| sapidness | (noun) a pleasant flavor | Synonyms: sapidity |
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| sapience | (noun) ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight | Synonyms: wisdom |
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| sapling | (noun) young tree | - |
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| sapodilla | (noun) tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp | Synonyms: sapodilla plum, sapota |
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| (noun) large tropical American evergreen yielding chicle gum and edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Achras | Synonyms: Achras zapota, Manilkara zapota, sapodilla tree |
| saponification | (noun) a chemical reaction in which an ester is heated with an alkali (especially the alkaline hydrolysis of a fat or oil to make soap) | - |
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| saponin | (noun) any of various plant glucosides that form soapy lathers when mixed and agitated with water; used in detergents and foaming agents and emulsifiers | - |
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| sapota | (noun) tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp | Synonyms: sapodilla, sapodilla plum |
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| sapote | (noun) brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet | Synonyms: mammee, marmalade plum |
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| (noun) tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum | Synonyms: Calocarpum zapota, mammee, marmalade tree, Pouteria zapota |
| sapper | (noun) a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications) | - |
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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 | - |
| sapphirine | (noun) a rare light blue or green mineral; consists of aluminum and magnesium silicate and occurs as small grains in some metamorphic rocks | - |
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| sapphism | (noun) female homosexuality | Synonyms: lesbianism |
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| sapraemia | (noun) blood poisoning caused by putrefactive bacteria; results from eating putrefied matter | Synonyms: sapremia |
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| sapremia | (noun) blood poisoning caused by putrefactive bacteria; results from eating putrefied matter | Synonyms: sapraemia |
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| saprobe | (noun) an organism that lives in and derives its nourishment from organic matter in stagnant or foul water | - |
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| saprolite | (noun) a deposit of clay and disintegrating rock that is found in its original place | - |
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| sapropel | (noun) sludge (rich in organic matter) that accumulates at the bottom of lakes or oceans | - |
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| saprophyte | (noun) an organism that feeds on dead organic matter especially a fungus or bacterium | Synonyms: saprophytic organism |
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| sapsago | (noun) a hard green Swiss cheese made with skim-milk curd and flavored with clover | - |
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| sapsucker | (noun) small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees | - |
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| sapwood | (noun) newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant; usually light colored; active in water conduction | - |
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| saquinavir | (noun) a weak protease inhibitor (trade name Invirase) used in treating HIV | Synonyms: Invirase |
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| saraband | (noun) a stately court dance of the 17th and 18th centuries; in slow time | - |
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| (noun) music composed for dancing the saraband | - |
| saran | (noun) any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things | - |
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| sarape | (noun) a long brightly colored shawl; worn mainly by Mexican men | Synonyms: serape |
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| saratoga | (noun) a species of large fish found in Australian rivers, it has a red or pink spot on every scale (Scleropages leichardti) | Synonyms: Australian arowana, Dawson River salmon, Scleropages leichardti, spotted barramundi, spotted bonytongue |
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| sarcasm | (noun) witty language used to convey insults or scorn | Synonyms: caustic remark, irony, satire |
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| sarcenet | (noun) a fine soft silk fabric often used for linings | Synonyms: sarsenet |
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| sarcocystidean | (noun) parasite of the muscles of vertebrates | Synonyms: sarcocystieian, sarcosporidian |
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| sarcocystieian | (noun) parasite of the muscles of vertebrates | Synonyms: sarcocystidean, sarcosporidian |
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| sarcodine | (noun) protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopods | Synonyms: sarcodinian |
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| sarcodinian | (noun) protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopods | Synonyms: sarcodine |
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| sarcoidosis | (noun) a chronic disease of unknown cause marked by the formation of nodules in the lungs and liver and lymph glands and salivary glands | - |
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| sarcolemma | (noun) an extensible membrane enclosing the contractile substance of a muscle fiber | - |
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| sarcoma | (noun) a usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.); one of the four major types of cancer | - |
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| sarcomere | (noun) one of the segments into which a myofibril is divided | - |
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| sarcophagus | (noun) a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions) | - |
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| sarcoplasm | (noun) the cytoplasm of a striated muscle fiber | - |
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| sarcoptid | (noun) whitish mites that attack the skin of humans and other animals | Synonyms: itch mite |
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| sarcosine | (noun) a sweetish crystalline amino acid | - |
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| sarcosome | (noun) a large mitochondrion in a striated muscle fiber | - |
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| sarcosporidian | (noun) parasite of the muscles of vertebrates | Synonyms: sarcocystidean, sarcocystieian |
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| sarcostyle | (noun) one of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber | Synonyms: myofibril, myofibrilla |
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| sard | (noun) a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: sardine, sardius |
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| sardine | (noun) any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned | - |
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| (noun) small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring | Synonyms: pilchard, Sardina pilchardus |
| (noun) small fatty fish usually canned | Synonyms: pilchard |
| (noun) a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: sard, sardius |
| sardius | (noun) a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: sard, sardine |
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| sardonyx | (noun) an onyx characterized by parallel layers of sard and a different colored mineral | - |
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| saree | (noun) a dress worn primarily by Hindu women; consists of several yards of light material that is draped around the body | Synonyms: sari |
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| sargasso | (noun) brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea | Synonyms: gulfweed, sargassum, Sargassum bacciferum |
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| sargassum | (noun) brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea | Synonyms: gulfweed, sargasso, Sargassum bacciferum |
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| sari | (noun) a dress worn primarily by Hindu women; consists of several yards of light material that is draped around the body | Synonyms: saree |
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| sarin | (noun) a highly toxic chemical nerve agent that inhibits the activity of cholinesterase | Synonyms: GB |
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| sarong | (noun) a loose skirt consisting of brightly colored fabric wrapped around the body; worn by both women and men in the South Pacific | - |
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| sarsaparilla | (noun) carbonated drink flavored with an extract from sarsaparilla root or with birch oil and sassafras | - |
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| (noun) any of various prickly climbing plants of the tropical American genus Smilax having aromatic roots and heart-shaped leaves | - |
| sarsenet | (noun) a fine soft silk fabric often used for linings | Synonyms: sarcenet |
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| sartor | (noun) a person whose occupation is making and altering garments | Synonyms: seamster, tailor |
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| sartorius | (noun) a muscle in the thigh that helps to rotate the leg into the sitting position assumed by a tailor; the longest muscle in the human body | Synonyms: musculus sartorius, sartorius muscle |
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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 |
| sashay | (noun) (ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading | Synonyms: chasse |
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| (noun) a square dance figure; partners circle each other taking sideways steps | - |
| (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, expedition, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip |
| sashimi | (noun) very thinly sliced raw fish | - |
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| saskatoon | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: juneberry, serviceberry, shadberry |
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| sass | (noun) an impudent or insolent rejoinder | Synonyms: back talk, backtalk, lip, mouth, sassing |
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| sassaby | (noun) a large South African antelope; considered the swiftest hoofed mammal | Synonyms: Damaliscus lunatus, topi |
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| sassafras | (noun) dried root bark of the sassafras tree | - |
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| (noun) yellowwood tree with brittle wood and aromatic leaves and bark; source of sassafras oil; widely distributed in eastern North America | Synonyms: Sassafras albidum, sassafras tree |
| sassing | (noun) an impudent or insolent rejoinder | Synonyms: back talk, backtalk, lip, mouth, sass |
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| satang | (noun) 100 satangs equal 1 baht in Thailand | - |
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| satanophobia | (noun) an abnormal fear of Satan | - |
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| satchel | (noun) luggage consisting of a small case with a flat bottom and (usually) a shoulder strap | - |
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| sateen | (noun) a cotton fabric with a satiny finish | - |
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| satellite | (noun) man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon | Synonyms: artificial satellite, orbiter |
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| (noun) any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star | - |
| (noun) a person who follows or serves another | Synonyms: planet |
| satiation | (noun) the act of achieving full gratification | - |
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| (noun) the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more | Synonyms: repletion, satiety |
| satiety | (noun) the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more | Synonyms: repletion, satiation |
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| satin | (noun) a smooth fabric of silk or rayon; has a glossy face and a dull back | - |
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| satinet | (noun) a fabric with a finish resembling satin but made partly or wholly from cotton or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: satinette |
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| satinette | (noun) a fabric with a finish resembling satin but made partly or wholly from cotton or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: satinet |
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| satinleaf | (noun) tropical American timber tree with dark hard heavy wood and small plumlike purple fruit | Synonyms: caimitillo, Chrysophyllum oliviforme, damson plum, satin leaf |
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| satinpod | (noun) southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration | Synonyms: honesty, Lunaria annua, money plant, satin flower, silver dollar |
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| satinwood | (noun) East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood | Synonyms: Chloroxylon swietenia, satinwood tree |
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| (noun) West Indian tree with smooth lustrous and slightly oily wood | Synonyms: West Indian satinwood, Zanthoxylum flavum |
| (noun) hard yellowish wood of a satinwood tree having a satiny luster; used for fine cabinetwork and tools | - |
| 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 | - |
| satirist | (noun) a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm | Synonyms: ironist, ridiculer |
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| satisfaction | (noun) act of fulfilling a desire or need or appetite | - |
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| (noun) the contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectation | - |
| (noun) compensation for a wrong | Synonyms: atonement, expiation |
| (noun) (law) the payment of a debt or fulfillment of an obligation | - |
| (noun) state of being gratified or satisfied | Synonyms: gratification |
| satisfactoriness | (noun) the quality of giving satisfaction sufficient to meet a demand or requirement | - |
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| satisfier | (noun) any agent capable of producing satisfaction | - |
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| satori | (noun) (Zen Buddhism) a state of sudden spiritual enlightenment | - |
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| satrap | (noun) a governor of a province in ancient Persia | - |
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| satsuma | (noun) medium-sized largely seedless mandarin orange with thin smooth skin | - |
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| (noun) a variety of mandarin orange, known commonly as cold hardy mandarin, Christmas orange, or tangerine | Synonyms: satsuma tree |
| saturant | (noun) a substance which is used to saturate another. | - |
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| saturation | (noun) the act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid | - |
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| (noun) chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue | Synonyms: chroma, intensity, vividness |
| (noun) the process of totally saturating something with a substance | Synonyms: impregnation |
| (noun) a condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence | - |
| saturnalia | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot |
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| saturniid | (noun) large brightly colored and usually tropical moth; larvae spin silken cocoons | Synonyms: saturniid moth |
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| saturnism | (noun) toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system | Synonyms: lead poisoning, plumbism |
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| satyr | (noun) one of a class of woodland deities; attendant on Bacchus; identified with Roman fauns | Synonyms: forest god |
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| (noun) man with strong sexual desires | Synonyms: lech, lecher, letch |
| satyriasis | (noun) abnormally intense sexual desire in men | - |
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| sauce | (noun) flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food | - |
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| sauceboat | (noun) a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce | Synonyms: boat, gravy boat, gravy holder |
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| saucepan | (noun) a deep pan with a handle; used for stewing or boiling | - |
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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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| saucer | (noun) a small shallow dish for holding a cup at the table | - |
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| (noun) a disk used in throwing competitions | Synonyms: discus |
| (noun) directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation | Synonyms: dish, dish aerial, dish antenna |
| (noun) something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate | Synonyms: disc, disk |
| sauciness | (noun) inappropriate playfulness | Synonyms: archness, impertinence, perkiness, pertness |
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| sauerbraten | (noun) pot roast marinated several days in seasoned vinegar before cooking; usually served with potato dumplings | - |
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