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

scumble
noun the application of very thin coat of color over the surface of a picture

scummy
adjective covered with scum; `the scummy surface of the polluted pond`

scunner
noun a strong dislike; `they took a scunner against the United States`

scup
southern scup noun porgy of southern Atlantic coastal waters of North America

scupper
noun drain that allows water on the deck of a vessel to flow overboard

scuppernong
noun amber-green muscadine grape of southeastern United States

scurf
noun (botany) a covering that resembles scales or bran that covers some plant parts

scurfy
adjective having or producing or covered with scurf

scurrility
billingsgate noun foul-mouthed or obscene abuse

scurrilously
adverb in a scurrilously manner; `one paper scurrilously described how Edward was neglecting a bereaved mother to dance attendance on Wally`

scurvily
basely adverb in a despicable, ignoble manner; `this new leader meanly threatens the deepest values of our society`

scurvy
scorbutus noun a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C)

scurvy grass
Cochlearia officinalis noun a widely distributed arctic cress reputed to have value in treatment or prevention of scurvy; a concentrated source of vitamin C

scut
noun a short erect tail

scut work
shitwork noun trivial unrewarding tedious dirty and disagreeable chores; `the hospital hired him to do scut work`

scute
noun large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle or the underside of a snake

Scutellaria
genus Scutellaria noun an asterid dicot genus that includes the skullcaps

Scutigera
genus Scutigera noun a genus of Scutigeridae

Scutigerella
genus Scutigerella noun garden centipedes

Scutigeridae
family Scutigeridae noun a family of Chilopoda

scuttle
coal scuttle noun container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire

scuttlebutt
noun a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people; `the divorce caused much gossip`

Scyliorhinidae
family Scyliorhinidae noun small bottom-dwelling sharks

Scylla
noun (Greek mythology) a sea nymph transformed into a sea monster who lived on one side of a narrow strait; drowned and devoured sailors who tried to escape Charybdis (a whirlpool) on the other side of the strait

Scyphozoa
class Scyphozoa noun coelenterates in which the polyp stage is absent or at least inconspicuous: jellyfishes

scyphozoan
noun any of various usually free-swimming marine coelenterates having a gelatinous medusoid stage as the dominant phase of its life cycle

scyphus
noun an ancient Greek drinking cup; two handles and footed base

scythe
noun an edge tool for cutting grass; has a long handle that must be held with both hands and a curved blade that moves parallel to the ground

Scythia
noun an ancient area of Eurasia extending from the Black Sea to the Aral Sea that was populated by Scythians from the eighth to the fourth century BC

Scythian
adjective of or relating to the ancient Scythians or their culture or language

Scythian lamb
Cibotium barometz noun Asiatic tree fern having dense matted hairs sometimes used as a styptic

sea
noun a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land

sea anchor
noun restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind

sea anemone
anemone noun marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton

sea aster
sea starwort noun a common European aster that grows in salt marshes

sea bass
noun any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin

sea bathing
noun bathing in the sea or ocean

sea boat
noun a boat that is seaworthy; that is adapted to the open seas

sea bream
noun any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae

sea bream
noun flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae

sea breeze
noun a cooling breeze from the sea (during the daytime)

sea captain
noun an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship

sea catfish
noun any of numerous marine fishes most of which are mouthbreeders; not used for food

sea change
noun a profound transformation

sea chest
noun a sailor`s storage chest for personal property

sea chub
noun schooling fishes mostly of Indian and western Pacific oceans; two species in western Atlantic

sea coal
noun pulverized bituminous coal; used as a foundry facing

sea cow
sirenian mammal noun any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs

sea cucumber
holothurian noun echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders

sea dahlia
Coreopsis maritima noun stout herb with flowers one to a stalk; ornamental developed from a Mexican wildflower

sea duck
noun any of various large diving ducks found along the seacoast: eider; scoter; merganser

sea fan
noun corals having a treelike or fan-shaped horny skeleton

sea feather
noun corals forming featherlike colonies

sea god
noun a deity that personifies the sea and is usually believed to live in or to control the sea

sea gooseberry
noun ctenophore having a rounded body with longitudinal rows of cilia

sea green
noun the property of a moderate green color resembling the waters of the sea

sea hare
Aplysia punctata noun naked marine gastropod having a soft body with reduced internal shell and two pairs of ear-like tentacles

sea holly
sea eryngium noun European evergreen eryngo with twisted spiny leaves naturalized on United States east coast; roots formerly used as an aphrodisiac

sea holm
sea eryngium noun European evergreen eryngo with twisted spiny leaves naturalized on United States east coast; roots formerly used as an aphrodisiac

sea island cotton
tree cotton 2 Gossypium barbadense noun small bushy tree grown on islands of the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of the southern United States; yields cotton with unusually long silky fibers

sea kale
sea cole noun perennial of coastal sands and shingles of northern Europe and Baltic and Black Seas having racemes of small white flowers and large fleshy blue-green leaves often used as potherbs

sea king
noun a Viking pirate chief

sea ladder
sea steps noun (nautical) ladder to be lowered over a ship`s side for coming aboard

sea lamprey
Petromyzon marinus noun large anadromous lamprey sometimes used as food; destructive of native fish fauna in the Great Lakes

sea lavender
marsh rosemary noun any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of whit or mauve flowers

sea lawyer
noun an argumentative and contentious seaman

sea lettuce
noun seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds

sea level
noun level of the ocean`s surface (especially that halfway between mean high and low tide); used as a standard in reckoning land elevation or sea depth

sea lily
noun crinoid with delicate radiating arms and a stalked body attached to a hard surface

sea lion
noun any of several large eared seals of the northern Pacific related to fur seals but lacking their valuable coat

sea louse
sea slater noun marine isopod crustacean

sea lyme grass
European dune grass noun a dune grass of the Pacific seacoast used as a sand binder

sea mile
noun a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 1828.8 meters (6000 feet)

sea milkwort
sea trifoly noun a small fleshy herb common along North American seashores and in brackish marshes having pink or white flowers

sea mouse
noun any of several large worms having a broad flattened body with a mat of coarse hairs covering the back

sea nymph
noun (Greek mythology) a water nymph who was the daughter of Oceanus or Nereus

Sea of Azov
Sea of Azof noun a bay of the Black Sea between Russia and the Ukraine

Sea of Japan
East Sea noun an arm of the Pacific between China and Japan

Sea of Okhotsk
noun an arm of the Pacific east of Asia

sea otter
Enhydra lutris noun large marine otter of northern Pacific coasts having very thick dark brown fur

sea pen
noun fleshy featherlike warm-water colonies

sea power
noun naval strength

sea raven
Hemitripterus americanus noun large sculpin of western Atlantic; inflates itself when caught

sea robin
searobin noun American gurnard; mostly found in bays and estuaries

sea room
noun space for maneuver at sea

sea scallop
giant scallop noun a large scallop inhabiting deep waters of the Atlantic coast of North America

Sea Scout
noun a boy scout enrolled in programs for water activities

sea serpent
noun huge creature of the sea resembling a snake or dragon

sea slug
nudibranch noun any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body

sea snake
noun any of numerous venomous aquatic viviparous snakes having a fin-like tail; of warm littoral seas; feed on fish which they immobilize with quick-acting venom

sea spider
noun any of various small spiderlike marine arthropods having small thin bodies and long slender legs

sea spray
noun spray from ocean waves

sea squill
sea onion 2 squill 2 Urginea maritima noun having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties

sea squirt
noun ascidian that can contract its body and eject streams of water

sea swallow
Sterna hirundo noun common tern of Eurasia and America having white black and grey plumage

sea tang
noun any of various coarse seaweeds

sea tangle
noun any of various kelps especially of the genus Laminaria

sea trout
salmon trout noun flesh of marine trout that migrate from salt to fresh water

sea turtle
marine turtle noun any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas

sea urchin
noun shallow-water echinoderms having soft bodies enclosed in thin spiny globular shells