schmo | (noun) (Yiddish) a jerk | Synonyms: schmuck, shmo, shmuck |
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schmoose | (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze |
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schmooze | (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: chat, confab, confabulation, schmoose |
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schmoozer | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationalist, conversationist |
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schmuck | (noun) (Yiddish) a jerk | Synonyms: schmo, shmo, shmuck |
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schnapps | (noun) any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes | Synonyms: schnaps |
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schnaps | (noun) any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes | Synonyms: schnapps |
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schnauzer | (noun) old German breed of sturdy black or greyish wire-haired terriers having a blunt muzzle ranging in size from fairly small to very large; used as ratters and guard dogs or police dogs | - |
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schnecken | (noun) rolled dough spread with sugar and nuts then sliced and baked in muffin tins with honey or sugar and butter in the bottom | Synonyms: caramel bun, honey bun, sticky bun |
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schnittlaugh | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chive, chives, cive |
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schnitzel | (noun) deep-fried breaded veal cutlets | Synonyms: Wiener schnitzel |
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schnook | (noun) (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised | Synonyms: shnook |
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schnorchel | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: breather, schnorkel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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schnorkel | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: breather, schnorchel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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schnorrer | (noun) (Yiddish) a scrounger who takes advantage of the generosity of others | Synonyms: shnorrer |
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schnoz | (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
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schnozzle | (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, snoot, snout |
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scholar | (noun) a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines | Synonyms: bookman, scholarly person |
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(noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs | Synonyms: assimilator, learner, student |
(noun) a student who holds a scholarship | - |
scholarship | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning |
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(noun) financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit | - |
scholastic | (noun) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit | Synonyms: bookworm, pedant |
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scholasticism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: academicism, academism |
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scholia | (noun) a marginal note written by a scholiast (a commentator on ancient or classical literature) | Synonyms: scholium |
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scholiast | (noun) a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author) | - |
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scholium | (noun) a marginal note written by a scholiast (a commentator on ancient or classical literature) | Synonyms: scholia |
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school | (noun) a building where young people receive education | Synonyms: schoolhouse |
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(noun) the process of being formally educated at a school | Synonyms: schooling |
(noun) an educational institution | - |
(noun) a large group of fish | Synonyms: shoal |
(noun) a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers | - |
(noun) an educational institution's faculty and students | - |
(noun) the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session | Synonyms: school day, schooltime |
schoolbag | (noun) a bag for carrying school books and supplies | - |
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schoolbook | (noun) a book prepared for use in schools or colleges | Synonyms: school text, text, text edition, textbook |
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schoolboy | (noun) a boy attending school | - |
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schoolchild | (noun) a young person attending school (up through senior high school) | Synonyms: pupil, school-age child |
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schooldays | (noun) the time of life when you are going to school | Synonyms: schooltime |
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schoolfellow | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, classmate, schoolmate |
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schoolfriend | (noun) a friend who attends the same school | - |
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schoolgirl | (noun) a girl attending school | - |
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schoolhouse | (noun) a building where young people receive education | Synonyms: school |
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schooling | (noun) the act of teaching at school | - |
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(noun) the training of an animal (especially the training of a horse for dressage) | - |
(noun) the process of being formally educated at a school | Synonyms: school |
schoolman | (noun) a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation | Synonyms: academician |
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schoolmarm | (noun) a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) | Synonyms: mistress, schoolma'am, schoolmistress |
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schoolmaster | (noun) food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Lutjanus apodus |
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(noun) presiding officer of a school | Synonyms: headmaster, master |
(noun) any person (or institution) who acts as an educator | - |
schoolmate | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, classmate, schoolfellow |
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schoolmistress | (noun) a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) | Synonyms: mistress, schoolma'am, schoolmarm |
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schoolroom | (noun) a room in a school where lessons take place | Synonyms: classroom |
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schoolteacher | (noun) a teacher in a school below the college level | Synonyms: school teacher |
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schooltime | (noun) the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session | Synonyms: school, school day |
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(noun) the time of life when you are going to school | Synonyms: schooldays |
schoolwork | (noun) work, such as schoolwork or piecework, that is done at home | Synonyms: homework, school assignment |
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schoolyard | (noun) the yard associated with a school | - |
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schooner | (noun) sailing vessel used in former times | - |
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(noun) a large beer glass | - |
schorl | (noun) black tourmaline | - |
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schottische | (noun) a German round dance resembling a slow polka | - |
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(noun) music performed for dancing the schottische | - |
schrod | (noun) young Atlantic cod or haddock especially one split and boned for cooking | Synonyms: scrod |
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(noun) flesh of young Atlantic cod weighing up to 2 pounds; also young haddock and pollock; often broiled | Synonyms: scrod |
schtick | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
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(noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
(noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
schtickl | (noun) a really little shtik | Synonyms: schtikl, shtickl, shtikl |
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schtik | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
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(noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
(noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
schtikl | (noun) a really little shtik | Synonyms: schtickl, shtickl, shtikl |
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schwa | (noun) a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables | Synonyms: shwa |
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sciaenid | (noun) widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound | Synonyms: sciaenid fish |
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sciara | (noun) minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings | Synonyms: fungus gnat, sciarid |
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sciarid | (noun) minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings | Synonyms: fungus gnat, sciara |
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sciatica | (noun) neuralgia along the sciatic nerve | - |
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science | (noun) a particular branch of scientific knowledge | Synonyms: scientific discipline |
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(noun) ability to produce solutions in some problem domain | Synonyms: skill |
scientist | (noun) a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences | - |
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scilla | (noun) an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers | Synonyms: squill |
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scillaren | (noun) a crystalline steroidal glycoside present in squill (Drimia maritima). | - |
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scimitar | (noun) a curved oriental saber; the edge is on the convex side of the blade | - |
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scincid | (noun) alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide | Synonyms: scincid lizard, skink |
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scintigram | (noun) a recording of the radioactivity emitted by a tracer in an organism or organ system. | - |
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scintigraph | (noun) The apparatus used to make a scintigram. | Synonyms: scintiscanner |
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scintilla | (noun) a sparkling glittering particle | - |
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(noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit |
scintillation | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glisten, glister, glitter, sparkle |
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(noun) the twinkling of the stars caused when changes in the density of the earth's atmosphere produce uneven refraction of starlight | - |
(noun) a brilliant display of wit | - |
(noun) a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash | Synonyms: sparkling, twinkle |
(noun) (physics) a flash of light that is produced in a phosphor when it absorbs a photon or ionizing particle | - |
scintiscanner | (noun) The apparatus used to make a scintigram. | Synonyms: scintigraph |
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sciolism | (noun) pretentious superficiality of knowledge | - |
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sciolist | (noun) an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge | Synonyms: dabbler, dilettante |
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scion | (noun) a descendant or heir | - |
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scission | (noun) the act of dividing by cutting or splitting | - |
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scissors | (noun) a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze | Synonyms: scissor grip, scissor hold, scissors grip, scissors hold |
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(noun) a gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast moves his legs as the blades of scissors move | - |
(noun) an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades | Synonyms: pair of scissors |
scissortail | (noun) grey flycatcher of the southwestern United States and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings | Synonyms: Muscivora-forficata, scissortailed flycatcher |
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scissure | (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crack, crevice, fissure |
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sclaff | (noun) a poor golf stroke in which the club head hits the ground before hitting the ball | - |
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sclera | (noun) the whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering and protection of the eyeball | Synonyms: sclerotic coat |
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scleredema | (noun) a skin disease marked by hard edema of the tissue usually beginning in the face | - |
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sclerite | (noun) hard plate or element of the exoskeleton of some arthropods | - |
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scleritis | (noun) inflammation of the sclera | - |
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scleroderma | (noun) an autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels and connective tissue; fibrous connective tissue is deposited in the skin | Synonyms: dermatosclerosis |
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sclerometer | (noun) a measuring instrument that measures the hardness of materials by penetrating them with a stylus that has a diamond point | - |
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scleroprotein | (noun) a simple protein found in horny and cartilaginous tissues and in the lens of the eye | Synonyms: albuminoid |
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sclerosis | (noun) any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue | Synonyms: induration |
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sclerotinia | (noun) any fungus of the genus Sclerotinia; some causing brown rot diseases in plants | - |
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sclerotium | (noun) compact usually dark-colored mass of hardened mycelium constituting a vegetative food-storage body in various true fungi; detaches when mature and can give rise to new growth | - |
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sclerotomy | (noun) surgical incision of the sclerotic coat of the eye | - |
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scoff | (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeer, jeering, mockery, scoffing |
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scoffer | (noun) someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision | Synonyms: flouter, jeerer, mocker |
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(noun) someone who eats food rapidly and greedily | Synonyms: gorger |
scoffing | (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeer, jeering, mockery, scoff |
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scofflaw | (noun) one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses | - |
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scoke | (noun) tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous | Synonyms: garget, Phytolacca americana, pigeon berry, poke |
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scold | (noun) someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault | Synonyms: common scold, nag, nagger, scolder |
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scolder | (noun) someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault | Synonyms: common scold, nag, nagger, scold |
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scolding | (noun) rebuking a person harshly | Synonyms: chiding, objurgation, tongue-lashing |
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scolion | (noun) a song (sometimes improvised) sung by guests at a banquet | Synonyms: banquet song |
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scoliosis | (noun) an abnormal lateral curve to the vertebral column | - |
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scollop | (noun) edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions | Synonyms: escallop, scallop |
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(noun) edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces | Synonyms: escallop, scallop |
(noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: cutlet, escallop, scallop |
scolopendrium | (noun) a fern thought to resemble a millipede | - |
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