| onionskin | (noun) a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies | Synonyms: flimsy |
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| outskirt | (noun) a part of the city far removed from the center | Synonyms: fringe |
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| outskirts | (noun) outlying areas (as of a city or town) | - |
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| overskirt | (noun) an outer skirt worn over another skirt | - |
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| passkey | (noun) key that secures entrance everywhere | Synonyms: master, master key, passe-partout |
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| pigskin | (noun) leather from the skin of swine | - |
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| rathskeller | (noun) a tavern below street level featuring beer; originally a German restaurant in the basement of city hall | - |
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| risk | (noun) a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury | Synonyms: danger, peril |
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| (noun) the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent | Synonyms: risk of exposure |
| (noun) the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred | Synonyms: risk of infection |
| (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: endangerment, hazard, jeopardy, peril |
| riskiness | (noun) a state of danger involving risk | Synonyms: peril |
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| risklessness | (noun) safety as a consequence of entailing no risk | - |
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| rusk | (noun) slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp | Synonyms: Brussels biscuit, twice-baked bread, zwieback |
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| samarskite | (noun) a complex black mineral occurring in pegmatites | - |
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| saskatoon | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: juneberry, serviceberry, shadberry |
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| sealskin | (noun) a garment (as a jacket or coat or robe) made of sealskin | - |
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| (noun) the pelt or fur (especially the underfur) of a seal | Synonyms: seal |
| sharkskin | (noun) a smooth crisp fabric | - |
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| 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 |
| siskin | (noun) small yellow-and-black Eurasian finch with a sharp beak | Synonyms: Carduelis spinus |
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| skag | (noun) street names for heroin | Synonyms: big H, hell dust, nose drops, scag, smack, thunder |
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| skank | (noun) a rhythmic dance to reggae music performed by bending forward and extending the hands while bending the knees | - |
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| (noun) any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant | Synonyms: crud, filth |
| skate | (noun) large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins | - |
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| (noun) sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs | - |
| skateboard | (noun) a board with wheels that is ridden in a standing or crouching position and propelled by foot | - |
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| skateboarder | (noun) someone who skates on a skateboard | - |
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| skateboarding | (noun) the sport of skating on a skateboard | - |
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| skater | (noun) someone who skates | - |
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| skating | (noun) the sport of gliding on skates | - |
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| skedaddle | (noun) a hasty flight | - |
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| skeet | (noun) the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird | Synonyms: skeet shooting, trapshooting |
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| skeg | (noun) a brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost | - |
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| skein | (noun) coils of worsted yarn | - |
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| skeleton | (noun) the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape | Synonyms: frame, skeletal frame, underframe |
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| (noun) the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal | Synonyms: frame, skeletal system, systema skeletale |
| (noun) a scandal that is kept secret | Synonyms: skeleton in the closet, skeleton in the cupboard |
| (noun) something reduced to its minimal form | - |
| skep | (noun) a domed beehive made of twisted straw | - |
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| (noun) a large round wicker basket (used on farms) | - |
| skepful | (noun) the quantity a skep can hold | - |
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| skeptic | (noun) someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs | Synonyms: doubter, sceptic |
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| skepticism | (noun) doubt about the truth of something | Synonyms: disbelief, incredulity, mental rejection, scepticism |
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| (noun) the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge | Synonyms: agnosticism, scepticism |
| sketch | (noun) preliminary drawing for later elaboration | Synonyms: study |
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| (noun) short descriptive summary (of events) | Synonyms: resume, survey |
| (noun) a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: cartoon |
| (noun) a brief literary description | Synonyms: vignette |
| sketchbook | (noun) a book containing sheets of paper on which sketches can be drawn | Synonyms: sketch block, sketch pad |
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| sketcher | (noun) an implement for sketching | - |
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| (noun) someone who draws sketches | - |
| sketchiness | (noun) incompleteness of details | - |
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| skewer | (noun) a long pin for holding meat in position while it is being roasted | - |
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| skewness | (noun) an oblique or slanting asymmetry | Synonyms: lopsidedness |
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| ski | (noun) narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow | - |
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| skiagram | (noun) a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays) | Synonyms: radiogram, radiograph, shadowgraph, skiagraph |
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| skiagraph | (noun) a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays) | Synonyms: radiogram, radiograph, shadowgraph, skiagram |
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| skiagraphy | (noun) the process of making a radiograph; producing an image on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light | Synonyms: radiography |
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| skibob | (noun) a vehicle resembling a bicycle but having skis instead of wheels; the rider wears short skis for balancing | - |
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| skid | (noun) an unexpected slide | Synonyms: sideslip, slip |
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| (noun) one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects | - |
| (noun) a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation | Synonyms: brake shoe, shoe |
| skidder | (noun) a tractor used to haul logs over rough terrain | - |
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| (noun) a worker who uses a skid to move logs | - |
| (noun) a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction | Synonyms: slider, slipper |
| skidpan | (noun) a paved surface on which cars can be made to skid so that drivers can practice controlling them | - |
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| skier | (noun) someone who skis | - |
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| skiff | (noun) any of various small boats propelled by oars or by sails or by a motor | - |
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| skiffle | (noun) a style of popular music in the 1950s; based on American folk music and played on guitars and improvised percussion instruments | - |
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| skiing | (noun) a sport in which participants must travel on skis | - |
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| skill | (noun) ability to produce solutions in some problem domain | Synonyms: science |
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| (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, attainment |
| skillessness | (noun) Lack of skill; ineptness. | - |
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| skillet | (noun) a pan used for frying foods | Synonyms: frying pan, frypan |
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| skilletfish | (noun) clingfish with typical skillet shape | Synonyms: Gobiesox strumosus, skillet fish |
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| skillfulness | (noun) the state of being cognitively skillful | - |
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| skilly | (noun) a thin porridge or soup (usually oatmeal and water flavored with meat) | - |
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| skim | (noun) reading or glancing through quickly | Synonyms: skimming |
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| (noun) a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid | - |
| skimmer | (noun) gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food | - |
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| (noun) a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown | Synonyms: boater, leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, straw hat |
| (noun) a cooking utensil used to skim fat from the surface of liquids | - |
| (noun) a rapid superficial reader | - |
| skimming | (noun) the act of removing floating material from the surface of a liquid | - |
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| (noun) failure to declare income in order to avoid paying taxes on it | - |
| (noun) the act of brushing against while passing | Synonyms: grazing, shaving |
| (noun) reading or glancing through quickly | Synonyms: skim |
| skimpiness | (noun) Of a garment, the property of being very small, light, or revealing. | Synonyms: scantiness |
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| skin | (noun) body covering of a living animal | Synonyms: hide, pelt |
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| (noun) an outer surface (usually thin) | - |
| (noun) a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal | - |
| (noun) a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch | Synonyms: cutis, tegument |
| (noun) the rind of a fruit or vegetable | Synonyms: peel |
| (noun) a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent | Synonyms: skinhead |
| (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, baldy, skinhead |
| (noun) a person's skin regarded as their life | - |
| skincare | (noun) care for the skin | Synonyms: skin care |
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| skinflint | (noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend | Synonyms: churl, niggard, scrooge |
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| skinful | (noun) a quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk | - |
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| skinhead | (noun) a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent | Synonyms: skin |
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| (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, baldy, skin |
| skinheads | (noun) a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism | Synonyms: bootboys |
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| skink | (noun) alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide | Synonyms: scincid, scincid lizard |
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| skinner | (noun) a person who prepares or deals in animal skins | - |
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| (noun) a worker who drives mules | Synonyms: mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer |
| skinniness | (noun) the bodily property of lacking flesh | Synonyms: scrawniness |
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| skinny | (noun) confidential information about a topic or person | - |
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| skip | (noun) a mistake resulting from neglect | Synonyms: omission |
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| (noun) a gait in which steps and hops alternate | - |
| skipjack | (noun) oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito | Synonyms: Euthynnus pelamis, skipjack tuna |
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| (noun) medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters; less valued than tuna | Synonyms: Atlantic bonito, Sarda sarda |
| (noun) able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound | Synonyms: click beetle, snapping beetle |
| skipper | (noun) the naval officer in command of a military ship | Synonyms: captain |
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| (noun) an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship | Synonyms: captain, master, sea captain |
| (noun) a student who fails to attend classes | - |
| skirl | (noun) the sound of (the chanter of) a bagpipe | - |
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| skirmish | (noun) a minor short-term fight | Synonyms: brush, clash, encounter |
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| skirmisher | (noun) someone who skirmishes (e.g., as a member of a scouting party) | - |
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| skirret | (noun) an Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root | Synonyms: Sium sisarum |
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| skirt | (noun) a garment hanging from the waist; worn mainly by girls and women | - |
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| (noun) cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waist | - |
| (noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, chick, dame, doll, wench |
| (noun) (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar | Synonyms: annulus |
| skit | (noun) a short theatrical episode | - |
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| skittishness | (noun) characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright | Synonyms: restiveness |
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| skittle | (noun) a bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles | Synonyms: ninepin, skittle pin |
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| skittles | (noun) a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins | Synonyms: ninepins |
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| skivvies | (noun) (used in the plural) men's underwear consisting of cotton undershirt and underpants | - |
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| skivvy | (noun) a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work | Synonyms: slavey |
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| skua | (noun) gull-like jaeger of northern seas | Synonyms: bonxie |
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| skulduggery | (noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery |
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| skulker | (noun) someone waiting in concealment | Synonyms: lurcher, lurker |
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| (noun) someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity | Synonyms: malingerer, shammer |
| skulking | (noun) evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated | Synonyms: malingering |
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| skull | (noun) the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates | - |
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| skullcap | (noun) rounded brimless cap fitting the crown of the head | - |
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| (noun) the dome of the skull | Synonyms: calvaria |
| (noun) a herbaceous plant of the genus Scutellaria which has a calyx that, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised | Synonyms: helmetflower |
| skullduggery | (noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, slickness, trickery |
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| skunk | (noun) American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae | Synonyms: polecat, wood pussy |
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| (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, smoke, weed |
| (noun) a defeat in a game where one side fails to score | Synonyms: shutout |
| (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
| skunkbush | (noun) deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit | Synonyms: Rhus trilobata, squaw-bush, squawbush |
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| skunkweed | (noun) tall herb of the Rocky Mountains having sticky leaves and an offensive smell | Synonyms: Polemonium viscosum, skunk-weed |
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| sky | (noun) the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth | - |
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| skybox | (noun) an elevated box for viewing events at a sports stadium | - |
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| skycap | (noun) a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at an airport | - |
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| skydiver | (noun) a person who jumps from a plane and performs various gymnastic maneuvers before pulling the parachute cord | - |
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