| shenanigan | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness |
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| (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, chicanery, guile, trickery, wile |
| showman | (noun) a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments | Synonyms: impresario, promoter |
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| (noun) a person skilled at making effective presentations | - |
| sidesman | (noun) (Church of England) an assistant to the churchwarden; collects offerings of money in the church | - |
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| signalman | (noun) a railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yard | - |
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| silvan | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of wooded regions | Synonyms: sylvan |
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| (noun) a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods | Synonyms: sylvan |
| simian | (adjective) relating to or resembling an ape | - |
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| (noun) an ape or monkey | - |
| sirenian | (noun) any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs | Synonyms: sea cow, sirenian mammal |
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| skidpan | (noun) a paved surface on which cars can be made to skid so that drivers can practice controlling them | - |
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| slogan | (noun) a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual | Synonyms: catchword, motto, shibboleth |
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| snowman | (noun) a figure of a person made of packed snow | - |
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| solan | (noun) very large white gannet with black wing tips | Synonyms: solan goose, solant goose, Sula bassana |
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| solitudinarian | (noun) one who lives in solitude | Synonyms: hermit, recluse, solitary, troglodyte |
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| soman | (noun) a nerve agent easily absorbed into the body; a lethal cholinesterase inhibitor that is highly toxic when inhaled | Synonyms: GD |
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| soundman | (noun) a technician in charge of amplifying sound or producing sound effects (as for a TV or radio broadcast) | - |
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| soybean | (noun) the most highly proteinaceous vegetable known; the fruit of the soybean plant is used in a variety of foods and as fodder (especially as a replacement for animal protein) | Synonyms: soy, soya, soya bean |
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| (noun) erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia | Synonyms: Glycine max, soja, soja bean, soy, soya, soya bean, soybean plant |
| (noun) a source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food | Synonyms: soy, soya bean |
| spaceman | (noun) a person trained to travel in a spacecraft | Synonyms: astronaut, cosmonaut |
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| span | (noun) the act of sitting or standing astride | Synonyms: straddle |
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| (noun) a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. | Synonyms: bridge |
| (noun) the distance or interval between two points | - |
| (noun) a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches) | - |
| (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, twain, twosome, yoke |
| (noun) the complete duration of something | - |
| (verb) to cover or extend over an area or time period | Synonyms: cross, sweep, traverse |
| spartan | (adjective) practicing great self-denial | Synonyms: ascetic, ascetical, austere |
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| (adjective) unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment | Synonyms: severe |
| (adjective) resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity | - |
| spermatozoan | (noun) the male reproductive cell; the male gamete | Synonyms: sperm, sperm cell, spermatozoon |
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| spokesman | (noun) a male spokesperson | - |
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| spokeswoman | (noun) a female spokesperson | - |
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| sporozoan | (noun) parasitic spore-forming protozoan | - |
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| sporran | (noun) a fur or leather pouch worn at the front of the kilt as part of the traditional dress of Scottish Highlanders | - |
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| sportsman | (noun) a male who engages in sports | - |
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| sportswoman | (noun) a female who engages in sports | - |
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| stableman | (noun) someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses | Synonyms: groom, hostler, ostler, stableboy |
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| statesman | (noun) a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs | - |
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| stateswoman | (noun) a woman statesman | - |
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| statistician | (noun) someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums) | Synonyms: actuary |
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| (noun) a mathematician who specializes in statistics | Synonyms: mathematical statistician |
| steelman | (noun) a worker engaged in making steel | Synonyms: steelmaker, steelworker |
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| steersman | (noun) the person who steers a ship | Synonyms: helmsman, steerer |
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| stentorian | (adjective) (used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant | Synonyms: booming |
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| steradian | (noun) the unit of solid angle adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: sr |
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| stewpan | (noun) a saucepan used for stewing | Synonyms: stewing pan |
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| stockman | (noun) farmer who breed or raises livestock | Synonyms: stock farmer, stock raiser |
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| strategian | (noun) an expert in strategy (especially in warfare) | Synonyms: strategist |
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| strawman | (noun) an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds | Synonyms: bird-scarer, scarecrow, scarer, straw man |
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| (noun) a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted | Synonyms: straw man |
| (noun) a person used as a cover for some questionable activity | Synonyms: figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man |
| strongman | (noun) a powerful political figure who rules by the exercise of force or violence | - |
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| (noun) a man who performs feats of strength at a fair or circus | - |
| subartesian | (adjective) (of water) rising naturally in a well to a height appreciably above that of the surrounding water table but not flowing out of the well | - |
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| subclavian | (adjective) situated beneath the clavicle | - |
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| subhuman | (adjective) less than human or not worthy of a human being | - |
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| (adjective) unfit for human beings | - |
| subocean | (adjective) formed or situated or occurring beneath the ocean or the ocean bed | Synonyms: suboceanic |
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| subterranean | (adjective) lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed) | Synonyms: subterraneous, ulterior |
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| (adjective) being or operating under the surface of the earth | Synonyms: subterraneous |
| suburban | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs | - |
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| suffragan | (noun) an assistant or subordinate bishop of a diocese | Synonyms: suffragan bishop |
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| sultan | (noun) the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire) | Synonyms: grand Turk |
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| suntan | (noun) a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun | Synonyms: tan |
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| (verb) get a tan from being exposed to the sun | - |
| superhuman | (adjective) above or beyond the human or demanding more than human power or endurance | - |
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| superman | (noun) street name for lysergic acid diethylamide | Synonyms: acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, window pane, Zen |
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| (noun) a person with great powers and abilities | Synonyms: demigod, Ubermensch |
| swagman | (noun) an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work | Synonyms: swagger, swaggie |
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| swan | (noun) stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult | - |
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| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swear, verify |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) sweep majestically | - |
| switchman | (noun) a man who operates railroad switches | - |
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| swordsman | (noun) someone skilled at fencing | Synonyms: fencer |
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| sylvan | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of wooded regions | Synonyms: silvan |
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| (noun) a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods | Synonyms: silvan |
| syntactician | (noun) a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax | Synonyms: grammarian |
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| tactician | (noun) a person who is skilled at planning tactics | - |
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| taguan | (noun) East Indian flying squirrel | Synonyms: flying cat, flying marmot, Petaurista petaurista |
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| taichichuan | (noun) a Chinese system of slow meditative physical exercise designed for relaxation and balance and health | Synonyms: t'ai chi, t'ai chi chuan, tai chi, tai chi chuan, taichi |
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| taipan | (noun) large highly venomous snake of northeastern Australia | Synonyms: Oxyuranus scutellatus |
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| talisman | (noun) a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease | Synonyms: amulet |
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| tallyman | (noun) one who keeps a tally of quantity or weight of goods produced or shipped or received | Synonyms: tally clerk |
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| (noun) one who sells goods on the installment plan | - |
| tan | (adjective) of a light yellowish-brown color | - |
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| (noun) a light brown the color of topaz | Synonyms: topaz |
| (noun) ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: tangent |
| (noun) a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun | Synonyms: suntan |
| (verb) get a tan, from wind or sun | Synonyms: bronze |
| (verb) treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather | - |
| tarpan | (noun) European wild horse extinct since the early 20th century | Synonyms: Equus caballus gomelini |
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| tartan | (noun) a cloth having a crisscross design | Synonyms: plaid |
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| taximan | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabdriver, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver |
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| taxman | (noun) someone who collects taxes for the government | Synonyms: collector of internal revenue, exciseman, internal revenue agent, tax collector |
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| technician | (noun) someone whose occupation involves training in a specific technical process | - |
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| (noun) someone known for high skill in some intellectual or artistic technique | - |
| teleostan | (noun) a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei | Synonyms: teleost, teleost fish |
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| tellurian | (adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | Synonyms: telluric, terrene, terrestrial |
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| (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthling, earthman, worldling |
| terpsichorean | (adjective) of or relating to dancing | - |
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| (noun) a performer who dances professionally | Synonyms: dancer, professional dancer |
| tertian | (adjective) relating to symptoms (especially malarial fever) that appear every other day | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds | - |
| testacean | (noun) any of various rhizopods of the order Testacea characterized by having a shell | - |
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| theologian | (noun) someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology | Synonyms: theologiser, theologist, theologizer |
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| theoretician | (noun) someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) | Synonyms: idealogue, theoriser, theorist, theorizer |
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| thespian | (adjective) of or relating to drama | - |
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| (noun) a theatrical performer | Synonyms: actor, histrion, player, role player |
| thyreophoran | (noun) armored dinosaurs: stegosaurs and ankylosaurs | Synonyms: suborder Thyreophora, Thyreophora |
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| timberman | (noun) an owner or manager of a company that is engaged in lumbering | - |
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| tirolean | (noun) soft green felt hat with a feather or brush cockade | Synonyms: tyrolean |
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| titan | (noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, heavyweight |
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| titanosaurian | (noun) amphibious quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur with a long thin neck and whiplike tail; of the Cretaceous mostly in the Southern Hemisphere | Synonyms: titanosaur |
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| toboggan | (noun) a long narrow sled without runners; boards curve upward in front | - |
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| (verb) move along on a luge or toboggan | Synonyms: luge |
| tollman | (noun) someone employed to collect tolls | Synonyms: toll agent, toll collector, toll taker, toller, tollgatherer, tollkeeper |
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| totalitarian | (adjective) of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life | Synonyms: totalistic |
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| (adjective) characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control | - |
| (noun) an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government | - |
| toucan | (noun) brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak | - |
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| townsman | (noun) a person from the same town as yourself | - |
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| (noun) a resident of a town or city | Synonyms: towner |
| tradesman | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, shopkeeper, storekeeper |
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| tragedian | (noun) an actor who specializes in tragic roles | - |
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| (noun) a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies | - |
| tragopan | (noun) brilliantly colored Asian pheasant having wattles and two fleshy processes on the head | - |
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| trainbandsman | (noun) a member of a trainband | - |
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| trainman | (noun) an employee of a railroad | Synonyms: railroad man, railroader, railway man, railwayman |
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| trencherman | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer |
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| trepan | (noun) a drill for cutting circular holes around a center | - |
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| (noun) a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull | Synonyms: trephine |
| (verb) cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery | - |
| tribesman | (noun) someone who lives in a tribe | - |
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| trichopteran | (noun) caddis fly | Synonyms: trichopteron, trichopterous insect |
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| triggerman | (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo |
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| trigonometrician | (noun) a mathematician specializing in trigonometry | - |
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| trimaran | (noun) a fast sailboat with 3 parallel hulls | - |
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| trojan | (noun) a program that appears desirable but actually contains something harmful | Synonyms: trojan horse |
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| tryptophan | (noun) an amino acid that occurs in proteins; is essential for growth and normal metabolism; a precursor of niacin | Synonyms: tryptophane |
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| turban | (noun) a traditional Muslim headdress consisting of a long scarf wrapped around the head | - |
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| (noun) a small round woman's hat | Synonyms: pillbox, toque |