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again
(definition)
adv 1: anew; "she tried again"; "they rehearsed the scene again"
[syn: again, once again, once more, over again]
-
amen
(definition)
n 1: a primeval Egyptian personification of air and breath;
worshipped especially at Thebes [syn: Amen, Amon,
Amun]
-
cayenne
(place)
(definition)
n 1: plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers;
usually red [syn: cayenne, cayenne pepper, chili
pepper, chilli pepper, long pepper, jalapeno,
Capsicum annuum longum]
2: ground pods and seeds of pungent red peppers of the genus
Capsicum [syn: cayenne, cayenne pepper, red pepper]
3: a long and often twisted hot red pepper [syn: cayenne,
cayenne pepper]
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chateaubriand
(definition)
n 1: French statesman and writer; considered a precursor of the
romantic movement in France (1768-1848) [syn:
Chateaubriand, Francois Rene Chateaubriand, Vicomte de
Chateaubriand]
2: a very thick center cut of beef tenderloin
-
comedienne
(definition)
n 1: a female actor in a comedy
2: a female comedian
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con
(definition)
adv 1: in opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc.; "much was
written pro and con" [ant: pro]
n 1: an argument opposed to a proposal [ant: pro]
2: a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison [syn:
convict, con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird]
3: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person
to buy worthless property [syn: bunco, bunco game,
bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence
game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam]
v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my
inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted
her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little
change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick,
nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct,
gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]
2: commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your
lines for the play yet?" [syn: memorize, memorise, con,
learn]
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den
(definition)
n 1: the habitation of wild animals [syn: lair, den]
2: a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws [syn:
hideout, hideaway, den]
3: a unit of 8 to 10 cub scouts
4: a room that is comfortable and secluded
-
don
(name)
(place)
(definition)
n 1: a Spanish gentleman or nobleman
2: teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge
or Oxford) [syn: preceptor, don]
3: the head of an organized crime family [syn: don, father]
4: Celtic goddess; mother of Gwydion and Arianrhod; corresponds
to Irish Danu
5: a European river in southwestern Russia; flows into the Sea
of Azov [syn: Don, Don River]
6: a Spanish courtesy title or form of address for men that is
prefixed to the forename; "Don Roberto"
v 1: put clothing on one's body; "What should I wear today?";
"He put on his best suit for the wedding"; "The princess
donned a long blue dress"; "The queen assumed the stately
robes"; "He got into his jeans" [syn: wear, put on,
get into, don, assume]
-
en
(definition)
n 1: half the width of an em [syn: en, nut]
-
fen
(definition)
n 1: 100 fen equal 1 yuan in China
2: low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a
transition zone between land and water; "thousands of acres
of marshland"; "the fens of eastern England" [syn: marsh,
marshland, fen, fenland]
-
glen
(name)
(definition)
n 1: a narrow secluded valley (in the mountains)
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gone
(definition)
adj 1: destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese" [syn: done
for(p), kaput(p), gone(a)]
2: dead; "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend" [syn:
asleep(p), at peace(p), at rest(p), deceased,
departed, gone]
3: well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone
times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a
departed era" [syn: bygone, bypast, departed,
foregone, gone]
4: no longer retained; "gone with the wind"
-
hen
(definition)
n 1: adult female chicken [syn: hen, biddy]
2: adult female bird
3: flesh of an older chicken suitable for stewing
4: female of certain aquatic animals e.g. octopus or lobster
-
john
(name)
(definition)
n 1: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn:
toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy,
bathroom]
2: youngest son of Henry II; King of England from 1199 to 1216;
succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Richard
I; lost his French possessions; in 1215 John was compelled by
the barons to sign the Magna Carta (1167-1216) [syn: John,
King John, John Lackland]
3: (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally said to be
the author of the 4th Gospel and three epistles and the book
of Revelation [syn: John, Saint John, St. John, Saint
John the Apostle, St. John the Apostle, John the
Evangelist, John the Divine]
4: a prostitute's customer [syn: whoremaster, whoremonger,
john, trick]
5: the last of the four Gospels in the New Testament [syn:
John, Gospel According to John]
-
ken
(name)
(definition)
n 1: range of what one can know or understand; "beyond my ken"
[syn: cognizance, ken]
2: the range of vision; "out of sight of land" [syn: sight,
ken]
-
men
(definition)
n 1: the force of workers available [syn: work force,
workforce, manpower, hands, men]
-
non
(definition)
adv 1: negation of a word or group of words; "he does not speak
French"; "she is not going"; "they are not friends"; "not
many"; "not much"; "not at all" [syn: not, non]
-
on
(definition)
adv 1: with a forward motion; "we drove along admiring the
view"; "the horse trotted along at a steady pace"; "the
circus traveled on to the next city"; "move along";
"march on" [syn: along, on]
2: indicates continuity or persistence or concentration; "his
spirit lives on"; "shall I read on?"
3: in a state required for something to function or be
effective; "turn the lights on"; "get a load on"
adj 1: in operation or operational; "left the oven on"; "the
switch is in the on position" [ant: off]
2: (of events) planned or scheduled; "the picnic is on, rain or
shine"; "we have nothing on for Friday night" [ant:
cancelled, off]
-
pen
(place)
(definition)
n 1: a writing implement with a point from which ink flows
2: an enclosure for confining livestock
3: a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play
[syn: playpen, pen]
4: a correctional institution for those convicted of major
crimes [syn: penitentiary, pen]
5: female swan
v 1: produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote
four novels" [syn: write, compose, pen, indite]
-
scone
(name)
(place)
(definition)
n 1: small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds
or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally)
on a griddle
-
swan
(name)
(definition)
n 1: stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and
usually white plumage as adult
v 1: to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before
God I swear I am innocent" [syn: affirm, verify,
assert, avow, aver, swan, swear]
2: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in
search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods";
"roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam
across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the
next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll,
wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble,
rove, range, drift, vagabond]
3: sweep majestically; "Airplanes were swanning over the
mountains"
-
ten
(definition)
adj 1: being one more than nine [syn: ten, 10, x]
n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the
base of the decimal system [syn: ten, 10, X,
tenner, decade]
2: one of four playing cards in a deck with ten pips on the face
[syn: ten-spot, ten]
-
then
(definition)
adv 1: subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence
connectors); "then he left"; "go left first, then right";
"first came lightning, then thunder"; "we watched the
late movie and then went to bed"; "and so home and to
bed" [syn: then, so, and so, and then]
2: in that case or as a consequence; "if he didn't take it, then
who did?"; "keep it then if you want to"; "the case, then, is
closed"; "you've made up your mind then?"; "then you'll be
rich"
3: at that time; "I was young then"; "prices were lower back
then"; "science as it was then taught"
adj 1: at a specific prior time; "the then president"
n 1: that time; that moment; "we will arrive before then"; "we
were friends from then on"
-
thereon
(definition)
adv 1: on that; "text and commentary thereon" [syn: thereon,
on it, on that]
-
tragedienne
(definition)
n 1: an actress who specializes in tragic roles
-
un
(name)
(place)
(definition)
n 1: an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to
promote international peace and security [syn: United
Nations, UN]
-
wan
(name)
(definition)
adj 1: (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or
feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun";
"the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks
fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the
pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn" [syn:
pale, pallid, wan, sick]
2: abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or
emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her
wan face suddenly flushed" [syn: pale, pallid, wan]
3: lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness;
"a wan smile"
n 1: a computer network that spans a wider area than does a
local area network [syn: wide area network, WAN]
v 1: become pale and sickly
-
won
(definition)
adj 1: not subject to defeat; "with that move it's a won game"
[ant: lost]
n 1: the basic unit of money in South Korea [syn: South Korean
won, won]
2: the basic unit of money in North Korea [syn: North Korean
won, won]
-
wren
(name)
(definition)
n 1: English architect who designed more than fifty London
churches (1632-1723) [syn: Wren, Sir Christopher Wren]
2: any of several small active brown birds of the northern
hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects
[syn: wren, jenny wren]
-
yen
(name)
(definition)
n 1: a yearning for something or to do something [syn:
hankering, yen]
2: the basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen
v 1: have a desire for something or someone who is not present;
"She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"
[syn: ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish]
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yon
(name)
(definition)
adv 1: at or in an indicated (usually distant) place (`yon' is
archaic and dialectal); "the house yonder"; "scattered
here and yon"- Calder Willingham [syn: yonder, yon]
adj 1: distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal); "yonder
valley"; "the hills yonder"; "what is yon place?" [syn:
yonder, yon]
-
ben
(name)
(definition)
n 1: a mountain or tall hill; "they were climbing the ben"
-
benne
(name)
(definition)
n 1: East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or
benniseed and sesame oil [syn: sesame, benne, benni,
benny, Sesamum indicum]
-
bren
(definition)
n 1: a submachine gun operated by gas pressure; used by the
British in World War II [syn: Bren, Bren gun]
-
chen
(definition)
n 1: wild goose having white adult plumage [syn: Chen,
subgenus Chen]
-
gen
(definition)
n 1: informal term for information; "give me the gen on your new
line of computers"
-
glenn
(name)
(definition)
n 1: made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United
States astronaut in 1962; later in United States Senate
(1921-) [syn: Glenn, John Glenn, John Herschel Glenn
Jr.]
-
penn
(name)
(definition)
n 1: Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of
Pennsylvania (1644-1718) [syn: Penn, William Penn]
2: a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [syn: University
of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Penn]
-
sen
(definition)
n 1: a fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and
Cambodia; equal to one hundredth of a yen or rupiah or riel
-
wen
(name)
(definition)
n 1: a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum)
that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked
[syn: sebaceous cyst, pilar cyst, wen,
steatocystoma]
-
zen
(definition)
n 1: school of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment
can come through meditation and intuition rather than
faith; China and Japan [syn: Zen, Zen Buddhism]
2: a Buddhist doctrine that enlightenment can be attained
through direct intuitive insight [syn: Zen, Zen Buddhism]
3: street name for lysergic acid diethylamide [syn: acid,
back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis,
loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane,
superman, window pane, Zen]
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cheyenne
(name)
(place)
(definition)
n 1: the capital and largest city of Wyoming; located in the
southeastern corner of the state [syn: Cheyenne, capital
of Wyoming]
2: the Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne
3: a member of a North American Indian people living on the
western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana)
-
asean
(definition)
n 1: an association of nations dedicated to economic and
political cooperation in southeastern Asia and who joined
with the United States to fight against global terrorism
[syn: Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN]
-
lpn
(definition)
n 1: a nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state
to provide routine care for the sick [syn: licensed
practical nurse, LPN, practical nurse]
-
mon
(place)
(definition)
n 1: the second day of the week; the first working day [syn:
Monday, Mon]
2: a member of a Buddhist people living in Myanmar and adjacent
parts of Thailand
3: the Mon-Khmer language spoken by the Mon
-
bayonne
(place)
(definition)
n 1: a city in northeastern New Jersey
-
bonn
(name)
(place)
(definition)
n 1: a city in western Germany on the Rhine River; was the
capital of West Germany between 1949 and 1989
-
conn
(name)
(definition)
v 1: conduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane
-
ron
(name)
(place)
(definition)
n 1: a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria [syn: Ron,
Bokkos, Daffo]
-
doyenne
(definition)
n 1: a woman who is the senior member of a group
-
valenciennes
(place)
(definition)
n 1: a town in northeastern France long noted for its lace
industry
2: a type of bobbin lace with floral patterns [syn:
Valenciennes, Valenciennes lace]
-
phon
(place)
(definition)
n 1: a unit of subjective loudness
-
schwann
(definition)
n 1: German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 and 1839
identified the cell as the basic structure of plant and
animal tissue (1810-1882) [syn: Schwann, Theodor
Schwann]
-
leon
(name)
(place)
(definition)
n 1: a historical area and former kingdom in northwestern Spain
2: a city in northwestern Spain at the foot of the Cantabrian
Mountains
3: a city in central Mexico
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councilmen
-
equestrienne
-
handymen
-
lawmen
-
shone
(name)
-
von
(name)
-
when
-
whereon
-
tenn
-
behn
(name)
-
behne
(name)
-
benn
(name)
-
brenn
-
chien
-
dehn
(name)
-
dehne
-
denn
-
denne
(name)
-
fehn
-
fenn
(name)
-
gren
-
gwen
(name)
-
hehn
-
henn
-
henne
-
hren
-
jen
(name)
-
jenn
-
jenne
(name)
(place)
-
kehn
-
kehne
-
kenn
(name)
(place)
-
kren
-
krenn
-
lehn
-
lehne
-
len
(name)
-
menn
-
menne
-
penh
-
ren
(name)
-
shen
-
sten
-
antenne
-
beaubien
-
beauchesne