resurvey | (noun) a new survey or study | - |
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rickey | (noun) a mixed drink made of sweetened lime juice and soda water usually with liquor | - |
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ridley | (noun) a marine turtle | - |
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shinney | (noun) a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck | Synonyms: shinny |
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shuteye | (noun) informal term for sleep | Synonyms: shut-eye |
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slavey | (noun) a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work | Synonyms: skivvy |
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smiley | (noun) an emoticon of a smiling face | - |
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sockeye | (noun) small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning | Synonyms: blueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, sockeye salmon |
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(noun) fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers | Synonyms: red salmon, sockeye salmon |
spinney | (noun) a copse that shelters game | - |
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storey | (noun) a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale | Synonyms: floor, level, story |
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surrey | (noun) a light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; has two or four seats | - |
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survey | (noun) the act of looking or seeing or observing | Synonyms: sight, view |
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(noun) a detailed critical inspection | Synonyms: study |
(noun) short descriptive summary (of events) | Synonyms: resume, sketch |
surveying | (noun) the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map | - |
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surveyor | (noun) an engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures | - |
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(noun) someone who conducts a statistical survey | - |
tomalley | (noun) edible greenish substance in boiled lobster | - |
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tourney | (noun) a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner | Synonyms: tournament |
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trey | (noun) one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips | Synonyms: three |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
trolley | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity | Synonyms: streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley car |
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trolleybus | (noun) a passenger bus with an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires | Synonyms: trackless trolley, trolley coach |
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turkey | (noun) large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food | Synonyms: Meleagris gallopavo |
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(noun) an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual | Synonyms: bomb, dud |
(noun) flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted | - |
(noun) a person who does something thoughtless or annoying | Synonyms: joker |
turnkey | (noun) someone who guards prisoners | Synonyms: gaoler, jailer, jailor, prison guard, screw |
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valley | (noun) a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river | Synonyms: vale |
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vineyard | (noun) a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced | Synonyms: vinery |
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volley | (noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: burst, fusillade, salvo |
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(noun) a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces | - |
volleyball | (noun) a game in which two teams hit an inflated ball over a high net using their hands | Synonyms: volley ball, volleyball game |
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(noun) an inflated ball used in playing volleyball | Synonyms: volley ball |
walleye | (noun) pike-like freshwater perches | Synonyms: dory, jack salmon, Stizostedion vitreum, walleyed pike |
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(noun) strabismus in which one or both eyes are directed outward | Synonyms: divergent strabismus, exotropia |
wasteyard | (noun) a piece of land where waste materials are dumped | Synonyms: dump, dumpsite, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, waste-yard |
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whey | (noun) watery part of milk produced when raw milk sours and coagulates | - |
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(noun) the serum or watery part of milk that is separated from the curd in making cheese | Synonyms: milk whey |
whimsey | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, flightiness, whimsicality, whimsy |
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(noun) an odd or fanciful or capricious idea | Synonyms: notion, whim, whimsy |
whiskey | (noun) a liquor made from fermented mash of grain | Synonyms: whisky |
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whitey | (noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man | Synonyms: honkey, honkie, honky |
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wincey | (noun) a plain or twilled fabric of wool and cotton used especially for warm shirts or skirts and pajamas | - |
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winceyette | (noun) cotton flannelette with a nap on both sides | - |
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