| slowdown | (noun) the act of slowing down or falling behind | Synonyms: lag, retardation |
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| slowness | (noun) a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry | Synonyms: deliberateness, deliberation, unhurriedness |
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| (noun) lack of normal development of intellectual capacities | Synonyms: backwardness, mental retardation, retardation, subnormality |
| (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness |
| spawn | (noun) the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs | - |
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| spawner | (noun) a female fish at spawning time | - |
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| spelldown | (noun) a contest in which you are eliminated if you fail to spell a word correctly | Synonyms: spelling bee, spelling contest |
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| splashdown | (noun) a landing of a spacecraft in the sea at the end of a space flight | - |
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| standdown | (noun) (military) a temporary stop of offensive military action | Synonyms: stand-down |
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| (noun) a suspension and relaxation from an alert state or a state of readiness | Synonyms: stand-down |
| sundown | (noun) the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon | Synonyms: sunset |
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| sundowner | (noun) a drink taken at sundown | - |
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| (noun) a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown | - |
| takedown | (noun) a crushing remark | Synonyms: put-down, squelch, squelcher |
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| (noun) (amateur wrestling) being brought to the mat from a standing position | - |
| tawniness | (noun) the quality or state of being the color of tanned leather | - |
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| thistledown | (noun) pappus of a thistle consisting of silky featherlike hairs attached to the seed-like fruit of a thistle | - |
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| touchdown | (noun) a score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line | - |
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| (noun) a landing (as the wheels touch the landing field); especially of airplanes | - |
| town | (noun) the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | Synonyms: townsfolk, townspeople |
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| (noun) an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city | - |
| (noun) an administrative division of a county | Synonyms: township |
| townee | (noun) townsman unacquainted with country life especially a slick and flashy male city dweller | - |
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| towner | (noun) a resident of a town or city | Synonyms: townsman |
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| townie | (noun) resident of a college town not affiliated with the college | Synonyms: towny |
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| townsfolk | (noun) the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | Synonyms: town, townspeople |
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| township | (noun) an administrative division of a county | Synonyms: town |
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| townsman | (noun) a person from the same town as yourself | - |
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| (noun) a resident of a town or city | Synonyms: towner |
| townspeople | (noun) the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | Synonyms: town, townsfolk |
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| towny | (noun) resident of a college town not affiliated with the college | Synonyms: townie |
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| turndown | (noun) the act of refusing an offer | Synonyms: nonacceptance |
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| unknown | (noun) a variable whose values are solutions of an equation | Synonyms: unknown quantity |
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| (noun) an unknown and unexplored region | Synonyms: terra incognita, unknown region |
| (noun) anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found | Synonyms: alien, stranger |
| uptown | (noun) a residential part of town away from the central commercial district | - |
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| withdrawnness | (noun) a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner | Synonyms: aloofness, remoteness, standoffishness |
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| yawn | (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitance, oscitancy, yawning |
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| yawner | (noun) a person who yawns | - |
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| yawning | (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitance, oscitancy, yawn |
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| yellowness | (noun) yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons | Synonyms: yellow |
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