| shortcake | (noun) very short biscuit dough baked as individual biscuits or a round loaf; served with sweetened fruit and usually whipped cream | - |
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| shortcoming | (noun) a failing or deficiency | Synonyms: defect |
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| shortcut | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: crosscut, cutoff |
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| shorten | (verb) become short or shorter | - |
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| (verb) make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration | - |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce |
| (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate |
| (verb) make short or shorter | - |
| shortened | (adjective) with parts removed | Synonyms: cut |
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| (adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: abbreviated, truncated |
| (adjective) shortened | Synonyms: sawed-off, sawn-off |
| (adjective) shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another | Synonyms: telescoped |
| shortener | (noun) any agent that shortens | - |
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| shortening | (noun) act of decreasing in length | - |
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| (noun) fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods | - |
| shortfall | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | Synonyms: deficit, shortage |
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| shortgrass | (noun) any of various grasses that are short and can tolerate drought conditions; common on the dry upland plains just east of the Rocky Mountains | Synonyms: short-grass |
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| shorthand | (adjective) written in abbreviated or symbolic form | - |
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| (noun) a method of writing rapidly using an abbreviated symbolic system | Synonyms: stenography, tachygraphy |
| shorthorn | (noun) English breed of short-horned cattle | Synonyms: Durham |
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| shortia | (noun) any plant of the genus Shortia; evergreen perennial herbs with smooth leathery basal leaves and showy white solitary flowers | - |
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| shortish | (adjective) somewhat short | - |
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| shortlist | (noun) a list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen | Synonyms: short list |
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| (verb) put someone or something on a short list | - |
| shortly | (adverb) in the near future | Synonyms: before long, presently, soon |
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| (adverb) for a short time | - |
| (adverb) in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner | Synonyms: curtly, short |
| (adverb) at a short distance | - |
| (adverb) in a concise manner; in a few words | Synonyms: briefly, concisely, in brief, in short |
| shortness | (noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: abruptness, brusqueness, curtness, gruffness |
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| (noun) the property of being shorter than average stature | - |
| (noun) the property of being of short temporal extent | - |
| (noun) the property of being of short spatial extent | - |
| (noun) the property of being truncated or short | Synonyms: truncation |
| (noun) the condition of being short of something | - |
| shorts | (noun) (used in the plural) trousers that end at or above the knee | Synonyms: short pants, trunks |
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| (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, boxershorts, drawers, underdrawers |
| shortsighted | (adjective) unable to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: myopic, nearsighted |
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| (adjective) lacking foresight or scope | Synonyms: myopic, short, unforesightful |
| (adjective) not given careful consideration | Synonyms: ill-considered, ill-judged, improvident |
| shortsightedness | (noun) a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources | Synonyms: improvidence |
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| (noun) (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred | Synonyms: myopia, nearsightedness |
| shortstop | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base | Synonyms: short |
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| (noun) (baseball) the person who plays the shortstop position | - |
| siphonophore | (noun) a floating or swimming oceanic colony of polyps often transparent or showily colored | - |
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| sporangiophore | (noun) stalk bearing one or more sporangia | - |
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| sporophore | (noun) a spore-bearing branch or organ: the part of the thallus of a sporophyte that develops spores; in ferns and mosses and liverworts is practically equivalent to the sporophyte | - |
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| stinkhorn | (noun) any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales | Synonyms: carrion fungus |
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| stockhorn | (noun) an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone | Synonyms: hornpipe, pibgorn |
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| studhorse | (noun) adult male horse kept for breeding | Synonyms: stud |
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| terpsichore | (noun) taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music | Synonyms: dance, dancing, saltation |
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| terpsichorean | (adjective) of or relating to dancing | - |
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| (noun) a performer who dances professionally | Synonyms: dancer, professional dancer |
| thoracentesis | (noun) removal of fluid from the chest by centesis for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes | Synonyms: thoracocentesis |
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| thoracic | (adjective) of or relating to the chest or thorax | Synonyms: pectoral |
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| thoracocentesis | (noun) removal of fluid from the chest by centesis for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes | Synonyms: thoracentesis |
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| thoracotomy | (noun) surgical incision into the chest walls opening up the pleural cavity | - |
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| thorax | (noun) part of an insect's body that bears the wings and legs | - |
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| (noun) the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates | Synonyms: chest, pectus |
| (noun) the middle region of the body of an arthropod between the head and the abdomen | - |
| thoriate | (verb) impregnate with thorium oxide to increase thermionic emission | - |
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| thoriated | (adjective) being or sounding of nervous or suppressed laughter | Synonyms: tittering |
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| thorite | (noun) a radioactive mineral consisting of thorium silicate; it is a source of thorium that is found in coarse granite | - |
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| thorium | (noun) a soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sands | Synonyms: atomic number 90, Th |
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| thorn | (noun) something that causes irritation and annoyance | Synonyms: irritant |
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| (noun) a Germanic character of runic origin | - |
| (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spikelet, spine, sticker |
| thornbill | (noun) any of various South American hummingbirds with a sharp pointed bill | - |
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| thorniness | (noun) the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines | Synonyms: bristliness, prickliness, spininess |
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| (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, bitterness, jaundice, tartness |
| (noun) The property of being full of difficulties, complexities, or controversial points. | - |
| thornless | (adjective) lacking thorns | Synonyms: spineless |
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| thorny | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny |
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| (adjective) bristling with perplexities | - |
| thorough | (adjective) painstakingly careful and accurate | - |
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| (adjective) performed comprehensively and completely; not superficial or partial | Synonyms: exhaustive, thoroughgoing |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| thoroughbred | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pedigreed, pureblood, pureblooded |
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| (noun) a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | Synonyms: pureblood, purebred |
| (noun) a racehorse belonging to a breed that originated from a cross between Arabian stallions and English mares | - |
| (noun) a well-bred person | - |
| thoroughfare | (noun) a public road from one place to another | - |
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| thoroughgoing | (adjective) performed comprehensively and completely; not superficial or partial | Synonyms: exhaustive, thorough |
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| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, unadulterated, utter |
| thoroughly | (adverb) in an exhaustive manner | Synonyms: exhaustively |
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| (adverb) completely and absolutely (`good' is sometimes used informally for `thoroughly') | Synonyms: good, soundly |
| thoroughness | (noun) conscientiousness in performing all aspects of a task | - |
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| (noun) property of being marked by full detail, complete in all respects. | - |
| thoroughwort | (noun) perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine | Synonyms: agueweed, boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum |
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| thortveitite | (noun) a mineral consisting of scandium yttrium silicate; a source of scandium | - |
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| thyreophoran | (noun) armored dinosaurs: stegosaurs and ankylosaurs | Synonyms: suborder Thyreophora, Thyreophora |
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| unauthorised | (adjective) not endowed with authority | Synonyms: unauthorized |
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| (adjective) without official authorization | Synonyms: unauthorized, wildcat |
| unauthorized | (adjective) not endowed with authority | Synonyms: unauthorised |
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| (adjective) without official authorization | Synonyms: unauthorised, wildcat |
| uncamphorated | (adjective) not containing camphor | - |
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| unhorse | (verb) alight from (a horse) | Synonyms: dismount, get down, get off, light |
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| unshorn | (adjective) not sheared | Synonyms: unsheared |
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| urochord | (noun) a notochord of a larval tunicate typically confined to the caudal region | - |
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| (noun) primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva | Synonyms: tunicate, urochordate |
| urochordate | (noun) primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva | Synonyms: tunicate, urochord |
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| warhorse | (noun) horse used in war | - |
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| (noun) a work of art (composition or drama) that is part of the standard repertory but has become hackneyed from much repetition | - |
| (noun) an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service | Synonyms: old-timer, old hand, old stager, oldtimer, stager, veteran |
| whitethorn | (noun) thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America | Synonyms: Crataegus laevigata, Crataegus oxycantha, English hawthorn, may |
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| whore | (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, woman of the street, working girl |
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| (verb) compromise oneself for money or other gains | - |
| (verb) have unlawful sex with a whore | - |
| (verb) work as a prostitute | - |
| whoredom | (noun) offering sexual intercourse for pay | Synonyms: harlotry, prostitution |
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| whorehouse | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bawdyhouse, bordello, brothel, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house |
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| whoremaster | (noun) a pimp who procures whores | Synonyms: whoremonger |
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| (noun) a prostitute's customer | Synonyms: john, trick, whoremonger |
| whoremonger | (noun) a pimp who procures whores | Synonyms: whoremaster |
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| (noun) a prostitute's customer | Synonyms: john, trick, whoremaster |
| whoreson | (noun) the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents | Synonyms: bastard, by-blow, illegitimate, illegitimate child, love child |
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| (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch |
| whoriental | (noun) An East Asian Whore | - |
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| whorl | (noun) a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops | Synonyms: coil, helix, spiral, volute |
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| (noun) lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl | Synonyms: curl, ringlet |
| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll |
| whorled | (adjective) forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem) | Synonyms: verticillate, verticillated |
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| (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted |
| whorlywort | (noun) a tall perennial herb having spikes of small white or purple flowers; common in eastern North America | Synonyms: Culver's physic, Culver's root, Culvers physic, Culvers root, Veronicastrum virginicum |
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| whortleberry | (noun) blue-black berries similar to American blueberries | Synonyms: bilberry, European blueberry |
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| (noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: bilberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whinberry |
| workhorse | (noun) a horse used for plowing and hauling and other heavy labor | - |
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| (noun) machine that performs dependably under heavy use | - |