| sickbed | (noun) the bed on which a sick person lies | - |
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| sightedness | (noun) normal use of the faculty of vision | Synonyms: eyesight, seeing |
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| signified | (noun) the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted | Synonyms: sense |
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| silkweed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts | Synonyms: milkweed |
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| silverweed | (noun) any of various twining shrubs of the genus Argyreia having silvery leaves and showy purple flowers | - |
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| (noun) low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath; northern United States, Europe, Asia | Synonyms: goose-tansy, goose grass, Potentilla anserina |
| skedaddle | (noun) a hasty flight | - |
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| skunkweed | (noun) tall herb of the Rocky Mountains having sticky leaves and an offensive smell | Synonyms: Polemonium viscosum, skunk-weed |
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| sled | (noun) a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow | Synonyms: sledge, sleigh |
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| sledder | (noun) someone who rides a sled | - |
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| sledding | (noun) the sport of riding on a sled or sleigh | - |
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| (noun) advancing toward a goal | Synonyms: going |
| sledge | (noun) a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges | Synonyms: maul, sledgehammer |
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| (noun) a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow | Synonyms: sled, sleigh |
| sledgehammer | (noun) a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges | Synonyms: maul, sledge |
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| slugabed | (noun) a person who stays in bed until a relatively late hour | Synonyms: lie-abed |
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| snakeweed | (noun) low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads | Synonyms: broom snakeroot, broom snakeweed, Gutierrezia sarothrae, rabbit-weed, rabbitweed, turpentine weed |
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| sneezeweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Helenium characteristically causing sneezing | - |
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| soapweed | (noun) tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States | Synonyms: soap-weed, soap tree, Yucca elata |
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| softheartedness | (noun) a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless) | Synonyms: tenderness |
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| speed | (noun) changing location rapidly | Synonyms: hurrying, speeding |
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| (noun) a central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression | Synonyms: amphetamine, pep pill, upper |
| (noun) a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens | Synonyms: fastness, swiftness |
| (noun) the ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a (camera) lens system | Synonyms: f number, focal ratio, stop number |
| (noun) distance travelled per unit time | Synonyms: velocity |
| speedboat | (noun) a fast motorboat | - |
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| speeder | (noun) a driver who exceeds the safe speed limit | Synonyms: speed demon |
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| speediness | (noun) a rate that is rapid | Synonyms: celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness |
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| speeding | (noun) changing location rapidly | Synonyms: hurrying, speed |
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| speedometer | (noun) a meter fixed to a vehicle that measures and displays its speed | Synonyms: speed indicator |
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| speedpaint | (noun) Painting a picture in a very short amount of time | - |
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| speedskater | (noun) an ice-skater who races competitively; usually around an oval course | Synonyms: speed skater |
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| speedup | (noun) the act of accelerating; increasing the speed | Synonyms: acceleration, quickening |
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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 | - |
| speedwell | (noun) any plant of the genus Veronica | Synonyms: veronica |
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| spiritedness | (noun) quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous | Synonyms: animation, brio, invigoration, vivification |
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| spoonfeeding | (noun) feeding someone (as a baby) from a spoon | - |
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| (noun) teaching in an overly simplified way that discourages independent thought | - |
| spottedness | (noun) the quality or state of being marked with spots. | - |
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| stampede | (noun) a headlong rush of people on a common impulse | - |
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| (noun) a wild headlong rush of frightened animals (horses or cattle) | - |
| stapedectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the stapes of the middle ear | - |
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| steed | (noun) (literary) a spirited horse for state of war | - |
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| stevedore | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper |
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| stickweed | (noun) any of several herbaceous plants having seeds that cling to clothing | - |
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| stinkweed | (noun) foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America | Synonyms: fanweed, field pennycress, French weed, mithridate mustard, penny grass, Thlaspi arvense |
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| stoutheartedness | (noun) the trait of having a courageous spirit | - |
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| straightedge | (noun) hand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness) | - |
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| streambed | (noun) a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a stream | Synonyms: creek bed |
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| stuntedness | (noun) smallness of stature | Synonyms: puniness, runtiness |
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| subduedness | (noun) the property of lights or sounds that lack brilliance or are reduced in intensity | Synonyms: dimness |
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| (noun) a disposition to be patient and long suffering | Synonyms: meekness |
| subeditor | (noun) an assistant editor | - |
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| submediant | (noun) (music) the sixth note of a major or minor scale (or the third below the tonic) | - |
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| succedaneum | (noun) (medicine) something that can be used as a substitute (especially any medicine that may be taken in place of another) | - |
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| succeeder | (noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: achiever, success, winner |
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| suede | (noun) a fabric made to resemble suede leather | Synonyms: suede cloth |
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| (noun) leather with a napped surface | Synonyms: suede leather |
| supersedure | (noun) act of replacing one person or thing by another especially one held to be superior | Synonyms: supersession |
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| swede | (noun) the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food | Synonyms: rutabaga, swedish turnip, yellow turnip |
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| (noun) a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root | Synonyms: Brassica napus napobrassica, rutabaga, rutabaga plant, Swedish turnip, turnip cabbage |
| takedown | (noun) a crushing remark | Synonyms: put-down, squelch, squelcher |
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| (noun) (amateur wrestling) being brought to the mat from a standing position | - |
| tarweed | (noun) any of various resinous glandular plants of the genus Madia; of western North and South America | - |
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| (noun) any of various western American plants of the genus Grindelia having resinous leaves and stems formerly used medicinally; often poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: gum plant, gumweed, rosinweed |
| teddy | (noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment | Synonyms: chemise, shift, shimmy, slip |
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| (noun) plaything consisting of a child's toy bear (usually plush and stuffed with soft materials) | Synonyms: teddy bear |
| tediousness | (noun) dullness owing to length or slowness | Synonyms: tedium, tiresomeness |
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| tedium | (noun) dullness owing to length or slowness | Synonyms: tediousness, tiresomeness |
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| (noun) the feeling of being bored by something tedious | Synonyms: boredom, ennui |
| tenderheartedness | (noun) warm compassionate feelings | Synonyms: tenderness |
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| teredinid | (noun) wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells | Synonyms: shipworm |
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| teredo | (noun) typical shipworm | - |
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| tetrahedron | (noun) any polyhedron having four plane faces | - |
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| thimbleweed | (noun) a common North American anemone with cylindrical fruit clusters resembling thimbles | Synonyms: Anemone cylindrica |
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| thistledown | (noun) pappus of a thistle consisting of silky featherlike hairs attached to the seed-like fruit of a thistle | - |
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| thoroughbred | (noun) a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | Synonyms: pureblood, purebred |
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| (noun) a racehorse belonging to a breed that originated from a cross between Arabian stallions and English mares | - |
| (noun) a well-bred person | - |
| tickseed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America | Synonyms: coreopsis, tick-weed, tickweed |
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| tickweed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America | Synonyms: coreopsis, tick-weed, tickseed |
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| tightfistedness | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightness |
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| tiredness | (noun) temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work | Synonyms: fatigue, weariness |
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| toolshed | (noun) a shed for storing tools | Synonyms: toolhouse |
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| torpedo | (noun) any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges | Synonyms: crampfish, electric ray, numbfish |
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| (noun) armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target | - |
| (noun) a small explosive device that is placed on a railroad track and fires when a train runs over it; the sound of the explosion warns the engineer of danger ahead | - |
| (noun) a small firework that consists of a percussion cap and some gravel wrapped in paper; explodes when thrown forcefully against a hard surface | - |
| (noun) an explosive device that is set off in an oil well (or a gas well) to start or to increase the flow of oil (or gas) | - |
| (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, wedge, zep |
| (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, triggerman |
| tournedos | (noun) thick steak cut from the beef tenderloin | - |
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| tragedian | (noun) an actor who specializes in tragic roles | - |
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| (noun) a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies | - |
| tragedienne | (noun) an actress who specializes in tragic roles | - |
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| tragedy | (noun) drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity | - |
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| (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | Synonyms: calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster |
| tragicomedy | (noun) a dramatic composition involving elements of both tragedy and comedy usually with the tragic predominating | - |
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| (noun) a comedy with serious elements or overtones | Synonyms: seriocomedy |
| transgendered | (noun) a person who has undergone a sex change operation | Synonyms: transexual, transsexual |
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| trapezohedron | (noun) a polyhedron whose faces are trapeziums | - |
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| tumbleweed | (noun) any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass | - |
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| (noun) bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds | Synonyms: Cycloloma atriplicifolium, winged pigweed |
| (noun) bushy plant of western United States | Synonyms: Amaranthus albus, Amaranthus graecizans |
| (noun) prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States | Synonyms: Russian cactus, Russian thistle, Russian tumbleweed, Salsola kali tenuifolia |
| turtledove | (noun) any of several Old World wild doves | - |
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| (noun) small Australian dove | Synonyms: Australian turtledove, Stictopelia cuneata |
| tuxedo | (noun) semiformal evening dress for men | Synonyms: black tie, dinner jacket, tux |
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| tweed | (noun) thick woolen fabric used for clothing; originated in Scotland | - |
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| (noun) (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth | Synonyms: flannel, gabardine, white |
| tweediness | (noun) looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth) | Synonyms: coarseness, nubbiness |
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| (noun) an informal, homely, outdoor look characteristic of those who wear tweeds | - |
| unabridged | (noun) a dictionary that has not been shortened by the omitting terms or definitions; a comprehensive dictionary | Synonyms: unabridged dictionary |
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| unaffectedness | (noun) not affected; a personal manner that is not consciously constrained | - |
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| unboundedness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: boundlessness, infiniteness, infinitude, limitlessness |
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| uncloudedness | (noun) the quality of clear water | Synonyms: clarity, clearness |
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| unconfessed | (noun) people who have not confessed | - |
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| unconnectedness | (noun) the lack of a connection between things | - |
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| unemployed | (noun) people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group) | Synonyms: unemployed people |
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| unexpectedness | (noun) extraordinariness by virtue of being unexpected | Synonyms: surprisingness |
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| unhurriedness | (noun) a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry | Synonyms: deliberateness, deliberation, slowness |
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| unpointedness | (noun) the property of having only a dull tip (if any) | - |
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| unpredictability | (noun) lacking predictability | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being unpredictably irresolute | Synonyms: volatility |
| (noun) the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses | Synonyms: capriciousness |
| unprotectedness | (noun) the property of being helpless in the face of attack | Synonyms: defencelessness, defenselessness |
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| unrelatedness | (noun) the lack of any particular manner of connectedness | - |
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| unvariedness | (noun) characterized by an absence of variation | - |
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| valediction | (noun) the act of saying farewell | - |
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| (noun) a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) | Synonyms: valedictory, valedictory address, valedictory oration |
| valedictorian | (noun) the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement | Synonyms: valedictory speaker |
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| valedictory | (noun) a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) | Synonyms: valediction, valedictory address, valedictory oration |
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| variedness | (noun) characterized by variation | - |
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| vedalia | (noun) native to Australia; introduced elsewhere to control scale insects | Synonyms: Rodolia cardinalis |
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| velocipede | (noun) a vehicle with three wheels that is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: tricycle, trike |
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| (noun) any of several early bicycles with pedals on the front wheel | - |
| velvetweed | (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, velvetleaf |
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