saltpetre
1: (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive [syn: {potassium nitrate}, {saltpeter}, {niter}, {nitre}]
saltshaker
1: a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt [syn: {salt shaker}]
saltwater
1: water containing salts; "the water in the ocean is all saltwater" [syn: {seawater}, {brine}] [ant: {fresh water}]
saltworks
1: a plant where salt is produced commercially
saltwort
1: bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash [syn: {barilla}, {glasswort}, {kali}, {kelpwort}, {Salsola kali}, {Salsola soda}] 2: ...
saltwort family
1: family coextensive with genus Batis: saltworts [syn: {Batidaceae}, {family Batidaceae}]
salty
1: engagingly stimulating or provocative; "a piquant wit"; "salty language" [syn: {piquant}] 2: containing salt; "a saline solution"; "salty tears" [syn: {saline}] 3: one of the four basic taste sensa...
salubrious
1: promoting health; healthful; "a healthy diet"; "clean healthy air"; "plenty of healthy sleep"; "healthy and normal outlets for youthful energy"; "the salubrious mountain air and water"- C.B.Davis; ...
salubriousness
1: the quality of being salubrious and invigorating [syn: {salubrity}] [ant: {insalubrity}, {insalubrity}]
salubrity
1: the quality of being salubrious and invigorating [syn: {salubriousness}] [ant: {insalubrity}, {insalubrity}]
Saluki
1: old breed of tall swift keen-eyed hunting dogs resembling greyhounds; from Egypt and southwestern Asia [syn: {gazelle hound}]
salutary
1: tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health; "beneficial effects of a balanced diet"; "a good night's sleep"; "the salutary influence of pure air" [syn: {beneficial}, {good}]
salutation
1: an act of honor or courteous recognition; "a musical salute to the composer on his birthday" [syn: {salute}] 2: (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting)...
salutatorian
1: the graduating student with the second highest academic rank; delivers the opening address at graduation exercises [syn: {salutatory speaker}]
salutatory speaker
1: the graduating student with the second highest academic rank; delivers the opening address at graduation exercises [syn: {salutatorian}]
salute
1: an act of honor or courteous recognition; "a musical salute to the composer on his birthday" [syn: {salutation}] 2: a formal military gesture of respect [syn: {military greeting}] 3: an act of gree...
saluter
1: a person who greets; "the newcomers were met by smiling greeters" [syn: {greeter}, {welcomer}]
Salvador
1: a republic on the Pacific coast of Central America [syn: {El Salvador}, {Republic of El Salvador}]
Salvadora
1: genus of evergreen trees or shrubs; fruit is a drupe; grows in Africa through Arabia to India and China [syn: {genus Salvadora}]
Salvadora family
1: a family of Old World shrubs and trees of order Gentianales; related to Oleaceae but having four stamens and four petals [syn: {Salvadoraceae}, {family Salvadoraceae}]
Salvadora persica
1: glabrous or pubescent evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Salvadora; twigs are fibrous and in some parts of the world are bound together in clusters and used as a toothbrush; shoots are used as ca...
Salvadoraceae
1: a family of Old World shrubs and trees of order Gentianales; related to Oleaceae but having four stamens and four petals [syn: {family Salvadoraceae}, {Salvadora family}]
Salvadoran
1: of or relating to or characteristic of El Salvador or its people; "Salvadoran coffee"; "Salvadoran guerillas" [syn: {Salvadorean}] n : a native or inhabitant of El Salvador [syn: {Salvadorian}, {Sa...
Salvadoran capital
1: the capital and largest city of El Salvador; has suffered from recurrent earthquakes [syn: {San Salvador}]
Salvadorean
1: of or relating to or characteristic of El Salvador or its people; "Salvadoran coffee"; "Salvadoran guerillas" [syn: {Salvadoran}] n : a native or inhabitant of El Salvador [syn: {Salvadoran}, {Salv...
Salvadorian
1: a native or inhabitant of El Salvador [syn: {Salvadoran}, {Salvadorean}]
salvage
1: property or goods saved from damage or destruction 2: the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction 3: the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a ...
salvageable
1: capable of being saved from ruin; "their marriage was not salvageable"
salvager
1: someone who salvages [syn: {salvor}]
salvation
1: (Christianity) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil [syn: {redemption}] 2: a means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness; "tourism was their economic salvation"; "they turned to i...
Salvation Army
1: a charitable and religious organization to evangelize and to care for the poor and homeless
salve
1: semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation [syn: {ointment}, {unction}, {unguent}, {balm}] 2: anything that remedies or heals...
Salvelinus
1: brook trout [syn: {genus Salvelinus}]
Salvelinus alpinus
1: small trout of northern waters; landlocked populations in Quebec and northern New England [syn: {Arctic char}]
Salvelinus fontinalis
1: North American freshwater trout; introduced in Europe [syn: {brook trout}, {speckled trout}]
Salvelinus namaycush
1: large fork-tailed trout of lakes of Canada and the northern United States [syn: {lake trout}, {salmon trout}]
salver
1: a tray (or large plate) for serving food or drinks; usually made of silver
salverform
1: of or concerning a gamopetalous that has a slender tube and an abruptly expanded tip
salvia
1: any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb [syn: {sage}]
Salvia azurea
1: blue-flowered sage of dry prairies of the eastern United States [syn: {blue sage}]
Salvia clarea
1: stout Mediterranean sage with white or pink or violet flowers; yields oil used as a flavoring and in perfumery [syn: {clary sage}]
Salvia divinorum
1: an herb from Oaxaca that has a powerful hallucinogenic effect; the active ingredient is salvinorin [syn: {Mexican mint}]
Salvia farinacea
1: Texas sage having intensely blue flowers [syn: {blue sage}, {mealy sage}]
Salvia lancifolia
1: sage of western North America to Central America having violet-blue flowers; widespread in cultivation [syn: {blue sage}, {Salvia reflexa}]
Salvia leucophylla
1: silvery-leaved California herb with purple flowers [syn: {purple sage}, {chaparral sage}]
Salvia lyrata
1: sage of eastern United States [syn: {cancerweed}, {cancer weed}]
Salvia officinalis
1: shrubby plant with aromatic grayish-green leaves used as a cooking herb [syn: {common sage}, {ramona}]
Salvia pratensis
1: tall perennial Old World salvia with violet-blue flowers; found in open grasslands [syn: {meadow clary}]
Salvia reflexa
1: sage of western North America to Central America having violet-blue flowers; widespread in cultivation [syn: {blue sage}, {Salvia lancifolia}]
Salvia sclarea
1: aromatic herb of southern Europe; cultivated in England as a potherb and widely as an ornamental [syn: {clary}]
Salvia spathacea
1: California erect and sparsely branched perennial [syn: {pitcher sage}]
Salvia verbenaca
1: Eurasian sage with blue flowers and foliage like verbena; naturalized in United States [syn: {wild sage}, {wild clary}, {vervain sage}]
Salvidor Dali
1: surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989) [syn: {Dali}]
salvific
1: intending to admit to salvation
salving
1: having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin [syn: {demulcent}, {emollient}, {softening}]
Salvinia
1: type genus of the Salviniaceae: water ferns [syn: {genus Salvinia}]
Salvinia auriculata
1: free-floating aquatic ferns [syn: {floating-moss}, {Salvinia rotundifolia}]
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salvinorin
1: a hallucinogen obtained from Salvia divinorum
salvo
1: an outburst resembling the discharge of firearms or the release of bombs 2: rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms; "our fusillade from the left flank caught them by surprise" [syn: {fusillade}, ...
salvor
1: someone who salvages [syn: {salvager}]
salwar
1: a pair of light loose trousers witha tight fit around the ankles; worn by women from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a kameez) [syn: {shalwar}]
Salyut
1: either of two Soviet space stations launched in the 1970s
Salzburg
1: city in western Austria; a music center and birthplace of Mozart
SAM
1: a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target [syn: {surface-to-air missile}]
Sam Adams
1: American Revolutionary leader and patriot; an organizer of the Boston Tea Party and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1722-1803) [syn: {Adams}, {Samuel Adams}]
Sam Browne belt
1: leather belt supported by a strap over the right shoulder
Sam Goldwyn
1: United States film maker (born in Poland) who founded his own film company and later merged with Louis B. Mayer (1882-1974) [syn: {Goldwyn}, {Samuel Goldwyn}]
Sam Houston
1: United States politician and military leader who fought to gain independence for Texas from Mexico and to make it a part of the United States (1793-1863) [syn: {Houston}, {Samuel Houston}]
Sam Shepard
1: United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays (born in 1943) [syn: {Shepard}]
Sam Snead
1: United States golfer known for the graceful arc of his swing (1912-2002) [syn: {Snead}, {Samuel Jackson Snead}]
Sama-Veda
1: a collection of mantras and tunes for use with the Rig-Veda
saman
1: large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle [syn: {rain tree}, {monkeypod}, {monkey p...
Samanala
1: a mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high) [syn: {Adam's Peak}]
samara
1: a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple [syn: {key fruit}, {key}]
Samarang
1: a port city is southern Indonesia; located in northern Java [syn: {Semarang}]
Samarcand
1: city in southern Uzbekistan; Tamerlane's opulent capital in the 14th century [syn: {Samarkand}]
Samaritan
1: a person who voluntarily offers help or sympathy in times of trouble [syn: {good Samaritan}]
samarium
1: a gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group; is used in special alloys; occurs in monazite and bastnasite [syn: {Sm}, {atomic number 62}]
Samarkand
1: city in southern Uzbekistan; Tamerlane's opulent capital in the 14th century [syn: {Samarcand}]
samarskite
1: a complex black mineral occuring in pegmatites
samba
1: large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood [syn: {obeche}, {obechi},...
sambar
1: a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines [syn: {sambur}, {Cervus unicolor}]
Sambre
1: a river in western Europe that rises in northern France and flows generally east into Belgium where it joins the Neuse at Namur [syn: {Sambre River}]
Sambre River
1: a river in western Europe that rises in northern France and flows generally east into Belgium where it joins the Neuse at Namur [syn: {Sambre}]
sambuca
1: an Italian liqueur made with elderberries and flavored with licorice
Sambucus
1: elder; elderberry [syn: {genus Sambucus}]
Sambucus caerulea
1: shrub or small tree of western United States having white flowers and blue berries; fruit used in wines and jellies [syn: {blue elder}, {blue elderberry}]
Sambucus canadensis
1: common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries; fruit used in wines and jellies [syn: {American elder}, {black elderberry}, {sweet elder}]
Sambucus ebulus
1: dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor [syn: {dwarf elder}, {danewort}]
Sambucus nigra
1: common black-fruited shrub or small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies [syn: {bourtree}, {black elder}, {common elder}, {elderberry}, {European elder}]
Sambucus pubens
1: common North American shrub or small tree [syn: {American red elder}, {red-berried elder}, {stinking elder}]
sambur
1: a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines [syn: {sambar}, {Cervus unicolor}]
same
1: same in identity; "the same man I saw yesterday"; "never wore the same dress twice"; "this road is the same one we were on yesterday"; "on the same side of the street" [ant: {other}] 2: closely sim...
same-sex marriage
1: two people of the same sex who live together as a family; "the legal status of same-sex marriages has been hotly debated"
samekh
1: the 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
sameness
1: the quality of being alike; "sameness of purpose kept them together" [ant: {difference}] 2: the quality of wearisome constancy and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of...
Samhita
1: one of four collections of sacred texts
Sami
1: the language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula [syn: {Lapp}]
Samia
1: silkworm moths [syn: {genus Samia}]
Samia cynthia
1: large green silkworm of the cynthia moth [syn: {ailanthus silkworm}] 2: large Asiatic moth introduced into the United States; larvae feed on the ailanthus [syn: {cynthia moth}, {Samia walkeri}]
Samia walkeri
1: large Asiatic moth introduced into the United States; larvae feed on the ailanthus [syn: {cynthia moth}, {Samia cynthia}]
Samian ware
1: earthenware made from the reddish-brown clay found on the Aegean island of Lemnos [syn: {terra sigillata}]
samiel
1: a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa [syn: {simoom}, {simoon}]
samisen
1: a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum [syn: {shamisen}]
samite
1: a heavy silk fabric (often woven with silver or gold threads); used to make clothing in the Middle Ages
samizdat
1: a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature [syn: {underground press}]
Samnite
1: an Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania who clashed repeatedly with the early Romans
Samoa
1: a constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific [syn: {Independent State of Samoa}, {Western Samoa}, {Samoa i Sisifo}] 2: a group of volcanic islands in t...
Samoa i Sisifo
1: a constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific [syn: {Samoa}, {Independent State of Samoa}, {Western Samoa}]
Samoan
1: of or relating to Samoa or its people or language or culture; "Samoan fishing industry" n : a native or inhabitant of the Samoan Islands
Samoan Islands
1: a group of volcanic islands in the South Pacific midway between Hawaii and Australia; its climate and scenery and Polynesian culture make it a popular tourist stop [syn: {Samoa}]
Samolus
1: genus of herbs usually growing in salt marshes: water pimpernels [syn: {genus Samolus}]
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