| inspired | (adjective) being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods | Synonyms: divine, elysian |
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| inspirer | (noun) a leader who stimulates and excites people to action | Synonyms: galvaniser, galvanizer |
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| inspiring | (adjective) stimulating or exalting to the spirit | - |
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| inspirit | (verb) infuse with spirit | Synonyms: spirit, spirit up |
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| inspiriting | (adjective) cheerfully encouraging | Synonyms: heartening |
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| inspissate | (verb) become thick or thicker | Synonyms: thicken |
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| (verb) make thick or thicker | Synonyms: thicken |
| (verb) make viscous or dense | Synonyms: thicken |
| inspissation | (noun) the act of thickening | Synonyms: thickening |
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| (noun) the process of thickening by dehydration | - |
| leptospira | (noun) important pathogens causing Weil's disease or canicola fever | - |
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| leptospirosis | (noun) an infectious disease cause by leptospira and transmitted to humans from domestic animals; characterized by jaundice and fever | Synonyms: swamp fever |
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| lispingly | (adverb) with a lisp | - |
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| mantispid | (noun) insect that resembles a mantis; larvae are parasites in the nests of spiders and wasps | - |
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| marlinespike | (noun) a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) | Synonyms: marlingspike, marlinspike |
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| marlingspike | (noun) a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) | Synonyms: marlinespike, marlinspike |
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| marlinspike | (noun) a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) | Synonyms: marlinespike, marlingspike |
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| meanspirited | (adjective) lacking in magnanimity | Synonyms: ungenerous |
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| (adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | Synonyms: base, mean |
| meanspiritedly | (adverb) in a meanspirited manner | - |
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| mispickel | (noun) a silver-white or grey ore of arsenic | Synonyms: arsenopyrite |
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| overspill | (noun) the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity | Synonyms: overflow, runoff |
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| (noun) the relocation of people from overcrowded cities; they are accommodated in new houses or apartments in smaller towns | - |
| oversuspicious | (adjective) unduly suspicious | - |
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| perspicacious | (adjective) mentally acute or penetratingly discerning | Synonyms: clear-eyed, clear-sighted |
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| (adjective) acutely insightful and wise | Synonyms: sagacious, sapient |
| perspicaciousness | (noun) intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) | Synonyms: astuteness, perspicacity, shrewdness |
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| perspicacity | (noun) the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, judgment, sound judgement, sound judgment |
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| (noun) intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) | Synonyms: astuteness, perspicaciousness, shrewdness |
| perspicuity | (noun) clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous | Synonyms: perspicuousness, plainness |
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| perspicuous | (adjective) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid |
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| perspicuously | (adverb) in a clear and lucid manner | Synonyms: limpidly, lucidly, pellucidly |
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| perspicuousness | (noun) clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous | Synonyms: perspicuity, plainness |
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| perspiration | (noun) salty fluid secreted by sweat glands | Synonyms: sudor, sweat |
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| (noun) the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid | Synonyms: diaphoresis, hidrosis, sudation, sweating |
| perspire | (verb) excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin | Synonyms: sudate, sweat |
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| perspirer | (noun) a person who perspires | Synonyms: sweater |
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| prospicience | (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, foresight, prevision |
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| prospicient | (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, long, longsighted |
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| raspiness | (noun) (of sound) The state or characteristic of being rough or raw, especially used to describe vocal quality. | - |
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| rasping | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, gravelly, raspy, rough, scratchy |
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| (noun) uttering in an irritated tone | Synonyms: rasp |
| raspingly | (adverb) in a harsh and grating manner | Synonyms: gratingly, harshly |
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| respiration | (noun) the metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules; processes that take place in the cells and tissues during which energy is released and carbon dioxide is produced and absorbed by the blood to be transported to the lungs | Synonyms: cellular respiration, internal respiration |
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| (noun) the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation | Synonyms: breathing, external respiration, ventilation |
| (noun) a single complete act of breathing in and out | - |
| respirator | (noun) a breathing device for administering long-term artificial respiration | Synonyms: inhalator |
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| (noun) a protective mask with a filter; protects the face and lungs against poisonous gases | Synonyms: gas helmet, gasmask |
| respiratory | (adjective) pertaining to respiration | - |
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| respire | (verb) draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs | Synonyms: breathe, suspire, take a breath |
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| (verb) undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide | - |
| (verb) breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety | - |
| respite | (noun) a pause from doing something (as work) | Synonyms: break, recess, time out |
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| (noun) the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment | Synonyms: reprieve |
| (noun) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | Synonyms: abatement, hiatus, reprieve, suspension |
| (noun) a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort | Synonyms: reprieve |
| (noun) a pause for relaxation | Synonyms: relief, rest, rest period |
| (verb) postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution | Synonyms: reprieve |
| spic | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: immaculate, speckless, spic-and-span, spick-and-span, spick, spotless |
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| (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent | Synonyms: spick, spik |
| spicate | (adjective) having or relating to spikes | - |
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| spiccato | (noun) bowing in such a way that the bow bounces lightly off the strings | Synonyms: spiccato bowing |
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| spice | (noun) the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored | Synonyms: spicery, spiciness |
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| (noun) any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food | - |
| (noun) aromatic substances of vegetable origin used as a preservative | - |
| (verb) make more interesting or flavorful | Synonyms: spice up |
| (verb) add herbs or spices to | Synonyms: spice up, zest |
| spiceberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India | Synonyms: Ardisia crenata, coralberry |
| spicebush | (noun) deciduous shrub of the eastern United States having highly aromatic leaves and bark and yellow flowers followed by scarlet or yellow berries | Synonyms: American spicebush, Benjamin bush, Benzoin odoriferum, Lindera benzoin, spice bush |
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| (noun) straggling aromatic shrub of southwestern United States having fragrant brown flowers | Synonyms: California allspice, Calycanthus occidentalis |
| spicemill | (noun) a mill for grinding spices | - |
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| spicery | (noun) the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored | Synonyms: spice, spiciness |
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| spicily | (adverb) with strong spices; in a spicy manner | Synonyms: piquantly |
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| spiciness | (noun) the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored | Synonyms: spice, spicery |
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| (noun) behavior or language bordering on indelicacy | Synonyms: gaminess, raciness, ribaldry |
| spick | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: immaculate, speckless, spic-and-span, spic, spick-and-span, spotless |
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| (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent | Synonyms: spic, spik |
| spicule | (noun) small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals | Synonyms: spiculum |
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| spiculum | (noun) small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals | Synonyms: spicule |
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| spicy | (adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: blue, gamey, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque |
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| (adjective) producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves | Synonyms: hot |
| spider | (noun) predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey | - |
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| (noun) a skillet made of cast iron | - |
| (noun) a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine | Synonyms: wanderer |
| spiderflower | (noun) any of various often strong-smelling plants of the genus Cleome having showy spider-shaped flowers | Synonyms: cleome |
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| spiderlike | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, arachnoid, spiderly, spidery |
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| spiderly | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, arachnoid, spiderlike, spidery |
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| spiderwort | (noun) any plant of the family Commelinaceae | Synonyms: dayflower |
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| spidery | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, arachnoid, spiderlike, spiderly |
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| spiegel | (noun) pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel | Synonyms: spiegel iron, spiegeleisen |
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| spiegeleisen | (noun) pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel | Synonyms: spiegel, spiegel iron |
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| spiel | (noun) plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson) | Synonyms: line of gab, patter |
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| (verb) speak at great length (about something) | - |
| (verb) replay (as a melody) | Synonyms: play |
| spiff | (noun) attractiveness in appearance or dress or manner | - |
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| spiffing | (adjective) excellent or splendid | - |
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| spiffy | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spruce |
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| spigot | (noun) a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir | Synonyms: faucet |
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| (noun) a plug for a bunghole in a cask | Synonyms: tap |
| spik | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent | Synonyms: spic, spick |
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| spike | (noun) sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes | - |
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| (noun) a large stout nail | - |
| (noun) any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object | Synonyms: spindle |
| (noun) a long, thin sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal) | - |
| (noun) a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall (or a dinosaur) | - |
| (noun) a very high narrow heel on women's shoes | Synonyms: spike heel, stiletto heel |
| (noun) each of the sharp points on the soles of athletic shoes to prevent slipping (or the shoes themselves) | - |
| (noun) a transient variation in voltage or current | - |
| (noun) a sharp rise followed by a sharp decline | - |
| (noun) (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis | - |
| (noun) fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn | Synonyms: capitulum, ear |
| (verb) add alcohol to (beverages) | Synonyms: fortify, lace |
| (verb) bring forth a spike or spikes | Synonyms: spike out |
| (verb) manifest a sharp increase | - |
| (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: empale, impale, transfix |
| (verb) secure with spikes | - |
| (verb) stand in the way of | - |
| spiked | (adjective) having a long sharp point | - |
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| spikelet | (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spine, sticker, thorn |
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| spikelike | (adjective) resembling a spike | - |
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| spikemoss | (noun) any of numerous fern allies of the genus Selaginella | Synonyms: little club moss, spike moss |
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| spikenard | (noun) an aromatic ointment used in antiquity | Synonyms: nard |
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| spiky | (adjective) having or as if having especially high-pitched spots | Synonyms: peaky |
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| spile | (noun) a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask | Synonyms: bung |
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| (noun) a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure | Synonyms: pile, piling, stilt |
| spill | (noun) the act of allowing a fluid to escape | Synonyms: release, spillage |
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| (noun) a sudden drop from an upright position | Synonyms: fall, tumble |
| (noun) a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction | Synonyms: spillway, wasteweir |
| (noun) liquid that is spilled | - |
| (verb) reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail) | - |
| (verb) reveal information | Synonyms: talk |
| (verb) cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over | Synonyms: disgorge, shed |
| (verb) pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities | Synonyms: pour forth, shed |
| (verb) cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container | Synonyms: slop, splatter |
| (verb) flow, run or fall out and become lost | Synonyms: run out |
| spillage | (noun) the act of allowing a fluid to escape | Synonyms: release, spill |
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| (noun) the amount that has spilled | - |
| spiller | (noun) a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) | Synonyms: setline, trawl, trawl line, trotline |
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| (noun) an attacker who sheds or spills blood | Synonyms: shedder |
| spillikin | (noun) a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws | Synonyms: jackstraw |
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| spillikins | (noun) a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others | Synonyms: jackstraws |
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| spillover | (noun) (economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure | - |
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| spillway | (noun) a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction | Synonyms: spill, wasteweir |
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| spin | (noun) the act of rotating rapidly | Synonyms: twirl, twist, twisting, whirl |
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| (noun) a short drive in a car | - |
| (noun) rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral | Synonyms: tailspin |
| (noun) a distinctive interpretation (especially as used by politicians to sway public opinion) | - |
| (noun) a swift whirling motion (usually of a missile) | - |
| (verb) prolong or extend | Synonyms: spin out |
| (verb) twist and turn so as to give an intended interpretation | - |
| (verb) work natural fibers into a thread | - |
| (verb) form a web by making a thread | - |
| (verb) make up a story | - |
| (verb) stream in jets, of liquids | - |
| (verb) revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis | Synonyms: gyrate, reel, spin around, whirl |
| (verb) cause to spin | Synonyms: birl, twirl, whirl |
| spinach | (noun) dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads | - |
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| (noun) southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves | Synonyms: prickly-seeded spinach, spinach plant, Spinacia oleracea |
| spinal | (adjective) of or relating to the spine or spinal cord | - |
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| (noun) anesthesia of the lower half of the body; caused by injury to the spinal cord or by injecting an anesthetic beneath the arachnoid membrane that surrounds the spinal cord | Synonyms: spinal anaesthesia, spinal anesthesia |
| spinally | (adverb) in the spine | - |
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| spindle | (noun) a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning | - |
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| (noun) any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts | Synonyms: arbor, mandrel, mandril |
| (noun) a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc. | - |
| (noun) any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object | Synonyms: spike |
| (noun) (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle | - |
| spindleberry | (noun) any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries | Synonyms: spindle tree, spindleberry tree |
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| spindlelegs | (noun) long thin legs | Synonyms: spindleshanks |
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| (noun) a thin person with long thin legs | Synonyms: spindleshanks |
| spindleshanks | (noun) long thin legs | Synonyms: spindlelegs |
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| (noun) a thin person with long thin legs | Synonyms: spindlelegs |
| spindly | (adjective) long and lean | Synonyms: lank |
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| spindrift | (noun) spray blown up from the surface of the sea | Synonyms: spoondrift |
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| spine | (noun) a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin | - |
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| (noun) the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved | Synonyms: backbone |
| (noun) the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord | Synonyms: back, backbone, rachis, spinal column, vertebral column |
| (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spikelet, sticker, thorn |
| (noun) any sharply pointed projection | Synonyms: acantha, spur |
| spinel | (noun) a hard glassy mineral consisting of an oxide of magnesium and aluminum; occurs in various colors that are used as gemstones | - |
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| spineless | (adjective) lacking spiny processes | - |
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| (adjective) lacking a backbone or spinal column | Synonyms: invertebrate |
| (adjective) lacking courage or vitality | Synonyms: gutless, namby-pamby, wishy-washy |
| (adjective) lacking thorns | Synonyms: thornless |
| spinelessness | (noun) the quality of lacking a strong character; an irresolute disposition | - |
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| spinet | (noun) early model harpsichord with only one string per note | - |
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| (noun) a small and compactly built upright piano | - |
| spininess | (noun) the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines | Synonyms: bristliness, prickliness, thorniness |
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| spinmeister | (noun) a public relations person who tries to forestall negative publicity by publicizing a favorable interpretation of the words or actions of a company or political party or famous person | Synonyms: spin doctor |
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| spinnability | (noun) the quality of being suitable for spinning or the capability of being spun (used of textile fibers) | - |
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