| sketchbook | (noun) a book containing sheets of paper on which sketches can be drawn | Synonyms: sketch block, sketch pad |
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| skink | (noun) alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide | Synonyms: scincid, scincid lizard |
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| skipjack | (noun) oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito | Synonyms: Euthynnus pelamis, skipjack tuna |
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| (noun) medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters; less valued than tuna | Synonyms: Atlantic bonito, Sarda sarda |
| (noun) able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound | Synonyms: click beetle, snapping beetle |
| skreak | (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreigh, squawk |
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| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screak, screech, squeak, whine |
| skulk | (verb) move furtively | - |
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| (verb) avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill | Synonyms: malinger |
| (verb) lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner | Synonyms: lurk |
| skunk | (noun) American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae | Synonyms: polecat, wood pussy |
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| (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, smoke, weed |
| (noun) a defeat in a game where one side fails to score | Synonyms: shutout |
| (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
| (verb) defeat by a lurch | Synonyms: lurch |
| skyhook | (noun) a hook that is imagined to be suspended from the sky | - |
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| (noun) helicopter carrying a reel of steel cable that can be used to lift and transport heavy objects | - |
| skyjack | (verb) subject an aircraft to air piracy | - |
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| skylark | (noun) brown-speckled European lark noted for singing while hovering at a great height | Synonyms: Alauda arvensis |
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| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, sport |
| skywalk | (noun) an elevated walkway between buildings (usually enclosed) | - |
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| slack | (adjective) not tense or taut | Synonyms: loose |
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| (adjective) lacking in rigor or strictness | Synonyms: lax |
| (adjective) flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide | - |
| (noun) a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely | - |
| (noun) the quality of being loose (not taut) | Synonyms: slackness |
| (noun) a stretch of water without current or movement | Synonyms: slack water |
| (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | Synonyms: mire, morass, quag, quagmire |
| (noun) a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality | Synonyms: drop-off, falling off, falloff, slump |
| (noun) dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve | - |
| (verb) release tension on | - |
| (verb) make less active or fast | Synonyms: relax, slack up, slacken |
| (verb) make less active or intense | Synonyms: abate, slake |
| (verb) become slow or slower | Synonyms: slacken, slow, slow down, slow up |
| (verb) cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water | Synonyms: slake |
| (verb) become less in amount or intensity | Synonyms: abate, die away, let up, slack off |
| (verb) be inattentive to, or neglect | - |
| (verb) avoid responsibilities and work, be idle | - |
| slapstick | (adjective) characterized by horseplay and physical action | - |
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| (noun) acoustic device consisting of two paddles hinged together; used by an actor to make a loud noise without inflicting injury when striking someone | - |
| (noun) a boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes | - |
| sleek | (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silken, silklike, silky, slick |
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| (adjective) well-groomed and neatly tailored; especially too well-groomed | - |
| (adjective) designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow | Synonyms: aerodynamic, flowing, streamlined |
| (verb) make slick or smooth | Synonyms: slick |
| sleepwalk | (verb) walk in one's sleep | Synonyms: somnambulate |
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| slick | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silken, silklike, silky, sleek |
| (adjective) having only superficial plausibility | Synonyms: glib, pat |
| (adjective) made slick by e.g. ice or grease | - |
| (adjective) superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject | Synonyms: facile, neat |
| (noun) a trowel used to make a surface slick | - |
| (noun) a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water | - |
| (noun) a slippery smoothness | Synonyms: slickness, slip, slipperiness |
| (noun) a magazine printed on good quality paper | Synonyms: glossy, slick magazine |
| (verb) give a smooth and glossy appearance | Synonyms: sleek down, slick down |
| (verb) make slick or smooth | Synonyms: sleek |
| slingback | (noun) a shoe that has a strap that wraps around the heel | Synonyms: sling |
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| slink | (verb) walk stealthily | - |
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| slipstick | (noun) analog computer consisting of a handheld instrument used for rapid calculations; have been replaced by pocket calculators | Synonyms: slide rule |
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| smack | (noun) the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand | Synonyms: slap, smacking |
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| (noun) an enthusiastic kiss | Synonyms: smooch |
| (noun) street names for heroin | Synonyms: big H, hell dust, nose drops, scag, skag, thunder |
| (noun) a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast | - |
| (noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: flavor, flavour, nip, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, tang |
| (noun) a blow from a flat object (as an open hand) | Synonyms: slap |
| (adverb) directly | Synonyms: bang, bolt, slap, slapdash |
| (verb) press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating | - |
| (verb) kiss lightly | Synonyms: peck |
| (verb) deliver a hard blow to | Synonyms: thwack |
| (verb) have a distinctive or characteristic taste | Synonyms: taste |
| (verb) have an element suggestive (of something) | Synonyms: reek, smell |
| smirk | (noun) a smile expressing smugness or scorn instead of pleasure | - |
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| (verb) smile affectedly or derisively | Synonyms: simper |
| smock | (noun) a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles | Synonyms: dust coat, duster, gabardine, gaberdine |
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| (verb) embellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally | - |
| smokestack | (noun) a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated | Synonyms: stack |
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| smoothbark | (noun) any of several Australian eucalypts having the bark smooth except at or near the base of the trunk | - |
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| snack | (noun) a light informal meal | Synonyms: bite, collation |
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| (verb) eat a snack; eat lightly | Synonyms: nosh |
| sneak | (adjective) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed | Synonyms: furtive, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious |
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| (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
| (noun) someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions | Synonyms: prowler, stalker |
| (noun) a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible | - |
| (verb) to go stealthily or furtively | Synonyms: creep, mouse, pussyfoot |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, swipe |
| (verb) pass on stealthily | Synonyms: slip |
| (verb) put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner | - |
| snick | (noun) a small cut | Synonyms: nick, notch |
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| (noun) a glancing contact with the ball off the edge of the cricket bat | - |
| (verb) cut slightly, with a razor | Synonyms: nick |
| (verb) hit a glancing blow with the edge of the bat | - |
| snoek | (noun) a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa | Synonyms: barracouta |
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| snook | (noun) large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike | - |
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| snowbank | (noun) a mound or heap of snow | Synonyms: snow bank |
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| soak | (noun) washing something by allowing it to soak | Synonyms: soaking |
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| (noun) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: soakage, soaking |
| (verb) fill, soak, or imbue totally | Synonyms: imbue |
| (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, dowse, drench, sop, souse |
| (verb) heat a metal prior to working it | - |
| (verb) become drunk or drink excessively | Synonyms: hit it up, inebriate, souse |
| (verb) make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) | Synonyms: inebriate, intoxicate |
| (verb) beat severely | - |
| (verb) submerge in a liquid | - |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, surcharge |
| (verb) leave as a guarantee in return for money | Synonyms: hock, pawn |
| soaprock | (noun) a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments | Synonyms: soap-rock, soapstone, steatite |
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| sock | (noun) hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot; worn inside the shoe; reaches to between the ankle and the knee | - |
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| (noun) a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: air-sleeve, air sock, drogue, wind cone, wind sleeve, wind sock, windsock |
| (verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bash, bonk, bop, whap, whop |
| softback | (noun) a book with paper covers | Synonyms: paper-back book, paperback, paperback book, soft-cover, soft-cover book, softback book |
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| songbook | (noun) a book containing a collection of songs | - |
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| soshnik | (noun) an iron plowshare that is a part of a sokha. | - |
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| souk | (noun) an open-air market in an Arabian city | - |
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| soundtrack | (noun) sound recording on a narrow strip of a motion picture film | - |
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| souslik | (noun) rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel | Synonyms: Citellus citellus, suslik |
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| soymilk | (noun) a milk substitute containing soybean flour and water; used in some infant formulas and in making tofu | Synonyms: soya milk, soybean milk |
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| spacewalk | (verb) move in space outside a space craft | - |
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| spadework | (noun) dull or routine preliminary work preparing for an undertaking | - |
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| spank | (noun) a slap with the flat of the hand | - |
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| (verb) give a spanking to; subject to a spanking | Synonyms: larrup, paddle |
| spark | (noun) merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance | Synonyms: light, sparkle, twinkle |
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| (noun) a momentary flash of light | Synonyms: flicker, glint |
| (noun) a small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction | - |
| (noun) electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field | Synonyms: arc, discharge, electric arc, electric discharge |
| (noun) a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger | - |
| (verb) put in motion or move to act | Synonyms: activate, actuate, set off, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off, trip |
| (verb) emit or produce sparks | Synonyms: sparkle |
| spatchcock | (noun) flesh of a chicken (or game bird) split down the back and grilled (usually immediately after being killed) | - |
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| (verb) interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story | - |
| (verb) prepare for eating if or as if a spatchcock | - |
| spatterdock | (noun) common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers; in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water | Synonyms: cow lily, Nuphar advena, yellow pond lily |
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| speak | (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: mouth, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
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| (verb) exchange thoughts; talk with | Synonyms: talk |
| (verb) use language | Synonyms: talk |
| (verb) give a speech to | Synonyms: address |
| (verb) make a characteristic or natural sound | - |
| speck | (noun) a very small spot | Synonyms: pinpoint |
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| (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, tinge, touch |
| (noun) (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything | Synonyms: atom, corpuscle, molecule, mote, particle |
| (verb) produce specks in or on | - |
| spelunk | (verb) explore natural caves | Synonyms: cave |
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| 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 |
| spik | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent | Synonyms: spic, spick |
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| spook | (noun) a mental representation of some haunting experience | Synonyms: ghost, shade, specter, spectre, wraith |
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| (noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: creep, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy |
| (verb) frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action | - |
| springbok | (noun) a South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air | Synonyms: Antidorcas euchore, Antidorcas marsupialis, springbuck |
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| springbuck | (noun) a South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air | Synonyms: Antidorcas euchore, Antidorcas marsupialis, springbok |
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| spunk | (noun) the courage to carry on | Synonyms: heart, mettle, nerve |
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| (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: kindling, punk, tinder, touchwood |
| sputnik | (noun) a Russian artificial satellite | - |
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| squark | (noun) a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1 | Synonyms: strange quark |
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| squawk | (noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, bitch, gripe, kick |
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| (noun) the noise of squawking | - |
| (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, holler |
| (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreak, skreigh |
| squeak | (noun) something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin | Synonyms: close call, close shave, narrow escape, squeaker |
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| (noun) a short high-pitched noise | - |
| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screak, screech, skreak, whine |
| stack | (noun) a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated | Synonyms: smokestack |
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| (noun) a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO) | Synonyms: push-down storage, push-down store |
| (noun) a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO) | Synonyms: push-down list, push-down stack |
| (noun) an orderly pile | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, tidy sum, wad |
| (verb) arrange in stacks | Synonyms: heap, pile |
| (verb) load or cover with stacks | - |
| (verb) arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances | - |
| stalk | (noun) a stiff or threatening gait | Synonyms: angry walk |
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| (noun) the act of following prey stealthily | Synonyms: stalking |
| (noun) a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush | Synonyms: stalking, still hunt |
| (noun) a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ | Synonyms: stem |
| (noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: chaff, husk, shuck, straw, stubble |
| (verb) walk stiffly | - |
| (verb) follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to | Synonyms: haunt |
| (verb) go through (an area) in search of prey | - |
| stank | (noun) A smell of genitals or sex | - |
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| stark | (adjective) complete or extreme | - |
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| (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, desolate |
| (adjective) severely simple | Synonyms: austere, severe, stern |
| (adjective) devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment | Synonyms: blunt, crude |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| (adverb) to the fullest degree | - |
| steak | (noun) a slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish | - |
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| steampunk | (noun) A subgenre of speculative science fiction set in an anachronistic 19th century society. | - |
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| steenbok | (noun) small plains antelope of southeastern Africa | Synonyms: Raphicerus campestris, steinbok |
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| steeplejack | (noun) someone who builds or maintains very tall structures | - |
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| steinbok | (noun) small plains antelope of southeastern Africa | Synonyms: Raphicerus campestris, steenbok |
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| stick | (noun) threat of a penalty | - |
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| (noun) an implement consisting of a length of wood | - |
| (noun) a long thin implement resembling a length of wood | - |
| (noun) marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking | Synonyms: joint, marijuana cigarette, reefer, spliff |
| (noun) a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane | Synonyms: control stick, joystick |
| (noun) a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball | - |
| (noun) informal terms for the leg | Synonyms: peg, pin |
| (noun) a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine | - |
| (noun) a small thin branch of a tree | - |
| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stupefy, vex |
| (verb) saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous | Synonyms: sting |
| (verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: adhere, bind, bond, hold fast, stick to |
| (verb) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation | Synonyms: adhere, cleave, cling, cohere |
| (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: deposit, lodge, wedge |
| (verb) pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed | - |
| (verb) pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument | - |
| (verb) fasten with an adhesive material like glue | - |
| (verb) fasten with or as with pins or nails | - |
| (verb) fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something | - |
| (verb) cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface | - |
| (verb) be in a certain place and not leave | Synonyms: persist, remain, stay, stay put, stick around |
| (verb) be loyal to | Synonyms: adhere, stand by, stick by |
| (verb) endure | - |
| (verb) be a devoted follower or supporter | Synonyms: adhere |
| (verb) be or become fixed | - |
| stickleback | (noun) small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research | Synonyms: prickleback |
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| stink | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stench |
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| (verb) smell badly and offensively | Synonyms: reek |
| (verb) be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance | - |
| stirk | (noun) yearling heifer or bullock | - |
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| stock | (adjective) regularly and widely used or sold | Synonyms: standard |
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| (adjective) routine | - |
| (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
| (noun) any animals kept for use or profit | Synonyms: farm animal, livestock |
| (noun) the merchandise that a shop has on hand | Synonyms: inventory |
| (noun) the handle end of some implements or tools | - |
| (noun) the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun | Synonyms: gunstock |
| (noun) an ornamental white cravat | Synonyms: neckcloth |
| (noun) lumber used in the construction of something | - |
| (noun) liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces | Synonyms: broth |
| (noun) a special variety of domesticated animals within a species | Synonyms: breed, strain |
| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma |
| (noun) persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant | Synonyms: caudex |
| (noun) any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers | Synonyms: gillyflower |
| (noun) any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia | Synonyms: Malcolm stock |
| (noun) a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants | - |
| (noun) the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity) | - |
| (noun) a supply of something available for future use | Synonyms: fund, store |
| (noun) a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation | Synonyms: stock certificate |
| (noun) the reputation and popularity a person has | - |
| (verb) put forth and grow sprouts or shoots | Synonyms: sprout |
| (verb) have on hand | Synonyms: carry, stockpile |
| (verb) amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use | Synonyms: buy in, stock up |
| (verb) provide or furnish with a stock of something | - |
| (verb) supply with livestock | - |
| (verb) supply with fish | - |
| (verb) equip with a stock | - |
| stonework | (noun) masonry done with stone | - |
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| stopcock | (noun) faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid | Synonyms: cock, turncock |
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| stork | (noun) large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage | - |
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| storybook | (noun) a book containing a collection of stories (usually for children) | - |
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| streak | (noun) a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background | Synonyms: bar, stripe |
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| (noun) a distinctive characteristic | - |
| (noun) a sudden flash (as of lightning) | - |
| (noun) an unbroken series of events | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained | Synonyms: blotch, mottle |
| (verb) move quickly in a straight line | - |
| (verb) run naked in a public place | - |
| streetwalk | (verb) walk the streets in search of customers | Synonyms: street-walk |
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| stringybark | (noun) any of several Australian eucalypts having fibrous inner bark | - |
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| struck | (adjective) (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming | Synonyms: smitten, stricken |
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| stuck | (adjective) caught or fixed | - |
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| (adjective) baffled | - |
| studbook | (noun) official record of the pedigree of purebred animals especially horses | - |
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| stylemark | (noun) a distinctive characteristic or attribute of someone or something | Synonyms: earmark, hallmark, trademark |
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| suck | (noun) the act of sucking | Synonyms: sucking, suction |
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| (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suckle, wet-nurse |
| (verb) draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth | - |
| (verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: absorb, draw, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, take in, take up |
| (verb) draw something in by or as if by a vacuum | - |
| (verb) provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation | Synonyms: blow, fellate, go down on |
| (verb) be inadequate or objectionable | Synonyms: blow |
| (verb) attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc. | Synonyms: suck in |
| sulk | (noun) a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal | Synonyms: sulkiness |
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| (verb) be in a huff and display one's displeasure | Synonyms: brood, pout |
| sunblock | (noun) a cream spread on the skin; contains a chemical (as PABA) to filter out ultraviolet light and so protect from sunburn | Synonyms: sun blocker, sunscreen |
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| sunk | (adjective) doomed to extinction | Synonyms: done for, ruined, undone, washed-up |
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| sunstruck | (adjective) lighted by sunlight | Synonyms: sunlit |
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| supplejack | (noun) walking stick made from the wood of an American tropical vine | - |
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| suslik | (noun) rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel | Synonyms: Citellus citellus, souslik |
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| swank | (adjective) imposingly fashionable and elegant | Synonyms: swanky |
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| (noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chic, chichi, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness |
| (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flash, flaunt, ostentate, show off |
| swanneck | (noun) any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan | Synonyms: swan-flower, swan-neck, swan orchid, swanflower |
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| swayback | (adjective) having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses) | Synonyms: dipped, lordotic, swaybacked |
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| sweptback | (adjective) used of hair | Synonyms: backswept |
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| (adjective) (especially of aircraft wings) angled rearward from the point of attachment | - |
| tablefork | (noun) a fork for eating at a dining table | - |
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| tack | (noun) sailing a zigzag course | - |
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| (noun) (nautical) the act of changing tack | Synonyms: tacking |
| (noun) a short nail with a sharp point and a large head | - |
| (noun) gear for a horse | Synonyms: saddlery, stable gear |
| (noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind | Synonyms: mainsheet, sheet, shroud, weather sheet |
| (noun) the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails | - |
| (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch |
| (verb) fasten with tacks | - |
| (verb) sew together loosely, with large stitches | Synonyms: baste |
| (verb) fix to; attach | Synonyms: append, hang on, tack on, tag on |
| (verb) create by putting components or members together | Synonyms: assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack together |
| (verb) turn into the wind | Synonyms: wear round |
| tailback | (noun) (American football) the position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage | - |
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| (noun) (American football) the person who plays tailback | - |
| tailstock | (noun) support consisting of the movable part of a lathe that slides along the bed in alignment with the headstock and is locked into position to support the free end of the workpiece | - |
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| talk | (noun) the act of giving a talk to an audience | - |
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| (noun) an exchange of ideas via conversation | Synonyms: talking |
| (noun) idle gossip or rumor | Synonyms: talk of the town |
| (noun) a speech that is open to the public | Synonyms: lecture, public lecture |
| (noun) discussion; (`talk about' is a less formal alternative for `discussion of') | - |
| (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: mouth, speak, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
| (verb) exchange thoughts; talk with | Synonyms: speak |
| (verb) reveal information | Synonyms: spill |
| (verb) use language | Synonyms: speak |
| (verb) deliver a lecture or talk | Synonyms: lecture |
| (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, tattle |
| tamarack | (noun) medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark | Synonyms: American larch, black larch, Larix laricina |
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