| rigmarole | (noun) a long and complicated and confusing procedure | Synonyms: rigamarole |
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| (noun) a set of confused and meaningless statements | Synonyms: rigamarole |
| rissole | (noun) minced cooked meat or fish coated in egg and breadcrumbs and fried in deep fat | - |
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| rocambole | (noun) European leek cultivated and used like leeks | Synonyms: Allium scorodoprasum, giant garlic, sand leek, Spanish garlic |
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| role | (noun) the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group | Synonyms: function, office, part |
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| (noun) normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting | - |
| (noun) what something is used for | Synonyms: function, purpose, use |
| (noun) an actor's portrayal of someone in a play | Synonyms: character, part, persona, theatrical role |
| roleplaying | (noun) acting a particular role (as in psychotherapy) | - |
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| sarcolemma | (noun) an extensible membrane enclosing the contractile substance of a muscle fiber | - |
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| sertindole | (noun) an antipsychotic medication used in the treatment of schizophrenia. | - |
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| shibboleth | (noun) a manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people | - |
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| (noun) a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual | Synonyms: catchword, motto, slogan |
| simoleons | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, sugar, wampum |
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| sinkhole | (noun) a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof | Synonyms: sink, swallow hole |
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| sole | (noun) right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European | - |
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| (noun) the underside of footwear or a golf club | - |
| (noun) the underside of the foot | - |
| (noun) lean flesh of any of several flatfish | Synonyms: fillet of sole |
| solebar | (noun) one of the longitudinal beams running along either side of a railway vehicle, onto which the bodywork is mounted, in passenger-carrying vehicles usually forming the side or the base of the floor. | Synonyms: side sill |
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| solecism | (noun) a socially awkward or tactless act | Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, slip |
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| solemness | (noun) a trait of dignified seriousness | Synonyms: sedateness, solemnity, staidness |
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| solemnisation | (noun) the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual | Synonyms: celebration, solemnization |
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| solemnity | (noun) a trait of dignified seriousness | Synonyms: sedateness, solemness, staidness |
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| (noun) a solemn and dignified feeling | Synonyms: gravity |
| solemnization | (noun) the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual | Synonyms: celebration, solemnisation |
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| solenogaster | (noun) deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle | Synonyms: aplacophoran |
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| solenoid | (noun) a coil of wire around an iron core; becomes a magnet when current passes through the coil | - |
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| soleus | (noun) a broad flat muscle in the calf of the leg under the gastrocnemius muscle | Synonyms: soleus muscle |
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| somnolence | (noun) a very sleepy state | Synonyms: drowsiness, sleepiness |
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| spyhole | (noun) a hole (in a door or an oven etc) through which you can peep | Synonyms: eyehole, peephole |
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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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| stole | (noun) a wide scarf worn about their shoulders by women | - |
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| sulfamethoxazole | (noun) a sulfonamide (trade name Gantanol) used to treat infections (especially infections of the urinary tract) | Synonyms: Gantanol |
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| sulfisoxazole | (noun) a sulfonamide (trade name Gantrisin) used to treat infections of the urinary tract | Synonyms: Gantrisin |
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| supermolecule | (noun) any very large complex molecule; found only in plants and animals | Synonyms: macromolecule |
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| systole | (noun) the contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery | - |
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| tadpole | (noun) a larval frog or toad | Synonyms: polliwog, pollywog |
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| thiabendazole | (noun) an antifungal agent and anthelmintic | - |
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| thole | (noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: oarlock, peg, pin, rowlock, tholepin |
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| tholepin | (noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: oarlock, peg, pin, rowlock, thole |
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| thumbhole | (noun) a finger hole made to fit the thumb (as in a bowling ball) | - |
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| (noun) the hole in a woodwind that is closed and opened with the thumb | - |
| tirolean | (noun) soft green felt hat with a feather or brush cockade | Synonyms: tyrolean |
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| tole | (noun) enameled or lacquered metalware (usually gilded and elaborately painted); popular in the 18th century | - |
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| tolerance | (noun) the act of tolerating something | - |
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| (noun) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits | Synonyms: allowance, leeway, margin |
| (noun) the power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions | - |
| (noun) a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior | Synonyms: permissiveness |
| (noun) willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others | - |
| toleration | (noun) official recognition of the right of individuals to hold dissenting opinions (especially in religion) | - |
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| (noun) a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations | Synonyms: acceptance, sufferance |
| tomfoolery | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, foolery, indulgence, lunacy |
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| triolein | (noun) a naturally occurring glyceride of oleic acid that is found in fats and oils | Synonyms: olein |
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| tyrolean | (noun) soft green felt hat with a feather or brush cockade | Synonyms: tirolean |
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| ultraviolet | (noun) radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays | Synonyms: ultraviolet illumination, ultraviolet light, ultraviolet radiation, UV |
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| unwholesomeness | (noun) the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you | Synonyms: morbidity, morbidness |
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| urceole | (noun) a vessel that holds water for washing the hands | - |
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| vacuole | (noun) a tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cell | - |
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| venthole | (noun) a hole for the escape of gas or air | Synonyms: blowhole, vent-hole, vent |
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| violence | (noun) an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists) | Synonyms: force |
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| (noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, wildness |
| (noun) a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc. | - |
| violet | (noun) a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum | Synonyms: reddish blue |
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| (noun) any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers | - |
| vole | (noun) any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows | Synonyms: field mouse |
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| whole | (noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity | Synonyms: unit |
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| (noun) all of something including all its component elements or parts | - |
| wholeheartedness | (noun) the quality of hearty sincerity | Synonyms: heartiness |
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| (noun) undivided commitment or unreserved enthusiasm | - |
| wholeness | (noun) an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting | Synonyms: integrity, unity |
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| (noun) a state of robust good health | Synonyms: haleness |
| wholesale | (noun) the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers | - |
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| wholesaler | (noun) someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers | Synonyms: jobber, middleman |
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| wholesomeness | (noun) the quality of being beneficial and generally good for you | - |
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| woolen | (noun) a fabric made from the hair of sheep | Synonyms: wool, woollen |
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| wormhole | (noun) hole made by a burrowing worm | - |
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