anisette | (noun) liquorice-flavored usually colorless sweet liqueur made from aniseed | Synonyms: anisette de Bordeaux |
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audiocassette | (noun) a cassette for audiotape | - |
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bonesetter | (noun) someone (not necessarily a licensed physician) who sets broken bones | - |
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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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falsetto | (noun) a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register | - |
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musette | (noun) a small bagpipe formerly popular in France | Synonyms: shepherd's pipe |
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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 |
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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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 |
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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typesetter | (noun) one who sets written material into type | Synonyms: compositor, setter, typographer |
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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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