| knucklehead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| lead | (noun) the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge | - |
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| (noun) a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase `take the lead') | - |
| (noun) a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire | Synonyms: booster cable, jumper cable, jumper lead |
| (noun) thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing | Synonyms: leading |
| (noun) restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal | Synonyms: leash, tether |
| (noun) the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine | Synonyms: spark advance |
| (noun) an advantage held by a competitor in a race | - |
| (noun) evidence pointing to a possible solution | Synonyms: track, trail |
| (noun) a news story of major importance | Synonyms: lead story |
| (noun) the introductory section of a story | Synonyms: lead-in, lede |
| (noun) an indication of potential opportunity | Synonyms: confidential information, hint, steer, tip, wind |
| (noun) (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base | - |
| (noun) an actor who plays a principal role | Synonyms: principal, star |
| (noun) (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning | - |
| (noun) the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile) | - |
| (noun) mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil | Synonyms: pencil lead |
| (noun) a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey | Synonyms: atomic number 82, Pb |
| (verb) cause to undertake a certain action | - |
| (verb) preside over | Synonyms: chair, moderate |
| (verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition | Synonyms: conduct, direct |
| (verb) travel in front of; go in advance of others | Synonyms: head |
| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: conduct, direct, guide, take |
| (verb) move ahead (of others) in time or space | Synonyms: precede |
| (verb) be in charge of | Synonyms: head |
| (verb) be conducive to | Synonyms: conduce, contribute |
| (verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: extend, go, pass, run |
| (verb) be ahead of others; be the first | Synonyms: top |
| (verb) cause something to pass or lead somewhere | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) lead, extend, or afford access | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) produce as a result or residue | Synonyms: leave, result |
| (verb) tend to or result in | - |
| leaded | (adjective) treated or mixed with lead | - |
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| (adjective) (of panes of glass) fixed in place by means of thin strips of lead | - |
| (adjective) having thin strips of lead between the lines of type | - |
| leaden | (adjective) made of lead | - |
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| (adjective) darkened with overcast | Synonyms: dull |
| (adjective) lacking lightness or liveliness | Synonyms: heavy |
| (adjective) (of movement) slow and laborious | Synonyms: plodding |
| (adjective) made heavy or weighted down with weariness | Synonyms: weighted |
| leader | (noun) a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers | Synonyms: drawing card, loss leader |
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| (noun) a person who rules or guides or inspires others | - |
| leaders | (noun) the body of people who lead a group | Synonyms: leadership |
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| leadership | (noun) the activity of leading | Synonyms: leading |
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| (noun) the ability to lead | - |
| (noun) the body of people who lead a group | Synonyms: leaders |
| (noun) the status of a leader | - |
| leading | (adjective) going or proceeding or going in advance; showing the way | - |
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| (adjective) greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement | Synonyms: preeminent |
| (adjective) having the leading position or higher score in a contest | Synonyms: ahead, in the lead |
| (adjective) indicating the most important performer or role | Synonyms: prima, star, starring, stellar |
| (noun) thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing | Synonyms: lead |
| (noun) the activity of leading | Synonyms: leadership |
| leadless | (adjective) not treated with lead | Synonyms: unleaded |
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| leadplant | (noun) shrub of sandy woodlands and stream banks of western United States having hoary pinnate flowers and dull-colored racemose flowers; thought to indicate the presence of lead ore | Synonyms: Amorpha canescens, lead plant |
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| leadwort | (noun) a plant of the genus Plumbago with blue flowers | Synonyms: Plumbago europaea |
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| letterhead | (noun) a sheet of stationery with name and address of the organization printed at the top | - |
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| levelheaded | (adjective) exercising or showing good judgment | Synonyms: healthy, intelligent, level-headed, sound |
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| levelheadedness | (noun) the property of having or showing sound judgment. | - |
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| lightheaded | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, silly |
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| (adjective) weak and likely to lose consciousness | Synonyms: faint, light-headed, light, swooning |
| lightheadedness | (noun) a frivolous lack of prudence | - |
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| (noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: dizziness, giddiness, vertigo |
| limeade | (noun) sweetened beverage of lime juice and water | - |
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| lipread | (verb) interpret by lipreading; of deaf people | Synonyms: lip-read, speech-read |
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| lipreading | (noun) perceiving what a person is saying by observing the movements of the lips | - |
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| loggerhead | (noun) very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas | Synonyms: Caretta caretta, loggerhead turtle |
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| (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
| loggerheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| lunkhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| maidenhead | (noun) a fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin | Synonyms: hymen, virginal membrane |
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| makeready | (noun) final preparation and adjustments | - |
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| masthead | (noun) the head or top of a mast | - |
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| (noun) the title of a newspaper or magazine; usually printed on the front page and on the editorial page | - |
| (noun) a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc. | Synonyms: flag |
| mead | (noun) made of fermented honey and water | - |
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| meadow | (noun) a piece of land covered or mostly covered with grass; a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay | Synonyms: hayfield |
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| meadowgrass | (noun) any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture | Synonyms: meadow grass |
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| meadowlark | (noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: lark |
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| metalhead | (noun) a fan of heavy metal music | - |
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| midspread | (noun) a measure of statistical dispersion, being equal to the difference between the upper and lower quartiles. | Synonyms: interquartile range, middle fifty |
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| mislead | (verb) give false or misleading information to | Synonyms: misinform |
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| (verb) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions | Synonyms: lead astray, misdirect, misguide |
| misleader | (noun) someone who leads astray (often deliberately) | - |
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| misleading | (adjective) designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently | Synonyms: deceptive |
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| misleadingly | (adverb) in a misleading way | Synonyms: deceivingly, deceptively |
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| misleadingness | (noun) The quality of being deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression. | - |
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| misread | (verb) interpret wrongly | Synonyms: misinterpret |
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| (verb) read or interpret wrongly | - |
| misreading | (noun) misinterpretation caused by inaccurate reading | - |
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| muddleheaded | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, addlepated, puddingheaded |
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| muttonhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, numskull, shithead |
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| nailhead | (noun) flattened boss on the end of nail opposite to the point | - |
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| (noun) something resembling the head of a nail that is used as an ornamental device | - |
| newsreader | (noun) someone who reads out broadcast news bulletin | Synonyms: news reader |
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| nonleaded | (adjective) (of gasoline) not containing tetraethyl lead | Synonyms: lead-free |
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| nonreader | (noun) a student who is very slow in learning to read | - |
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| (noun) a person unable to read | Synonyms: illiterate, illiterate person |
| orangeade | (noun) sweetened beverage of diluted orange juice | - |
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| outspread | (adjective) fully extended in width | Synonyms: spread |
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| overhead | (adjective) located or originating from above | - |
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| (noun) a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head | Synonyms: smash |
| (noun) (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship | - |
| (noun) a transparency for use with an overhead projector | Synonyms: viewgraph |
| (noun) (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing | Synonyms: disk overhead |
| (noun) the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes | Synonyms: budget items, operating cost, operating expense |
| (noun) (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command | Synonyms: command overhead, command processing overhead, command processing overhead time |
| (adverb) above the head; over the head | - |
| (adverb) above your head; in the sky | - |
| overspread | (verb) spread across or over | Synonyms: spread |
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| packthread | (noun) a strong three-ply twine used to sew or tie packages | - |
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| pigheaded | (adjective) obstinate and stupid | Synonyms: bullet-headed, bullheaded |
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| pigheadedness | (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinacy, obstinance, self-will, stubbornness |
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| pinhead | (noun) the head of a pin | - |
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| (noun) an ignorant or foolish person | Synonyms: boob, booby, dope, dumbbell, dummy |
| pithead | (noun) the entrance to a coal mine | - |
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| plead | (verb) appeal or request earnestly | - |
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| (verb) enter a plea, as in courts of law | - |
| (verb) offer as an excuse or plea | - |
| (verb) make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts | - |
| pleader | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counsellor, counselor-at-law, counselor |
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| pleading | (adjective) begging | Synonyms: beseeching, imploring |
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| (noun) (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding | - |
| pleadingly | (adverb) in a beseeching manner | Synonyms: beseechingly, entreatingly, imploringly, importunately |
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| pothead | (noun) someone who smokes marijuana habitually | - |
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| preadolescent | (adjective) of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12 | Synonyms: preteen |
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| proofread | (verb) read for errors | Synonyms: proof |
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| proofreader | (noun) someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections | Synonyms: reader |
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| puddingheaded | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, addlepated, muddleheaded |
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| railhead | (noun) a railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution | - |
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| (noun) the end of the completed track on an unfinished railway | - |
| read | (noun) something that is read | - |
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| (verb) interpret something that is written or printed | - |
| (verb) look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed | - |
| (verb) interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior | - |
| (verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: interpret, translate, understand |
| (verb) be a student of a certain subject | Synonyms: learn, study, take |
| (verb) obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources | Synonyms: scan |
| (verb) to hear and understand | - |
| (verb) interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: record, register, show |
| (verb) audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role | - |
| (verb) have or contain a certain wording or form | Synonyms: say |
| readability | (noun) the quality of written language that makes it easy to read and understand | - |
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| (noun) a quality of writing (print or handwriting) that can be easily read | Synonyms: legibility |
| readable | (adjective) easily deciphered | Synonyms: clear, decipherable |
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| readably | (adverb) in a legible manner | Synonyms: decipherably, legibly |
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| readapt | (verb) adapt anew | - |
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| (verb) adjust anew | Synonyms: readjust |
| reader | (noun) one of a series of texts for students learning to read | - |
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| (noun) a person who enjoys reading | - |
| (noun) a public lecturer at certain universities | Synonyms: lector, lecturer |
| (noun) someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication | Synonyms: subscriber |
| (noun) a person who can read; a literate person | - |
| (noun) someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections | Synonyms: proofreader |
| (noun) someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication | Synonyms: referee, reviewer |
| (noun) someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: lector |
| readership | (noun) the audience reached by written communications (books or magazines or newspapers etc.) | - |
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| readily | (adverb) without much difficulty | - |
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| (adverb) in a punctual manner | Synonyms: promptly, pronto |
| readiness | (noun) prompt willingness | Synonyms: eagerness, forwardness, zeal |
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| (noun) a natural effortlessness | Synonyms: facility |
| (noun) (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way | Synonyms: set |
| (noun) the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action) | Synonyms: preparation, preparedness |
| reading | (noun) the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments | Synonyms: meter reading |
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| (noun) the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message | - |
| (noun) a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something | Synonyms: interpretation, version |
| (noun) a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument | Synonyms: indication, meter reading |
| (noun) written material intended to be read | Synonyms: reading material |
| (noun) a particular interpretation or performance | - |
| (noun) a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance | Synonyms: recital, recitation |
| readjust | (verb) adjust anew | Synonyms: readapt |
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| (verb) adjust again after an initial failure | Synonyms: reset |
| readjustment | (noun) the act of adjusting again (to changed circumstances) | - |
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| (noun) the act of adjusting something to match a standard | Synonyms: adjustment, registration |
| readmission | (noun) the act of admitting someone again | - |
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| readmit | (verb) admit anew | - |
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| (verb) admit again or anew | - |
| readout | (noun) an electronic device that displays information | Synonyms: read-out |
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| (noun) the information displayed or recorded on an electronic device | Synonyms: read-out |
| (noun) the output of a computer in readable form | Synonyms: read-out |
| ready | (adjective) completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress | - |
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| (adjective) apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity | Synonyms: quick |
| (adjective) made suitable and available for immediate use | - |
| (adjective) mentally disposed | - |
| (adjective) (of especially money) immediately available | - |
| (noun) poised for action | - |
| (verb) make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc | Synonyms: fix, gear up, prepare, set, set up |
| (verb) prepare for eating by applying heat | Synonyms: cook, fix, make, prepare |
| readying | (noun) the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose | Synonyms: preparation |
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| redhead | (noun) black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck | Synonyms: Melanerpes erythrocephalus, redheaded woodpecker |
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| (noun) North American diving duck with a grey-and-black body and reddish-brown head | Synonyms: Aythya americana |
| (noun) someone who has red hair | Synonyms: carrottop, red-header, redheader |
| redheaded | (adjective) having red hair and usually fair skin | - |
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| redheader | (noun) someone who has red hair | Synonyms: carrottop, red-header, redhead |
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| reread | (verb) read anew; read again | - |
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| retread | (noun) a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads | Synonyms: recap |
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| (verb) give new treads to (a tire) | Synonyms: remold, remould |
| (verb) use again in altered form | Synonyms: make over, rework |
| ringleader | (noun) a person who leads (especially in illicit activities) | - |
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| roadstead | (noun) a partly sheltered anchorage | Synonyms: roads |
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| roundhead | (noun) a brachycephalic person | - |
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| roundheaded | (adjective) having a brachycephalic head | Synonyms: broad-headed, short-headed |
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| saphead | (noun) a person who lacks good judgment | Synonyms: fool, muggins, sap, tomfool |
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| sheepshead | (noun) large (up to 20 lbs) food fish of the eastern coast of the United States and Mexico | Synonyms: Archosargus probatocephalus |
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| shithead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull |
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| shortbread | (noun) very rich thick butter cookie | Synonyms: shortbread cookie |
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| shovelhead | (noun) small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries | Synonyms: bonnet shark, bonnethead, Sphyrna tiburo |
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| showerhead | (noun) a perforated nozzle that showers water on a bather | - |
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| sightread | (verb) perform music from a score without having seen the score before | Synonyms: sight-read |
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| sightreader | (noun) a performer who reads without preparation or prior acquaintance (as in music) | - |
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| skinhead | (noun) a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent | Synonyms: skin |
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| (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, baldy, skin |
| skinheads | (noun) a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism | Synonyms: bootboys |
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| sleepyhead | (noun) a sleepy person | - |
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