| roentgenographic | (adjective) relating to or produced by roentgenography | - |
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| samphire | (noun) fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass | Synonyms: glasswort, Salicornia europaea |
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| sapphic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by homosexual relations between woman | Synonyms: lesbian |
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| sapphire | (adjective) of something having the color of a blue sapphire | - |
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| (noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: azure, cerulean, lazuline, sky-blue |
| (noun) a transparent piece of sapphire that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
| (noun) a precious transparent stone of rich blue corundum valued as a gemstone | - |
| sapphirine | (adjective) made of or resembling sapphire | - |
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| (noun) a rare light blue or green mineral; consists of aluminum and magnesium silicate and occurs as small grains in some metamorphic rocks | - |
| sapphism | (noun) female homosexuality | Synonyms: lesbianism |
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| semiautobiographical | (adjective) of or relating to a work that combines autobiography and fiction | - |
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| seraphic | (adjective) of or relating to an angel of the first order | Synonyms: seraphical |
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| (adjective) having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, cherubic, sweet |
| seraphical | (adjective) of or relating to an angel of the first order | Synonyms: seraphic |
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| siderophilin | (noun) a globulin in blood plasma that carries iron | Synonyms: beta globulin, transferrin |
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| somatotrophin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; promotes growth in humans | Synonyms: growth hormone, human growth hormone, somatotrophic hormone, somatotropic hormone, somatotropin, STH |
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| sophism | (noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | Synonyms: sophistication, sophistry |
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| sophist | (noun) someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious | Synonyms: casuist |
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| sophistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to sophists | - |
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| (adjective) plausible but misleading | Synonyms: sophistical |
| sophistical | (adjective) plausible but misleading | Synonyms: sophistic |
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| sophisticate | (noun) a worldly-wise person | Synonyms: man of the world |
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| (verb) make more complex or refined | - |
| (verb) alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive | Synonyms: doctor, doctor up |
| (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: convolute, pervert, twist, twist around |
| (verb) make less natural or innocent | - |
| sophisticated | (adjective) having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire | - |
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| (adjective) ahead in development; complex or intricate | Synonyms: advanced |
| (adjective) intellectually appealing | - |
| sophistication | (noun) falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies | - |
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| (noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundaneness, mundanity, worldliness |
| (noun) uplifting enlightenment | Synonyms: edification |
| (noun) being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject | - |
| (noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | Synonyms: sophism, sophistry |
| sophistry | (noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | Synonyms: sophism, sophistication |
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| spectrographic | (adjective) relating to or employing a spectrograph | - |
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| spectrographically | (adverb) by spectrographic means | - |
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| spermophile | (noun) any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops | Synonyms: gopher, ground squirrel |
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| sphincter | (noun) a ring of muscle that contracts to close an opening | Synonyms: anatomical sphincter, sphincter muscle |
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| sphingid | (noun) any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed | Synonyms: hawk moth, hawkmoth, hummingbird moth, sphinx moth |
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| sphingine | (adjective) resembling a sphinx | - |
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| sphinx | (noun) one of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians | - |
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| (noun) an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret | - |
| stenographic | (adjective) of or relating to or employing stenography | Synonyms: stenographical |
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| stenographical | (adjective) of or relating to or employing stenography | Synonyms: stenographic |
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| sulphide | (noun) a compound of sulphur and some other element that is more electropositive | Synonyms: sulfide |
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| sylphic | (adjective) (of a woman or girl) slender and graceful like a sylph | Synonyms: sylphlike |
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| symphilid | (noun) minute arthropod often infesting the underground parts of truck-garden and greenhouse crops | Synonyms: garden centipede, garden symphilid, Scutigerella immaculata |
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| syphilis | (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) | Synonyms: lues, lues venerea, pox, syph |
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| syphilitic | (adjective) of or relating to or infected with syphilis | - |
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| (noun) a person suffering from syphilis | - |
| technophile | (noun) a person who is enthusiastic about new technology | - |
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| technophilia | (noun) enthusiasm for new technology | - |
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| technophilic | (adjective) of or relating to or showing technophilia | - |
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| telegraphic | (adjective) of or relating to or transmitted by telegraph | - |
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| (adjective) having the style of a telegram with many short words left out | - |
| telegraphically | (adverb) in a short and concise manner | Synonyms: tersely |
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| telegraphist | (noun) someone who transmits messages by telegraph | Synonyms: telegraph operator, telegrapher |
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| theosophical | (adjective) of or relating to theosophy | - |
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| theosophism | (noun) belief in theosophy | - |
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| theosophist | (noun) a believer in theosophy | - |
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| thermoacidophile | (noun) archaebacteria that thrive in strongly acidic environments at high temperatures | - |
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| thyrotrophin | (noun) anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland | Synonyms: thyroid-stimulating hormone, thyrotrophic hormone, thyrotropic hormone, thyrotropin, TSH |
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| topographic | (adjective) concerned with topography | Synonyms: topographical |
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| topographical | (adjective) concerned with topography | Synonyms: topographic |
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| topographically | (adverb) with regard to topography | - |
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| trephination | (noun) an operation that removes a circular section of bone from the skull | - |
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| trephine | (noun) a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull | Synonyms: trepan |
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| (verb) operate on with a trephine | - |
| trophic | (adjective) of or relating to nutrition | - |
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| typographic | (adjective) relating to or occurring or used in typography | Synonyms: typographical |
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| typographical | (adjective) relating to or occurring or used in typography | Synonyms: typographic |
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| typographically | (adverb) in a typographic way | - |
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| ulatrophia | (noun) recession of the gums | - |
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| unsophisticated | (adjective) not wise in the ways of the world | Synonyms: unworldly |
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| (adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial | Synonyms: bumpkinly, hick, rustic |
| (adjective) lacking complexity | Synonyms: uncomplicated |
| uphill | (adjective) sloping upward | Synonyms: acclivitous, rising |
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| (noun) the upward slope of a hill | - |
| (adverb) upward on a hill or incline | - |
| (adverb) against difficulties | - |
| xerographic | (adjective) of or relating to xerography | - |
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| xerophile | (noun) plant adapted for life with a limited supply of water; compare hydrophyte and mesophyte | Synonyms: desert plant, xerophilous plant, xerophyte, xerophytic plant |
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| zoomorphism | (noun) the attribution of animal forms or qualities to a god | - |
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| zoophilia | (noun) a sexual attraction to animals | Synonyms: zoophilism |
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| zoophilism | (noun) a sexual attraction to animals | Synonyms: zoophilia |
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| zygomorphic | (adjective) capable of division into symmetrical halves by only one longitudinal plane passing through the axis | Synonyms: bilaterally symmetrical, zygomorphous |
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