| railwayman | (noun) an employee of a railroad | Synonyms: railroad man, railroader, railway man, trainman |
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| ratepayer | (noun) a person who pays local rates (especially a householder) | - |
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| ray | (noun) cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins | - |
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| (noun) any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish | - |
| (noun) the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization | Synonyms: re |
| (noun) a column of light (as from a beacon) | Synonyms: beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light |
| (noun) a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: beam, electron beam |
| (noun) a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point | - |
| rayon | (noun) a synthetic silklike fabric | - |
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| rayons | (noun) women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk) | Synonyms: nylon stocking, nylons, rayon stocking, silk stocking |
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| relay | (noun) the act of passing something along from one person or group to another | - |
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| (noun) electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit | Synonyms: electrical relay |
| (noun) a race between teams; each member runs or swims part of the distance | Synonyms: relay race |
| (noun) a crew of workers who relieve another crew | - |
| (noun) a fresh team to relieve weary draft animals | - |
| repayment | (noun) the act of returning money received previously | Synonyms: refund |
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| (noun) payment of a debt or obligation | Synonyms: quittance |
| replay | (noun) the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape | Synonyms: action replay, instant replay |
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| (noun) something (especially a game) that is played again | Synonyms: rematch |
| ringway | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: beltway, bypass, ring road |
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| roadway | (noun) a road (especially that part of a road) over which vehicles travel | - |
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| roleplaying | (noun) acting a particular role (as in psychotherapy) | - |
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| ropeway | (noun) a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers | Synonyms: aerial tramway, cable tramway, tram, tramway |
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| rosebay | (noun) late-spring-blooming rhododendron of eastern North America having rosy to pink-purple flowers | Synonyms: Rhododendron maxima |
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| roundelay | (noun) a song in which a line or phrase is repeated as the refrain | - |
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| runaway | (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: blowout, laugher, romp, shoo-in, walkaway |
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| (noun) someone who flees from an uncongenial situation | Synonyms: fleer, fugitive |
| runway | (noun) a strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land | - |
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| (noun) a narrow platform extending from the stage into the audience in a theater or nightclub etc. | - |
| (noun) a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll | Synonyms: rail, rails, track |
| (noun) a chute down which logs can slide | - |
| sabayon | (noun) light foamy custard-like dessert served hot or chilled | Synonyms: zabaglione |
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| sashay | (noun) (ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading | Synonyms: chasse |
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| (noun) a square dance figure; partners circle each other taking sideways steps | - |
| (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, expedition, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip |
| say | (noun) the chance to speak | - |
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| sayeret | (noun) Israel's elite secret commando unit responsible for counterterrorist and top secret intelligence gathering and hostage rescue missions | Synonyms: Sayeret Mat'kal, Sayeret Matkal |
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| saying | (noun) a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations | Synonyms: expression, locution |
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| sayonara | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, so long |
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| schooldays | (noun) the time of life when you are going to school | Synonyms: schooltime |
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| screenplay | (noun) a script for a film including dialogue and descriptions of characters and sets | - |
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| seaway | (noun) a lane at sea that is a regularly used route for vessels | Synonyms: sea lane, ship route, trade route |
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| shay | (noun) a carriage consisting of two wheels and a calash top; drawn by a single horse | Synonyms: chaise |
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| shaytan | (noun) (Islam) a rebellious jinni who leads men astray | Synonyms: shaitan |
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| shipway | (noun) structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired | Synonyms: slipway, ways |
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| (noun) a canal large enough for seagoing vessels | Synonyms: ship canal |
| sickbay | (noun) (nautical) a room for the treatment of the sick or injured (as on a ship) | Synonyms: sick berth |
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| skyway | (noun) a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another | Synonyms: air lane, airway, flight path |
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| slayer | (noun) someone who causes the death of a person or animal | Synonyms: killer |
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| slaying | (noun) unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being | Synonyms: execution, murder |
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| slideway | (noun) sloping channel through which things can descend | Synonyms: chute, slide, sloping trough |
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| slipway | (noun) structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired | Synonyms: shipway, ways |
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| sluiceway | (noun) conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate | Synonyms: penstock, sluice |
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| soothsayer | (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: forecaster, predictor, prognosticator |
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| soothsaying | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: divination, foretelling, fortune telling |
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| spaying | (noun) neutering a female by removing the ovaries | - |
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| speedway | (noun) a racetrack for racing automobiles or motorcycles | - |
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| (noun) road where high speed driving is allowed | - |
| spillway | (noun) a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction | Synonyms: spill, wasteweir |
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| splay | (noun) an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger | - |
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| splayfoot | (noun) a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out | Synonyms: flatfoot, pes planus |
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| spray | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, sprayer |
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| (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a single branch or shoot bearing flowers and foliage | - |
| (noun) a jet of vapor | - |
| (noun) a quantity of small objects flying through the air | Synonyms: spraying |
| (noun) water in small drops in the atmosphere; blown from waves or thrown up by a waterfall | - |
| (noun) a pesticide in suspension or solution; intended for spraying | - |
| sprayer | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray |
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| (noun) a worker who applies spray to a surface | - |
| spraying | (noun) the application of a liquid in the form of small particles ejected from a sprayer | - |
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| (noun) the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft) | Synonyms: crop-dusting |
| (noun) a quantity of small objects flying through the air | Synonyms: spray |
| stairway | (noun) a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps | Synonyms: staircase |
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| stay | (noun) continuing or remaining in a place or state | - |
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| (noun) (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar | - |
| (noun) a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset) | - |
| (noun) a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted | - |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stop, stoppage |
| stayer | (noun) a person or other animal having powers of endurance or perseverance | - |
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| stays | (noun) a woman's close-fitting foundation garment | Synonyms: corset, girdle |
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| staysail | (noun) a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay (as between two masts) | - |
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| steerageway | (noun) (nautical) the minimum rate of motion needed for a vessel to be maneuvered | - |
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| stingray | (noun) large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable of inflicting severe wounds | - |
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| stowaway | (noun) a person who hides aboard a ship or plane in the hope of getting free passage | - |
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| straightaway | (noun) a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse | Synonyms: straight |
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| stray | (noun) an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal) | - |
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| strayer | (noun) someone who strays or falls behind | Synonyms: straggler |
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| subway | (noun) an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) | Synonyms: metro, subway system, tube, underground |
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| (noun) an underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway | Synonyms: underpass |
| sunray | (noun) a ray of sunlight | Synonyms: sunbeam |
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| (noun) a ray of artificial ultraviolet light from a sunray lamp | Synonyms: sun-ray |
| (noun) herb having a basal cluster of grey-green leaves and leafless stalks each with a solitary broad yellow flower head; desert areas Idaho to Arizona | Synonyms: Enceliopsis nudicaulis |
| superhighway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, throughway, thruway |
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| (noun) an extensive electronic network (such as the internet) used for the rapid transfer of sound and video and graphics in digital form | Synonyms: information superhighway |
| sway | (noun) pitching dangerously to one side | Synonyms: careen, rock, tilt |
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| (noun) controlling influence | - |
| swayer | (noun) a person who rules or commands | Synonyms: ruler |
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| swordplay | (noun) the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully | Synonyms: play |
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| takeaway | (noun) the act of taking the ball or puck away from the team on the offense (as by the interception of a pass) | - |
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| (noun) a concession made by a labor union to a company that is trying to lower its expenditures | - |
| (noun) prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises | Synonyms: takeout, takeout food |
| tatouay | (noun) naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America | Synonyms: cabassous, Cabassous unicinctus |
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| taxiway | (noun) a paved surface in the form of a strip; used by planes taxiing to or from the runway at an airport | Synonyms: taxi strip |
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| taxpayer | (noun) someone who pays taxes | - |
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| tayra | (noun) long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central America and South America | Synonyms: Eira barbara, taira |
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| tearaway | (noun) a reckless and impetuous person | - |
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| throughway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, thruway |
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| throwaway | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill |
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| (noun) words spoken in a casual way with conscious under-emphasis | - |
| (noun) (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets | Synonyms: gamin, street arab |
| thruway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway |
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| tideway | (noun) a channel in which a tidal current runs | - |
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| today | (noun) the present time or age | - |
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| (noun) the day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow) | - |
| tracklayer | (noun) a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks | Synonyms: platelayer |
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| tramway | (noun) the track on which trams or streetcars run | Synonyms: streetcar track, tramline |
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| (noun) a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers | Synonyms: aerial tramway, cable tramway, ropeway, tram |
| tray | (noun) an open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food | - |
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| trayful | (noun) as much as a tray will hold; enough to fill a tray. | - |
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| twayblade | (noun) orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown; Europe to central Asia | Synonyms: Listera ovata |
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| (noun) an orchid of the genus Liparis having a pair of leaves | - |
| underlay | (noun) a pad placed under a carpet | Synonyms: carpet pad, rug pad, underlayment |
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| underlayment | (noun) a pad placed under a carpet | Synonyms: carpet pad, rug pad, underlay |
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| underpayment | (noun) the act of paying less than required | - |
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| (noun) a payment smaller than needed or expected | - |
| vacay | (noun) informal term for vacation | Synonyms: vac |
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| walkaway | (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: blowout, laugher, romp, runaway, shoo-in |
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| walkway | (noun) a path set aside for walking | Synonyms: paseo, walk |
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| washday | (noun) a day set aside for doing household laundry | Synonyms: washing day |
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| waterway | (noun) a conduit through which water flows | Synonyms: watercourse |
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| (noun) a navigable body of water | - |
| way | (noun) a course of conduct | Synonyms: path, way of life |
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| (noun) to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end | Synonyms: agency, means |
| (noun) a journey or passage | - |
| (noun) any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another | - |
| (noun) how something is done or how it happens | Synonyms: fashion, manner, mode, style |
| (noun) the property of distance in general | - |
| (noun) doing as one pleases or chooses | - |
| (noun) a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of' | - |
| (noun) a line leading to a place or point | Synonyms: direction |
| (noun) a portion of something divided into shares | - |
| (noun) space for movement | Synonyms: elbow room, room |
| (noun) the condition of things generally | - |
| waybill | (noun) a receipt given by the carrier to the shipper acknowledging receipt of the goods being shipped and specifying the terms of delivery | Synonyms: bill of lading |
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| wayfarer | (noun) a traveler going on a trip | Synonyms: journeyer |
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| (noun) a pedestrian who walks from place to place | - |
| wayfaring | (noun) traveling (especially on foot) | - |
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| ways | (noun) structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired | Synonyms: shipway, slipway |
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| wayside | (noun) edge of a way or road or path | Synonyms: roadside |
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| weekday | (noun) any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday) | - |
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| wordplay | (noun) a humorous play on words | Synonyms: paronomasia, pun, punning |
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| workday | (noun) the amount of time that a worker must work for an agreed daily wage | Synonyms: working day |
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| (noun) a day on which work is done | Synonyms: work day, working day |
| yesterday | (noun) the recent past | - |
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| (noun) the day immediately before today | - |
| zayin | (noun) the 7th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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