| sot | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, drunkard, inebriate, rummy, wino |
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| spadefoot | (noun) a burrowing toad of the Northern Hemisphere with a horny spade-like projection on each hind foot | Synonyms: spadefoot toad |
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| spigot | (noun) a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir | Synonyms: faucet |
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| (noun) a plug for a bunghole in a cask | Synonyms: tap |
| splayfoot | (adjective) having feet that turn outward | Synonyms: splayfooted |
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| (noun) a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out | Synonyms: flatfoot, pes planus |
| spot | (noun) an act that brings discredit to the person who does it | Synonyms: blot, smear, smirch, stain |
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| (noun) a business establishment for entertainment | - |
| (noun) a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer | Synonyms: spotlight |
| (noun) a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value | - |
| (noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, daub, slur, smear, smirch, smudge |
| (noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: dapple, fleck, maculation, patch, speckle |
| (noun) an outstanding characteristic | Synonyms: point |
| (noun) a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance | - |
| (noun) a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising | - |
| (noun) a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit) | Synonyms: pip |
| (noun) a point located with respect to surface features of some region | Synonyms: place, topographic point |
| (noun) a small piece or quantity of something | Synonyms: bit |
| (noun) a slight attack of illness | Synonyms: touch |
| (verb) mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition | - |
| (verb) become spotted | - |
| (verb) make a spot or mark onto | Synonyms: blob, blot, fleck |
| (verb) mar or impair with a flaw | Synonyms: blemish |
| (verb) catch sight of | Synonyms: descry, espy, spy |
| (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, tell apart |
| squawroot | (noun) tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: blue cohosh, blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, papooseroot, squaw root |
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| stinkpot | (noun) small freshwater turtle having a strong musky odor | Synonyms: musk turtle |
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| (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker |
| stockpot | (noun) a pot used for preparing soup stock | - |
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| stoneroot | (noun) erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States | Synonyms: Collinsonia canadensis, horse balm, horseweed, richweed, stone-root, stone root |
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| sunspot | (noun) a cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun's photosphere; associated with a strong magnetic field | Synonyms: macula |
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| swot | (noun) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | Synonyms: dweeb, grind, nerd, wonk |
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| (verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone, bone up, cram, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot up |
| talipot | (noun) tall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for writing paper | Synonyms: Corypha umbraculifera, talipot palm |
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| taproot | (noun) something that provides an important central source for growth or development | - |
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| (noun) (botany) main root of a plant growing straight downward from the stem | - |
| tarot | (noun) any of a set of (usually 78) cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc.; used for playing card games and for divination by fortunetellers | Synonyms: tarot card |
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| teapot | (noun) pot for brewing tea; usually has a spout and handle | - |
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| tenderfoot | (noun) an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living) | - |
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| tinpot | (adjective) inferior (especially of a country's leadership) | - |
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| tommyrot | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tosh, twaddle |
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| toot | (noun) revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party | Synonyms: bender, booze-up, carousal, carouse |
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| (noun) a blast of a horn | - |
| (verb) make a strident noise | Synonyms: beep, blare, claxon, honk |
| topknot | (noun) showy crest or knot of hair or feathers | - |
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| (noun) headdress consisting of a decorative ribbon or bow worn in the hair | - |
| tot | (noun) a young child who is just beginning to walk | Synonyms: bambino, toddler, yearling |
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| (noun) a small amount (especially of a drink) | - |
| (verb) determine the sum of | Synonyms: add, add together, add up, sum, sum up, summate, tally, tot up, total, tote up |
| tricot | (noun) a knitted fabric or one resembling knitting | - |
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| trot | (noun) a slow pace of running | Synonyms: jog, lope |
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| (noun) a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together | - |
| (noun) a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly) | Synonyms: crib, pony |
| (verb) run at a moderately swift pace | Synonyms: clip, jog |
| (verb) ride at a trot | - |
| (verb) cause to trot | - |
| troubleshoot | (verb) solve problems | Synonyms: trouble-shoot |
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| turbot | (noun) a large brownish European flatfish | Synonyms: Psetta maxima |
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| (noun) flesh of a large European flatfish | - |
| underfoot | (adverb) under the feet | - |
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| (adverb) in the way and hindering progress | - |
| undershoot | (verb) shoot short of or below (a target) | - |
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| (verb) fall short of (the runway) in a landing | - |
| undershot | (adjective) having a lower part projecting beyond the upper | Synonyms: underhung, underslung |
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| unknot | (verb) become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of | Synonyms: unpick, unravel, unscramble, untangle |
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| uproot | (verb) pull up by or as if by the roots | Synonyms: deracinate, extirpate, root out |
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| (verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots | Synonyms: eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, root out |
| (verb) move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment | Synonyms: deracinate |
| upshot | (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result |
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| wainscot | (noun) wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room | Synonyms: wainscoting, wainscotting |
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| (noun) panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall | Synonyms: dado |
| washpot | (noun) a pot or vessel in which anything is washed. | - |
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| webfoot | (noun) a foot having the toes connected by folds of skin | - |
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| whatnot | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknack, knickknackery, nicknack |
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| zealot | (noun) a fervent and even militant proponent of something | Synonyms: drumbeater, partisan |
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