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  • storyline — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
  • strayhornWilliam ("Billy") 1915–67, U.S. jazz pianist and composer: collaborator with Duke Ellington.
  • streetboy — a boy living on the street
  • strongyle — any nematode of the family Strongylidae, parasitic as an adult in the intestine of mammals, especially horses.
  • styliform — having the shape of an ancient style; stylar.
  • styrofoam — Styrofoam is a very light, plastic substance, used especially to make containers.
  • sur-royal — crown antler.
  • surgeoncy — the office, duties, or position of a surgeon, esp in the army or navy
  • surrogacy — the state of being a surrogate or surrogate mother.
  • swordplay — the action or technique of wielding a sword; fencing.
  • synchrony — simultaneous occurrence; synchronism.
  • syndromic — Pathology, Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like.
  • synedrion — an assembly of judges or representatives
  • synkaryon — a nucleus formed by the fusion of two preexisting nuclei.
  • tarkovsky — Andrei (ˈɑndrej). 1932–86, Soviet film director, whose films include Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1971), Nostalgia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986)
  • taylorism — a modified form of Calvinism that maintains that every person has a free will, and that makes a distinction between depravity, as the tendency to commit sins, and sin, as a voluntary choice of evil actions.
  • theocrasy — a mixture of religious forms and deities by worshipers.
  • thyristor — a semiconductor device having two stable states, used as an electronic switch.
  • top story — headline news item
  • touristry — tourists collectively: the yearly invasion of American touristry.
  • trigynous — (of a plant) having three pistils
  • tyrannous — tyrannical.
  • unsavoury — not savory; tasteless or insipid: an unsavory meal.
  • unsoberly — in an unsober manner
  • variously — of different kinds, as two or more things; differing one from another: Various experiments have not proved his theory.
  • verbosely — characterized by the use of many or too many words; wordy: a verbose report.
  • verbosity — the state or quality of being verbose; superfluity of words; wordiness: His speeches were always marred by verbosity.
  • visionary — given to or characterized by fanciful, not presently workable, or unpractical ideas, views, or schemes: a visionary enthusiast.
  • voyeurism — the practice of obtaining sexual gratification by looking at sexual objects or acts, especially secretively.
  • war story — an account or anecdote concerning one's personal experiences, especially in military combat, during a war.
  • whysoever — Form of whyever.
  • worryguts — Worrywart, someone who worries excessively.
  • xenocryst — a rock or crystal engulfed by magma and retained as an inclusion in the resulting igneous rock.
  • xerochasy — the release of seeds when the seed pods dry out
  • yaroslavl — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the Volga.
  • yearbooks — Plural form of yearbook.
  • yestersol — On the sol before the present one.
  • yorkshire — Also called York, Yorks [yawrks] /yɔrks/ (Show IPA). a former county in N England, now part of Humberside, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Cleveland, and Durham.
  • youngster — a child.
  • ytterbous — of or containing ytterbium, esp. divalent ytterbium
  • zephyrous — of, relating to, or like a zephyr; full of or containing light breezes.
  • zygosperm — (botany) A spore formed by the union of the contents of two similar cells, either of the same or of distinct individual plants. Zygosperms are found in certain orders of alg\u00e6 and fungi.
  • zygospore — a cell formed by fusion of two similar gametes, as in certain algae and fungi.
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