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Constitutive

Tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential.

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Essential 84% connected

Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.

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Essential 84% connected

Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.

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Constituent 92% connected

Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.

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Constitutional 92% connected

Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution, or in the structure of body or mind; as, a constitutional infirmity; constitutional ardor or dullness.

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Organic 92% connected

Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure…

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Adjuvant adjective · 78% connection

Helping; helpful; assisting.

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Alliterate verb · 78% connection

To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration.

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Analytic adjective · 78% connection

using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole — intellectual or substantial — into its elemental parts or basic princip…

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Analytical adjective · 78% connection

using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole — intellectual or substantial — into its elemental parts or basic princip…

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Appoggiatura noun · 78% connection

A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree a…

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Assistance noun · 78% connection

The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support.

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Attar noun · 78% connection

A fragrant essential oil; esp., a volatile and highly fragrant essential oil obtained from the petals of roses.

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Auxiliary adjective · 78% connection

Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.

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Base noun · 78% connection

Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork.

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Bed screw unknown · 78% connection

A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies, and assisting in launching.

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Coadjutant adjective · 78% connection

Mutually assisting or operating; helping.

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Coadjuting adjective · 78% connection

Mutually assisting.

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Composing adjective · 78% connection

Tending to compose or soothe.

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Compound verb · 78% connection

To compose; to constitute.

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Dioptrical adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to dioptrics; assisting vision by means of the refraction of light; refractive; as, the dioptric system; a dioptric g…

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Distill verb · 78% connection

To obtain by distillation; to extract by distillation, as spirits, essential oil, etc.; to rectify; as, to distill brandy from wine; t…

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Elemental adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, ele…

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Elementalism adjective · 78% connection

The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.

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