Term: shortening: act of decreasing in length
Broader: decrease: the act of decreasing or reducing something | Unrelated: psychology: the science of mental life
Broader: decrease: the act of decreasing or reducing something | Unrelated: cracidae: curassows; guans; chachalacas
Broader: decrease: the act of decreasing or reducing something | Unrelated: purple locoweed: tufted locoweed of southwestern United States having purple or pink to white flowers
Broader: decrease: the act of decreasing or reducing something | Unrelated: cool jazz: jazz that is restrained and fluid and marked by intricate harmonic structures often lagging slightly behind the beat
Broader: decrease: the act of decreasing or reducing something | Unrelated: rationalization: the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason
Broader: decrease: the act of decreasing or reducing something | Unrelated: dome: a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward
Broader: decrease: the act of decreasing or reducing something | Unrelated: day nursery: a nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work
Broader: decrease: the act of decreasing or reducing something | Unrelated: witch hazel: lotion consisting of an astringent alcoholic solution containing an extract from the witch hazel plant
Broader: decrease: the act of decreasing or reducing something | Unrelated: commutation: a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one
Broader: decrease: the act of decreasing or reducing something | Unrelated: small civet: a common civet of southeast Asia