| arabesque | (noun) an ornament that interlaces simulated foliage in an intricate design | - |
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| (noun) position in which the dancer has one leg raised behind and arms outstretched in a conventional pose | - |
| bisque | (noun) a thick cream soup made from shellfish | - |
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| brusqueness | (noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: abruptness, curtness, gruffness, shortness |
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| burlesque | (noun) a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease) | - |
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| (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
| casque | (noun) (15-16th century) any armor for the head; usually ornate without a visor | - |
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| casquet | (noun) a light open casque without a visor or beaver | Synonyms: casquetel |
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| casquetel | (noun) a light open casque without a visor or beaver | Synonyms: casquet |
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| desquamation | (noun) loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales | Synonyms: peeling, shedding |
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| diddlysquat | (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat |
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| disqualification | (noun) the act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified | - |
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| (noun) unfitness that bars you from participation | - |
| disquiet | (noun) the trait of seeming ill at ease | Synonyms: unease, uneasiness |
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| (noun) a feeling of mild anxiety about possible developments | Synonyms: anxiousness |
| disquietude | (noun) feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable | Synonyms: edginess, inquietude, uneasiness |
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| disquisition | (noun) an elaborate analytical or explanatory essay or discussion | - |
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| esquire | (noun) (Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood | - |
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| foursquare | (noun) (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon | Synonyms: square |
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| grotesque | (noun) art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants | - |
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| grotesqueness | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesquerie, grotesquery |
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| grotesquerie | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesqueness, grotesquery |
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| grotesquery | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesqueness, grotesquerie |
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| masque | (noun) a party of guests wearing costumes and masks | Synonyms: mask, masquerade, masquerade party |
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| masquer | (noun) a participant in a masquerade | Synonyms: masker, masquerader |
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| masquerade | (noun) making a false outward show | Synonyms: charade |
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| (noun) a costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party | Synonyms: fancy dress, masquerade costume |
| (noun) a party of guests wearing costumes and masks | Synonyms: mask, masque, masquerade party |
| masquerader | (noun) a participant in a masquerade | Synonyms: masker, masquer |
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| mesquit | (noun) any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar | Synonyms: mesquite |
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| mesquite | (noun) any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar | Synonyms: mesquit |
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| misquotation | (noun) an incorrect quotation | Synonyms: misquote |
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| misquote | (noun) an incorrect quotation | Synonyms: misquotation |
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| mosque | (noun) (Islam) a Muslim place of worship that usually has a minaret | - |
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| mosquito | (noun) two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals | - |
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| mosquitofish | (noun) silvery topminnow with rows of black spots of tropical North America and West Indies; important in mosquito control | Synonyms: Gambusia affinis |
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| musquash | (noun) beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur | Synonyms: muskrat, Ondatra zibethica |
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| odalisque | (noun) a woman slave in a harem | - |
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| pasqueflower | (noun) any plant of the genus Pulsatilla; sometimes included in genus Anemone | Synonyms: pasque flower |
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| pasquinade | (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
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| picturesqueness | (noun) visually vivid and pleasing | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being strikingly expressive or vivid | - |
| sesquicentennial | (noun) the 150th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | - |
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| sesquipedalia | (noun) a very long word (a foot and a half long) | Synonyms: sesquipedalian |
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| sesquipedalian | (noun) a very long word (a foot and a half long) | Synonyms: sesquipedalia |
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| sesquipedality | (noun) using long words | - |
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| squab | (noun) an unfledged pigeon | - |
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| (noun) a soft padded sofa | - |
| (noun) flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled | Synonyms: dove |
| squabble | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, tiff |
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| squabbler | (noun) someone who quarrels about a small matter | - |
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| squad | (noun) a cooperative unit (especially in sports) | Synonyms: team |
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| (noun) a smallest army unit | - |
| (noun) a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime | Synonyms: police squad |
| squadron | (noun) an air force unit larger than a flight and smaller than a group | - |
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| (noun) a cavalry unit consisting of two or more troops and headquarters and supporting arms | - |
| (noun) a naval unit that is detached from the fleet for a particular task | - |
| squalidness | (noun) sordid dirtiness | Synonyms: sordidness, squalor |
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| squall | (noun) sudden violent winds; often accompanied by precipitation | - |
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| squalor | (noun) sordid dirtiness | Synonyms: sordidness, squalidness |
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| squama | (noun) a protective structure resembling a scale | - |
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| squamule | (noun) a minute scale | - |
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| squanderer | (noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer | Synonyms: prodigal, profligate |
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| squandering | (noun) spending resources lavishly and wastefully | - |
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| squandermania | (noun) prodigious squandering (usually by a government) | - |
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| square | (noun) a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles | - |
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| (noun) any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles | - |
| (noun) an open area at the meeting of two or more streets | Synonyms: public square |
| (noun) a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views | Synonyms: square toes |
| (noun) someone who doesn't understand what is going on | Synonyms: lame |
| (noun) the product of two equal terms | Synonyms: second power |
| (noun) (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon | Synonyms: foursquare |
| (noun) something approximating the shape of a square | - |
| squareness | (noun) the property of being shaped like a square | - |
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| squaretail | (noun) sluggish square-tailed fish armored with tough bony scales; of deep warm waters | - |
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| squark | (noun) a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1 | Synonyms: strange quark |
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| squash | (noun) a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets | Synonyms: squash rackets, squash racquets |
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| (noun) edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable | - |
| (noun) any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits | Synonyms: squash vine |
| squat | (noun) the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels | Synonyms: squatting |
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| (noun) exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles | Synonyms: knee bend, squatting |
| (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit |
| squatness | (noun) the property of being short and broad | Synonyms: stubbiness |
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| squatter | (noun) someone who settles on land without right or title | - |
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| (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: homesteader, nester |
| squattiness | (noun) a short and stout physique | Synonyms: dumpiness |
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| squatting | (noun) the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels | Synonyms: squat |
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| (noun) exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles | Synonyms: knee bend, squat |
| squaw | (noun) derogatory terms for an American Indian woman | - |
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| squawbush | (noun) deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit | Synonyms: Rhus trilobata, skunkbush, squaw-bush |
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| squawk | (noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, bitch, gripe, kick |
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| (noun) the noise of squawking | - |
| squawker | (noun) the loudspeaker on an intercom or public address system | Synonyms: intercom speaker, squawk box |
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| (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, whiner |
| squawroot | (noun) tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: blue cohosh, blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, papooseroot, squaw root |
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| squeak | (noun) something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin | Synonyms: close call, close shave, narrow escape, squeaker |
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| (noun) a short high-pitched noise | - |
| squeaker | (noun) something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin | Synonyms: close call, close shave, narrow escape, squeak |
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| (noun) any artifact that makes a squeaking sound when used | - |
| squeakiness | (noun) the state of tending to produce a high-pitched sound or squeak. | - |
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| squeal | (noun) a high-pitched howl | - |
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| squealer | (noun) domestic swine | Synonyms: grunter, hog, pig, Sus scrofa |
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| (noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: betrayer, blabber, informer, rat |
| squeamishness | (noun) the trait of being excessively fastidious and easily shocked | - |
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| (noun) a mild state of nausea | Synonyms: qualm, queasiness |
| squeegee | (noun) T-shaped cleaning implement with a rubber edge across the top; drawn across a surface to remove water (as in washing windows) | - |
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| squeezability | (noun) the property of being able to occupy less space | Synonyms: compressibility, sponginess |
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| squeeze | (noun) the act of gripping and pressing firmly | Synonyms: squeezing |
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| (noun) an aggressive attempt to compel acquiescence by the concentration or manipulation of power | Synonyms: power play, squeeze play |
| (noun) a tight or amorous embrace | Synonyms: clinch, hug |
| (noun) the act of forcing yourself (or being forced) into or through a restricted space | - |
| (noun) a twisting squeeze | Synonyms: wring |
| (noun) (slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend | - |
| (noun) a situation in which increased costs cannot be passed on to the customer | - |
| (noun) a state in which there is a short supply of cash to lend to businesses and consumers and interest rates are high | Synonyms: credit crunch, liquidity crisis |
| squeezer | (noun) a kitchen utensil for squeezing juice from fruit | - |
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| squeezing | (noun) the act of gripping and pressing firmly | Synonyms: squeeze |
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| squelch | (noun) an electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal becomes weaker than the noise | Synonyms: squelch circuit, squelcher |
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| (noun) a crushing remark | Synonyms: put-down, squelcher, takedown |
| squelcher | (noun) an electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal becomes weaker than the noise | Synonyms: squelch, squelch circuit |
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| (noun) a crushing remark | Synonyms: put-down, squelch, takedown |
| squib | (noun) firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise | - |
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| squid | (noun) widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins | - |
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| (noun) (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food | Synonyms: calamari, calamary |
| squiggle | (noun) a short twisting line | Synonyms: curlicue |
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| (noun) an illegible scrawl | - |
| squill | (noun) an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers | Synonyms: scilla |
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| (noun) having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties | Synonyms: sea onion, sea squill, Urginea maritima |
| (noun) bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant | - |
| squilla | (noun) a kind of mantis shrimp | Synonyms: mantis prawn |
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| squinch | (noun) a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire) | - |
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| squint | (noun) the act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closed | - |
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| (noun) abnormal alignment of one or both eyes | Synonyms: strabismus |
| squinter | (noun) a person with strabismus | Synonyms: squint-eye |
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| squire | (noun) an English country landowner | - |
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| (noun) young nobleman attendant on a knight | - |
| (noun) a man who attends or escorts a woman | Synonyms: gallant |
| squirearchy | (noun) the gentry who own land (considered as a class) | Synonyms: landed gentry |
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| squirm | (noun) the act of wiggling | Synonyms: wiggle, wriggle |
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| squirmer | (noun) one who can't stay still (especially a child) | Synonyms: wiggler, wriggler |
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| squirrel | (noun) a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail | - |
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| (noun) the fur of a squirrel | - |
| squirrelfish | (noun) very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark | - |
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| (noun) similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States | Synonyms: Lagodon rhomboides, pinfish, sailor's-choice |
| squirt | (noun) the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) | Synonyms: jet, spirt, spurt |
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| (noun) someone who is small and insignificant | Synonyms: pip-squeak, small fry |
| squirter | (noun) plaything consisting of a toy pistol that squirts water | Synonyms: squirt gun, water gun, water pistol |
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| squish | (noun) the noise of soft mud being walked on | - |
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