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Dough

Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.

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Broader term 4

Concoction 76% connected

A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion.

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Intermixture 76% connected

A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed.

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Mixture 76% connected

The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients.

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Money 76% connected

A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial trans…

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Narrower term 1

Pastry 76% connected

The place where pastry is made.

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Derivationally related 2

Doughy 74% connected

Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion.

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Doughy 74% connected

Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion.

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Substance part 1

Flour 70% connected

The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of a…

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Synonym 13

Boodle 92% connected

The whole collection or lot; caboodle.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bread 92% connected

To spread.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Cabbage 92% connected

An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The caul…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gelt 92% connected

Trubute, tax.

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Kale 92% connected

A variety of cabbage in which the leaves do not form a head, being nearly the original or wild form of the species.

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Lettuce 92% connected

A composite plant of the genus Lactuca (L. sativa), the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactu…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Loot 92% connected

The act of plundering.

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Lucre 92% connected

Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.

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Moolah 92% connected

Alt. of Moollah

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Pelf 92% connected

Money; riches; lucre; gain; -- generally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten or worthless. It has no plural.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Scratch 92% connected

To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sugar 92% connected

A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certa…

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Wampum 92% connected

Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.

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