placket | (noun) a piece of cloth sewn under an opening | - |
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planchet | (noun) a flat metal disk ready for stamping as a coin | Synonyms: coin blank |
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planet | (noun) (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction | Synonyms: major planet |
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(noun) any celestial body (other than comets or satellites) that revolves around a star | - |
(noun) a person who follows or serves another | Synonyms: satellite |
plantlet | (noun) a young plant or a small plant | - |
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platelet | (noun) tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting | Synonyms: blood platelet, thrombocyte |
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playlet | (noun) a short play | - |
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plummet | (noun) the metal bob of a plumb line | Synonyms: plumb, plumb bob |
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(verb) drop sharply | Synonyms: plump |
pocket | (noun) a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles | - |
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(noun) an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck | - |
(noun) (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican) | Synonyms: pouch |
(noun) a small isolated group of people | - |
(noun) a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly | Synonyms: air hole, air pocket |
(noun) a supply of money | - |
(noun) an enclosed space | Synonyms: pouch, sac, sack |
(noun) a hollow concave shape made by removing something | Synonyms: scoop |
(noun) (bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left | - |
(verb) put in one's pocket | - |
(verb) take unlawfully | Synonyms: bag |
poet | (noun) a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry) | - |
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pomfret | (noun) deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food | Synonyms: Brama raii |
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poppet | (noun) a mushroom-shaped valve that rises perpendicularly from its seat; commonly used in internal-combustion engines | Synonyms: poppet valve |
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posset | (noun) sweet spiced hot milk curdled with ale or beer | - |
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poulet | (noun) the flesh of a chicken used for food | Synonyms: chicken, volaille |
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preset | (adjective) set in advance | Synonyms: predetermined |
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pricket | (noun) male deer in his second year | - |
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(noun) a sharp metal spike to hold a candle | - |
privet | (noun) any of various Old World shrubs having smooth entire leaves and terminal panicles of small white flowers followed by small black berries; many used for hedges | - |
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prophet | (noun) an authoritative person who divines the future | Synonyms: oracle, prophesier, seer, vaticinator |
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(noun) someone who speaks by divine inspiration; someone who is an interpreter of the will of God | - |
propjet | (noun) an airplane with an external propeller that is driven by a turbojet engine | Synonyms: turbo-propeller plane, turboprop |
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pullet | (noun) young hen usually less than a year old | - |
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(noun) flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying | Synonyms: frier, fryer |
punchayet | (noun) a village council in India or southern Pakistan | Synonyms: panchayat, panchayet |
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punnet | (noun) a small light basket used as a measure for fruits | - |
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puppet | (noun) a doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers | - |
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(noun) a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer | Synonyms: marionette |
(noun) a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else | Synonyms: creature, tool |
quadruplet | (noun) a set of four similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quadruple, quartet, quartette |
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(noun) one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy | Synonyms: quad |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
quartet | (noun) a musical composition for four performers | Synonyms: quartette |
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(noun) four people considered as a unit | Synonyms: foursome, quartette |
(noun) a set of four similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quadruple, quadruplet, quartette |
(noun) four performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: quartette |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
quickset | (adjective) grown from cuttings planted directly in the ground | - |
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(noun) cuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines | - |
quiet | (adjective) free of noise or uproar; or making little if any sound | - |
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(adjective) characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity | - |
(adjective) (of the sun) characterized by a low level of surface phenomena, such as sunspots | - |
(adjective) (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves | Synonyms: placid, smooth, still, tranquil, unruffled |
(adjective) in a softened tone | Synonyms: hushed, muted, subdued |
(adjective) not showy or obtrusive | Synonyms: restrained |
(noun) a disposition free from stress or emotion | Synonyms: placidity, repose, serenity, tranquility, tranquillity |
(noun) the absence of sound | Synonyms: silence |
(noun) a period of calm weather | Synonyms: lull |
(noun) an untroubled state; free from disturbances | Synonyms: tranquility, tranquillity |
(adverb) with little or no activity or no agitation (`quiet' is a nonstandard variant for `quietly') | Synonyms: quietly |
(verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
(verb) become quiet or quieter | Synonyms: hush, pipe down, quiesce, quiet down, quieten |
quintet | (noun) a musical composition for five performers | Synonyms: quintette |
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(noun) five people considered as a unit | Synonyms: fivesome, quintette |
(noun) a set of five similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintette, quintuple, quintuplet |
(noun) five performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: quintette |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintuplet, V |
quintuplet | (noun) a set of five similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintette, quintuple |
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(noun) one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy | Synonyms: quin, quint |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, V |
quodlibet | (noun) an issue that is presented for formal disputation | - |
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rabbet | (noun) a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together | Synonyms: rebate |
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(verb) cut a rectangular groove into | - |
(verb) join with a rabbet joint | - |
rachet | (noun) mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction | Synonyms: ratch, ratchet |
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racket | (noun) an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit | Synonyms: fraudulent scheme, illegitimate enterprise |
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(noun) a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games | Synonyms: racquet |
(noun) the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience | Synonyms: dissonance, noise |
(noun) a loud and disturbing noise | - |
(verb) hit (a ball) with a racket | - |
(verb) make loud and annoying noises | - |
(verb) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | Synonyms: jollify, make happy, make merry, make whoopee, revel, wassail, whoop it up |
racquet | (noun) a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games | Synonyms: racket |
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ramjet | (noun) a simple type of jet engine; must be launched at high speed | Synonyms: atherodyde, athodyd, flying drainpipe, ramjet engine |
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ratchet | (noun) mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction | Synonyms: rachet, ratch |
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(verb) move by degrees in one direction only | Synonyms: rachet up, ratchet down |
regret | (noun) sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment | Synonyms: rue, ruefulness, sorrow |
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(verb) decline formally or politely | - |
(verb) express with regret | - |
(verb) feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about | Synonyms: repent, rue |
(verb) feel sad about the loss or absence of | - |
reinterpret | (verb) assign a new or different meaning to | - |
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(verb) interpret from a different viewpoint | Synonyms: re-explain |
rennet | (noun) a substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket | - |
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reset | (noun) device for resetting instruments or controls | - |
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(verb) set to zero | - |
(verb) adjust again after an initial failure | Synonyms: readjust |
(verb) set anew | - |
ret | (verb) place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue | - |
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retrorocket | (noun) a small rocket engine on a larger rocket or spacecraft that is fired to slow or alter its course | - |
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revet | (verb) face with a layer of stone or concrete or other supporting material so as to retain | - |
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(verb) construct a revetment | - |
ricochet | (noun) a glancing rebound | Synonyms: carom |
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(verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, spring, take a hop |
ringlet | (noun) any of various butterflies belonging to the family Satyridae | Synonyms: ringlet butterfly |
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(noun) a little ring | - |
(noun) lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl | Synonyms: curl, whorl |
(noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, roll, scroll, whorl |
rivet | (noun) heavy pin having a head at one end and the other end being hammered flat after being passed through holes in the pieces that are fastened together | - |
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(noun) ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt) | Synonyms: stud |
(verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, concentrate, focus, pore |
(verb) hold (someone's attention) | - |
(verb) fasten with a rivet or rivets | - |
rivulet | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, run, runnel, streamlet |
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rocket | (noun) a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion | Synonyms: rocket engine |
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(noun) any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine | Synonyms: projectile |
(noun) sends a firework display high into the sky | Synonyms: skyrocket |
(noun) propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon | Synonyms: skyrocket |
(noun) erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender | Synonyms: arugula, Eruca sativa, Eruca vesicaria sativa, garden rocket, rocket salad, roquette |
(verb) propel with a rocket | - |
(verb) shoot up abruptly, like a rocket | Synonyms: skyrocket |
rondelet | (noun) a shorter form of rondeau | - |
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rootlet | (noun) small root or division of a root | - |
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russet | (adjective) of brown with a reddish tinge | - |
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(noun) a reddish brown homespun fabric | - |
sachet | (noun) a small soft bag containing perfumed powder; used to perfume items in a drawer or chest | - |
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sallet | (noun) a light medieval helmet with a slit for vision | Synonyms: salade |
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sarcenet | (noun) a fine soft silk fabric often used for linings | Synonyms: sarsenet |
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sarsenet | (noun) a fine soft silk fabric often used for linings | Synonyms: sarcenet |
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satinet | (noun) a fabric with a finish resembling satin but made partly or wholly from cotton or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: satinette |
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sayeret | (noun) Israel's elite secret commando unit responsible for counterterrorist and top secret intelligence gathering and hostage rescue missions | Synonyms: Sayeret Mat'kal, Sayeret Matkal |
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scarlet | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy |
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(noun) a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge | Synonyms: orange red, vermilion |
secret | (adjective) the next to highest level of official classification for documents | - |
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(adjective) not open or public; kept private or not revealed | - |
(adjective) having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding | Synonyms: mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, orphic |
(adjective) not expressed | Synonyms: private |
(adjective) (of information) given in confidence or in secret | Synonyms: confidential |
(adjective) not openly made known | Synonyms: unavowed |
(adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
(adjective) designed to elude detection | Synonyms: hidden |
(adjective) indulging only covertly | - |
(adjective) hidden from general view or use | Synonyms: privy, secluded |
(adjective) communicated covertly | - |
(noun) something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained | Synonyms: closed book, enigma, mystery |
(noun) something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on) | - |
(noun) information known only to a special group | Synonyms: arcanum |
semisweet | (adjective) having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness | Synonyms: bittersweet |
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septet | (noun) a musical composition written for seven performers | Synonyms: septette |
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(noun) seven people considered as a unit | Synonyms: septette, sevensome |
(noun) a set of seven similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: septette |
(noun) seven performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: septette |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one | Synonyms: 7, heptad, septenary, seven, sevener, VII |
sestet | (noun) a musical composition written for six performers | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
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(noun) a rhythmic group of six lines of verse | - |
(noun) a set of six similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
(noun) six performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sextet, sextuplet, sise, six, sixer, VI |
set | (adjective) set down according to a plan | Synonyms: laid |
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(adjective) being below the horizon | - |
(adjective) converted to solid form (as concrete) | Synonyms: hardened |
(adjective) fixed and unmoving | Synonyms: fixed, rigid |
(adjective) (usually followed by `to' or `for') on the point of or strongly disposed | Synonyms: fit, primed |
(adjective) situated in a particular spot or position | Synonyms: located, placed, situated |
(adjective) determined or decided upon as by an authority | Synonyms: determined, dictated |
(noun) several exercises intended to be done in series | Synonyms: exercise set |
(noun) the act of putting something in position | - |
(noun) representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production | Synonyms: stage set |
(noun) any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals | - |
(noun) (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way | Synonyms: readiness |
(noun) a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way | Synonyms: bent |
(noun) the descent of a heavenly body below the horizon | - |
(noun) a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used | - |
(noun) an unofficial association of people or groups | Synonyms: band, circle, lot |
(noun) (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols | - |
(noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: curing, hardening, solidification, solidifying |
(noun) a unit of play in tennis or squash | - |
(verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: arrange, coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, dress |
(verb) produce fruit | Synonyms: fructify |
(verb) alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard | Synonyms: adjust, correct |
(verb) put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state | - |
(verb) set to a certain position or cause to operate correctly | - |
(verb) equip with sails or masts | Synonyms: rig, set up |
(verb) become gelatinous | Synonyms: congeal, jell |
(verb) make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc | Synonyms: fix, gear up, prepare, ready, set up |
(verb) get ready for a particular purpose or event | Synonyms: lay out, set up |
(verb) fix conclusively or authoritatively | Synonyms: determine |
(verb) estimate | Synonyms: place, put |
(verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, determine, fix, limit, specify |
(verb) establish as the highest level or best performance | Synonyms: mark |
(verb) urge to attack someone | Synonyms: sic |
(verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, place, pose, position, put |
(verb) fix in a border | - |
(verb) give a fine, sharp edge to a knife or razor | - |
(verb) insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink) | Synonyms: countersink |
(verb) put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground | Synonyms: plant |
(verb) put into a position that will restore a normal state | - |
(verb) adapt for performance in a different way | Synonyms: arrange |
(verb) locate | Synonyms: localise, localize, place |
(verb) set in type | Synonyms: typeset |
(verb) apply or start | - |
(verb) disappear beyond the horizon | Synonyms: go down, go under |
sextet | (noun) a musical composition written for six performers | Synonyms: sestet, sextette |
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(noun) six people considered as a unit | Synonyms: sextette, sixsome |
(noun) a set of six similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: sestet, sextette |
(noun) six performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: sestet, sextette |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sestet, sextuplet, sise, six, sixer, VI |
sextuplet | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sestet, sextet, sise, six, sixer, VI |
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sheet | (noun) bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs | Synonyms: bed sheet |
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(noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind | Synonyms: mainsheet, shroud, tack, weather sheet |
(noun) a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width | Synonyms: flat solid |
(noun) a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel | Synonyms: canvas, canvass, sail |
(noun) paper used for writing or printing | Synonyms: piece of paper, sheet of paper |
(noun) newspaper with half-size pages | Synonyms: rag, tabloid |
(noun) any broad thin expanse or surface | - |
(noun) (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape | Synonyms: plane |
(verb) cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping | - |
(verb) come down as if in sheets | - |
sherbet | (noun) a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin | Synonyms: sherbert |
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shrublet | (noun) dwarf shrub | - |
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signet | (noun) a seal (especially one used to mark documents officially) | - |
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singlet | (noun) a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body | Synonyms: undershirt, vest |
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skeet | (noun) the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird | Synonyms: skeet shooting, trapshooting |
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skillet | (noun) a pan used for frying foods | Synonyms: frying pan, frypan |
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skirret | (noun) an Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root | Synonyms: Sium sisarum |
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skyrocket | (noun) sends a firework display high into the sky | Synonyms: rocket |
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(noun) propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon | Synonyms: rocket |
(verb) shoot up abruptly, like a rocket | Synonyms: rocket |
sleet | (noun) partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow) | - |
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(verb) precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow | - |
snippet | (noun) a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) | Synonyms: snip, snipping |
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sobriquet | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname, soubriquet |
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socket | (noun) a receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted | - |
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(noun) receptacle where something (a pipe or probe or end of a bone) is inserted | - |
(noun) a bony hollow into which a structure fits | - |
solleret | (noun) armor plate that protects the foot; consists of mail with a solid toe and heel | Synonyms: sabaton |
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somerset | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somersaulting, summersault, summerset |
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sonnet | (noun) a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme | - |
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(verb) compose a sonnet | - |
(verb) praise in a sonnet | - |
sorbet | (noun) an ice containing no milk but having a mushy consistency; usually made from fruit juice | Synonyms: water ice |
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soubriquet | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname, sobriquet |
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soviet | (noun) an elected governmental council in a communist country (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) | - |
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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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spinet | (noun) early model harpsichord with only one string per note | - |
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(noun) a small and compactly built upright piano | - |
spreadsheet | (noun) a screen-oriented interactive program enabling a user to lay out financial data on the screen | - |
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sprocket | (noun) thin wheel with teeth that engage with a chain | Synonyms: sprocket wheel |
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(noun) tooth on the rim of gear wheel | Synonyms: cog |
(noun) roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through | - |
starlet | (noun) a small star | - |
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(noun) a young (film) actress who is publicized as a future star | - |
stet | (verb) direct that a matter marked for omission or correction is to be retained | - |
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(verb) cancel, as of a correction or deletion | - |
stockinet | (noun) knit used especially for infants' wear and undergarments | Synonyms: stockinette |
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straightjacket | (noun) a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person | Synonyms: straitjacket |
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straitjacket | (noun) a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person | Synonyms: straightjacket |
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(noun) anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines | - |
streamlet | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, rivulet, run, runnel |
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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 | - |
strumpet | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, trollop |
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stylet | (noun) small needlelike appendage; especially the feeding organ of a tardigrade | - |
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sublet | (noun) a lease from one lessee to another | Synonyms: sublease |
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(verb) lease or rent all or part of (a leased or rented property) to another person | Synonyms: sublease |
subset | (noun) a set whose members are members of another set; a set contained within another set | - |
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suet | (noun) hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and sheep | - |
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summerset | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somersaulting, somerset, summersault |
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