| horsemanship | (noun) skill in handling and riding horses | - |
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| horseshit | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, crap, dogshit, Irish bull, shit |
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| hushing | (noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval) | Synonyms: fizzle, hiss, hissing, sibilation |
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| imperishingness | (noun) the property of being resistant to decay | Synonyms: imperishability, imperishableness |
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| inspectorship | (noun) the office of inspector | - |
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| instructorship | (noun) the position of instructor | - |
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| internship | (noun) the position of a medical intern | - |
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| interrelationship | (noun) mutual or reciprocal relation or relatedness | Synonyms: interrelatedness, interrelation |
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| judgeship | (noun) the position of judge | Synonyms: judicature |
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| kingship | (noun) the dignity or rank or position of a king | - |
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| kinship | (noun) (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption | Synonyms: family relationship, relationship |
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| (noun) a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character | Synonyms: affinity |
| kwashiorkor | (noun) severe malnutrition in children resulting from a diet excessively high in carbohydrates and low in protein | - |
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| lashing | (noun) beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment | Synonyms: flagellation, flogging, tanning, whipping |
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| (noun) rope that is used for fastening something to something else | - |
| lashings | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| leadership | (noun) the activity of leading | Synonyms: leading |
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| (noun) the ability to lead | - |
| (noun) the body of people who lead a group | Synonyms: leaders |
| (noun) the status of a leader | - |
| lectureship | (noun) the post of lecturer | - |
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| legateship | (noun) the post or office of legate | Synonyms: legation |
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| legislatorship | (noun) the office of legislator | - |
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| librarianship | (noun) the position of librarian | - |
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| lightship | (noun) a ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable | - |
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| listenership | (noun) all the listeners collectively of a particular radio programme, station, or broadcaster. | - |
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| longship | (noun) a type of ship invented and used by the Vikings for trade, commerce, exploration, and warfare during the Viking Age. | - |
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| lordship | (noun) the authority of a lord | - |
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| makeshift | (noun) something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency | Synonyms: make-do, stopgap |
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| managership | (noun) the position of manager | - |
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| marksmanship | (noun) skill in shooting | - |
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| marshalship | (noun) the post of marshall | - |
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| mashie | (noun) middle-distance iron | Synonyms: five iron |
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| mastership | (noun) the position of master | - |
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| (noun) the skill of a master | - |
| membership | (noun) the body of members of an organization or group | Synonyms: rank |
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| (noun) the state of being a member | - |
| meshing | (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlock, interlocking, mesh |
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| (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshwork, net, network |
| (noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: engagement, interlocking, mesh |
| messiahship | (noun) the position of messiah | - |
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| midshipman | (noun) a temporary rank held by young naval officers in training | - |
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| moderatorship | (noun) the position of moderator | - |
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| moonshine | (noun) whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash | Synonyms: bootleg, corn liquor |
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| (noun) the light of the Moon | Synonyms: Moon, moonlight |
| moonshiner | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: bootlegger |
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| mushiness | (noun) a mushy pulpy softness | Synonyms: pulpiness |
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| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mawkishness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
| musicianship | (noun) artistry in performing music | - |
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| nightshirt | (noun) nightclothes worn by men | - |
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| nonpartisanship | (noun) an inclination to weigh both views or opinions equally | Synonyms: impartiality |
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| oarsmanship | (noun) skill as an oarsman | - |
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| overlordship | (noun) the position of overlord | - |
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| overshielding | (noun) excessive protection | Synonyms: momism, overprotection |
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| ownership | (noun) the act of having and controlling property | Synonyms: possession |
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| (noun) the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others | - |
| (noun) the state or fact of being an owner | - |
| parishioner | (noun) a member of a parish | - |
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| partisanship | (noun) an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives | Synonyms: partiality |
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| partnership | (noun) a contract between two or more persons who agree to pool talent and money and share profits or losses | - |
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| (noun) the members of a business venture created by contract | - |
| (noun) a cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal | - |
| pastorship | (noun) the position of pastor | Synonyms: pastorate |
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| penmanship | (noun) beautiful handwriting | Synonyms: calligraphy, chirography |
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| pincushion | (noun) a small stiff cushion into which pins are stuck ready for use | - |
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| polishing | (noun) the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it | Synonyms: shining |
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| praetorship | (noun) the office of praetor | - |
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| precentorship | (noun) the position of precentor | - |
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| preceptorship | (noun) the position of preceptor | - |
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| premiership | (noun) the office of premier | - |
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| presidentship | (noun) the office and function of president | Synonyms: presidency |
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| primateship | (noun) the office of primate | - |
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| principalship | (noun) the post of principal | - |
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| priorship | (noun) the office of prior | - |
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| proconsulship | (noun) the position of proconsul | Synonyms: proconsulate |
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| proctorship | (noun) the position of proctor | - |
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| professorship | (noun) the position of professor | Synonyms: chair |
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| proprietorship | (noun) an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits | Synonyms: proprietary |
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| protectorship | (noun) the position of protector | - |
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| publishing | (noun) the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution | Synonyms: publication |
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| pushiness | (noun) offensive boldness and assertiveness | Synonyms: bumptiousness, cockiness, forwardness |
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| pushing | (noun) the act of applying force in order to move something away | Synonyms: push |
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| readership | (noun) the audience reached by written communications (books or magazines or newspapers etc.) | - |
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| receivership | (noun) the office of a receiver | - |
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| (noun) a court action that places property under the control of a receiver during litigation so that it can be preserved for the benefit of all | - |
| (noun) the state of property that is in the hands of a receiver | - |
| rectorship | (noun) the office or station of a rector | Synonyms: rectorate |
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| redshift | (noun) (astronomy) a shift in the spectra of very distant galaxies toward longer wavelengths (toward the red end of the spectrum); generally interpreted as evidence that the universe is expanding | Synonyms: red shift |
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| relationship | (noun) a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness) | Synonyms: human relationship |
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| (noun) (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption | Synonyms: family relationship, kinship |
| (noun) a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection) | - |
| (noun) a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries | - |
| relinquishing | (noun) the act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc. | Synonyms: relinquishment |
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| (noun) a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc. | Synonyms: relinquishment |
| relishing | (noun) taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | Synonyms: degustation, savoring, savouring, tasting |
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| republishing | (noun) the act of publishing again | Synonyms: republication |
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| reshipment | (noun) the act of shipping again (especially by transferring to another ship) | - |
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| rulership | (noun) the position of ruler | - |
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| rushing | (noun) (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line | Synonyms: rush |
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| (noun) the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner | Synonyms: haste, hurry, rush |
| salesmanship | (noun) skill in selling; skill in persuading people to buy | - |
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| sashimi | (noun) very thinly sliced raw fish | - |
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| sceneshifter | (noun) a stagehand responsible for moving scenery | Synonyms: shifter |
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| scholarship | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning |
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| (noun) financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit | - |
| seamanship | (noun) skill in sailing | - |
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| secretaryship | (noun) the position of secretary | - |
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| senatorship | (noun) the office of senator | - |
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| shiatsu | (noun) treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body | Synonyms: acupressure, G-Jo |
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| shibah | (noun) (Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative | Synonyms: shiva, shivah |
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| shibboleth | (noun) a manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people | - |
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| (noun) a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual | Synonyms: catchword, motto, slogan |
| shield | (noun) hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles | Synonyms: carapace, cuticle, shell |
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| (noun) armor carried on the arm to intercept blows | Synonyms: buckler |
| (noun) a protective covering or structure | - |
| shielder | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: defender, guardian, protector |
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| shielding | (noun) the act of shielding from harm | - |
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| (noun) a shield of lead or concrete intended as a barrier to radiation emitted in nuclear decay | - |
| (noun) shield consisting of an arrangement of metal mesh or plates designed to protect electronic equipment from ambient electromagnetic interference | - |
| shift | (noun) the act of moving from one place to another | Synonyms: shifting |
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| (noun) the act of changing one thing or position for another | Synonyms: switch, switching |
| (noun) a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist | Synonyms: chemise, sack |
| (noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment | Synonyms: chemise, shimmy, slip, teddy |
| (noun) the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters | Synonyms: shift key |
| (noun) an event in which something is displaced without rotation | Synonyms: displacement |
| (noun) a qualitative change | Synonyms: transformation, transmutation |
| (noun) a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time | - |
| (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault |
| (noun) the time period during which you are at work | Synonyms: duty period, work shift |
| shifter | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearshift, gearstick |
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| (noun) a stagehand responsible for moving scenery | Synonyms: sceneshifter |
| shiftiness | (noun) the quality of being a slippery rascal | Synonyms: rascality, slipperiness, trickiness |
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| (noun) the quality of being changeable in direction | - |
| shifting | (noun) the act of moving from one place to another | Synonyms: shift |
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| shiftlessness | (noun) a failure to be active as a consequence of lack of initiative or ambition | - |
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| shigella | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals; can be used as a bioweapon | - |
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| shigellosis | (noun) an acute infection of the intestine by shigella bacteria; characterized by diarrhea and fever and abdominal pains | Synonyms: bacillary dysentery |
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| shiitake | (noun) edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe | Synonyms: Chinese black mushroom, golden oak mushroom, Lentinus edodes, Oriental black mushroom, shiitake mushroom |
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| shiksa | (noun) a derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women | Synonyms: shikse |
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