so | (noun) the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization | Synonyms: soh, sol |
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soak | (noun) washing something by allowing it to soak | Synonyms: soaking |
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(noun) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: soakage, soaking |
soakage | (noun) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: soak, soaking |
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soaker | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, souse |
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(noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, pelter, torrent, waterspout |
soaking | (noun) washing something by allowing it to soak | Synonyms: soak |
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(noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: drenching, souse, sousing |
(noun) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: soak, soakage |
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 | - |
soapberry | (noun) a tree of the genus Sapindus whose fruit is rich in saponin | Synonyms: soapberry tree |
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soapbox | (noun) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it | Synonyms: ambo, dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, stump |
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(noun) a crate for packing soap | - |
soapfish | (noun) fishes with slimy mucus-covered skin; found in the warm Atlantic coastal waters of America | - |
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soapiness | (noun) the quality of being soap or being covered with soap | - |
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soaprock | (noun) a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments | Synonyms: soap-rock, soapstone, steatite |
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soapstone | (noun) a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments | Synonyms: soap-rock, soaprock, steatite |
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soapsuds | (noun) the froth produced by soaps or detergents | Synonyms: lather, suds |
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soapweed | (noun) tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States | Synonyms: soap-weed, soap tree, Yucca elata |
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soapwort | (noun) plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised | Synonyms: bouncing Bess, bouncing Bet, hedge pink, Saponaria officinalis |
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soar | (noun) the act of rising upward into the air | Synonyms: zoom |
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soaring | (noun) the activity of flying a glider | Synonyms: glide, gliding, sailing, sailplaning |
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sob | (noun) convulsive gasp made while weeping | Synonyms: sobbing |
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sobbing | (noun) convulsive gasp made while weeping | Synonyms: sob |
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soberness | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, gravity, sobriety, somberness, sombreness |
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(noun) the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol | Synonyms: sobriety |
sobersides | (noun) a serious and sedate individual | - |
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sobralia | (noun) any of various showy orchids of the genus Sobralia having leafy stems and bright-colored solitary or racemose flowers similar to those of genus Cattleya | - |
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sobriety | (noun) abstaining from excess | Synonyms: temperance |
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(noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, gravity, soberness, somberness, sombreness |
(noun) moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or other drugs | Synonyms: dryness |
(noun) the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol | Synonyms: soberness |
sobriquet | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname, soubriquet |
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socage | (noun) land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent; not burdened with military service | - |
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soccer | (noun) a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal | Synonyms: association football |
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sociability | (noun) the relative tendency or disposition to be sociable or associate with one's fellows | Synonyms: sociableness |
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sociable | (noun) a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity | Synonyms: mixer, social |
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sociableness | (noun) the relative tendency or disposition to be sociable or associate with one's fellows | Synonyms: sociability |
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social | (noun) a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity | Synonyms: mixer, sociable |
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socialisation | (noun) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | Synonyms: acculturation, enculturation, socialization |
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(noun) the act of meeting for social purposes | Synonyms: socialising, socialization, socializing |
(noun) the action of establishing on a socialist basis | Synonyms: socialization |
socialiser | (noun) a person who takes part in social activities | Synonyms: socializer |
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socialising | (noun) the act of meeting for social purposes | Synonyms: socialisation, socialization, socializing |
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socialism | (noun) a political theory advocating state ownership of industry | - |
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(noun) an economic system based on state ownership of capital | Synonyms: socialist economy |
socialist | (noun) a political advocate of socialism | - |
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socialite | (noun) a socially prominent person | - |
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sociality | (noun) the tendency to associate with others and to form social groups | - |
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socialization | (noun) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | Synonyms: acculturation, enculturation, socialisation |
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(noun) the act of meeting for social purposes | Synonyms: socialisation, socialising, socializing |
(noun) the action of establishing on a socialist basis | Synonyms: socialisation |
socializer | (noun) a person who takes part in social activities | Synonyms: socialiser |
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socializing | (noun) the act of meeting for social purposes | Synonyms: socialisation, socialising, socialization |
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society | (noun) an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization | - |
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(noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: club, gild, guild, lodge, order, social club |
(noun) the fashionable elite | Synonyms: beau monde, bon ton, high society, smart set |
(noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: companionship, company, fellowship |
sociobiologist | (noun) a biologist who studies the biological determinants of social behavior | - |
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sociobiology | (noun) the branch of biology that conducts comparative studies of the social organization of animals (including human beings) with regard to its evolutionary history | - |
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sociolinguist | (noun) a linguist who studies the social and cultural factors that influence linguistic communication | - |
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sociolinguistics | (noun) the study of language in relation to its sociocultural context | - |
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sociologist | (noun) a social scientist who studies the institutions and development of human society | - |
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sociology | (noun) the study and classification of human societies | - |
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sociometry | (noun) the quantitative study of social relationships | - |
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sociopath | (noun) someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath') | Synonyms: psychopath |
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sock | (noun) hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot; worn inside the shoe; reaches to between the ankle and the knee | - |
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(noun) a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: air-sleeve, air sock, drogue, wind cone, wind sleeve, wind sock, windsock |
socket | (noun) a receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted | - |
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(noun) receptacle where something (a pipe or probe or end of a bone) is inserted | - |
(noun) a bony hollow into which a structure fits | - |
sockeye | (noun) small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning | Synonyms: blueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, sockeye salmon |
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(noun) fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers | Synonyms: red salmon, sockeye salmon |
socle | (noun) a plain plinth that supports a wall | - |
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sod | (noun) surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots | Synonyms: greensward, sward, turf |
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(noun) someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) | Synonyms: bugger, sodomist, sodomite |
(noun) an informal term for a youth or man | Synonyms: bozo, cat, guy, hombre |
soda | (noun) a sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring | Synonyms: pop, soda pop, soda water, tonic |
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(noun) a sodium salt of carbonic acid; used in making soap powders and glass and paper | Synonyms: sal soda, soda ash, sodium carbonate, washing soda |
sodalist | (noun) a member of a sodality | - |
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sodalite | (noun) a vitreous mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate and sodium chloride in crystalline form; occurs in igneous rocks | - |
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sodality | (noun) people engaged in a particular occupation | Synonyms: brotherhood, fraternity |
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sodbuster | (noun) a person who operates a farm | Synonyms: farmer, granger, husbandman |
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soddy | (noun) a house built of sod or adobe laid in horizontal courses | Synonyms: adobe house, sod house |
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sodium | (noun) a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt) | Synonyms: atomic number 11, Na |
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sodoku | (noun) the form of ratbite fever occurring in the Far East | Synonyms: spirillum fever |
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sodom | (noun) any location known for vice and corruption | - |
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sodomist | (noun) someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) | Synonyms: bugger, sod, sodomite |
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sodomite | (noun) someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) | Synonyms: bugger, sod, sodomist |
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sodomy | (noun) intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman | Synonyms: anal intercourse, anal sex, buggery |
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(noun) sexual activity between a person and an animal | Synonyms: bestiality, zooerastia, zooerasty |
sofa | (noun) an upholstered seat for more than one person | Synonyms: couch, lounge |
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soffit | (noun) the underside of a part of a building (such as an arch or overhang or beam etc.) | - |
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softback | (noun) a book with paper covers | Synonyms: paper-back book, paperback, paperback book, soft-cover, soft-cover book, softback book |
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softball | (noun) a game closely resembling baseball that is played on a smaller diamond and with a ball that is larger | Synonyms: softball game |
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(noun) ball used in playing softball | - |
softener | (noun) a substance added to another to make it less hard | - |
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softening | (noun) the process of becoming softer | - |
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softheartedness | (noun) a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless) | Synonyms: tenderness |
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softie | (noun) a person who is weak and excessively sentimental | Synonyms: softy |
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softness | (noun) the property of giving little resistance to pressure and being easily cut or molded | - |
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(noun) a sound property that is free from loudness or stridency | - |
(noun) a disposition to be lenient in judging others | - |
(noun) acting in a manner that is gentle and mild and even-tempered | Synonyms: gentleness, mildness |
(noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminacy, effeminateness, sissiness, unmanliness, womanishness |
(noun) the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines | Synonyms: blurriness, fogginess, fuzziness, indistinctness |
(noun) a visual property that is subdued and free from brilliance or glare | - |
(noun) a state of declining economic condition | - |
(noun) poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury) | Synonyms: unfitness |
(noun) the quality of weather that is deliciously mild and soothing | Synonyms: balminess |
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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softwood | (noun) wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir) | Synonyms: deal |
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softy | (noun) a person who is weak and excessively sentimental | Synonyms: softie |
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sogginess | (noun) a heavy wetness | - |
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soh | (noun) the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization | Synonyms: so, sol |
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soil | (noun) the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state | Synonyms: territory |
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(noun) material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use) | Synonyms: ground, land |
(noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grease, grime, grunge, stain |
(noun) the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock | Synonyms: dirt |
soiling | (noun) the act of soiling something | Synonyms: dirtying, soilure |
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soilure | (noun) the act of soiling something | Synonyms: dirtying, soiling |
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soiree | (noun) a party of people assembled in the evening (usually at a private house) | - |
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soja | (noun) erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia | Synonyms: Glycine max, soja bean, soy, soya, soya bean, soybean, soybean plant |
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sojourn | (noun) a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest) | Synonyms: visit |
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sojourner | (noun) a temporary resident | - |
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sokha | (noun) a light wooden ard, consisting of two body ards, with their parallel beams forming the two shafts for a single horse-drawn tillage implement with two socket shares. | - |
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sol | (noun) the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization | Synonyms: so, soh |
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(noun) a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid | Synonyms: colloidal solution, colloidal suspension |
solace | (noun) the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction | Synonyms: comfort, consolation |
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(noun) the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment | Synonyms: consolation, solacement |
(noun) comfort in disappointment or misery | Synonyms: solacement |
solacement | (noun) the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment | Synonyms: consolation, solace |
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(noun) comfort in disappointment or misery | Synonyms: solace |
solan | (noun) very large white gannet with black wing tips | Synonyms: solan goose, solant goose, Sula bassana |
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solarisation | (noun) exposure to the rays of the sun | Synonyms: solarization |
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solarium | (noun) a room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to the sun | Synonyms: sun lounge, sun parlor, sun parlour, sun porch, sunporch, sunroom |
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solarization | (noun) exposure to the rays of the sun | Synonyms: solarisation |
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solder | (noun) an alloy (usually of lead and tin) used when melted to join two metal surfaces | - |
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solderer | (noun) a worker who joins or mends with solder | - |
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soldering | (noun) fastening firmly together | Synonyms: bonding |
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soldier | (noun) a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony | - |
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(noun) an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army | - |
soldierfish | (noun) the larger squirrelfishes | Synonyms: soldier-fish |
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