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obbligato (n)

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a musical accompaniment of independent importance, esp that of a single instrument to a vocal piece

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obcompressed (adj)

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flattened from front to back

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obconical (adj)

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conical and attached by the point

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obcordate (adj)

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(of a leaf) inversely heart shaped and attached at the point

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obeche (n)

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a large West African tree and its whitish wood

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obelus (n)

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a sign used in ancient manuscripts to mark suspected, corrupt or spurious words and passages; a dagger sign (†) used in printing

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obi or obeah (n)

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witchcraft and poisoning practiced in the W Indies, Guyana etc; a fetish or charm

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obiter (adv)

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by the way, cursorily

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pa or pah (n)

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a Maori fort or settlement

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pabulum (n)

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food of any kind, esp that of lower animals and plants; provender; fuel; nourishment for the mind; entertainment pr material that is mediocre, unsatisfying or worthless

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pacable (adj)

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capable of being appeased

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pachisi (n)

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an Indian game like backgammon or ludo

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pachy- (prefix)

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signifying thick

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Pacinian corpuscle (n)

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a nerve ending that is sensitive to pressure or vibration

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paco (n)

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an alpaca

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padang (n)

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(Malay) a field, a playing field

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padauk, padouk (n)

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a timber tree of the red sanders genus

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Qajar (n and adj)

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the dynasty that ruled Iran from 1779 to 1925; of the dynasty, its time, esp its art, its porcelain

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qanat (n)

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an underground tunnel for carrying irrigation water

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qasida (n)

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formal Arabic poem of praise or mourning

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qawwali (n)

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devotional Sufi music, usually sung in Persian or Turkish

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qinghaosu (n)

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a crystalline compound extracted from the artemisia plant, used especially to treat malaria

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qiviut (n)

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the wool of the undercoat of the Arctic musk-ox

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qua (adv)

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in the capacity of

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quadragenarian (n)

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a person who is forty years old, or between forty and fifty

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quadratura (n)

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a work having a tromp l’oeil effect, eg a wall or ceiling painted with arches, colonnades, etc in strong perspective

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quadrella (n)

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a group of four horse races at a meeting, for which the punter selects the four winners

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quadrennium (n)

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four years

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quadriceps (n)

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the large muscle that runs down the front of the thigh and extends the leg

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quadriplegia (n)

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paralysis of both arms and legs

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rabanna (n)

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Madagascan raffia fabric

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rabat or rabatte (vt)

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(geometry) to rotate into coincidence with another plane

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rabbitry (n)

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a place where rabbits are kept

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rabbitfish (n)

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the king of the herrings

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rabbit punch (n)

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a blow on the back of the neck

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rabbit (vt)

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to confound

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rabi (n)

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the Spring grain harvest in India, Pakistan

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raca (adj)

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(Biblical) worthless

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racahout or raccahout (n)

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an acorn meal

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race (n)

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a white streak down an animal’s face

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raceme (n)

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(Botany) an inflorescence in which stalked flowers are borne in acropetal succession on a main stalk or lateral branches

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racemation (n)

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a gleaning or gathering of grapes; a residue; a cluster or bunch of anything (esp grapes)

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rache, rach or ratch (n)

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a dog that hunts with scent

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rachis or rhachis (n)

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the spine; an axis

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rack and manger (n)

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wasteful abundance

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rackabones (n)

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a very thin person or animal

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rack (n)

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a flying cloud

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rackett (n)

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a Renaissance or Baroque woodwind instrument developed in Germany with a double reed, the forerunner of the bassoon

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raclette (n)

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a dish of melted cheese scraped from a large section of cheese while it is heated, served especially with jacket potatoes

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racloir (n)

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a scraper

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saag or sag (n)

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(Indian) spinach

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Saam, Saame, Sabme, Sabmi or Sami (n and adj)

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a Lapp, Lappish

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Sabaism (n)

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the worship of the host of heaven

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Sabaoth (n)

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armies (biblical)

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sabaton (n)

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a foot-covering esp square or round toed, used in armour

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Sabellianism (n)

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the teaching of Sabellius, a Libyan priest of the 3c, that Father, Son and the Holy Ghost are one and the same God in different aspects

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Sabian or Tsabian or Zabian (n)

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an adherent of a religion or a group of religions (especially a semi-Christian sect of Babylon) mentioned in the Koran as entitled to toleration, prob related to Mandeism

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sabin (n)

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a unit of acoustic absorption

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sabkha (n)

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a broad salt-encrusted coastal plain, above the level of normal tides and subjected to only occasional flooding

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sable (n)

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an arctic and subarctic marten

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sabra (n)

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a native born Israeli, not an immigrant

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sabretache (n)

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a flat bag slung from a cavalry officer’s sword belt

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sabulous (adj)

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sandy; gritty; (of plants) growing in sandy places

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saburra (n)

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a granular deposit, as in the stomach

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saccate (adj)

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pouched; pouch-like; gibbous

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sacaton (n)

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a type of coarse perennial grass growing in alkaline regions of the Southern US

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saccade (n)

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the sharp lateral movement of the eye as it switches from one focus point to another; a short rapid tug on a horse’s reins; any short jerky movement

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sacellum (n)

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a tomb or monument in the form of a chapel inside a church; a little chapel

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sacerdotal (adj)

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priestly

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sachem (n)

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a Native American chief, a sagamore

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sackless (adj)

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innocent, guileless; feeble; dispirited

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the Taal

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Afrikaans or Cape Dutch

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tabanid

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any member of the gadfly (Tabanus) genus, blood-suckers eg the horse-fly

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tabaret (n)

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an upholsterer’s silk fabric, with alternate stripes of watered and silk fabric

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tabasheer, tabashir (n)

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a siliceous substance sometimes found in crude form in hollows of bamboos and used in eastern medicine

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tabbyhood (n)

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the condition of being an old made

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tabefaction (n)

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wasting away, emaciation

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tabellion (n)

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an official scrivener in the Roman Empire

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tabla (n)

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an Indian percussion instrument, small hand drums

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tablier (n)

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an apron (historical)

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tabular (adj)

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in the form of a table or tablet; laminated; flattened horizontally

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tacahout (n)

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a gall on the tamarisk, a source of gallic acid

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tacamahac (n)

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a gum-resin yielded by several tropical trees; the balsam poplar, or its resin

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