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  • short notice — little warning
  • 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
  • short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
  • 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.
  • shrimp plant — a small, sprawling shrub, Justicia brandegeana (or Beloperone guttata), of the acanthus family, native to Mexico, having small white flowers protruding from a series of overlapping reddish bracts and often cultivated as a houseplant.
  • 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.
  • sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
  • skirt length — the length of someone's skirt
  • smotheriness — the condition or state of smothering
  • smotheringly — in a smothering manner
  • sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
  • spiderhunter — any of several sunbirds of the genus Arachnothera, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having dull-colored plumage and a long bill.
  • spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
  • spinstership — the state of being a spinster
  • sportfishing — fishing with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.
  • 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.
  • starry night — a painting (1889) by Vincent van Gogh.
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stereophonic — pertaining to a system of sound recording or reproduction using two or more separate channels to produce a more realistic effect by capturing the spatial dimensions of a performance (the location of performers as well as their acoustic surroundings), used especially with high-fidelity recordings and reproduction systems (opposed to monophonic).
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • 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.
  • strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
  • 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.
  • strophanthin — a very poisonous, bitter glycoside or mixture of glycosides obtained from the dried, ripe seeds of a strophanthus, especially Strophanthus kombe, used as a cardiac stimulant.
  • strychninism — a condition induced by an overdose or by excessive use of strychnine.
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • synarthrodia — synarthrosis.
  • synarthrosis — immovable articulation; a fixed or immovable joint; suture.
  • synchro unit — a type of alternating-current motor designed to maintain continuously, at some remote location, the same rotational angle that may be imposed by force upon the electrically connected rotating element of a similar motor.
  • synchroneity — the state of being synchronous; synchronism.
  • tank fighter — a boxer known for false shows of being knocked down or out in bouts the results of which have been prearranged.
  • technetronic — pertaining to or characterized by cultural changes brought about by advances in technology, electronics, and communications: a technetronic era.
  • technicolour — brightly, showily, or garishly coloured; vividly noticeable
  • technocratic — of, relating to, or designating a technocrat or technocracy.
  • telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
  • terebinthine — terebinthinate.
  • the barbican — a building complex in the City of London: includes residential developments and the Barbican Arts Centre (completed 1982) housing concert and exhibition halls, theatres, cinemas, etc
  • the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
  • the cambrian — the Cambrian period or rock system
  • the creation — God's act of bringing the universe into being
  • the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
  • the interior — the domestic or internal affairs of any of certain countries
  • the internet — the single worldwide computer network that interconnects other computer networks, on which end-user services, such as World Wide Web sites or data archives, are located, enabling data and other information to be exchanged
  • the nearside — the side of a vehicle normally nearer the kerb (in Britain, the left side)
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