saxist | (noun) a musician who plays the saxophone | Synonyms: saxophonist |
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saxitoxin | (noun) a powerful neurotoxin produced by certain dinoflagellates found in red tides; it can accumulate in mollusks that feed on the dinoflagellates and cause food poisoning to humans | - |
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saxophone | (noun) a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore | Synonyms: sax |
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saxophonist | (noun) a musician who plays the saxophone | Synonyms: saxist |
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say | (noun) the chance to speak | - |
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(verb) express in words | Synonyms: state, tell |
(verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: allege, aver |
(verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, sound out |
(verb) express a supposition | Synonyms: suppose |
(verb) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | Synonyms: enjoin, order, tell |
(verb) communicate or express nonverbally | - |
(verb) recite or repeat a fixed text | - |
(verb) indicate | - |
(verb) state as one's opinion or judgement; declare | - |
(verb) utter aloud | - |
(verb) have or contain a certain wording or form | Synonyms: read |
sayeret | (noun) Israel's elite secret commando unit responsible for counterterrorist and top secret intelligence gathering and hostage rescue missions | Synonyms: Sayeret Mat'kal, Sayeret Matkal |
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saying | (noun) a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations | Synonyms: expression, locution |
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sayonara | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, so long |
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scab | (noun) the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion | - |
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(noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: blackleg, rat, strikebreaker |
(verb) form a scab | - |
(verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: blackleg, fink, rat |
scabbard | (noun) a sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet | - |
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scabby | (adjective) covered with scabs | - |
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scabicide | (noun) a drug that destroys the itch mite that causes scabies | - |
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scabies | (noun) a contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation | Synonyms: itch |
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scabiosa | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa | Synonyms: scabious |
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scabious | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa | Synonyms: scabiosa |
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scablands | (noun) (geology) flat elevated land with poor soil and little vegetation that is scarred by dry channels of glacial origin (especially in eastern Washington) | - |
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scabrous | (adjective) dealing with salacious or indecent material | - |
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(adjective) rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf | Synonyms: lepidote, leprose, scaly, scurfy |
scad | (noun) any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae | - |
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scads | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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scaffold | (noun) a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers | - |
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(noun) a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded) | - |
(verb) provide with a scaffold for support | - |
scaffolding | (noun) a system of scaffolds | Synonyms: staging |
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scag | (noun) street names for heroin | Synonyms: big H, hell dust, nose drops, skag, smack, thunder |
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scalability | (noun) the quality of being scalable | - |
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scalable | (adjective) capable of being scaled; possible to scale | - |
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scalage | (noun) the act of scaling in weight or quantity or dimension | - |
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(noun) estimation of the amount of lumber in a log | - |
scalar | (adjective) of or relating to a directionless magnitude (such as mass or speed etc.) that is completely specified by its magnitude | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to a musical scale | - |
(noun) a variable quantity that cannot be resolved into components | - |
scalawag | (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scallywag, scamp |
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(noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scallywag, varlet |
(noun) a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest) | Synonyms: scallywag |
scald | (noun) the act of burning with steam or hot water | - |
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(noun) a burn cause by hot liquid or steam | - |
(verb) burn with a hot liquid or steam | - |
(verb) heat to the boiling point | - |
(verb) treat with boiling water | - |
(verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: blister, scorch, whip |
scale | (noun) a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals | - |
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(noun) an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks | - |
(noun) a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass | Synonyms: weighing machine |
(noun) a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) | Synonyms: plate, shell |
(noun) (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave) | Synonyms: musical scale |
(noun) a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin | Synonyms: exfoliation, scurf |
(noun) a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin | Synonyms: scale leaf |
(noun) relative magnitude | - |
(noun) the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it | - |
(noun) an ordered reference standard | Synonyms: graduated table, ordered series, scale of measurement |
(verb) measure with or as if with scales | - |
(verb) size or measure according to a scale | - |
(verb) remove the scales from | Synonyms: descale |
(verb) pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard | - |
(verb) climb up by means of a ladder | - |
(verb) reach the highest point of | Synonyms: surmount |
(verb) take by attacking with scaling ladders | - |
(verb) measure by or as if by a scale | - |
scaled | (adjective) (used of armor) having overlapping metal plates attached to a leather backing | - |
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(adjective) having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles | Synonyms: scaley, scaly |
scaleless | (adjective) destitute of scales | - |
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scalelike | (adjective) reduced to a small appressed thing that resembles a scale | - |
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scalene | (adjective) of or relating to any of the scalene muscles | - |
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(adjective) of a triangle having three sides of different lengths | - |
scalenus | (noun) any of four pairs of muscles extending from the cervical vertebrae to the second rib; involved in moving the neck and in breathing | Synonyms: musculus scalenus, scalene muscle |
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scaler | (noun) an electronic pulse counter used to count pulses that occur too rapidly to be recorded individually | - |
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scaley | (adjective) having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles | Synonyms: scaled, scaly |
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scalic | (adjective) of or related to a musical scale | - |
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scaliness | (noun) the property of being scaly | - |
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scaling | (noun) act of measuring or arranging or adjusting according to a scale | - |
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(noun) the act of arranging in a graduated series | Synonyms: grading |
(noun) ascent by or as if by a ladder | - |
scallion | (noun) a young onion before the bulb has enlarged; eaten in salads | Synonyms: green onion, spring onion |
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(noun) plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum | Synonyms: Allium porrum, leek |
scallop | (noun) edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions | Synonyms: escallop, scollop |
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(noun) edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces | Synonyms: escallop, scollop |
(noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: cutlet, escallop, scollop |
(noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenature, crenel, crenelle |
(verb) shape or cut in scallops | Synonyms: scollop |
(verb) fish for scallops | Synonyms: scollop |
(verb) form scallops in | Synonyms: scollop |
(verb) decorate an edge with scallops | - |
(verb) bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top | Synonyms: escallop |
scalloped | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenate, crenated |
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scallopine | (noun) sauteed cutlets (usually veal or poultry) that have been pounded thin and coated with flour | Synonyms: scallopini |
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scallopini | (noun) sauteed cutlets (usually veal or poultry) that have been pounded thin and coated with flour | Synonyms: scallopine |
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scallywag | (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scamp |
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(noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scalawag, varlet |
(noun) a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest) | Synonyms: scalawag |
scalp | (noun) the skin that covers the top of the head | - |
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(verb) remove the scalp of | - |
(verb) sell illegally, as on the black market | - |
scalpel | (noun) a thin straight surgical knife used in dissection and surgery | - |
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scalper | (noun) someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost | - |
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scaly | (adjective) having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles | Synonyms: scaled, scaley |
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(adjective) rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf | Synonyms: lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scurfy |
scam | (noun) a fraudulent business scheme | Synonyms: cozenage |
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(verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, short-change, swindle, victimize |
scammer | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, swindler |
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scammony | (noun) twining plant of Asia Minor having cream-colored to purple flowers and long thick roots yielding a cathartic resin | Synonyms: Convolvulus scammonia |
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(noun) resin from the root of Convolvulus scammonia | - |
(noun) tropical American morning glory | Synonyms: Ipomoea orizabensis |
scammonyroot | (noun) tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato | Synonyms: Ipomoea fastigiata, Ipomoea panurata, man-of-the-earth, manroot, wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine |
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scamp | (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag |
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(verb) perform hastily and carelessly | - |
scamper | (noun) rushing about hastily in an undignified way | Synonyms: scramble, scurry |
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(verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scurry, scuttle, skitter |
scampi | (noun) large shrimp sauteed in oil or butter and garlic | - |
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scampo | (noun) caught in European waters; slenderer than American lobster | Synonyms: langoustine, Norwegian lobster |
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scan | (noun) the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region | - |
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(noun) an image produced by scanning | Synonyms: CAT scan |
(verb) obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources | Synonyms: read |
(verb) read metrically | - |
(verb) make a wide, sweeping search of | - |
(verb) move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image | - |
(verb) examine hastily | Synonyms: glance over, rake, run down, skim |
(verb) examine minutely or intensely | - |
(verb) conform to a metrical pattern | - |
scandal | (noun) disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people | Synonyms: dirt, malicious gossip |
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(noun) a disgraceful event | Synonyms: outrage |
scandalisation | (noun) the act of scandalizing | Synonyms: outrage, scandalization |
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(noun) the condition of being shocked (as by improper behavior) | Synonyms: scandalization |
scandalise | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalize, shock |
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scandalization | (noun) the act of scandalizing | Synonyms: outrage, scandalisation |
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(noun) the condition of being shocked (as by improper behavior) | Synonyms: scandalisation |
scandalize | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, shock |
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scandalmonger | (noun) a person who spreads malicious gossip | - |
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scandalmongering | (adjective) typical of tabloids | Synonyms: sensationalistic, yellow |
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(noun) spreading malicious gossip | - |
scandalous | (adjective) giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation | Synonyms: disgraceful, shameful, shocking |
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scandalously | (adverb) in a scandalous manner | - |
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scandalousness | (noun) disgracefulness that offends public morality | - |
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scandent | (adjective) used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb | - |
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scandium | (noun) a white trivalent metallic element; sometimes classified in the rare earth group; occurs in the Scandinavian mineral thortveitite | Synonyms: atomic number 21, Sc |
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scanner | (noun) a radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition | Synonyms: electronic scanner |
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(noun) a radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area | - |
(noun) an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer | Synonyms: digital scanner, image scanner |
(noun) someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables | - |
scanning | (noun) the act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission | - |
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(noun) the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer | - |
scansion | (noun) analysis of verse into metrical patterns | - |
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scant | (adjective) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so | Synonyms: light, short |
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(verb) supply sparingly and with restricted quantities | Synonyms: skimp, stint |
(verb) limit in quality or quantity | Synonyms: skimp |
(verb) work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially | Synonyms: skimp |
scantily | (adverb) in a skimpy manner | Synonyms: skimpily |
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scantiness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantness |
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(noun) Of a garment, the property of being very small, light, or revealing. | Synonyms: skimpiness |
scantling | (noun) an upright in house framing | Synonyms: stud |
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scantness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness |
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scanty | (adjective) lacking in magnitude or quantity | Synonyms: bare, spare |
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(adjective) (of clothing) revealing the body | Synonyms: skimpy |
(noun) short underpants for women or children | Synonyms: pantie, panty, step-in |
scape | (noun) (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column | Synonyms: shaft |
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(noun) erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip | Synonyms: flower stalk |
scapegoat | (noun) someone who is punished for the errors of others | Synonyms: whipping boy |
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scapegrace | (noun) a reckless and unprincipled reprobate | Synonyms: black sheep |
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scaphocephaly | (noun) congenital malformation of the skull which is long and narrow; frequently accompanied by mental retardation | - |
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scaphoid | (adjective) shaped like a boat | Synonyms: navicular |
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scaphopod | (noun) burrowing marine mollusk | - |
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scapose | (adjective) resembling or consisting of a scape; having a bare leafless stalk growing directly from the ground | - |
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scapula | (noun) either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings | Synonyms: shoulder blade, shoulder bone |
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scapular | (adjective) relating to or near the shoulder blade | - |
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(noun) a feather covering the shoulder of a bird | - |
(noun) garment consisting of a long wide piece of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders with an opening for the head; part of a monastic habit | Synonyms: scapulary |
scapulary | (noun) garment consisting of a long wide piece of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders with an opening for the head; part of a monastic habit | Synonyms: scapular |
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scapulohumeral | (adjective) relating to the shoulder blade and upper arm bone | - |
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scar | (noun) an indication of damage | Synonyms: mark, scrape, scratch |
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(noun) a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue | Synonyms: cicatrice, cicatrix |
(verb) mark with a scar | Synonyms: mark, pit, pock |
scarab | (noun) scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians | Synonyms: scarabaeus, Scarabaeus sacer |
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scarabaean | (noun) any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes | Synonyms: scarabaeid, scarabaeid beetle |
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scarabaeid | (noun) any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes | Synonyms: scarabaean, scarabaeid beetle |
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scarabaeus | (noun) scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians | Synonyms: scarab, Scarabaeus sacer |
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scarce | (adjective) deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand | - |
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(adverb) only a very short time before | Synonyms: barely, hardly, just, scarcely |
(adverb) almost not | Synonyms: barely, hardly, scarcely |
scarcely | (adverb) only a very short time before | Synonyms: barely, hardly, just, scarce |
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(adverb) almost not | Synonyms: barely, hardly, scarce |
scarceness | (noun) a small and inadequate amount | Synonyms: scarcity |
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scarcity | (noun) a small and inadequate amount | Synonyms: scarceness |
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scare | (noun) a sudden attack of fear | Synonyms: panic attack |
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(noun) sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events | Synonyms: panic |
(verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, fright, frighten |
(verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare away, scare off |