satchel | (noun) luggage consisting of a small case with a flat bottom and (usually) a shoulder strap | - |
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saurel | (noun) large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe | Synonyms: horse mackerel, Trachurus trachurus |
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(noun) a California food fish | Synonyms: horse mackerel, jack mackerel, Spanish mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus |
scalpel | (noun) a thin straight surgical knife used in dissection and surgery | - |
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schlemiel | (noun) (Yiddish) a dolt who is a habitual bungler | Synonyms: shlemiel |
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schlimazel | (noun) (Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything | Synonyms: shlimazel |
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schnitzel | (noun) deep-fried breaded veal cutlets | Synonyms: Wiener schnitzel |
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schnorchel | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: breather, schnorkel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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schnorkel | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: breather, schnorchel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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scoundrel | (noun) a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately | Synonyms: villain |
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seckel | (noun) small yellowish- to reddish-brown pear | Synonyms: seckel pear |
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seidel | (noun) a glass for beer | - |
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semivowel | (noun) a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant | Synonyms: glide |
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sentinel | (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, picket, scout, sentry, spotter, watch |
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sequel | (noun) a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it | Synonyms: continuation |
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(noun) something that follows something else | Synonyms: subsequence |
sewellel | (noun) bulky nocturnal burrowing rodent of uplands of the Pacific coast of North America; the most primitive living rodent | Synonyms: Aplodontia rufa, mountain beaver |
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shekel | (noun) the basic unit of money in Israel | - |
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shlemiel | (noun) (Yiddish) a dolt who is a habitual bungler | Synonyms: schlemiel |
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shlimazel | (noun) (Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything | Synonyms: schlimazel |
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shovel | (noun) a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle | - |
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(noun) a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace | - |
(noun) a machine for excavating | Synonyms: digger, excavator, power shovel |
(noun) the quantity a shovel can hold | Synonyms: shovelful, spadeful |
shrapnel | (noun) shell containing lead pellets that explodes in flight | - |
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simnel | (noun) a crisp bread of fine white flour | - |
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(noun) a fruitcake (sometimes covered with almond paste) eaten at mid-Lent or Easter or Christmas | - |
snivel | (noun) whining in a tearful manner | Synonyms: sniveling |
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(noun) the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested) | Synonyms: sniffle, snuffle |
snorkel | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: breather, schnorchel, schnorkel, snorkel breather |
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(noun) breathing device consisting of a bent tube fitting into a swimmer's mouth and extending above the surface; allows swimmer to breathe while face down in the water | - |
sorrel | (noun) a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color | - |
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(noun) large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces | Synonyms: common sorrel |
(noun) any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine | Synonyms: dock, sour grass |
(noun) any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis | Synonyms: oxalis, wood sorrel |
(noun) East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber | Synonyms: Hibiscus sabdariffa, Jamaica sorrel, red sorrel, roselle, rozelle |
spandrel | (noun) an approximately triangular surface area between two adjacent arches and the horizontal plane above them | Synonyms: spandril |
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spaniel | (noun) any of several breeds of small to medium-sized gun dogs with a long silky coat and long frilled ears | - |
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spiegel | (noun) pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel | Synonyms: spiegel iron, spiegeleisen |
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spiel | (noun) plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson) | Synonyms: line of gab, patter |
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spinel | (noun) a hard glassy mineral consisting of an oxide of magnesium and aluminum; occurs in various colors that are used as gemstones | - |
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squirrel | (noun) a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail | - |
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(noun) the fur of a squirrel | - |
stammel | (noun) a coarse woolen cloth formerly used for undergarments and usually dyed bright red | - |
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steel | (noun) knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod | - |
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(noun) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard | Synonyms: blade, brand, sword |
(noun) an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range | - |
streusel | (noun) a crumbly topping for a pastry | - |
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(noun) pastry with a topping of streusel | - |
strudel | (noun) thin sheet of filled dough rolled and baked | - |
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supermodel | (noun) a fashion model who has attained the status of a celebrity | - |
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swivel | (noun) a coupling (as in a chain) that has one end that turns on a headed pin | - |
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tael | (noun) a unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces | - |
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tassel | (noun) adornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end | - |
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teasel | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts | Synonyms: teasle, teazel |
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teazel | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts | Synonyms: teasel, teasle |
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tercel | (noun) male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon | Synonyms: tercelet, tiercel |
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tetrel | (noun) any chemical element that belongs to the carbon group. | Synonyms: carbon group element, crystallogen, Group 14 element, tetragen |
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thermel | (noun) a thermometer that uses thermoelectric current to measure temperature | Synonyms: electric thermometer, thermoelectric thermometer |
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tiercel | (noun) male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon | Synonyms: tercel, tercelet |
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timbrel | (noun) small hand drum similar to a tambourine; formerly carried by itinerant jugglers | - |
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tinsel | (noun) a thread with glittering metal foil attached | - |
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(noun) a showy decoration that is basically valueless | - |
towel | (noun) a rectangular piece of absorbent cloth (or paper) for drying or wiping | - |
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trammel | (noun) a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) | Synonyms: bond, hamper, shackle |
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(noun) a restraint that is used to teach a horse to amble | - |
(noun) an adjustable pothook set in a fireplace | - |
(noun) a fishing net with three layers; the outer two are coarse mesh and the loose inner layer is fine mesh | Synonyms: trammel net |
travel | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: traveling, travelling |
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(noun) self-propelled movement | Synonyms: locomotion |
(noun) a movement through space that changes the location of something | Synonyms: change of location |
treadwheel | (noun) a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps | Synonyms: tread-wheel, treadmill |
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trowel | (noun) a small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials | - |
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trunnel | (noun) a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast | Synonyms: treenail, trenail |
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tumbrel | (noun) a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution | Synonyms: tumbril |
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tunnel | (noun) a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars) | - |
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(noun) a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter | Synonyms: burrow |
umbel | (noun) flat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point; youngest flowers are at the center | - |
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vessel | (noun) a craft designed for water transportation | Synonyms: watercraft |
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(noun) an object used as a container (especially for liquids) | - |
(noun) a tube in which a body fluid circulates | Synonyms: vas |
vowel | (noun) a speech sound made with the vocal tract open | Synonyms: vowel sound |
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(noun) a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel | - |
wastrel | (noun) someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently | Synonyms: waster |
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waterwheel | (noun) a wheel that rotates by direct action of water; a simple turbine | Synonyms: water wheel |
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(noun) a wheel with buckets attached to its rim; raises water from a stream or pond | Synonyms: water wheel |
weasel | (noun) small carnivorous mammal with short legs and elongated body and neck | - |
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(noun) a person who is regarded as treacherous or sneaky | - |
wheel | (noun) a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines) | - |
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(noun) a circular helm to control the rudder of a vessel | - |
(noun) an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims | Synonyms: rack |
(noun) game equipment consisting of a wheel with slots that is used for gambling; the wheel rotates horizontally and players bet on which slot the roulette ball will stop in | Synonyms: roulette wheel |
(noun) a handwheel that is used for steering | Synonyms: steering wheel |
(noun) a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: bicycle, bike, cycle |
(noun) forces that provide energy and direction | - |
yodel | (noun) a songlike cry in which the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal voice and falsetto | - |
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yokel | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yahoo |
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zinfandel | (noun) dry fruity red wine from California | - |
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