| lefthander | (noun) a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand | Synonyms: left-handed pitcher, left-hander, left hander, lefty, southpaw |
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| leftism | (noun) the ideology of the political left; belief in or support of the tenets of the political left | - |
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| leftist | (noun) a person who belongs to the political left | Synonyms: collectivist, left-winger |
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| leftover | (noun) a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists | Synonyms: remnant |
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| leftovers | (noun) food remaining from a previous meal | - |
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| lefty | (noun) a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right | Synonyms: left-hander, southpaw |
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| (noun) a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand | Synonyms: left-handed pitcher, left-hander, left hander, lefthander, southpaw |
| lift | (noun) the act of raising something | Synonyms: heave, raise |
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| (noun) plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised | Synonyms: cosmetic surgery, face lift, face lifting, facelift, nip and tuck, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty |
| (noun) the act of giving temporary assistance | - |
| (noun) a ride in a car | - |
| (noun) transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable) | Synonyms: airlift |
| (noun) lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building | Synonyms: elevator |
| (noun) a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill | Synonyms: ski lift, ski tow |
| (noun) one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot | - |
| (noun) a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg | - |
| (noun) the event of something being raised upward | Synonyms: elevation, raising |
| (noun) a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground | Synonyms: rise |
| (noun) the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity | Synonyms: aerodynamic lift |
| lifter | (noun) an athlete who lifts barbells | Synonyms: weightlifter |
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| (noun) a thief who steals goods that are in a store | Synonyms: booster, shoplifter |
| liftgate | (noun) a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open | Synonyms: hatch, hatchback, hatchback door |
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| liftman | (noun) a man employed to operate an elevator | Synonyms: elevator boy, elevator man |
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| liftoff | (noun) the initial ascent of a rocket from its launching pad | - |
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| loft | (noun) floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage | Synonyms: attic, garret |
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| (noun) a raised shelter in which pigeons are kept | Synonyms: pigeon loft |
| (noun) floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space | - |
| (noun) (golf) the backward slant on the head of some golf clubs that is designed to drive the ball high in the air | - |
| loftiness | (noun) the quality of being high or lofty | Synonyms: highness |
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| (noun) impressiveness in scale or proportion | Synonyms: majesty, stateliness |
| makeshift | (noun) something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency | Synonyms: make-do, stopgap |
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| midafternoon | (noun) the middle part of the afternoon | - |
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| mineshaft | (noun) excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine | - |
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| mufti | (noun) civilian dress worn by a person who is entitled to wear a military uniform | - |
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| (noun) a jurist who interprets Muslim religious law | - |
| needlecraft | (noun) work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle | Synonyms: needlework |
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| (noun) a creation created or assembled by needle and thread | Synonyms: needlework |
| oftenness | (noun) the number of occurrences within a given time period | Synonyms: frequence, frequency |
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| overdraft | (noun) a draft in excess of the credit balance | - |
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| priestcraft | (noun) the skills involved in the work of a priest | - |
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| (noun) a derogatory reference to priests who use their influence to control secular or political affairs | - |
| 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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| redraft | (noun) a draft for the amount of a dishonored draft plus the costs and charges of drafting again | - |
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| redshift | (noun) (astronomy) a shift in the spectra of very distant galaxies toward longer wavelengths (toward the red end of the spectrum); generally interpreted as evidence that the universe is expanding | Synonyms: red shift |
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| repulsorlift | (noun) a fictional anti-gravity device in the Star Wars Universe. | Synonyms: repulsor, repulsorlift engine |
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| rift | (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, break, falling out, rupture, severance |
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| (noun) a narrow fissure in rock | - |
| (noun) a gap between cloud masses | - |
| rooftop | (noun) the top of a (usually flat) roof | - |
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| rooftree | (noun) a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters | Synonyms: ridge, ridgepole |
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| sceneshifter | (noun) a stagehand responsible for moving scenery | Synonyms: shifter |
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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 |
| shift | (noun) the act of moving from one place to another | Synonyms: shifting |
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| (noun) the act of changing one thing or position for another | Synonyms: switch, switching |
| (noun) a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist | Synonyms: chemise, sack |
| (noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment | Synonyms: chemise, shimmy, slip, teddy |
| (noun) the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters | Synonyms: shift key |
| (noun) an event in which something is displaced without rotation | Synonyms: displacement |
| (noun) a qualitative change | Synonyms: transformation, transmutation |
| (noun) a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time | - |
| (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault |
| (noun) the time period during which you are at work | Synonyms: duty period, work shift |
| shifter | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearshift, gearstick |
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| (noun) a stagehand responsible for moving scenery | Synonyms: sceneshifter |
| shiftiness | (noun) the quality of being a slippery rascal | Synonyms: rascality, slipperiness, trickiness |
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| (noun) the quality of being changeable in direction | - |
| shifting | (noun) the act of moving from one place to another | Synonyms: shift |
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| shiftlessness | (noun) a failure to be active as a consequence of lack of initiative or ambition | - |
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| shirtlifter | (noun) a homosexual man | Synonyms: gay man |
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| shoplifter | (noun) a thief who steals goods that are in a store | Synonyms: booster, lifter |
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| shoplifting | (noun) the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store | Synonyms: shrinkage |
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| shrift | (noun) the act of being shriven | - |
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| shufti | (noun) a quick look around (originally military slang) | - |
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| sifter | (noun) a household sieve (as for flour) | - |
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| sifting | (noun) the act of separating grain from chaff | Synonyms: winnow, winnowing |
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| snifter | (noun) a globular glass with a small top; used for serving brandy | Synonyms: brandy glass, brandy snifter |
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| snowdrift | (noun) a mass of snow heaped up by the wind | - |
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| softback | (noun) a book with paper covers | Synonyms: paper-back book, paperback, paperback book, soft-cover, soft-cover book, softback book |
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| softball | (noun) a game closely resembling baseball that is played on a smaller diamond and with a ball that is larger | Synonyms: softball game |
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| (noun) ball used in playing softball | - |
| softener | (noun) a substance added to another to make it less hard | - |
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| softening | (noun) the process of becoming softer | - |
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| softheartedness | (noun) a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless) | Synonyms: tenderness |
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| softie | (noun) a person who is weak and excessively sentimental | Synonyms: softy |
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| softness | (noun) the property of giving little resistance to pressure and being easily cut or molded | - |
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| (noun) a sound property that is free from loudness or stridency | - |
| (noun) a disposition to be lenient in judging others | - |
| (noun) acting in a manner that is gentle and mild and even-tempered | Synonyms: gentleness, mildness |
| (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminacy, effeminateness, sissiness, unmanliness, womanishness |
| (noun) the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines | Synonyms: blurriness, fogginess, fuzziness, indistinctness |
| (noun) a visual property that is subdued and free from brilliance or glare | - |
| (noun) a state of declining economic condition | - |
| (noun) poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury) | Synonyms: unfitness |
| (noun) the quality of weather that is deliciously mild and soothing | Synonyms: balminess |
| software | (noun) (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory | Synonyms: computer software, package, software package, software program, software system |
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| softwood | (noun) wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir) | Synonyms: deal |
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| softy | (noun) a person who is weak and excessively sentimental | Synonyms: softie |
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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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| spendthrift | (noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: scattergood, spend-all, spender |
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| spindrift | (noun) spray blown up from the surface of the sea | Synonyms: spoondrift |
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| spoondrift | (noun) spray blown up from the surface of the sea | Synonyms: spindrift |
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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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| swift | (noun) a small bird that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight | - |
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| (noun) common western lizard; seen on logs or rocks | Synonyms: blue-belly, Sceloporus occidentalis, western fence lizard |
| swiftie | (noun) Fan of Taylor Swift | - |
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| swiftlet | (noun) swift of eastern Asia; produces the edible bird's nest | Synonyms: Collocalia inexpectata |
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| swiftness | (noun) a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens | Synonyms: fastness, speed |
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| theft | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: larceny, stealing, thievery, thieving |
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| thrift | (noun) extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily | Synonyms: parsimoniousness, parsimony, penny-pinching |
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| (noun) any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers | - |
| thriftiness | (noun) frugality in the expenditure of money or resources | Synonyms: economy |
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| thriftlessness | (noun) the trait of wasting resources | Synonyms: waste, wastefulness |
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| thriftshop | (noun) a shop that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices | Synonyms: second-hand store |
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| tradecraft | (noun) skill acquired through experience in a trade; often used to discuss skill in espionage | - |
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| tuft | (noun) a bunch of feathers or hair | - |
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| (noun) a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass | Synonyms: tussock |
| twelfth | (noun) one part in twelve equal parts | Synonyms: duodecimal, one-twelfth, twelfth part |
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| (noun) position 12 in a countable series of things | - |
| updraft | (noun) a strong upward air current | - |
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| uplift | (noun) a brassiere that lifts and supports the breasts | - |
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| (noun) (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) | Synonyms: upheaval, upthrow, upthrust |
| uplifting | (noun) the rise of something | - |
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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 | - |
| weft | (noun) the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving | Synonyms: filling, pick, woof |
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| weightlift | (noun) bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights | Synonyms: weightlifting |
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| weightlifter | (noun) an athlete who lifts barbells | Synonyms: lifter |
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| weightlifting | (noun) bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights | Synonyms: weightlift |
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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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