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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

savings
nest egg noun a fund of money put by as a reserve

savings account
noun a bank account that accumulates interest

savings account trust
savings bank trust noun a savings account deposited by someone who makes themselves the trustee for a beneficiary and who controls it during their lifetime; afterward the balance is payable to the previously named beneficiary

savings and loan
savings and loan association noun a thrift institution that is required by law to make a certain percentage of its loans as home mortgages

savings bank
coin bank noun a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home; `the coin bank was empty`

savings bond
noun non-negotiable government bond; cannot be bought and sold once the original purchase is made

savior
saviour noun a person who rescues you from harm or danger

Savitar
noun an important Hindu god; the sun in its life-giving aspect

savoir-faire
address noun social skill

Savonarola
Girolamo Savonarola noun Italian religious and political reformer; a Dominican friar in Florence who preached against sin and corruption and gained a large following; he expelled the Medici from Florence but was later excommunicated and executed for criticizing the Pope (1452-1498)

savoring
savouring noun taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality; `cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most`

savory
adjective morally respectable or inoffensive; `a past that was scarcely savory`

savory
noun dwarf aromatic shrub of Mediterranean regions

Savoy
noun a geographical region of historical importance; a former duchy in what is now southwestern France, western Switzerland, and northwestern Italy

savoy cabbage
savoy noun head of soft crinkly leaves

Savoyard
noun a resident of Savoy

saw
noun hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting

saw log
noun log large enough to be sawed into boards

saw palmetto
scrub palmetto noun small hardy clump-forming spiny palm of southern United States

saw set
noun a tool used to bend each alternate sawtooth at a slight angle outward

saw-like
adjective having rough edges that can be used for sawing

Sawan
Sravana noun the fifth month of the Hindu calendar

sawdust
noun fine particles of wood made by sawing wood

sawdust doll
noun a doll that is stuffed with sawdust

sawdust saloon
noun a saloon whose floor is covered with sawdust

sawed-off
sawn-off adjective cut short; `a sawed-off shotgun`; `a sawed-off broomstick`; `the shortened rope was easier to use`

sawed-off shotgun
noun a shotgun with short barrels

sawfish
noun primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long flattened snout

sawfly
noun insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant

sawhorse
horse 1 sawbuck noun a framework for holding wood that is being sawed

sawm
noun the third pillar of Islam is fasting (primarily during the month of Ramadan); Muslims abstain from food and drink and gambling and all sensuous pleasures from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan

sawpit
noun a pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawed by two men with a long two-handed saw

sawtooth
noun a serration on a saw blade

sawtoothed-edged
adjective (of leaves) having an edged resembling a sawtooth

sawwort
Serratula tinctoria noun European perennial whose serrate leaves yield a yellow dye

sawyer
sawyer beetle noun any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers

sax
saxophone noun a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore

Saxe
Hermann Maurice Saxe noun a French marshal who distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession (1696-1750)

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
noun the name of the royal family that ruled Great Britain from 1901-1917; the name was changed to Windsor in 1917 in response to anti-German feelings in World War I

Saxe-gothea
Saxegothea noun one species: Prince Albert`s yew

saxhorn
noun any of a family of brass wind instruments that resemble a bugle with valves

Saxicola
genus Saxicola noun Old World chats

saxicolous
saxatile adjective growing on or living among rocks

Saxifraga
genus Saxifraga noun type genus of the Saxifragaceae; large genus of usually perennial herbs of arctic and cool regions of northern hemisphere: saxifrage

Saxifragaceae
family Saxifragaceae noun a large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae

saxifrage
breakstone noun any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga

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

Saxo Grammaticus
noun Danish historian who chronicled the history of Denmark (including the legend of Hamlet) (1150?-1220?)

Saxon
adjective of or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or Anglo-Saxons and their descendents (especially the English or Lowland Scots) and their language; `Saxon princes`; `for greater clarity choose a plain Saxon term instead of a latinate one`

Saxony
Sachsen noun an area in Germany around the upper Elbe river; the original home of the Saxons

saxophonist
saxist noun a musician who plays the saxophone

say
noun the chance to speak; `let him have his say`

Sayan Mountains
noun a range of mountains in southern Siberia west of Lake Baikal; contain important mineral deposits

Sayda
Saida noun the main city of ancient Phoenicia

Sayeret Matkal
Sayeret Mat`kal noun Israel`s elite secret commando unit responsible for counterterrorist and top secret intelligence gathering and hostage rescue missions

Sayers
Dorothy Sayers noun English writer of detective fiction (1893-1957)

saying
expression noun a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations; `pardon the expression`

Sayornis
genus Sayornis noun phoebes

Sazerac
noun a cocktail made with bourbon with bitters and Pernod and sugar served with lemon peel

scab
noun the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion

scabbard
noun a sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet

scabby
adjective covered with scabs

scabicide
noun a drug that destroys the itch mite that causes scabies

scabies
itch noun a contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation; `he has a bad case of the itch`

scabious
scabiosa noun any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa

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)

scabrous
adjective dealing with salacious or indecent material; `a scabrous novel`

scad
noun any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae

scaffold
noun a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers

scaffolding
staging noun a system of scaffolds

scalability
noun the quality of being scalable

scalable
adjective capable of being scaled; possible to scale; `the scalable slope of a mountain`

scalage
noun the act of scaling in weight or quantity or dimension

scalar
adjective of or relating to a directionless magnitude (such as mass or speed etc.) that is completely specified by its magnitude; `scalar quantity`

scalar field
noun a field of scalars

scalar matrix
noun a diagonal matrix in which all of the diagonal elements are equal

scalar product
inner product noun a real number (a scalar) that is the product of two vectors

scald
noun the act of burning with steam or hot water

scalded milk
noun milk heated almost to boiling

scale
musical scale noun (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)

scale
noun a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass

scale factor
noun a number used as a multiplier in scaling

scale fern
scaly fern noun small European fern with chaffy leathery fronds

scale insect
noun small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering

scale of measurement
graduated table noun an ordered reference standard; `judging on a scale of 1 to 10`

scale value
noun a value on some scale of measurement

scale wax
paraffin scale noun partly refined paraffin wax

scaleless
adjective destitute of scales

scalelike
adjective reduced to a small appressed thing that resembles a scale; `scalelike leaves`

scalene triangle
noun a triangle with no two sides of equal length

scalenus
scalene muscle noun any of four pairs of muscles extending from the cervical vertebrae to the second rib; involved in moving the neck and in breathing

scalenus syndrome
noun discomfort and vascular symptoms and loss of sensation in a shoulder and arm; caused by a scalene muscle compressing the subclavian artery and part of the brachial plexus

scaler
noun an electronic pulse counter used to count pulses that occur too rapidly to be recorded individually

scalic
adjective of or related to a musical scale; `scalic patterns`

scaliness
noun the property of being scaly

scaling
noun the act of arranging in a graduated series

scaling ladder
noun a ladder used to scale the walls in an attack

scallop
scollop noun edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions

scallop
verb bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top

scallop shell
noun a shell of a scallop