| aeschynanthus | (noun) a plant of the genus Aeschynanthus having somewhat red or orange flowers and seeds having distinctive hairs at base and apex | - |
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| affenpinscher | (noun) European breed of small dog resembling a terrier with dark wiry hair and a tufted muzzle | Synonyms: monkey dog, monkey pinscher |
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| borsch | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borscht, borsh, borshch, borsht, bortsch |
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| borscht | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borsh, borshch, borsht, bortsch |
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| bortsch | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borsh, borshch, borsht |
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| cheiloschisis | (noun) a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip | Synonyms: cleft lip, harelip |
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| crosscheck | (noun) an illegal check (chopping at an opponent's arms or stick) | - |
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| (noun) an instance of confirming something by considering information from several sources | - |
| discharge | (noun) the act of discharging a gun | Synonyms: firing, firing off |
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| (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
| (noun) a formal written statement of relinquishment | Synonyms: release, waiver |
| (noun) the act of venting | Synonyms: venting |
| (noun) the sudden giving off of energy | - |
| (noun) the pouring forth of a fluid | Synonyms: outpouring, run |
| (noun) electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field | Synonyms: arc, electric arc, electric discharge, spark |
| (noun) any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body | Synonyms: emission, expelling |
| (noun) a substance that is emitted or released | Synonyms: emission |
| (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: eject, exhaust, expel, release |
| (verb) become empty or void of its content | Synonyms: empty |
| (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, assoil, clear, exculpate, exonerate |
| (verb) release from military service | Synonyms: muster out |
| (verb) cause to go off | Synonyms: fire |
| (verb) go off or discharge | Synonyms: fire, go off |
| (verb) pour forth or release | - |
| (verb) remove the charge from | - |
| (verb) remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave | Synonyms: drop, drop off, put down, set down, unload |
| (verb) complete or carry out | Synonyms: complete, dispatch |
| (verb) free from obligations or duties | Synonyms: free |
| discharged | (adjective) having lost your job | Synonyms: dismissed, fired, laid-off, pink-slipped |
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| dyschezia | (noun) difficulty in defecating (usually as a consequence of long continued voluntary suppression of the urge to defecate) | - |
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| eschalot | (noun) type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning | Synonyms: Allium ascalonicum, Allium cepa aggregatum, multiplier onion, shallot |
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| eschar | (noun) a dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin | - |
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| eschatological | (adjective) of or relating to or dealing with or regarding the ultimate destiny of mankind and the world | - |
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| eschatologically | (adverb) in relation to eschatology | - |
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| eschatologist | (noun) a theologian who specializes in eschatology | - |
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| eschatology | (noun) the branch of theology that is concerned with such final things as death and Last Judgment; Heaven and Hell; the ultimate destiny of humankind | - |
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| eschaton | (noun) (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives | Synonyms: crack of doom, Day of Judgement, Day of Judgment, day of reckoning, Doomsday, doomsday, end of the world, Judgement Day, Judgment Day, Last Day, Last Judgement, Last Judgment |
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| escheat | (noun) a reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs | - |
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| (noun) the property that reverts to the state | - |
| escherichia | (noun) a genus of enteric bacteria | - |
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| eschew | (verb) avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of | Synonyms: shun |
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| festschrift | (noun) a collection of writings published in honor of a scholar | - |
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| gegenschein | (noun) a faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space | Synonyms: counterglow |
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| groschen | (noun) 100 groschen equal 1 schilling in Austria | - |
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| haschisch | (noun) purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: hash, hasheesh, hashish |
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| highschool | (noun) a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12 | Synonyms: high, high school, senior high, senior high school |
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| interscholastic | (adjective) used of competition or cooperation between secondary schools | Synonyms: interschool |
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| interschool | (adjective) used of competition or cooperation between secondary schools | Synonyms: interscholastic |
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| ischaemia | (noun) local anemia in a given body part sometimes resulting from vasoconstriction or thrombosis or embolism | Synonyms: ischemia |
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| ischaemic | (adjective) relating to or affected by ischemia | Synonyms: ischemic |
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| ischemia | (noun) local anemia in a given body part sometimes resulting from vasoconstriction or thrombosis or embolism | Synonyms: ischaemia |
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| ischemic | (adjective) relating to or affected by ischemia | Synonyms: ischaemic |
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| ischium | (noun) one of the three sections of the hipbone; situated below the ilium | Synonyms: ischial bone, os ischii |
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| kirsch | (noun) from fermented juice of black morello cherries | - |
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| kitsch | (noun) excessively garish or sentimental art; usually considered in bad taste | - |
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| kitschy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| maraschino | (noun) cherry preserved in true or imitation maraschino liqueur | Synonyms: maraschino cherry |
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| (noun) distilled from fermented juice of bitter wild marasca cherries | Synonyms: maraschino liqueur |
| meerschaum | (noun) a pipe having a bowl made of meerschaum | - |
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| (noun) a white clayey mineral | Synonyms: sepiolite |
| mensch | (noun) a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics | Synonyms: mensh |
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| mischance | (noun) an instance of misfortune | Synonyms: misadventure, mishap |
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| (noun) an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate | Synonyms: bad luck, mishap |
| mischief | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
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| (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: balefulness, maleficence |
| mischievous | (adjective) deliberately causing harm or damage | - |
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| (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked |
| mischievously | (adverb) in a disobedient or naughty way | Synonyms: badly, naughtily |
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| mischievousness | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
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| (noun) an attribute of mischievous children | Synonyms: badness, naughtiness |
| (noun) the trait of behaving like an imp | Synonyms: impishness, puckishness, whimsicality |
| mittelschmerz | (noun) pain in the area of the ovary that is felt at the time of ovulation (usually midway through the menstrual cycle) | - |
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| ornithischian | (noun) herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird | Synonyms: ornithischian dinosaur |
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| oscheocele | (noun) swelling of the scrotum | Synonyms: oscheocoele |
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| oscheocoele | (noun) swelling of the scrotum | Synonyms: oscheocele |
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| paschal | (adjective) of or relating to Passover or Easter | - |
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| pinscher | (noun) any of three breeds of dogs whose ears and tail are usually cropped | - |
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| playschool | (noun) a small informal nursery group meeting for half-day sessions | Synonyms: play group |
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| preschool | (noun) an educational institution for children too young for elementary school | - |
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| preschooler | (noun) a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | Synonyms: kindergartener, kindergartner |
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| putsch | (noun) a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force | Synonyms: coup, coup d'etat, takeover |
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| rachischisis | (noun) a not uncommon congenital defect in which a vertebra is malformed; unless several vertebrae are affected or there is myelomeningocele there are few symptoms; can be diagnosed by amniocentesis | Synonyms: schistorrhachis, spina bifida |
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| reschedule | (verb) assign a new time and place for an event | - |
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| saurischian | (noun) herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur having a three-pronged pelvis like that of a crocodile | Synonyms: saurischian dinosaur |
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| schedule | (noun) a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to | Synonyms: agenda, docket |
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| (noun) an ordered list of times at which things are planned to occur | - |
| (verb) plan for an activity or event | - |
| (verb) make a schedule; plan the time and place for events | - |
| scheduled | (adjective) planned or scheduled for some certain time or times | - |
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| scheduler | (noun) computer hardware that arranges jobs to be done by the computer in an appropriate order | - |
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| scheduling | (noun) setting an order and time for planned events | Synonyms: programing, programming |
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| scheelite | (noun) a mineral used as an ore of tungsten | - |
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| schema | (noun) a schematic or preliminary plan | Synonyms: outline, scheme |
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| (noun) an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world | Synonyms: scheme |
| schematic | (adjective) represented in simplified or symbolic form | Synonyms: conventional, formal |
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| (noun) diagram of an electrical or mechanical system | Synonyms: schematic drawing |
| schematically | (adverb) in a schematic manner | - |
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| schematisation | (noun) providing a chart or outline of a system | Synonyms: diagramming, schematization |
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| (noun) the act of reducing to a scheme or formula | Synonyms: schematization |
| schematise | (verb) give conventional form to | Synonyms: schematize |
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| schematization | (noun) providing a chart or outline of a system | Synonyms: diagramming, schematisation |
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| (noun) the act of reducing to a scheme or formula | Synonyms: schematisation |
| schematize | (verb) give conventional form to | Synonyms: schematise |
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| (verb) formulate in regular order; to reduce to a scheme or formula | - |
| scheme | (noun) an elaborate and systematic plan of action | Synonyms: strategy |
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| (noun) an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world | Synonyms: schema |
| (noun) a schematic or preliminary plan | Synonyms: outline, schema |
| (noun) a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery | Synonyms: dodge, dodging |
| (noun) a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole | Synonyms: system |
| (verb) form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner | Synonyms: connive, intrigue |
| (verb) devise a system or form a scheme for | - |
| schemer | (noun) a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action | Synonyms: plotter |
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| scheming | (adjective) concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest | Synonyms: designing |
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| (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculating, calculative, conniving, shrewd |
| schemozzle | (noun) (Yiddish) a confused situation or affair; a mess | Synonyms: shemozzle |
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| scherzo | (noun) a fast movement (usually in triple time) | - |
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| schilling | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in Austria | Synonyms: Austrian schilling |
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| schipperke | (noun) breed of small stocky black dogs originally used as watchdogs on boats in the Netherlands and Belgium | - |
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| schism | (noun) division of a group into opposing factions | Synonyms: split |
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| (noun) the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences | - |
| schismatic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in or characteristic of schism | Synonyms: schismatical |
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| schismatical | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in or characteristic of schism | Synonyms: schismatic |
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| schismatically | (adverb) in a manner that is schismatic | - |
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| schist | (noun) any metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers | - |
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| schistorrhachis | (noun) a not uncommon congenital defect in which a vertebra is malformed; unless several vertebrae are affected or there is myelomeningocele there are few symptoms; can be diagnosed by amniocentesis | Synonyms: rachischisis, spina bifida |
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| schistosome | (noun) flatworms parasitic in the blood vessels of mammals | Synonyms: blood fluke |
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| schistosomiasis | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected | Synonyms: bilharzia, bilharziasis |
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| schizanthus | (noun) any plant of the genus Schizanthus having finely divided leaves and showy variegated flowers | Synonyms: butterfly flower, poor man's orchid |
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| schizocarp | (noun) a dry dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more parts each with a single seed | - |
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| schizogony | (noun) asexual reproduction by multiple fission; characteristic of many sporozoan protozoans | - |
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| schizoid | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of schizophrenia | Synonyms: schizophrenic |
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| (adjective) marked by withdrawal and inability to form close relationships | - |
| (noun) characterized by symptoms similar to but less severe than schizophrenia | Synonyms: schizotypal personality |
| schizopetalon | (noun) a dainty South American annual having deeply pinnatifid leaves and racemes of fringed almond-scented purple-white flowers | Synonyms: Schizopetalon walkeri |
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| schizophrenia | (noun) any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact | Synonyms: dementia praecox, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis |
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| schizophrenic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of schizophrenia | Synonyms: schizoid |
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| (adjective) suffering from some form of schizophrenia | - |
| (noun) someone who is afflicted with schizophrenia | - |
| schizothymia | (noun) resembling schizophrenia but remaining within the bounds of normality | - |
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| schlemiel | (noun) (Yiddish) a dolt who is a habitual bungler | Synonyms: shlemiel |
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| schlep | (noun) a tedious or difficult journey | Synonyms: shlep |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person | Synonyms: schlepper, shlep, shlepper |
| (verb) pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance | Synonyms: pull along, shlep |
| schlepper | (noun) (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person | Synonyms: schlep, shlep, shlepper |
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| schlimazel | (noun) (Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything | Synonyms: shlimazel |
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| schlock | (noun) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | Synonyms: dreck, shlock |
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| schlockmeister | (noun) (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise | Synonyms: shlockmeister |
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| schmaltz | (noun) (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | Synonyms: schmalz, shmaltz |
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| schmaltzy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| schmalz | (noun) (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | Synonyms: schmaltz, shmaltz |
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