| qabalah | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbala, cabbalah, kabala, kabbala, kabbalah, qabala |
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| qoph | (noun) the 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| quadrillionth | (noun) one part in a quadrillion equal parts | Synonyms: one-quadrillionth |
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| quamash | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America | Synonyms: camas, camash, camass, camosh |
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| queenfish | (noun) silvery and bluish drumfish of shallow California coastal waters | Synonyms: Seriphus politus, white croaker |
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| quintillionth | (noun) one part in a quintillion equal parts | Synonyms: one-quintillionth |
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| qurush | (noun) 20 qurush equal 1 riyal in Saudi Arabia | - |
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| rabbitfish | (noun) large European chimaera | Synonyms: Chimaera monstrosa |
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| radiograph | (noun) a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays) | Synonyms: radiogram, shadowgraph, skiagram, skiagraph |
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| radiophotograph | (noun) a photograph transmitted by radio waves | Synonyms: radiophoto |
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| radiotelegraph | (noun) the use of radio to send telegraphic messages (usually by Morse code) | Synonyms: radiotelegraphy, wireless telegraph, wireless telegraphy |
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| (noun) telegraphy that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire | Synonyms: radiotelegraphy, wireless telegraphy |
| radish | (noun) pungent fleshy edible root | - |
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| (noun) Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its edible pungent root usually eaten raw | Synonyms: Raphanus sativus |
| (noun) pungent edible root of any of various cultivated radish plants | - |
| (noun) radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked | Synonyms: daikon, Japanese radish, Raphanus sativus longipinnatus |
| (noun) a cruciferous plant of the genus Raphanus having a pungent edible root | Synonyms: radish plant |
| rajah | (noun) a prince or king in India | Synonyms: raja |
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| ranch | (noun) farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle) | Synonyms: cattle farm, cattle ranch, spread |
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| rash | (noun) a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences | Synonyms: blizzard |
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| (noun) any red eruption of the skin | Synonyms: efflorescence, roseola, skin rash |
| ratch | (noun) mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction | Synonyms: rachet, ratchet |
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| raunch | (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarism, vulgarity |
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| reach | (noun) the act of physically reaching or thrusting out | Synonyms: reaching, stretch |
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| (noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: ambit, compass, orbit, range, scope |
| (noun) the limit of capability | Synonyms: compass, grasp, range |
| (noun) the limits within which something can be effective | Synonyms: range |
| rebirth | (noun) a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life | Synonyms: conversion, spiritual rebirth |
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| (noun) the revival of learning and culture | Synonyms: Renaissance, Renascence |
| (noun) a second or new birth | Synonyms: reincarnation, renascence |
| (noun) after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body | Synonyms: metempsychosis |
| redbrush | (noun) common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers | Synonyms: American dogwood, Cornus stolonifera, red dogwood, red osier, red osier dogwood |
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| redfish | (noun) male salmon that has recently spawned | - |
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| (noun) large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico | Synonyms: channel bass, red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus |
| (noun) North Atlantic rockfish | Synonyms: ocean perch, rosefish |
| rehash | (noun) old material that is slightly reworked and used again | - |
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| relish | (noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: flavor, flavour, nip, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, tang |
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| (noun) vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment | Synonyms: gusto, zest, zestfulness |
| (noun) spicy or savory condiment | - |
| rematch | (noun) something (especially a game) that is played again | Synonyms: replay |
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| reproach | (noun) a mild rebuke or criticism | - |
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| (noun) disgrace or shame | - |
| research | (noun) systematic investigation to establish facts | - |
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| (noun) a search for knowledge | Synonyms: enquiry, inquiry |
| resh | (noun) the 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| retch | (noun) an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting | Synonyms: heave |
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| rewatch | (noun) to watch a show or television one more time | - |
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| rhizomorph | (noun) a dense mass of hyphae forming a root-like structure characteristic of many fungi | - |
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| ribbonfish | (noun) marine fish having a long compressed ribbonlike body | - |
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| (noun) thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin | Synonyms: king of the herring, oarfish, Regalecus glesne |
| rich | (noun) people who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group) | Synonyms: rich people |
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| roach | (noun) any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests | Synonyms: cockroach |
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| (noun) European freshwater food fish having a greenish back | Synonyms: Rutilus rutilus |
| (noun) the butt of a marijuana cigarette | - |
| (noun) street names for flunitrazepam | Synonyms: circle, forget me drug, Mexican valium, R-2, roofy, rope, rophy |
| (noun) a roll of hair brushed back from the forehead | - |
| rockfish | (noun) marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America | - |
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| (noun) marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone | Synonyms: Roccus saxatilis, striped bass, striper |
| (noun) the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks | - |
| rosebush | (noun) any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses | Synonyms: rose |
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| rosefish | (noun) large fish of northern Atlantic coasts of America and Europe | Synonyms: ocean perch, Sebastes marinus |
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| (noun) North Atlantic rockfish | Synonyms: ocean perch, redfish |
| rough | (noun) the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short | - |
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| routemarch | (noun) a long training march for troops | - |
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| rubbish | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, folderol, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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| (noun) worthless material that is to be disposed of | Synonyms: scrap, trash |
| rudderfish | (noun) fish having the habit of following ships; found in North American and South American coastal waters | Synonyms: banded rudderfish, Seriola zonata |
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| (noun) food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships | Synonyms: Bermuda chub, Kyphosus sectatrix |
| rugelach | (noun) pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings (as raisins and walnuts and cinnamon or chocolate and walnut and apricot preserves) | Synonyms: ruggelach, rugulah |
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| ruggelach | (noun) pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings (as raisins and walnuts and cinnamon or chocolate and walnut and apricot preserves) | Synonyms: rugelach, rugulah |
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| rugulah | (noun) pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings (as raisins and walnuts and cinnamon or chocolate and walnut and apricot preserves) | Synonyms: rugelach, ruggelach |
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| runch | (noun) Eurasian weed having yellow or mauve or white flowers and podlike fruits | Synonyms: jointed charlock, Raphanus raphanistrum, wild radish, wild rape |
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| rupiah | (noun) the basic unit of money in Indonesia; equal to 100 sen | - |
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| rush | (noun) the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner | Synonyms: haste, hurry, rushing |
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| (noun) (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line | Synonyms: rushing |
| (noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: spate, surge, upsurge |
| (noun) a sudden burst of activity | - |
| (noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, flush, kick, thrill |
| (noun) grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems | - |
| ruth | (noun) a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others | Synonyms: commiseration, pathos, pity |
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| sabertooth | (noun) any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene | Synonyms: saber-toothed tiger |
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| sackcloth | (noun) a coarse cloth resembling sacking | - |
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| (noun) a garment made of coarse sacking; formerly worn as an indication of remorse | - |
| saddlecloth | (noun) stable gear consisting of a blanket placed under the saddle | Synonyms: horse blanket, saddle blanket |
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| sagebrush | (noun) any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium | Synonyms: sage brush |
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| sailcloth | (noun) a strong fabric (such as cotton canvas) used for making sails and tents | - |
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| sailfish | (noun) large pelagic game fish having an elongated upper jaw and long dorsal fin that resembles a sail | - |
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| (noun) a saltwater fish with lean flesh | - |
| salaah | (noun) the second pillar of Islam is prayer; a prescribed liturgy performed five times a day (preferably in a mosque) and oriented toward Mecca | Synonyms: salaat, salah, salat |
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| salah | (noun) the second pillar of Islam is prayer; a prescribed liturgy performed five times a day (preferably in a mosque) and oriented toward Mecca | Synonyms: salaah, salaat, salat |
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| saltbush | (noun) any of various shrubby plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in dry alkaline soil | - |
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| samekh | (noun) the 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| sandarach | (noun) a brittle and faintly aromatic translucent resin used in varnishes | Synonyms: sandarac |
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| sandfish | (noun) either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand | - |
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| (noun) fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand | Synonyms: beaked salmon, Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus |
| sandwich | (noun) two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them | - |
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| sash | (noun) a framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame | Synonyms: window sash |
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| (noun) a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers | Synonyms: cincture, girdle, waistband, waistcloth |
| savannah | (noun) a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | Synonyms: savanna |
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| sawfish | (noun) primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long flattened snout | - |
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| sawtooth | (noun) a serration on a saw blade | - |
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| schnittlaugh | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chive, chives, cive |
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| scintigraph | (noun) The apparatus used to make a scintigram. | Synonyms: scintiscanner |
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| scorch | (noun) a discoloration caused by heat | - |
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| (noun) a surface burn | Synonyms: singe |
| (noun) a plant disease that produces a browning or scorched appearance of plant tissues | - |
| scorpionfish | (noun) marine fishes having a tapering body with an armored head and venomous spines | Synonyms: scorpion fish, sea scorpion |
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| scotch | (noun) a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally) | Synonyms: score |
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| scratch | (noun) an indication of damage | Synonyms: mark, scar, scrape |
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| (noun) (golf) a handicap of zero strokes | - |
| (noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: cacography, scrawl, scribble |
| (noun) a harsh noise made by scraping | Synonyms: scrape, scraping, scratching |
| (noun) dry mash for poultry | Synonyms: chicken feed |
| (noun) a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game | Synonyms: scratch line, start, starting line |
| (noun) a competitor who has withdrawn from competition | - |
| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| (noun) a depression scratched or carved into a surface | Synonyms: dent, incision, prick, slit |
| (noun) an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off | Synonyms: abrasion, excoriation, scrape |
| screech | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screeching, shriek, shrieking |
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| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screeching, shriek, shrieking |
| scrunch | (noun) a crunching noise | - |
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| search | (noun) the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone | Synonyms: hunt, hunting |
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| (noun) boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas | - |
| (noun) an investigation seeking answers | - |
| (noun) the examination of alternative hypotheses | - |
| (noun) an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property | Synonyms: lookup |
| seidh | (noun) an Old Norse term for a type of sorcery which was practiced in Norse society during the Late Scandinavian Iron Age. | Synonyms: seid, seidhr, seidr, seith, seithr |
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| seismograph | (noun) a measuring instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity and direction and duration of movements of the ground (as an earthquake) | - |
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| seith | (noun) an Old Norse term for a type of sorcery which was practiced in Norse society during the Late Scandinavian Iron Age. | Synonyms: seid, seidh, seidhr, seidr, seithr |
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| seraph | (noun) an angel of the first order; usually portrayed as the winged head of a child | - |
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| serigraph | (noun) a print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil | Synonyms: silk screen print, silkscreen |
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| seriph | (noun) a short line at the end of the main strokes of a character | Synonyms: serif |
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| seventeenth | (noun) position 17 in a countable series of things | - |
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| seventh | (noun) the musical interval between one note and another seven notes away from it | - |
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| (noun) one part in seven equal parts | Synonyms: one-seventh |
| (noun) position seven in a countable series of things | - |
| seventieth | (noun) position 70 in a countable series of things | - |
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| shadbush | (noun) any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit | Synonyms: Juneberry, service tree, serviceberry, shadblow |
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| shadowgraph | (noun) a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays) | Synonyms: radiogram, radiograph, skiagram, skiagraph |
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| shahadah | (noun) the first pillar of Islam is an affirmation of faith | - |
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| shariah | (noun) the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed | Synonyms: Islamic law, sharia, sharia law, shariah law |
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| sheatfish | (noun) large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe | Synonyms: European catfish, Silurus glanis |
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| sheath | (noun) a protective covering (as for a knife or sword) | - |
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| (noun) a dress suitable for formal occasions | Synonyms: cocktail dress |
| (noun) an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part | Synonyms: case |
| sheikh | (noun) the leader of an Arab village or family | Synonyms: Arab chief, sheik, tribal sheik, tribal sheikh |
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| shellfish | (noun) invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | Synonyms: mollusc, mollusk |
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| (noun) meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) | - |
| shibah | (noun) (Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative | Synonyms: shiva, shivah |
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| shibboleth | (noun) a manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people | - |
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| (noun) a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual | Synonyms: catchword, motto, slogan |
| shillalah | (noun) a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn) | Synonyms: shillelagh |
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| shillelagh | (noun) a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn) | Synonyms: shillalah |
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| shittah | (noun) source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible; probably a species of genus Acacia | Synonyms: shittah tree |
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| shivah | (noun) (Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative | Synonyms: shibah, shiva |
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| shrimpfish | (noun) slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates | Synonyms: shrimp-fish |
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| sialolith | (noun) a stone formed in the salivary gland | Synonyms: salivary calculus |
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| sigeh | (noun) a Shiite tradition of temporary marriage permitted in Iran that allows a couple to specify the terms of their relationship; can last from a few minutes to 99 years | - |
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| sigh | (noun) an utterance made by exhaling audibly | Synonyms: suspiration |
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| (noun) a sound like a person sighing | - |