| supersymmetry | (noun) (physics) a theory that tries to link the four fundamental forces | - |
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| supertanker | (noun) the largest class of oil tankers | - |
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| supertax | (noun) an additional tax on certain kinds of income that has already been taxed | Synonyms: surtax |
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| supertitle | (noun) translation of the words of a foreign opera (or choral work) projected on a screen above the stage | Synonyms: surtitle |
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| supertonic | (noun) (music) the second note of a diatonic scale | - |
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| supertwister | (noun) the most powerful tornado which can create enormously devastating damage | - |
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| supervention | (noun) a following on in addition | - |
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| supervillain | (noun) a villain with superpowers | - |
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| supervising | (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: oversight, superintendence, supervision |
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| supervision | (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: oversight, superintendence, supervising |
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| supervisor | (noun) a program that controls the execution of other programs | Synonyms: executive program, supervisory program |
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| (noun) one who supervises or has charge and direction of | - |
| supination | (noun) rotation of the hands and forearms so that the palms face upward | - |
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| supinator | (noun) a muscle (especially in the forearm) that produces or assists in supination | - |
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| supper | (noun) a light evening meal; served in early evening if dinner is at midday or served late in the evening at bedtime | - |
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| (noun) a social gathering where a light evening meal is served | - |
| suppertime | (noun) the customary or habitual hour for the evening meal | Synonyms: dinnertime |
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| supping | (noun) ingestion of liquid food with a spoon or by drinking | - |
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| supplanter | (noun) one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another | Synonyms: usurper |
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| supplanting | (noun) act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics | Synonyms: displacement |
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| supplejack | (noun) walking stick made from the wood of an American tropical vine | - |
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| supplement | (noun) a supplementary component that improves capability | Synonyms: accessory, add-on, appurtenance |
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| (noun) a quantity added (e.g. to make up for a deficiency) | Synonyms: supplementation |
| (noun) textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end | Synonyms: addendum, postscript |
| supplementation | (noun) the act of supplementing | Synonyms: subjoining, subjunction |
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| (noun) a quantity added (e.g. to make up for a deficiency) | Synonyms: supplement |
| suppleness | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supple | Synonyms: lissomeness, litheness |
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| (noun) the property of being pliant and flexible | Synonyms: pliancy, pliantness |
| (noun) adaptability of mind or character | Synonyms: pliability, pliancy, pliantness |
| suppliant | (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: petitioner, requester, supplicant |
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| supplicant | (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: petitioner, requester, suppliant |
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| (noun) someone who prays to God | Synonyms: prayer |
| supplication | (noun) the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving) | Synonyms: prayer |
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| (noun) a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service | Synonyms: invocation |
| (noun) a humble request for help from someone in authority | Synonyms: plea |
| supplier | (noun) someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity | Synonyms: provider |
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| supply | (noun) the activity of supplying or providing something | Synonyms: provision, supplying |
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| (noun) offering goods and services for sale | - |
| (noun) an amount of something available for use | - |
| supplying | (noun) the activity of supplying or providing something | Synonyms: provision, supply |
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| support | (noun) aiding the cause or policy or interests of | - |
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| (noun) the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening | Synonyms: supporting |
| (noun) documentary validation | Synonyms: documentation |
| (noun) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission | Synonyms: reenforcement, reinforcement |
| (noun) the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities | - |
| (noun) any device that bears the weight of another thing | - |
| (noun) supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation | - |
| (noun) something providing immaterial assistance to a person or cause or interest | - |
| (noun) a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Synonyms: accompaniment, backup, musical accompaniment |
| (noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, sustenance |
| (noun) financial resources provided to make some project possible | Synonyms: backing, financial backing, financial support, funding |
| supporter | (noun) a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve) | Synonyms: garter |
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| (noun) a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise | Synonyms: athletic supporter, jock, jockstrap, suspensor |
| (noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: admirer, booster, champion, friend, protagonist |
| (noun) a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose | Synonyms: assistant, help, helper |
| (noun) someone who supports or champions something | Synonyms: patron, sponsor |
| supporting | (noun) the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening | Synonyms: support |
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| supposal | (noun) a hypothesis that is taken for granted | Synonyms: assumption, supposition |
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| (noun) the cognitive process of supposing | Synonyms: supposition |
| supposition | (noun) a hypothesis that is taken for granted | Synonyms: assumption, supposal |
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| (noun) the cognitive process of supposing | Synonyms: supposal |
| (noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: conjecture, guess, hypothesis, speculation, surmisal, surmise |
| suppository | (noun) a small plug of medication designed for insertion into the rectum or vagina where it melts | - |
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| suppressant | (noun) a drug that suppresses appetite | Synonyms: appetite suppressant |
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| suppresser | (noun) an electrical device for suppressing unwanted currents | Synonyms: suppressor |
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| (noun) a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene) | Synonyms: suppresser gene, suppressor, suppressor gene |
| (noun) someone who suppresses | Synonyms: suppressor |
| suppression | (noun) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation | Synonyms: curtailment |
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| (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: crushing, quelling, stifling |
| (noun) (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires | Synonyms: inhibition |
| (noun) the failure to develop some part or organ | - |
| suppressor | (noun) an electrical device for suppressing unwanted currents | Synonyms: suppresser |
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| (noun) a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene) | Synonyms: suppresser, suppresser gene, suppressor gene |
| (noun) someone who suppresses | Synonyms: suppresser |
| suppuration | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: festering, ichor, purulence, pus, sanies |
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| (noun) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | Synonyms: festering, maturation |
| suprainfection | (noun) secondary infection caused by an opportunistic infection | - |
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| suprarenalectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both adrenal glands | Synonyms: adrenalectomy |
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| supremacism | (noun) the belief that some particular group or race is superior to all others | - |
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| supremacist | (noun) a person who advocates the supremacy of some particular group or racial group over all others | - |
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| supremacy | (noun) power to dominate or defeat | Synonyms: domination, mastery |
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| suprematism | (noun) a geometric abstractionist movement originated by Kazimir Malevich in Russia that influenced constructivism | - |
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| suprematist | (noun) an artist of the school of suprematism | - |
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| supremo | (noun) the most important person in an organization | - |
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| sura | (noun) the muscular back part of the shank | Synonyms: calf |
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| (noun) one of the sections (or chapters) in the Koran | - |
| surbase | (noun) the molding or border above the base of a structure (a pedestal or podium or wall) | - |
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| surcease | (noun) a stopping | Synonyms: cessation |
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| surcharge | (noun) an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill) | - |
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| surcoat | (noun) a tunic worn over a knight's armor | - |
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| (noun) a loose outer coat usually of rich material | - |
| surd | (noun) a consonant produced without sound from the vocal cords | Synonyms: voiceless consonant |
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| sureness | (noun) the quality of being steady and unfailing | - |
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| (noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: assurance, authority, confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence |
| surety | (noun) something clearly established | - |
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| (noun) a guarantee that an obligation will be met | Synonyms: security |
| (noun) one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another | Synonyms: guarantor, warranter, warrantor |
| (noun) a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms | Synonyms: hostage |
| (noun) property that your creditor can claim in case you default on your obligation | Synonyms: security |
| surf | (noun) waves breaking on the shore | Synonyms: breaker, breakers |
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| surface | (noun) the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary | - |
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| (noun) a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight | Synonyms: aerofoil, airfoil, control surface |
| (noun) a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something | - |
| (noun) information that has become public | Synonyms: open |
| (noun) the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object | - |
| (noun) the outermost level of the land or sea | Synonyms: Earth's surface |
| surfacing | (noun) emerging to the surface and becoming apparent | - |
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| surfactant | (noun) a chemical agent capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved | Synonyms: surface-active agent, wetter, wetting agent |
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| surfbird | (noun) sandpiper-like shorebird of Pacific coasts of North America and South America | Synonyms: Aphriza virgata |
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| surfboard | (noun) a narrow buoyant board for riding surf | - |
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| surfboarder | (noun) someone who engages in surfboarding | Synonyms: surfer |
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| surfboarding | (noun) the sport of riding a surfboard toward the shore on the crest of a wave | Synonyms: surfing, surfriding |
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| surfboat | (noun) a boat that can be launched or landed in heavy surf | - |
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| surfeit | (noun) eating until excessively full | Synonyms: repletion |
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| (noun) the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall | Synonyms: glut, oversupply |
| (noun) the state of being more than full | Synonyms: excess, overabundance |
| surfer | (noun) someone who engages in surfboarding | Synonyms: surfboarder |
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| surffish | (noun) small to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the Pacific coast of North America | Synonyms: surf fish, surfperch |
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| (noun) a fish of the Pacific coast of North America | Synonyms: surf fish, Umbrina roncador, yellowfin croaker |
| surfing | (noun) the sport of riding a surfboard toward the shore on the crest of a wave | Synonyms: surfboarding, surfriding |
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| surfperch | (noun) small to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the Pacific coast of North America | Synonyms: surf fish, surffish |
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| surfriding | (noun) the sport of riding a surfboard toward the shore on the crest of a wave | Synonyms: surfboarding, surfing |
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| surge | (noun) a sudden or abrupt strong increase | Synonyms: upsurge |
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| (noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: rush, spate, upsurge |
| (noun) a large sea wave | Synonyms: billow |
| surgeon | (noun) a physician who specializes in surgery | Synonyms: operating surgeon, sawbones |
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| surgeonfish | (noun) brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail | - |
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| surgery | (noun) a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Synonyms: operation, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process |
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| (noun) a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations | Synonyms: operating room, operating theater, operating theatre, OR |
| (noun) a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted | - |
| (noun) the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures | - |
| suricate | (noun) burrowing diurnal meerkat of southern Africa; often kept as a pet | Synonyms: Suricata tetradactyla |
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| surjection | (noun) a mathematical function that is an onto mapping. | Synonyms: onto function, surjective function |
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| surliness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, temper |
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| surmisal | (noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: conjecture, guess, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmise |
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| surmise | (noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: conjecture, guess, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal |
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| surmounter | (noun) someone who overcomes and establishes ascendancy and control by force or persuasion | Synonyms: overcomer, subduer |
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| surmullet | (noun) brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels | Synonyms: goatfish, Mullus surmuletus, red mullet |
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| surname | (noun) the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) | Synonyms: cognomen, family name, last name |
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| surplice | (noun) a loose-fitting white ecclesiastical vestment with wide sleeves | - |
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| surplus | (noun) a quantity much larger than is needed | Synonyms: excess, nimiety, surplusage |
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| surplusage | (noun) a quantity much larger than is needed | Synonyms: excess, nimiety, surplus |
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| surprint | (noun) something added by overprinting | Synonyms: overprint |
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| surprisal | (noun) the act of surprising someone | Synonyms: surprise |
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| surprise | (noun) the act of surprising someone | Synonyms: surprisal |
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| (noun) a sudden unexpected event | - |
| (noun) the astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you | - |
| surpriser | (noun) a captor who uses surprise to capture the victim | - |
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| surprisingness | (noun) extraordinariness by virtue of being unexpected | Synonyms: unexpectedness |
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| surrealism | (noun) a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams | - |
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| surrealist | (noun) an artist who is a member of the movement called surrealism | - |
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| surrebuttal | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rebutter | Synonyms: surrebutter |
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| surrebutter | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rebutter | Synonyms: surrebuttal |
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| surrejoinder | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rejoinder | - |
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| surrender | (noun) the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) | Synonyms: capitulation, fall |
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| (noun) the delivery of a principal into lawful custody | - |
| (noun) a verbal act of admitting defeat | Synonyms: giving up, yielding |
| (noun) acceptance of despair | Synonyms: resignation |
| surrenderer | (noun) a person who yields or surrenders | Synonyms: yielder |
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| surrey | (noun) a light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; has two or four seats | - |
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| surrogate | (noun) a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others | Synonyms: deputy |
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| (noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: alternate, replacement |
| surround | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environment, environs, surroundings |
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