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Charnel

Containing the bodies of the dead.

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Offensive 84% connected

Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words.

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Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words.

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Vault 76% connected

An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.

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Ghastly 92% connected

Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal.

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Sepulchral 92% connected

Of or pertaining to burial, to the grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as, a sepulchral stone; a sepulchral inscription.

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Adipocere noun · 78% connection

A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are convert…

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Atmosphere noun · 78% connection

A supposed medium around various bodies; as, electrical atmosphere, a medium formerly supposed to surround electrical bodies.

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Bag noun · 78% connection

A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serp…

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Beat verb · 78% connection

A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.

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Carcass noun · 78% connection

A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast.

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Dead adjective · 78% connection

Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.

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Deadhouse noun · 78% connection

A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies.

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Depressed adjective · 78% connection

Having the vertical diameter shorter than the horizontal or transverse; -- said of the bodies of animals, or of parts of the bodies.

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Dirige noun · 78% connection

A service for the dead, in the Roman Catholic Church, being the first antiphon of Matins for the dead, of which Dirige is the first wo…

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Gravitation noun · 78% connection

(physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near it…

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Gravitational attraction noun · 78% connection

(physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near it…

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Gravitational force noun · 78% connection

(physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near it…

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Gravity noun · 78% connection

(physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near it…

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Hag noun · 78% connection

eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by…

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Infernal adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm…

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Libration point noun · 78% connection

any one of five points in the plane of a system of two large astronomical bodies orbiting each other, as the Earth-moon system, where…

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Lifeless adjective · 78% connection

Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spirit…

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Manes n. pl. · 78% connection

The benevolent spirits of the dead, especially of dead ancestors, regarded as family deities and protectors.

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