raft | (noun) a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers | - |
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(noun) a foundation (usually on soft ground) consisting of an extended layer of reinforced concrete | Synonyms: mat, raft foundation |
(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
rafter | (noun) one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof | Synonyms: balk, baulk |
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(noun) someone who travels by raft | Synonyms: raftman, raftsman |
raftman | (noun) someone who travels by raft | Synonyms: rafter, raftsman |
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rafts | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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raftsman | (noun) someone who travels by raft | Synonyms: rafter, raftman |
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ratafee | (noun) sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum or peach or apricot kernels and bitter almonds | Synonyms: ratafia |
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ratafia | (noun) sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum or peach or apricot kernels and bitter almonds | Synonyms: ratafee |
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(noun) macaroon flavored with ratafia liqueur | Synonyms: ratafia biscuit |
reaffiliation | (noun) affiliation anew | - |
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reaffirmation | (noun) renewed affirmation | Synonyms: reassertion |
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redraft | (noun) a draft for the amount of a dishonored draft plus the costs and charges of drafting again | - |
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riffraff | (noun) disparaging terms for the common people | Synonyms: rabble, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail |
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rijstafel | (noun) dish originating in Indonesia; a wide variety of foods and sauces are served with rice | Synonyms: rijstaffel, rijsttaffel |
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rijstaffel | (noun) dish originating in Indonesia; a wide variety of foods and sauces are served with rice | Synonyms: rijstafel, rijsttaffel |
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rijsttaffel | (noun) dish originating in Indonesia; a wide variety of foods and sauces are served with rice | Synonyms: rijstafel, rijstaffel |
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safari | (noun) an overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa) | Synonyms: campaign, hunting expedition |
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safe | (noun) strongbox where valuables can be safely kept | - |
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(noun) contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse | Synonyms: condom, prophylactic, rubber, safety |
(noun) a ventilated or refrigerated cupboard for securing provisions from pests | - |
safebreaker | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: cracksman, safecracker |
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safecracker | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: cracksman, safebreaker |
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safeguard | (noun) a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc. | Synonyms: guard, precaution |
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(noun) a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war | Synonyms: safe-conduct |
safehold | (noun) a refuge from attack | - |
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safekeeping | (noun) the responsibility of a guardian or keeper | Synonyms: guardianship, keeping |
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safeness | (noun) the quality of being safe | - |
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safety | (noun) (baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safely | Synonyms: base hit |
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(noun) a score in American football; a player is tackled behind his own goal line | - |
(noun) a device designed to prevent injury or accidents | Synonyms: guard, safety device |
(noun) contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse | Synonyms: condom, prophylactic, rubber, safe |
(noun) a safe place | Synonyms: refuge |
(noun) the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions | - |
safflower | (noun) thistlelike Eurasian plant widely grown for its red or orange flower heads and seeds that yield a valuable oil | Synonyms: Carthamus tinctorius, false saffron |
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saffranine | (noun) any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes | Synonyms: safranin, safranine |
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saffron | (noun) a shade of yellow tinged with orange | Synonyms: orange yellow |
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(noun) dried pungent stigmas of the Old World saffron crocus | - |
(noun) Old World crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food | Synonyms: Crocus sativus, saffron crocus |
safranin | (noun) any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes | Synonyms: saffranine, safranine |
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safranine | (noun) any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes | Synonyms: saffranine, safranin |
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sassafras | (noun) dried root bark of the sassafras tree | - |
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(noun) yellowwood tree with brittle wood and aromatic leaves and bark; source of sassafras oil; widely distributed in eastern North America | Synonyms: Sassafras albidum, sassafras tree |
satinleaf | (noun) tropical American timber tree with dark hard heavy wood and small plumlike purple fruit | Synonyms: caimitillo, Chrysophyllum oliviforme, damson plum, satin leaf |
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scaffold | (noun) a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers | - |
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(noun) a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded) | - |
scaffolding | (noun) a system of scaffolds | Synonyms: staging |
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sclaff | (noun) a poor golf stroke in which the club head hits the ground before hitting the ball | - |
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seafarer | (noun) a man who serves as a sailor | Synonyms: gob, Jack-tar, Jack, mariner, old salt, sea dog, seaman, tar |
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seafaring | (noun) the work of a sailor | Synonyms: navigation, sailing |
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(noun) travel by water | Synonyms: water travel |
seafood | (noun) edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc | - |
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seafowl | (noun) a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls, pelicans, gannets, cormorants, albatrosses, petrels, etc. | Synonyms: sea bird, seabird |
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seafront | (noun) the waterfront of a seaside town | - |
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sgraffito | (noun) a ceramic or mural decoration made by scratching off a surface layer to reveal the ground | - |
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shaft | (noun) the hollow spine of a feather | Synonyms: calamus, quill |
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(noun) a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow) | - |
(noun) a revolving rod that transmits power or motion | Synonyms: rotating shaft |
(noun) a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel | - |
(noun) (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column | Synonyms: scape |
(noun) a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator) | - |
(noun) a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon | Synonyms: lance, spear |
(noun) the main (mid) section of a long bone | Synonyms: diaphysis |
(noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, prick, putz, tool |
(noun) a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer | - |
(noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, dig, gibe, jibe, shot, slam |
(noun) a column of light (as from a beacon) | Synonyms: beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft of light |
shandygaff | (noun) a drink made of beer and lemonade | Synonyms: shandy |
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sheaf | (noun) a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing | Synonyms: bundle |
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shinleaf | (noun) North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters | Synonyms: Pyrola elliptica, wild lily of the valley |
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sildenafil | (noun) virility drug (trade name Viagra) used to treat erectile dysfunction in men | Synonyms: sildenafil citrate, Viagra |
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snaffle | (noun) a simple jointed bit for a horse; without a curb | Synonyms: snaffle bit |
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snafu | (noun) an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up | - |
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spacecraft | (noun) a craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sun | Synonyms: ballistic capsule, space vehicle |
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spongillafly | (noun) hairy-bodied insect whose larvae feed on freshwater sponges | Synonyms: spongefly |
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staff | (noun) a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose | - |
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(noun) (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written | Synonyms: stave |
(noun) a rod carried as a symbol | - |
(noun) the body of teachers and administrators at a school | Synonyms: faculty |
(noun) personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task | - |
(noun) building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration | - |
staffer | (noun) an employee who is a member of a staff of workers (especially a member of the staff that works for the President of the United States) | Synonyms: staff member |
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stagecraft | (noun) skill in writing or staging plays | - |
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statecraft | (noun) wisdom in the management of public affairs | Synonyms: diplomacy, statesmanship |
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strafe | (noun) an attack of machine-gun fire or cannon fire from a low flying airplane | - |
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strafer | (noun) a combat pilot who strafes the enemy | - |
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sugarloaf | (noun) a large conical loaf of concentrated refined sugar | Synonyms: loaf sugar, sugar loaf |
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sweetleaf | (noun) small yellowwood tree of southern United States having small fragrant white flowers; leaves and bark yield a yellow dye | Synonyms: Symplocus tinctoria |
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tadalafil | (noun) virility drug (trade name Cialis) used to treat erectile dysfunction in men | Synonyms: Cialis |
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taffeta | (noun) a crisp smooth lustrous fabric | - |
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taffrail | (noun) the railing around the stern of a ship | - |
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taffy | (noun) chewy candy of sugar or syrup boiled until thick and pulled until glossy | - |
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teraflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, with 1 teraflop being one trillion floating point operations per second | Synonyms: trillion floating point operations per second |
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terbinafine | (noun) an oral antifungal drug (trade name Lamisil) used to treat cases of fungal nail disease | Synonyms: Lamisil |
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tetrafluoroethylene | (noun) a flammable gaseous fluorocarbon used in making plastics (polytetrafluoroethylene resins) | - |
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tipstaff | (noun) staff with a metal tip carried as a sign of office by e.g. a bailiff or constable | - |
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tradecraft | (noun) skill acquired through experience in a trade; often used to discuss skill in espionage | - |
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traffic | (noun) buying and selling; especially illicit trade | - |
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(noun) social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') | Synonyms: dealings |
(noun) the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time | - |
(noun) the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time | - |
trafficator | (noun) a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn | Synonyms: blinker, turn indicator, turn signal |
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trafficker | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, seller, vender, vendor |
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unaffectedness | (noun) not affected; a personal manner that is not consciously constrained | - |
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updraft | (noun) a strong upward air current | - |
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vardenafil | (noun) virility drug (trade name Levitra) used to treat erectile dysfunction in men | Synonyms: Levitra |
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velvetleaf | (noun) tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States | Synonyms: Abutilon theophrasti, butter-print, China jute, Indian mallow, velvet-leaf, velvetweed |
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(noun) arborescent perennial shrub having palmately lobed furry leaves and showy red-purple flowers; southwestern United States | Synonyms: Lavatera arborea, tree mallow, velvet-leaf |
wafer | (noun) a small thin crisp cake or cookie | - |
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(noun) thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist) | - |
(noun) a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters | - |
waffle | (noun) pancake batter baked in a waffle iron | - |
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waffler | (noun) someone who speaks or writes in a vague and evasive manner | - |
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waft | (noun) a long flag; often tapering | Synonyms: pennant, pennon, streamer |
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wafture | (noun) the act of signaling by a movement of the hand | Synonyms: wave, waving |
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watercraft | (noun) a craft designed for water transportation | Synonyms: vessel |
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(noun) skill in the management of boats | - |
waterleaf | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Hydrophyllum | - |
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witchcraft | (noun) the art of sorcery | Synonyms: witchery |
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woodcraft | (noun) skill in carving or fashioning objects from wood | - |
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(noun) skill and experience in matters relating to the woods (as hunting or fishing or camping) | - |
xenograft | (noun) tissue from an animal of one species used as a temporary graft (as in cases of severe burns) on an individual of another species | Synonyms: heterograft |
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yottaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one septillion floating-point operations a second. | Synonyms: YFLOPS |
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zettaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one sextillion floating-point operations a second. | Synonyms: ZFLOPS |
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