| reef | (noun) one of several strips across a sail that can be taken in or rolled up to lessen the area of the sail that is exposed to the wind | - |
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| (noun) a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water | - |
| (verb) roll up (a portion of a sail) in order to reduce its area | - |
| (verb) reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef | - |
| (verb) lower and bring partially inboard | - |
| reefer | (noun) marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking | Synonyms: joint, marijuana cigarette, spliff, stick |
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| reefy | (adjective) full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals | Synonyms: shelfy, shelvy, shoaly |
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| reek | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, stench, stink |
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| (verb) be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face | Synonyms: fume |
| (verb) smell badly and offensively | Synonyms: stink |
| (verb) have an element suggestive (of something) | Synonyms: smack, smell |
| (verb) give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc. | - |
| reeking | (adjective) giving off a strong unpleasant smell | - |
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| (adjective) wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears | Synonyms: watery |
| reel | (noun) a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps | Synonyms: Scottish reel |
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| (noun) an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines | Synonyms: Virginia reel |
| (noun) a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound | Synonyms: bobbin, spool |
| (noun) winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod | - |
| (noun) a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector | - |
| (noun) music composed for dancing a reel | - |
| (verb) wind onto or off a reel | - |
| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, keel, lurch, stagger, swag |
| (verb) revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis | Synonyms: gyrate, spin, spin around, whirl |
| reelect | (verb) elect again | Synonyms: return |
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| reelection | (noun) election again | - |
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| reeler | (noun) a dancer of reels | - |
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| (noun) someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall | Synonyms: staggerer, totterer |
| reenact | (verb) act out; represent or perform as if in a play | Synonyms: act out, enact |
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| (verb) enact or perform again | - |
| (verb) enact again | - |
| reenactment | (noun) performing a role in an event that occurred at an earlier time | - |
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| reenactor | (noun) a person who enacts a role in an event that occurred earlier | - |
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| reenforce | (verb) make stronger | Synonyms: reinforce |
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| reenforcement | (noun) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission | Synonyms: reinforcement, support |
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| (noun) information that makes more forcible or convincing | Synonyms: reinforcement |
| reenlistment | (noun) a renewed enlistment | - |
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| reentrant | (adjective) (of angles) pointing inward | Synonyms: re-entrant |
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| reentry | (noun) the act of entering again | - |
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| reestablish | (verb) bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | Synonyms: reinstate, restore |
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| reevaluate | (verb) revise or renew one's assessment | Synonyms: reassess |
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| reevaluation | (noun) the evaluation of something a second time (or more) | - |
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| reeve | (noun) female ruff | - |
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| (verb) fasten by passing through a hole or around something | - |
| (verb) pass through a hole or opening | - |
| (verb) pass a rope through | - |
| reexamination | (noun) a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment | Synonyms: follow-up, followup, review |
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| (noun) (law) questioning of a witness by the party that called the witness after that witness has been subject to cross-examination | Synonyms: redirect examination |
| reexamine | (verb) look at again; examine again | Synonyms: review |
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| referee | (noun) (sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play | Synonyms: ref |
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| (noun) someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication | Synonyms: reader, reviewer |
| (noun) an attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case | - |
| (verb) evaluate professionally a colleague's work | Synonyms: peer review |
| (verb) be a referee or umpire in a sports competition | Synonyms: umpire |
| refereeing | (noun) the act of umpiring | Synonyms: officiating, officiation, umpirage |
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| retiree | (noun) someone who has retired from active working | Synonyms: retired person |
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| rooftree | (noun) a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters | Synonyms: ridge, ridgepole |
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| sangaree | (noun) sweetened red wine and orange or lemon juice with soda water | Synonyms: sangria |
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| saree | (noun) a dress worn primarily by Hindu women; consists of several yards of light material that is draped around the body | Synonyms: sari |
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| scree | (noun) a sloping mass of loose rocks at the base of a cliff | Synonyms: talus |
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| screech | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screeching, shriek, shrieking |
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| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screeching, shriek, shrieking |
| (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screak, skreak, skreigh, squawk |
| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screak, skreak, squeak, whine |
| screecher | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, bellower, roarer, screamer, shouter, yeller |
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| screeching | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, shriek, shrieking |
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| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, shriek, shrieking |
| screechy | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screaky, squeaking, squeaky, squealing |
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| screed | (noun) an accurately levelled strip of material placed on a wall or floor as guide for the even application of plaster or concrete | - |
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| (noun) a long piece of writing | - |
| (noun) a long monotonous harangue | - |
| screen | (noun) a protective covering consisting of netting; can be mounted in a frame | - |
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| (noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: concealment, cover, covert |
| (noun) a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles | Synonyms: sieve |
| (noun) partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space | - |
| (noun) a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight | Synonyms: blind |
| (noun) the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube | Synonyms: CRT screen |
| (noun) a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing | Synonyms: projection screen, silver screen |
| (noun) the personnel of the film industry | Synonyms: filmdom, screenland |
| (verb) examine methodically | - |
| (verb) protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm | Synonyms: shield |
| (verb) prevent from entering | Synonyms: block out |
| (verb) separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff | Synonyms: riddle |
| (verb) project onto a screen for viewing | - |
| (verb) examine in order to test suitability | Synonyms: screen out, sieve, sort |
| (verb) test or examine for the presence of disease or infection | Synonyms: test |
| screener | (noun) a guard at an airport who checks passengers or their luggage at a security checkpoint | - |
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| screening | (noun) the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it | Synonyms: cover, covering, masking |
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| (noun) testing objects or persons in order to identify those with particular characteristics | - |
| (noun) fabric of metal or plastic mesh | - |
| (noun) the display of a motion picture | Synonyms: showing, viewing |
| screenland | (noun) the personnel of the film industry | Synonyms: filmdom, screen |
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| screenplay | (noun) a script for a film including dialogue and descriptions of characters and sets | - |
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| screenshot | (verb) to capture an image from a computer's display | - |
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| screenwriter | (noun) someone who writes screenplays | Synonyms: film writer |
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| shivaree | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, callithump, charivari, chivaree |
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| shoetree | (noun) a wooden or metal device that is inserted into a shoe to preserve its shape when it is not being worn | - |
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| (verb) stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree | Synonyms: tree |
| silkscreen | (noun) a print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil | Synonyms: serigraph, silk screen print |
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| (verb) print by silkscreen | - |
| smithereens | (noun) a collection of small fragments considered as a whole | - |
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| smokescreen | (noun) an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure | Synonyms: smoke screen |
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| (noun) (military) screen consisting of a cloud of smoke that obscures movements | Synonyms: smoke screen |
| soiree | (noun) a party of people assembled in the evening (usually at a private house) | - |
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| spree | (noun) a brief indulgence of your impulses | Synonyms: fling |
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| (verb) engage without restraint in an activity and indulge, as when shopping | - |
| street | (noun) a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings | - |
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| (noun) the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel | - |
| (noun) people living or working on the same street | - |
| (noun) the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction | - |
| (noun) a situation offering opportunities | - |
| streetcar | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity | Synonyms: tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car |
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| streetlight | (noun) a lamp supported on a lamppost; for illuminating a street | Synonyms: street lamp |
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| streetwalk | (verb) walk the streets in search of customers | Synonyms: street-walk |
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| streetwalker | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl |
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| streetwise | (adjective) having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment | Synonyms: street smart, with-it |
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| sunscreen | (noun) a cream spread on the skin; contains a chemical (as PABA) to filter out ultraviolet light and so protect from sunburn | Synonyms: sun blocker, sunblock |
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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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| tendergreen | (noun) Asiatic plant cultivated for its swollen root crown and edible foliage | Synonyms: Brassica perviridis, Brassica rapa perviridis, spinach mustard |
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| three | (adjective) being one more than two | Synonyms: 3, iii |
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| (noun) one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips | Synonyms: trey |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| threefold | (adjective) three times as great or many | Synonyms: three-fold, treble, triple |
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| (adjective) having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities | Synonyms: double, dual, three-fold, treble, two-fold, twofold |
| (adverb) by a factor of three | Synonyms: three times |
| threepence | (noun) former cupronickel coin of the United Kingdom equal to three pennies | - |
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| threepenny | (adjective) of trifling worth | Synonyms: sixpenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny, twopenny |
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| (adjective) used of nail size; 1 1/4 in long | - |
| threescore | (adjective) being ten more than fifty | Synonyms: 60, lx, sixty |
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| (noun) a set with 3 times 20 members | - |
| threesome | (noun) three people considered as a unit | Synonyms: triad, trinity, trio |
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| (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, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| touchscreen | (noun) a computer display that enables the user to interact with the computer by touching areas on the screen | Synonyms: touch screen |
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| transferee | (noun) someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another | Synonyms: transfer |
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| (noun) (law) someone to whom a title or property is conveyed | - |
| tree | (noun) a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms | - |
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| (noun) a figure that branches from a single root | Synonyms: tree diagram |
| (verb) stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree | Synonyms: shoetree |
| (verb) chase an animal up a tree | - |
| (verb) plant with trees | - |
| (verb) force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape | Synonyms: corner |
| treed | (adjective) forced to turn and face attackers | Synonyms: at bay, cornered, trapped |
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| treehopper | (noun) small leaping insect that sucks juices of branches and twigs | - |
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| treeless | (adjective) not wooded | Synonyms: unwooded |
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| treelet | (noun) a small tree | - |
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| treelike | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped |
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| treenail | (noun) a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast | Synonyms: trenail, trunnel |
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| treetop | (noun) the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant | Synonyms: crown |
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| tureen | (noun) large deep serving dish with a cover; for serving soups and stews | - |
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| unfree | (adjective) hampered and not free; not able to act at will | - |
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| (adjective) held in servitude | - |
| unfreeze | (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dethaw, dissolve, melt, thaw, unthaw |
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| (verb) make (assets) available | Synonyms: free, release, unblock |
| unreel | (verb) unwind from or as if from a reel | Synonyms: reel off |
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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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| windscreen | (noun) transparent screen (as of glass) to protect occupants of a vehicle | Synonyms: windshield |
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| wintergreen | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry |
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| (noun) any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola | Synonyms: pyrola |
| (noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry |
| woodcreeper | (noun) any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers | Synonyms: tree creeper, wood-creeper, woodhewer |
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