snook | (noun) large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike | - |
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snooker | (noun) a form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball | - |
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sodoku | (noun) the form of ratbite fever occurring in the Far East | Synonyms: spirillum fever |
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sokha | (noun) a light wooden ard, consisting of two body ards, with their parallel beams forming the two shafts for a single horse-drawn tillage implement with two socket shares. | - |
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songbook | (noun) a book containing a collection of songs | - |
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spoke | (noun) support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim | Synonyms: radius, wheel spoke |
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(noun) one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder | Synonyms: rundle, rung |
spokeshave | (noun) a small plane that has a handle on each side of its blade; used for shaping or smoothing cylindrical wooden surfaces (originally wheel spokes) | - |
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spokesman | (noun) a male spokesperson | - |
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spokesperson | (noun) an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | Synonyms: interpreter, representative, voice |
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spokeswoman | (noun) a female spokesperson | - |
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spook | (noun) a mental representation of some haunting experience | Synonyms: ghost, shade, specter, spectre, wraith |
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(noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: creep, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy |
springbok | (noun) a South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air | Synonyms: Antidorcas euchore, Antidorcas marsupialis, springbuck |
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steenbok | (noun) small plains antelope of southeastern Africa | Synonyms: Raphicerus campestris, steinbok |
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steinbok | (noun) small plains antelope of southeastern Africa | Synonyms: Raphicerus campestris, steenbok |
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stockbroker | (noun) an agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bonds | - |
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stokehold | (noun) (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired | Synonyms: fireroom, stokehole |
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stokehole | (noun) (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired | Synonyms: fireroom, stokehold |
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stoker | (noun) a mechanical device for stoking a furnace | - |
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(noun) a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) | Synonyms: fireman |
storybook | (noun) a book containing a collection of stories (usually for children) | - |
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streptokinase | (noun) an enzyme produced by some strains of streptococcus that can liquefy blood clots by converting plasminogen to plasmin; used medicinally in some cases of myocardial infarction and pulmonary embolism | - |
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stroke | (noun) (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand | Synonyms: shot |
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(noun) a light touch with the hands | Synonyms: stroking |
(noun) a single complete movement | - |
(noun) any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing | - |
(noun) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information | Synonyms: diagonal, separatrix, slash, solidus, virgule |
(noun) a mark made on a surface by a pen, pencil, or paintbrush | - |
(noun) the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam | Synonyms: cam stroke, throw |
(noun) a light touch | - |
(noun) anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause | Synonyms: accident, chance event, fortuity |
(noun) the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew | - |
(noun) (golf) the unit of scoring in golf is the act of hitting the ball with a club | - |
(noun) a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain | Synonyms: apoplexy, cerebrovascular accident, CVA |
stroking | (noun) a light touch with the hands | Synonyms: stroke |
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studbook | (noun) official record of the pedigree of purebred animals especially horses | - |
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sudoku | (noun) a number puzzle in which the numbers 1 through 9 must be placed into a grid of cells so that each row or column contains only one of each number | - |
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sunchoke | (noun) sunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried as Saratoga chips | Synonyms: Jerusalem artichoke |
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sunstroke | (noun) sudden prostration due to exposure to the sun or excessive heat | Synonyms: insolation, siriasis, thermic fever |
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tenterhook | (noun) one of a series of hooks used to hold cloth on a tenter | - |
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textbook | (noun) a book prepared for use in schools or colleges | Synonyms: school text, schoolbook, text, text edition |
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thrombokinase | (noun) an enzyme liberated from blood platelets that converts prothrombin into thrombin as blood starts to clot | Synonyms: factor III, thromboplastin |
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tokamak | (noun) a doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research; a plasma is heated and confined in a magnetic bottle | - |
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toke | (noun) a puff of a marijuana or hashish cigarette | - |
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token | (noun) a metal or plastic disk that can be redeemed or used in designated slot machines | - |
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(noun) something of sentimental value | Synonyms: keepsake, relic, souvenir |
(noun) an individual instance of a type of symbol | Synonyms: item |
(noun) something serving as a sign of something else | - |
upstroke | (noun) a stroke normally made in an upward direction | - |
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urokinase | (noun) protease produced in the kidney that converts plasminogen to plasmin and so initiates fibrinolysis | Synonyms: plasminogen activator |
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wok | (noun) pan with a convex bottom; used for frying in Chinese cooking | - |
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wordbook | (noun) a reference book containing words (usually with their meanings) | - |
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workbook | (noun) a student's book or booklet containing problems with spaces for solving them | - |
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yearbook | (noun) a reference book that is published regularly once every year | Synonyms: annual, yearly |
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(noun) a book published annually by the graduating class of a high school or college usually containing photographs of faculty and graduating students | - |
yokai | (noun) Any of various supernatural monsters, sometimes shapeshifters, in Japanese folklore | - |
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yoke | (noun) stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team | - |
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(noun) fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment | - |
(noun) a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together | Synonyms: coupling |
(noun) support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end | - |
(noun) a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke | - |
(noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome |
(noun) an oppressive power | - |
yokel | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yahoo |
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