| prelature | (noun) the office or station of a prelate | Synonyms: prelacy |
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| (noun) prelates collectively | Synonyms: prelacy |
| premiere | (noun) the first public performance of a play or movie | - |
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| pressure | (noun) the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure | Synonyms: press, pressing |
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| (noun) a force that compels | - |
| (noun) the somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin | Synonyms: pressure sensation |
| (noun) the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit) | Synonyms: force per unit area, pressure level |
| (noun) the pressure exerted by the atmosphere | Synonyms: air pressure, atmospheric pressure |
| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistence, insistency, press |
| (noun) an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress | - |
| primogeniture | (noun) right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son | - |
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| procedure | (noun) a particular course of action intended to achieve a result | Synonyms: process |
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| (noun) a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings | - |
| (noun) a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work | Synonyms: operation |
| (noun) a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program | Synonyms: function, routine, subprogram, subroutine |
| puncture | (noun) the act of puncturing or perforating | - |
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| (noun) a small hole made by a sharp object | - |
| (noun) loss of air pressure in a tire when a hole is made by some sharp object | - |
| pyre | (noun) wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite | Synonyms: funeral pyre |
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| quadrature | (noun) the construction of a square having the same area as some other figure | - |
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| quagmire | (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | Synonyms: mire, morass, quag, slack |
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| questionnaire | (noun) a form containing a set of questions; submitted to people to gain statistical information | - |
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| quire | (noun) a quantity of paper; 24 or 25 sheets | - |
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| ransomware | (noun) malicious software that makes a computer unusable unless a payment is made to the attacker | - |
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| rapture | (noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion | Synonyms: ecstasy, exaltation, raptus, transport |
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| (noun) a state of elated bliss | Synonyms: ecstasy |
| re | (noun) the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization | Synonyms: ray |
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| recapture | (noun) the act of taking something back | Synonyms: retaking |
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| (noun) a legal seizure by the government of profits beyond a fixed amount | - |
| repertoire | (noun) a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule | Synonyms: repertory |
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| (noun) the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation | Synonyms: repertory |
| revere | (noun) a lapel on a woman's garment; turned back to show the reverse side | Synonyms: revers |
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| rotogravure | (noun) using photography to produce a plate for printing | Synonyms: photogravure |
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| (noun) printing by transferring an image from a photogravure plate to a cylinder in a rotary press | - |
| (noun) printed material (text and pictures) produced by an intaglio printing process in a rotary press | - |
| rupture | (noun) the act of making a sudden noisy break | - |
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| (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, break, falling out, rift, severance |
| (noun) state of being torn or burst open | - |
| sabre | (noun) a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back | Synonyms: cavalry sword, saber |
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| (noun) a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle | Synonyms: saber |
| sagamore | (noun) a chief of a North American tribe or confederation (especially an Algonquian chief) | Synonyms: sachem |
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| saltire | (noun) a cross resembling the letter x, with diagonal bars of equal length | Synonyms: St. Andrew's cross |
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| saltpetre | (noun) (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive | Synonyms: niter, nitre, potassium nitrate, saltpeter |
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| samphire | (noun) fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass | Synonyms: glasswort, Salicornia europaea |
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| sapphire | (noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: azure, cerulean, lazuline, sky-blue |
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| (noun) a transparent piece of sapphire that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
| (noun) a precious transparent stone of rich blue corundum valued as a gemstone | - |
| sarcomere | (noun) one of the segments into which a myofibril is divided | - |
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| satire | (noun) witty language used to convey insults or scorn | Synonyms: caustic remark, irony, sarcasm |
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| (noun) a genre of literature and performing arts, in which shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming others | - |
| scare | (noun) a sudden attack of fear | Synonyms: panic attack |
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| (noun) sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events | Synonyms: panic |
| sceptre | (noun) a ceremonial or emblematic staff | Synonyms: scepter, verge, wand |
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| (noun) the imperial authority symbolized by a scepter | Synonyms: scepter |
| scissure | (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crack, crevice, fissure |
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| score | (noun) the act of scoring in a game or sport | - |
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| (noun) a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: sexual conquest |
| (noun) a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance) | Synonyms: grade, mark |
| (noun) the facts about an actual situation | - |
| (noun) a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages | Synonyms: musical score |
| (noun) a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation | Synonyms: grievance, grudge |
| (noun) a set of twenty members | - |
| (noun) grounds | Synonyms: account |
| (noun) a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest | - |
| (noun) a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally) | Synonyms: scotch |
| (noun) an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar) | - |
| scripture | (noun) any writing that is regarded as sacred by a religious group | Synonyms: sacred scripture |
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| sculpture | (noun) creating figures or designs in three dimensions | Synonyms: carving |
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| (noun) a three-dimensional work of plastic art | - |
| seashore | (noun) the shore of a sea or ocean | Synonyms: coast, sea-coast, seacoast |
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| secretaire | (noun) a desk used for writing | Synonyms: escritoire, secretary, writing table |
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| seizure | (noun) the taking possession of something by legal process | - |
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| (noun) the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property | Synonyms: capture, gaining control |
| (noun) the act of taking of a person by force | Synonyms: capture |
| (noun) a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease | Synonyms: ictus, raptus |
| semaphore | (noun) an apparatus for visual signaling with lights or mechanically moving arms | - |
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| sepulchre | (noun) a chamber that is used as a grave | Synonyms: burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulture |
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| sepulture | (noun) a chamber that is used as a grave | Synonyms: burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre |
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| (noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave | Synonyms: burial, entombment, inhumation, interment |
| sericulture | (noun) the production of raw silk by raising silkworms | - |
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| (noun) raising silkworms in order to obtain raw silk | - |
| share | (noun) the allotment of some amount by dividing something | Synonyms: parcel, portion |
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| (noun) the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result | Synonyms: contribution, part |
| (noun) a sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil | Synonyms: ploughshare, plowshare |
| (noun) assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group | Synonyms: part, percentage, portion |
| (noun) any of the equal portions into which the capital stock of a corporation is divided and ownership of which is evidenced by a stock certificate | - |
| shareware | (noun) software that is available free of charge; may be distributed for evaluation with a fee requested for additional features or a manual etc. | - |
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| shellfire | (noun) shooting artillery shells | - |
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| shire | (noun) British breed of large heavy draft horse | Synonyms: shire horse |
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| (noun) a former administrative district of England; equivalent to a county | - |
| shore | (noun) a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support | Synonyms: shoring |
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| (noun) the land along the edge of a body of water | - |
| signature | (noun) a distinguishing style | Synonyms: touch |
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| (noun) your name written in your own handwriting | - |
| (noun) a sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book | - |
| (noun) the sharps or flats that follow the clef and indicate the key | Synonyms: key signature |
| (noun) a melody used to identify a performer or a dance band or radio/tv program | Synonyms: signature tune, theme song |
| signore | (noun) an Italian title of respect for a man; equivalent to the English `sir'; used separately (not prefixed to his name) | - |
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| silverware | (noun) tableware made of silver or silver plate or pewter or stainless steel | - |
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| silviculture | (noun) the branch of forestry dealing with the development and care of forests | - |
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| simarre | (noun) a fur-lined coat decorated with braid, worn in the sixteenth century. | Synonyms: chamarre, chimer |
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| sinecure | (noun) an office that involves minimal duties | - |
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| (noun) a benefice to which no spiritual or pastoral duties are attached | - |
| siphonophore | (noun) a floating or swimming oceanic colony of polyps often transparent or showily colored | - |
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| sire | (noun) male parent of an animal especially a domestic animal such as a horse | - |
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| (noun) the founder of a family | Synonyms: father, forefather |
| (noun) a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority | - |
| skincare | (noun) care for the skin | Synonyms: skin care |
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| smoothbore | (noun) a firearm that has no rifling | - |
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| snare | (noun) a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose | Synonyms: gin, noose |
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| (noun) strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit | - |
| (noun) a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head | Synonyms: side drum, snare drum |
| (noun) a surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities | - |
| (noun) something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares | Synonyms: trap |
| snore | (noun) the act of snoring or producing a snoring sound | Synonyms: snoring, stertor |
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| (noun) the rattling noise produced when snoring | - |
| software | (noun) (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory | Synonyms: computer software, package, software package, software program, software system |
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| soilure | (noun) the act of soiling something | Synonyms: dirtying, soiling |
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| solitaire | (noun) a card game played by one person | Synonyms: patience |
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| (noun) a dull grey North American thrush noted for its beautiful song | - |
| (noun) extinct flightless bird related to the dodo | Synonyms: Pezophaps solitaria |
| (noun) a gem (usually a diamond) in a setting by itself | - |
| somewhere | (noun) an indefinite or unknown location | - |
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| sophomore | (noun) a second-year undergraduate | Synonyms: soph |
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| sore | (noun) an open skin infection | - |
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| spare | (noun) a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls | - |
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| (noun) an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle | Synonyms: fifth wheel |
| (noun) an extra component of a machine or other apparatus | Synonyms: spare part |
| spectre | (noun) a mental representation of some haunting experience | Synonyms: ghost, shade, specter, spook, wraith |
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| (noun) a ghostly appearing figure | Synonyms: apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, specter |
| sphere | (noun) any spherically shaped artifact | - |
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| (noun) a particular aspect of life or activity | Synonyms: sector |
| (noun) the geographical area in which one nation is very influential | Synonyms: sphere of influence |
| (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens, vault of heaven, welkin |
| (noun) a solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses) | - |
| (noun) a three-dimensional closed surface such that every point on the surface is equidistant from the center | - |
| (noun) a particular environment or walk of life | Synonyms: area, arena, domain, field, orbit |
| spire | (noun) a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top | Synonyms: steeple |
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| spitfire | (noun) a highly emotional and quick-tempered person (especially a girl or woman) | - |
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| sporangiophore | (noun) stalk bearing one or more sporangia | - |
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| spore | (noun) a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion | - |
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| sporophore | (noun) a spore-bearing branch or organ: the part of the thallus of a sporophyte that develops spores; in ferns and mosses and liverworts is practically equivalent to the sporophyte | - |
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| spyware | (noun) computer software that obtains information from a user's computer without the user's knowledge or consent | - |
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| square | (noun) a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles | - |
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| (noun) any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles | - |
| (noun) an open area at the meeting of two or more streets | Synonyms: public square |
| (noun) a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views | Synonyms: square toes |
| (noun) someone who doesn't understand what is going on | Synonyms: lame |
| (noun) the product of two equal terms | Synonyms: second power |
| (noun) (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon | Synonyms: foursquare |
| (noun) something approximating the shape of a square | - |
| squire | (noun) an English country landowner | - |
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| (noun) young nobleman attendant on a knight | - |
| (noun) a man who attends or escorts a woman | Synonyms: gallant |
| stare | (noun) a fixed look with eyes open wide | - |
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| stature | (noun) (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot | Synonyms: height |
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| (noun) high level of respect gained by impressive development or achievement | - |
| stevedore | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper |
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| stoneware | (noun) ceramic ware that is fired in high heat and vitrified and nonporous | - |
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| store | (noun) a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services | Synonyms: shop |
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| (noun) a depository for goods | Synonyms: depot, entrepot, storage, storehouse |
| (noun) an electronic memory device | Synonyms: computer memory, computer storage, memory, memory board, storage |
| (noun) a supply of something available for future use | Synonyms: fund, stock |
| stratosphere | (noun) the atmospheric layer between the troposphere and the mesosphere | - |
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| stricture | (noun) severe criticism | - |
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| (noun) abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway | Synonyms: stenosis |
| structure | (noun) a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts | Synonyms: construction |
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| (noun) the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts | - |
| (noun) a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement | Synonyms: anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part |
| (noun) the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations | - |
| (noun) the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships | Synonyms: social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system |
| subculture | (noun) a social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior and beliefs | - |
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| subfigure | (noun) a figure that is a part of another figure | - |
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| substructure | (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, understructure |
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| (noun) the basic structure or features of a system or organization | Synonyms: infrastructure |
| sucre | (noun) the basic unit of money in Ecuador; equal to 100 centavos | - |
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| supersedure | (noun) act of replacing one person or thing by another especially one held to be superior | Synonyms: supersession |
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| superstructure | (noun) structure consisting of the part of a ship above the main deck | - |
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| suture | (noun) thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together | - |
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| (noun) a seam used in surgery | Synonyms: surgical seam |
| (noun) an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull) | Synonyms: fibrous joint, sutura |
| sycamore | (noun) any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits | Synonyms: plane tree, platan |
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| (noun) variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree | Synonyms: lacewood |
| (noun) Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn | Synonyms: Acer pseudoplatanus, great maple, scottish maple |
| (noun) thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore | Synonyms: Ficus sycomorus, mulberry fig, sycamore fig |
| tablature | (noun) a musical notation indicating the fingering to be used | - |
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| tableware | (noun) articles for use at the table (dishes and silverware and glassware) | - |
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| tare | (noun) (chemical analysis) a counterweight used in chemical analysis; consists of an empty container that counterbalances the weight of the container holding chemicals | - |
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| (noun) the weight of a motor vehicle, railroad car, or aircraft without its fuel or cargo | - |
| (noun) any of several weedy vetches grown for forage | - |
| (noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, cheat, darnel, Lolium temulentum |
| (noun) an adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods | - |
| teliospore | (noun) a chlamydospore that develops in the last stage of the life cycle of the rust fungus | - |
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| telomere | (noun) either (free) end of a eukaryotic chromosome | - |
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| temperature | (noun) the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity) | - |
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| (noun) the somatic sensation of cold or heat | - |
| tenure | (noun) the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands | Synonyms: land tenure |
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| (noun) the term during which some position is held | Synonyms: incumbency, term of office |
| terpsichore | (noun) taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music | Synonyms: dance, dancing, saltation |
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| testiere | (noun) medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head | Synonyms: chamfron, chanfron, front-stall, frontstall |
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| tetraspore | (noun) one of the four asexual spores produced within a sporangium | - |
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