| looting | (noun) plundering during riots or in wartime | Synonyms: robbery |
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| manroot | (noun) tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato | Synonyms: Ipomoea fastigiata, Ipomoea panurata, man-of-the-earth, scammonyroot, wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine |
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| moot | (noun) a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise | - |
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| nerveroot | (noun) once common rose pink woodland orchid of eastern North America | Synonyms: Cypripedium acaule, moccasin flower |
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| offshoot | (noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: branch, offset, outgrowth |
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| ootid | (noun) mature ovum after penetration by sperm but before the formation of a zygote | - |
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| orrisroot | (noun) fragrant rootstock of various irises especially Florentine iris; used in perfumes and medicines | Synonyms: orris |
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| overshoot | (noun) an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt | Synonyms: go-around, wave-off |
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| papooseroot | (noun) tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: blue cohosh, blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, squaw root, squawroot |
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| pinkroot | (noun) a fungal disease of onions | - |
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| puttyroot | (noun) North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers | Synonyms: adam-and-eve, Aplectrum hyemale |
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| redroot | (noun) perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant | Synonyms: bloodroot, puccoon, Sanguinaria canadensis, tetterwort |
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| root | (noun) the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair | - |
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| (noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed | Synonyms: base, radical, root word, stem, theme |
| (noun) a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes | Synonyms: etymon |
| (noun) the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation | Synonyms: solution |
| (noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: beginning, origin, rootage, source |
| (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, ascendent |
| (noun) (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground | - |
| (noun) a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number | - |
| rootage | (noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: beginning, origin, root, source |
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| (noun) a developed system of roots | Synonyms: root system |
| (noun) fixedness by or as if by roots | - |
| rooter | (noun) an enthusiastic devotee of sports | Synonyms: fan, sports fan |
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| rooting | (noun) the process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow | - |
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| rootlet | (noun) small root or division of a root | - |
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| roots | (noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage | - |
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| rootstalk | (noun) a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure | Synonyms: rhizome, rootstock |
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| rootstock | (noun) root or part of a root used for plant propagation; especially that part of a grafted plant that supplies the roots | - |
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| (noun) a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure | Synonyms: rhizome, rootstalk |
| sabertooth | (noun) any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene | Synonyms: saber-toothed tiger |
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| sawtooth | (noun) a serration on a saw blade | - |
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| scammonyroot | (noun) tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato | Synonyms: Ipomoea fastigiata, Ipomoea panurata, man-of-the-earth, manroot, wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine |
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| scooter | (noun) large black diving duck of northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: scoter |
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| (noun) child's two-wheeled vehicle operated by foot | - |
| (noun) a wheeled vehicle with small wheels and a low-powered gasoline engine geared to the rear wheel | Synonyms: motor scooter |
| (noun) a sailing vessel with runners and a cross-shaped frame; suitable for traveling over ice | Synonyms: ice yacht, iceboat |
| (noun) a motorboat resembling a motor scooter | Synonyms: sea scooter, water scooter |
| sharpshooter | (noun) a fast schooner once used by New England fisherman for illegal fishing in Canadian waters | - |
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| (noun) someone skilled in shooting | Synonyms: crack shot, marksman |
| (noun) an athlete noted for accurate aim | - |
| shoot | (noun) the act of shooting at targets | - |
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| (noun) a new branch | - |
| shooter | (noun) a large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles | Synonyms: taw |
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| (noun) a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot) | Synonyms: shot |
| (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, torpedo, triggerman |
| (noun) (sports) a player who drives or kicks a ball at the goal (or a basketball player who shoots at the basket) | - |
| (noun) a gambler who throws dice in the game of craps | Synonyms: crap-shooter |
| shooting | (noun) the act of firing a projectile | Synonyms: shot |
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| (noun) killing someone by gunfire | - |
| shootout | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunfight, gunplay |
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| slyboots | (noun) a shifty deceptive person | Synonyms: dodger, fox |
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| smooth | (noun) the act of smoothing | - |
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| smoothbark | (noun) any of several Australian eucalypts having the bark smooth except at or near the base of the trunk | - |
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| smoothbore | (noun) a firearm that has no rifling | - |
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| smoother | (noun) a power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor | Synonyms: drum sander, electric sander, sander |
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| smoothhound | (noun) smooth dogfish of European coastal waters | Synonyms: Mustelus mustelus, smoothhound shark |
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| smoothie | (noun) a thick smooth drink consisting of fresh fruit pureed with ice cream or yoghurt or milk | - |
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| (noun) someone with an assured and ingratiating manner | Synonyms: charmer, smoothy, sweet talker |
| smoothness | (noun) a texture without roughness; smooth to the touch | - |
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| (noun) the quality of having a level and even surface | - |
| (noun) the quality of being free from errors or interruptions | - |
| (noun) the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner | Synonyms: blandness, suaveness, suavity |
| (noun) powerful and effective language | Synonyms: eloquence, fluency |
| smoothy | (noun) someone with an assured and ingratiating manner | Synonyms: charmer, smoothie, sweet talker |
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| snakeroot | (noun) a plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by bristly fruit; reputed to have healing powers | Synonyms: sanicle |
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| (noun) any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads | Synonyms: blazing star, button snakeroot, gay-feather, gayfeather |
| snoot | (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snout |
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| (noun) a person regarded as arrogant and annoying | Synonyms: prig, snob, snot |
| snootiness | (noun) the quality of being snooty | - |
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| soot | (noun) a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink | Synonyms: carbon black, crock, lampblack, smut |
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| sooth | (noun) truth or reality | - |
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| soothsayer | (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: forecaster, predictor, prognosticator |
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| soothsaying | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: divination, foretelling, fortune telling |
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| sootiness | (noun) the state of being dirty with soot | Synonyms: smuttiness |
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| spadefoot | (noun) a burrowing toad of the Northern Hemisphere with a horny spade-like projection on each hind foot | Synonyms: spadefoot toad |
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| splayfoot | (noun) a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out | Synonyms: flatfoot, pes planus |
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| squawroot | (noun) tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: blue cohosh, blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, papooseroot, squaw root |
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| stoneroot | (noun) erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States | Synonyms: Collinsonia canadensis, horse balm, horseweed, richweed, stone-root, stone root |
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| taproot | (noun) something that provides an important central source for growth or development | - |
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| (noun) (botany) main root of a plant growing straight downward from the stem | - |
| tenderfoot | (noun) an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living) | - |
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| tolbooth | (noun) a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls | Synonyms: tollbooth, tollhouse |
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| tollbooth | (noun) a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls | Synonyms: tolbooth, tollhouse |
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| toot | (noun) revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party | Synonyms: bender, booze-up, carousal, carouse |
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| (noun) a blast of a horn | - |
| tooth | (noun) a means of enforcement | - |
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| (noun) toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell | - |
| (noun) something resembling the tooth of an animal | - |
| (noun) one of a number of uniform projections on a gear | - |
| (noun) hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense | - |
| toothache | (noun) an ache localized in or around a tooth | Synonyms: odontalgia |
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| toothbrush | (noun) small brush; has long handle; used to clean teeth | - |
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| (noun) slang for a mustache | Synonyms: soup-strainer |
| toothlessness | (noun) The state or condition of being toothless; lack of teeth. | - |
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| toothpaste | (noun) a dentifrice in the form of a paste | - |
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| toothpick | (noun) pick consisting of a small strip of wood or plastic; used to pick food from between the teeth | - |
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| toothpowder | (noun) a dentifrice in the form of a powder | Synonyms: tooth powder |
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| toothsomeness | (noun) extreme appetizingness | Synonyms: delectability, deliciousness, lusciousness |
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| toothwort | (noun) North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots | Synonyms: Cardamine diphylla, crinkle-root, crinkle root, crinkleroot, Dentaria diphylla, pepper root |
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| tootle | (noun) the sound of casual playing on a musical instrument | - |
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| trapshooter | (noun) a person who engages in shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled into the air by a trap | - |
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| trapshooting | (noun) the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird | Synonyms: skeet, skeet shooting |
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| troubleshooter | (noun) a worker whose job is to locate and fix sources of trouble (especially in mechanical devices) | Synonyms: trouble shooter |
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| uprooter | (noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: destroyer, ruiner, undoer, waster |
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| webfoot | (noun) a foot having the toes connected by folds of skin | - |
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| whooty | (noun) a white woman with a large butt | - |
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| zootoxin | (noun) a toxin resembling bacterial toxins in its antigenic properties that is found in the fluids of certain animals | Synonyms: animal toxin |
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