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General dictionaries General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. recess: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. recess: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. recess: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  4. recess: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  5. Recess, recess: Wordnik [home, info]
  6. recess: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  7. Recess: Wiktionary [home, info]
  8. recess: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  9. recess: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  10. recess: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  11. recess: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  12. recess: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  13. recess: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. recess: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  15. Recess (Disney), Recess (TV series), Recess (TV show), Recess: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  16. Recess: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  17. recess: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  18. recess: Rhymezone [home, info]
  19. recess: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  20. recess: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  21. Recess (school): American-Britih Dictionary [home, info]
  22. Recess: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  23. recess: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  24. recess: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  25. recess: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  26. recess: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  27. recess: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. recess: Law.com Dictionary [home, info]
  2. recess: Everybody's Legal Dictionary [home, info]
  3. Recess: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
  4. Recess: GLOSSARY OF LEGISLATIVE TERMS [home, info]
  5. recess: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recess: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. recess: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. recess: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  3. Recess: Gray's Anatomy (1918) [home, info]
  4. recess: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Recess: Arms and Armour [home, info]
  2. RECESS: Acronym Finder [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. recess: NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL [home, info]
  2. Recess: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]

Quick definitions (recess)

noun:  an enclosure that is set back or indented
noun:  a small concavity
noun:  a pause from doing something (as work)
noun:  an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
noun:  a state of abeyance or suspended business
verb:  make a recess in ("Recess the piece of wood")
verb:  put into a recess ("Recess lights")
verb:  close at the end of a session

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Words similar to recess:   niche, adjourn, break, corner, cove, deferral, inlet, nook, recessed, recesses, recessing, recession, respite, break up, cranny, time out, more...


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