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  • shock therapy — (not in technical use) any of various therapies, as insulin shock therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, that induce convulsions or unconsciousness, used for symptomatic relief in certain mental disorders.
  • shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
  • shopping trip — visit to the shops
  • sleep through — If you sleep through something, it does not wake you up.
  • southern alps — a mountain range in New Zealand, on South Island: the highest range in Australasia. Highest peak: Mount Cook (also known as Aoraki or Aorangi), 3754 m (12 316 ft)
  • spear-thrower — a flexible device for launching a spear, usually a short cord wound around the spear so that when thrown the weapon will rotate in the air.
  • spectatorship — the state of being a spectator
  • spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • speleotherapy — a form of treatment for asthma sufferers that takes place in clinics in disused mines, in which the air is free of pollen, dust mites, and the other irritants that provoke an allergic reaction; used to reduce the risk of heart disease
  • spermatophore — a capsule surrounding a mass of spermatozoa, produced by the male of various animal species and transferred to the female.
  • spermatophyte — any of the Spermatophyta, a primary division or group of plants comprising those that bear seeds.
  • spermatorrhea — abnormally frequent and involuntary nonorgasmic emission of semen.
  • spheristerion — an area designated for ballplay
  • spherocytosis — the condition of having spherocytes
  • spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
  • spirochetosis — a disease caused by infection with a spirochete.
  • sportsmanship — the character, practice, or skill of a sportsman.
  • sprocket hole — any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
  • steganography — the practice of concealing messages in such a way that only the sender and the recipient know that there is a message
  • stereographer — a person who takes stereoscopic photographs.
  • stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
  • tapestry moth — carpet moth.
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • tauromorphous — having the form of a bull
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • the oppressed — people who are subjugated by cruelty, force, etc
  • the pole star — the star closest to the N celestial pole at any particular time. At present this is Polaris, but it will eventually be replaced by some other star owing to precession of the earth's axis
  • the potteries — a region of W central England, in Staffordshire, in which the china and earthenware industries are concentrated
  • the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
  • the-spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
  • theanthropism — the doctrine of the union of the divine and human natures, especially the manifestation of God as man in Christ.
  • thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thermospheric — pertaining to the thermosphere
  • thermotropism — oriented growth of an organism in response to heat.
  • thigmotropism — oriented growth of an organism in response to mechanical contact, as a plant tendril coiling around a string support.
  • thiosulphuric — of or relating to thiosulphuric acid or anything derived from it
  • thoracoplasty — the operation removing selected portions of the ribs to collapse part of the underlying lung or an abnormal pleural space, usually in the treatment of tuberculosis.
  • thysanopteran — Also, thysanopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Thysanoptera, comprising the thrips.
  • thysanopteron — thysanopteran.
  • timbrophilist — a person who loves stamps or who collects stamps
  • topochemistry — the study of reactions that only occur at specific regions in a system
  • tracheophytes — any plant of the former division Tracheophyta, comprising all the vascular plants.
  • trachycarpous — having rough-skinned fruit.
  • trichopterist — a student of, or expert in, trichopteran insects
  • trichopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Trichoptera, comprising the caddisflies.
  • trophotropism — the response by an organism or cell to, or the movement of an organism or cell towards or away from, an external source of nutrition
  • tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
  • turkish pound — the Turkish lira.
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