| rhabdomancy | (noun) searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod | Synonyms: dowse, dowsing |
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| rifleman | (noun) a soldier whose weapon is a rifle | - |
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| (noun) someone skilled in the use of a rifle | - |
| roadman | (noun) a salesman who travels to call on customers | Synonyms: bagman, commercial traveler, commercial traveller, traveling salesman, travelling salesman |
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| (noun) a workman who is employed to repair roads | Synonyms: road mender |
| roman | (noun) a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions | Synonyms: roman letters, roman print, roman type |
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| romance | (noun) an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure) | Synonyms: romanticism |
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| (noun) a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life | - |
| (noun) a story dealing with love | Synonyms: love story |
| (noun) a relationship between two lovers | Synonyms: love affair |
| (verb) tell romantic or exaggerated lies | - |
| (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander |
| (verb) have a love affair with | - |
| (verb) make amorous advances towards | Synonyms: court, solicit, woo |
| romantic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romanticist, romanticistic |
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| (adjective) not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic | Synonyms: quixotic, wild-eyed |
| (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amatory, amorous |
| (noun) a soulful or amorous idealist | - |
| (noun) an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism | Synonyms: romanticist |
| romantically | (adverb) in a manner expressive of love or romance | - |
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| (adverb) in an idealistic and unrealistic manner | - |
| romanticisation | (noun) the act of indulging in sentiment | Synonyms: romanticization, sentimentalisation, sentimentalization |
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| romanticise | (verb) make romantic in style | Synonyms: romanticize |
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| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, romanticize |
| romanticism | (noun) impractical romantic ideals and attitudes | - |
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| (noun) an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure) | Synonyms: romance |
| romanticist | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romantic, romanticistic |
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| (noun) an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism | Synonyms: romantic |
| (noun) someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality | Synonyms: sentimentalist |
| romanticistic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romantic, romanticist |
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| romanticization | (noun) the act of indulging in sentiment | Synonyms: romanticisation, sentimentalisation, sentimentalization |
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| romanticize | (verb) act in a romantic way | - |
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| (verb) make romantic in style | Synonyms: romanticise |
| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, romanticise |
| roundsman | (noun) a workman employed to make rounds (to deliver goods or make inspections or so on) | - |
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| salamander | (noun) any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed | - |
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| (noun) fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire | Synonyms: fire hook, poker, stove poker |
| (noun) reptilian creature supposed to live in fire | - |
| salamandriform | (adjective) shaped like a salamander | - |
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| salesman | (noun) a man salesperson | - |
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| salesmanship | (noun) skill in selling; skill in persuading people to buy | - |
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| saleswoman | (noun) a woman salesperson | Synonyms: salesgirl, saleslady |
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| saman | (noun) large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle | Synonyms: Albizia saman, monkey pod, monkeypod, rain tree, zaman, zamang |
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| sandman | (noun) an elf in fairy stories who sprinkles sand in children's eyes to make them sleepy | - |
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| sandwichman | (noun) a person with advertising boards hanging from the shoulders | - |
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| schoolman | (noun) a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation | Synonyms: academician |
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| seaman | (noun) a man who serves as a sailor | Synonyms: gob, Jack-tar, Jack, mariner, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, tar |
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| seamanlike | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a seaman; indicating competent seamanship | Synonyms: seamanly |
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| seamanly | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a seaman; indicating competent seamanship | Synonyms: seamanlike |
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| seamanship | (noun) skill in sailing | - |
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| seedman | (noun) a dealer in seeds | Synonyms: seedsman |
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| seedsman | (noun) a dealer in seeds | Synonyms: seedman |
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| selectman | (noun) a male elected member of a board of officials who run New England towns | - |
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| selectwoman | (noun) a female elected member of a board of officials who run New England towns | - |
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| semantic | (adjective) of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning | - |
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| semantically | (adverb) with regard to meaning | - |
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| semanticist | (noun) a specialist in the study of meaning | Synonyms: semiotician |
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| semantics | (noun) the study of language meaning | - |
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| (noun) the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text | - |
| semipermanent | (adjective) relating to or extending over a relatively long time | Synonyms: long-run, long-term |
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| serviceman | (noun) someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force | Synonyms: man, military man, military personnel |
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| shaggymane | (noun) common edible mushroom having an elongated shaggy white cap and black spores | Synonyms: Coprinus comatus, shaggy cap, shaggymane mushroom |
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| shaman | (noun) in societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds; practices sorcery for healing or divination | Synonyms: priest-doctor |
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| shamanise | (verb) practice shamanism | Synonyms: shamanize |
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| shamanism | (noun) an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans | Synonyms: Asian shamanism |
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| (noun) any animistic religion similar to Asian shamanism (especially as practiced by certain Native American tribes) | - |
| shamanist | (adjective) of or relating to shamanism | Synonyms: shamanistic |
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| shamanistic | (adjective) of or relating to shamanism | Synonyms: shamanist |
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| shamanize | (verb) practice shamanism | Synonyms: shamanise |
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| sheepman | (noun) a man who raises (or tends) sheep | - |
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| (noun) a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock | Synonyms: sheepherder, shepherd |
| showman | (noun) a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments | Synonyms: impresario, promoter |
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| (noun) a person skilled at making effective presentations | - |
| showmanship | (noun) the ability to present something (especially theatrical shows) in an attractive manner | - |
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| siamang | (noun) large black gibbon of Sumatra having the 2nd and 3rd toes partially united by a web | Synonyms: Hylobates syndactylus, Symphalangus syndactylus |
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| sidesman | (noun) (Church of England) an assistant to the churchwarden; collects offerings of money in the church | - |
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| signalman | (noun) a railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yard | - |
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| snowman | (noun) a figure of a person made of packed snow | - |
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| soman | (noun) a nerve agent easily absorbed into the body; a lethal cholinesterase inhibitor that is highly toxic when inhaled | Synonyms: GD |
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| soundman | (noun) a technician in charge of amplifying sound or producing sound effects (as for a TV or radio broadcast) | - |
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| spaceman | (noun) a person trained to travel in a spacecraft | Synonyms: astronaut, cosmonaut |
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| sphygmomanometer | (noun) a pressure gauge for measuring blood pressure | - |
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| spokesman | (noun) a male spokesperson | - |
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| spokeswoman | (noun) a female spokesperson | - |
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| sportsman | (noun) a male who engages in sports | - |
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| sportsmanlike | (adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | Synonyms: clean, sporting, sporty |
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| sportsmanship | (noun) fairness in following the rules of the game | - |
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| sportswoman | (noun) a female who engages in sports | - |
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| squandermania | (noun) prodigious squandering (usually by a government) | - |
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| stableman | (noun) someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses | Synonyms: groom, hostler, ostler, stableboy |
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| statesman | (noun) a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs | - |
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| statesmanlike | (adjective) marked by the qualities of or befitting a statesman | Synonyms: statesmanly |
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| statesmanly | (adjective) marked by the qualities of or befitting a statesman | Synonyms: statesmanlike |
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| statesmanship | (noun) wisdom in the management of public affairs | Synonyms: diplomacy, statecraft |
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| stateswoman | (noun) a woman statesman | - |
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| steelman | (noun) a worker engaged in making steel | Synonyms: steelmaker, steelworker |
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| steersman | (noun) the person who steers a ship | Synonyms: helmsman, steerer |
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| stockman | (noun) farmer who breed or raises livestock | Synonyms: stock farmer, stock raiser |
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| strawman | (noun) an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds | Synonyms: bird-scarer, scarecrow, scarer, straw man |
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| (noun) a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted | Synonyms: straw man |
| (noun) a person used as a cover for some questionable activity | Synonyms: figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man |
| strongman | (noun) a powerful political figure who rules by the exercise of force or violence | - |
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| (noun) a man who performs feats of strength at a fair or circus | - |
| subhuman | (adjective) less than human or not worthy of a human being | - |
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| (adjective) unfit for human beings | - |
| superhuman | (adjective) above or beyond the human or demanding more than human power or endurance | - |
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| superhumanity | (noun) The state or condition of being beyond what is possible for a human being. | - |
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| superman | (noun) street name for lysergic acid diethylamide | Synonyms: acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, window pane, Zen |
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| (noun) a person with great powers and abilities | Synonyms: demigod, Ubermensch |
| swagman | (noun) an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work | Synonyms: swagger, swaggie |
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| switchman | (noun) a man who operates railroad switches | - |
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| swordsman | (noun) someone skilled at fencing | Synonyms: fencer |
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| swordsmanship | (noun) skill in fencing | - |
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| synsemantic | (adjective) of a word or phrase meaningful only when it occurs in the company of other words | - |
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| talisman | (noun) a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease | Synonyms: amulet |
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| talismanic | (adjective) possessing or believed to possess magic power especially protective power | - |
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| tallyman | (noun) one who keeps a tally of quantity or weight of goods produced or shipped or received | Synonyms: tally clerk |
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| (noun) one who sells goods on the installment plan | - |
| tamandu | (noun) small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and Central America | Synonyms: lesser anteater, tamandua, Tamandua tetradactyla |
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| tamandua | (noun) small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and Central America | Synonyms: lesser anteater, tamandu, Tamandua tetradactyla |
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| tamanoir | (noun) large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America | Synonyms: ant bear, giant anteater, great anteater, Myrmecophaga jubata |
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| taximan | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabdriver, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver |
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| taxman | (noun) someone who collects taxes for the government | Synonyms: collector of internal revenue, exciseman, internal revenue agent, tax collector |
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| timberman | (noun) an owner or manager of a company that is engaged in lumbering | - |
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| tollman | (noun) someone employed to collect tolls | Synonyms: toll agent, toll collector, toll taker, toller, tollgatherer, tollkeeper |
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| townsman | (noun) a person from the same town as yourself | - |
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| (noun) a resident of a town or city | Synonyms: towner |
| tradesman | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, shopkeeper, storekeeper |
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| trainbandsman | (noun) a member of a trainband | - |
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| trainman | (noun) an employee of a railroad | Synonyms: railroad man, railroader, railway man, railwayman |
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| trencherman | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer |
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| tribesman | (noun) someone who lives in a tribe | - |
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| trichotillomania | (noun) an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair | - |
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