| pratfall | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup |
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| (noun) a fall onto your buttocks | - |
| prophyll | (noun) a plant structure resembling a leaf | - |
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| puffball | (noun) any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature | Synonyms: true puffball |
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| (noun) any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles | Synonyms: earthball, false truffle, hard-skinned puffball |
| pull | (noun) the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you | Synonyms: pulling |
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| (noun) a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke) | Synonyms: drag, puff |
| (noun) a sustained effort | - |
| (noun) a device used for pulling something | - |
| (noun) special advantage or influence | Synonyms: clout |
| (noun) the force used in pulling | - |
| (noun) a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments | Synonyms: twist, wrench |
| (verb) strain abnormally | Synonyms: overstretch |
| (verb) take away | - |
| (verb) take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for | Synonyms: root for, side with |
| (verb) cause to move by pulling | Synonyms: draw |
| (verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: rend, rip, rive |
| (verb) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes | Synonyms: attract, draw, draw in, pull in |
| (verb) hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing | - |
| (verb) apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion | - |
| (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pluck, tear |
| (verb) remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw out, extract, pull out, pull up, rip out, take out, tear out |
| (verb) steer into a certain direction | - |
| (verb) move into a certain direction | - |
| (verb) operate when rowing a boat | - |
| (verb) bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover | Synonyms: draw, get out, pull out, take out |
| (verb) rein in to keep from winning a race | - |
| (verb) cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw |
| (verb) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation | Synonyms: commit, perpetrate |
| punchball | (noun) an inflated ball or bag that is suspended and punched for training in boxing | Synonyms: punch bag, punching bag, punching ball |
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| pushball | (noun) a game using a leather ball six feet in diameter; the two side try to push it across the opponents' goal | - |
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| quell | (verb) suppress or crush completely | Synonyms: quench, squelch |
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| (verb) overcome or allay | Synonyms: appease, stay |
| quill | (noun) a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog | - |
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| (noun) the hollow spine of a feather | Synonyms: calamus, shaft |
| (noun) any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird | Synonyms: flight feather, pinion, quill feather |
| (noun) pen made from a bird's feather | Synonyms: quill pen |
| racquetball | (noun) a game played on a handball court with short-handled rackets | - |
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| (noun) the ball used in playing the game of racquetball | - |
| rainfall | (noun) water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere | Synonyms: rain |
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| rakehell | (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, profligate, rake, rip, roue |
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| razorbill | (noun) black-and-white northern Atlantic auk having a compressed sharp-edged bill | Synonyms: Alca torda, razor-billed auk |
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| recall | (noun) the act of removing an official by petition | - |
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| (noun) the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort) | Synonyms: recollection, reminiscence |
| (noun) a call to return | - |
| (noun) a bugle call that signals troops to return | - |
| (noun) a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair) | Synonyms: callback |
| (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recollect, remember, retrieve, think |
| (verb) cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression | - |
| (verb) go back to something earlier | Synonyms: come back, hark back, return |
| (verb) summon to return | Synonyms: call back |
| (verb) cause to be returned | Synonyms: call back, call in, withdraw |
| (verb) make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution | - |
| (verb) bring to mind | Synonyms: echo |
| redpoll | (noun) small siskin-like finch with a red crown and a rosy breast and rump | Synonyms: Carduelis flammea |
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| (noun) small siskin-like finch with a red crown | Synonyms: Carduelis hornemanni |
| refill | (noun) a commercial product that refills a container with its appropriate contents | - |
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| (noun) a prescription drug that is provided again | - |
| (verb) fill something that had previously been emptied | Synonyms: fill again, replenish |
| reinstall | (verb) install again | - |
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| resell | (verb) sell (something) again after having bought it | - |
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| retell | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate |
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| (verb) render verbally | Synonyms: recite |
| (verb) make into fiction | Synonyms: fictionalise, fictionalize |
| rill | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rivulet, run, runnel, streamlet |
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| (noun) a small channel (as one formed by soil erosion) | - |
| roadkill | (noun) the dead body of an animal that has been killed on a road by a vehicle | - |
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| robocall | (noun) An phone call made by an automated service | - |
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| roll | (noun) a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude | - |
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| (noun) the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling) | Synonyms: bowl |
| (noun) the act of throwing dice | Synonyms: cast |
| (noun) walking with a swaying gait | - |
| (noun) anything rolled up in cylindrical form | - |
| (noun) photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light | - |
| (noun) a list of names | Synonyms: roster |
| (noun) a document that can be rolled up (as for storage) | Synonyms: scroll |
| (noun) a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) | Synonyms: peal, pealing, rolling |
| (noun) a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore | Synonyms: roller, rolling wave |
| (noun) rotary motion of an object around its own axis | Synonyms: axial motion, axial rotation |
| (noun) the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously | Synonyms: drum roll, paradiddle |
| (noun) small rounded bread either plain or sweet | Synonyms: bun |
| (noun) a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.) | Synonyms: bankroll |
| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, scroll, whorl |
| (verb) execute a roll, in tumbling | - |
| (verb) take the shape of a roll or cylinder | - |
| (verb) show certain properties when being rolled | Synonyms: roll up |
| (verb) boil vigorously | Synonyms: seethe |
| (verb) shape by rolling | - |
| (verb) pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/ | - |
| (verb) arrange or coil around | Synonyms: twine, wind, wrap |
| (verb) begin operating or running | - |
| (verb) flatten or spread with a roller | Synonyms: roll out |
| (verb) move by turning over or rotating | Synonyms: turn over |
| (verb) move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle | Synonyms: wheel |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion | Synonyms: flap, undulate, wave |
| (verb) cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis | Synonyms: revolve |
| (verb) move, rock, or sway from side to side | - |
| (verb) emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound | - |
| (verb) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity | Synonyms: hustle, pluck |
| (verb) occur in soft rounded shapes | Synonyms: undulate |
| saddlebill | (noun) large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around the middle | Synonyms: Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, jabiru |
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| sawbill | (noun) large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | Synonyms: fish duck, merganser, sheldrake |
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| sawmill | (noun) a mill for dressing logs and lumber | Synonyms: lumbermill |
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| (noun) a large sawing machine | - |
| screwball | (adjective) foolish; totally unsound | Synonyms: crazy, half-baked, softheaded |
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| (noun) a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown | - |
| (noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crackpot, crank, fruitcake, nut, nut case |
| scroll | (noun) a document that can be rolled up (as for storage) | Synonyms: roll |
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| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, roll, whorl |
| (verb) move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen | - |
| scull | (noun) a racing shell that is propelled by sculls | - |
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| (noun) each of a pair of short oars that are used by a single oarsman | - |
| (noun) a long oar that is mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward | - |
| (verb) propel with sculls | - |
| seagull | (noun) mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs | Synonyms: gull, sea gull |
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| seashell | (noun) the shell of a marine organism | - |
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| seawall | (noun) a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away | Synonyms: breakwater, bulwark, groin, groyne, jetty, mole |
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| sell | (noun) the activity of persuading someone to buy | - |
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| (verb) persuade somebody to accept something | - |
| (verb) exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent | - |
| (verb) do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood | Synonyms: deal, trade |
| (verb) give up for a price or reward | - |
| (verb) deliver to an enemy by treachery | Synonyms: betray |
| (verb) be sold at a certain price or in a certain way | - |
| (verb) be responsible for the sale of | - |
| (verb) be approved of or gain acceptance | - |
| shell | (noun) the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod | - |
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| (noun) hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles | Synonyms: carapace, cuticle, shield |
| (noun) ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun | - |
| (noun) a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) | Synonyms: plate, scale |
| (noun) the housing or outer covering of something | Synonyms: case, casing |
| (noun) a very light narrow racing boat | Synonyms: racing shell |
| (noun) a rigid covering that envelops an object | - |
| (noun) the exterior covering of a bird's egg | Synonyms: eggshell |
| (noun) the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts | - |
| (noun) the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals | - |
| (verb) remove from its shell or outer covering | - |
| (verb) remove the husks from | Synonyms: husk |
| (verb) use explosives on | Synonyms: blast |
| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, trounce, vanquish |
| (verb) hit the pitches of hard and regularly | - |
| (verb) look for and collect shells by the seashore | - |
| (verb) fall out of the pod or husk | - |
| (verb) create by using explosives | Synonyms: blast |
| shill | (noun) a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others | - |
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| (verb) act as a shill | - |
| shoebill | (noun) large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe | Synonyms: Balaeniceps rex, shoebird |
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| shortfall | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | Synonyms: deficit, shortage |
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| shrill | (adjective) of colors that are bright and gaudy | - |
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| (adjective) having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones | Synonyms: sharp |
| (adjective) being sharply insistent on being heard | Synonyms: strident |
| (verb) utter a shrill cry | Synonyms: pipe, pipe up, shriek |
| sidewall | (noun) a wall that forms the side of a structure | - |
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| (noun) the side of an automobile tire | - |
| sill | (noun) structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure | - |
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| (noun) (geology) a flat (usually horizontal) mass of igneous rock between two layers of older sedimentary rock | - |
| skill | (noun) ability to produce solutions in some problem domain | Synonyms: science |
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| (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, attainment |
| skull | (noun) the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates | - |
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| small | (adjective) limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent | Synonyms: little |
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| (adjective) made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) | Synonyms: belittled, diminished |
| (adjective) have fine or very small constituent particles | - |
| (adjective) low or inferior in station or quality | Synonyms: humble, low, lowly, modest |
| (adjective) relatively moderate, limited, or small | Synonyms: minor, modest, pocket-size, pocket-sized, small-scale |
| (adjective) slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope | - |
| (adjective) lowercase | Synonyms: little, minuscule |
| (adjective) not large but sufficient in size or amount | Synonyms: modest |
| (adjective) (of a voice) faint | Synonyms: little |
| (adjective) (of children and animals) young, immature | Synonyms: little |
| (noun) a garment size for a small person | - |
| (noun) the slender part of the back | - |
| (adverb) on a small scale | - |
| smell | (noun) the act of perceiving the odor of something | Synonyms: smelling |
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| (noun) any property detected by the olfactory system | Synonyms: aroma, odor, odour, olfactory property, scent |
| (noun) the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents | Synonyms: olfaction, olfactory modality, sense of smell |
| (noun) the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form | Synonyms: odor, odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation |
| (noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, spirit, tone |
| (verb) become aware of not through the senses but instinctively | Synonyms: sense, smell out |
| (verb) emit an odor | - |
| (verb) inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense | - |
| (verb) smell bad | - |
| (verb) have an element suggestive (of something) | Synonyms: reek, smack |
| snowball | (noun) snow pressed into a ball for throwing (playfully) | - |
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| (noun) ball of crushed ice with fruit syrup | - |
| (noun) ball of ice cream covered with coconut and usually chocolate sauce | - |
| (noun) plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers; grows in sandy arid regions | Synonyms: Abronia elliptica, sweet sand verbena |
| (verb) increase or accumulate at a rapidly accelerating rate | - |
| (verb) throw snowballs at | - |
| snowbell | (noun) small tree native to Japan | Synonyms: Styrax obassia |
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| snowfall | (noun) precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals | Synonyms: snow |
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| softball | (noun) a game closely resembling baseball that is played on a smaller diamond and with a ball that is larger | Synonyms: softball game |
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| (noun) ball used in playing softball | - |
| sourball | (noun) round piece of tart hard candy | - |
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| spall | (noun) a fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge | Synonyms: spawl |
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| speedwell | (noun) any plant of the genus Veronica | Synonyms: veronica |
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| spell | (noun) a verbal formula believed to have magical force | Synonyms: charm, magic spell, magical spell |
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| (noun) a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation | Synonyms: enchantment, trance |
| (noun) a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) | Synonyms: go, tour, turn |
| (noun) a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition | Synonyms: patch, piece, while |
| (verb) take turns working | - |
| (verb) orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of | Synonyms: spell out |
| (verb) indicate or signify | Synonyms: import |
| (verb) place under a spell | - |
| (verb) write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word) | Synonyms: write |
| (verb) relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn | - |
| spicemill | (noun) a mill for grinding spices | - |
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| spill | (noun) the act of allowing a fluid to escape | Synonyms: release, spillage |
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| (noun) a sudden drop from an upright position | Synonyms: fall, tumble |
| (noun) a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction | Synonyms: spillway, wasteweir |
| (noun) liquid that is spilled | - |
| (verb) reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail) | - |
| (verb) reveal information | Synonyms: talk |
| (verb) cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over | Synonyms: disgorge, shed |
| (verb) pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities | Synonyms: pour forth, shed |
| (verb) cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container | Synonyms: slop, splatter |
| (verb) flow, run or fall out and become lost | Synonyms: run out |
| spitball | (noun) an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it | Synonyms: spitter |
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| (noun) a projectile made by chewing a piece of paper and shaping it into a sphere | - |
| spoonbill | (noun) wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon | - |
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| sporophyll | (noun) leaf in ferns and mosses that bears the sporangia | Synonyms: sporophyl |
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| sportsball | (noun) Sports of an unspecified kind, usually condescending | - |
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| squall | (noun) sudden violent winds; often accompanied by precipitation | - |
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| (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, yell |
| (verb) make high-pitched, whiney noises | Synonyms: waul, wawl |
| (verb) blow in a squall | - |
| squill | (noun) an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers | Synonyms: scilla |
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| (noun) having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties | Synonyms: sea onion, sea squill, Urginea maritima |
| (noun) bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant | - |
| stairwell | (noun) a vertical well around which there is a stairway | - |
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| stall | (noun) a tactic used to mislead or delay | Synonyms: stalling |
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| (noun) small area set off by walls for special use | Synonyms: booth, cubicle, kiosk |
| (noun) a booth where articles are displayed for sale | Synonyms: sales booth, stand |
| (noun) small individual study area in a library | Synonyms: carrel, carrell, cubicle |
| (noun) a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed | - |
| (noun) seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater | - |
| (noun) a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge | - |
| (verb) deliberately delay an event or action | - |
| (verb) come to a stop | Synonyms: conk |
| (verb) cause an engine to stop | - |
| (verb) cause an airplane to go into a stall | - |
| (verb) experience a stall in flight, of airplanes | - |
| (verb) put into, or keep in, a stall | - |
| (verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, shillyshally |
| standstill | (noun) an interruption of normal activity | Synonyms: stand, tie-up |
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| (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, deadlock, impasse, stalemate |
| steamroll | (verb) make level or flat with a steamroller | Synonyms: steamroller |
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| (verb) overwhelm by using great force | Synonyms: steamroller |
| (verb) proceed with great force | Synonyms: steamroller |
| (verb) bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure | Synonyms: steamroller |
| stickball | (noun) a form of baseball played in the streets with a rubber ball and broomstick handle | Synonyms: stickball game |
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| still | (adjective) not sparkling | Synonyms: noneffervescent |
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| (adjective) used of pictures; of a single or static photograph not presented so as to create the illusion of motion; or representing objects not capable of motion | - |
| (adjective) (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves | Synonyms: placid, quiet, smooth, tranquil, unruffled |
| (adjective) marked by absence of sound | Synonyms: silent, soundless |
| (adjective) not in physical motion | Synonyms: inactive, motionless, static |
| (adjective) free from noticeable current | - |
| (noun) an apparatus used for the distillation of liquids; consists of a vessel in which a substance is vaporized by heat and a condenser where the vapor is condensed | - |
| (noun) a static photograph (especially one taken from a movie and used for advertising purposes) | - |
| (noun) a plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation | Synonyms: distillery |
| (noun) (poetic) tranquil silence | Synonyms: hush, stillness |
| (adverb) to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons | Synonyms: even, yet |
| (adverb) with reference to action or condition; without change, interruption, or cessation | - |
| (adverb) without moving or making a sound | Synonyms: stock-still |
| (adverb) despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession) | Synonyms: all the same, at the same time, even so, however, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, withal, yet |
| (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush, hush up, quieten, shut up, silence |
| (verb) make motionless | - |
| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of or calm | Synonyms: allay, ease, relieve |
| stonewall | (verb) engage in delaying tactics or refuse to cooperate | - |
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| (verb) obstruct or hinder any discussion | - |
| storksbill | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Erodium | Synonyms: heron's bill |
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| stroll | (noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) | Synonyms: amble, perambulation, promenade, saunter |
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| (verb) walk leisurely and with no apparent aim | Synonyms: saunter |
| swell | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing |
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| (noun) a crescendo followed by a decrescendo | - |
| (noun) the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea | Synonyms: crestless wave |
| (noun) a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor) | - |
| (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik |
| (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: intumesce, swell up, tumefy, tumesce |
| (verb) cause to become swollen | - |
| (verb) increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity | - |
| (verb) come up, as of a liquid | Synonyms: well |
| (verb) become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger | Synonyms: puff up |
| (verb) come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things) | Synonyms: well up |
| swill | (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigswill, pigwash, slop, slops |
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| (verb) drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink) | Synonyms: swill down |
| (verb) feed pigs | Synonyms: slop |
| tall | (adjective) great in vertical dimension; high in stature | - |
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| (adjective) impressively difficult | - |
| (adjective) too improbable to admit of belief | Synonyms: improbable, marvellous, marvelous |
| (adjective) lofty in style | Synonyms: grandiloquent, magniloquent |
| (adjective) having a specified height | Synonyms: in height |
| (noun) a garment size for a tall person | - |
| tell | (verb) discern or comprehend | - |
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| (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell apart |
| (verb) let something be known | - |
| (verb) narrate or give a detailed account of | Synonyms: narrate, recite, recount |
| (verb) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | Synonyms: enjoin, order, say |
| (verb) give evidence | Synonyms: evidence |
| (verb) express in words | Synonyms: say, state |
| (verb) inform positively and with certainty and confidence | Synonyms: assure |
| tetherball | (noun) a game with two players who use rackets to strike a ball that is tethered to the top of a pole; the object is to wrap the string around the pole | - |
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| thill | (noun) one of two shafts extending from the body of a cart or carriage on either side of the animal that pulls it | - |
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| thornbill | (noun) any of various South American hummingbirds with a sharp pointed bill | - |
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| thrall | (noun) someone held in bondage | - |
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| (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: bondage, slavery, thraldom, thralldom |
| thrill | (noun) something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation | - |
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| (noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, flush, kick, rush |
| (noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, frisson, quiver, shiver, shudder, tingle |
| (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exalt, exhilarate, inebriate, tickle pink |
| (verb) feel sudden intense sensation or emotion | Synonyms: tickle, vibrate |
| (verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shiver, shudder, throb |
| (verb) cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input | - |
| thumbstall | (noun) protective covering for an injured thumb | - |
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| till | (noun) a strongbox for holding cash | Synonyms: cashbox, money box |
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| (noun) a treasury for government funds | Synonyms: public treasury, trough |
| (noun) unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together | Synonyms: boulder clay |
| (verb) work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation | - |
| toll | (noun) value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something | Synonyms: cost, price |
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| (noun) the sound of a bell being struck | Synonyms: bell |
| (noun) a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges | - |
| (verb) ring slowly | - |
| (verb) charge a fee for using | - |
| tortoiseshell | (noun) a cat having black and cream-colored and yellowish markings | Synonyms: calico cat, tortoiseshell-cat |
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| (noun) brilliantly colored; larvae feed on nettles | Synonyms: tortoiseshell butterfly |
| (noun) the mottled horny substance of the shell of some turtles | - |
| trackball | (noun) an electronic device consisting of a rotatable ball in a housing; used to position the cursor and move images on a computer screen | - |
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| treadmill | (noun) a job involving drudgery and confinement | Synonyms: salt mine |
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| (noun) a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps | Synonyms: tread-wheel, treadwheel |
| (noun) an exercise device consisting of an endless belt on which a person can walk or jog without changing place | - |
| trill | (noun) a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it | Synonyms: shake |
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| (noun) the articulation of a consonant (especially the consonant `r') with a rapid flutter of the tongue against the palate or uvula | - |
| (verb) sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below | Synonyms: quaver, warble |
| (verb) pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r' | - |
| troll | (noun) angling by drawing a baited line through the water | Synonyms: trolling |
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| (noun) a fisherman's lure that is used in trolling | - |
| (noun) a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time | Synonyms: round |
| (noun) (Scandinavian folklore) a supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains | - |
| (verb) sing loudly and without inhibition | - |
| (verb) praise or celebrate in song | - |
| (verb) speak or recite rapidly or in a rolling voice | - |
| (verb) angle with a hook and line drawn through the water | - |
| (verb) sing the parts of (a round) in succession | - |
| (verb) cause to move round and round | - |
| (verb) circulate, move around | - |
| twill | (noun) a cloth with parallel diagonal lines or ribs | - |
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| (noun) a weave used to produce the effect of parallel diagonal ribs | Synonyms: twill weave |
| (verb) weave diagonal lines into (textiles) | - |
| undersell | (verb) sell cheaper than one's competition | Synonyms: undercut |
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| unroll | (verb) unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state | Synonyms: unfurl |
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| (verb) reverse the winding or twisting of | Synonyms: unwind, wind off |
| unspell | (verb) release from a spell | - |
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| unwell | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather |
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| uphill | (adjective) sloping upward | Synonyms: acclivitous, rising |
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| (noun) the upward slope of a hill | - |
| (adverb) upward on a hill or incline | - |
| (adverb) against difficulties | - |
| volleyball | (noun) a game in which two teams hit an inflated ball over a high net using their hands | Synonyms: volley ball, volleyball game |
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| (noun) an inflated ball used in playing volleyball | Synonyms: volley ball |
| wall | (noun) an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure | - |
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| (noun) an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes | Synonyms: bulwark, rampart |
| (noun) a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden) | - |
| (noun) a layer of material that encloses space | - |
| (noun) (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure | Synonyms: paries |
| (noun) anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect | - |
| (noun) a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain) | - |
| (noun) a difficult or awkward situation | - |
| (verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify | Synonyms: fence, fence in, palisade, surround |
| waterfall | (noun) a steep descent of the water of a river | Synonyms: falls |
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| waybill | (noun) a receipt given by the carrier to the shipper acknowledging receipt of the goods being shipped and specifying the terms of delivery | Synonyms: bill of lading |
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| well | (adjective) in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury | - |
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| (adjective) wise or advantageous and hence advisable | - |
| (adjective) resulting favorably | Synonyms: good |
| (noun) a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine | - |
| (noun) an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps | - |
| (noun) an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway) | - |
| (noun) a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid | - |
| (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: fountainhead, wellspring |
| (adverb) (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well') | Synonyms: good |
| (adverb) without unusual distress or resentment; with good humor | - |
| (adverb) indicating high probability; in all likelihood | Synonyms: easily |
| (adverb) thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form | - |
| (adverb) favorably; with approval | - |
| (adverb) to a suitable or appropriate extent or degree | - |
| (adverb) in financial comfort | Synonyms: comfortably |
| (adverb) in a manner affording benefit or advantage | Synonyms: advantageously |
| (adverb) to a great extent or degree | Synonyms: considerably, substantially |
| (adverb) with skill or in a pleasing manner | - |
| (adverb) with prudence or propriety | - |
| (adverb) with great or especially intimate knowledge | Synonyms: intimately |
| (adverb) (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully | - |
| (verb) come up, as of a liquid | Synonyms: swell |
| whippoorwill | (noun) American nocturnal goatsucker with grey-and-white plumage | Synonyms: Caprimulgus vociferus |
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| will | (noun) the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention | Synonyms: volition |
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| (noun) a fixed and persistent intent or purpose | - |
| (noun) a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die | Synonyms: testament |
| (verb) determine by choice | - |
| (verb) decree or ordain | - |
| (verb) leave or give by will after one's death | Synonyms: bequeath, leave |
| windfall | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven |
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| (noun) fruit that has fallen from the tree | - |
| windmill | (noun) generator that extracts usable energy from winds | Synonyms: aerogenerator, wind generator |
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| (noun) a mill that is powered by the wind | - |