| squib | (noun) firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise | - |
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| squid | (noun) widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins | - |
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| (noun) (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food | Synonyms: calamari, calamary |
| squiggle | (noun) a short twisting line | Synonyms: curlicue |
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| (noun) an illegible scrawl | - |
| squill | (noun) an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers | Synonyms: scilla |
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| (noun) having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties | Synonyms: sea onion, sea squill, Urginea maritima |
| (noun) bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant | - |
| squilla | (noun) a kind of mantis shrimp | Synonyms: mantis prawn |
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| squinch | (noun) a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire) | - |
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| squint | (noun) the act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closed | - |
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| (noun) abnormal alignment of one or both eyes | Synonyms: strabismus |
| squinter | (noun) a person with strabismus | Synonyms: squint-eye |
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| 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 |
| squirearchy | (noun) the gentry who own land (considered as a class) | Synonyms: landed gentry |
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| squirm | (noun) the act of wiggling | Synonyms: wiggle, wriggle |
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| squirmer | (noun) one who can't stay still (especially a child) | Synonyms: wiggler, wriggler |
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| squirrel | (noun) a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail | - |
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| (noun) the fur of a squirrel | - |
| squirrelfish | (noun) very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark | - |
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| (noun) similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States | Synonyms: Lagodon rhomboides, pinfish, sailor's-choice |
| squirt | (noun) the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) | Synonyms: jet, spirt, spurt |
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| (noun) someone who is small and insignificant | Synonyms: pip-squeak, small fry |
| squirter | (noun) plaything consisting of a toy pistol that squirts water | Synonyms: squirt gun, water gun, water pistol |
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| squish | (noun) the noise of soft mud being walked on | - |
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