| slagheap | (noun) pile of waste matter from coal mining etc | - |
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| slap | (noun) the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand | Synonyms: smack, smacking |
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| (noun) a blow from a flat object (as an open hand) | Synonyms: smack |
| sleep | (noun) a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended | Synonyms: slumber |
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| (noun) euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb) | Synonyms: eternal rest, eternal sleep, quietus, rest |
| (noun) a torpid state resembling deep sleep | Synonyms: sopor |
| (noun) a period of time spent sleeping | Synonyms: nap |
| slip | (noun) a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air | Synonyms: sideslip |
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| (noun) a socially awkward or tactless act | Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, solecism |
| (noun) the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) | Synonyms: eluding, elusion |
| (noun) an unexpected slide | Synonyms: sideslip, skid |
| (noun) a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. | Synonyms: miscue, parapraxis, slip-up |
| (noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment | Synonyms: chemise, shift, shimmy, teddy |
| (noun) bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow | Synonyms: case, pillow slip, pillowcase |
| (noun) artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material | Synonyms: strip |
| (noun) a small sheet of paper | Synonyms: slip of paper |
| (noun) a slippery smoothness | Synonyms: slick, slickness, slipperiness |
| (noun) an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall | Synonyms: trip |
| (noun) a place where a craft can be made fast | Synonyms: berth, moorage, mooring |
| (noun) a young and slender person | - |
| (noun) a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting | Synonyms: cutting |
| (noun) potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics | - |
| sloop | (noun) a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow | - |
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| slop | (noun) writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental | Synonyms: glop, mush, treacle |
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| (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigswill, pigwash, slops, swill |
| (noun) (usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink | - |
| (noun) deep soft mud in water or slush | Synonyms: mire |
| (noun) (usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand | - |
| slopshop | (noun) a store that sells cheap ready-made clothing | Synonyms: slopseller's shop |
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| slump | (noun) a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality | Synonyms: drop-off, falling off, falloff, slack |
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| (noun) a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment | Synonyms: depression, economic crisis |
| snap | (noun) the act of catching an object with the hands | Synonyms: catch, grab, snatch |
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| (noun) (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back | Synonyms: centering, centring |
| (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, walkover |
| (noun) the act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand | - |
| (noun) a fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound | Synonyms: press stud, snap fastener |
| (noun) an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera | Synonyms: shot, snapshot |
| (noun) the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed | Synonyms: elasticity |
| (noun) a sudden sharp noise | Synonyms: crack, cracking |
| (noun) a sudden breaking | - |
| (noun) the noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand | - |
| (noun) a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger | Synonyms: ginger nut, ginger snap, gingersnap |
| (noun) tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections | Synonyms: snap bean |
| (noun) a spell of cold weather | - |
| snip | (noun) the act of clipping or snipping | Synonyms: clip, clipping |
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| (noun) a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) | Synonyms: snippet, snipping |
| snoop | (noun) a spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others | Synonyms: snooper |
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| snowcap | (noun) a covering of snow (as on a mountain peak) | - |
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| snowdrop | (noun) common anemone of eastern North America with solitary pink-tinged white flowers | Synonyms: Anemone quinquefolia, wood anemone |
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| soap | (noun) a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats | - |
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| (noun) street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate | Synonyms: easy lay, Georgia home boy, goop, grievous bodily harm, liquid ecstasy, max, scoop |
| (noun) money offered as a bribe | - |
| soldiership | (noun) skills that are required for the life of soldier | Synonyms: soldiering |
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| solicitorship | (noun) the position of solicitor | - |
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| sop | (noun) a concession given to mollify or placate | - |
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| (noun) piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid | Synonyms: sops |
| soup | (noun) liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food | - |
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| (noun) an unfortunate situation | - |
| (noun) any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup | - |
| soursop | (noun) large spiny tropical fruit with tart pulp related to custard apples | Synonyms: guanabana |
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| (noun) small tropical American tree bearing large succulent slightly acid fruit | Synonyms: Annona muricata, prickly custard apple, soursop tree |
| spaceship | (noun) a spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space (especially in science fiction) | Synonyms: starship |
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| speakership | (noun) the position of Speaker | - |
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| speedup | (noun) the act of accelerating; increasing the speed | Synonyms: acceleration, quickening |
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| sponsorship | (noun) the act of sponsoring (either officially or financially) | - |
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| sporocarp | (noun) specialized leaf branch in certain aquatic ferns that encloses the sori or clusters of sporangia | Synonyms: spore case |
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| sportsmanship | (noun) fairness in following the rules of the game | - |
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| stamp | (noun) a device incised to make an impression; used to secure a closing or to authenticate documents | Synonyms: seal |
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| (noun) a block or die used to imprint a mark or design | - |
| (noun) machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores | Synonyms: pestle |
| (noun) a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving | Synonyms: impression |
| (noun) a small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that postal fees have been paid | Synonyms: postage, postage stamp |
| (noun) a small piece of adhesive paper that is put on an object to show that a government tax has been paid | Synonyms: revenue stamp |
| (noun) a type or class | - |
| (noun) something that can be used as an official medium of payment | Synonyms: legal tender, tender |
| (noun) the distinctive form in which a thing is made | Synonyms: cast, mold, mould |
| starship | (noun) a spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space (especially in science fiction) | Synonyms: spaceship |
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| startup | (noun) the act of starting a new operation or practice | Synonyms: inauguration |
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| (noun) the act of setting in operation | - |
| statesmanship | (noun) wisdom in the management of public affairs | Synonyms: diplomacy, statecraft |
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| steamship | (noun) a ship powered by one or more steam engines | Synonyms: steamer |
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| steep | (noun) a steep place (as on a hill) | - |
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| step | (noun) the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down | - |
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| (noun) any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal | Synonyms: measure |
| (noun) a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance | Synonyms: dance step |
| (noun) support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway | Synonyms: stair |
| (noun) a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed | - |
| (noun) a musical interval of two semitones | Synonyms: tone, whole step, whole tone |
| (noun) a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface | Synonyms: footmark, footprint |
| (noun) the sound of a step of someone walking | Synonyms: footfall, footstep |
| (noun) the distance covered by a step | Synonyms: footstep, pace, stride |
| (noun) a short distance | Synonyms: stone's throw |
| (noun) relative position in a graded series | Synonyms: gradation |
| steprelationship | (noun) a family relationship by virtue of remarriage | - |
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| stewardship | (noun) the position of steward | - |
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| stickup | (noun) robbery at gunpoint | Synonyms: armed robbery, heist, holdup |
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| stirrup | (noun) support consisting of metal loops into which rider's feet go | Synonyms: stirrup iron |
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| (noun) the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea | Synonyms: stapes |
| stoep | (noun) small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house | Synonyms: stoop |
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| stomp | (noun) a dance involving a rhythmical stamping step | - |
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| stonecrop | (noun) any of various northern temperate plants of the genus Sedum having fleshy leaves and red or yellow or white flowers | - |
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| stoop | (noun) an inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward | - |
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| (noun) small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house | Synonyms: stoep |
| (noun) basin for holy water | Synonyms: stoup |
| stop | (noun) the act of stopping something | Synonyms: stoppage |
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| (noun) a brief stay in the course of a journey | Synonyms: layover, stopover |
| (noun) a restraint that checks the motion of something | Synonyms: catch |
| (noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: block, blockage, closure, occlusion, stoppage |
| (noun) a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens | Synonyms: diaphragm |
| (noun) (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes | - |
| (noun) a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it | Synonyms: occlusive, plosive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, stop consonant |
| (noun) a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations | Synonyms: full point, full stop, period, point |
| (noun) the event of something ending | Synonyms: halt |
| (noun) a spot where something halts or pauses | - |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stoppage |
| stopgap | (noun) something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency | Synonyms: make-do, makeshift |
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| stoup | (noun) basin for holy water | Synonyms: stoop |
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| (noun) an archaic drinking vessel | - |
| strap | (noun) whip consisting of a strip of leather used in flogging | - |
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| (noun) an elongated leather strip (or a strip of similar material) for binding things together or holding something in position | - |
| (noun) a band that goes over the shoulder and supports a garment or bag | Synonyms: shoulder strap |
| (noun) hanger consisting of a loop of leather suspended from the ceiling of a bus or train; passengers hold onto it | - |
| strep | (noun) spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis | Synonyms: streptococci, streptococcus |
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| strip | (noun) a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music | Synonyms: strip show, striptease |
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| (noun) artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material | Synonyms: slip |
| (noun) an airfield without normal airport facilities | Synonyms: airstrip, flight strip, landing strip |
| (noun) thin piece of wood or metal | - |
| (noun) a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book | Synonyms: cartoon strip, comic strip, funnies |
| (noun) a relatively long narrow piece of something | - |
| strop | (noun) a leather strap used to sharpen razors | - |
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| studentship | (noun) the position of student | - |
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| stump | (noun) (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket | - |
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| (noun) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it | Synonyms: ambo, dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, soapbox |
| (noun) the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed | - |
| (noun) the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled | Synonyms: tree stump |
| subgroup | (noun) (mathematics) a subset (that is not empty) of a mathematical group | - |
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| (noun) a distinct and often subordinate group within a group | - |
| sump | (noun) a well or other hole in which water has collected | - |
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| (noun) an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine | - |
| (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspit, cesspool, sink |
| sunlamp | (noun) a mercury-vapor lamp used in medical or cosmetic treatments | Synonyms: sun-ray lamp, sun lamp, sunray lamp |
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| suntrap | (noun) a terrace or garden oriented to take advantage of the sun while protected from cold winds | Synonyms: solar trap |
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| sunup | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise |
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| sup | (noun) a small amount of liquid food | Synonyms: swallow |
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| swamp | (noun) low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog | Synonyms: swampland |
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| (noun) a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables | - |
| swap | (noun) an equal exchange | Synonyms: barter, swop, trade |
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| sweatshop | (noun) factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry | - |
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| sweep | (noun) (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line | Synonyms: end run |
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| (noun) a movement in an arc | - |
| (noun) a long oar used in an open boat | Synonyms: sweep oar |
| (noun) a wide scope | Synonyms: expanse |
| (noun) winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge | Synonyms: slam |
| (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, chimneysweeper |
| sweetsop | (noun) sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds | Synonyms: annon, sugar apple |
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| (noun) tropical American tree bearing sweet pulpy fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds | Synonyms: Annona squamosa, sweetsop tree |
| swoop | (noun) a swift descent through the air | - |
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| (noun) a very rapid raid | - |
| (noun) (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale | Synonyms: slide |
| swop | (noun) an equal exchange | Synonyms: barter, swap, trade |
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| swordsmanship | (noun) skill in fencing | - |
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| syncarp | (noun) fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry, raspberry, pineapple | Synonyms: aggregate fruit, multiple fruit |
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| syrup | (noun) a thick sweet sticky liquid | Synonyms: sirup |
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| tabletop | (noun) the top horizontal work surface of a table | - |
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| tamp | (noun) a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.) | Synonyms: tamper, tamping bar |
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| tap | (noun) a light touch or stroke | Synonyms: dab, pat |
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| (noun) the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information | Synonyms: wiretap |
| (noun) a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask | Synonyms: hydrant, water faucet, water tap |
| (noun) a plug for a bunghole in a cask | Synonyms: spigot |
| (noun) a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads | - |
| (noun) a small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing) | - |
| (noun) the sound made by a gentle blow | Synonyms: pat, rap |
| (noun) a gentle blow | Synonyms: rap, strike |
| tarp | (noun) waterproofed canvas | Synonyms: tarpaulin |
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| teachership | (noun) the position of teacher | - |
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| teacup | (noun) a cup from which tea is drunk | - |
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| (noun) as much as a teacup will hold | Synonyms: teacupful |
| teardrop | (noun) a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands | Synonyms: tear |
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| (noun) anything shaped like a falling drop (as a pendant gem on an earring) | - |
| teashop | (noun) a restaurant where tea and light meals are available | Synonyms: tea parlor, tea parlour, teahouse, tearoom |
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| temp | (noun) a worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis | Synonyms: temporary, temporary worker |
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| teraflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, with 1 teraflop being one trillion floating point operations per second | Synonyms: trillion floating point operations per second |
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| thaneship | (noun) the position of thane | - |
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| thriftshop | (noun) a shop that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices | Synonyms: second-hand store |
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| thrip | (noun) any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive | Synonyms: thripid, thrips |
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| thump | (noun) a heavy blow with the hand | - |
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| (noun) a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) | Synonyms: clump, clunk, thud, thumping |
| thunderclap | (noun) a single sharp crash of thunder | - |
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| (noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: bombshell, thunderbolt |
| tip | (noun) an indication of potential opportunity | Synonyms: confidential information, hint, lead, steer, wind |
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| (noun) the extreme end of something; especially something pointed | - |
| (noun) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) | Synonyms: crest, crown, peak, summit, top |
| (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshis, bakshish, gratuity, pourboire |
| (noun) a V shape | Synonyms: peak, point |
| tiptop | (noun) the extreme top or summit | - |
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| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, top |
| toecap | (noun) a protective leather or steel cover for the toe of a boot or shoe, reinforcing or decorating it | - |
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| top | (noun) a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips | - |
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| (noun) covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container) | Synonyms: cover |
| (noun) a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance | Synonyms: big top, circus tent, round top |
| (noun) a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin | Synonyms: spinning top, teetotum, whirligig |
| (noun) platform surrounding the head of a lower mast | - |
| (noun) the greatest possible intensity | - |
| (noun) the highest or uppermost side of anything | Synonyms: top side, upper side, upside |
| (noun) the upper part of anything | - |
| (noun) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) | Synonyms: crest, crown, peak, summit, tip |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop |
| (noun) the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat | Synonyms: top of the inning |
| tossup | (noun) an unpredictable phenomenon | Synonyms: even chance, toss-up |
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| township | (noun) an administrative division of a county | Synonyms: town |
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| toyshop | (noun) shop where toys are sold | - |
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| traineeship | (noun) financial aid that enables you to get trained for a specified job | - |
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| tramp | (noun) a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure | Synonyms: hike, hiking |
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| (noun) a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule | Synonyms: tramp steamer |
| (noun) a heavy footfall | - |
| (noun) a vagrant | Synonyms: bum, hobo |
| (noun) a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex | Synonyms: swinger |
| (noun) a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure) | Synonyms: hiker, tramper |
| trap | (noun) the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, lying in wait |
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| (noun) a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned | - |
| (noun) a light two-wheeled carriage | - |
| (noun) a hazard on a golf course | Synonyms: bunker, sand trap |
| (noun) a device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters | - |
| (noun) drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas | - |
| (noun) informal terms for the mouth | Synonyms: cakehole, gob, hole, maw, yap |
| (noun) something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares | Synonyms: snare |
| treasurership | (noun) the position of treasurer | - |
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| treetop | (noun) the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant | Synonyms: crown |
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| tribuneship | (noun) the position of tribune | - |
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| trip | (noun) a journey for some purpose (usually including the return) | - |
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| (noun) an unintentional but embarrassing blunder | Synonyms: misstep, stumble, trip-up |
| (noun) a light or nimble tread | - |
| (noun) a catch mechanism that acts as a switch | Synonyms: tripper |
| (noun) an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall | Synonyms: slip |
| (noun) an exciting or stimulating experience | Synonyms: head trip |
| (noun) a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs | - |
| trollop | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet |
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| (noun) a dirty untidy woman | Synonyms: slattern, slovenly woman, slut |
| (noun) A sexually loose woman | Synonyms: ho, hoe, hussy, slut |
| troop | (noun) a group of soldiers | - |
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| (noun) an orderly crowd | Synonyms: flock |
| (noun) a unit of Girl or Boy Scouts | Synonyms: scout group, scout troop |
| (noun) a cavalry unit corresponding to an infantry company | - |
| troopship | (noun) ship for transporting troops | - |
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| trump | (noun) a playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps | Synonyms: trump card |
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| (noun) a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves | Synonyms: cornet, horn, trumpet |
| (noun) (card games) the suit that has been declared to rank above all other suits for the duration of the hand | - |
| trusteeship | (noun) the position of trustee | - |
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| (noun) a dependent country; administered by another country under the supervision of the United Nations | Synonyms: trust territory |
| tulip | (noun) any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower | - |
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