Words starting with s

Words, definitions, meanings and synonyms

sack means: make as a net profit

sack means: plunder (a town) after capture

sack means: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

sack coat means: man's hiplength coat with a straight back; the jacket of a suit

sack out means: prepare for sleep

sack race means: a novelty race in which competitors jump ahead with their feet confined in a sack

sack up means: make as a net profit

sackbut means: a medieval musical instrument resembling a trombone

sackcloth means: a coarse cloth resembling sacking

sackcloth means: a garment made of coarse sacking; formerly worn as an indication of remorse

Words, definitions, meanings and synonyms

adversative conjunction means: the conjunctive relation of units that expresses the opposition of their meanings

clofibrate means: a drug (trade name Atromid-S) that reduces lipids in the blood serum; used to treat some cardiovascular diseases

cost increase means: an increase in cost

cupping means: a treatment in which evacuated cups are applied to the skin to draw blood through the surface

elegize means: compose an elegy

fws means: an agency in the Department of the Interior that conserves and protects fish and wildlife and their habitats; assesses the environmental impact of pesticides and nuclear power site and hydroelectric dams and thermal pollution

lepidodendrales means: fossil arborescent plants arising during the early Devonian and conspicuous throughout the Carboniferous

patellidae means: marine limpets

point-and-shoot camera means: a lightweight photographic camera with an autofocus

roadless means: lacking pathways

safety harness means: belt attaching you to some object as a restraint in order to prevent you from getting hurt

slime eels means: eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies

stolidly means: in a stolid manner

tagus means: a European river; flows into the North Atlantic

tantra means: doctrine of enlightenment as the realization of the oneness of one's self and the visible world; combines elements of Hinduism and paganism including magical and mystical elements like mantras and mudras and erotic rites; especially influential in Tibet

tantra means: any of a fairly recent class of Hindu or Buddhist religious literature concerned with ritual acts of body and speech and mind

time machine means: a science fiction machine that is supposed to transport people or objects into the past or the future

tooth shell means: any of various seashore mollusks having a tapering tubular shell open at each end and a foot pointed like a spade for burrowing

union means: the act of making or becoming a single unit

union means: the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes