trousers tied by a drawstring around the
waist; worn by men and women in some Asian countries [syn:
pajama, pyjama]
2: (usually plural) loose-fitting nightclothes worn for sleeping
or lounging; have a jacket top and trousers [syn: pajama,
pyjama, pj's, jammies]
-
fujiyama
0
n 1: an extinct volcano in south central Honshu that is the
highest peak in Japan; last erupted in 1707; famous for its
symmetrical snow-capped peak; a sacred mountain and site
for pilgrimages [syn: Fuji, Mount Fuji, Fujiyama,
Fujinoyama, Fuji-san]
-
yokohama
0
n 1: port city on southeastern Honshu in central Japan
-
cariama
0
n 1: the type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the
crested cariama [syn: Cariama, genus Cariama]
-
yama
0
n 1: Hindu god of death and lord of the underworld
-
ah
0
-
aha
0
-
bah
0
-
hah
0
-
harmer
0
-
monodrama
0
-
psychodrama
0
-
qua
0
-
rah
0
-
yah
0
-
cha
0
-
gras
0
-
nah
0
-
ya
0
-
ahh
0
-
palma
0
-
gama
0
-
bramah
0
-
samar
0
-
parma
0