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swearer |
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someone who uses profanity |
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sweater girl |
Noun
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a girl with an attractive bust who wears tight sweaters |
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sweetie |
Noun
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a person loved by another person |
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swimmer |
Noun
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a person who travels through the water by swimming |
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swimmer |
Noun
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a trained athlete who participates in swimming meets |
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stylite |
Noun
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an early Christian ascetic who lived on top of high pillars |
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subcontractor |
Noun
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someone who enters into a subcontract with the primary contractor |
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swineherd |
Noun
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a herder or swine |
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subdeacon |
Noun
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a clergyman an order below deacon |
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subdivider |
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someone who divides parts into smaller parts (especially a divider of land into building sites) |
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swinger |
Noun
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a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex |
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swinger |
Noun
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someone who swings sports implements |
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subduer |
Noun
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someone who overcomes and establishes ascendancy and control by force or persuasion |
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surmounter |
Noun
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someone who overcomes and establishes ascendancy and control by force or persuasion |
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swing voter |
Noun
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a voter who has no allegiance to any political party and whose unpredictable decisions can swing the outcome of an election one way or the other |
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subjectivist |
Noun
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a person who subscribes to subjectivism |
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switcher |
Noun
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a person who administers punishment by wielding a switch or whip |
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subjugator |
Noun
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a conqueror who defeats and enslaves |
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state trooper |
Noun
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a state police officer |
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stealer |
Noun
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a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it |
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skin and bones |
Noun
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a person who is unusually thin and scrawny |
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switchboard operator |
Noun
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someone who helps callers get the person they are calling |
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social drinker |
Noun
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someone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities |
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symposiarch |
Noun
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the person who proposes toasts and introduces speakers at a banquet |
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sustainer |
Noun
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someone who upholds or maintains |
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street child |
Noun
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a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned |
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shylock |
Noun
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someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest |
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supplanter |
Noun
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one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another |
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scoundrel |
Noun
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a wicked or evil person |
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security guard |
Noun
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a guard who keeps watch |
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sybarite |
Noun
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a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses |
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spewer |
Noun
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a person who vomits |
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smart aleck |
Noun
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an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments |
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snake god |
Noun
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a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies |
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skirt chaser |
Noun
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a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women |
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sniveller |
Noun
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a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining |
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squirmer |
Noun
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one who can't stay still (especially a child) |
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side effect |
Noun
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any adverse and unwanted secondary effect |
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side effect |
Noun
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a secondary and usually adverse effect of a drug or therapy |
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spontaneous generation |
Noun
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a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter |
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superconductivity |
Noun
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the disappearance of electrical resistance at very low temperatures |
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shaft of light |
Noun
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a column of light (as from a beacon) |
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separation energy |
Noun
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the energy required to separate particles from a molecule or atom or nucleus |
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systolic pressure |
Noun
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the blood pressure (as measured by a sphygmomanometer) during the contraction of the left ventricle of the heart |
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sea breeze |
Noun
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a cooling breeze from the sea (during the daytime) |
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strong breeze |
Noun
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wind moving 25-31 knots |
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slipstream |
Noun
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the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller |
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sedimentation |
Noun
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the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating |
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shedding |
Noun
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loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales |
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shedding |
Noun
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the process whereby something is shed |