sextuplet | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sestet, sextet, sise, six, sixer, VI |
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shibboleth | (noun) a manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people | - |
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(noun) a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual | Synonyms: catchword, motto, slogan |
shrublet | (noun) dwarf shrub | - |
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simpleton | (noun) a person lacking intelligence or common sense | Synonyms: simple |
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singlet | (noun) a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body | Synonyms: undershirt, vest |
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singleton | (noun) the playing card that is the only card in a suit held in a bridge hand as initially dealt | - |
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(noun) a set containing a single member | - |
(noun) a single object (as distinguished from a pair) | - |
skeletal | (adjective) of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton | - |
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(adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, wasted |
skeleton | (noun) the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape | Synonyms: frame, skeletal frame, underframe |
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(noun) the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal | Synonyms: frame, skeletal system, systema skeletale |
(noun) a scandal that is kept secret | Synonyms: skeleton in the closet, skeleton in the cupboard |
(noun) something reduced to its minimal form | - |
skillet | (noun) a pan used for frying foods | Synonyms: frying pan, frypan |
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skilletfish | (noun) clingfish with typical skillet shape | Synonyms: Gobiesox strumosus, skillet fish |
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spikelet | (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spine, sticker, thorn |
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starlet | (noun) a small star | - |
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(noun) a young (film) actress who is publicized as a future star | - |
stiletto | (noun) a small dagger with a tapered blade | - |
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streamlet | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, rivulet, run, runnel |
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stylet | (noun) small needlelike appendage; especially the feeding organ of a tardigrade | - |
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sublet | (noun) a lease from one lessee to another | Synonyms: sublease |
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(verb) lease or rent all or part of (a leased or rented property) to another person | Synonyms: sublease |
subtlety | (noun) the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze | Synonyms: niceness |
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(noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, nuance, refinement, shade |
surmullet | (noun) brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels | Synonyms: goatfish, Mullus surmuletus, red mullet |
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swiftlet | (noun) swift of eastern Asia; produces the edible bird's nest | Synonyms: Collocalia inexpectata |
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swingletree | (noun) a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling | Synonyms: whiffletree, whippletree |
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tablet | (noun) a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet | Synonyms: lozenge, pill, tab |
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(noun) a small flat compressed cake of some substance | - |
(noun) a slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription | - |
(noun) a portable computer with a touchscreen | Synonyms: tablet computer |
(noun) a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge | Synonyms: pad, pad of paper |
tabletop | (noun) the top horizontal work surface of a table | - |
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taleteller | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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tartlet | (noun) a small tart usually used as a canape | - |
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tattletale | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, telltale |
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telethermometer | (noun) a thermometer that registers the temperature at some distant point | - |
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teletypewriter | (noun) a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter | Synonyms: teleprinter, teletype machine, telex, telex machine |
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templet | (noun) a model or standard for making comparisons | Synonyms: guide, template |
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tercelet | (noun) male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon | Synonyms: tercel, tiercel |
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toilet | (noun) the act of dressing and preparing yourself | Synonyms: toilette |
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(noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, can, john, lav, lavatory, privy |
(noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne |
(noun) misfortune resulting in lost effort or money | Synonyms: gutter, sewer |
toiletry | (noun) artifacts used in making your toilet (washing and taking care of your body) | Synonyms: toilet articles |
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toilette | (noun) the act of dressing and preparing yourself | Synonyms: toilet |
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treelet | (noun) a small tree | - |
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triplet | (noun) a set of three similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: triad, trio, triple |
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(noun) one of three offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy | - |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, troika |
tripletail | (noun) large food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with a caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail | - |
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ultraviolet | (adjective) having or employing wavelengths shorter than light but longer than X-rays; lying outside the visible spectrum at its violet end | - |
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(noun) radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays | Synonyms: ultraviolet illumination, ultraviolet light, ultraviolet radiation, UV |
uncomplete | (adjective) not complete or total; not completed | Synonyms: incomplete |
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uncompleted | (adjective) not caught or not caught within bounds | - |
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(adjective) not yet finished | Synonyms: incomplete |
unlettered | (adjective) having little acquaintance with writing | Synonyms: analphabetic |
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(adjective) uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication | Synonyms: ignorant, nescient, unlearned |
valet | (noun) a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer | Synonyms: gentleman's gentleman, gentleman, man, valet de chambre |
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(verb) serve as a personal attendant to | - |
valetudinarian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a person who is a valetudinarian | Synonyms: valetudinary |
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(noun) weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health | - |
valetudinarianism | (noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) | Synonyms: debility, feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity |
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valetudinary | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a person who is a valetudinarian | Synonyms: valetudinarian |
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valvelet | (noun) a small valve | Synonyms: valvula, valvule |
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varlet | (noun) in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood | Synonyms: page |
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(noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scalawag, scallywag |
violet | (adjective) of a color intermediate between red and blue | Synonyms: purple, purplish |
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(noun) a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum | Synonyms: reddish blue |
(noun) any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers | - |
wallet | (noun) a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money | Synonyms: billfold, notecase, pocketbook |
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wavelet | (noun) a small wave on the surface of a liquid | Synonyms: riffle, ripple, rippling |
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whiffletree | (noun) a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling | Synonyms: swingletree, whippletree |
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whippletree | (noun) a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling | Synonyms: swingletree, whiffletree |
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willet | (noun) large North American shorebird of eastern and Gulf Coasts | Synonyms: Catoptrophorus semipalmatus |
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woodlet | (noun) garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth | Synonyms: grove, orchard, plantation |
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wristlet | (noun) a band or bracelet worn around the wrist | Synonyms: wrist band |
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