| nightshirt | (noun) nightclothes worn by men | - |
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| nightspot | (noun) a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | Synonyms: cabaret, club, night club, nightclub |
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| nightstick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, billystick, truncheon |
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| ninjitsu | (noun) the traditional Japanese method of espionage; involves stealthy movements and the use of camouflage | Synonyms: ninjutsu |
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| ninjutsu | (noun) the traditional Japanese method of espionage; involves stealthy movements and the use of camouflage | Synonyms: ninjitsu |
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| nutsedge | (noun) a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers | Synonyms: Cyperus rotundus, nut grass, nut sedge, nutgrass |
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| nutshell | (noun) the shell around the kernel of a nut | - |
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| oddments | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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| outset | (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, showtime, start, starting time |
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| outside | (noun) the outer side or surface of something | Synonyms: exterior |
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| (noun) the region that is outside of something | Synonyms: exterior |
| outsider | (noun) someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group | Synonyms: foreigner |
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| (noun) a contestant (human or animal) not considered to have a good chance to win | - |
| outsize | (noun) an unusual garment size (especially one that is very large) | - |
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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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| outsole | (noun) the outer sole of a shoe or boot that is the bottom of the shoe and makes contact with the ground | - |
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| outspokenness | (noun) the trait of being blunt and outspoken | Synonyms: frankness |
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| outstation | (noun) a station in a remote or sparsely populated location | Synonyms: outpost |
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| outstroke | (noun) the stroke of an engine piston moving toward the crankshaft | - |
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| pants | (noun) (used in the plural) underpants worn by women | Synonyms: bloomers, drawers, knickers |
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| pantsuit | (noun) a pair of pants and a matching jacket worn by women | Synonyms: pants suit |
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| parts | (noun) the local environment | - |
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| partsong | (noun) a song with two or more voice parts | - |
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| patsy | (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, soft touch, sucker |
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| peanuts | (noun) an insignificant sum of money; a trifling amount | - |
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| pitsaw | (noun) a large two-handed saw formerly used to cut logs into planks; one man stood above the log and the other in a pit below | - |
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| plantsman | (noun) an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants) | Synonyms: horticulturist |
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| plaudits | (noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclaim, acclamation, eclat, plaudit |
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| pointsman | (noun) a policeman stationed at an intersection to direct traffic | - |
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| postscript | (noun) a note appended to a letter after the signature | Synonyms: PS |
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| (noun) textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end | Synonyms: addendum, supplement |
| potsherd | (noun) a shard of pottery | - |
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| potshot | (noun) a shot taken at an easy or casual target (as by a pothunter) | - |
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| (noun) criticism aimed at an easy target and made without careful consideration | - |
| presidentship | (noun) the office and function of president | Synonyms: presidency |
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| profits | (noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: earnings, lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit |
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| (noun) something won (especially money) | Synonyms: win, winnings |
| psilotsin | (noun) a substituted tryptamine alkaloid and a serotonergic psychedelic substance, present in most psychedelic mushrooms together with its phosphorylated counterpart psilocybin. | Synonyms: psilocin, psilocine, psilocyn |
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| putsch | (noun) a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force | Synonyms: coup, coup d'etat, takeover |
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| quoits | (noun) a game in which iron rings (or open iron rings) are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it | Synonyms: horseshoes |
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| rafts | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| raftsman | (noun) someone who travels by raft | Synonyms: rafter, raftman |
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| ratsbane | (noun) a white powdered poisonous trioxide of arsenic; used in manufacturing glass and as a pesticide (rat poison) and weed killer | Synonyms: arsenic, arsenic trioxide, arsenous anhydride, arsenous oxide, white arsenic |
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| receipts | (noun) the entire amount of income before any deductions are made | Synonyms: gross, revenue |
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| regrets | (noun) a polite refusal of an invitation | Synonyms: declination |
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| respects | (noun) (often used with `pay') a formal expression of esteem | - |
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| retsina | (noun) Greek wine flavored with resin | - |
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| rickets | (noun) childhood disease caused by deficiency of vitamin D and sunlight associated with impaired metabolism of calcium and phosphorus | Synonyms: rachitis |
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| rickettsia | (noun) any of a group of very small rod-shaped bacteria that live in biting arthropods (as ticks and mites) and cause disease in vertebrate hosts; they cause typhus and other febrile diseases in human beings | - |
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| rickettsialpox | (noun) mild infectious rickettsial disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Rickettsia transmitted to humans by the bite a mite that lives on rodents; characterized by chills and fever and headache and skin lesions that resemble chickenpox | - |
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| rickettsiosis | (noun) infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria | Synonyms: rickettsial disease |
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| roots | (noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage | - |
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| rootstalk | (noun) a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure | Synonyms: rhizome, rootstock |
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| rootstock | (noun) root or part of a root used for plant propagation; especially that part of a grafted plant that supplies the roots | - |
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| (noun) a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure | Synonyms: rhizome, rootstalk |
| rudiments | (noun) the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural) | Synonyms: alphabet, first principles |
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| (noun) a statement of fundamental facts or principles | Synonyms: basics |
| saltshaker | (noun) a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt | Synonyms: salt shaker |
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| satsuma | (noun) medium-sized largely seedless mandarin orange with thin smooth skin | - |
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| (noun) a variety of mandarin orange, known commonly as cold hardy mandarin, Christmas orange, or tangerine | Synonyms: satsuma tree |
| seats | (noun) an area that includes places where several people can sit | Synonyms: seating, seating area, seating room |
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| setscrew | (noun) a screw (often without a head) that fits into the boss or hub of a wheel or cam etc. and prevents motion of the part relative to the shaft on which it is mounted | - |
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| (noun) a screw that is used to adjust the tension on a spring | - |
| 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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| shirtsleeve | (noun) the sleeve of a shirt | - |
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| shirtsleeves | (noun) not wearing a jacket | - |
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| shitstorm | (noun) A considerable backlash or controversy | - |
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| shorts | (noun) (used in the plural) trousers that end at or above the knee | Synonyms: short pants, trunks |
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| (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, boxershorts, drawers, underdrawers |
| shortsightedness | (noun) a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources | Synonyms: improvidence |
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| (noun) (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred | Synonyms: myopia, nearsightedness |
| shortstop | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base | Synonyms: short |
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| (noun) (baseball) the person who plays the shortstop position | - |
| sights | (noun) an optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument | - |
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| sightseeing | (noun) going about to look at places of interest | Synonyms: rubber-necking |
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| sightseer | (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: excursionist, rubberneck, tripper |
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| silents | (noun) a movie without a soundtrack | Synonyms: silent movie, silent picture |
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| siltstone | (noun) a fine-grained sandstone of consolidated silt | - |
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| slyboots | (noun) a shifty deceptive person | Synonyms: dodger, fox |
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| spirits | (noun) an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented | Synonyms: booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, liquor, strong drink |
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| splitsaw | (noun) a handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood | Synonyms: ripsaw |
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| splitsville | (noun) separation or breakup or divorce | - |
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| sportsball | (noun) Sports of an unspecified kind, usually condescending | - |
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| sportscast | (noun) a broadcast of sports news or commentary | - |
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| sportscaster | (noun) an announcer who reads sports news or describes sporting events | Synonyms: sports announcer, sports commentator |
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| sportsman | (noun) a male who engages in sports | - |
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| sportsmanship | (noun) fairness in following the rules of the game | - |
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| sportswear | (noun) attire worn for sport or for casual wear | Synonyms: activewear, athletic wear |
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| sportswoman | (noun) a female who engages in sports | - |
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| sportswriter | (noun) a journalist who writes about sports | Synonyms: sports writer |
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| spots | (noun) spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens | Synonyms: floater, musca volitans, muscae volitantes |
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| spritsail | (noun) a fore-and-aft sail extended by a sprit | - |
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| starets | (noun) a religious adviser (not necessarily a priest) in the Eastern Orthodox Church | - |
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| straits | (noun) a difficult juncture | Synonyms: head, pass |
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| (noun) a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs | Synonyms: pass, strait |
| studentship | (noun) the position of student | - |
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| sweatpants | (noun) loose-fitting trousers with elastic cuffs; worn by athletes | Synonyms: sweat pants |
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| sweats | (noun) garment consisting of sweat pants and a sweatshirt | Synonyms: sweat suit, sweatsuit, workout suit |
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| sweatshirt | (noun) cotton knit pullover with long sleeves worn during athletic activity | - |
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| sweatshop | (noun) factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry | - |
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| sweatsuit | (noun) garment consisting of sweat pants and a sweatshirt | Synonyms: sweat suit, sweats, workout suit |
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| sweetsop | (noun) sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds | Synonyms: annon, sugar apple |
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| (noun) tropical American tree bearing sweet pulpy fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds | Synonyms: Annona squamosa, sweetsop tree |
| thriftshop | (noun) a shop that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices | Synonyms: second-hand store |
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| tights | (noun) skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls | Synonyms: leotards |
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| trumpets | (noun) pitcher plant of southeastern United States having erect yellow trumpet-shaped pitchers with wide mouths and erect lids | Synonyms: huntsman's horn, huntsman's horns, Sarracenia flava, yellow pitcher plant, yellow trumpet |
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| tsar | (noun) a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917) | Synonyms: czar, tzar |
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| tsarina | (noun) the wife or widow of a czar | Synonyms: czarina, czaritza, tsaritsa, tzarina |
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| tsaritsa | (noun) the wife or widow of a czar | Synonyms: czarina, czaritza, tsarina, tzarina |
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| tsatske | (noun) (Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket | Synonyms: chachka, tchotchke, tshatshke |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman | Synonyms: chachka, tchotchke, tchotchkeleh, tshatshke |
| tsetse | (noun) bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc. | Synonyms: glossina, tsetse fly, tzetze, tzetze fly |
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| tshatshke | (noun) (Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket | Synonyms: chachka, tchotchke, tsatske |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman | Synonyms: chachka, tchotchke, tchotchkeleh, tsatske |
| tsine | (noun) wild ox of the Malay Archipelago | Synonyms: banteng, banting, Bos banteng |
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