| scampo | (noun) caught in European waters; slenderer than American lobster | Synonyms: langoustine, Norwegian lobster |
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| scan | (noun) the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region | - |
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| (noun) an image produced by scanning | Synonyms: CAT scan |
| scandal | (noun) disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people | Synonyms: dirt, malicious gossip |
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| (noun) a disgraceful event | Synonyms: outrage |
| scandalisation | (noun) the act of scandalizing | Synonyms: outrage, scandalization |
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| (noun) the condition of being shocked (as by improper behavior) | Synonyms: scandalization |
| scandalization | (noun) the act of scandalizing | Synonyms: outrage, scandalisation |
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| (noun) the condition of being shocked (as by improper behavior) | Synonyms: scandalisation |
| scandalmonger | (noun) a person who spreads malicious gossip | - |
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| scandalmongering | (noun) spreading malicious gossip | - |
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| scandalousness | (noun) disgracefulness that offends public morality | - |
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| scandium | (noun) a white trivalent metallic element; sometimes classified in the rare earth group; occurs in the Scandinavian mineral thortveitite | Synonyms: atomic number 21, Sc |
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| scanner | (noun) a radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition | Synonyms: electronic scanner |
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| (noun) a radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area | - |
| (noun) an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer | Synonyms: digital scanner, image scanner |
| (noun) someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables | - |
| scanning | (noun) the act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission | - |
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| (noun) the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer | - |
| scansion | (noun) analysis of verse into metrical patterns | - |
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| scantiness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantness |
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| (noun) Of a garment, the property of being very small, light, or revealing. | Synonyms: skimpiness |
| scantling | (noun) an upright in house framing | Synonyms: stud |
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| scantness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness |
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| scanty | (noun) short underpants for women or children | Synonyms: pantie, panty, step-in |
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| scape | (noun) (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column | Synonyms: shaft |
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| (noun) erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip | Synonyms: flower stalk |
| scapegoat | (noun) someone who is punished for the errors of others | Synonyms: whipping boy |
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| scapegrace | (noun) a reckless and unprincipled reprobate | Synonyms: black sheep |
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| scaphocephaly | (noun) congenital malformation of the skull which is long and narrow; frequently accompanied by mental retardation | - |
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| scaphopod | (noun) burrowing marine mollusk | - |
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| scapula | (noun) either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings | Synonyms: shoulder blade, shoulder bone |
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| scapular | (noun) a feather covering the shoulder of a bird | - |
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| (noun) garment consisting of a long wide piece of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders with an opening for the head; part of a monastic habit | Synonyms: scapulary |
| scapulary | (noun) garment consisting of a long wide piece of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders with an opening for the head; part of a monastic habit | Synonyms: scapular |
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| scar | (noun) an indication of damage | Synonyms: mark, scrape, scratch |
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| (noun) a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue | Synonyms: cicatrice, cicatrix |
| scarab | (noun) scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians | Synonyms: scarabaeus, Scarabaeus sacer |
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| scarabaean | (noun) any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes | Synonyms: scarabaeid, scarabaeid beetle |
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| scarabaeid | (noun) any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes | Synonyms: scarabaean, scarabaeid beetle |
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| scarabaeus | (noun) scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians | Synonyms: scarab, Scarabaeus sacer |
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| scarceness | (noun) a small and inadequate amount | Synonyms: scarcity |
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| scarcity | (noun) a small and inadequate amount | Synonyms: scarceness |
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| 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 |
| scarecrow | (noun) an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds | Synonyms: bird-scarer, scarer, straw man, strawman |
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| scaremonger | (noun) a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble | Synonyms: stirrer |
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| scarer | (noun) an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds | Synonyms: bird-scarer, scarecrow, straw man, strawman |
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| scarf | (noun) a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration | - |
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| (noun) a joint made by notching the ends of two pieces of timber or metal so that they will lock together end-to-end | Synonyms: scarf joint |
| scarfpin | (noun) a pin used to hold the tie in place | Synonyms: tie tack, tiepin |
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| scarlatina | (noun) an acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash | Synonyms: scarlet fever |
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| scarlet | (noun) a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge | Synonyms: orange red, vermilion |
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| scarp | (noun) a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification | Synonyms: escarp, escarpment, protective embankment |
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| (noun) a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion | Synonyms: escarpment |
| scat | (noun) singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument | Synonyms: scat singing |
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| scathe | (noun) the act of damaging something or someone | Synonyms: damage, harm, hurt |
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| scatology | (noun) (medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes) | - |
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| (noun) a preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions) | - |
| scatophagy | (noun) the eating of excrement or other filth | - |
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| scatter | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scattering, strewing |
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| (noun) a haphazard distribution in all directions | Synonyms: spread |
| scatterbrain | (noun) a flighty and disorganized person | Synonyms: forgetful person |
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| scattergood | (noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: spend-all, spender, spendthrift |
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| scattergun | (noun) firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges | Synonyms: shotgun |
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| scattering | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scatter, strewing |
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| (noun) spreading widely or driving off | Synonyms: dispersion |
| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: sprinkle, sprinkling |
| (noun) the physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions | - |
| (noun) a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly | Synonyms: sprinkling |
| scaup | (noun) diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill | Synonyms: bluebill, broadbill, scaup duck |
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| scauper | (noun) a graver used to scoop out broad areas when engraving wood or metal | Synonyms: scorper |
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| scavenger | (noun) any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter | - |
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| (noun) someone who collects things that have been discarded by others | Synonyms: magpie, pack rat |
| (noun) a chemical agent that is added to a chemical mixture to counteract the effects of impurities | - |
| scenario | (noun) an outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work) | - |
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| (noun) a postulated sequence of possible events | - |
| (noun) a setting for a work of art or literature | - |
| scenarist | (noun) a writer of screenplays | - |
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| scene | (noun) the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale | Synonyms: scenery |
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| (noun) graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept | Synonyms: view |
| (noun) the visual percept of a region | Synonyms: aspect, panorama, prospect, view, vista |
| (noun) a subdivision of an act of a play or performance | - |
| (noun) a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film | Synonyms: shot |
| (noun) an incident (real or imaginary) | - |
| (noun) the place where some action occurs | - |
| (noun) the context and environment in which something is set | Synonyms: setting |
| (noun) a situation treated as an observable object | Synonyms: picture |
| (noun) a display of bad temper | Synonyms: conniption, fit, tantrum |
| scenery | (noun) the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale | Synonyms: scene |
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| (noun) the appearance of a place | - |
| sceneshifter | (noun) a stagehand responsible for moving scenery | Synonyms: shifter |
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| scent | (noun) any property detected by the olfactory system | Synonyms: aroma, odor, odour, olfactory property, smell |
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| (noun) an odor left in passing by which a person or animal can be traced | - |
| (noun) a distinctive odor that is pleasant | Synonyms: aroma, fragrance, perfume |
| scepter | (noun) a ceremonial or emblematic staff | Synonyms: sceptre, verge, wand |
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| (noun) the imperial authority symbolized by a scepter | Synonyms: sceptre |
| sceptic | (noun) someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs | Synonyms: doubter, skeptic |
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| scepticism | (noun) the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge | Synonyms: agnosticism, skepticism |
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| (noun) doubt about the truth of something | Synonyms: disbelief, incredulity, mental rejection, skepticism |
| 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 |
| schedule | (noun) a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to | Synonyms: agenda, docket |
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| (noun) an ordered list of times at which things are planned to occur | - |
| scheduler | (noun) computer hardware that arranges jobs to be done by the computer in an appropriate order | - |
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| scheduling | (noun) setting an order and time for planned events | Synonyms: programing, programming |
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| scheelite | (noun) a mineral used as an ore of tungsten | - |
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| schema | (noun) a schematic or preliminary plan | Synonyms: outline, scheme |
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| (noun) an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world | Synonyms: scheme |
| schematic | (noun) diagram of an electrical or mechanical system | Synonyms: schematic drawing |
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| schematisation | (noun) providing a chart or outline of a system | Synonyms: diagramming, schematization |
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| (noun) the act of reducing to a scheme or formula | Synonyms: schematization |
| schematization | (noun) providing a chart or outline of a system | Synonyms: diagramming, schematisation |
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| (noun) the act of reducing to a scheme or formula | Synonyms: schematisation |
| scheme | (noun) an elaborate and systematic plan of action | Synonyms: strategy |
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| (noun) an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world | Synonyms: schema |
| (noun) a schematic or preliminary plan | Synonyms: outline, schema |
| (noun) a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery | Synonyms: dodge, dodging |
| (noun) a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole | Synonyms: system |
| schemer | (noun) a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action | Synonyms: plotter |
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| schemozzle | (noun) (Yiddish) a confused situation or affair; a mess | Synonyms: shemozzle |
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| scherzo | (noun) a fast movement (usually in triple time) | - |
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| schilling | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in Austria | Synonyms: Austrian schilling |
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| schipperke | (noun) breed of small stocky black dogs originally used as watchdogs on boats in the Netherlands and Belgium | - |
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| schism | (noun) division of a group into opposing factions | Synonyms: split |
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| (noun) the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences | - |
| schist | (noun) any metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers | - |
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| schistorrhachis | (noun) a not uncommon congenital defect in which a vertebra is malformed; unless several vertebrae are affected or there is myelomeningocele there are few symptoms; can be diagnosed by amniocentesis | Synonyms: rachischisis, spina bifida |
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| schistosome | (noun) flatworms parasitic in the blood vessels of mammals | Synonyms: blood fluke |
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| schistosomiasis | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected | Synonyms: bilharzia, bilharziasis |
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| schizanthus | (noun) any plant of the genus Schizanthus having finely divided leaves and showy variegated flowers | Synonyms: butterfly flower, poor man's orchid |
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| schizocarp | (noun) a dry dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more parts each with a single seed | - |
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| schizogony | (noun) asexual reproduction by multiple fission; characteristic of many sporozoan protozoans | - |
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| schizoid | (noun) characterized by symptoms similar to but less severe than schizophrenia | Synonyms: schizotypal personality |
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| schizopetalon | (noun) a dainty South American annual having deeply pinnatifid leaves and racemes of fringed almond-scented purple-white flowers | Synonyms: Schizopetalon walkeri |
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| schizophrenia | (noun) any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact | Synonyms: dementia praecox, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis |
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| schizophrenic | (noun) someone who is afflicted with schizophrenia | - |
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| schizothymia | (noun) resembling schizophrenia but remaining within the bounds of normality | - |
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| schlemiel | (noun) (Yiddish) a dolt who is a habitual bungler | Synonyms: shlemiel |
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| schlep | (noun) a tedious or difficult journey | Synonyms: shlep |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person | Synonyms: schlepper, shlep, shlepper |
| schlepper | (noun) (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person | Synonyms: schlep, shlep, shlepper |
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| schlimazel | (noun) (Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything | Synonyms: shlimazel |
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| schlock | (noun) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | Synonyms: dreck, shlock |
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| schlockmeister | (noun) (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise | Synonyms: shlockmeister |
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| schmaltz | (noun) (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | Synonyms: schmalz, shmaltz |
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| schmalz | (noun) (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | Synonyms: schmaltz, shmaltz |
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| schmear | (noun) (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together | Synonyms: schmeer, shmear |
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| schmeer | (noun) (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together | Synonyms: schmear, shmear |
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| schmegegge | (noun) (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense | Synonyms: shmegegge |
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