sandman | (noun) an elf in fairy stories who sprinkles sand in children's eyes to make them sleepy | - |
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sandpaper | (noun) stiff paper coated with powdered emery or sand | Synonyms: emery paper |
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sandpile | (noun) a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in | Synonyms: sandbox, sandpit |
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sandpiper | (noun) any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers | - |
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sandpit | (noun) a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in | Synonyms: sandbox, sandpile |
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(noun) a large pit in sandy ground from which sand is dug | - |
sands | (noun) the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean | Synonyms: litoral, littoral, littoral zone |
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sandspur | (noun) grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs | Synonyms: Cenchrus tribuloides, field sandbur, sandbur |
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sandstone | (noun) a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.) | - |
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sandstorm | (noun) a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand | Synonyms: dust storm, duster, sirocco |
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sandwich | (noun) two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them | - |
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sandwichman | (noun) a person with advertising boards hanging from the shoulders | - |
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sandwort | (noun) low-growing chiefly perennial plant usually with small white flowers suitable for e.g. rock gardens | - |
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(noun) low-growing herb having clusters of small white four-petaled flowers | Synonyms: Moehringia lateriflora |
(noun) loosely matted plant with moss-like foliage studded with tiny starry four-petaled white blossoms; mountains of central and southern Europe | Synonyms: Moehringia mucosa |
saneness | (noun) normal or sound powers of mind | Synonyms: sanity |
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sanfoin | (noun) Eurasian perennial herb having pale pink flowers and curved pods; naturalized in Britain and North America grasslands on calcareous soils; important forage crop and source of honey in Britain | Synonyms: esparcet, holy clover, Onobrychis viciaefolia, Onobrychis viciifolia, sainfoin |
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sang | (noun) North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng | Synonyms: American ginseng, Panax quinquefolius |
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sangapenum | (noun) a variety of gum | Synonyms: gum sangapenum |
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sangaree | (noun) sweetened red wine and orange or lemon juice with soda water | Synonyms: sangria |
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sangoma | (noun) a traditional Zulu healer and respected elder | - |
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sangria | (noun) sweetened red wine and orange or lemon juice with soda water | Synonyms: sangaree |
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sanguification | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis |
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sanguine | (noun) chalk of a reddish-brown colour that resembles dried blood | Synonyms: red chalk |
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(noun) a blood-red color | - |
sanguineness | (noun) feeling sanguine; optimistically cheerful and confident | Synonyms: sanguinity |
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sanguinity | (noun) feeling sanguine; optimistically cheerful and confident | Synonyms: sanguineness |
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sanicle | (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: snakeroot |
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sanies | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: festering, ichor, purulence, pus, suppuration |
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sanitariness | (noun) the state of being conducive to health | - |
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sanitarium | (noun) a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases | Synonyms: sanatarium, sanatorium |
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sanitation | (noun) making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing | Synonyms: sanitisation, sanitization |
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(noun) the state of being clean and conducive to health | - |
sanitisation | (noun) making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing | Synonyms: sanitation, sanitization |
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sanitization | (noun) making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing | Synonyms: sanitation, sanitisation |
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sanity | (noun) normal or sound powers of mind | Synonyms: saneness |
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sannup | (noun) a married male American Indian | - |
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sannyasi | (noun) a Hindu religious mendicant | Synonyms: sannyasin, sanyasi |
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sannyasin | (noun) a Hindu religious mendicant | Synonyms: sannyasi, sanyasi |
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sansevieria | (noun) grown as a houseplant for its mottled fleshy sword-shaped leaves or as a source of fiber | Synonyms: bowstring hemp |
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santims | (noun) 100 santimi equal 1 lats in Latvia | - |
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sanyasi | (noun) a Hindu religious mendicant | Synonyms: sannyasi, sannyasin |
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sprechgesang | (noun) a style of dramatic vocalization between singing and speaking | Synonyms: sprechstimme |
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suppressant | (noun) a drug that suppresses appetite | Synonyms: appetite suppressant |
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thousand | (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 | Synonyms: 1000, chiliad, G, grand, K, M, one thousand, thou, yard |
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thousandth | (noun) one part in a thousand equal parts | Synonyms: one-thousandth |
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(noun) position 1,000 in a countable series of things | - |
thysanopter | (noun) an insect of the order Thysanoptera | Synonyms: thysanopteron, thysanopterous insect |
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thysanopteron | (noun) an insect of the order Thysanoptera | Synonyms: thysanopter, thysanopterous insect |
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thysanuron | (noun) primitive wingless insects: bristletail | Synonyms: thysanuran insect |
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tisane | (noun) infusion of e.g. dried or fresh flowers or leaves | - |
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tutsan | (noun) deciduous bushy Eurasian shrub with golden yellow flowers and reddish-purple fruits from which a soothing salve is made in Spain | Synonyms: common St John's wort, Hypericum androsaemum |
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unpleasantness | (noun) the quality of giving displeasure | - |
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(noun) the feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling | - |
unsanctification | (noun) unholiness by virtue of being profane | Synonyms: profaneness |
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unsanitariness | (noun) a state that is not conducive to health | - |
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usance | (noun) accepted or habitual practice | Synonyms: custom, usage |
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(noun) (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing | Synonyms: consumption, economic consumption, use, use of goods and services |
(noun) the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange) | - |
versant | (noun) the side or slope of a mountain | Synonyms: mountainside |
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