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| ablaze | ablaze | lighted with red light as if with flames; "streets ablaze with lighted Christmas trees"; "the inflamed clouds at sunset"; "reddened faces around the campfire"
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| ageless | ageless | continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven"
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| aimless | aimless | aimlessly drifting
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| airflows | airflow | the flow of air; "she adjusted the fan so that the airflow was directed right at her"
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| airless | airless | lacking fresh air; "a dusty airless attic"; "the dreadfully close atmosphere"; "hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke"
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| alas | ala | by bad luck; "unfortunately it rained all day"; "alas, I cannot stay"
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| alas | alas | by bad luck; "unfortunately it rained all day"; "alas, I cannot stay"
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| allays | allay | satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst"
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| alleys | alley | a narrow street with walls on both sides
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| allice | allice | European shad
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| Allies | Allies | an alliance of nations joining together to fight a common enemy
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| allies | ally | an alliance of nations joining together to fight a common enemy
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| allis | allis | European shad
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| allows | allow | allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something; "I allow for this possibility"; "The seamstress planned for 5% shrinkage after the first wash"
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| alloys | alloy | the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something
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| aloes | aloe | a purgative made from the leaves of aloe
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| always | always | at all times; all the time and on every occasion; "I will always be there to help you"; "always arrives on time"; "there is always some pollution in the air"; "ever hoping to strike it rich"; "ever busy"
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| applause | applause | a demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together
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| applies | apply | ask (for something); "He applied for a leave of absence"; "She applied for college"; "apply for a job"
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| armless | armless | having no arms; "the armless Venus de Milo"
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| artless | artless | simple and natural; without cunning or deceit; "an artless manner"; "artless elegance"
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| atlas | atlas | a figure of a man used as a supporting column
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| awless | awless | neither feeling nor showing respect
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| awnless | awnless | lacking or having only very short awns; "awnless bromegrass"
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| backflows | backflow | a flow that returns toward its source
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| backless | backless | lacking a back; "a stool is a backless and armless seat"
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| bailees | bailee | the agent to whom property involved in a bailment is delivered
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| baileys | bailey | the outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle
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| balas | balas | a pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel
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| ballets | ballet | a theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers
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| ballies | bally | informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot"
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| barleys | barley | a grain of barley
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| baseless | baseless | without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip"; "the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears"; "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy"
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| beakless | beakless | not having a beak or bill
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| beardless | beardless | lacking hair on the face; "a smooth-faced boy of 14 years"
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| bedclothes | bedclothes | coverings that are used on a bed
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| bedless | bedless | without a bed; "the cell was bedless"
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| belays | belay | something to which a mountain climber's rope can be secured
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| belies | belie | represent falsely; "This statement misrepresents my intentions"
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| Belize | Belize | a country on the northeastern coast of Central America on the Caribbean; formerly under British control
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| bellies | belly | the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish
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| Bellis | Bellis | daisy
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| bellows | bellow | a mechanical device that blows a strong current of air; used to make a fire burn more fiercely or to sound a musical instrument
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| belows | below | at a later place; "see below"
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| beltless | beltless | lacking a belt; "unbelted jackets are in this season"
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| bibless | bibless | lacking a bib
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| billies | billy | male goat
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| billows | billow | a large sea wave
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| birthplace | birthplace | the place where someone was born
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| blackflies | blackfly | small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals
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| blameless | blameless | free of guilt; not subject to blame; "has lived a blameless life"; "of irreproachable character"; "an unimpeachable reputation"
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| bloodless | bloodless | destitute of blood or apparently so; "the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold"- John Dryden
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| blowflies | blowfly | large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds
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| blowies | blowy | abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes; "blowy weather"; "a windy bluff"
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| bobsleighs | bobsleigh | a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism
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| bolas | bola | a rope with weights attached to the ends; is thrown to entangle the legs of an animal; of South American origin
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| bolos | bolo | long heavy knife with a single edge; of Philippine origin
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| bolus | bolus | a large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine
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| boneless | boneless | being without a bone or bones; "jellyfish are boneless"
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| booklouse | booklouse | minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers
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| bootlace | bootlace | a long lace for fastening boots
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| bootless | bootless | unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"
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| botflies | botfly | stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals
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| boughless | boughless | having no boughs (of trees)
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| Boulez | Boulez | French composer of serial music (born in 1925)
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| boundless | boundless | seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent; "unbounded enthusiasm"; "children with boundless energy"; "a limitless supply of money"
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| brainless | brainless | not using intelligence
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| braless | braless | having the breasts uncovered or featuring such nudity; "topless waitresses"; "a topless cabaret"
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| branchless | branchless | having no branches
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| breastless | breastless | without a breast
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| breathless | breathless | appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead"
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| briefless | briefless | (of lawyers or barristers) lacking clients
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| brimless | brimless | without a brim; "a brimless hat"
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| brollies | brolly | colloquial terms for an umbrella
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| bubblies | bubbly | a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there
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| bugloss | bugloss | widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States
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| bullace | bullace | small wild or half-domesticated Eurasian plum bearing small ovoid fruit in clusters
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| bullas | bulla | the round leaden seal affixed to a papal bull
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| bullies | bully | a cruel and brutal fellow
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| Byblos | Byblos | an ancient Mediterranean seaport that was a thriving city state in Phoenicia during the second millennium BC; was the chief port for the export of papyrus; located in Lebanon to the north of Beirut; now partially excavated
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| bylaws | bylaw | a rule adopted by an organization in order to regulate its own affairs and the behavior of its members
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| byplays | byplay | incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; "his business with the cane was hilarious"
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| callas | calla | Greek coloratura soprano (born in the United States) known for her dramatic intensity in operatic roles (1923-1977)
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| Callas | Callas | Greek coloratura soprano (born in the United States) known for her dramatic intensity in operatic roles (1923-1977)
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| callous | callous | make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals
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| callus | callus | (botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid
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| careless | careless | effortless and unstudied; "an impression of careless elegance"; "danced with careless grace"
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| Carlos | Carlos | Venezuelan master terrorist raised by a Marxist-Leninist father; trained and worked with many terrorist groups (born in 1949)
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| casteless | casteless | not belonging to or having been expelled from a caste and thus having no place or status in society; "the foreigner was a casteless person"
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| catchflies | catchfly | mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone
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| catclaws | catclaw | erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds; West Indies and Florida
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| causeless | causeless | having no cause or apparent cause; "a causeless miracle"; "fortuitous encounters--strange accidents of fortune"; "we cannot regard artistic invention as...uncaused and unrelated to the times"
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| ceaseless | ceaseless | uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger"
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| cellos | cello | a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing
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| chalets | chalet | a Swiss house with a sloping roof and wide eaves or a house built in this style
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| chalice | chalice | a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup
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| challahs | challah | (Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking
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| challis | challis | a soft lightweight fabric (usually printed)
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| changeless | changeless | remaining the same for indefinitely long times
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| chartless | chartless | (of unknown regions) not yet surveyed or investigated; "uncharted seas"
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| chelas | chela | a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods
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| childless | childless | without offspring; "in some societies a childless woman is rejected by her tribesmen"
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| chilies | chili | very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency
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| chilis | chili | very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency
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| chillies | chilli | very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency
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| chillies | chilly | very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency
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| chillis | chilli | very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency
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| chinless | chinless | having a receding chin
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| chollas | cholla | arborescent cacti having very spiny cylindrical stem segments; southwestern United States and Mexico
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| Christless | Christless | not believing in Christ
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| chylous | chylous | consisting of chyle or having the properties of chyle
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| cinclus | cinclus | type genus of the family Cinclidae
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| classless | classless | favoring social equality; "a classless society"
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| Clios | Clio | (Greek mythology) the Muse of history
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| clothesless | clothesless | possessing no clothing
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| cloudless | cloudless | free from clouds; "under a cloudless sky"
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| clueless | clueless | totally uninformed about what is going on; not having even a clue from which to infer what is occurring
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| cochleas | cochlea | the snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Corti
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| colas | cola | carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts (`dope' is a southernism in the United States)
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| coleus | coleus | any of various Old World tropical plants of the genus Coleus having multicolored decorative leaves and spikes of blue flowers
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| collies | collie | a silky-coated sheepdog with a long ruff and long narrow head developed in Scotland
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| collies | colly | make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"
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| complies | comply | act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes; "He complied with my instructions"; "You must comply or else!"; "Follow these simple rules"; "abide by the rules"
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| coolies | coolie | (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer
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| coolies | cooly | (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer
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| cordless | cordless | not having a cord; "cordless telephone"
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| costless | costless | costing nothing; "complimentary tickets"; "free admission"
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| cost-plus | cost-plus | determining payment based on the actual cost of production plus an agreed-upon fee or rate of profit; "a cost-plus government contract"
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| coulisse | coulisse | a timber member grooved to take a sliding panel
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| countless | countless | too numerous to be counted; "incalculable riches"; "countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons"; "innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas"; "myriad stars"; "untold thousands"
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| creaseless | creaseless | used especially of fabrics; "uncreased trousers"
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| crinklies | crinkly | uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves
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| crownless | crownless | not (especially not yet) provided with a crown; "the uncrowned king"
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| crumblies | crumbly | easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder; "friable sandstone"; "friable carcinomatous tissue"; "friable curds formed in the stomach";"crumbly cookies"
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| cullis | cullis | a gutter in a roof
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| curlews | curlew | large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill
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| cutlas | cutlas | a short heavy curved sword with one edge; formerly used by sailors
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| cutlass | cutlass | a short heavy curved sword with one edge; formerly used by sailors
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| dailies | daily | a newspaper that is published every day
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| dalis | dali | surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989)
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| Dallas | Dallas | a large commercial and industrial city in northeastern Texas located in the heart of the northern Texas oil fields
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| dallies | dally | consider not very seriously; "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania"
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| dateless | dateless | unaffected by time; "few characters are so dateless as Hamlet"; "Helen's timeless beauty"
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| dauntless | dauntless | invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers"
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| dayflies | dayfly | slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days
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| deathblows | deathblow | the blow that kills (usually mercifully)
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| deathless | deathless | never dying; "his undying fame"
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| declaws | declaw | remove the claws from; "declaw a cat"
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| delays | delay | the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time
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| delis | deli | a shop selling ready-to-eat food products
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| delouse | delouse | free of lice; "They deloused the prisoners after they liberated the camps"
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| deploys | deploy | place troops or weapons in battle formation
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| diddleys | diddley | a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack"
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| diddlies | diddly | a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack"
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| disclose | disclose | make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case"
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| displace | displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant"
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| displays | display | something shown to the public; "the museum had many exhibits of oriental art"
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| displease | displease | give displeasure to
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| doilies | doily | a small round piece of linen placed under a dish or bowl
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| dollhouse | dollhouse | a small model of a house used as a toy by children
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| dollies | dolly | a small replica of a person; used as a toy
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| doubtless | doubtless | without doubt; certainly; "it's undoubtedly very beautiful"
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| Douglas | Douglas | United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln (1813-1861)
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| Douglass | Douglass | United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)
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| doulas | doula | an assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes
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| downplays | downplay | understate the importance or quality of; "he played down his royal ancestry"
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| doyleys | doyley | a small round piece of linen placed under a dish or bowl
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| doylies | doyly | a small round piece of linen placed under a dish or bowl
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| dreamless | dreamless | untroubled by dreams; "a sound and dreamless sleep"
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| dripless | dripless | designed to prevent dripping; "a dripless faucet"; "dripless candles"
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| drugless | drugless | without the use of drugs; "drugless therapy"
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| ductless | ductless | not having a duct; "ductless glands"
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| eacles | eacles | imperial moths
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| earless | earless | lacking external ears; "earless seals"
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| Eblis | Eblis | (Islam) the principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology
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| edgeless | edgeless | lacking a cutting edge
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| Ellas | Ella | a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil
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| Ellas | Ellas | a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil
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| Ellis | Elli | (Norse mythology) goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match
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| employs | employ | the state of being employed or having a job; "they are looking for employment"; "he was in the employ of the city"
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| enclose | enclose | introduce; "Insert your ticket here"
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| endless | endless | having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole; "an endless chain"
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| enlace | enlace | spin,wind, or twist together; "intertwine the ribbons"; "Twine the threads into a rope"; "intertwined hearts"
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| eyeless | eyeless | lacking eyes or eyelike features; "eyeless fish that evolved in dark caves"; "an eyeless needle"
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| faceless | faceless | without a face or identity; "a faceless apparition"; "the faceless accusers of the police state"
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| faithless | faithless | having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor; "the faithless Benedict Arnold"; "a lying traitorous insurrectionist"
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| fallows | fallow | cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons
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| farmplace | farmplace | a farm together with its buildings
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| fatless | fatless | without fat or fat solids; "nonfat or fat-free milk"
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| faultless | faultless | without fault or error; "faultless logic"; "speaks impeccable French"; "timing and technique were immaculate"; "an immaculate record"
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| fearless | fearless | oblivious of dangers or perils or calmly resolute in facing them
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| feckless | feckless | generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account"
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| felis | felis | type genus of the Felidae: true cats and most wildcats
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| fellahs | fellah | an agricultural laborer in Arab countries
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| fellas | fella | a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke"
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| fellies | felly | rim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted
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| felloes | felloe | rim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted
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| fellows | fellow | a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman; "if I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked"
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| fernless | fernless | devoid of ferns
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| filets | filet | lace having a square mesh
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| fillies | filly | a young female horse under the age of four
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| first-class | first-class | very good;of the highest quality; "made an excellent speech"; "the school has excellent teachers"; "a first-class mind"
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| flawless | flawless | without a flaw; "a flawless gemstone"
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| fledgeless | fledgeless | (of an arrow) not equipped with feathers; "shot an unfledged arrow"
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| flightless | flightless | incapable of flying
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| flyways | flyway | the geographic route along which birds customarily migrate
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| follies | folly | a revue with elaborate costuming
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| follows | follow | keep informed; "He kept up on his country's foreign policies"
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| foodless | foodless | being without food
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| footless | footless | having no feet or analogous appendages
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| footloose | footloose | free to go or do as one pleases; "Americans have always been a footloose people always moving on"; "a footloose young man eager to see the big city"
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| forceless | forceless | lacking force; feeble; "a forceless argument"
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| foreclose | foreclose | subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage
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| foreplays | foreplay | mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse
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| formless | formless | having no physical form; "belief in a world filled with...formless but often malevolent beings"
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| friendless | friendless | excluded from a society
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| friendlies | friendly | troops belonging to or allied with your own military forces; "friendlies came to their rescue"
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| frillies | frilly | having decorative ruffles or frills
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| fruitless | fruitless | unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"
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| Fulahs | Fulah | a member of a pastoral and nomadic people of western Africa; they are traditionally cattle herders of Muslim faith
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| Fulas | Fula | a family of languages of the Fulani of West Africa and used as a lingua franca in the sub-Saharan regions from Senegal to Chad; the best known of the West African languages
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| furloughs | furlough | a temporary leave of absence from military duty
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| gadflies | gadfly | any of various large flies that annoy livestock
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| galas | gala | a gay festivity
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| galeas | galea | an organ shaped like a helmet; usually a vaulted and enlarged petal as in Aconitum
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| galleys | galley | the area for food preparation on a ship
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| gallflies | gallfly | any of various insects that deposit their eggs in plants causing galls in which the larvae feed
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| gallous | gallous | alternative terms for gallows
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| gallows | gallow | an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging
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| gallows | gallows | an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging
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| Gallus | Gallus | common domestic birds and related forms
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| gaumless | gaumless | (British informal) lacking intelligence and vitality
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| ghillies | ghillie | a shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep
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| gilas | gila | a river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River
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| gillies | gillie | a shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep
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| gill-less | gill-less | having no gills
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| glassless | glassless | not furnished with glass; "windows were unglazed to admit as much light and air as possible"
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| glias | glia | sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system; glial and neural cells together compose the tissue of the central nervous system
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| gloveless | gloveless | devoid of gloves
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| goalies | goalie | the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring
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| goalless | goalless | having no points scores; "a scoreless inning"
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| godless | godless | not revering god
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| googlies | googly | a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way
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| gormless | gormless | (British informal) lacking intelligence and vitality
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| graceless | graceless | lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"
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| grassless | grassless | lacking grass
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| greenflies | greenfly | greenish aphid; pest on garden and crop plants
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| grizzlies | grizzly | powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America
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| groundless | groundless | without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip"; "the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears"; "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy"
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| guileless | guileless | free of deceit
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| guiltless | guiltless | free from evil or guilt; "an innocent child"; "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty"
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| gulas | gula | eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins)
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| gullies | gully | deep ditch cut by running water (especially after a prolonged downpour)
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| gunplays | gunplay | a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten
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| gutless | gutless | lacking courage or vitality; "he was a yellow gutless worm"; "a spineless craven fellow"
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| hairless | hairless | having no hair or fur; "a Mexican Hairless is about the size of a fox terrier and hairless except for a tufts on the head and tail"
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| hallahs | hallah | (Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking
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| halloos | halloo | a shout to attract attention; "he gave a great halloo but no one heard him"
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| hallows | hallow | render holy by means of religious rites
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| hallways | hallway | an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open; "the elevators were at the end of the hall"
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| haloes | halo | an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint
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| halos | halo | an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint
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| handless | handless | lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse
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| hapless | hapless | deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"
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| harmless | harmless | not causing or capable of causing harm; "harmless bacteria"; "rendered the bomb harmless"
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| hatless | hatless | not wearing a hat; "stood hatless in the rain with water dripping down his neck"
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| headless | headless | not having a head or formed without a head ; "the headless horseman"; "brads are headless nails"
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| heartless | heartless | lacking in feeling or pity or warmth
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| heatless | heatless | without generating heat; "luminescent organisms emit heatless light"
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| heedless | heedless | characterized by careless unconcern; "the heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes"- Edith Wharton; "reckless squandering of public funds"
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| helloes | hello | an expression of greeting; "every morning they exchanged polite hellos"
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| hellos | hello | an expression of greeting; "every morning they exchanged polite hellos"
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| Heloise | Heloise | student and mistress and wife of Abelard (circa 1098-1164)
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| helpless | helpless | unable to manage independently; "as helpless as a baby"
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| high-class | high-class | pretentiously elegant; "a high-toned restaurant"
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| hilus | hilus | (anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ; "the hilus of the kidney"
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| hipless | hipless | having or seeming to have no hips; "slim and hipless"
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| hitless | hitless | (of a batter) without a hit; "he went hitless for three innings"
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| hollas | holla | a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his bellow filled the hallway"
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| hollies | holly | United States rock star (1936-1959)
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| holloas | holloa | a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his bellow filled the hallway"
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| holloes | hollo | a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his bellow filled the hallway"
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| hollos | hollo | a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his bellow filled the hallway"
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| hollows | hollow | a depression hollowed out of solid matter
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| homeless | homeless | poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in; "the homeless became a problem in the large cities"
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| hooplas | hoopla | blatant or sensational promotion
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| hopeless | hopeless | (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic"
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| hornless | hornless | having no horns; "hornless cattle"
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| hourglass | hourglass | a sandglass that runs for sixty minutes
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| hourlies | hourly | occurring every hour or payable by the hour; "hourly chimes"; "hourly pay"
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| hueless | hueless | of something totally lacking in saturation and therefore having no hue
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| hulas | hula | a Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman
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| hullos | hullo | an expression of greeting; "every morning they exchanged polite hellos"
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| hylas | hyla | the type genus of the Hylidae; tree toads
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| igloos | igloo | an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome
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| iglus | iglu | an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome
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| ileus | ileus | blockage of the intestine (especially the ileum) that prevents the contents of the intestine from passing to the lower bowel
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| implies | imply | express or state indirectly
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| inclose | inclose | introduce; "Insert your ticket here"
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| inflows | inflow | the process of flowing in
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| in-laws | in-law | a relative by marriage
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| inlays | inlay | a decoration made by fitting pieces of wood into prepared slots in a surface
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| jailhouse | jailhouse | a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
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| jawless | jawless | of animals having no jaw
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| jealous | jealous | showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages; "he was never covetous before he met her"; "jealous of his success and covetous of his possessions"; "envious of their art collection"
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| jellies | jelly | a preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit
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| jellos | jello | fruit-flavored dessert (trade mark Jell-O) made from a commercially prepared gelatin powder
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| jobless | jobless | not having a job; "idle carpenters"; "jobless transients"; "many people in the area were out of work"
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| jollies | jolly | a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work
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| joyless | joyless | not experiencing or inspiring joy; "a joyless man"; "a joyless occasion"; "joyless evenings"
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| juiceless | juiceless | lacking juice
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| Julies | July | the month following June and preceding August
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| kalis | kali | wife of Siva and malevolent form of Devi; "the black"
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| kellies | kelly | United States dancer who performed in many musical films (1912-1996)
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| keyless | keyless | lacking or not requiring a key; "a keyless lock operated by a series of pushbuttons"
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| kileys | kiley | an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex
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| kilos | kilo | one thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; "a kilogram is approximately 2.2 pounds"
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| koalas | koala | sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with grey furry ears and coat; feeds on eucalyptus leaves and bark
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| kolas | kola | a Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad
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| kylies | kylie | an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex
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| Lallies | Lally | support column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with concrete
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| landless | landless | owning no land; "the landless peasantry"
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| langleys | langley | United States astronomer and aviation pioneer who invented the bolometer and contributed to the design of early aircraft (1834-1906)
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| Laplace | Laplace | French mathematician and astronomer who formulated the nebular hypothesis concerning the origins of the solar system and who developed the theory of probability (1749-1827)
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| last-place | last-place | lowest in rank or importance; "last prize"; "in last place"
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| lawless | lawless | without law or control; "the system is economically inefficient and politically anarchic"
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| leadless | leadless | not treated with lead; "unleaded gasoline"
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| leafless | leafless | having no leaves
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| leeways | leeway | a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
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| legless | legless | not having legs; "a legless man in a wheelchair"
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| lend-lease | lend-lease | the transfer of goods and services to an ally to aid in a common cause; "lend-lease during World War II was extremely generous"
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| Leos | Leo | the fifth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about July 23 to August 22
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| lewis | lewis | English critic and novelist; author of theological works and of books for children (1898-1963)
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| lidless | lidless | always watchful; "to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public weal"- Alfred Tennyson
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| lieus | lieu | the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of"
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| lifeless | lifeless | deprived of life; no longer living; "a lifeless body"
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| lightless | lightless | without illumination; "came up the lightless stairs"; "the unilluminated side of Mars"; "through dark unlighted (or unlit) streets"
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| lilies | lily | any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers
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| Lilos | Lilo | a type of inflatable air mattress
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| limbless | limbless | having no limbs; "a snake is a limbless reptile"
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| lipless | lipless | without a lip or lips
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| listless | listless | lacking zest or vivacity; "he was listless and bored"
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| loamless | loamless | having no loam; "a stony loamless yard"
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| lollies | lolly | ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick; "in England a popsicle is called an ice lolly"
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| lordless | lordless | having no lord or master; "harsh punishments for sturdy vagabonds and masterless men"
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| lossless | lossless | characterized by or causing no dissipation of energy
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| Louis | Louis | United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion for 12 years (1914-1981)
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| loveless | loveless | receiving no love; "a loveless childhood"
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| low-class | low-class | occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society
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| luaus | luau | an elaborate Hawaiian feast or party (especially one accompanied by traditional foods and entertainment)
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| luckless | luckless | having or bringing misfortune; "Friday the 13th is an unlucky date"
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| lulus | lulu | a very attractive or seductive looking woman
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| lyes | lye | a strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide
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| malaise | malaise | physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)
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| Malays | Malay | a western subfamily of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages
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| malice | malice | the quality of threatening evil
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| malis | mali | a landlocked republic in northwestern Africa; achieved independence from France in 1960; Mali was a center of West African civilization for more than 4,000 years
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| mallees | mallee | any of several low-growing Australian eucalypts
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| malleus | malleus | the ossicle attached to the eardrum
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| mallows | mallow | any of various plants of the family Malvaceae
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| malus | malus | apple trees; found throughout temperate zones of the northern hemisphere
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| marbleize | marbleize | make something look like marble; "marbleize the fireplace"
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| matchless | matchless | eminent beyond or above comparison; "matchless beauty"; "the team's nonpareil center fielder"; "she's one girl in a million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world"; "wrote with unmatchable clarity"; "unrivaled mastery of her art"
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| mateless | mateless | of someone who has no marriage partner
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| mayflies | mayfly | slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days
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| mealies | mealie | an ear of corn
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| mealies | mealy | composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency; "granular sugar"; "the photographs were grainy and indistinct"; "it left a mealy residue"
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| meatless | meatless | lacking meat; "meatless days"
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| medflies | medfly | small black-and-white fly that damages citrus and other fruits by implanting eggs that hatch inside the fruit
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| medleys | medley | a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources
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| melees | melee | a noisy riotous fight
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| mellows | mellow | make or grow (more) mellow; "These apples need to mellow a bit more"; "The sun mellowed the fruit"
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| milkless | milkless | having no milk; "milkless breasts"
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| milos | milo | small drought-resistant sorghums having large yellow or whitish grains
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| mindless | mindless | requiring little mental effort; "mindless tasks"
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| mirthless | mirthless | lacking mirth
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| mislays | mislay | place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I misplaced my eyeglasses"
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| misplace | misplace | place or position wrongly; put in the wrong position; "misplaced modifiers"
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| misplays | misplay | (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
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| molas | mola | among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters
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| Molise | Molise | a region of south central Italy
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| mollahs | mollah | a Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam; the head of a mosque
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| mollies | mollie | popular aquarium fish
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| mollies | molly | popular aquarium fish
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| monthlies | monthly | a periodical that is published every month (or 12 issues per year)
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| moolahs | moolah | informal terms for money
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| moonless | moonless | without a moon or a visible moon; "the dark moonless night"; "a moonless planet"
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| morales | morale | the spirit of a group that makes the members want the group to succeed
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| motleys | motley | a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England
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| mouthless | mouthless | having no mouth or mouthlike opening
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| mueslis | muesli | mixture of untoasted dry cereals and fruits
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| mullahs | mullah | a Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam; the head of a mosque
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| mullas | mulla | a Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam; the head of a mosque
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| mullus | mullus | type genus of the Mullidae: goatfishes
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| Nablus | Nablus | an ancient city in the West Bank to the north of Jerusalem; the home of Jacob in biblical times
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| nameless | nameless | being or having an unknown or unnamed source; "a poem by an unknown author"; "corporations responsible to nameless owners"; "an unnamed donor"
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| necklace | necklace | jewelry consisting of a cord or chain (often bearing gems) worn about the neck as an ornament (especially by women)
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| neckless | neckless | lacking or apparently lacking a neck
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| needless | needless | unnecessary and unwarranted; "a strikers' tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life"
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| nerveless | nerveless | marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional; "play it cool"; "keep cool"; "stayed coolheaded in the crisis"; "the most nerveless winner in the history of the tournament"
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| newsless | newsless | not providing news or information
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| Nicklaus | Nicklaus | United States golfer considered by many to be the greatest golfer of all time (born in 1940)
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| nightclothes | nightclothes | garments designed to be worn in bed
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| noblesse | noblesse | members of the nobility (especially of the French nobility)
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| noiseless | noiseless | making no sound; "th' inaudible and noiseless foot of time"- Shakespeare
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| nonplus | nonplus | be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
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| noseless | noseless | having no nose
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| nuclease | nuclease | general term for enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleic acid by cleaving chains of nucleotides into smaller units
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| nucleus | nucleus | the central structure of the lens that is surrounded by the cortex
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| nullahs | nullah | a ravine or gully in southern Asia
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| ollas | olla | leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper
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| outclass | outclass | cause to appear in a lower class; "The Yankees outclassed Cincinnati"
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| outflows | outflow | the discharge of a fluid from some container; "they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"; "he had to clean up the leak"
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| outlaws | outlaw | someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
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| outlays | outlay | the act of spending or disbursing money
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| outplays | outplay | excel or defeat in a game; "The Knicks outplayed the Lakers"
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| owlclaws | owlclaws | stout perennial herb of western United States having flower heads with drooping orange-yellow rays; causes spewing sickness in sheep
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| paellas | paella | saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken
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| paillasse | paillasse | mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust
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| painless | painless | requiring little hard work or exertion; "a painless solution to the problem"
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| Paisleys | Paisley | a soft wool fabric with a colorful swirled pattern of curved shapes
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| palace | palace | official residence of an exalted person (as a sovereign)
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| palas | palas | East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye
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| Pallas | Pallas | a large asteroid; the second asteroid to be discovered
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| Pangloss | Pangloss | an incurable optimist in a satire by Voltaire
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| parlays | parlay | a series of wagers in which the winnings from one wager are used as a stake for the subsequent wagers
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| parleys | parley | a negotiation between enemies
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| parlous | parlous | fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery"
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| parsleys | parsley | aromatic herb with flat or crinkly leaves that are cut finely and used to garnish food
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| pathless | pathless | lacking pathways; "trackless wilderness"; "roadless areas"
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| Peleus | Peleus | a king of the Myrmidons and father of Achilles
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| pelisse | pelisse | a sleeveless cape that is lined or trimmed with fur
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| peplos | peplos | a garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist
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| peplus | peplus | a garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist
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| phallus | phallus | the male organ of copulation (`member' is a euphemism)
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| pholas | pholas | type genus of the family Pholadidae: piddocks
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| Pholis | Pholis | type genus of the Pholidae: gunnels
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| phyllos | phyllo | tissue thin sheets of pastry used especially in Greek dishes
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| pilaus | pilau | rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes
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| pilaws | pilaw | rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes
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| pileus | pileus | a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom
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| pillows | pillow | a cushion to support the head of a sleeping person
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| pilose | pilose | covered with hairs especially fine soft ones
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| pilous | pilous | covered with hairs especially fine soft ones
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| pilus | pilus | hairlike structure especially on the surface of a cell or microorganism
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| planless | planless | aimlessly drifting
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| poilus | poilu | thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game; southern U.S.
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| pointless | pointless | not having a point especially a sharp point; "my pencils are all pointless"
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| police | police | the force of policemen and officers; "the law came looking for him"
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| polos | polo | a game similar to field hockey but played on horseback using long-handled mallets and a wooden ball
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| polyose | polyose | any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules
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| priceless | priceless | having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual worth
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| psyllas | psylla | small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices
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| pueblos | pueblo | a communal village built by Indians in the southwestern United States
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| pulas | pula | the basic unit of money in Botswana
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| pulleys | pulley | a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
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| pussleys | pussley | weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan
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| pusslies | pussly | weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan
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| qiblas | qibla | a small terrorist group of Muslims in South Africa formed in the 1980s; was inspired by Ayatollah Khomeini to create an Islamic state in South Africa
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| railways | railway | a line of track providing a runway for wheels; "he walked along the railroad track"
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| rainless | rainless | lacking rain; "a rainless month"; "rainless skies"
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| rallies | rally | the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort; "he singled to start a rally in the 9th inning"; "he feared the rallying of their troops for a counterattack"
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| rayless | rayless | having no parts resembling rays; not having ray flowers
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| reckless | reckless | marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences; "foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker"; "became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans"-Macaulay; "a reckless driver"; "a rash attempt to climb Mount Everest"
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| recluse | recluse | one who lives in solitude
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| relace | relace | lace again; "She relaced her boots"
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| relays | relay | the act of passing something along from one person or group to another; "the relay was successful"
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| release | release | the act of liberating someone or something
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| relies | rely | have confidence or faith in; "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"
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| replace | replace | substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected); "He replaced the old razor blade"; "We need to replace the secretary that left a month ago"; "the insurance will replace the lost income"; "This antique vase can never be replaced"
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| replays | replay | the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape
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| replies | reply | a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation; "I waited several days for his answer"; "he wrote replies to several of his critics"
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| restless | restless | worried and uneasy
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| rhymeless | rhymeless | not having rhyme; "writing unrhymed blank verse is like playing tennis without a net"
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| ribless | ribless | having no ribs or no visible ribs
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| ridleys | ridley | a marine turtle
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| rimeless | rimeless | not having rhyme; "writing unrhymed blank verse is like playing tennis without a net"
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| rimless | rimless | lacking a rim or frame; "rimless glasses"
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| riskless | riskless | thought to be devoid of risk
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| roadless | roadless | lacking pathways; "trackless wilderness"; "roadless areas"
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| robles | roble | tall graceful deciduous California oak having leathery leaves and slender pointed acorns
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| roofless | roofless | physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security; "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern
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| rootless | rootless | wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community; "led a vagabond life"; "a rootless wanderer"
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| Rosales | Rosales | in some classifications this category does not include Leguminosae
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| rouleaus | rouleau | a roll of coins wrapped in paper
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| rustless | rustless | without rust
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| ruthless | ruthless | without mercy or pity; "an act of ruthless ferocity"; "a monster of remorseless cruelty"
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| sallies | sally | a venture off the beaten path; "a sally into the wide world beyond his home"
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| sandflies | sandfly | any of various small dipterous flies; bloodsucking females can transmit sandfly fever and leishmaniasis
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| sandglass | sandglass | timepiece in which the passage of time is indicated by the flow of sand from one transparent container to another through a narrow passage
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| sapless | sapless | destitute of sap and other vital juices; dry; "the rats and roaches scurrying along the sapless planks"- Norman Mailer
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| sawflies | sawfly | insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant
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| scaleless | scaleless | destitute of scales
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| scentless | scentless | emitting or holding no odor; "scentless wisps of straw"; "a scentless stretch of rocky ground"
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| schoolhouse | schoolhouse | a building where young people receive education; "the school was built in 1932"; "he walked to school every morning"
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| scillas | scilla | an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers
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| scofflaws | scofflaw | one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses
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| scoreless | scoreless | having no points scores; "a scoreless inning"
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| screenplays | screenplay | a script for a film including dialogue and descriptions of characters and sets
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| screw-loose | screw-loose | not behaving normally
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| seamless | seamless | perfectly consistent and coherent; "the novel's seamless plot"
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| seedless | seedless | lacking seeds; "seedless grapefruit"
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| selfless | selfless | showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others
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| sexless | sexless | sexually unattractive
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| shadblows | shadblow | any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit
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| shadflies | shadfly | slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days
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| shallows | shallow | a stretch of shallow water
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| shallus | shallu | sorghum having slender dry stalks and small hard grains; introduced into United States from India
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| shameless | shameless | feeling no shame; "a shameless imposter"; "an unblushing apologist for fascism"
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| shapeless | shapeless | lacking symmetry or attractive form; "a shapeless hat on his head"
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| shell-less | shell-less | of animals or fruits that have no shell
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| shiftless | shiftless | lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative; lazy; "a shiftless student"; "studied in a shiftless way"
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| shitless | shitless | extremely frightened; "he was scared shitless"
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| shoelace | shoelace | a lace used for fastening shoes
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| shoeless | shoeless | without shoes; "the barefoot boy"; "shoeless Joe Jackson"
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| shooflies | shoofly | a child's rocking chair with the seat built between two flat sides that are shaped to resemble an animal (such as a swan or duck)
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| showplace | showplace | a place that is frequently exhibited and visited for its historical interest or natural beauty
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| sialis | sialis | type genus of the Sialidae
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| sightless | sightless | lacking sight; "blind as an eyeless beggar"
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| sillies | silly | a word used for misbehaving children; "don't be a silly"
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| silos | silo | a cylindrical tower used for storing silage
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| sinless | sinless | free from sin
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| skinless | skinless | having no skin
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| slaveless | slaveless | where slavery was prohibited; "a free-soil state"
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| sleepless | sleepless | always watchful; "to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public weal"- Alfred Tennyson
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| sleeveless | sleeveless | unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"
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| smileys | smiley | an emoticon of a smiling face
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| smokeless | smokeless | emitting or containing little or no smoke; "smokeless factory stacks"; "smokeless fuel"; "a smokeless environment"
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| snowploughs | snowplough | a vehicle used to push snow from roads
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| snowplows | snowplow | a vehicle used to push snow from roads
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| socles | socle | a plain plinth that supports a wall
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| solace | solace | the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction; "his presence was a consolation to her"
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| soleless | soleless | having no sole
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| soleus | soleus | a broad flat muscle in the calf of the leg under the gastrocnemius muscle
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| solos | solo | a flight in which the aircraft pilot is unaccompanied
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| soulless | soulless | lacking sensitivity or the capacity for deep feeling
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| soundless | soundless | marked by absence of sound; "a silent house"; "soundless footsteps on the grass"; "the night was still"
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| speckless | speckless | completely neat and clean; "the apartment was immaculate"; "in her immaculate white uniform"; "a spick-and-span kitchen"; "their spic red-visored caps"
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| speechless | speechless | temporarily incapable of speaking; "struck dumb"; "speechless with shock"
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| spillways | spillway | a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction
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| spineless | spineless | lacking thorns
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| spotless | spotless | completely neat and clean; "the apartment was immaculate"; "in her immaculate white uniform"; "a spick-and-span kitchen"; "their spic red-visored caps"
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| springless | springless | lacking in elasticity or vitality; "went off with springless steps"
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| spyglass | spyglass | a small refracting telescope
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| squalus | squalus | spiny dogfishes
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| squillas | squilla | a kind of mantis shrimp
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| stainless | stainless | steel containing chromium that makes it resistant to corrosion
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| stalkless | stalkless | attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; "sessile flowers"; "the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate"
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| starchless | starchless | lacking starch
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| starless | starless | not starry; having no stars or starlike objects; "dark starless nights"
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| stateless | stateless | without nationality or citizenship; "stateless persons"
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| steelies | steely | resembling steel in hardness
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| stelas | stela | an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings
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| stelis | stelis | any of various small tropical American orchids of the genus Stelis having long slender racemes of numerous small to minute flowers
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| stellas | stella | United States minimalist painter (born in 1936)
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| stemless | stemless | (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground
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| stingless | stingless | without a sting
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| stoneless | stoneless | (of fruits having stones) having the stone removed; "stoneless dried dates"
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| stoolies | stoolie | someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
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| strapless | strapless | a woman's garment that exposes the shoulders and has no shoulder straps
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| styleless | styleless | lacking in style or elegance; "a styleless way of dressing"; "expensive but styleless country tweeds"; "wearing unstylish clothes"
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| stylise | stylise | represent according to a conventional style; "a stylized female head"
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| stylize | stylize | represent according to a conventional style; "a stylized female head"
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| stylus | stylus | a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving; "he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus"
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| subclass | subclass | (biology) a taxonomic category below a class and above an order
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| sublease | sublease | a lease from one lessee to another
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| Suillus | Suillus | a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae
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| sullies | sully | French statesman (1560-1641)
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| sunglass | sunglass | a convex lens that focuses the rays of the sun; used to start a fire
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| sunless | sunless | filled or abounding with clouds
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| supplies | supply | the activity of supplying or providing something
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| surplice | surplice | a loose-fitting white ecclesiastical vestment with wide sleeves
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| surplus | surplus | a quantity much larger than is needed
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| swallows | swallow | the act of swallowing; "one swallow of the liquid was enough"; "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips"
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| swordplays | swordplay | the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully
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| symploce | symploce | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses, i.e., simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe
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| tableaus | tableau | any dramatic scene
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| tactless | tactless | revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; "an inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable"
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| tailless | tailless | not having a tail; "anurous toads and frogs"
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| talas | tala | the basic unit of money in Western Samoa
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| tallies | tally | a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely; "the Yankees scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th"; "their first tally came in the 3rd inning"
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| Tallis | Tallis | (Judaism) a shawl with a ritually knotted fringe at each corner; worn by Jews at morning prayer
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| tallows | tallow | obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants
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| talus | talus | the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint
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| tasteless | tasteless | lacking aesthetic or social taste
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| tearless | tearless | free from tears
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| tellies | telly | an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen; "the British call a tv set a telly"
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| Tellus | Tellus | (Roman mythology) goddess of the earth; protector of marriage and fertility; identified with Greek Gaea
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| tellys | telly | an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen; "the British call a tv set a telly"
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| teslas | tesla | United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943)
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| thallus | thallus | a plant body without true stems or roots or leaves or vascular system; characteristic of the thallophytes
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| thankless | thankless | not feeling or showing gratitude; "ungrateful heirs"; "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!"- Shakespeare
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| thornless | thornless | lacking thorns
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| thoughtless | thoughtless | without care or thought for others; "the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; `Let them eat cake'"
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| thriftless | thriftless | careless of the future
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| Tiflis | Tiflis | the capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river
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| timeless | timeless | unaffected by time; "few characters are so dateless as Hamlet"; "Helen's timeless beauty"
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| tireless | tireless | characterized by hard work and perseverance
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| toeless | toeless | lacking a toe or toes; "a toeless shoe"
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| Toklas | Toklas | United States writer remembered as the secretary and companion of Gertrude Stein (1877-1967)
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| tollhouse | tollhouse | a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls
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| tolus | tolu | aromatic yellowish brown balsam from the tolu balsam tree used especially in cough syrups
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| toneless | toneless | lacking in tone or expression; "his toneless mechanical voice"
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| toolhouse | toolhouse | a shed for storing tools
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| toothless | toothless | lacking necessary force for effectiveness; "a toothless piece of legislation"
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| topless | topless | having the breasts uncovered or featuring such nudity; "topless waitresses"; "a topless cabaret"
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| Toulouse | Toulouse | a city on the Garonne River in southern France to the southeast of Bordeaux; a cultural center of medieval Europe
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| trackless | trackless | lacking pathways; "trackless wilderness"; "roadless areas"
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| treacles | treacle | writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
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| treeless | treeless | not wooded
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| trellis | trellis | latticework used to support climbing plants
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| trolleys | trolley | a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity
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| troublous | troublous | full of trouble; "these are troublous times"
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| tubeless | tubeless | pneumatic tire not needing an inner tube to be airtight
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| tuneless | tuneless | not having a musical sound or pleasing tune
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| uglies | ugli | large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin
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| uglis | ugli | large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin
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| unclothes | unclothe | get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"
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| unlace | unlace | undo the ties of; "They untied the prisoner"
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| unloose | unloose | loosen the ties of; "unloose your sneakers"
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| useless | useless | having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully; "a kitchen full of useless gadgets"; "she is useless in an emergency"
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| valis | vali | (Norse mythology) one of the Aesir and avenger of Balder; son of Odin
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| valise | valise | a small overnight bag for short trips
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| valleys | valley | a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river
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| values | value | beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something); "he has very conservatives values"
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| viewless | viewless | not having or expressing opinions or views
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| villas | villa | pretentious and luxurious country residence with extensive grounds
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| villus | villus | a minute hairlike projection on mucous membrane
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| vizslas | vizsla | Hungarian hunting dog resembling the Weimaraner but having a rich deep red coat
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| voiceless | voiceless | being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech
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| volleys | volley | a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces
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| voteless | voteless | deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote; "labor was voiceless"; "disenfrenchised masses took to the streets"
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| wakeless | wakeless | (of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep"
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| Wallace | Wallace | English naturalist who formulated a concept of evolution that resembled Charles Darwin's (1823-1913)
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| wallahs | wallah | usually in combination: person in charge of or employed at a particular thing; "a kitchen wallah"; "the book wallah"
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| walleyes | walleye | pike-like freshwater perches
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| wallies | wally | a silly and inept person; someone who is regarded as stupid
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| wallows | wallow | an indolent or clumsy rolling about; "a good wallow in the water"
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| waylays | waylay | wait in hiding to attack
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| weedless | weedless | free from weeds; "a weedless garden"
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| weeklies | weekly | a periodical that is published every week (or 52 issues per year)
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| weightless | weightless | having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light; "floating freely in a weightless condition"; "a baby bat...fluffy and weightless as a moth"; "jackets made of a weightless polyester fabric"
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| wheelhouse | wheelhouse | an enclosed compartment from which a vessel can be navigated
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| wheelless | wheelless | having no wheels or having no wheeled vehicles; "dragging a wheelless stoneboat filled with rocks"; "wheelless societies"
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| whitlows | whitlow | a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail
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| wigless | wigless | not wearing a wig
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| Willis | Willis | English physician who was a pioneer in the study of the brain (1621-1675)
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| willows | willow | a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers
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| windlass | windlass | lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds
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| windless | windless | without or almost without wind; "he prefers windless days for playing golf"
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| wingless | wingless | lacking wings
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| winless | winless | having no wins; "the team had a very disappointing winless season"
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| wireless | wireless | a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves
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| witless | witless | (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment
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| wobblies | wobbly | a member of the Industrial Workers of the World
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| woodlice | woodlouse | any of various small terrestrial isopods having a flat elliptical segmented body; found in damp habitats
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| woodlouse | woodlouse | any of various small terrestrial isopods having a flat elliptical segmented body; found in damp habitats
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| woolies | wooly | covered with dense often matted or curly hairs; "woolly lambs"
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| woollies | woolly | covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments; "the woolly aphid has a lanate coat resembling cotton"
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| wordless | wordless | expressed without speech; "a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe
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| wordplays | wordplay | a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"
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| work-clothes | work-clothes | clothing worn for doing manual labor
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| workflows | workflow | progress (or rate of progress) in work being done
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| workplace | workplace | a place where work is done; "he arrived at work early today"
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| world-class | world-class | ranking above all others; "was first in her class"; "the foremost figure among marine artists"; "the top graduate"
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| worthless | worthless | morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"
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| wrinklies | wrinkly | marked by wrinkles; "tired travelers in wrinkled clothes"
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| xylose | xylose | a sugar extracted from wood or straw; used in foods for diabetics
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| yearlies | yearly | a reference book that is published regularly once every year
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| yellows | yellow | yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons
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| zealous | zealous | marked by active interest and enthusiasm; "an avid sports fan"
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| Zulus | Zulu | a Bantu language of considerable literary importance in southeastern Africa
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