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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)
a person who is forty years old, or between forty and fifty
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quadratura (n)
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)
a group of four horse races at a meeting, for which the punter selects the four winners
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quadrennium (n)
four years
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quadriceps (n)
the large muscle that runs down the front of the thigh and extends the leg
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quadriplegia (n)
paralysis of both arms and legs
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rabanna (n)
Madagascan raffia fabric
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rabat or rabatte (vt)
(geometry) to rotate into coincidence with another plane
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rabbitry (n)
a place where rabbits are kept
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rabbitfish (n)
the king of the herrings
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rabbit punch (n)
a blow on the back of the neck
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rabbit (vt)
to confound
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rabi (n)
the Spring grain harvest in India, Pakistan
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raca (adj)
(Biblical) worthless
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racahout or raccahout (n)
an acorn meal
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race (n)
a white streak down an animal's face
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raceme (n)
(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)
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)
a dog that hunts with scent
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rachis or rhachis (n)
the spine; an axis
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rack and manger (n)
wasteful abundance
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rackabones (n)
a very thin person or animal
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rack (n)
a flying cloud
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rackett (n)
a Renaissance or Baroque woodwind instrument developed in Germany with a double reed, the forerunner of the bassoon
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raclette (n)
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)
a scraper
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saag or sag (n)
(Indian) spinach
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Saam, Saame, Sabme, Sabmi or Sami (n and adj)
a Lapp, Lappish
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Sabaism (n)
the worship of the host of heaven
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Sabaoth (n)
armies (biblical)
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sabaton (n)
a foot-covering esp square or round toed, used in armour
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Sabellianism (n)
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)
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)
a unit of acoustic absorption
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sabkha (n)
a broad salt-encrusted coastal plain, above the level of normal tides and subjected to only occasional flooding
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sable (n)
an arctic and subarctic marten
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sabra (n)
a native born Israeli, not an immigrant
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sabretache (n)
a flat bag slung from a cavalry officer's sword belt
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sabulous (adj)
sandy; gritty; (of plants) growing in sandy places
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saburra (n)
a granular deposit, as in the stomach
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saccate (adj)
pouched; pouch-like; gibbous
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sacaton (n)
a type of coarse perennial grass growing in alkaline regions of the Southern US
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saccade (n)
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)
a tomb or monument in the form of a chapel inside a church; a little chapel
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sacerdotal (adj)
priestly
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sachem (n)
a Native American chief, a sagamore
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sackless (adj)
innocent, guileless; feeble; dispirited
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the Taal
Afrikaans or Cape Dutch
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tabanid
any member of the gadfly (Tabanus) genus, blood-suckers eg the horse-fly
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tabaret (n)
an upholsterer's silk fabric, with alternate stripes of watered and silk fabric
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tabasheer, tabashir (n)
a siliceous substance sometimes found in crude form in hollows of bamboos and used in eastern medicine
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tabbyhood (n)
the condition of being an old made
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tabefaction (n)
wasting away, emaciation
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tabellion (n)
an official scrivener in the Roman Empire
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tabla (n)
an Indian percussion instrument, small hand drums
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tablier (n)
an apron (historical)
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tabular (adj)
in the form of a table or tablet; laminated; flattened horizontally
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tacahout (n)
a gall on the tamarisk, a source of gallic acid
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tacamahac (n)
a gum-resin yielded by several tropical trees; the balsam poplar, or its resin

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