| schnaps | (noun) any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes | Synonyms: schnapps |
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| schnauzer | (noun) old German breed of sturdy black or greyish wire-haired terriers having a blunt muzzle ranging in size from fairly small to very large; used as ratters and guard dogs or police dogs | - |
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| schnecken | (noun) rolled dough spread with sugar and nuts then sliced and baked in muffin tins with honey or sugar and butter in the bottom | Synonyms: caramel bun, honey bun, sticky bun |
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| schnittlaugh | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chive, chives, cive |
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| schnitzel | (noun) deep-fried breaded veal cutlets | Synonyms: Wiener schnitzel |
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| schnook | (noun) (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised | Synonyms: shnook |
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| schnorchel | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: breather, schnorkel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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| schnorkel | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: breather, schnorchel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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| schnorr | (verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: cadge, scrounge, shnorr |
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| schnorrer | (noun) (Yiddish) a scrounger who takes advantage of the generosity of others | Synonyms: shnorrer |
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| schnoz | (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
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| schnozzle | (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, snoot, snout |
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| scholar | (noun) a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines | Synonyms: bookman, scholarly person |
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| (noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs | Synonyms: assimilator, learner, student |
| (noun) a student who holds a scholarship | - |
| scholarly | (adjective) characteristic of scholars or scholarship | - |
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| scholarship | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning |
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| (noun) financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit | - |
| scholastic | (adjective) of or relating to schools | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism | - |
| (noun) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit | Synonyms: bookworm, pedant |
| scholastically | (adverb) with respect to scholastic activities | - |
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| scholasticism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: academicism, academism |
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| scholia | (noun) a marginal note written by a scholiast (a commentator on ancient or classical literature) | Synonyms: scholium |
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| scholiast | (noun) a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author) | - |
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| scholium | (noun) a marginal note written by a scholiast (a commentator on ancient or classical literature) | Synonyms: scholia |
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| school | (noun) a building where young people receive education | Synonyms: schoolhouse |
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| (noun) the process of being formally educated at a school | Synonyms: schooling |
| (noun) an educational institution | - |
| (noun) a large group of fish | Synonyms: shoal |
| (noun) a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers | - |
| (noun) an educational institution's faculty and students | - |
| (noun) the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session | Synonyms: school day, schooltime |
| (verb) swim in or form a large group of fish | - |
| (verb) educate in or as if in a school | - |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, train |
| schoolbag | (noun) a bag for carrying school books and supplies | - |
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| schoolbook | (noun) a book prepared for use in schools or colleges | Synonyms: school text, text, text edition, textbook |
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| schoolboy | (noun) a boy attending school | - |
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| schoolboyish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young boy | Synonyms: boyish, boylike |
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| schoolchild | (noun) a young person attending school (up through senior high school) | Synonyms: pupil, school-age child |
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| schooldays | (noun) the time of life when you are going to school | Synonyms: schooltime |
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| schoolfellow | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, classmate, schoolmate |
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| schoolfriend | (noun) a friend who attends the same school | - |
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| schoolgirl | (noun) a girl attending school | - |
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| schoolgirlish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young girl | Synonyms: girlish |
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| schoolhouse | (noun) a building where young people receive education | Synonyms: school |
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| schooling | (noun) the act of teaching at school | - |
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| (noun) the training of an animal (especially the training of a horse for dressage) | - |
| (noun) the process of being formally educated at a school | Synonyms: school |
| schoolman | (noun) a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation | Synonyms: academician |
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| schoolmarm | (noun) a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) | Synonyms: mistress, schoolma'am, schoolmistress |
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| schoolmaster | (noun) food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Lutjanus apodus |
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| (noun) presiding officer of a school | Synonyms: headmaster, master |
| (noun) any person (or institution) who acts as an educator | - |
| schoolmate | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, classmate, schoolfellow |
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| schoolmistress | (noun) a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) | Synonyms: mistress, schoolma'am, schoolmarm |
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| schoolroom | (noun) a room in a school where lessons take place | Synonyms: classroom |
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| schoolteacher | (noun) a teacher in a school below the college level | Synonyms: school teacher |
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| schooltime | (noun) the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session | Synonyms: school, school day |
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| (noun) the time of life when you are going to school | Synonyms: schooldays |
| schoolwide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a school | - |
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| schoolwork | (noun) work, such as schoolwork or piecework, that is done at home | Synonyms: homework, school assignment |
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| schoolyard | (noun) the yard associated with a school | - |
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| schooner | (noun) sailing vessel used in former times | - |
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| (noun) a large beer glass | - |
| schorl | (noun) black tourmaline | - |
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| schottische | (noun) a German round dance resembling a slow polka | - |
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| (noun) music performed for dancing the schottische | - |
| schrod | (noun) young Atlantic cod or haddock especially one split and boned for cooking | Synonyms: scrod |
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| (noun) flesh of young Atlantic cod weighing up to 2 pounds; also young haddock and pollock; often broiled | Synonyms: scrod |
| schtick | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
| schtickl | (noun) a really little shtik | Synonyms: schtikl, shtickl, shtikl |
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| schtik | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
| schtikl | (noun) a really little shtik | Synonyms: schtickl, shtickl, shtikl |
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| schuss | (verb) ski downhill | - |
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| schwa | (noun) a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables | Synonyms: shwa |
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| sciaenid | (noun) widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound | Synonyms: sciaenid fish |
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| sciara | (noun) minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings | Synonyms: fungus gnat, sciarid |
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| sciarid | (noun) minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings | Synonyms: fungus gnat, sciara |
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| sciatic | (adjective) of or relating to the ischium (or the part of the hipbone containing it) | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or caused by or afflicted with sciatica | - |
| sciatica | (noun) neuralgia along the sciatic nerve | - |
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| science | (noun) a particular branch of scientific knowledge | Synonyms: scientific discipline |
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| (noun) ability to produce solutions in some problem domain | Synonyms: skill |
| scienter | (adverb) (law) deliberately or knowingly | - |
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| scientific | (adjective) conforming with the principles or methods used in science | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the practice of science | - |
| scientifically | (adverb) with respect to science; in a scientific way | - |
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| scientist | (noun) a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences | - |
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| scilla | (noun) an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers | Synonyms: squill |
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| scillaren | (noun) a crystalline steroidal glycoside present in squill (Drimia maritima). | - |
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| scimitar | (noun) a curved oriental saber; the edge is on the convex side of the blade | - |
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| scincid | (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 lizard, skink |
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| scintigram | (noun) a recording of the radioactivity emitted by a tracer in an organism or organ system. | - |
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| scintigraph | (noun) The apparatus used to make a scintigram. | Synonyms: scintiscanner |
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| scintilla | (noun) a sparkling glittering particle | - |
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| (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit |
| scintillant | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillating, sparkly |
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| scintillate | (verb) be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity | Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle |
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| (verb) fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon | - |
| (verb) emit or reflect light in a flickering manner | Synonyms: twinkle, winkle |
| (verb) give off | - |
| (verb) reflect brightly | Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle |
| scintillating | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, sparkly |
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| (adjective) brilliantly clever | - |
| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, effervescent, frothy, sparkly |
| scintillation | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glisten, glister, glitter, sparkle |
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| (noun) the twinkling of the stars caused when changes in the density of the earth's atmosphere produce uneven refraction of starlight | - |
| (noun) a brilliant display of wit | - |
| (noun) a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash | Synonyms: sparkling, twinkle |
| (noun) (physics) a flash of light that is produced in a phosphor when it absorbs a photon or ionizing particle | - |
| scintiscanner | (noun) The apparatus used to make a scintigram. | Synonyms: scintigraph |
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| sciolism | (noun) pretentious superficiality of knowledge | - |
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| sciolist | (noun) an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge | Synonyms: dabbler, dilettante |
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| sciolistic | (adjective) showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish | Synonyms: dilettante, dilettanteish, dilettantish |
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| scion | (noun) a descendant or heir | - |
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| scission | (noun) the act of dividing by cutting or splitting | - |
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| scissor | (verb) cut with or as if with scissors | - |
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| scissors | (noun) a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze | Synonyms: scissor grip, scissor hold, scissors grip, scissors hold |
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| (noun) a gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast moves his legs as the blades of scissors move | - |
| (noun) an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades | Synonyms: pair of scissors |
| scissortail | (noun) grey flycatcher of the southwestern United States and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings | Synonyms: Muscivora-forficata, scissortailed flycatcher |
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| scissure | (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crack, crevice, fissure |
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| sclaff | (noun) a poor golf stroke in which the club head hits the ground before hitting the ball | - |
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| (verb) strike (a golf ball) such that the ground is scraped first | - |
| (verb) strike (the ground) in making a sclaff | - |
| sclera | (noun) the whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering and protection of the eyeball | Synonyms: sclerotic coat |
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| scleredema | (noun) a skin disease marked by hard edema of the tissue usually beginning in the face | - |
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| sclerite | (noun) hard plate or element of the exoskeleton of some arthropods | - |
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| scleritis | (noun) inflammation of the sclera | - |
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| scleroderma | (noun) an autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels and connective tissue; fibrous connective tissue is deposited in the skin | Synonyms: dermatosclerosis |
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| sclerometer | (noun) a measuring instrument that measures the hardness of materials by penetrating them with a stylus that has a diamond point | - |
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| scleroprotein | (noun) a simple protein found in horny and cartilaginous tissues and in the lens of the eye | Synonyms: albuminoid |
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| sclerosed | (adjective) relating to or having sclerosis; hardened | Synonyms: sclerotic |
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| sclerosis | (noun) any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue | Synonyms: induration |
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| sclerotic | (adjective) of or relating to the sclera of the eyeball | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or having sclerosis; hardened | Synonyms: sclerosed |
| sclerotinia | (noun) any fungus of the genus Sclerotinia; some causing brown rot diseases in plants | - |
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| sclerotium | (noun) compact usually dark-colored mass of hardened mycelium constituting a vegetative food-storage body in various true fungi; detaches when mature and can give rise to new growth | - |
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| sclerotomy | (noun) surgical incision of the sclerotic coat of the eye | - |
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