| sunroof | (noun) an automobile roof having a sliding or raisable panel | Synonyms: sunshine-roof |
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| surf | (noun) waves breaking on the shore | Synonyms: breaker, breakers |
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| (verb) switch channels, on television | Synonyms: channel-surf |
| (verb) look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular | Synonyms: browse |
| (verb) ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard | Synonyms: surfboard |
| sweetleaf | (noun) small yellowwood tree of southern United States having small fragrant white flowers; leaves and bark yield a yellow dye | Synonyms: Symplocus tinctoria |
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| takeoff | (noun) a departure; especially of airplanes | - |
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| (noun) humorous or satirical mimicry | Synonyms: mockery, parody |
| (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, travesty |
| (noun) the initial ascent of an airplane as it becomes airborne | - |
| tariff | (noun) a government tax on imports or exports | Synonyms: duty |
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| (verb) charge a tariff | - |
| teeoff | (noun) the act of hitting a golf ball from the teeing ground at the start of each hole | - |
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| teff | (noun) an African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flour of good quality) as well as for forage and hay | Synonyms: Eragrostic abyssinica, Eragrostis tef, teff grass |
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| thereof | (adverb) of or concerning this or that | - |
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| (adverb) from that circumstance or source | Synonyms: thence, therefrom |
| thief | (noun) a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it | Synonyms: stealer |
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| tiff | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble |
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| tipstaff | (noun) staff with a metal tip carried as a sign of office by e.g. a bailiff or constable | - |
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| toff | (noun) informal term for an upper-class or wealthy person | Synonyms: nob |
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| tradeoff | (noun) an exchange that occurs as a compromise | Synonyms: trade-off |
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| tref | (adjective) not conforming to dietary laws | Synonyms: nonkosher, terefah |
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| tuff | (noun) hard volcanic rock composed of compacted volcanic ash | Synonyms: tufa |
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| turf | (noun) range of jurisdiction or influence | - |
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| (noun) the territory claimed by a juvenile gang as its own | - |
| (noun) surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots | Synonyms: greensward, sod, sward |
| (verb) cover (the ground) with a surface layer of grass or grass roots | - |
| turnoff | (noun) a side road where you can turn off | - |
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| (noun) something causing antagonism or loss of interest | Synonyms: negative stimulation |
| unbelief | (noun) a rejection of belief | Synonyms: disbelief |
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| unstuff | (verb) cause to become unblocked | Synonyms: loosen up |
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| velvetleaf | (noun) tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States | Synonyms: Abutilon theophrasti, butter-print, China jute, Indian mallow, velvet-leaf, velvetweed |
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| (noun) arborescent perennial shrub having palmately lobed furry leaves and showy red-purple flowers; southwestern United States | Synonyms: Lavatera arborea, tree mallow, velvet-leaf |
| waif | (noun) a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned | Synonyms: street child |
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| waterleaf | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Hydrophyllum | - |
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| waterproof | (adjective) not permitting the passage of water | Synonyms: rainproof, waterproofed |
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| (noun) a water-resistant coat | Synonyms: raincoat |
| (noun) any fabric impervious to water | - |
| (verb) make watertight | - |
| weatherproof | (adjective) able to withstand exposure to weather without damage | - |
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| (verb) make resistant to bad weather | - |
| werewolf | (noun) a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again | Synonyms: loup-garou, lycanthrope, wolfman |
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| wharf | (noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: dock, pier, wharfage |
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| (verb) moor at a wharf | - |
| (verb) discharge at a wharf | - |
| (verb) come into or dock at a wharf | Synonyms: berth, moor |
| (verb) store on a wharf | - |
| (verb) provide with a wharf | - |
| whiff | (noun) a strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike | - |
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| (noun) a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil | - |
| (noun) a short light gust of air | Synonyms: puff, puff of air |
| (verb) utter with a puff of air | - |
| (verb) smoke and exhale strongly | Synonyms: puff |
| (verb) strike out by swinging and missing the pitch charged as the third | - |
| (verb) drive or carry as if by a puff of air | - |
| (verb) perceive by inhaling through the nose | Synonyms: sniff |
| windsurf | (verb) ride standing on a surfboard with an attached sail, on water | - |
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| witloof | (noun) young broad-leaved endive plant deprived of light to form a narrow whitish head | Synonyms: Belgian endive, French endive |
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| (noun) widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched | Synonyms: Cichorium endivia, endive |
| wolf | (noun) any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs | - |
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| (noun) a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women | Synonyms: masher, skirt chaser, woman chaser |
| (noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: beast, brute, savage, wildcat |
| (verb) eat hastily | Synonyms: wolf down |
| woodruff | (noun) any plant of the genus Asperula | - |
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| (noun) Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula | Synonyms: Asperula odorata, fragrant bedstraw, Galium odoratum, sweet woodruff, waldmeister |
| woof | (noun) the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving | Synonyms: filling, pick, weft |
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| wrinkleproof | (adjective) of fabric that does not wrinkle easily | Synonyms: crease-resistant, creaseproof, wrinkle-resistant |
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| zarf | (noun) an ornamental metal cup-shaped holder for a hot coffee cup | - |
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