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Spilogale
- noun - a genus of Mustelidae
Sporocyte
- unknown - a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants.
Stenotype
- unknown - A stenotype, stenotype machine or shorthand machine is a specialized chorded keyboard or typewriter used by stenographers for shorthand use.
Stylobate
- - The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Sub-base.
Styrolene
- - An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C8H8, obtained by the distillation of storax, by the decomposition of cinnamic acid, and by the condensation of acetylene, as a fragrant, aromatic, mobile liquid; -- called also phenyl ethylene, vinyl benzene, styrol, styrene, and cinnamene.
Subrogate
- verb - substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured
Suffocate
- verb - be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"
- feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air; "The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating"
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him"
Sulfonate
- noun - a salt of sulphonic acid
Supposure
- - Supposition; hypothesis; conjecture.
Surrogate
- adjective - a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others
- providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties; "foster parent"; "foster child"; "foster home"; "surrogate father"
- someone who takes the place of another person