| airstream | (noun) a relatively well-defined prevailing wind | - |
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| (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: backwash, race, slipstream, wash |
| ancestress | (noun) a woman ancestor | - |
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| bistre | (noun) a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot | Synonyms: bister |
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| bloodstream | (noun) the blood flowing through the circulatory system | Synonyms: blood stream |
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| cadastre | (noun) a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation | Synonyms: cadaster |
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| dihydrostreptomycin | (noun) antibiotic consisting of a hydrogenated form of streptomycin; used against tuberculosis and tularemia and Gram-negative organisms | - |
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| distress | (noun) the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim | Synonyms: distraint |
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| (noun) psychological suffering | Synonyms: hurt, suffering |
| (noun) extreme physical pain | - |
| (noun) a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need) | - |
| distressfulness | (noun) the quality of arousing fear or distress | Synonyms: seriousness |
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| distressingness | (noun) the quality of being painful | Synonyms: painfulness |
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| gastrectomy | (noun) surgical removal of all or part of the stomach | - |
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| hairstreak | (noun) small butterflies having striped markings under the wings | Synonyms: hairstreak butterfly |
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| headmistress | (noun) a woman headmaster | - |
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| headmistressship | (noun) the position of headmistress | - |
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| headstream | (noun) a stream that forms the source of a river | - |
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| homestretch | (noun) the straight stretch of a racetrack leading to the finish line | - |
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| (noun) the end of an enterprise | - |
| kestrel | (noun) small Old World falcon that hovers in the air against a wind | Synonyms: Falco tinnunculus |
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| (noun) small North American falcon | Synonyms: American kestrel, Falco sparverius, sparrow hawk |
| lustre | (noun) a surface coating for ceramics or porcelain | Synonyms: luster |
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| (noun) a quality that outshines the usual | Synonyms: brilliancy, luster, splendor, splendour |
| (noun) the visual property of something that shines with reflected light | Synonyms: luster, sheen, shininess |
| lustrelessness | (noun) the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss | Synonyms: flatness, lusterlessness, mat, matt, matte |
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| mainstream | (noun) the prevailing current of thought | - |
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| midstream | (noun) the middle of a stream | - |
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| minstrel | (noun) a singer of folk songs | Synonyms: folk singer, jongleur, poet-singer, troubadour |
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| (noun) a performer in a minstrel show | - |
| minstrelsy | (noun) the art of a minstrel | - |
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| (noun) ballads sung by minstrels | - |
| (noun) a troupe of minstrels | - |
| mistreatment | (noun) the practice of treating (someone or something) badly | - |
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| mistress | (noun) a woman master who directs the work of others | - |
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| (noun) an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man | Synonyms: fancy woman, kept woman |
| (noun) a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) | Synonyms: schoolma'am, schoolmarm, schoolmistress |
| norgestrel | (noun) synthetic progestin used in oral contraceptives | - |
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| obstreperousness | (noun) noisy defiance | - |
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| ommastrephes | (noun) extremely active cylindrical squid with short strong arms and large rhombic terminal fins | - |
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| piastre | (noun) a fractional monetary unit in Egypt and Lebanon and Sudan and Syria | Synonyms: piaster |
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| (noun) 100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey | Synonyms: kurus, piaster |
| pipistrel | (noun) small European brown bat | Synonyms: pipistrelle, Pipistrellus pipistrellus |
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| pipistrelle | (noun) small European brown bat | Synonyms: pipistrel, Pipistrellus pipistrellus |
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| postmistress | (noun) a woman postmaster | - |
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| schoolmistress | (noun) a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) | Synonyms: mistress, schoolma'am, schoolmarm |
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| seamstress | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: modiste, needlewoman, sempstress |
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| sempstress | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: modiste, needlewoman, seamstress |
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| slipstream | (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: airstream, backwash, race, wash |
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| songstress | (noun) a woman songster (especially of popular songs) | - |
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| streak | (noun) a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background | Synonyms: bar, stripe |
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| (noun) a distinctive characteristic | - |
| (noun) a sudden flash (as of lightning) | - |
| (noun) an unbroken series of events | Synonyms: run |
| streaker | (noun) someone who takes off all their clothes and runs naked through a public place | - |
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| stream | (noun) the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression | Synonyms: flow |
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| (noun) a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes) | Synonyms: current |
| (noun) dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas | Synonyms: current, flow |
| (noun) a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth | Synonyms: watercourse |
| (noun) something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously | Synonyms: flow |
| streambed | (noun) a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a stream | Synonyms: creek bed |
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| streamer | (noun) long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising | Synonyms: banner |
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| (noun) a long flag; often tapering | Synonyms: pennant, pennon, waft |
| (noun) a newspaper headline that runs across the full page | Synonyms: banner |
| (noun) light that streams | - |
| streaming | (noun) the circulation of cytoplasm within a cell | Synonyms: cyclosis |
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| streamlet | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, rivulet, run, runnel |
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| streamliner | (noun) a streamlined train | - |
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| street | (noun) a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings | - |
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| (noun) the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel | - |
| (noun) people living or working on the same street | - |
| (noun) the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction | - |
| (noun) a situation offering opportunities | - |
| streetcar | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity | Synonyms: tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car |
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| streetlight | (noun) a lamp supported on a lamppost; for illuminating a street | Synonyms: street lamp |
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| streetwalker | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl |
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| strength | (noun) the property of being physically or mentally strong | - |
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| (noun) an asset of special worth or utility | Synonyms: forte, long suit, metier, speciality, specialty, strong point, strong suit |
| (noun) permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force | Synonyms: durability, enduringness, lastingness |
| (noun) the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation) | Synonyms: intensity, intensity level |
| (noun) capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war | Synonyms: military capability, military posture, military strength, posture |
| (noun) physical energy or intensity | Synonyms: force, forcefulness |
| (noun) capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects | Synonyms: effectiveness, potency |
| (noun) the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty | Synonyms: persuasiveness |
| (noun) the condition of financial success | - |
| strengthener | (noun) a device designed to provide additional strength | Synonyms: reinforcement |
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| strengthening | (noun) the act of increasing the strength of something | - |
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| (noun) becoming stronger | - |
| strenuosity | (noun) intense energy | Synonyms: athleticism |
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| strenuousness | (noun) extreme effortfulness | Synonyms: arduousness |
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| strep | (noun) spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis | Synonyms: streptococci, streptococcus |
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| streptobacillus | (noun) any of various rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria | - |
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| streptocarpus | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Streptocarpus having leaves in a basal rosette and flowers like primroses | - |
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| streptococci | (noun) spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis | Synonyms: strep, streptococcus |
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| streptococcus | (noun) spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis | Synonyms: strep, streptococci |
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| streptodornase | (noun) an enzyme produced by some hemolytic strains of streptococcus that dissolves fibrinous secretions from infections; used medicinally (often in combination with streptokinase) | - |
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| streptokinase | (noun) an enzyme produced by some strains of streptococcus that can liquefy blood clots by converting plasminogen to plasmin; used medicinally in some cases of myocardial infarction and pulmonary embolism | - |
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| streptolysin | (noun) any of several hemolysins derived from strains of streptococcus | - |
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| streptomyces | (noun) aerobic bacteria (some of which produce the antibiotic streptomycin) | - |
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| streptomycin | (noun) an antibiotic produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces griseus and used to treat tuberculosis | - |
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| streptothricin | (noun) a basic antibiotic derived from a soil actinomycete | - |
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| stress | (noun) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | Synonyms: accent, emphasis |
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| (noun) (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body | - |
| (noun) (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense | Synonyms: tenseness, tension |
| (noun) difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension | Synonyms: strain |
| (noun) special emphasis attached to something | Synonyms: focus |
| stressor | (noun) any agent that causes stress to an organism | - |
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| stretch | (noun) exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent | Synonyms: stretching |
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| (noun) the act of physically reaching or thrusting out | Synonyms: reach, reaching |
| (noun) extension to or beyond the ordinary limit | - |
| (noun) a straightaway section of a racetrack | - |
| (noun) the capacity for being stretched | Synonyms: stretchability, stretchiness |
| (noun) a large and unbroken expanse or distance | - |
| (noun) an unbroken period of time during which you do something | Synonyms: stint |
| stretchability | (noun) the capacity for being stretched | Synonyms: stretch, stretchiness |
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| stretcher | (noun) a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles | - |
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| (noun) a stone that forms the top of wall or building | Synonyms: capstone, copestone, coping stone |
| (noun) a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it | - |
| (noun) a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting | - |
| stretchiness | (noun) the capacity for being stretched | Synonyms: stretch, stretchability |
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| stretching | (noun) exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent | Synonyms: stretch |
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| (noun) act of expanding by lengthening or widening | - |
| streusel | (noun) a crumbly topping for a pastry | - |
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| (noun) pastry with a topping of streusel | - |
| strewing | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scatter, scattering |
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| taskmistress | (noun) a woman taskmaster | - |
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| wastrel | (noun) someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently | Synonyms: waster |
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