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- ellipse
- a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it; "the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant"
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- parabola
collapse - a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve related words >
- hyperbola
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- an open curve formed by a plane that cuts the base of a right circular cone related words >
- catenary
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- the curve theoretically assumed by a perfectly flexible and inextensible cord of uniform density and cross section hanging freely from two fixed points related words >
- ovule
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- a small or immature ovum
- a small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant; develops into a seed after fertilization related words >
- ovoid
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- an egg-shaped object related words >
- bulblike,
- bulbous,
- egg-shaped,
- ellipse,
- ellipsoid,
- global,
- globate,
- globe-shaped,
- globed,
- globelike,
- globoid,
- globose,
- globular,
- hemispheric,
- obovate,
- obovoid,
- orb,
- orbed,
- orbic,
- orbicular,
- orbiculate,
- orblike,
- orby,
- oval,
- ovate,
- oviform,
- ovule,
- sphere-shaped,
- spherelike,
- spheric,
- spheriform,
- spheroid
- sinus
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- any of various air-filled cavities especially in the bones of the skull related words >
- alveolation,
- alveolus,
- antrum,
- arc,
- armpit,
- basin,
- bow,
- bowl,
- catacaustic,
- catenary,
- caustic,
- cavity,
- circle,
- concave,
- concavity,
- conchoid,
- crater,
- crook,
- crypt,
- cup,
- curl,
- curve,
- depression,
- diacaustic,
- dip,
- ellipse,
- festoon,
- fold,
- follicle,
- funnel chest,
- hole,
- hollow,
- hollow shell,
- hook,
- hyperbola,
- lacuna,
- lituus,
- parabola,
- pit,
- pocket,
- punch bowl,
- scoop,
- shell,
- sink,
- socket,
- tracery,
- trough,
- vug
- festoon
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- flower chains suspended in loops between points
- an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work
- a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful loops
- decorate with strings of flowers; "The public buildings were festooned for the holiday" related words >
- arc,
- boughpot,
- bouquet,
- boutonniere,
- bow,
- bravery,
- buttonhole,
- catacaustic,
- catenary,
- caustic,
- chaplet,
- chiffon,
- circle,
- clinquant,
- conchoid,
- corsage,
- crook,
- curl,
- curve,
- diacaustic,
- ellipse,
- festoons,
- finery,
- flower arrangement,
- folderol,
- foofaraw,
- frilliness,
- frilling,
- frills,
- frills and furbelows,
- frippery,
- froufrou,
- fuss,
- gaiety,
- garland,
- gaudery,
- gilding,
- gilt,
- gingerbread,
- hook,
- hyperbola,
- lei,
- lituus,
- nosegay,
- parabola,
- paste,
- pinchbeck,
- posy,
- sinus,
- spray,
- superfluity,
- tinsel,
- tracery,
- trappings,
- trickery,
- trumpery,
- wreath
- tracery
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- decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs related words >
- arabesque,
- arc,
- basketry,
- basketwork,
- bow,
- cancellation,
- catacaustic,
- catenary,
- caustic,
- circle,
- conchoid,
- crook,
- cross-hatching,
- crossing-out,
- curl,
- curve,
- diacaustic,
- ellipse,
- festoon,
- filigree,
- fret,
- fretwork,
- grate,
- grating,
- grid,
- gridiron,
- grille,
- grillwork,
- hachure,
- hatching,
- hook,
- hyperbola,
- interlacement,
- intertexture,
- intertwinement,
- lace,
- lacery,
- lacework,
- lacing,
- lattice,
- latticework,
- lituus,
- mesh,
- meshes,
- meshwork,
- net,
- netting,
- network,
- parabola,
- plexure,
- plexus,
- raddle,
- reticle,
- reticulation,
- reticule,
- reticulum,
- riddle,
- screen,
- screening,
- sieve,
- sinus,
- texture,
- tissue,
- trellis,
- trelliswork,
- wattle,
- weave,
- weaving,
- web,
- webbing,
- webwork,
- weft,
- wicker,
- wickerwork
- curl
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- American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
- form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"
- play the Scottish game of curling
- twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please" related words >
- arc,
- arch,
- bend,
- bend back,
- bow,
- catacaustic,
- catenary,
- caustic,
- circle,
- cirrus,
- coil,
- conchoid,
- corkscrew,
- crimp,
- crisp,
- crook,
- curlicue,
- curve,
- decurve,
- deflect,
- diacaustic,
- dome,
- ellipse,
- embow,
- entwine,
- evolute,
- festoon,
- flex,
- frizz,
- frizzle,
- gyre,
- helix,
- hook,
- hump,
- hunch,
- hyperbola,
- incurvate,
- incurve,
- inflect,
- involute,
- kink,
- lituus,
- lock,
- loop,
- parabola,
- ponytail,
- recurve,
- reflect,
- reflex,
- retroflex,
- ringlet,
- roll,
- round,
- sag,
- screw,
- scroll,
- sinus,
- spiral,
- swag,
- sweep,
- swirl,
- tendril,
- tracery,
- turn,
- twine,
- twirl,
- twist,
- vault,
- volute,
- volution,
- vortex,
- whirl,
- whorl,
- wind,
- wreathe
- arc
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- a continuous portion of a circle related words >
- AC arc,
- Poulsen arc,
- aperiodic discharge,
- arc column,
- arc discharge,
- arc light,
- arch,
- bend,
- bow,
- brush discharge,
- catacaustic,
- catenary,
- caustic,
- circle,
- color filter,
- conchoid,
- crook,
- curl,
- curvation,
- curvature,
- curve,
- diacaustic,
- dimmer,
- discharge,
- disruptive discharge,
- electric discharge,
- electric shock,
- electric spark,
- electrodeless discharge,
- ellipse,
- festoon,
- floats,
- flood,
- floodlight,
- footlights,
- foots,
- galvanic shock,
- gelatin,
- glow discharge,
- hook,
- hyperbola,
- klieg light,
- light plot,
- lights,
- limelight,
- lituus,
- marquee,
- medium,
- oscillatory discharge,
- parabola,
- round,
- shock,
- silent discharge,
- sinus,
- spark,
- spark gap,
- spot,
- spotlight,
- tracery
- archery ground,
- athletic field,
- badminton court,
- baseball field,
- basketball court,
- billiard parlor,
- bowling alley,
- bowling green,
- course,
- court,
- cricket ground,
- croquet ground,
- croquet lawn,
- diamond,
- egg-shaped,
- ellipse,
- ellipsoidal,
- elliptic,
- elliptical,
- fairway,
- field,
- football field,
- glaciarium,
- golf course,
- golf links,
- gridiron,
- gym,
- gymnasium,
- ice rink,
- infield,
- links,
- obovate,
- obovoid,
- outfield,
- ovate,
- oviform,
- ovoid,
- ovule,
- playground,
- playing field,
- playroom,
- polo ground,
- pool hall,
- poolroom,
- putting green,
- racecourse,
- racket court,
- rink,
- skating rink,
- soccer field,
- squash court,
- stretch,
- tennis court,
- track,
- turf
- caustic
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- any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue
- of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action related words >
- Rabelaisian,
- acerb,
- acerbate,
- acerbic,
- acid,
- acidic,
- acidulent,
- acidulous,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- actual cautery,
- acute,
- amaroidal,
- angry,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- arc,
- asperous,
- astringent,
- belligerent,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bitter as gall,
- bow,
- brand,
- brand iron,
- branding iron,
- brisk,
- burning,
- catacaustic,
- catenary,
- cauter,
- cauterant,
- cauterizer,
- cautery,
- choleric,
- circle,
- clashing,
- coarse,
- colliding,
- conchoid,
- conflicting,
- corroding,
- corrosive,
- crisp,
- critical,
- crook,
- curl,
- curve,
- cutting,
- cynical,
- despiteful,
- destructive,
- diacaustic,
- discontented,
- double-edged,
- dry,
- edged,
- electrocautery,
- ellipse,
- embittered,
- escharotic,
- feeling evil,
- festoon,
- fierce,
- full of hate,
- hard,
- harsh,
- hateful,
- hook,
- hostile,
- hot iron,
- hyperbola,
- incisive,
- ironic,
- irritating,
- keen,
- lituus,
- lunar caustic,
- malevolent,
- malicious,
- malignant,
- mordacious,
- mordant,
- moxa,
- nose-tickling,
- out of humor,
- out of sorts,
- out of temper,
- parabola,
- penetrating,
- piercing,
- piquant,
- pithy,
- poignant,
- potential cautery,
- pungent,
- quarrelsome,
- radium,
- rancorous,
- rankled,
- repugnant,
- resentful,
- resenting,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- salty,
- sarcastic,
- sardonic,
- satiric,
- scathing,
- scorching,
- set against,
- severe,
- sharp,
- sinus,
- sore,
- sour,
- spiteful,
- splenetic,
- stabbing,
- stewing,
- stinging,
- strident,
- stringent,
- succinct,
- tart,
- terse,
- tracery,
- trenchant,
- vehement,
- venomous,
- violent,
- virulent,
- vitriolic,
- withering
- curve
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- a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approach the batter
- a line on a graph representing data
- the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- arc,
- arch,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- bag of tricks,
- bear off,
- bend,
- bend back,
- bias,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bosey,
- bow,
- bowl,
- branch off,
- branching off,
- cast,
- catacaustic,
- catch,
- catenary,
- caustic,
- change of pace,
- change the bearing,
- change-up,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- chuck,
- chunk,
- circle,
- circuit,
- circuitousness,
- circumference,
- coil,
- compass,
- conchoid,
- corner,
- crook,
- curl,
- curvation,
- curvature,
- curve-ball,
- declination,
- decurve,
- deflect,
- depart from,
- departure,
- design,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviate,
- deviation,
- device,
- deviousness,
- diacaustic,
- diffract,
- diffuse,
- digress,
- digression,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- discursion,
- disperse,
- distort,
- divagate,
- divagation,
- divaricate,
- divarication,
- diverge,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- divert,
- dodge,
- dogleg,
- dome,
- double,
- downcurve,
- drift,
- drifting,
- ellipse,
- embow,
- errantry,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- fast deal,
- fastball,
- feint,
- festoon,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- flex,
- fling,
- flip,
- forward pass,
- gambit,
- gimmick,
- googly,
- hairpin,
- heave,
- heel,
- hocus-pocus,
- hook,
- hump,
- hunch,
- hurl,
- hyperbola,
- incurvate,
- incurvation,
- incurvature,
- incurve,
- indirection,
- inflect,
- inflection,
- joker,
- juggle,
- knuckleball,
- lateral,
- lateral pass,
- lituus,
- lob,
- loop,
- obliquity,
- outcurve,
- parabola,
- pass,
- peg,
- pererration,
- pitch,
- ploy,
- pull,
- put,
- rambling,
- recurve,
- reflect,
- reflex,
- refract,
- retroflex,
- rondure,
- round,
- ruse,
- sag,
- scatter,
- scheme,
- screwball,
- scurvy trick,
- serve,
- service,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- shot-put,
- shy,
- sinker,
- sinus,
- skew,
- slant,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- slider,
- sling,
- spiral,
- spitball,
- spitter,
- stratagem,
- straying,
- subterfuge,
- swag,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- throw,
- toss,
- tracery,
- trend,
- trick,
- turn,
- turn aside,
- turning,
- twist,
- upcurve,
- variation,
- vary,
- vault,
- veer,
- wandering,
- warp,
- wile,
- wind,
- yaw,
- zigzag
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