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Cavernous

Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.

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Expansive 84% connected

Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive; of much expanse; wide-extending; as, the expansive force of heat; the expansive quality…

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Expansive 84% connected

Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive; of much expanse; wide-extending; as, the expansive force of heat; the expansive quality…

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Hollow 84% connected

Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow s…

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Hollow 84% connected

Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow s…

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Cavern 74% connected

A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.

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Cavern 74% connected

A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.

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Erectile 92% connected

Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated.

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Antre noun · 78% connection

A cavern.

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Antrum noun · 78% connection

A cavern or cavity, esp. an anatomical cavity or sinus

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Blowhole noun · 78% connection

A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and r…

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Boom verb · 78% connection

To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects.

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Booming adjective · 78% connection

Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding.

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Cave noun · 78% connection

A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.

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Caverned adjective · 78% connection

Containing caverns.

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Cavity noun · 78% connection

A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity.

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Celom noun · 78% connection

a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity

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Celoma noun · 78% connection

a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity

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Choke-full adjective · 78% connection

Full to the brim; quite full; chock-full.

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Coelom noun · 78% connection

a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity

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Den noun · 78% connection

A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as…

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Effloresce verb · 78% connection

To become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the ma…

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Enwomb verb · 78% connection

To bury, as it were in a womb; to hide, as in a gulf, pit, or cavern.

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Excavate verb · 78% connection

To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the ear…

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Fistulate v. t. & i. · 78% connection

To make hollow or become hollow like a fistula, or pipe.

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Full Compar. · 78% connection

Abundantly furnished or provided; sufficient in. quantity, quality, or degree; copious; plenteous; ample; adequate; as, a full meal; a…

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