| psyllid | (noun) small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices | Synonyms: jumping plant louse, psylla |
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| psyllium | (noun) plantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative | Synonyms: fleawort, Plantago psyllium, Spanish psyllium |
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| psyop | (noun) military actions designed to influence the perceptions and attitudes of individuals, groups, and foreign governments | Synonyms: psychological operation |
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| quadriceps | (noun) a muscle of the thigh that extends the leg | Synonyms: musculus quadriceps femoris, quad, quadriceps femoris |
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| rapscallion | (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, monkey, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp |
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| (noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rascal, rogue, scalawag, scallywag, varlet |
| relapse | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
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| (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress |
| (verb) deteriorate in health | Synonyms: get worse |
| relapsing | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, reversion, reverting |
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| rhapsodic | (adjective) feeling great rapture or delight | Synonyms: ecstatic, enraptured, rapt, rapturous |
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| rhapsodically | (adverb) in an ecstatic manner | Synonyms: ecstatically, rapturously |
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| rhapsodise | (verb) say (something) with great enthusiasm | Synonyms: rhapsodize |
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| (verb) recite a rhapsody | Synonyms: rhapsodize |
| rhapsodize | (verb) say (something) with great enthusiasm | Synonyms: rhapsodise |
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| (verb) recite a rhapsody | Synonyms: rhapsodise |
| rhapsody | (noun) (in ancient Greece) an epic poem adapted for recitation | - |
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| (noun) (music) a free instrumental composition in one extended movement; typically emotional or exuberant in character | - |
| (noun) an enthusiastic expression of emotion | - |
| rhodopsin | (noun) a red photopigment in the retinal rods of vertebrates; dissociates into retinene by light | Synonyms: retinal purple, visual purple |
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| ripsaw | (noun) a handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood | Synonyms: splitsaw |
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| rollmops | (noun) a pickled herring filet that has been rolled or wrapped around a pickle | - |
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| sapsago | (noun) a hard green Swiss cheese made with skim-milk curd and flavored with clover | - |
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| sapsucker | (noun) small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees | - |
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| schnapps | (noun) any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes | Synonyms: schnaps |
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| schnaps | (noun) any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes | Synonyms: schnapps |
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| scraps | (noun) food that is discarded (as from a kitchen) | Synonyms: food waste, garbage, refuse |
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| sempstress | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: modiste, needlewoman, seamstress |
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| sepsis | (noun) the presence of pus-forming bacteria or their toxins in the blood or tissues | - |
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| sharpshoot | (verb) aim and shoot with great precision | Synonyms: snipe |
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| sharpshooter | (noun) a fast schooner once used by New England fisherman for illegal fishing in Canadian waters | - |
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| (noun) someone skilled in shooting | Synonyms: crack shot, marksman |
| (noun) an athlete noted for accurate aim | - |
| sheepshank | (noun) a knot for shortening a line | - |
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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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| sheepshearing | (noun) act of shearing sheep | - |
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| (noun) a festival held at the time sheep are normally sheared | - |
| (noun) the time or season when sheep are sheared | - |
| sheepskin | (noun) a document certifying the successful completion of a course of study | Synonyms: diploma |
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| (noun) tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing | Synonyms: fleece |
| (noun) skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on | Synonyms: lambskin, parchment |
| shipshape | (adjective) characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder | Synonyms: trim, well-kept |
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| shipside | (noun) the part of a wharf that is next to a ship | - |
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| shopsoiled | (adjective) worn or faded from being on display in a store | Synonyms: shopworn |
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| slapshot | (noun) a fast shot made with a short powerful swing of the hockey stick | - |
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| slapstick | (adjective) characterized by horseplay and physical action | - |
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| (noun) acoustic device consisting of two paddles hinged together; used by an actor to make a loud noise without inflicting injury when striking someone | - |
| (noun) a boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes | - |
| slipshod | (adjective) marked by great carelessness | Synonyms: haphazard, slapdash, sloppy |
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| slipstick | (noun) analog computer consisting of a handheld instrument used for rapid calculations; have been replaced by pocket calculators | Synonyms: slide rule |
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| slipstream | (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: airstream, backwash, race, wash |
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| slops | (noun) cheap clothing (as formerly issued to sailors in Britain) | - |
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| (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigswill, pigwash, slop, swill |
| slopseller | (noun) a dealer in cheap ready-made clothing | Synonyms: slop-seller |
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| slopshop | (noun) a store that sells cheap ready-made clothing | Synonyms: slopseller's shop |
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| snapshot | (noun) an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera | Synonyms: shot, snap |
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| snips | (noun) (plural) hand shears for cutting sheet metal | Synonyms: tinsnips |
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| soapstone | (noun) a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments | Synonyms: soap-rock, soaprock, steatite |
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| soapsuds | (noun) the froth produced by soaps or detergents | Synonyms: lather, suds |
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| solipsism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist | - |
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| sops | (noun) piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid | Synonyms: sop |
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| soupspoon | (noun) a spoon with a rounded bowl for eating soup | Synonyms: soup spoon |
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| steps | (noun) a flight of stairs or a flight of steps | Synonyms: stairs |
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| (noun) the course along which a person has walked or is walking in | - |
| stepsister | (noun) a sister who has only one parent in common with you | Synonyms: half-sister, half sister |
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| stepson | (noun) the son of your spouse by a former marriage | - |
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| stops | (noun) a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card | Synonyms: boodle, Chicago, Michigan, Newmarket |
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| stypsis | (noun) the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids | Synonyms: astringency |
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| sumpsimus | (noun) a correct expression that takes the place of a popular but incorrect expression | - |
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| sundrops | (noun) a day-flowering biennial or perennial of the genus Oenothera | Synonyms: Oenothera fruticosa |
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| sweepstakes | (noun) a lottery in which the prize consists of the money paid by the participants | - |
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| syllepsis | (noun) use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc. with only one | - |
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| synapse | (noun) the junction between two neurons (axon-to-dendrite) or between a neuron and a muscle | - |
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| synapsid | (noun) extinct reptile having a single pair of lateral temporal openings in the skull | Synonyms: synapsid reptile |
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| synapsis | (noun) the side by side pairing of homologous maternal and paternal chromosomes at the start of meiosis | - |
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| synopsis | (noun) a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory | Synonyms: abstract, outline, precis |
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| taps | (noun) (military) signal to turn the lights out | Synonyms: lights-out |
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| tapster | (noun) a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks | Synonyms: tapper |
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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 |
| thanatopsis | (noun) an essay expressing a view on the subject of death | - |
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| therapsid | (noun) probably warm-blooded; considered direct ancestor of mammals | Synonyms: protomammal |
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| thrips | (noun) any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive | Synonyms: thrip, thripid |
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| tidytips | (noun) California annual having flower heads with yellow rays tipped with white | Synonyms: Layia platyglossa, tidy tips |
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| tinsnips | (noun) (plural) hand shears for cutting sheet metal | Synonyms: snips |
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| tipsiness | (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication |
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| tipstaff | (noun) staff with a metal tip carried as a sign of office by e.g. a bailiff or constable | - |
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| tipster | (noun) one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack) | Synonyms: tout |
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| tipsy | (adjective) slightly intoxicated | Synonyms: potty, tiddly |
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| (adjective) unstable and prone to tip as if intoxicated | - |
| tops | (adjective) of the highest quality | Synonyms: A-one, ace, crack, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch |
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| topsail | (noun) a sail (or either of a pair of sails) immediately above the lowermost sail of a mast and supported by a topmast | - |
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| topside | (noun) (usually plural) weather deck; the part of a ship's hull that is above the waterline | - |
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| topsoil | (noun) the layer of soil on the surface | Synonyms: surface soil |
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| topspin | (noun) forward spin (usually of a moving ball) that is imparted by an upward stroke | - |
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| traipse | (verb) walk or tramp about | Synonyms: shlep |
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| trapshooter | (noun) a person who engages in shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled into the air by a trap | - |
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| trapshooting | (noun) the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird | Synonyms: skeet, skeet shooting |
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| triceps | (noun) any skeletal muscle having three origins (but especially the triceps brachii) | - |
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| triceratops | (noun) huge ceratopsian dinosaur having three horns and the neck heavily armored with a very solid frill | - |
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| troops | (noun) soldiers collectively | Synonyms: military personnel, soldiery |
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| troopship | (noun) ship for transporting troops | - |
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| trypsin | (noun) an enzyme of pancreatic origin; catalyzes the hydrolysis of proteins to smaller polypeptide units | - |
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| trypsinogen | (noun) inactive precursor of trypsin; a substance secreted by the pancreas and converted to active trypsin by enterokinase in the small intestine | - |
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| turps | (noun) volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally | Synonyms: oil of turpentine, spirit of turpentine, turpentine |
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| upscale | (adjective) appropriate for people with good incomes | - |
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| upset | (adjective) thrown into a state of disarray or confusion | Synonyms: broken, confused, disordered |
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| (adjective) mildly physically distressed | - |
| (adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief | Synonyms: disquieted, distressed, disturbed, worried |
| (adjective) having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom | Synonyms: overturned, upturned |
| (adjective) used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win | - |
| (noun) an improbable and unexpected victory | Synonyms: overturn |
| (noun) the act of disturbing the mind or body | Synonyms: derangement, overthrow |
| (noun) the act of upsetting something | Synonyms: overturn, turnover |
| (noun) a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging | Synonyms: swage |
| (noun) an unhappy and worried mental state | Synonyms: disturbance, perturbation |
| (noun) a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning | Synonyms: disorder |
| (verb) disturb the balance or stability of | - |
| (verb) defeat suddenly and unexpectedly | - |
| (verb) form metals with a swage | Synonyms: swage |
| (verb) move deeply | Synonyms: disturb, trouble |
| (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune |
| (verb) cause to overturn from an upright or normal position | Synonyms: bowl over, knock over, overturn, tip over, tump over, turn over |
| upsetter | (noun) an unexpected winner; someone who defeats the favorite competitor | - |
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| upsetting | (adjective) causing an emotional disturbance | Synonyms: disconcerting |
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| upshot | (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result |
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| upside | (noun) the highest or uppermost side of anything | Synonyms: top, top side, upper side |
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| upsilon | (noun) the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| upstage | (adjective) of the back half of a stage | - |
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| (adjective) remote in manner | Synonyms: aloof, distant |
| (noun) the rear part of the stage | - |
| (adverb) at or toward the rear of the stage | - |
| (verb) steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else | - |
| (verb) move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the audience | - |
| (verb) treat snobbishly, put in one's place | - |
| upstager | (noun) a selfish actor who upstages the other actors | - |
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| upstair | (adjective) on or of upper floors of a building | Synonyms: upstairs |
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| upstairs | (adjective) on or of upper floors of a building | Synonyms: upstair |
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| (noun) the part of a building above the ground floor | - |
| (adverb) on a floor above | Synonyms: on a higher floor, up the stairs |
| (adverb) with respect to the mind | - |
| upstanding | (adjective) meriting respect or esteem | Synonyms: solid |
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| upstart | (adjective) characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position | Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenu, parvenue |
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| (noun) a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright | Synonyms: kip |
| (noun) a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class | Synonyms: arriviste, nouveau-riche, parvenu |
| (noun) an arrogant or presumptuous person | - |