| hotfoot | (noun) a practical joke that involves inserting a match surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe and then lighting it | - |
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| hotpot | (noun) a stew of meat and potatoes cooked in a tightly covered pot | Synonyms: hot pot |
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| hotshot | (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
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| hotspot | (noun) a lively entertainment spot | Synonyms: hot spot |
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| (noun) a point of relatively intense heat or radiation | Synonyms: hot spot |
| (noun) a place of political unrest and potential violence | Synonyms: flashpoint, hot spot, trouble spot |
| idiot | (noun) a person of subnormal intelligence | Synonyms: changeling, cretin, half-wit, imbecile, moron, retard |
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| ingot | (noun) metal that is cast in the shape of a block for convenient handling | - |
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| inkblot | (noun) a blot made with ink | - |
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| inkpot | (noun) a bottle of ink | Synonyms: ink bottle |
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| jabot | (noun) a ruffle on the front of a woman's blouse or a man's shirt | - |
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| jackboot | (noun) (19th century) a man's high tasseled boot | Synonyms: hessian, Hessian boot, Wellington, Wellington boot |
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| jackpot | (noun) the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker) | Synonyms: kitty, pot |
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| (noun) any outstanding award | - |
| jampot | (noun) a jar for holding jellies or preserves | Synonyms: jamjar |
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| jot | (noun) a brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note | Synonyms: jotting |
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| (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch |
| knot | (noun) a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere | Synonyms: Calidris canutus, grayback, greyback |
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| (noun) any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object | - |
| (noun) soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design | Synonyms: burl, slub |
| (noun) a tight cluster of people or things | - |
| (noun) something twisted and tight and swollen | Synonyms: gnarl |
| (noun) a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged | - |
| (noun) (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour | - |
| lerot | (noun) dormouse of southern Europe and northern Africa | - |
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| longroot | (noun) deep-rooted perennial of southeastern United States | Synonyms: Arenaria caroliniana, pine-barren sandwort |
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| longshot | (noun) a photograph taken from a distance | - |
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| loot | (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, pillage, plunder, prize, swag |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| lot | (noun) anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random | Synonyms: draw |
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| (noun) an unofficial association of people or groups | Synonyms: band, circle, set |
| (noun) any collection in its entirety | Synonyms: bunch, caboodle |
| (noun) a parcel of land having fixed boundaries | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, luck, portion |
| maggot | (noun) the larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter | - |
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| maillot | (noun) tights for dancers or gymnasts | - |
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| (noun) a woman's one-piece bathing suit | Synonyms: tank suit |
| manroot | (noun) tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato | Synonyms: Ipomoea fastigiata, Ipomoea panurata, man-of-the-earth, scammonyroot, wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine |
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| marmot | (noun) stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the Northern Hemisphere; hibernates in winter | - |
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| mascot | (noun) a character, animal or object that is adopted by a team or group as a symbolic figure | - |
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| massicot | (noun) the mineral form of lead monoxide; in the form of yellow powder it is used as a pigment | Synonyms: massicotite |
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| melilot | (noun) erect annual or biennial plant grown extensively especially for hay and soil improvement | Synonyms: melilotus, sweet clover |
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| microdot | (noun) photograph reduced to the size of a dot (usually for purposes of security) | - |
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| momot | (noun) tropical American bird resembling a blue jay and having greenish and bluish plumage | Synonyms: motmot |
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| monocot | (noun) a monocotyledonous flowering plant; the stem grows by deposits on its inside | Synonyms: endogen, liliopsid, monocotyledon |
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| moonshot | (noun) an ambitious project with a high chance of failure | - |
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| moot | (noun) a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise | - |
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| mot | (noun) a clever remark | Synonyms: bon mot |
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| motmot | (noun) tropical American bird resembling a blue jay and having greenish and bluish plumage | Synonyms: momot |
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| mugshot | (noun) a photograph of someone's face (especially one made for police records) | Synonyms: mug shot |
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| nerveroot | (noun) once common rose pink woodland orchid of eastern North America | Synonyms: Cypripedium acaule, moccasin flower |
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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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| ocelot | (noun) nocturnal wildcat of Central America and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat | Synonyms: Felis pardalis, panther cat |
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| offshoot | (noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: branch, offset, outgrowth |
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| orrisroot | (noun) fragrant rootstock of various irises especially Florentine iris; used in perfumes and medicines | Synonyms: orris |
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| overshoot | (noun) an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt | Synonyms: go-around, wave-off |
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| papooseroot | (noun) tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: blue cohosh, blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, squaw root, squawroot |
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| parrot | (noun) usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds | - |
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| (noun) a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated | - |
| patriot | (noun) one who loves and defends his or her country | Synonyms: nationalist |
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| peridot | (noun) a pale green variety of chrysolite; used as a gemstone | - |
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| persicot | (noun) a cordial made of the kernels of apricots, nectarines, etc., with refined spirit. | - |
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| phot | (noun) a unit of illumination equal to 1 lumen per square centimeter; 10,000 phots equal 1 lux | - |
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| picot | (noun) an edging of small loops, as on lace or ribbon | - |
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| pilot | (noun) small auxiliary gas burner that provides a flame to ignite a larger gas burner | Synonyms: pilot burner, pilot light |
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| (noun) an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track | Synonyms: buffer, cowcatcher, fender |
| (noun) something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies | Synonyms: archetype, original |
| (noun) a program exemplifying a contemplated series; intended to attract sponsors | Synonyms: pilot film, pilot program |
| (noun) someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight | Synonyms: airplane pilot |
| (noun) a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor | - |
| pinkroot | (noun) a fungal disease of onions | - |
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| pivot | (noun) the act of turning on (or as if on) a pivot | - |
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| (noun) axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns | Synonyms: pin |
| (noun) the person in a rank around whom the others wheel and maneuver | Synonyms: pivot man |
| plot | (noun) a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal) | Synonyms: game, secret plan |
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| (noun) the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc. | - |
| (noun) a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object | - |
| (noun) a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation | Synonyms: patch, plot of ground, plot of land |
| plumcot | (noun) hybrid between plum and apricot | - |
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| (noun) hybrid produced by crossing Prunus domestica and Prunus armeniaca | Synonyms: plumcot tree |
| polyglot | (noun) a person who speaks more than one language | Synonyms: linguist |
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| pot | (noun) metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid | - |
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| (noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: can, commode, crapper, potty, stool, throne, toilet |
| (noun) a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets | Synonyms: potentiometer |
| (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed |
| (noun) a container in which plants are cultivated | Synonyms: flowerpot |
| (noun) slang for a paunch | Synonyms: bay window, corporation, potbelly, tummy |
| (noun) the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker) | Synonyms: jackpot, kitty |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a pot | Synonyms: potful |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| 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 | - |
| puttyroot | (noun) North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers | Synonyms: adam-and-eve, Aplectrum hyemale |
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| redroot | (noun) perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant | Synonyms: bloodroot, puccoon, Sanguinaria canadensis, tetterwort |
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| riot | (noun) a public act of violence by an unruly mob | Synonyms: public violence |
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| (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, saturnalia |
| (noun) a joke that seems extremely funny | Synonyms: belly laugh, howler, scream, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper, wow |
| (noun) a state of disorder involving group violence | Synonyms: rioting |
| robot | (noun) a mechanism that can move automatically | Synonyms: automaton, golem |
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| root | (noun) the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair | - |
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| (noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed | Synonyms: base, radical, root word, stem, theme |
| (noun) a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes | Synonyms: etymon |
| (noun) the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation | Synonyms: solution |
| (noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: beginning, origin, rootage, source |
| (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, ascendent |
| (noun) (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground | - |
| (noun) a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number | - |
| rot | (noun) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | Synonyms: buncombe, bunk, bunkum, guff, hogwash |
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| (noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: breakdown, decomposition, putrefaction, rotting |
| (noun) a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor | Synonyms: putrefaction |
| sabot | (noun) footwear usually with wooden soles | Synonyms: clog, geta, patten |
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| (noun) a shoe carved from a single block of wood | Synonyms: wooden shoe |
| sandlot | (noun) a vacant lot used by city boys to play games | - |
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| saucepot | (noun) a cooking pot that has handles on either side and tight fitting lid; used for stewing or boiling | - |
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| scammonyroot | (noun) tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato | Synonyms: Ipomoea fastigiata, Ipomoea panurata, man-of-the-earth, manroot, wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine |
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| sexpot | (noun) a young woman who is thought to have sex appeal | Synonyms: sex bomb, sex kitten |
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| shallot | (noun) small mild-flavored onion-like or garlic-like clustered bulbs used for seasoning | - |
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| (noun) type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning | Synonyms: Allium ascalonicum, Allium cepa aggregatum, eschalot, multiplier onion |
| (noun) aggregate bulb of the multiplier onion | - |
| shoot | (noun) the act of shooting at targets | - |
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| (noun) a new branch | - |
| shot | (noun) the act of firing a projectile | Synonyms: shooting |
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| (noun) the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe | Synonyms: injection |
| (noun) informal words for any attempt or effort | Synonyms: stab |
| (noun) (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand | Synonyms: stroke |
| (noun) the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination | Synonyms: blastoff |
| (noun) an attempt to score in a game | - |
| (noun) a blow hard enough to cause injury | - |
| (noun) throwing the basketball toward the hoop | Synonyms: basketball shot |
| (noun) a solid missile discharged from a firearm | Synonyms: pellet |
| (noun) an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera | Synonyms: snap, snapshot |
| (noun) an explosive charge used in blasting | - |
| (noun) sports equipment consisting of a heavy metal ball used in the shot put | - |
| (noun) an estimate based on little or no information | Synonyms: dead reckoning, guess, guessing, guesswork |
| (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, slam |
| (noun) a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film | Synonyms: scene |
| (noun) a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot) | Synonyms: shooter |
| (noun) a small drink of liquor | Synonyms: nip |
| (noun) a chance to do something | Synonyms: crack |
| silverspot | (noun) butterfly with silver spots on the underside of the hind wings | - |
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| slapshot | (noun) a fast shot made with a short powerful swing of the hockey stick | - |
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| slingshot | (noun) a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones | Synonyms: catapult, sling |
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| slipknot | (noun) a knot at the end of a cord or rope that can slip along the cord or rope around which it is made | - |
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| slot | (noun) a small slit (as for inserting a coin or depositing mail) | - |
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| (noun) a slot machine that is used for gambling | Synonyms: one-armed bandit |
| (noun) (computer) a socket in a microcomputer that will accept a plug-in circuit board | Synonyms: expansion slot |
| (noun) a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable | - |
| (noun) the trail of an animal (especially a deer) | - |
| (noun) a position in a hierarchy or organization | - |
| (noun) a time assigned on a schedule or agenda | Synonyms: time slot |
| snakeroot | (noun) a plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by bristly fruit; reputed to have healing powers | Synonyms: sanicle |
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| (noun) any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads | Synonyms: blazing star, button snakeroot, gay-feather, gayfeather |
| snapshot | (noun) an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera | Synonyms: shot, snap |
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| snoot | (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snout |
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| (noun) a person regarded as arrogant and annoying | Synonyms: prig, snob, snot |
| snot | (noun) nasal mucus | - |
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| (noun) a person regarded as arrogant and annoying | Synonyms: prig, snob, snoot |
| soot | (noun) a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink | Synonyms: carbon black, crock, lampblack, smut |
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| sot | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, drunkard, inebriate, rummy, wino |
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| spadefoot | (noun) a burrowing toad of the Northern Hemisphere with a horny spade-like projection on each hind foot | Synonyms: spadefoot toad |
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| spigot | (noun) a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir | Synonyms: faucet |
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| (noun) a plug for a bunghole in a cask | Synonyms: tap |
| splayfoot | (noun) a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out | Synonyms: flatfoot, pes planus |
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| spot | (noun) an act that brings discredit to the person who does it | Synonyms: blot, smear, smirch, stain |
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| (noun) a business establishment for entertainment | - |
| (noun) a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer | Synonyms: spotlight |
| (noun) a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value | - |
| (noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, daub, slur, smear, smirch, smudge |
| (noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: dapple, fleck, maculation, patch, speckle |
| (noun) an outstanding characteristic | Synonyms: point |
| (noun) a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance | - |
| (noun) a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising | - |
| (noun) a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit) | Synonyms: pip |
| (noun) a point located with respect to surface features of some region | Synonyms: place, topographic point |
| (noun) a small piece or quantity of something | Synonyms: bit |
| (noun) a slight attack of illness | Synonyms: touch |
| squawroot | (noun) tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: blue cohosh, blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, papooseroot, squaw root |
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| stinkpot | (noun) small freshwater turtle having a strong musky odor | Synonyms: musk turtle |
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| (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker |
| stockpot | (noun) a pot used for preparing soup stock | - |
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| stoneroot | (noun) erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States | Synonyms: Collinsonia canadensis, horse balm, horseweed, richweed, stone-root, stone root |
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| sunspot | (noun) a cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun's photosphere; associated with a strong magnetic field | Synonyms: macula |
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| swot | (noun) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | Synonyms: dweeb, grind, nerd, wonk |
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| talipot | (noun) tall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for writing paper | Synonyms: Corypha umbraculifera, talipot palm |
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| taproot | (noun) something that provides an important central source for growth or development | - |
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| (noun) (botany) main root of a plant growing straight downward from the stem | - |
| tarot | (noun) any of a set of (usually 78) cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc.; used for playing card games and for divination by fortunetellers | Synonyms: tarot card |
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| teapot | (noun) pot for brewing tea; usually has a spout and handle | - |
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| tenderfoot | (noun) an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living) | - |
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| tommyrot | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tosh, twaddle |
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| toot | (noun) revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party | Synonyms: bender, booze-up, carousal, carouse |
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| (noun) a blast of a horn | - |
| topknot | (noun) showy crest or knot of hair or feathers | - |
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| (noun) headdress consisting of a decorative ribbon or bow worn in the hair | - |
| tot | (noun) a young child who is just beginning to walk | Synonyms: bambino, toddler, yearling |
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| (noun) a small amount (especially of a drink) | - |
| tricot | (noun) a knitted fabric or one resembling knitting | - |
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