OntoWordNet This is a beta version (v0.72) of the OWL alignment of WordNet 1.6 Noun Synsets to the DOLCE-Lite-Plus ontology library (this version aligned to DOLCE-Lite-Plus 397: for details, see http://dolce.semanticweb.org. This file takes about 3 minutes to load into Protégé 3.2 (measure taken on a PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz, 1Gb RAM, allowing 730Mb of memory). The alignment is part of the OntoWordNet programme, which aims at: 1) reengineering WordNet lexicon as a formal ontology, and in particular: 1.1) distinguishing synsets that can be formalized as classes from those that can be formalized as individuals 1.2) interpreting the hyperonymy relation of WordNet as either owl:subClassOf or rdf:type 1.3) interpreting lexical relations from WordNet as ontological relations 2) aligning the top-level of WordNet to a foundational ontology, allowing for re-interpretation of hyperonymy (as owl:subClassOf) when it is the case 3) checking the consistency of the overall result, and correcting the cases for inconsistency 4) modularizing the resulting ontology into modules according to an initial proposal of 'domains', which will be revised and reinterpreted according to logical and formal ontological principles 5) learning and revising formal domain relations (either from glosses or from corpora) Until now, the tasks 1.1, 1.2, and 2 have been fulfilled as far as Noun Synsets are concerned. More than 60,000 OWL classes have been created, and almost 5,000 OWL individuals. About 20 classes and 10 individuals still need corrections and will be included in the next version. Almost 1,000 classes have been aligned to 90 DOLCE-Lite-Plus classes, in order to make sense of the main peculiarities of WordNet taxonomies when formal axioms constrain the intended meaning (as derived from DOLCE-Lite-Plus). Such alignment has been performed by interpreting WordNet noun synset taxonomy until the third or fourth level. In many branchings, I am convinced that lower levels are semantically consistent, while in others, I expect that further refinement is still needed. The task 3) has been partly done, but corrections are not yet in place in this version (about 700 noun synsets of WordNet 1.6 have multiple hyperonyms, and some inconsistencies after alignment to DOLCE-Lite-Plus have been discovered). Ongoing work is on tasks 1.3), 3), 4), and 5), and on the reengineering and alignment of the Verb and Adjective Synsets. Moreover, a mapping of OWN to WordNet 2.0 is envisaged in the short term. For some of the principles underlying the alignment work and the OWN programme, see: - Gangemi A, Guarino N, Masolo C, Oltramari A, Restructuring WordNet's Top-Level, AI Magazine, Fall 2003. - Gangemi A, Navigli R, Velardi P, The OntoWordNet Project: extension and axiomatization of conceptual relations in WordNet, Meersman R, et al. (eds.), Proceedings of ODBASE03 Conference, Springer, 2003. 0.72 annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis small brown-and_white European moth introduced into eastern United States; pest of various shade and fruit trees herbs and subshrubs of warm North America type genus of the family Balanidae containing a nonpurulent clear watery content a car for use of the train crew; usually the last car on the train lightness created by sunlight an area of the ozone layer (near the poles) that is seasonally depleted of ozone causing something to go; 'the cost of sending their children to college' a sugar that is a constituent of nucleic acids a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves a ruined building; 'they explored several Roman ruins' a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits introduced into the United States from Mexico; feeds on the foliage of the bean plant plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers a part of the fireplace taken as a symbol (synecdoche) for home; 'driven from hearth and home'; 'fighting in defense of their firesides' person of exceptional holiness stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice copperheads an Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum evergreen Australasian tree having white or silvery bark and young leaves and yellow flowers a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance; 'the noisy voice of the waterfall'; 'the incessant voices of the artillery' a member of the House of Commons of Great Britain who is not a party leader a system of epicyclic gears in which at least one wheel axis itself revolves about another fixed axis someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) tall bushy European perennial grown for its masses of light-textured pinnate foliage and slender spikes of blue flowers; sometimes used medicinally a small lyre-shaped instrument that is placed between the teeth and played by twanging a wire tongue while changing the shape of the mouth cavity (British) a peddler of sand at a seashore resort; used now only to express great happiness in the expression 'happy as a sandboy' a ship that is small the greatest possible degree of something: 'what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior'; 'to the limit of his ability' (British slang) an unpleasant smell small moas infestation of the human intestine with Ascaris roundworms an attendant on an airplane a circuit in a computer that fires when any of its inputs fire type genus of the Rhamnaceae: buckthorns trousers reaching to the foot cosmetic powder for the face common American wren that nests around houses the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits gin (or vodka) with dry vermouth large coniferous evergreen tree of North Africa and Spain having flattened branches and scalelike leaves yielding a hard fragrant wood; bark yields a resin used in varnishes the visual elements of television the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another an offshore platform (floating or fixed to the sea bed) from which many oil wells can be bored radially small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead a plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year a one-sided agreement whereby you promise to do (or refrain from doing) something in return for a performance (not a promise) hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door) ending something (e.g. gold or silver) as no longer the legal tender of a country a long ridge or pile; 'a huge bank of earth' any land or sea or air vehicle designed to carry troops tropical west African evergreen tree bearing pungent aromatic seeds used as a condiment and in folk medicine sausage meat rolled and baked in pastry a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct of distinguishable from adjacent parts inflammation of a diverticulum in the digestive tract (especially the colon); characterized by painful abdominal cramping and fever and constipation chiefly tropical aquatic or bog herbs: pipeworts voluntary promotion of human welfare any alcoholic beverage of inferior quality the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area a threaded screw for machine parts; screws into a tapped hole a literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning a temporary associate; 'politics makes strange bedfellows' an engineer concerned with the design and construction of automobiles a family of aquatic fungi of order Chytridiales an assessment of the physical condition of a newborn infant; involves heart rate and muscle tone and respiratory effort and color and reflex responsiveness characteristic way of bearing one's body: 'stood with good posture' a chisel with a thin blade for woodworking a transmission line for high-frequency signals a recurrent rhythmical series fine Burgundy wine usually white and dry a member of a North American Indian people living in Baja California teaching reading by training beginners to associate letters with their sound values document effecting a property transfer two barrel vaults intersecting at right angles a sheath worn to protect a finger an organism that feeds on dead organic matter especially a fungus or bacterium the branch of engineering that deals with the interaction of surfaces in relative motion (as in bearings or gears): their design and friction and wear and lubrication cake having layers held together by a sweet filling and usually covered with frosting the enclosure of something in a box lilac of northern China having ovate leaves and profuse early summer rose-lilac flowers an agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bonds a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network an unplanned expedient extraneous noise contaminating sound measurements that cannot be separated from the desired signal a formal gown for evening wear a genus of Elephantidae "the sudden occurrence of an audible event; 'the sound awakened them'" a 15-year cycle used as a chronological unit in ancient Rome and adopted in some medieval kingdoms the property of being of short spatial extent small moths whose larvae spin silken tunnels and feed on stored food products a general tendency as of opinion: 'not openly liberal but that is the tendency of the book' the act of taking occupancy lynxes an attempt to get something; 'they made a futile play for power'; 'he made a bid to gain attention' a verse line having five metrical feet a smoker who uses a pipe the bivalent radical CH2 derived from methane any skeletal muscle having three origins (but especially the triceps brachii) heavily armored and highly spiked dinosaur with semi-upright posture shrewdness shown by keen insight a woman proprietor acid or granitic glass; usually dark, but transparent in thin pieces (chemistry) the sum of the relative atomic masses of the constituent atoms of a molecule usually coiled worship of a lord because of his rank or title a wrench that has a gauge that indicates the amount of torque being applied a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger source of strophanthin which in in moderate doses is a cardiac stimulant but in larger doses a violent poison (Scottish) a short time; 'bide a wee' flesh of eel; elongate fatty-fleshed fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels usually smoked or pickled photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication a poison secreted by certain animals an oil well with a strong natural flow so that pumping is not necessary a firm that sells and buys computers small Brazilian evergreen resinous tree or shrub having dark green leaflets and white flowers followed by bright red fruit; used as a street tree and lawn specimen especially pretty plant having a delicate fringe of threadlike rays around flower heads having very slender white or pink rays; United States and Canada marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ a writ issued by a court at the request of one of the parties to a suit; it requires a witness to bring to court or to a deposition any relevant documents under the witness's control snails and slugs and their relatives the act of cutting costs a lamp that provides light for reading any of several green orchids of the genus Habenaria a judicial proceeding soft woolen fabric used especially for baby clothes a mixture of cement and sand and water that is sprayed on a surface under pneumatic pressure huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur; late Jurassic the cortex of the frontal lobe loose or flaccid body fat invests in a theatrical production a train or bus or taxi traveling empty a pitch that curves downward rapidly as it approaches the plate forming or dividing words into syllables rod that moves or is moved by a piston a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization tall perennial reedlike grass originally of southeastern Asia: sugarcane milk thickened with a butter and flour roux progressive wasting of muscle tissues razor clams a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod a division of nonflowering plants characterized by rhizoids rather than true roots and having little or no organized vascular tissue and showing alternation of generations between gamete-bearing forms and spore-bearing forms; comprises true mosses (Bryopsida) and liverworts (Hepaticopsida) and hornworts (Anthoceropsida) hyacinth with loosely flowered spikes, several growing from one bulb a gripping tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for their own use in former times was free and cultivated his own land any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific an advocate of secularism; someone who believes that religion should be excluded from government and education prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft gray-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled the area that is visible through an optical instrument "a place that attracts many visitors; 'New York is a mecca for young artists'" theater where opera is performed something used in serving food or drink a drug (trade name Thorazine) derived from phenothiazine that has anti-psychotic effects and is used as a sedative and tranquilizer California annual having white flowers with a deep purple blotch on each petal a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text the pelt or fur (especially the underfur) of a seal; 'a coat of seal' moth whose larvae are fall armyworms a framework on wheels; helps babies learn to walk curassows; guans; chachalacas made from the wood of an American tropical vine two words are homographs if they are spelled the same way but differ in meaning (e.g. fair) fragile branching stoneworts a bell that rings to signal a call a native or inhabitant of Maldives the part of a garment that covers your back; 'they pinned a 'kick me' sign on his back' much-branched hirsute weed native to northeastern North America a toilet that is available to the public both terrestrial and arboreal snake of United States southwest an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence a Spanish dance in triple time; accompanied by guitar and castanets lemon tree having fruit with a somewhat insipid sweetish pulp propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon a stringed instrument that has a keyboard monochrome painting or stained glass etc., in shades of gray imitating the effect of relief chicken and onions and mushrooms braised in red wine and seasonings an intermediate platform in a staircase a spleenwort of eastern to southern United States any handsome young man for dancers or gymnasts a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing) the central area of a church the equipment needed to play a game; 'the child received several games for his birthday' someone who teaches geometry an exercise device consisting of an endless belt on which a person can walk or jog without changing place triteness or triviality of style a point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively minute arthropod often infesting the underground parts of truck-garden and greenhouse crops an optical device for viewing photographic transparencies a pointed projection beech fern of North American woodlands having straw-colored stripes very acid volcanic rock the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet chiefly freshwater green algae; solitary or colonial a gift that significantly increases the recipient's wealth the act of increasing in size or volume or quantity or scope schizophrenia characterized by mild symptoms or by some preexisting tendency to schizophrenia an argument opposeed to a proposal a real number (a scalar) that is the product of two vectors small 2- or 3-needled pinon of Mexico and southern Texas the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse any tree of the genus Genipa bearing yellow flowers and edible fruit with a thick rind gin and brandy with lemon juice and grenadine shaken with an egg white and ice coextensive with the order Gymnophiona: legless amphibians a wrestling_hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body and put your feet together and squeeze a window that open by sliding horizontally a way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay the angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb the largest breed of dogs; formerly used to hunt wolves a sugar-coated medicated candy the area of AI concerned with the practical use of robots containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta a variety of hamster common to Europe and Asia a league of football teams an adherent of Satan or Satanism a three-dimensional closed surface such that every point on the surface is equidistant from the center the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations; 'his lectures have no structure' a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute an orange-red crystalline compound used in making red pigments and in dyeing loose-fitting trousers with elastic cuffs; worn by athletes any activity that is easy to do; 'marketing this product will be no picnic' the act of propping up with shores any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of SW and S Asia a conjunction (like 'since' or 'that' or 'who') that introduces a dependent clause filling again by supplying what has been used up long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects large and brightly colored handkerchief; often used as a neckerchief a seemingly endless time interval (waiting) a determiner (as 'the' in English) that indicates specificity of reference a evergreen plant with large showy dark green leaves; contains a poison that swells the tongue and throat hence the name deftness in handling matters; 'he has a master's touch' (British) a railway car at the end of the train; it can be detached without stopping the train an antibiotic drug used as an antineoplastic in chemotherapy someone who enlists workers to join a union a tool for cutting grass on lawns genus of herbs of temperate Australia including some from genus Helipterum restoring compressed information to its normal form for use or display a sling-like device used in various primitive societies to propel a dart or spear a drug (trade name Dramamine) used to treat motion sickness a group of people working together to achieve a political goal a thermometer calibrated in degrees centigrade a periodical that is published every week the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate horseflies a blight affecting the leaves of oats and other grasses a narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming a mechanism that rotates any plant of the genus Gazania valued for their showy daisy flowers weedy herb of eastern North America an instep flattened so the entire sole rests on the ground one of two genera of stilts; similar to avocets but with straight bills fire delivered on a specific target in response to a request from the supported unit woody vines having disklike tips on the tendrils the cultivation of soil for raising crops the act of giving something in return for something received; 'deductible losses on sales or exchanges of property are allowable' a small asexual spore that develops inside the cell of some bacteria and algae becoming stronger supported by dynamic action of air against its surfaces a greater than average tide occurring during the new and full moons informal term a planned undertaking a genus of Hyaenidae someone with great regard for worldly possessions something (as a course of action) that is recommended the act of mating by male animals; 'the bull was worth good money in servicing fees' conversion from one way of encoding data to another way a poem having lines beginning with letters of the alphabet in regular order a contract whose performance depends on a fact or event that affects legal relations a drop of rain formerly a long hairpin; usually with an ornamental head genus of aromatic European herbs with yellow flowers a graduated glass tube used to transfer definite volumes of a liquid calla having a rose-colored spathe a ceremony having religious meaning a stand (usually movable) selling hot coffee and food (especially at night) a feeling of anger and animosity; 'having one's hackles or dander up' behaves like a tyrant the pivot about which a lever turns a surface-active agent that promotes the formation of an emulsion a person who fixes the boundaries of land claims a person who likes to be active late at night the act of protecting something by covering it a scar from a cut made by a sword the branch of electronics that deals with miniature components inactivity and lack of energy a shade of brown with a tinge of red any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic visual receptor cell sensitive to color attention; 'don't pay him any mind' biennial yellow-flowered Eurasian plant having aromatic leaves used as carminative or flavoring agent; widely cultivated especially as green manure or cover crop the body of faculty and students of a college large harmless plankton-eating northern shark; often swims slowly or floats at the sea surface as many as a house will accommodate; 'they entertained a houseful of guests' a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful; 'he despised the esthetic of minimalism' the fifth of the seven canonical hours; about 3 p.m. worn with a dinner jacket a pad worn by football players to protect their shoulders a heavy woolen cloth heavily napped and felted, often with a plaid design an American whose ancestors were born in Africa a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; 'the conviction came as no surprise' any one of the seven days in a week titmice and chickadees any plant of the genus Astilbe having compound leaves and showy panicles of tiny colorful flowers the state of having cells the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) "something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows; 'training is a necessary preliminary to employment'; 'drinks were the overture to dinner'" a genus of Thraupidae a native or inhabitant of Nepal a woman who is a Jew mambas a wall of the abdomen a violent commotion or disturbance; 'the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away'; 'it was only a tempest in a teapot' regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the epidural space of the spinal cord; sensation is lost in the abdominal and genital and pelvic areas; used in childbirth and gynecological surgery fungous disease of lettuce that first rots lower leaves and spreads upward a unit of measurement for work tall East Indian cedar having spreading branches with nodding tips; highly valued for its appearance as well as its timber the shoemaker's trade a tetracycline antibiotic (trade name Minocin) used to treat a variety of bacterial and rickettsial infections a green transparent form of beryl; highly valued as a gemstone the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending New World vipers with hollow fangs and a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity: 'litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid' a sharp collision produced by striking or dashing against something someone whose business is advertising the sensation produced by low temperatures; 'he shivered from the colda'; 'the cold helped clear his head' a place for buying and selling; open only to members small bottom-dwelling shark of warm shallow waters on both coasts of North and South America and from southeast Asia to Australia has double walls separated by vacuum and is used to maintain substances at high or low temperatures slender long-tailed monkey of Asia purified resinous extract of hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen diverse genus of herbs or woody subshrubs of north temperate regions an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions) a ski tow offering only a rope to hold onto someone who sews by operating a sewing machine a green mineral used as an ore of copper and for making ornamental objects an early form of sextant sliced veal knuckle or shin bone cooked with olive oil and wine and tomatoes and served with rice or vegetables fungal infection of nonhairy parts of the skin the middle muscular layer of the heart wall a consonant pronounced with aspiration "(usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant" a businessperson engaged in retail trade very small brightly colored (esp. red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters of tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark cock of the rocks tomato and cheese pizza with pepperoni meal made from dried peas the state of being out of favor; 'he is in disfavor with the king' night lizards the quantity that a barrow will hold a restaurant that resembles a dining car pan with a convex bottom, used for frying in Chinese cooking the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) genus of ladybugs large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds tropical usually epiphytic ferns; Africa to Asia and Polynesia to Australia widely cultivated current bearing edible black aromatic berries dark brown highly poisonous seed of the calabar-bean vine; source of physostigmine and used in native witchcraft a period of general fear of communists a weak estrogenic hormone secreted by the mammalian ovary the act of pressing; 'he gave the button a press'; 'he used pressure to stop the bleeding' someone afflicted by aphakia; someone lacking the natural lenses of the eyes the manner in which something is expressed in words: 'use concise military verbiage'- G.S.Patton tall perennial of the eastern United States having large basal leaves and white summer flowers approval to do something; 'he asked permission to leave' a local court with criminal jurisdiction and sometimes administrative functions type genus of the family Lactobacillaceae nut-bearing shrub of eastern North America a print made by exposing a photosensitive surface to direct contact with a photographic negative a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative large shrub or small tree of the eastern United States having bristly stems and large clusters of pink flowers any cactus of the genus Epiphyllum having flattened jointed irregularly branching stems and showy tubular flowers the principle that the total electric charge of a system remains constant despite changes inside the system an additional tax levied on private property for public improvements that enhance the value of the property (Brit) a major or main route a short trip; 'take a run into town' a concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location someone who takes more time than necessary any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola the bearing of fruit North American mulberry having dark purple edible fruit "(computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use" deciduous shrubs having aromatic bark; eastern China; southwestern and eastern United States the quality of promoting good health where works of art can be displayed the maximum operating capability of a system; 'test pilots try to push the envelope' a school for teaching foreign languages any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial; 'the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree' an unsophisticated country person a transmission from Earth to a spacecraft or the path of such a transmission military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum someone with special training in biochemistry the antiparticle of a muon; decays to positron and neutrino and antineutrino (football) the act of warding off a tackler by holding the arm fully extended with the hand against the opponent a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another either of the corners of the eye where the upper and lower eyelids meet a firm of lawyers South American tree having fruit similar to the true guava genus of herbs of Eurasia and the Americas: spurred gentians the operation of division in which the sequence of steps is performed without writing them out any of several flowering weeds of the genus Boehmeria lacking stinging hairs having distinct longitudinal stripes: of Colorado Plateau from Arizona to western Colorado a sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents type genus of the Polygalaceae: milkwort; seneca; snakeroot condensation of moisture on a cold surface; 'the cold glasses were streaked with sweat' (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions loon family the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body the superior of an abbey of monks (psychoanalysis) the third sexual and social stage in a child's development; sexual interest focuses on the child's own sex organs and those of others a genus of Cercopidae a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions having irregularly cross-banded back; of arid foothills and canyons of southern Arizona and Mexico grounds; 'don't do it on my account'; 'the paper was rejected on acount of its length'; 'he tried to blame the victim but his success on that score was doubtful' an emergency procedure that employs rhythmic compression of the heart (either through the chest wall or (during surgery) directly to the heart) in an attempt to maintain circulation during cardiac arrest someone who runs an establishment that houses and cares for babies for a fee a vein that drains a venous network in the floor and medial wall of the eye socket inflammation of the gums the order of animals fine particles of wood made by sawing wood common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum any of various small short-necked dabbling river ducks of Europe and America "(optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point" extreme greed for material wealth large long-jawed oceanic sport fishes; related to sailfishes and spearfishes; not completely cold-blooded i.e. able to warm their brains and eyes dark sweet ale brewed from black malt an attainment that is successful; 'his success in the marathon was unexpected'; 'his new play was a great success' processing data that is given in the form of chained lists a crochet stitch a tray for making cubes of ice in a refrigerator a hall where concerts are given widely distributed family of herbs and shrubs of the order Gentianales; most with milky juice a detachment empowered to force civilians to serve in the army or navy European orchid having lanceolate leaves spotted purple and pink to white or mauve flowers spotted or lined deep red or purple process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States an angel of the second order whose gift is knowledge; usually portrayed as a winged child larger of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Brazil to Patagonia a mineral consisting of zirconium oxide annual of Mediterranean to Portugal having hairy stems and minutely spiny-toothed leaves and large heads of yellow flowers the joint of a mammal or bird that corresponds to the human elbow domestic cockroaches the property of being close together nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions gives advice about personal problems a verbal command for action; 'when I give the word, charge!' the part of a scene between the foreground and the background an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction a liquid preparation used on wet hair to it a tint "a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished; 'they drew up a six-step plan'; 'they discussed plans for a new bond issue'" "the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; 'her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her'" European mountain clover with fragrant usually pink flowers any implement that is used to make an edge sharper a pattern resembling a mosaic a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc. an area on a baseball diamond (on either side of home plate) marked by lines within which the batter must stand when at bat a coupling (as in a chain) that has one end that turns on a headed pin a cancerous ulcer of soft tissue and bone dried leaves of the coca plant (and related plants that also contain cocaine); chewed by Andean people for their simulating effect a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips the head of a government established by the military (as in a defeated country) a holly shrub a strongly made box for money or valuables; can be locked piroplasms and cattle pathogens someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will any of the celestial bodies (other than comets or satellites) that revolve around the sun in the solar system genus of brown-spored gill fungi closely related to Agaricus; here placed in its own family Strophariaceae any of several mostly spotted fishes that resemble groupers a beam of light generated by a laser a bicycle with a sturdy frame and fat tires; originally designed for riding in mountainous country a large shallow dish used for serving food a cell of the neuroglia used in various card or board games (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds; 'rain stopped play in the 4th inning' weedy herb of the eastern United States to Texas having golden-yellow flowers; sometimes becomes invasive; sometimes placed in genus Senecio a family of protoctista a line generated by a point on a circle rolling along a straight line an ornamental ribbon or cord the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course; 'he took a turn to the right' a drug of abuse that is considered relatively mild a genus of fungi having subterranean sporophores resembling tubers used for healing or soothing swelling of the bursa in the knee coarse European herb with palmately-divided leaves and clusters of small reddish-purple flower heads valve or gate that controls rate of water flow through a sluice power to direct or determine: 'under control' an electromagnetic device used to locate explosive mines an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play) a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards a covering that protects an inside surface "a system or procedure for identifying persons" urgently demanding attention; 'the insistence of their hunger'; 'he pressed his demand with considerable instancy' a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise 1 species of aquatic plant: golden club malaria mosquitoes; distinguished by the adult's head-downward stance and absence of breathing tubes in the larvae "the state of being carelessly or partially dressed" a coverall worn by children a soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style esp of expression an analyst of conditions affecting a particular industry wind moving 19-24 knots; 5 on the Beaufort scale electronic equipment not in direct communication (or under the control of) the central processing unit People of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture the legendary sword of King Arthur a device that terminates the flow in a pipe the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians an instrument designed and used to take the life of a condemned person an obsolete British unit of capacity equal to 18 Imperial gallons a spotted or calico horse or pony lining of the reticulum (or second stomach) of a ruminant used as food the academic department responsible for teaching and research in anthropology large waxwing of northern North America; similar to but larger than the cedar waxwing succeeding with great difficulty; 'just winning the shore exhausted him' for measuring and indicating fluid pressure a bird's foot with folds of skin between the toes a gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group; is used in special alloys; occurs in monazite and bastnasite Chinese dumpling filled with spiced minced pork; usually served in soup shears for cutting grass or shrubbery short-horned grasshoppers; true locusts a sandwich made with a filling of sliced chicken the study of the structure of the body and its parts without the use of a microscope an artificial source of visible illumination fished for the hides and vitamin-rich liver type and sole genus of the family Menuridae statistical measure of the variance of two random variables measured in the same mean time period someone who talks while asleep brownish New World mouse; most widely distributed member of the genus a hole (as in a ski mask) for the mouth a partnership in which employees get a share of the profits in addition to their wages a tour of bars or public houses (usually taking one drink at each stop) a crystalline acid made from aniline and used as a dye a drugless method of treatment based on the belief that disease symptoms arise from problems with ligaments and connective tissues the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes chowder containing clams small European brown bat a protective cover that protects the face of a watch the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty; 'a ten day's leave to visit his mother' red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales a particle that is less complex than an atom; regarded as constituents of all matter a machine for performing calculations automatically the military forces of a nation presiding officer of a school a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word having the radiating lobes each deeply cleft or divided having flowers of pink to mauve or violet-blue an antibiotic produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces griseus and used to treat tuberculosis widely distributed Old World water shrew crisp flake made from corn the performance of a legal contract as specified by its terms the property of being long-lived any of several weedy vetches grown for forage a formal expression of praise a manner that does not take forms and ceremonies seriously any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers protects the hip and thigh distress and disorientation especially in adolescence resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society a sense of personal inferiority arising from conflict between the desire to be noticed and the fear of being humiliated langur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India something given as a token of love type genus of Hydrangeacea; large genus of shrubs and some trees and vines with white or pink or blue flower clusters; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae innermost chamber of the Jewish Tabernacle and temple a structure erected to commemorate persons or events a small display that will show you the telephone number of the party calling you branch of the ascending pharyngeal artery that supplies the dura mater of the posterior cranial fossa woodpeckers; jacamars; puffbirds; barbets; honey guides; toucans the transportation of burdens by porters common turnstone of North American Pacific coast an open-surface excavation for extracting stone or slate: 'a British term for 'quarry' is 'stone pit'' a book of tickets that can be torn out and used a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive boisterous celebration a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel; 'he is the officer in charge of the ship's engines' breeds on the northern great plains of Canada a deity worshipped by the Japanese goatsuckers; frogmouths; oilbirds a large family of endoparasitic amebas that invade the digestive tract Asiatic nut trees: wingnuts biennial of perennial taprooted herbs of northern hemisphere electrical discharges in the atmosphere the quality of being incapable of exchange or interchange (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration plant grown for its ornamental red or purple foliage much-branched North American herb with an odor like fennel genus of South African trees having pinnate leaves and rose-purple flowers followed by leathery pods money returned to a payer containing solely the California condor "the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind" shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera a woman who is not married a person who jumps from a plane and performs various gymnastic maneuvers before pulling the parachute cord a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward a sharp metal spike to hold a candle the dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia the cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand "an idea accepted as a demonstrable truth" any incitement to action; 'he awaited the signal to start'; 'the victory was a signal for wild celebration' a person conceived as a consumer of food; 'he has four mouths to feed' a buoy that can be heard (at night) any of several plants of the genus Rhexia usually having pink-purple to magenta flowers; eastern North America terrestrial orchids of Australia to New Caledonia tall marsh plant with pokerlike seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa circular-shaped; spins round and round the back of a saddle seat (obscene) insulting terms of address Asian coral snakes a uniform movement without rotation a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument stock with a par value of __25/share a ballroom dance in fast duple time any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers a drying oil extracted from flax seed and used in making such things as oil paints any of several severe febrile diseases characterized by skin rashes or spots on the skin a member of a society founded in Ireland in 1795 to uphold Protestantism and the British sovereign money demanded for the return of a captured person any of various infectious diseases of animals the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it) tropical trees and shrubs with aromatic leaves and often valuable hard wood the act of inclining; bending forward; 'an inclination of his head indicated his agreement' any plant of the genus Cannabis; a coarse bushy annual with palmate leaves and clusters of small green flowers; yields tough fibers and narcotic drugs being characteristic of a girl an offensive lack of good manners used for baking or roasting Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles cream that has been beaten until light and fluffy food prepared by cooking and straining or processed in a blender small smooth-haired breed of African origin having a tightly curled tail and the inability to bark large order of chiefly tropical liverworts a Scottish reel for eight dancers sorting one thing from others: 'the separation of wheat from chaff'; 'the separation of mail by postal zones' (soccer) a forward on a soccer team a defensive organized before contact is made with the enemy and while time for organization is available; usually includes a fortified zone (with pillboxes) and communication systems a category of taxpayers based on the amount of their income a genus of bacteria a thrusting blow with a knife changing location by moving back and forth usually or stone or brick; supports the wall of a building the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth the occupation of a tailor an adherent of the theological doctrines of John Calvin an Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root one of two branches of the internal carotid artery; divides into three branches the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface a genus of Formicidae "the act of using; 'the steps were worn from years of use'" (chemistry) variability in chemical composition without variation in crystalline form the common wintergreen having many-flowered racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; Europe and North America feeding on corpses or carrion the place within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located protection of soil against erosion or deterioration a large gilled fungus with a broad cap and a long stalk; the cap is dark brown; the white gills turn dark purplish brown with age; edible and choice naval defense system dwarf prostrate mat-forming shrub of arctic and alpine regions of North America and Greenland having deep green elliptic leaves that taper toward the base deep vein of the penis; enters the prostatic plexus small donkey used as a pack animal hairy nectar-eating fly that resembles a bee; larvae are parasitic on larvae of bees and related insects a whitish rubber derived from the coagulated milky latex of the gutta-percha tree a kind of therapsid a pin for holding women's hair in place plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson) a yard outside the front or rear door of a house short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches soundless Eurasian swan; commonly domesticated strong lightweight material developed in the laboratory; fibers of more than one kind are bonded together chemically monetary unit in Honduras a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of an affront; 'turning his back on me was a deliberate insult' any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing a finding as to the applicability of a rule of law to particular facts an affront to one's dignity or self-esteem disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) an instrument used in colorimetric analysis to determine the quantity of a substance from the color it yields with specific reagents derivative of butadiene used in making neoprene by polymerization large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite type genus of the family_Phalangeridae: cuscuses made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit green pigment consisting of Prussian blue mixed with gamboge a resident of South Carolina the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger; 'the proposal required great boldness' someone who cleans windows for pay the position of speaker an optical phenomenon that results in a false or deceptive visual impression a woman's lavatory in a public (or semi-public) building a recurrence of a prior experience; 'the reliving of a strong emotion can be therapeutic' a regular customer tropical rhizomatous plant cultivated as an ornamental for its large sagittate leaves a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return red breed of domestic rabbits; hybrid between Old_World_rabbit and hare a small low motor vehicle with four wheels and an open framework; used for racing small Old World falcon formerly trained and flown at small birds the act of hitting a baseball so that it flies straight out from the batter; 'the batter hit a liner to the shortstop' small mild-flavored onion- or garlic-like clustered bulbs a method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attacker's own weight and strength a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays outer space as viewed from the earth usually with a sloping top a native or inhabitant of Asia a breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks) small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera Drimys and Pseudowintera; sometimes included in Magnoliaceae large genus of coarse gummy herbs of western North and Central America South African evergreen partly woody vine grown for its clusters of rosy purple flowers followed by edible pods like snap beans; also grown as green manure; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos wild goat of mountain areas of Eurasia and North Africa having large recurved horns a long fillet of fish breaded and fried the act of swallowing; 'one swallow of the liquid was enough'; 'he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips' for storage of clothing (trousseau) and household goods in anticipation of marriage a table where breakfast is eaten a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail any of various Old or New World bats having very long ears a lamellar mixture of cementite and ferrite formed during the cooling of austenite; a micro-constituent of steel and cast iron a protective covering worn over the face the quality of not conforming strictly to law used in some classifications for the class Lycopsida: club mosses branches of the internal iliac artery that supply the hip joint and gluteal region an application for a job a German dialect spoken in northern Germany a seam used in surgery a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship masonry done with bricks and mortar corn whose young ears are sweet and suitable for eating as a vegetable tent caterpillars the destructive distillation of coal (as in coke ovens) a resident of Alaska a compact mass; 'a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder' a colorless crystalline acid with a fruity taste; used in making polyester resins the male is bright red with black wings and tail (archaic) once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe a light mattress a forest (or part of a forest) where trees are grown for commercial use the sound made by a horse follower of Rastafarianism East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood; the act of scaling in weight or quantity or dimension triangular pointed end pierces tops of cans Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck any of several plants of the genus Freesia valued for their one-sided clusters of usually fragrant yellow or white or pink tubular flowers any animistic religion similar to Asian shamanism especially as practiced by certain Native American tribes a method of examining stained cells in a cervical smear for early diagnosis of uterine cancer European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves an international alliance involving many different countries medicine that is protected by a patent and available without a doctor's prescription enlarged heart commonly found among athletes trained for endurance a preliminary introduction to a statute or constitution (usually explaining its purpose) ownership of stocks; the state or fact of holding stock: 'prohibition of unrestricted intercorporate stockholding'- W.Z.Ripley one of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to be concentrated enlarged thyroid gland resulting from iodine deficiency the key on electric typewriters that causes a carriage return and a line feed a small pipe sounding a tone of standard frequency; used to establish the starting pitch for unaccompanied singing any member of a Pentecostal religious body cart for serving tea or light refreshments something difficult to carry large thrush common in eastern American woodlands; noted for its melodious song the standard typewriter keyboard; the keys for Q, W, E, R, T, and Y are the first six from the left on the top row of letter keys the branch of psychology concerned with the behavior of animals a numerical value regardless of its sign a senior clergyman of central North America; winters in Texas and the south Mississippi valley supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book the act of putting something in working order again a circular band of a precious metal worn on the finger; 'she had rings on every finger' a detachment assigned to protect the rear of a (retreating) military body subnormal body temperature not having enough food to develop or function formally separation of substances in solution my means of their unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Hydrangea the ability to reflect beams or rays a logician skilled in dialectic the freedom of teachers and students to express their ideas in school without religious or political or institutional restrictions a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity a means of persuading or arguing; 'he used all his conversational weapons' a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges twining deciduous shrub with hairy leaves and spikes of yellow-orange flowers; northeastern America a native or inhabitant of Polynesia where a wall or building narrows abruptly the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition; 'he made trade protection a plank in the party platform' large burrowing rodent of South and Central America; highly esteemed as food a misconception resulting from incorrect information has plug at each end; used to make connections at a patchboard bushy tree with pink to purple flowers candy containing a fruit or nut the act of moving something by repeated tugs or pushes; 'vigorous worrying finally loosened the saw' the feeling of being intimidated a threadlike extension of a nerve cell fire for which the point of impact (the bursts) cannot be observed the body of individuals who manage businesses the date on which a financial obligation must be repaid a quality characterized by magnificence of scale; 'the expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed' cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments (astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion candy made with chocolate a word that modifies something other than a noun a colorless liquid hydrocarbon extracted from petroleum or coal tar and used in making synthetic resins a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc.) belief in the kinship of a group of people with a common totem a law that is believed to come directly from God the great circle representing the apparent annual path of the sun; the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun; makes an angle of about 23 degrees with the equator; 'all of the planets rotate the sun in approximately the same ecliptic' a branch of the Indo-European languages that (judging from inscriptions and place names) was spread widely over Europe in the pre-Christian era the semantic relation of being a manner of does something pain that feels hot as if it were on fire any fish providing sport for the angler bookkeeper debits the transaction to one account and credits it to another the act of counting parasite in invertebrates and lower vertebrates of no known economic importance a host that is used by a parasite in the course of its life cycle an instrument for measuring freezing and melting points a half expressed as a percentage an afterimage of a taste equipment for making records painted turtles invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection a trust created by the free and deliberate act of the parties involved (usually on the basis of written documentation) a highly developed state; 'they performed with great polish' small plant with slender bent stems bearing branched clusters of a few white star-shaped flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears; southeastern Washington and northeastern Oregon to Montana (Brit) rate per quarter for water from a public supply widespread tropical mosquito that transmits filarial worms a pad worn by football and hockey players inflammation of the fauces and pharynx introduced into United States from the Orient; larvae feed on roots of sugarcane and other grasses an art movement based on expressionism; developed in 1980s in Europe and US; crudely drawn garish paintings a parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Claforan) used for severe infections of the lungs or throat or ears or urinary tract a club organized to sing together the presence of endometrium elsewhere than in the lining of the uterus; causes premenstrual pain and dysmenorrhea a carved pyramidal ornament; used in 13th century England grown especially for its edible aromatic bulbous stem base a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle technical skill or fluency or style exhibited by a virtuoso meteorology of the total extent of the atmosphere; especially the upper layers a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe a conventional religious picture painted in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church a hamburger with melted cheese on it a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of informationconstructs and returns a byte specifier from size and position. a young child a device that measures alcohol content of a person's breath a piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway (by an animals hooves or a golf club) a person who does something thoughtless or annoying; 'some joker is blocking the driveway' a short-haired tailless breed of cat believed to originate on the Isle of Man the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace) a small refracting telescope water directly from the spigot any of various church officers a routine that can be loaded once and executed repeatedly one who tries a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business: 'he got the beer concession at the ball park' an indoor tv antenna; 2 extendible rods forming a V a twilled fabric with a herringbone pattern the hypothetical acid (H2Cr2O7) from which dichromates are derived; known only in solution and in the form of dichromate salts a movement forward; 'he listened for the progress of the troops' a playing card in the major suit of hearts; 'he led the queen of hearts' the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another) a synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-forming; used in treating heroin addiction the saclike body cavity of a coelenterate the virus causing poliomyelitis large greenish June beetle of southern United States massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa giant tortoises the limits of the values a function can take; 'the range of this function is the interval from 0 to 1' measures heat radiation; extremely sensitive intelligence of all types and forms of immediate interest; usually disseminated without delays for evaluation or interpretation performance of duties helpful to others; 'the mayor tried to maintain city services' or 'the medical services are excellent' the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves) type genus of the Chalcididae dry red Bordeaux or Bordeaux-like wine an inhabitant of Scandinavia room where work is done any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes: 'corn pudding' a blast of a horn the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down the act of causing something to move to a lower level the outward force on a body moving in a curved path around another body a sheet perforated with printing through which ink or paint can pass to create a printed pattern a participant in a religious retreat an interpretation of the meaning of something a political theory favoring the abolition of governments pie containing blueberries and sugar an operation in which two or more activities are interleaved marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles the act of making up your mind about something; 'the burden of decision was his'; 'he drew his conclusions quickly' genus of large crested guans (the piping guans) ethnic slur; offensive terms for persons of Latin American descent a fungous blight attacking the stems of plants large vulture of the high Andes having black plumage and white neck ruff the legal duty of a fiduciary to act in the best interests of the beneficiary small genus of Asian deciduous or evergreen shrubs having fragrant flowers: winter_sweet a genus of plants of the family Crassulaceae a motley assortment of things one who deals in wax candles any of various small spider-like marine arthropods having small thin bodies and long slender legs money collected under a tariff a low shoe laced over the instep a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity tall ash of Europe to the Caucasus having leaves shiny dark-green above and pale downy beneath any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles a railroad employer who is in charge of a rail yard a person who takes part in a rebellion in the hope of improving conditions a woman headmaster an attribute of sound pain resulting from rapid change in pressure lyrebirds a clef that puts middle C on the fourth line of the staff; used for writing music for bassoons or cellos or tenor horns an earth-covered Navajo lodge; traditionally built with the entrance facing east administration of the line functions of an organization; administration of activities contributing directly to the organization's output the hearing organ of the inner ear; contains receptors that respond to sound waves the occurrence of high tide on one side of the earth coinciding with high tide on the opposite side the weather or climate at some place; 'the atmosphere was thick with fog' a seat consisting of a board and a rope; used while working aloft or over the side of a ship perennial succulent herb with small solitary axillary or terminal flowers any of various ferns of the genera Dryopteris or Polystichum or Lastreopsis having somewhat shield-shaped coverings on the sori the trail of an animal (especially a deer) the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 centimes weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike a book of directions for using or operating some piece of equipment family of New World tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and trees a thermometer calibrated in degrees Fahrenheit any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst 1 species: South American tree: tipu_tree a lock whose tumblers are levers that must be raised to a given position so that the bolt can move a flock of coots arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services (histology) the use of a dye to color specimens for microscopic study "goods or services bought from a foreign country" a decorative molding; a series of egg-shaped figures alternating with another shape a parasympathomimetic drug (trademark Mecholyl) that stimulates secretions and smooth muscle activity a routine that controls an output device one of a set of cards used in gambling games the ability to recall past occurrences the part of the ear that is responsible for sensations of sound an extended journey someone employed to provide service in a dining room large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America a group of musicians playing only brass and percussion instruments Australian moundbird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds a small dynamo with a secondary winding that produces a high voltage enabling a spark to jump between the poles of a spark plug in a gasoline engine (trademark) a duplicating machine that makes quick positive or negative copies directly on the surface of prepared paper a price that is too high obscene terms for female genitals any plant of the genus Hypoxis having long grasslike leaves and yellow star-shaped flowers: Africa; Australia; southern Asia; North America a member of the a nomadic tribe of Arabs a transparent dome on top of an airplane where the navigator can make celestial observations a method of execution widespread in the ancient world; victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross a succession of waves spaced at regular intervals an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented presence of diverticula in the walls of the colon fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain the responsibility of a lawyer to act in the best interests of the client a fatty acid found in animal oils and fats; has an unpleasant smell resembling goats the branches of mathematics that study and develop the principles of mathematics for their own sake rather than for their immediate usefulness an indefinitely short time; 'wait just a moment'; 'it only takes a minute'; 'in just a bit' ridge-like ingrowth of the exoskeleton of an arthropod that supports internal organs and provides attachment points for muscles pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions rum and lime or lemon juice with sugar and sometimes bitters the creation of something in the mind a game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team no hits zebra mussels the shortest distance that permits radio signals (of a given frequency) to travel from the transmitter to the receiver by reflection from the ionosphere one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases deciduous shrubby tree of northeastern and central United States having a sweet edible nut and often forming dense thickets (British) a roster of names showing the order in which people should perform certain duties (often plural) a payment that is made to a performer or writer or director of a television show or commercial that is paid for every repeat showing; 'he could retire on his residuals' a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania bushy subshrub having flower heads that resemble asters with broad white rays; found in desert areas of Arizona east to Kansas and south to Mexico an opinion that agrees with the court's disposition of the case but is written to express a particular judge's reasoning a writ ordering a prisoner to be brought before a judge the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map a long hooded overcoat a characteristic emotional quality; 'it ended on a sour note'; 'there was a note of gaiety in her manner'; 'he detected a note of sarcasm' an unsaturated acid (C4H6O2) used to make resins and plastics the outermost of the three gluteal muscles an instrument of punishment designed and used to inflict torture on the condemned person a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements (med) the process of removing a heavy metal from the bloodstream by means of a chelate as in treating lead or mercury poisoning pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; 'groundnut' and 'monkey nut' are British terms propulsion by means of the discharge a jet of fluid toward the rear a collection of books that can be rented by readers in return for a small daily fee a piece of electronic equipment for continual observation of the function of the heart Australian rat kangaroos authoritative approval chick-pea plant; Asiatic herbs the act of authorizing the angular separation between two objects as perceived by an observer; 'he recorded angular distances between the stars' a pilot hired to fly experimental airplanes through maneuvers designed to test them an inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue corncrakes a fungus causing dry rot connects two things so they move together a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 3rd and 4th and 7th and 8th a change in the relative numbers of the different groups of individuals making up a population dark-colored heavy-bodied beers usually imported from Germany or Holland or Scandinavia the acute angle between the direction of the undisturbed relative wind and the chord of an airfoil belief that a work of art is an end in itself or its own justification tall Paleozoic trees superficially resembling modern screw pines; structurally intermediate in some ways between cycads and conifers someone who assists a nurse in tasks that require little formal training tall rush of temperate regions 1 species: tree fern of Central and South America South American shrub or small tree widely cultivated in the tropics; not a true potato genus of tropical epiphytic or terrestrial Old World orchids; one of the most popular orchid genera a young woman who is employed a group of street musicians in Mexico an indefinite but relatively small number; 'they bought a case of beer and drank a few' a hand-operated data input device that moves the cursor on a computer screen the official who keeps a town's records tree bearing aromatic bark or berries usually fresh-squeezed juice of limes coelanterate genus of order Madreporaria, including staghorn corals used in some classification systems for plants that bear catkins a daughter of your niece or nephew the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread; 'the prevalence of dysentery is horrible' the soldier who carries the standard of the unit in military parades or in battle a large landscaped area for playing golf failure to declare income in order to avoid paying taxes on it showy erect biennial or short-lived perennial cultivated for its terminal racemes of orange-yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cheiranthus felt hat with a creased crown a race between (usually high-performance) automobiles three-dimensional vision students beginning elementary school familyof arthropods of the suborder Megaloptera, including snakeflies a gliding or sliding step in ballet a vein located in the anterior medial part of the orbit; connects the superior ophthalmic with the angular vein the act of repeating (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law; 'he had a fair trial and the jury found him guilty' (slang) someone who is excellent at something a hatchet with a broad blade on one end and a hammer head of the other European salamander having dark skin with usually yellow spots someone who wastes time the use of electric shock as a form of punishment someone who is expert in the art of escaping white-spored agarics with a fleshy stalk and notched gills; of various colors both edible and inedible onion with white to deep red tunic; California a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone; 'Al Smith used to say, 'Let's look at the record''; 'his name is in all the recordbooks' an informal term for a youth or man; 'a nice guy'; 'the guy's only doing it for some doll' a variety of adelgid arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern; 'the sequence of names was alphabetical' an architectural ornament in the form of three arcs arranged in a circle the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 AD to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752 fossil amphibian of the Devonian having well-developed forelimbs; found in Pennsylvania the act of washing dishes large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered the voice used to indicate that the subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb the act or practice of collecting coins relation by which any position with respect to any other position is established a line giving the name of the writer of a story or article largest and most widely distributed genus of bats the activity of flying a glider a room set aside for viewing television a thin layer or stratum of (especially metamorphic) rock negative pole formal withdrawal or separation from an alliance or federation the sound made by a lion a member of the tribe of Franks who settled in the Netherlands in the 4th century AD a set of confused and meaningless statements offensive terms for a person of Chinese descent something that rises rapidly and dies away; 'a wave of emotion swept over him'; 'there was a sudden wave of buying before the market closed' a member of the majority people of Punjab in NW India a circuit consisting of a T-network with an additional arm bridging the two series arms the chest of a woman a simple instrument for indicating changes in atmospheric pressure the secretion of saliva large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs a subdivision of a larger religious group a climber having canary-colored flowers the possibility of future success; 'his prospects as a writer are excellent' the people of a nation or country or a community of persons bound by a common heritage; 'a nation of Catholics'; 'the whole country worshipped him' English from about 1100 to 1450 wild ginger a genus of North American perennial herbs of the family Boraginaceae a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks any of various plants of the genus Rudbeckia cultivated for their large usually yellow daisies with prominent central cones the act of catching a pass in football; 'the tight end made a great reception on the 20 yard line' moth whose larvae attack dried fruits and cereal products small white egrets projects successive frames from a reel of film to create moving pictures primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles an ornamental knot that resembles a small turban right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas esp. European apoapsis in solar orbit; the point in the orbit of a planet or comet that is at the greatest distance from the sun in some older classifications considered the family of the basking sharks an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; 'His face has many wrinkles' type genus of the Blattidae: cockroaches infesting buildings worldwide tooth_fungi the trait of acting more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment a person who plays the kettledrums a circular ring for holding up a curtain a support that you can lean against while sitting; 'the back of the dental chair was adjustable' a conspiracy not to talk about some situation or event; 'there was a conspiracy of silence about police brutality' a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion thick-walled asexual resting spore of certain fungi and algae Old World orioles an ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate a day commemorating a saint a series of bricks place next to each other (usually in a straight line) fire on enemy troops or weapons or positions that are near the supported unit and are the most immediate and serious threat to it a charge required as compensation for the delay of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure something hideous or frightful; 'they regarded the atom bomb as a monstrosity' the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations a polite name for any woman a plexus of nerves supplying the heart and nearby structures (football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back a healthy state of well-being (physical chemistry) the gaseous state of hot ionized material consisting of ions and electrons and present in the stars and fusion reactors: sometimes regarded as a fourth state of matter distinct from normal gasses a redistribution of something; 'there was a reshuffle of cabinet officers' water beetles the state of being putrid any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae one who is employed to saw wood Chinese silkworm moth the labor of unloading something stork with a grooved bill whose upper and lower parts touch only at the base and tip absence of moral or spiritual values; 'the powers of darkness' the musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it loss due to not showing up; 'he lost the game by default' a German man; used before the name as a title equivalent to Mr in English a patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable a refrigerator in which food is frozen and stored for long periods of time "a high place; 'they stood on high and observed the coutryside' or 'he doesn't like heights'" a swift cursory examination or inspection; 'I gave him the once-over' any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America resistant to oils and aging; used in waterproof products a barge that is designed and equipped for use as a dwelling the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals the state of being first in importance type and sole genus of the family Mycoplasmatacaea an urn in which tea is brewed and from which it is served an artist who paints any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain genus of chiefly North American perennial herbs: silkweed; milkweed a painful burning sensation in the chest caused by acidic backflow from the stomach irritating the esophagus; symptomatic of an ulcer or other disorder belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group low-cost life insurance; valid only for a stated period of time type genus of Picidae comprises plants often included in the genus Chrysanthemum electric phenomena in animals or plants "a substance used to provide cooling (as in a refrigerator)" resembles a groined vault but has ribbed arches a group of related languages spoken in Asia and SE Europe has a cabin and plumbing and other conveniences necessary for living on board thin sauteed cutlets of veal a group's refusal to obey orders in protest against discrimination a wooden peg or pin inserted into the eye at the end of rope in order to fasten it to something an impression that something might be the case; 'he had an intuition that something had gone wrong' a noisy or scolding or domineering woman a financial condition of being indebted a slice of beef usually cooked by broiling the friendship characteristic of blood brothers a kind of gorilla small dun-colored North American flycatcher a trivial act of lying a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling a tall and often cultivated buckeye of the central United States large South African antelope; considered the swiftest hoofed mammal a lever with a pointed projection that serves as a fulcrum; used to roll heavy wheels tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped a vessel used for trawling for fish a military area where combat forces operate "natural objects visible in the sky" a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.; 'he kept finding excuses to stay'; 'every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job'; 'his transparent self-justification was unacceptable' milk-secreting organ of female mammals the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble the increase in activity of the adrenal glands just before puberty a rule used by a carpenter informal terms for a difficult situation; 'he got into a terrible fix'; 'he made a muddle of his marriage' any property relating to or occupying space the activity of designing and constructing aircraft a bleak and desolate atmosphere milky-juiced herb: lettuce; prickly lettuce a periodic state during which you are conscious and aware of the world an executioner who uses electricity to kill the condemned person a resident of Lesbos the testing of an idea; 'it was an experiment in living'; 'not all experimentation is done in laboratories' the domain controlled by an archduke or archduchess a register of persons who are socially prominent fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves a maid who is a lady's personal attendant a native or inhabitant of England type genus of the Ascaphidae; in some classifications included in the family Leiopelmatidae a rule that when literal compliance is impossible the intention of a donor or testator should be carried out as nearly as possible someone punished for the errors of others a strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention); 'he followed instructions to the letter'; 'he obeyed the letter of the law' consisting of or covered with oil a Scottish cap with straight sides and a crease along the top from front to back; worn by Highlanders as part of military dress the concluding part of any performance genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs (anatomy) dividing partition between two tissues or cavities a member of the Mayan people living in south central Guatemala the quality of being impossible to investigate; 'the inscrutability of the future' a screwdriver for Phillips screws aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver; bred for its fur yellow pigment consisting of neutral lead chromate a district where gold is mined a bridge supported by trusses similar to American white pelican opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality a skirt made of long blades of grass the manner of using the feet (informal) something with no concrete substance; 'his dreams all turned to smoke'; 'it was just smoke and mirrors' fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple equipment for making records on magnetic media fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes an indicator as on a dial a distinguishing emblem; 'his tie proclaimed his school colors' an electromagnetic wave generated by oscillations in an electric circuit no capable of being moved or rearranged any flowerless plant such as a fern (pteridophyte) or moss (bryophyte) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem a pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water a family of dicotyledonous plants of order Sapindales found mostly in the north temperate zone European herb with yelow-green flowers resembling and closely related to the trilliums; reputed to be poisonous an attache who is a specialist in cultural matters annual weed of Europe and North America having a rosette of basal leaves and tiny flowers followed by oblong seed capsules the transformation of ordinary white tin into powdery gray tin a very cold temperatures a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog) someone who demands physical evidence in order to be convinced (especially when this demand is out of place) disease of cattle that can be transmitted to humans; results from infection with actinomycetes; characterized by hard swellings that exude pus through long sinuses the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; 'his determination showed in his every movement'; 'he is a man of purpose' genus of tropical American and Asiatic spiny evergreen trees and shrubs agile Old World viverrine having a spotted coat and long ringed tail "an event whose occurrence ends something; 'his death marked the ending of an era'" the experience of thinking that a new situation had occurred before cake flavored with ginger type genus of the Tuberculariaceae; fungi with nodules of red or pink conidia; some cause diebacks of woody plants herbs of temperate regions: pennycress a person of great ability and ambition amphipod crustacean parasitic on cetaceans deciduous shrub of eastern North America whose leaves turn scarlet in autumn and having racemes of yellow flowers followed by ellipsoid glossy red berries a barbiturate with sedative and hypnotic effects; used to relive insomnia and as an anticonvulsant the main land mass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula tropical American tree bearing sweet pulpy fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds an isotonic solution of sodium chloride and distilled water a medium-sized schnauzer a roll of photographic film a landing for docking and (un)loading ships an unhappy and worried mental state; 'there was too much anger and disturbance'; 'she didn't realize the upset she caused me' an American eating apple with red or yellow and red skin includes bone-headed (pachycephalosaurs) and horned (ceratopsian) dinosaurs any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes a quantity that has no factor but itself and 1 orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf a chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone a long-acting crystalline barbiturate (trade name Mebaral) used as a sedative and as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy a temporary shortage of rainfall a school in a university offering study leading to degrees beyond the bachelor's degree small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally) on a griddle vinaigrette with chili sauce and chopped watercress dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed someone who educates the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting esp by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter