| anisette | (noun) liquorice-flavored usually colorless sweet liqueur made from aniseed | Synonyms: anisette de Bordeaux |
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| asset | (noun) a useful or valuable quality | Synonyms: plus |
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| assets | (noun) anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company | - |
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| audiocassette | (noun) a cassette for audiotape | - |
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| basset | (noun) smooth-haired breed of hound with short legs and long ears | Synonyms: basset hound |
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| boneset | (noun) perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine | Synonyms: agueweed, Eupatorium perfoliatum, thoroughwort |
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| (noun) European herb having small white, pink or purple flowers; naturalized as a weed in North America | Synonyms: common comfrey, Symphytum officinale |
| bonesetter | (noun) someone (not necessarily a licensed physician) who sets broken bones | - |
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| cabasset | (noun) a metal helmet worn by common soldiers in the 16th century | Synonyms: morion |
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| cassette | (noun) a container that holds a magnetic tape used for recording or playing sound or video | - |
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| closet | (noun) a small private room for study or prayer | - |
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| (noun) a toilet in Britain | Synonyms: loo, W.C., water closet |
| (noun) a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes | Synonyms: press, wardrobe |
| (noun) a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space | Synonyms: cupboard |
| corset | (noun) a woman's close-fitting foundation garment | Synonyms: girdle, stays |
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| falsetto | (noun) a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register | - |
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| gearset | (noun) a set of gears | - |
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| gifset | (noun) A set of images in the GIF format | - |
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| gusset | (noun) a piece of material used to strengthen or enlarge a garment | Synonyms: inset |
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| (noun) a metal plate used to strengthen a joist | Synonyms: gusset plate |
| (noun) a piece of chain mail covering a place unprotected by armor plate | Synonyms: voider |
| handset | (noun) telephone set with the mouthpiece and earpiece mounted on a single handle | Synonyms: French telephone |
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| headset | (noun) receiver consisting of a pair of headphones | - |
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| horsetail | (noun) perennial rushlike flowerless herbs with jointed hollow stems and narrow toothlike leaves that spread by creeping rhizomes; tend to become weedy; common in Northern Hemisphere; some in Africa and South America | - |
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| housetop | (noun) the roof of a house | - |
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| inset | (noun) a piece of material used to strengthen or enlarge a garment | Synonyms: gusset |
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| (noun) an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted | Synonyms: insert |
| (noun) a small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one | - |
| langset | (noun) East Indian tree bearing an edible yellow berry | Synonyms: langsat, lanseh tree, Lansium domesticum |
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| lanset | (noun) East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit | Synonyms: lansa, lansat, lanseh |
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| marmoset | (noun) small soft-furred South American and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails | - |
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| masseter | (noun) a large muscle that raises the lower jaw and is used in chewing | - |
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| mindset | (noun) a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations | Synonyms: mentality, mind-set, outlook |
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| mousetrap | (noun) (American football) a play in which a defensive player is allowed to cross the line of scrimmage and then blocked off as the runner goes through the place the lineman vacated | Synonyms: trap play |
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| (noun) a trap for catching mice | - |
| musette | (noun) a small bagpipe formerly popular in France | Synonyms: shepherd's pipe |
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| offset | (noun) structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly | Synonyms: set-back, setoff |
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| (noun) a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper | Synonyms: offset printing |
| (noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: branch, offshoot, outgrowth |
| (noun) a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips | Synonyms: runner, stolon |
| (noun) a compensating equivalent | Synonyms: counterbalance |
| (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
| onset | (noun) (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Synonyms: attack, onrush, onslaught |
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| (noun) the beginning or early stages | Synonyms: oncoming |
| outset | (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, showtime, start, starting time |
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| pacesetter | (noun) a horse used to set the pace in racing | Synonyms: pacemaker, pacer |
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| (noun) a leading instance in its field | Synonyms: pacemaker |
| peseta | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in Spain; equal to 100 centimos | Synonyms: Spanish peseta |
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| poinsettia | (noun) tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Christmas flower, Christmas star, Euphorbia pulcherrima, lobster plant, Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf |
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| posset | (noun) sweet spiced hot milk curdled with ale or beer | - |
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| quickset | (noun) cuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines | - |
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| reset | (noun) device for resetting instruments or controls | - |
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| resettlement | (noun) the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind) | Synonyms: relocation |
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| rosette | (noun) an ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor | - |
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| (noun) circular window filled with tracery | Synonyms: rose window |
| (noun) a cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground) | - |
| (noun) rhizoctinia disease of potatoes | Synonyms: little potato, russet scab, stem canker |
| russet | (noun) a reddish brown homespun fabric | - |
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| set | (noun) several exercises intended to be done in series | Synonyms: exercise set |
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| (noun) the act of putting something in position | - |
| (noun) representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production | Synonyms: stage set |
| (noun) any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals | - |
| (noun) (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way | Synonyms: readiness |
| (noun) a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way | Synonyms: bent |
| (noun) the descent of a heavenly body below the horizon | - |
| (noun) a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used | - |
| (noun) an unofficial association of people or groups | Synonyms: band, circle, lot |
| (noun) (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols | - |
| (noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: curing, hardening, solidification, solidifying |
| (noun) a unit of play in tennis or squash | - |
| seta | (noun) a stiff hair or bristle | - |
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| (noun) stalk of a moss capsule | - |
| setback | (noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, blow, reversal, reverse |
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| setline | (noun) a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) | Synonyms: spiller, trawl, trawl line, trotline |
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| setoff | (noun) structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly | Synonyms: offset, set-back |
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| setscrew | (noun) a screw (often without a head) that fits into the boss or hub of a wheel or cam etc. and prevents motion of the part relative to the shaft on which it is mounted | - |
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| (noun) a screw that is used to adjust the tension on a spring | - |
| sett | (noun) rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads | Synonyms: cobble, cobblestone |
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| settee | (noun) a small sofa | - |
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| (noun) a long wooden bench with a back | Synonyms: settle |
| setter | (noun) a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point | - |
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| (noun) one who sets written material into type | Synonyms: compositor, typesetter, typographer |
| setterwort | (noun) digitate-leaved hellebore with an offensive odor and irritant qualities when taken internally | Synonyms: bear's foot, Helleborus foetidus, stinking hellebore |
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| setting | (noun) a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place | Synonyms: mount |
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| (noun) arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted | Synonyms: mise en scene, stage setting |
| (noun) a table service for one person | Synonyms: place setting |
| (noun) the context and environment in which something is set | Synonyms: scene |
| (noun) the physical position of something | - |
| (noun) the state of the environment in which a situation exists | Synonyms: background, scope |
| (noun) the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event | Synonyms: circumstance, context |
| settle | (noun) a long wooden bench with a back | Synonyms: settee |
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| settledness | (noun) The quality or state of being fixed, permanent or stationary; established. | - |
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| settlement | (noun) termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities | Synonyms: liquidation |
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| (noun) the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies | Synonyms: colonisation, colonization |
| (noun) something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making | Synonyms: closure, resolution |
| (noun) a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it | - |
| (noun) a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government | Synonyms: colony |
| (noun) a community of people smaller than a town | Synonyms: small town, village |
| (noun) an area where a group of families live together | - |
| settler | (noun) a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country | Synonyms: colonist |
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| (noun) a clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings | - |
| (noun) a negotiator who settles disputes | - |
| settling | (noun) a gradual sinking to a lower level | Synonyms: subsidence, subsiding |
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| settlings | (noun) sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid | Synonyms: dregs |
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| settlor | (noun) (law) a person who creates a trust by giving real or personal property in trust to a trustee for the benefit of a beneficiary; a person who gives such property is said to settle it on the trustee | Synonyms: trustor |
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| setup | (noun) an act that incriminates someone on a false charge | Synonyms: frame-up |
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| (noun) equipment designed to serve a specific function | Synonyms: apparatus |
| (noun) the way something is organized or arranged | - |
| somerset | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somersaulting, summersault, summerset |
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| subset | (noun) a set whose members are members of another set; a set contained within another set | - |
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| summerset | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somersaulting, somerset, summersault |
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| sunset | (noun) the daily event of the sun sinking below the horizon | - |
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| (noun) atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily disappearance of the sun | - |
| (noun) the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon | Synonyms: sundown |
| synset | (noun) a set of one or more synonyms | - |
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| tasset | (noun) one of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs | Synonyms: tasse |
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| tsetse | (noun) bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc. | Synonyms: glossina, tsetse fly, tzetze, tzetze fly |
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| typesetter | (noun) one who sets written material into type | Synonyms: compositor, setter, typographer |
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| upset | (noun) an improbable and unexpected victory | Synonyms: overturn |
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| (noun) the act of disturbing the mind or body | Synonyms: derangement, overthrow |
| (noun) the act of upsetting something | Synonyms: overturn, turnover |
| (noun) a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging | Synonyms: swage |
| (noun) an unhappy and worried mental state | Synonyms: disturbance, perturbation |
| (noun) a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning | Synonyms: disorder |
| upsetter | (noun) an unexpected winner; someone who defeats the favorite competitor | - |
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| videocassette | (noun) a cassette for videotape | - |
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