| psychiatry | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders | Synonyms: psychological medicine, psychopathology |
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| psychic | (noun) a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception | - |
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| psycho | (noun) a person afflicted with psychosis | Synonyms: psychotic, psychotic person |
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| psychoanalysis | (noun) a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud | Synonyms: analysis, depth psychology |
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| psychoanalyst | (noun) a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis | Synonyms: analyst |
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| psychobabble | (noun) using language loaded with psychological terminology | - |
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| psychodid | (noun) a fly of the family Psychodidae | - |
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| psychodynamics | (noun) the branch of social psychology that deals with the processes and emotions that determine psychology and motivation | - |
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| (noun) the interrelation of conscious and unconscious processes and emotions that determine personality and motivation | - |
| psychogenesis | (noun) a general term for the origin and development of almost any aspect of the mind | - |
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| (noun) the development in the life of an individual of some disorder that is caused by psychological rather than physiological factors | - |
| psychographics | (noun) market research or statistics classifying population groups according to psychological variables (as attitudes, values, or fears); also: variables or trends identified through such research. | - |
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| psychokinesis | (noun) the power to move something by thinking about it without the application of physical force | Synonyms: telekinesis |
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| psycholinguist | (noun) a person (usually a psychologist but sometimes a linguist) who studies the psychological basis of human language | - |
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| psycholinguistics | (noun) the branch of cognitive psychology that studies the psychological basis of linguistic competence and performance | - |
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| psychologist | (noun) a scientist trained in psychology | - |
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| psychology | (noun) the science of mental life | Synonyms: psychological science |
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| psychomachy | (noun) a conflict of the soul (as with the body or between good and evil). | - |
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| psychometrics | (noun) any branch of psychology concerned with psychological measurements | Synonyms: psychometrika, psychometry |
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| psychometrika | (noun) any branch of psychology concerned with psychological measurements | Synonyms: psychometrics, psychometry |
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| psychometry | (noun) any branch of psychology concerned with psychological measurements | Synonyms: psychometrics, psychometrika |
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| psychoneurosis | (noun) a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction | Synonyms: neurosis, neuroticism |
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| psychoneurotic | (noun) a person suffering from neurosis | Synonyms: mental case, neurotic |
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| psychonomics | (noun) the branch of psychology that uses experimental methods to study psychological issues | Synonyms: experimental psychology |
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| psychopath | (noun) someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath') | Synonyms: sociopath |
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| psychopathology | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders | Synonyms: psychiatry, psychological medicine |
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| (noun) the branch of psychology concerned with abnormal behavior | Synonyms: abnormal psychology |
| psychopathy | (noun) any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention | Synonyms: mental disease, mental illness |
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| psychopharmacology | (noun) the study of drugs that affect the mind | - |
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| psychophysicist | (noun) a psychologist trained in psychophysics | - |
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| psychophysics | (noun) the branch of psychology concerned with quantitative relations between physical stimuli and their psychological effects | - |
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| psychophysiology | (noun) the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes | Synonyms: neuropsychology, physiological psychology |
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| psychopomp | (noun) a conductor of souls to the afterworld | - |
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| psychosexuality | (noun) the mental representation of sexual activities | - |
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| psychosis | (noun) any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted | - |
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| psychosurgery | (noun) brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems | - |
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| psychotherapeutics | (noun) the branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods | Synonyms: mental hygiene, psychotherapy |
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| psychotherapist | (noun) a therapist who deals with mental and emotional disorders | Synonyms: clinical psychologist |
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| psychotherapy | (noun) the treatment of mental or emotional problems by psychological means | - |
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| (noun) the branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods | Synonyms: mental hygiene, psychotherapeutics |
| psychotic | (noun) a person afflicted with psychosis | Synonyms: psycho, psychotic person |
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| psychrometer | (noun) a hygrometer consisting of a dry-bulb thermometer and a wet-bulb thermometer; their difference indicates the dryness of the surrounding air | - |
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| psylla | (noun) small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices | Synonyms: jumping plant louse, psyllid |
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| psyllid | (noun) small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices | Synonyms: jumping plant louse, psylla |
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| psyllium | (noun) plantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative | Synonyms: fleawort, Plantago psyllium, Spanish psyllium |
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| psyop | (noun) military actions designed to influence the perceptions and attitudes of individuals, groups, and foreign governments | Synonyms: psychological operation |
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| quadriceps | (noun) a muscle of the thigh that extends the leg | Synonyms: musculus quadriceps femoris, quad, quadriceps femoris |
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| rapscallion | (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, monkey, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp |
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| (noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rascal, rogue, scalawag, scallywag, varlet |
| relapse | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
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| relapsing | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, reversion, reverting |
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| rhapsody | (noun) (in ancient Greece) an epic poem adapted for recitation | - |
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| (noun) (music) a free instrumental composition in one extended movement; typically emotional or exuberant in character | - |
| (noun) an enthusiastic expression of emotion | - |
| rhodopsin | (noun) a red photopigment in the retinal rods of vertebrates; dissociates into retinene by light | Synonyms: retinal purple, visual purple |
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| ripsaw | (noun) a handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood | Synonyms: splitsaw |
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| rollmops | (noun) a pickled herring filet that has been rolled or wrapped around a pickle | - |
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| sapsago | (noun) a hard green Swiss cheese made with skim-milk curd and flavored with clover | - |
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| sapsucker | (noun) small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees | - |
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| schnapps | (noun) any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes | Synonyms: schnaps |
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| schnaps | (noun) any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes | Synonyms: schnapps |
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| scraps | (noun) food that is discarded (as from a kitchen) | Synonyms: food waste, garbage, refuse |
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| sempstress | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: modiste, needlewoman, seamstress |
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| sepsis | (noun) the presence of pus-forming bacteria or their toxins in the blood or tissues | - |
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| 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 | - |
| sheepshank | (noun) a knot for shortening a line | - |
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| sheepshead | (noun) large (up to 20 lbs) food fish of the eastern coast of the United States and Mexico | Synonyms: Archosargus probatocephalus |
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| sheepshearing | (noun) act of shearing sheep | - |
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| (noun) a festival held at the time sheep are normally sheared | - |
| (noun) the time or season when sheep are sheared | - |
| sheepskin | (noun) a document certifying the successful completion of a course of study | Synonyms: diploma |
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| (noun) tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing | Synonyms: fleece |
| (noun) skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on | Synonyms: lambskin, parchment |
| shipside | (noun) the part of a wharf that is next to a ship | - |
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| slapshot | (noun) a fast shot made with a short powerful swing of the hockey stick | - |
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| slapstick | (noun) acoustic device consisting of two paddles hinged together; used by an actor to make a loud noise without inflicting injury when striking someone | - |
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| (noun) a boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes | - |
| slipstick | (noun) analog computer consisting of a handheld instrument used for rapid calculations; have been replaced by pocket calculators | Synonyms: slide rule |
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| slipstream | (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: airstream, backwash, race, wash |
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| slops | (noun) cheap clothing (as formerly issued to sailors in Britain) | - |
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| (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigswill, pigwash, slop, swill |
| slopseller | (noun) a dealer in cheap ready-made clothing | Synonyms: slop-seller |
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| slopshop | (noun) a store that sells cheap ready-made clothing | Synonyms: slopseller's shop |
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| snapshot | (noun) an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera | Synonyms: shot, snap |
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| snips | (noun) (plural) hand shears for cutting sheet metal | Synonyms: tinsnips |
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| soapstone | (noun) a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments | Synonyms: soap-rock, soaprock, steatite |
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| soapsuds | (noun) the froth produced by soaps or detergents | Synonyms: lather, suds |
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| solipsism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist | - |
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| sops | (noun) piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid | Synonyms: sop |
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| soupspoon | (noun) a spoon with a rounded bowl for eating soup | Synonyms: soup spoon |
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| steps | (noun) a flight of stairs or a flight of steps | Synonyms: stairs |
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| (noun) the course along which a person has walked or is walking in | - |
| stepsister | (noun) a sister who has only one parent in common with you | Synonyms: half-sister, half sister |
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| stepson | (noun) the son of your spouse by a former marriage | - |
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| stops | (noun) a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card | Synonyms: boodle, Chicago, Michigan, Newmarket |
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| stypsis | (noun) the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids | Synonyms: astringency |
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| sumpsimus | (noun) a correct expression that takes the place of a popular but incorrect expression | - |
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| sundrops | (noun) a day-flowering biennial or perennial of the genus Oenothera | Synonyms: Oenothera fruticosa |
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| sweepstakes | (noun) a lottery in which the prize consists of the money paid by the participants | - |
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| syllepsis | (noun) use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc. with only one | - |
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| synapse | (noun) the junction between two neurons (axon-to-dendrite) or between a neuron and a muscle | - |
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| synapsid | (noun) extinct reptile having a single pair of lateral temporal openings in the skull | Synonyms: synapsid reptile |
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| synapsis | (noun) the side by side pairing of homologous maternal and paternal chromosomes at the start of meiosis | - |
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| synopsis | (noun) a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory | Synonyms: abstract, outline, precis |
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| taps | (noun) (military) signal to turn the lights out | Synonyms: lights-out |
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| tapster | (noun) a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks | Synonyms: tapper |
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| terpsichore | (noun) taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music | Synonyms: dance, dancing, saltation |
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| terpsichorean | (noun) a performer who dances professionally | Synonyms: dancer, professional dancer |
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| thanatopsis | (noun) an essay expressing a view on the subject of death | - |
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| therapsid | (noun) probably warm-blooded; considered direct ancestor of mammals | Synonyms: protomammal |
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| thrips | (noun) any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive | Synonyms: thrip, thripid |
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| tidytips | (noun) California annual having flower heads with yellow rays tipped with white | Synonyms: Layia platyglossa, tidy tips |
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| tinsnips | (noun) (plural) hand shears for cutting sheet metal | Synonyms: snips |
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| tipsiness | (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication |
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