schistosome | (noun) flatworms parasitic in the blood vessels of mammals | Synonyms: blood fluke |
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schistosomiasis | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected | Synonyms: bilharzia, bilharziasis |
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shisha | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, water pipe |
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sophism | (noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | Synonyms: sophistication, sophistry |
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sophist | (noun) someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious | Synonyms: casuist |
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sophisticate | (noun) a worldly-wise person | Synonyms: man of the world |
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sophistication | (noun) falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies | - |
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(noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundaneness, mundanity, worldliness |
(noun) uplifting enlightenment | Synonyms: edification |
(noun) being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject | - |
(noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | Synonyms: sophism, sophistry |
sophistry | (noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | Synonyms: sophism, sophistication |
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sympathiser | (noun) someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful | Synonyms: sympathizer, well-wisher |
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(noun) a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune | Synonyms: comforter, sympathizer |
tachistoscope | (noun) scientific instrument used by psychologists; presents visual stimuli for brief exposures | Synonyms: t-scope |
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telegraphist | (noun) someone who transmits messages by telegraph | Synonyms: telegraph operator, telegrapher |
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telepathist | (noun) someone with the power of communicating thoughts directly | Synonyms: mental telepathist, mind reader, thought-reader |
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(noun) a magician who seems to discern the thoughts of another person (usually by clever signals from an accomplice) | Synonyms: mind reader, thought-reader |
theosophism | (noun) belief in theosophy | - |
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theosophist | (noun) a believer in theosophy | - |
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thistle | (noun) any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves | - |
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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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whisk | (noun) a small short-handled broom used to brush clothes | Synonyms: whisk broom |
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(noun) a mixer incorporating a coil of wires; used for whipping eggs or cream | - |
whisker | (noun) a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat | Synonyms: sensory hair, vibrissa |
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(noun) a very small distance or space | Synonyms: hair's-breadth, hair, hairsbreadth |
whiskers | (noun) the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face | Synonyms: beard, face fungus |
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whiskey | (noun) a liquor made from fermented mash of grain | Synonyms: whisky |
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whisky | (noun) a liquor made from fermented mash of grain | Synonyms: whiskey |
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whisper | (noun) speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: susurration, voicelessness, whispering |
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(noun) a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind | Synonyms: rustle, rustling, whispering |
whisperer | (noun) one who speaks in a whisper | - |
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whispering | (noun) speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: susurration, voicelessness, whisper |
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(noun) a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind | Synonyms: rustle, rustling, whisper |
whist | (noun) a card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six | Synonyms: long whist, short whist |
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whistle | (noun) an inexpensive fipple flute | Synonyms: pennywhistle, tin whistle |
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(noun) acoustic device that forces air or steam against an edge or into a cavity and so produces a loud shrill sound | - |
(noun) a small wind instrument that produces a whistling sound by blowing into it | - |
(noun) the act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or blowing a whistle | Synonyms: whistling |
(noun) the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture | Synonyms: whistling |
whistleblower | (noun) an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it | Synonyms: whistle-blower, whistle blower |
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whistler | (noun) Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call | Synonyms: thickhead |
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(noun) large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions | Synonyms: Bucephela clangula, goldeneye |
(noun) large North American mountain marmot | Synonyms: hoary marmot, Marmota caligata, whistling marmot |
(noun) someone who makes a loud high sound | - |
whistling | (noun) the act of whistling a tune | - |
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(noun) the act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or blowing a whistle | Synonyms: whistle |
(noun) the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture | Synonyms: whistle |
zoomorphism | (noun) the attribution of animal forms or qualities to a god | - |
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