someone who helps callers get the person they are calling
social drinker
Noun
someone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities
symposiarch
Noun
the person who proposes toasts and introduces speakers at a banquet
sustainer
Noun
someone who upholds or maintains
street child
Noun
a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned
shylock
Noun
someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest
supplanter
Noun
one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another
scoundrel
Noun
a wicked or evil person
security guard
Noun
a guard who keeps watch
sybarite
Noun
a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
spewer
Noun
a person who vomits
smart aleck
Noun
an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments
snake god
Noun
a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies
skirt chaser
Noun
a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women
sniveller
Noun
a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining
squirmer
Noun
one who can't stay still (especially a child)
side effect
Noun
any adverse and unwanted secondary effect
side effect
Noun
a secondary and usually adverse effect of a drug or therapy
spontaneous generation
Noun
a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter
superconductivity
Noun
the disappearance of electrical resistance at very low temperatures
shaft of light
Noun
a column of light (as from a beacon)
separation energy
Noun
the energy required to separate particles from a molecule or atom or nucleus
systolic pressure
Noun
the blood pressure (as measured by a sphygmomanometer) during the contraction of the left ventricle of the heart
sea breeze
Noun
a cooling breeze from the sea (during the daytime)
strong breeze
Noun
wind moving 25-31 knots
slipstream
Noun
the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
sedimentation
Noun
the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating
shedding
Noun
loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales
shedding
Noun
the process whereby something is shed
squall line
Noun
a cold front along which squalls or thunderstorms are likely
strong gale
Noun
wind moving 47-54 knots
sandstorm
Noun
a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand
sirocco
Noun
a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand
sky glow
Noun
illumination of the night sky in urban areas
snow eater
Noun
a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies
southwester
Noun
a strong wind from the southwest
southeaster
Noun
a strong wind from the southeast
southern lights
Noun
the aurora of the southern hemisphere
systemic circulation
Noun
circulation that supplies blood to all the body except to the lungs
sou'easter
Noun
a strong wind from the southeast
sandblast
Noun
a blast of wind laden with sand
sandblast
Verb
grind with a sandblast
silver storm
Noun
a storm with freezing rain that leaves everything glazed with ice
shooting star
Noun
a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode
self-induction
Noun
generation of an electromotive force (EMF) in a circuit by changing the current in that circuit
sea-level pressure
Noun
the atmospheric pressure reduced by a formula to the pressure at sea level