| romanticism | (noun) impractical romantic ideals and attitudes | - |
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| (noun) an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure) | Synonyms: romance |
| romanticist | (noun) an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism | Synonyms: romantic |
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| (noun) someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality | Synonyms: sentimentalist |
| romanticization | (noun) the act of indulging in sentiment | Synonyms: romanticisation, sentimentalisation, sentimentalization |
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| rustic | (noun) an unsophisticated country person | - |
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| rustication | (noun) the action of retiring to and living in the country | - |
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| (noun) banishment into the country | - |
| (noun) the construction of masonry or brickwork in a rustic manner | - |
| (noun) temporary dismissal of a student from a university | - |
| (noun) the condition naturally attaching to life in the country | - |
| rusticism | (noun) a rural idiom or expression | Synonyms: ruralism |
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| rusticity | (noun) the quality of being rustic or gauche | Synonyms: gaucherie |
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| sabbatical | (noun) a leave usually taken every seventh year | Synonyms: sabbatical leave |
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| sceptic | (noun) someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs | Synonyms: doubter, skeptic |
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| scepticism | (noun) the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge | Synonyms: agnosticism, skepticism |
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| (noun) doubt about the truth of something | Synonyms: disbelief, incredulity, mental rejection, skepticism |
| schematic | (noun) diagram of an electrical or mechanical system | Synonyms: schematic drawing |
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| scholastic | (noun) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit | Synonyms: bookworm, pedant |
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| scholasticism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: academicism, academism |
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| schtick | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
| schtickl | (noun) a really little shtik | Synonyms: schtikl, shtickl, shtikl |
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| sciatica | (noun) neuralgia along the sciatic nerve | - |
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| semanticist | (noun) a specialist in the study of meaning | Synonyms: semiotician |
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| semantics | (noun) the study of language meaning | - |
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| (noun) the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text | - |
| semiautomatic | (noun) a pistol that is a semiautomatic firearm capable of loading and firing continuously | Synonyms: semiautomatic pistol |
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| semiotician | (noun) a specialist in the study of meaning | Synonyms: semanticist |
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| semiotics | (noun) (philosophy) a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols | Synonyms: semiology |
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| septicaemia | (noun) invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection | Synonyms: blood poisoning, septicemia |
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| septicemia | (noun) invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection | Synonyms: blood poisoning, septicaemia |
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| shtick | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
| shtickl | (noun) a really little shtik | Synonyms: schtickl, schtikl, shtikl |
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| singlestick | (noun) a stick used instead of a sword for fencing | Synonyms: backsword, fencing stick |
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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 |
| slapstick | (noun) acoustic device consisting of two paddles hinged together; used by an actor to make a loud noise without inflicting injury when striking someone | - |
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| (noun) a boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes | - |
| slipstick | (noun) analog computer consisting of a handheld instrument used for rapid calculations; have been replaced by pocket calculators | Synonyms: slide rule |
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| sociolinguistics | (noun) the study of language in relation to its sociocultural context | - |
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| solstice | (noun) either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator | - |
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| sophisticate | (noun) a worldly-wise person | Synonyms: man of the world |
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| sophistication | (noun) falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies | - |
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| (noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundaneness, mundanity, worldliness |
| (noun) uplifting enlightenment | Synonyms: edification |
| (noun) being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject | - |
| (noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | Synonyms: sophism, sophistry |
| spasmolytic | (noun) a drug used to relieve or prevent spasms (especially of the smooth muscles) | Synonyms: antispasmodic, antispasmodic agent |
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| spastic | (noun) a person suffering from spastic paralysis | - |
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| spasticity | (noun) the quality of moving or acting in spasms | - |
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| static | (noun) angry criticism | - |
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| (noun) a crackling or hissing noise caused by electrical interference | Synonyms: atmospheric static, atmospherics |
| statice | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of white or mauve flowers | Synonyms: marsh rosemary, sea lavender |
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| statics | (noun) the branch of mechanics concerned with forces in equilibrium | - |
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| statistic | (noun) a datum that can be represented numerically | - |
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| statistician | (noun) someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums) | Synonyms: actuary |
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| (noun) a mathematician who specializes in statistics | Synonyms: mathematical statistician |
| statistics | (noun) a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters | - |
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| stemmatics | (noun) the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis) | Synonyms: stemmatology |
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| stick | (noun) threat of a penalty | - |
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| (noun) an implement consisting of a length of wood | - |
| (noun) a long thin implement resembling a length of wood | - |
| (noun) marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking | Synonyms: joint, marijuana cigarette, reefer, spliff |
| (noun) a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane | Synonyms: control stick, joystick |
| (noun) a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball | - |
| (noun) informal terms for the leg | Synonyms: peg, pin |
| (noun) a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine | - |
| (noun) a small thin branch of a tree | - |
| stickball | (noun) a form of baseball played in the streets with a rubber ball and broomstick handle | Synonyms: stickball game |
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| sticker | (noun) a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing | Synonyms: dagger |
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| (noun) an adhesive label | Synonyms: gummed label, paster |
| (noun) a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem | Synonyms: poser, stumper, toughie |
| (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spikelet, spine, thorn |
| stickiness | (noun) the property of sticking to a surface | - |
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| stickleback | (noun) small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research | Synonyms: prickleback |
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| stickler | (noun) someone who insists on something | - |
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| sticklerism | (noun) The behaviour of a stickler; inflexible adherence to rules. | - |
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| stickpin | (noun) a decorative pin that is worn in a necktie | - |
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| sticktight | (noun) parasitic on especially the heads of chickens | Synonyms: Echidnophaga gallinacea, sticktight flea |
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| (noun) any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing | Synonyms: beggar's-ticks, beggar-ticks, bur marigold, burr marigold |
| stickup | (noun) robbery at gunpoint | Synonyms: armed robbery, heist, holdup |
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| stickweed | (noun) any of several herbaceous plants having seeds that cling to clothing | - |
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| stigmatic | (noun) a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ) | Synonyms: stigmatist |
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| stochasticity | (noun) the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan | Synonyms: haphazardness, noise, randomness |
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| styptic | (noun) a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals | Synonyms: astringent, astringent drug |
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| syllogistic | (noun) in logic, the formal analysis of logical terms and operators and the structures that make it possible to infer true conclusions from given premises. | - |
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| syntactician | (noun) a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax | Synonyms: grammarian |
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| synthetic | (noun) a compound made artificially by chemical reactions | Synonyms: synthetic substance |
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| syphilitic | (noun) a person suffering from syphilis | - |
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| systematics | (noun) the science of systematic classification | - |
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| tactic | (noun) a plan for attaining a particular goal | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuvre, tactics |
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| tactician | (noun) a person who is skilled at planning tactics | - |
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| tactics | (noun) a plan for attaining a particular goal | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuvre, tactic |
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| (noun) the branch of military science dealing with detailed maneuvers to achieve objectives set by strategy | - |
| telerobotics | (noun) the area of robotics that is concerned with the control of robots from a distance | - |
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| testicle | (noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, ballock, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testis |
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| theoretician | (noun) someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) | Synonyms: idealogue, theoriser, theorist, theorizer |
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| therapeutic | (noun) a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain | Synonyms: curative, cure, remedy |
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| therapeutics | (noun) branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of disease | - |
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| thermoplastic | (noun) a material that softens when heated and hardens again when cooled | Synonyms: thermoplastic resin |
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| thermostatics | (noun) the aspect of thermodynamics concerned with thermal equilibrium | Synonyms: thermodynamics of equilibrium |
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| thrombolytic | (noun) a kind of pharmaceutical that can break up clots blocking the flow of blood to the heart muscle | Synonyms: clot buster, thrombolytic agent |
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| tic | (noun) a local and habitual twitching especially in the face | - |
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| tical | (noun) the basic unit of money in Thailand | Synonyms: baht |
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| tichodrome | (noun) crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa | Synonyms: Tichodroma muriaria, wall creeper |
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| tick | (noun) any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals | - |
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| (noun) a light mattress | - |
| (noun) a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc. | Synonyms: check, check mark |
| (noun) a metallic tapping sound | Synonyms: ticking |
| ticker | (noun) a character printer that automatically prints stock quotations on ticker tape | Synonyms: stock ticker |
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| (noun) a small portable timepiece | Synonyms: watch |
| (noun) the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body | Synonyms: heart, pump |
| ticket | (noun) the appropriate or desirable thing | Synonyms: just the ticket |
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| (noun) a summons issued to an offender (especially to someone who violates a traffic regulation) | - |
| (noun) a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment) | - |
| (noun) a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices | Synonyms: slate |
| (noun) a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc. | Synonyms: tag |
| ticking | (noun) a strong fabric used for mattress and pillow covers | - |
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| (noun) a metallic tapping sound | Synonyms: tick |
| tickle | (noun) the act of tickling | Synonyms: tickling, titillation |
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| (noun) a cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking | - |
| tickler | (noun) a file of memoranda or notices that remind of things to be done | Synonyms: tickler file |
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| tickling | (noun) the act of tickling | Synonyms: tickle, titillation |
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| tickseed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America | Synonyms: coreopsis, tick-weed, tickweed |
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| ticktack | (noun) system of signalling by hand signs used by bookmakers at racetracks | - |
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| ticktacktoe | (noun) a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does | Synonyms: noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoo, tit-tat-toe |
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| ticktacktoo | (noun) a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does | Synonyms: noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoe, tit-tat-toe |
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| ticktock | (noun) steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock | Synonyms: tictac, tocktact |
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| tickweed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America | Synonyms: coreopsis, tick-weed, tickseed |
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| tictac | (noun) steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock | Synonyms: ticktock, tocktact |
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| torticollis | (noun) an unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted | Synonyms: wryneck |
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| ungrammaticality | (noun) The state or quality of not following rules of grammar. | - |
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| unnoticeableness | (noun) the quality of being not easily noticed | - |
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| unproblematicalness | (noun) The quality of not posing a problem; not being difficult to overcome or solve. | - |
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| uptick | (noun) a transaction in the stock market at a price above the price of the preceding transaction | - |
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| urticaria | (noun) an itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs | Synonyms: hives, nettle rash, urtication |
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| urtication | (noun) a sensation of having been stung by nettles | - |
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| (noun) an itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs | Synonyms: hives, nettle rash, urticaria |
| vaticination | (noun) knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) | Synonyms: prognostication, prophecy |
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| vaticinator | (noun) an authoritative person who divines the future | Synonyms: oracle, prophesier, prophet, seer |
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