schmalzy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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schmear | (noun) (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together | Synonyms: schmeer, shmear |
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schmeer | (noun) (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together | Synonyms: schmear, shmear |
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schmegegge | (noun) (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense | Synonyms: shmegegge |
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schmo | (noun) (Yiddish) a jerk | Synonyms: schmuck, shmo, shmuck |
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schmoose | (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze |
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(verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze |
schmooze | (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: chat, confab, confabulation, schmoose |
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(verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmoose, shmoose, shmooze |
schmoozer | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationalist, conversationist |
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schmuck | (noun) (Yiddish) a jerk | Synonyms: schmo, shmo, shmuck |
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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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schnauzer | (noun) old German breed of sturdy black or greyish wire-haired terriers having a blunt muzzle ranging in size from fairly small to very large; used as ratters and guard dogs or police dogs | - |
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schnecken | (noun) rolled dough spread with sugar and nuts then sliced and baked in muffin tins with honey or sugar and butter in the bottom | Synonyms: caramel bun, honey bun, sticky bun |
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schnittlaugh | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chive, chives, cive |
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schnitzel | (noun) deep-fried breaded veal cutlets | Synonyms: Wiener schnitzel |
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schnook | (noun) (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised | Synonyms: shnook |
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schnorchel | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: breather, schnorkel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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schnorkel | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: breather, schnorchel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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schnorr | (verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: cadge, scrounge, shnorr |
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schnorrer | (noun) (Yiddish) a scrounger who takes advantage of the generosity of others | Synonyms: shnorrer |
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schnoz | (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
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schnozzle | (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, snoot, snout |
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scholar | (noun) a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines | Synonyms: bookman, scholarly person |
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(noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs | Synonyms: assimilator, learner, student |
(noun) a student who holds a scholarship | - |
scholarly | (adjective) characteristic of scholars or scholarship | - |
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scholarship | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning |
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(noun) financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit | - |
scholastic | (adjective) of or relating to schools | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism | - |
(noun) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit | Synonyms: bookworm, pedant |
scholastically | (adverb) with respect to scholastic activities | - |
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scholasticism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: academicism, academism |
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scholia | (noun) a marginal note written by a scholiast (a commentator on ancient or classical literature) | Synonyms: scholium |
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scholiast | (noun) a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author) | - |
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scholium | (noun) a marginal note written by a scholiast (a commentator on ancient or classical literature) | Synonyms: scholia |
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school | (noun) a building where young people receive education | Synonyms: schoolhouse |
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(noun) the process of being formally educated at a school | Synonyms: schooling |
(noun) an educational institution | - |
(noun) a large group of fish | Synonyms: shoal |
(noun) a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers | - |
(noun) an educational institution's faculty and students | - |
(noun) the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session | Synonyms: school day, schooltime |
(verb) swim in or form a large group of fish | - |
(verb) educate in or as if in a school | - |
(verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, train |
schoolbag | (noun) a bag for carrying school books and supplies | - |
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schoolbook | (noun) a book prepared for use in schools or colleges | Synonyms: school text, text, text edition, textbook |
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schoolboy | (noun) a boy attending school | - |
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schoolboyish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young boy | Synonyms: boyish, boylike |
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schoolchild | (noun) a young person attending school (up through senior high school) | Synonyms: pupil, school-age child |
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schooldays | (noun) the time of life when you are going to school | Synonyms: schooltime |
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schoolfellow | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, classmate, schoolmate |
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schoolfriend | (noun) a friend who attends the same school | - |
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schoolgirl | (noun) a girl attending school | - |
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schoolgirlish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young girl | Synonyms: girlish |
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schoolhouse | (noun) a building where young people receive education | Synonyms: school |
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schooling | (noun) the act of teaching at school | - |
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(noun) the training of an animal (especially the training of a horse for dressage) | - |
(noun) the process of being formally educated at a school | Synonyms: school |
schoolman | (noun) a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation | Synonyms: academician |
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schoolmarm | (noun) a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) | Synonyms: mistress, schoolma'am, schoolmistress |
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schoolmaster | (noun) food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Lutjanus apodus |
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(noun) presiding officer of a school | Synonyms: headmaster, master |
(noun) any person (or institution) who acts as an educator | - |
schoolmate | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, classmate, schoolfellow |
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schoolmistress | (noun) a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) | Synonyms: mistress, schoolma'am, schoolmarm |
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schoolroom | (noun) a room in a school where lessons take place | Synonyms: classroom |
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schoolteacher | (noun) a teacher in a school below the college level | Synonyms: school teacher |
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schooltime | (noun) the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session | Synonyms: school, school day |
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(noun) the time of life when you are going to school | Synonyms: schooldays |
schoolwide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a school | - |
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schoolwork | (noun) work, such as schoolwork or piecework, that is done at home | Synonyms: homework, school assignment |
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schoolyard | (noun) the yard associated with a school | - |
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schooner | (noun) sailing vessel used in former times | - |
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(noun) a large beer glass | - |
schorl | (noun) black tourmaline | - |
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schottische | (noun) a German round dance resembling a slow polka | - |
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(noun) music performed for dancing the schottische | - |
schrod | (noun) young Atlantic cod or haddock especially one split and boned for cooking | Synonyms: scrod |
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(noun) flesh of young Atlantic cod weighing up to 2 pounds; also young haddock and pollock; often broiled | Synonyms: scrod |
schtick | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
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(noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
(noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
schtickl | (noun) a really little shtik | Synonyms: schtikl, shtickl, shtikl |
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schtik | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
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(noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
(noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
schtikl | (noun) a really little shtik | Synonyms: schtickl, shtickl, shtikl |
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schuss | (verb) ski downhill | - |
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schwa | (noun) a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables | Synonyms: shwa |
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seneschal | (noun) the chief steward or butler of a great household | Synonyms: major-domo |
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tovarisch | (noun) a comrade (especially in Russian communism) | Synonyms: tovarich |
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undischarged | (adjective) still capable of exploding or being fired | Synonyms: unexploded |
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(adjective) owed as a debt | Synonyms: outstanding, owing |
unscheduled | (adjective) not scheduled or not on a regular schedule | - |
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unscholarly | (adjective) not scholarly | - |
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unschooled | (adjective) lacking in schooling | Synonyms: untaught, untutored |
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welwitschia | (noun) curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old | Synonyms: Welwitschia mirabilis |
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