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  • shooting box — a small house or lodge for use during the shooting season.
  • shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
  • short-acting — (of a drug) quickly effective, but requiring regularly repeated doses for long-term treatment, being rapidly absorbed, distributed in the body, and excreted
  • shortcomings — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
  • shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
  • showstopping — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
  • sight screen — a white screen set in line with the wicket as an aid to the batsman in seeing the ball when it is bowled.
  • sight unseen — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
  • sightseeings — the act of visiting and seeing places and objects of interest.
  • silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
  • skirt length — the length of someone's skirt
  • slant height — (of a right circular cone) the distance from the vertex to any point on the circumference of the base.
  • smotheringly — in a smothering manner
  • smyth sewing — a method of sewing together folded, gathered, and collated signatures with a single thread sewn through the folds of individual signatures.
  • snapshotting — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
  • south-facing — facing towards the south
  • sportfishing — fishing with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.
  • spotlighting — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
  • spring catch — a catch for an interior or cabinet door that has a bolt operated by a spring.
  • spring vetch — any of several mostly climbing plants belonging to the genus Vicia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves ending in tendrils and bearing pealike flowers, especially V. sativa (spring vetch) cultivated for forage and soil improvement.
  • stag hunting — the act of hunting or chasing and killing stags
  • starry night — a painting (1889) by Vincent van Gogh.
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stinking ash — hoptree.
  • straight man — an entertainer who plays the part of a foil for a comic partner.
  • straight pin — pin (sense 2)
  • straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
  • straightness — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
  • stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • sympathizing — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
  • synthesizing — to form (a material or abstract entity) by combining parts or elements (opposed to analyze): to synthesize a statement.
  • talking head — Television Slang. a closeup picture of a person who is talking, especially as a participant in a talk show.
  • talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
  • tank fighter — a boxer known for false shows of being knocked down or out in bouts the results of which have been prearranged.
  • tao te ching — the philosophical book in verse supposedly written by Lao-tzu.
  • teaching aid — material used by a teacher to supplement classroom instruction or to stimulate the interest of students.
  • teaching job — a position as a teacher
  • technologies — the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.
  • technologist — a person who specializes in technology.
  • technologize — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
  • thanksgiving — the act of giving thanks; grateful acknowledgment of benefits or favors, especially to God.
  • the dingbats — delirium tremens
  • the galilean — an epithet of Jesus Christ
  • the hoppings — an annual fair in Newcastle
  • the ignition — the devices used to ignite the fuel in an internal-combustion engine
  • the thing is — You say the thing is to introduce an explanation, comment, or opinion, that relates to something that has just been said. The thing is is often used to identify a problem relating to what has just been said.
  • theatregoing — the act of regularly attending the theatre
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