sapote | (noun) brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet | Synonyms: mammee, marmalade plum |
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(noun) tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum | Synonyms: Calocarpum zapota, mammee, marmalade tree, Pouteria zapota |
sapper | (noun) a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications) | - |
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sapphic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by homosexual relations between woman | Synonyms: lesbian |
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sapphire | (adjective) of something having the color of a blue sapphire | - |
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(noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: azure, cerulean, lazuline, sky-blue |
(noun) a transparent piece of sapphire that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
(noun) a precious transparent stone of rich blue corundum valued as a gemstone | - |
sapphirine | (adjective) made of or resembling sapphire | - |
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(noun) a rare light blue or green mineral; consists of aluminum and magnesium silicate and occurs as small grains in some metamorphic rocks | - |
sapphism | (noun) female homosexuality | Synonyms: lesbianism |
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sappy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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(adjective) abounding in sap | - |
sapraemia | (noun) blood poisoning caused by putrefactive bacteria; results from eating putrefied matter | Synonyms: sapremia |
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sapremia | (noun) blood poisoning caused by putrefactive bacteria; results from eating putrefied matter | Synonyms: sapraemia |
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saprobe | (noun) an organism that lives in and derives its nourishment from organic matter in stagnant or foul water | - |
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saprobic | (adjective) living in or being an environment rich in organic matter but lacking oxygen | - |
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saprolite | (noun) a deposit of clay and disintegrating rock that is found in its original place | - |
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sapropel | (noun) sludge (rich in organic matter) that accumulates at the bottom of lakes or oceans | - |
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saprophagous | (adjective) (of certain animals) feeding on dead or decaying animal matter | Synonyms: saprozoic |
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saprophyte | (noun) an organism that feeds on dead organic matter especially a fungus or bacterium | Synonyms: saprophytic organism |
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saprophytic | (adjective) obtaining food osmotically from dissolved organic material | - |
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(adjective) (of some plants or fungi) feeding on dead or decaying organic matter | - |
saprozoic | (adjective) (of certain animals) feeding on dead or decaying animal matter | Synonyms: saprophagous |
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sapsago | (noun) a hard green Swiss cheese made with skim-milk curd and flavored with clover | - |
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sapsucker | (noun) small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees | - |
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sapwood | (noun) newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant; usually light colored; active in water conduction | - |
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saquinavir | (noun) a weak protease inhibitor (trade name Invirase) used in treating HIV | Synonyms: Invirase |
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saraband | (noun) a stately court dance of the 17th and 18th centuries; in slow time | - |
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(noun) music composed for dancing the saraband | - |
saran | (noun) any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things | - |
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sarape | (noun) a long brightly colored shawl; worn mainly by Mexican men | Synonyms: serape |
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saratoga | (noun) a species of large fish found in Australian rivers, it has a red or pink spot on every scale (Scleropages leichardti) | Synonyms: Australian arowana, Dawson River salmon, Scleropages leichardti, spotted barramundi, spotted bonytongue |
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sarcasm | (noun) witty language used to convey insults or scorn | Synonyms: caustic remark, irony, satire |
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sarcastic | (adjective) expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds | - |
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sarcastically | (adverb) in a sarcastic manner | Synonyms: sardonically |
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sarcenet | (noun) a fine soft silk fabric often used for linings | Synonyms: sarsenet |
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sarcocystidean | (noun) parasite of the muscles of vertebrates | Synonyms: sarcocystieian, sarcosporidian |
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sarcocystieian | (noun) parasite of the muscles of vertebrates | Synonyms: sarcocystidean, sarcosporidian |
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sarcodine | (noun) protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopods | Synonyms: sarcodinian |
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sarcodinian | (noun) protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopods | Synonyms: sarcodine |
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sarcoid | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling flesh | Synonyms: fleshy |
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sarcoidosis | (noun) a chronic disease of unknown cause marked by the formation of nodules in the lungs and liver and lymph glands and salivary glands | - |
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sarcolemma | (noun) an extensible membrane enclosing the contractile substance of a muscle fiber | - |
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sarcolemmal | (adjective) of or relating to the sarcolemma | - |
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sarcolemmic | (adjective) of or relating to sarcolemma | Synonyms: sarcolemnous |
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sarcolemnous | (adjective) of or relating to sarcolemma | Synonyms: sarcolemmic |
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sarcoma | (noun) a usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.); one of the four major types of cancer | - |
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sarcomere | (noun) one of the segments into which a myofibril is divided | - |
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sarcophagus | (noun) a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions) | - |
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sarcoplasm | (noun) the cytoplasm of a striated muscle fiber | - |
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sarcoptid | (noun) whitish mites that attack the skin of humans and other animals | Synonyms: itch mite |
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sarcosine | (noun) a sweetish crystalline amino acid | - |
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sarcosomal | (adjective) of or relating to sarcosomes | - |
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sarcosome | (noun) a large mitochondrion in a striated muscle fiber | - |
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sarcosporidian | (noun) parasite of the muscles of vertebrates | Synonyms: sarcocystidean, sarcocystieian |
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sarcostyle | (noun) one of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber | Synonyms: myofibril, myofibrilla |
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sard | (noun) a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: sardine, sardius |
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sardine | (noun) any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned | - |
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(noun) small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring | Synonyms: pilchard, Sardina pilchardus |
(noun) small fatty fish usually canned | Synonyms: pilchard |
(noun) a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: sard, sardius |
sardius | (noun) a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: sard, sardine |
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sardonic | (adjective) disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking | Synonyms: snarky |
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sardonically | (adverb) in a sarcastic manner | Synonyms: sarcastically |
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sardonyx | (noun) an onyx characterized by parallel layers of sard and a different colored mineral | - |
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saree | (noun) a dress worn primarily by Hindu women; consists of several yards of light material that is draped around the body | Synonyms: sari |
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sargasso | (noun) brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea | Synonyms: gulfweed, sargassum, Sargassum bacciferum |
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sargassum | (noun) brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea | Synonyms: gulfweed, sargasso, Sargassum bacciferum |
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sari | (noun) a dress worn primarily by Hindu women; consists of several yards of light material that is draped around the body | Synonyms: saree |
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sarin | (noun) a highly toxic chemical nerve agent that inhibits the activity of cholinesterase | Synonyms: GB |
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sarong | (noun) a loose skirt consisting of brightly colored fabric wrapped around the body; worn by both women and men in the South Pacific | - |
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sarsaparilla | (noun) carbonated drink flavored with an extract from sarsaparilla root or with birch oil and sassafras | - |
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(noun) any of various prickly climbing plants of the tropical American genus Smilax having aromatic roots and heart-shaped leaves | - |
sarsenet | (noun) a fine soft silk fabric often used for linings | Synonyms: sarcenet |
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sartor | (noun) a person whose occupation is making and altering garments | Synonyms: seamster, tailor |
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sartorial | (adjective) of or relating to a tailor or to tailoring | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the sartorius muscle | - |
sartorius | (noun) a muscle in the thigh that helps to rotate the leg into the sitting position assumed by a tailor; the longest muscle in the human body | Synonyms: musculus sartorius, sartorius muscle |
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sash | (noun) a framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame | Synonyms: window sash |
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(noun) a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers | Synonyms: cincture, girdle, waistband, waistcloth |
sashay | (noun) (ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading | Synonyms: chasse |
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(noun) a square dance figure; partners circle each other taking sideways steps | - |
(noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, expedition, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip |
(verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, ruffle, strut, swagger, tittup |
(verb) move sideways | Synonyms: sidle |
(verb) perform a chasse step, in ballet | Synonyms: chasse |
sashimi | (noun) very thinly sliced raw fish | - |
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saskatoon | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: juneberry, serviceberry, shadberry |
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sass | (noun) an impudent or insolent rejoinder | Synonyms: back talk, backtalk, lip, mouth, sassing |
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(verb) answer back in an impudent or insolent manner | - |
sassaby | (noun) a large South African antelope; considered the swiftest hoofed mammal | Synonyms: Damaliscus lunatus, topi |
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sassafras | (noun) dried root bark of the sassafras tree | - |
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(noun) yellowwood tree with brittle wood and aromatic leaves and bark; source of sassafras oil; widely distributed in eastern North America | Synonyms: Sassafras albidum, sassafras tree |
sassing | (noun) an impudent or insolent rejoinder | Synonyms: back talk, backtalk, lip, mouth, sass |
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sassy | (adjective) improperly forward or bold | Synonyms: fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, saucy, smart, wise |
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satang | (noun) 100 satangs equal 1 baht in Thailand | - |
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satanic | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, unholy |
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satanophobia | (noun) an abnormal fear of Satan | - |
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satchel | (noun) luggage consisting of a small case with a flat bottom and (usually) a shoulder strap | - |
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sate | (verb) fill to satisfaction | Synonyms: fill, replete, satiate |
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sateen | (noun) a cotton fabric with a satiny finish | - |
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satellite | (adjective) surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power | - |
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(noun) man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon | Synonyms: artificial satellite, orbiter |
(noun) any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star | - |
(noun) a person who follows or serves another | Synonyms: planet |
(verb) broadcast or disseminate via satellite | - |
satiable | (adjective) capable of being sated | Synonyms: satisfiable |
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satiate | (adjective) supplied (especially fed) to satisfaction | Synonyms: satiated |
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(verb) fill to satisfaction | Synonyms: fill, replete, sate |
(verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, scarf out, stuff |
satiated | (adjective) supplied (especially fed) to satisfaction | Synonyms: satiate |
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satiation | (noun) the act of achieving full gratification | - |
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(noun) the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more | Synonyms: repletion, satiety |
satiety | (noun) the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more | Synonyms: repletion, satiation |
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satin | (noun) a smooth fabric of silk or rayon; has a glossy face and a dull back | - |
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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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satinette | (noun) a fabric with a finish resembling satin but made partly or wholly from cotton or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: satinet |
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satinleaf | (noun) tropical American timber tree with dark hard heavy wood and small plumlike purple fruit | Synonyms: caimitillo, Chrysophyllum oliviforme, damson plum, satin leaf |
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satinpod | (noun) southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration | Synonyms: honesty, Lunaria annua, money plant, satin flower, silver dollar |
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satinwood | (noun) East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood | Synonyms: Chloroxylon swietenia, satinwood tree |
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(noun) West Indian tree with smooth lustrous and slightly oily wood | Synonyms: West Indian satinwood, Zanthoxylum flavum |
(noun) hard yellowish wood of a satinwood tree having a satiny luster; used for fine cabinetwork and tools | - |
satiny | (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: silken, silklike, silky, sleek, slick |
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satire | (noun) witty language used to convey insults or scorn | Synonyms: caustic remark, irony, sarcasm |
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(noun) a genre of literature and performing arts, in which shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming others | - |
satiric | (adjective) exposing human folly to ridicule | Synonyms: satirical |
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satirical | (adjective) exposing human folly to ridicule | Synonyms: satiric |
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satirically | (adverb) in a satirical manner | - |
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satirise | (verb) ridicule with satire | Synonyms: lampoon, satirize |
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satirist | (noun) a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm | Synonyms: ironist, ridiculer |
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