| snitch | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, sneaker, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
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| speech | (noun) the mental faculty or power of vocal communication | Synonyms: language |
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| (noun) (language) communication by word of mouth | Synonyms: language, oral communication, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication |
| (noun) the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience | Synonyms: address |
| (noun) words making up the dialogue of a play | Synonyms: actor's line, words |
| (noun) a lengthy rebuke | Synonyms: lecture, talking to |
| (noun) the exchange of spoken words | - |
| (noun) your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally | Synonyms: delivery, manner of speaking |
| (noun) something spoken | - |
| spinach | (noun) dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads | - |
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| (noun) southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves | Synonyms: prickly-seeded spinach, spinach plant, Spinacia oleracea |
| splotch | (noun) an irregularly shaped spot | Synonyms: blotch, splodge |
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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 |
| squinch | (noun) a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire) | - |
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| stagecoach | (noun) a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns | Synonyms: stage |
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| starch | (noun) a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles | Synonyms: amylum |
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| (noun) a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering | - |
| stench | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stink |
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| stitch | (noun) a link or loop or knot made by an implement in knitting, crocheting, embroidery, or sewing | - |
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| (noun) a sharp spasm of pain in the side resulting from running | - |
| stomach | (noun) an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion | Synonyms: breadbasket, tum, tummy |
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| (noun) the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis | Synonyms: abdomen, belly, venter |
| (noun) an appetite for food | - |
| (noun) an inclination or liking for things involving conflict or difficulty or unpleasantness | - |
| stopwatch | (noun) a timepiece that can be started or stopped for exact timing (as of a race) | Synonyms: stop watch |
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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 |
| sumach | (noun) a shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus) | Synonyms: shumac, sumac |
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| sunporch | (noun) a room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to the sun | Synonyms: solarium, sun lounge, sun parlor, sun parlour, sun porch, sunroom |
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| surfperch | (noun) small to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the Pacific coast of North America | Synonyms: surf fish, surffish |
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| swatch | (noun) a sample piece of cloth | - |
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| switch | (noun) the act of changing one thing or position for another | Synonyms: shift, switching |
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| (noun) a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other | - |
| (noun) a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment | - |
| (noun) control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit | Synonyms: electric switch, electrical switch |
| (noun) railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock | - |
| (noun) hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure | - |
| (noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: permutation, replacement, substitution, transposition |
| symposiarch | (noun) the person who proposes toasts and introduces speakers at a banquet | Synonyms: toastmaster |
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| tach | (noun) measuring instrument for indicating speed of rotation | Synonyms: tachometer |
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| taoiseach | (noun) the prime minister of the Irish Republic | - |
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| tech | (noun) a school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences | Synonyms: technical school |
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| tench | (noun) freshwater dace-like game fish of Europe and western Asia noted for ability to survive outside water | Synonyms: Tinca tinca |
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| thatch | (noun) a house roof made with a plant material (as straw) | Synonyms: thatched roof |
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| (noun) hair resembling thatched roofing material | - |
| (noun) plant stalks used as roofing material | - |
| torch | (noun) a small portable battery-powered electric lamp | Synonyms: flashlight |
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| (noun) a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame | Synonyms: blowlamp, blowtorch |
| (noun) a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance | - |
| (noun) tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches | Synonyms: Aaron's rod, common mullein, flannel mullein, great mullein, Verbascum thapsus, woolly mullein |
| touch | (noun) the act of putting two things together with no space between them | Synonyms: touching |
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| (noun) the feel of mechanical action | - |
| (noun) a distinguishing style | Synonyms: signature |
| (noun) the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands) | Synonyms: cutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality |
| (noun) the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin | Synonyms: feeling, tactile sensation, tactual sensation, touch sensation |
| (noun) deftness in handling matters | - |
| (noun) the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan) | - |
| (noun) a suggestion of some quality | Synonyms: ghost, trace |
| (noun) a communicative interaction | Synonyms: contact |
| (noun) the event of something coming in contact with the body | Synonyms: touching |
| (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge |
| (noun) a slight attack of illness | Synonyms: spot |
| tovarich | (noun) a comrade (especially in Russian communism) | Synonyms: tovarisch |
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| tovarisch | (noun) a comrade (especially in Russian communism) | Synonyms: tovarich |
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| trench | (noun) a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth | - |
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| (noun) any long ditch cut in the ground | - |
| (noun) a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor | Synonyms: deep, oceanic abyss |
| triptych | (noun) art consisting of a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on three panels (usually hinged together) | - |
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| twitch | (noun) a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition | Synonyms: twitching, vellication |
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| vetch | (noun) any of various climbing plants of the genus Vicia having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small variously colored flowers; includes valuable forage and soil-building plants | - |
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| watch | (noun) a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe | Synonyms: vigil |
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| (noun) the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival) | Synonyms: vigil |
| (noun) a small portable timepiece | Synonyms: ticker |
| (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter |
| (noun) a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty | - |
| (noun) the period during which someone (especially a guard) is on duty | - |
| wench | (noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, chick, dame, doll, skirt |
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| whipstitch | (noun) a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally | Synonyms: whipping, whipstitching |
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| winch | (noun) lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds | Synonyms: windlass |
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| witch | (noun) a female sorcerer or magician | Synonyms: enchantress |
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| (noun) a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil | - |
| (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, beldame, crone, hag |
| (noun) a believer in Wicca | Synonyms: Wiccan |
| workbench | (noun) a strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic | Synonyms: bench, work bench |
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| wrench | (noun) a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt | Synonyms: spanner |
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| (noun) a jerky pulling movement | Synonyms: twist |
| (noun) a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments | Synonyms: pull, twist |
| wretch | (noun) someone you feel sorry for | Synonyms: poor devil |
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| (noun) performs some wicked deed | - |
| wristwatch | (noun) a watch that is worn strapped to the wrist | Synonyms: wrist watch |
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| zilch | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zip, zippo |
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