Sn -Symbol
- tin
SN -abbr
- seaman
snack ['snak] -n
- a light meal : food eaten between regular meals
- food suitable for snacking
- to eat a snack
snack bar -n
- a public eating place where snacks are served usu. at a counter
snaf·fle ['sna-fəl] -n
- a simple usu. jointed bit for a bridle
snaffle ['sna-f(ə-)liŋ] -vt
- to obtain esp. by devious or irregular means
sna·fu [sna-'fü, 'sna-,fü] -n
- a situation marked by errors or confusion : muddle
- an error causing such a situation
snafu -adj
- snarled or stalled in confusion : awry
- to bring into a state of confusion
snag ['snag] -n, adj
- a tree or branch embedded in a lake or stream bed and constituting a hazard to navigation
- a standing dead tree
- : a rough sharp or jagged projecting part : protuberance: as
- a projecting tooth
- a stump of a tooth
- one of the secondary branches of an antler
- a concealed or unexpected difficulty or obstacle
- a jagged tear made by or as if by catching on a snag
- an irregularity that suggests the result of tearing
- a pulled thread in fabric
- to catch and usu. damage on or as if on a snag
- to halt or impede as if by catching on a snag
- to hew, trim, or cut roughly or jaggedly
- to clear (as a river) of snags
- to catch or obtain usu. by quick action or good fortune
snag·gle·tooth ['sna-gəl-,tüth] -n, adj
- an irregular, broken, or projecting tooth
snail ['snāl] -n, adj
- a gastropod mollusk esp. when having an external enclosing spiral shell
- a slow-moving or sluggish person or thing
- to move, act, or go slowly or lazily
snail darter -n
- a darter ( Percina tanasi) of the Tennessee River drainage system of eastern Tennessee and northern Georgia
snail fever -n
- schistosomiasis
snail mail -n
- mail delivered by a postal system
- mail
snailpaced ['snāl-'pāst] -adj
- moving very slowly
snail's pace -n
- an extremely slow pace
snake ['snāk] -n, adj
- any of numerous limbless scaled reptiles (suborder Serpentes syn. Ophidia) with a long tapering body and with salivary glands often modified to produce venom which is injected through grooved or tubular fangs
- a worthless or treacherous fellow
- something (as a plumber's snake) resembling a snake
- to wind (as one's way) in the manner of a snake
- to move (as logs) by dragging
- to crawl, move, or extend silently, secretly, or sinuously
snake·bird ['snāk-,bərd] -n
- anhinga
snake·bit [-,bit] -adj
- having or experiencing failure or bad luck : unlucky
snake·bite [-,bīt] -n
- the bite of a snake and esp. a venomous snake
snake charmer -n
- an entertainer who exhibits a professed power to charm or fascinate venomous snakes
snakedance -vi
- to engage in a snake dance
snake dance -n
- a ceremonial dance in which snakes or their images are handled, invoked, or symbolically imitated by individual sinuous actions
- a group progression in a single-file serpentine path (as in celebration of an athletic victory)
snake doctor -n
- dragonfly
- hellgrammite
snake fence -n
- worm fence
snake in the grass
- a secretly faithless friend
snake oil -n
- any of various substances or mixtures sold (as by a traveling medicine show) as medicine usu. without regard to their medical worth or properties
- poppycock, bunkum
snake pit -n
- a hospital for mental diseases
- a place or state of chaotic disorder and distress
snake·root ['snāk-,rüt, -,ru̇t] -n
- any of various plants (as seneca snakeroot and Virginia snakeroot) most of which have roots sometimes believed to cure snakebites
- the root of such a plant
snake·skin ['snāk-,skin] -n
- leather prepared from the skin of a snake
snake·weed [-,wēd] -n
- any of various plants popularly associated with snakes (as in appearance, habitat, or the treatment of snakebite)
- any of an American genus ( Gutierrezia) of composite herbs or low shrubs with clustered yellow flower heads
snaky ['snā-kē] -adj, adv
- of, formed of, or entwined with snakes
- the Gorgon with snaky hair -- Joseph Addison
- serpentine, snakelike
- suggestive of a snake
- the oiliness and snaky insinuation of his demeanor -- Thomas DeQuincy
- abounding in snakes
snap ['snap] -vb
- to make a sudden closing of the jaws : seize something sharply with the mouth
- fish snapping at the bait
- to grasp at something eagerly : make a pounce or snatch
- to utter sharp biting words : bark out irritable or peevish retorts
- to break suddenly with a sharp sound
- to give way suddenly under strain
- to make a sharp or crackling sound
- to close or fit in place with an abrupt movement or sharp sound
- to move briskly or sharply
- to undergo a sudden and rapid change (as from one condition to another)
- sparkle, flash
- to seize with or as if with a snap of the jaws
- to take possession or advantage of suddenly or eagerly usu. used with up
- shoppers snapping up bargains
- to retort to or interrupt curtly and irritably
- to utter curtly or abruptly
- to break suddenly : break short or in two
- to cause to make a snapping sound
- to put into or remove from a particular position by a sudden movement or with a sharp sound
- to project with a snap
- to put (a football) in play with a snap
- to take photographically
- snapping exclusive news pictures -- Current Biog.
- to take a snapshot of
- an abrupt closing (as of the mouth in biting or of scissors in cutting)
- a share of profits or booty
- something that brings quick and easy profit or advantage
- something that is easy and presents no problems : cinch
- a small amount : bit
- an act or instance of seizing abruptly : a sudden snatching at something
- a quick short movement
- lithe snap s of its body -- Barbara Taylor
- a sudden sharp breaking
- a sound made by snapping something
- shut the book with a snap
- a brief sharp and usu. irritable speech or retort
- a sudden spell of weather
- a catch or fastening that closes or locks with a click
- a flat brittle cookie
- snapshot
- the condition of being vigorous in body, mind, or spirit : alertness, energy
- a pleasing vigorous quality
- the act of a center's putting the football in play from its position on the ground by quickly passing it between his legs to a teammate (as a quarterback) standing behind him
- with a snap
- done, made, or carried through suddenly or without deliberation
- called or taken without prior warning
- fastening with a snap
- unusually easy or simple
snap·back ['snap-,bak] -n
- a football snap
- a sudden rebound or recovery
- a snapback of prices on the stock exchange
snap back -vi
- to make a quick or vigorous recovery
snap bean -n
- a bean grown primarily for its long pods that are cooked as a vegetable while young and tender and before the seeds have become enlarged
snapbrim ['snap-,brim] -n
- a usu. felt hat with brim turned up in back and down in front and with a dented crown
snap·drag·on ['snap-,dra-gən] -n
- any of a genus ( Antirrhinumof the family Scrophulariaceae, the snapdragon family) of herbs having showy bilabiate flowers
- a widely cultivated one ( A. majus) of Mediterranean origin having usu. pink, red, yellow, or white flowers
snapon ['snap-,ȯn, -,än] -adj
- designed to snap into position and fit tightly
snap pea -n
- a cultivated pea that has edible usu. round pods easily snapped like beans and that is classified with the snow pea as a variety ( Pisum sativum macrocarpon) called also sugar snap pea
snap·per ['sna-pər] -n
- : one that snaps: as
- something (as a remark) that gives new orientation to a situation or utterance
- snapping turtle
- click beetle
- any of numerous active carnivorous fishes (family Lutjanidae) of warm seas important as food and often as sport fishes
- any of several immature fishes (as the young of the bluefish) that resemble a snapper
snap·perback [-,bak] -n
- a football center
snapping turtle -n
- : either of two large American freshwater turtles (family Chelydridae) with a large head, powerful jaws, a long tail, and a strong musky odor:
- one ( Chelydra serpentina) that has the head covered with smooth skin, has large plates in a double row on the underside of the tail, and is distributed from eastern Canada to Central America
- alligator snapping turtle
snap·pish ['sna-pish] -adj, adv, n
- given to curt irritable speech
- arising from annoyance or irascibility
- inclined to bite
snap·py ['sna-pē] -adj, adv, n
- snappish
- quickly made or done
- marked by vigor or liveliness
- briskly cold
- stylish, smart
snap roll -n
- an airplane maneuver in which a rapid full revolution is completed about the plane's longitudinal axis while an approximately level line of flight is maintained
snap·shoot·er ['snap-,shü-tər] -n
- a person who takes snapshots
snap·shot ['snap-,shät] -n
- a casual photograph made typically by an amateur with a small handheld camera
- an impression or view of something brief or transitory
- a snapshot of life back then
snare ['sner] -n
- a contrivance often consisting of a noose for entangling birds or mammals
- trap, gin
- something by which one is entangled, involved in difficulties, or impeded
- something deceptively attractive
- one of the catgut strings or metal spirals of a snare drum
- snare drum
- a surgical instrument consisting usu. of a wire loop constricted by a mechanism in the handle and used for removing tissue masses (as tonsils)
- to capture by or as if by use of a snare
- to win or attain by artful or skillful maneuvers
- to entangle or hold as if in a snare
- any object that snared his eye -- Current Biog.
snare drum -n
- a small double-headed drum with one or more snares stretched across its lower head
snarf ['snärf] -vt
- scoff
snarky ['snär-kē] -adj, adv
- crotchety, snappish
- sarcastic, impertinent, or irreverent in tone or manner
snarl ['snär(-ə)l] -vb, n
- to cause to become knotted and intertwined : tangle
- to make excessively complicated
- to become snarled
- a tangle esp. of hairs or thread : knot
- a tangled situation
- to growl with a snapping, gnashing, or display of teeth
- to give vent to anger in surly language
- to utter or express with a snarl or by snarling
- a surly angry growl
snatch ['snach] -vb, n
- to attempt to seize something suddenly
- to take or grasp abruptly or hastily
- snatch ed the first opportunity
- to seize or take suddenly without permission, ceremony, or right
- a brief period
- caught snatch es of sleep
- a brief, fragmentary, or hurried part : bit
- caught snatch es of the conversation
- a snatching at or of something
- an act or instance of kidnapping
- a lift in weight lifting in which the weight is raised from the floor directly to an overhead position in a single motion
- the female pudenda
snatch block -n
- a block that can be opened on one side to receive the bight of a rope
snath ['snath, 'sneth] -n
- the handle of a scythe
snaz·zy ['sna-zē] -adj
- conspicuously or flashily attractive : fancy
SNCC -abbr
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
sneak ['snēk] -vb
- to go stealthily or furtively : slink
- to act in or as if in a furtive manner
- to carry the football on a quarterback sneak
- to put, bring, or take in a furtive or artful manner
- a person who acts in a stealthy, furtive, or shifty manner
- a stealthy or furtive move
- an unobserved departure or escape
- sneaker usu. used in pl.
- quarterback sneak
- carried on secretly : clandestine
- occurring without warning : surprise
sneak·er ['snē-kər] -n, adj
- one that sneaks
- a sports shoe with a pliable rubber sole
sneaking -adj, adv
- mean, contemptible
- characteristic of a sneak : furtive, underhanded
- not openly expressed or acknowledged
- a sneaking respect for culture -- H. A. Burton
- that is a persistent conjecture
sneak preview -n
- a special advance showing of a motion picture usu. announced but not named
sneak thief -n
- a thief who steals whatever is readily available without using violence or forcibly breaking into buildings
sneaky ['snē-kē] -adj, adv, n
- marked by stealth, furtiveness, or shiftiness
sneap ['snēp] -vt
- to blast or blight with cold : nip
- chide
- rebuke, snub
sneck ['snek] -n
- latch
sneer ['snir] -vb, n
- to smile or laugh with facial contortions that express scorn or contempt
- to speak or write in a scornfully jeering manner
- to utter with a sneer
- the act of sneering
- a sneering expression or remark
sneeze ['snēz] -vi, n
- to make a sudden violent spasmodic audible expiration of breath through the nose and mouth esp. as a reflex act
- an act or instance of sneezing
sneeze·weed ['snēz-,wēd] -n
- any of several composite plants
- a No. American perennial herb ( Helenium autumnale) with yellow ray flowers and a darker globose disk
sneezy ['snē-zē] -adj
- given to or causing sneezing
snell ['snel] -adj
- quick, acute
- keen, piercing
- a snell wind smote us -- Scotsman
- grievous, severe
- a short line (as of gut) by which a fishhook is attached to a longer line
SNF -abbr
- skilled nursing facility
snick ['snik] -vb
- to cut through
- to cut slightly
- to perform a light cutting action
- a small cut : nick
- click
- a slight often metallic sound : click
snick·er ['sni-kər] -vi, n, adj
- to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter
snicker -n
- an act or sound of snickering
snick·er·snee ['sni-kə(r)-,snē] -n
- a large knife
snide ['snīd] -adj, adv, n
- false, counterfeit
- practicing deception : dishonest
- unworthy of esteem : low
- slyly disparaging : insinuating
sniff ['snif] -vb
- to draw air audibly up the nose esp. for smelling
- to show or express disdain or scorn
- snoop, nose
- sniff ed around for clues
- to smell or take by inhalation through the nose
- to utter contemptuously
- to recognize or detect by or as if by smelling
- an act or sound of sniffing
- a quantity that is sniffed
sniff·er -n
- one that sniffs
- one who takes drugs illicitly by sniffing
sniff·ish ['sni-fish] -adj, adv, n
- sniffy, supercilious
snif·fle ['sni-fəl] -vi, n
- to sniff repeatedly : snuffle
- to speak with or as if with sniffling
sniffle -n
- a head cold marked by nasal discharge
- an act or sound of sniffling
sniffy ['sni-fē] -adj, adv, n
- having or expressing a haughty attitude : disdainful, supercilious
snif·ter ['snif-tər] -n
- a small drink of distilled liquor
- a short-stemmed goblet with a bowl narrowing toward the top
snig·ger ['sni-gər] -vi, n
- snicker
snigger -n
- snicker
snig·gle ['sni-gəl] -vb
- to fish for eels by thrusting a baited hook into their hiding places
- to catch (an eel) by sniggling
snip ['snip] -n
- a small piece that is snipped off
- fragment, bit
- a cut or notch made by snipping
- an act or sound of snipping
- a white or light mark
- a white spot between the nostrils of a horse
- a presumptuous or impertinent person
- an impertinent or saucy girl
- bargain, buy
- to cut or cut off with or as if with shears or scissors
- snipped the stray threads
- to clip suddenly or by bits
- to make a short quick cut with or as if with shears or scissors
snipe ['snīp] -n
- any of various usu. slender-billed birds of the sandpiper family
- any of several game birds (esp. genus Gallinago) esp. of marshy areas
- a contemptible person
- to shoot at exposed individuals (as of an enemy's forces) from a usu. concealed point of vantage
- to aim a carping or snide attack
snip·er·scope ['snī-pər-,skōp] -n
- an optical device for use esp. with a rifle that allows a person to see targets better in the dark
snip·per·snap·per ['sni-pər-,sna-pər] -n
- whippersnapper
snip·pet ['sni-pət] -n
- a small part, piece, or thing
- a brief quotable passage
snip·pety [-pə-tē] -adj
- made up of snippets
- snippy
snip·py ['sni-pē] -adj, adv
- short-tempered, snappish
- unduly brief or curt
- putting on airs : sniffy
snips ['snips] -n pl but sing or pl in constr
- hand shears used esp. for cutting sheet metal
snit ['snit] -n
- a state of agitation
snitch ['snich] -n
- one that snitches : tattletale
- inform, tattle
- to take by stealth : pilfer
snit·ty ['sni-tē] -adj
- disagreeably agitated : ill-tempered
sniv·el ['sni-vəl] -vi, n
- to run at the nose
- to snuff mucus up the nose audibly : snuffle
- to cry or whine with snuffling
- to speak or act in a whining, sniffling, tearful, or weakly emotional manner
snivel -n
- head cold
- an act or instance of sniveling
snob ['snäb] -n
- cobbler
- one who blatantly imitates, fawningly admires, or vulgarly seeks association with those regarded as social superiors
- one who tends to rebuff, avoid, or ignore those regarded as inferior
- one who has an offensive air of superiority in matters of knowledge or taste
snob appeal -n
- qualities in a product that appeal to the snobbery in a purchaser
snob·bery ['snä-b(ə-)rē] -n
- snobbish conduct or character : snobbishness
- an instance of snobbery
snob·bish ['snä-bish] -adj, adv, n
- being, characteristic of, or befitting a snob
snob·bism ['snä-,bi-zəm] -n
- snobbery
snob·by ['snä-bē] -adj
- characterized by snobbery
snocone ['snō-,kōn] -n
(variant of snow cone)
- granular ice molded into a ball and flavored with a syrup
snood ['snüd] -n
- a fillet or band for a woman's hair
- a net or fabric bag pinned or tied on at the back of a woman's head for holding the hair
- snell
- to secure with a snood
snook ['snu̇k, 'snük] -n
- a large vigorous bony fish ( Centropomus undecimalisof the family Centropomidae) of coastal and brackish waters that is an important food and sport fish
- any of various marine fishes of the same family as the snook
- a gesture of derision made by thumbing the nose
snook·er ['snu̇-kər, chiefly Brit 'snü-] -n
- a variation of pool played with 15 red balls and 6 variously colored balls
snooker -vt
- to make a dupe of : hoodwink
snoop ['snüp] -vi, n
- to look or pry esp. in a sneaking or meddlesome manner
- one that snoops
snoopy ['snü-pē] -adj, adv
- given to snooping esp. for personal information about others
snoot ['snüt] -n
- snout
- nose
- a grimace expressive of contempt
- a snooty person : snob
- to treat with disdain : look down one's nose at
snooty ['snü-tē] -adj, adv, n
- looking down the nose : showing disdain
- characterized by snobbery
snooze ['snüz] -vi
- to take a nap : doze
- nap
- something boring or uninspiring
snooz·er ['snü-zər] -n
- one that snoozes
- snooze
snoo·zle ['snü-zəl] -vb
- nuzzle
snore ['snȯr] -vb, n
- to breathe during sleep with a rough hoarse noise due to vibration of the soft palate
- to spend (time) in snoring or sleeping
- an act of snoring
- a noise of or as if of snoring
snor·kel ['snȯr-kəl] -n
- a tube housing air intake and exhaust pipes for a submarine's diesel engine that can be extended above the water's surface so that the engines can be operated while the submarine is submerged
- any of various devices (as for an underwater swimmer) resembling a snorkel in function
snorkel [-k(ə-)liŋ] -vi, n
- to operate or swim submerged using a snorkel
snort ['snȯrt] -vb
- to force air violently through the nose with a rough harsh sound
- to express scorn, anger, indignation, or surprise by a snort
- to emit explosive sounds resembling snorts
- to take in a drug by inhalation
- to utter with or express by a snort
- to expel or emit with or as if with snorts
- to inhale (a drug in powdered form) through the nostrils
- a drink of usu. straight liquor taken in one draft
- an act or sound of snorting
snort·er ['snȯr-tər] -n
- one that snorts
- something that is extraordinary or prominent : humdinger
- snort
snot ['snät] -n
- nasal mucus
- a snotty person
snot·ty ['snä-tē] -adj, adv, n
- soiled with nasal mucus
- annoyingly or spitefully unpleasant
- snooty
snout ['snau̇t] -n, adj
- a long projecting nose (as of a swine)
- an anterior prolongation of the head of various animals (as a weevil) : rostrum
- the human nose esp. when large or grotesque
- : something resembling an animal's snout in position, function, or shape: as
- prow
- nozzle
- the terminal face of a glacier
snout beetle -n
- weevil
snow ['snō] -n, adj
- precipitation in the form of small white ice crystals formed directly from the water vapor of the air at a temperature of less than 32F (0C)
- a descent or shower of snow crystals
- a mass of fallen snow crystals
- : something resembling snow: as
- a dessert made of stiffly beaten whites of eggs, sugar, and fruit pulp
- a usu. white crystalline substance that condenses from a fluid phase as snow does
- cocaine
- heroin
- small transient light or dark spots on a television screen
- to fall in or as snow
- to cause to fall like or as snow
- to cover, shut in, or imprison with or as if with snow
- to deceive, persuade, or charm glibly
- to whiten like snow
snow·ball ['snō-,bȯl] -n
- a round mass of snow pressed or rolled together
- snow cone
- any of several cultivated shrubby viburnums (genus Viburnum) with clusters of white sterile flowers called also snowball bush
snowball -vi
- to engage in throwing snowballs
- to increase, accumulate, expand, or multiply at a rapidly accelerating rate
- to throw snowballs at
- to cause to increase or multiply at a rapidly accelerating rate
snow·bank ['snō-,baŋk] -n
- a mound or slope of snow
snow·belt [-,belt] -n
- a region that receives an appreciable amount of annual snowfall
snow·ber·ry [-,ber-ē] -n
- any of several white-berried shrubs (esp. genus Symphoricarposof the honeysuckle family)
- a low-growing No. American shrub ( S. albus) with pinkish-white flowers in small axillary clusters
snow·bird [-,bərd] -n
- any of several birds (as a junco or fieldfare) seen chiefly in winter
- one who travels to warm climes for the winter
snow blindness ['snō-,blīnd] -n, adj
- inflammation and photophobia caused by exposure of the eyes to ultraviolet rays reflected from snow or ice
snow·blow·er ['snō-,blō-ər] -n
- a machine for removing snow (as from a driveway or sidewalk) in which a rotating spiral blade picks up and propels the snow aside
snow·board [-,bȯrd] -n, vi
- a board like a wide ski ridden in a surfing position downhill over snow
snow·board·cross ['snō-,bȯrd-,krȯs] -n
- a snowboard race that includes jumps and turns
snow·bound [-'bau̇nd] -adj
- shut in or blockaded by snow
snow·brush [-,brəsh] -n
- a spreading white-flowered western No. American shrub ( Ceanothus velutinus) of the buckthorn family
snow bunting -n
- a white bunting ( Plectrophenax nivalis) with black or brown markings on the upperparts that breeds in arctic regions and winters in northern parts of No. America and Eurasia
snow·cap [-,kap] -n, adj
- a covering cap of snow (as on a mountain peak)
snow·cat ['snō-,kat] -n
- a tracklaying vehicle for travel on snow
snow cone ['snō-,kōn] -n
- granular ice molded into a ball and flavored with a syrup
snow crab -n
- any of several long-legged crabs (genus Chionoecetes,esp. C. opilioand C. bairdi) of the eastern north Pacific Ocean and esp. Alaska and the western north Atlantic Ocean that are used for food
snow·drift ['snō-,drift] -n
- a bank of drifted snow
snow·drop [-,dräp] -n
- a bulbous European herb ( Galanthus nivalis) of the amaryllis family bearing nodding white flowers that often appear while the snow is on the ground
snow·fall [-,fȯl] -n
- a fall of snow
- the amount of snow that falls in a single storm or in a given period
snow fence -n
- a usu. slatted fence placed across the path of prevailing winds to protect (as a building, road, or railroad track) from drifting snow by disrupting the flow of wind and causing the snow to be deposited on the lee side of the fence
snow·field ['snō-,fēld] -n
- a broad level expanse of snow
- a mass of perennial snow at the head of a glacier
snow·flake [-,flāk] -n
- a flake or crystal of snow
- any of a genus ( Leucojum) of Old World bulbous plants of the amaryllis family
- one ( L. vernum) resembling the snowdrop
snow goose -n
- a No. American goose ( Chen caerulescenssyn. Anser caerulescens) that has a pinkish bill and exists either as a white form with black primaries or as a grayish-black form with a white head
snowinsummer -n
- a European creeping perennial herb ( Cerastium tomentosum) of the pink family with hairy grayish foliage and white flowers that is often used as a ground cover
snow job -n
- an intensive effort at persuasion or deception
snow leopard -n
- a large cat ( Panthera unciasyn. Uncia uncia) of upland central Asia with long heavy grayish-white fur irregularly marked with brownish-black spots, rosettes, and rings
snow line -n
- the lower margin of a perennial snowfield
snow·mak·er ['snō-,mā-kər] -n
- a device for making snow
snow·mak·ing [-,mā-kiŋ] -n
- the production of snow usu. for ski slopes
snow·man [-,man] -n
- snow shaped to resemble a human figure
snow·melt [-,melt] -n
- runoff produced by melting snow
snow·mo·bile ['snō-mō-,bēl] -n
- any of various automotive vehicles for travel on snow
- an open vehicle for usu. one or two persons with steerable skis on the front and an endless belt at the rear
snow·mo·bil·ing [-,bē-liŋ] -n
- the sport of driving a snowmobile
snowonthemountain -n
- a spurge ( Euphorbia marginata) of the central and western U.S. that has showy white-bracted flower clusters and is grown as an ornamental
snow·pack ['snō-,pak] -n
- a seasonal accumulation of slow-melting packed snow
snow pea -n
- a cultivated pea with flat edible pods that is classified with the snap pea as a variety ( Pisum sativum macrocarpon)
snow plant -n
- a fleshy bright-red saprophytic herb ( Sarcodes sanguinea) of the Indian-pipe family that grows in high-altitude coniferous woods of the western U.S. and often appears before the snow melts
snow·plow ['snō-,plau̇] -n
- any of various devices used for clearing away snow
- a stemming with both skis used for coming to a stop, slowing down, or descending slowly
snowplow -vi
- to execute a snowplow
snow pudding -n
- a pudding made very fluffy and light by the addition of whipped egg whites and gelatin
snow·scape ['snō-,skāp] -n
- a landscape covered with snow
snow·shed [-,shed] -n
- a shelter against snowslides
snow·shoe [-,shü] -n
- a usu. lightweight platform for the foot that is designed to enable a person to walk on soft snow without sinking and that typically consists of an oblong frame crossed with leather thongs or synthetic material
snowshoe [-,shü-ər] -vi, n
- to travel on snowshoes
snowshoe hare -n
- a hare ( Lepus americanus) of northern No. America with heavy fur on the hind feet and a coat that in most populations is brown in the summer but usu. white in the winter called also snowshoe rabbit varying hare
snow·slide ['snō-,slīd] -n
- an avalanche of snow
snow·storm [-,stȯrm] -n
- a storm of or with snow
snow·suit [-,süt] -n
- a one-piece or two-piece lined garment for winter wear by children
snow thrower -n
- snowblower
snow tire -n
- an automotive tire with a tread designed to give added traction on snow
snow under -vt
- to overwhelm esp. in excess of capacity to absorb or deal with something
- to defeat by a large margin
snowwhite ['snō-'hwīt, -'wīt] -adj
- white as snow
snowy ['snō-ē] -adj, adv, n
- composed of snow or melted snow
- marked by or covered with snow
- whitened by snow
- snow-white
snowy egret -n
- a white American egret ( Egretta thula) having a slender black bill, black legs, and yellow feet
snowy owl -n
- a large ground-nesting diurnal arctic owl ( Nyctea scandiaca) that enters the chiefly northern parts of the U.S. in winter and has plumage that is sometimes nearly pure white but usu. with brownish spots or bars
snowy plover -n
- a small plover ( Charadrius alexandrinus) of the Gulf coast and the eastern U.S. and Mexico that is light gray above with a black bill, black patches on the head and sides of the neck, and white underparts
SNP ['snip] -n
- a variant DNA sequence in which the purine or pyrimidine base (as cytosine) of a single nucleotide has been replaced by another such base (as thymine)
Snr -abbr
- senior
snub ['snəb] -vt
- to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke
- to check (as a line) suddenly while running out esp. by turning around a fixed object (as a post or a cleat)
- to check the motion of by snubbing a line
- to restrain the action of : suppress
- to treat with contempt or neglect
- to extinguish by stubbing
- an act or an instance of snubbing
- slight
- blunt, stubby
- used in snubbing
snub·ber ['snə-bər] -n
- one that snubs
- shock absorber
snub·by ['snə-bē] -adj, n
- snub-nosed
- snub
snubnosed ['snəb-,nōzd] -adj
- having a stubby and usu. slightly turned-up nose
- having a very short barrel
snuck ['snēk] -vb
(variant of sneak)
- to go stealthily or furtively : slink
- to act in or as if in a furtive manner
- to carry the football on a quarterback sneak
- to put, bring, or take in a furtive or artful manner
- a person who acts in a stealthy, furtive, or shifty manner
- a stealthy or furtive move
- an unobserved departure or escape
- sneaker usu. used in pl.
- quarterback sneak
- carried on secretly : clandestine
- occurring without warning : surprise
snuff ['snəf] -n
- the charred part of a candlewick
- umbrage, offense
- huff
- to crop the snuff of (a candle) by pinching or by the use of snuffers so as to brighten the light
- to extinguish by or as if by the use of a candlesnuffer often used with out
- to make extinct : put an end to usu. used with out
- kill, execute
- characterized by the sensationalistic depiction of violence
- featuring a real rather than a staged murder
- to draw forcibly through or into the nostrils
- scent, smell
- to sniff at in order to examine used of an animal
- to inhale through the nose noisily and forcibly
- to sniff or smell inquiringly
- to sniff loudly in or as if in disgust
- to take snuff
- the act of snuffing : sniff
- a preparation of pulverized tobacco to be inhaled through the nostrils, chewed, or placed against the gums
- the amount of snuff taken at one time
snuff·box ['snəf-,bäks] -n
- a small box for holding snuff usu. carried about the person
snuff·er ['snə-fər] -n
- a device similar to a pair of scissors for cropping and holding the snuff of a candle usu. used in pl. but sing. or pl. in constr.
- candlesnuffer
snuffer -n
- one that snuffs or sniffs
snuf·fle ['snə-fəl] -vb, n
- to snuff or sniff usu. audibly and repeatedly
- to breathe through an obstructed nose with a sniffing sound
- to speak through or as if through the nose : whine
- to seek or test by or as if by repeated sniffs
snuffle -n
- sniffles
- the act or sound of snuffling
- a nasal twang
snuffy ['snə-fē] -adj
- quick to become annoyed or take offense
- marked by snobbery
- soiled with snuff
- resembling snuff
- addicted to the use of snuff
- having unpleasant habits
snug ['snəg] -vb
- snuggle, nestle
- to cause to fit closely
- to make snug
- hide
- to secure by fastening or lashing down
- manifesting seaworthiness : taut
- trim, neat
- fitting closely and comfortably
- enjoying or affording warm secure shelter or cover and opportunity for ease and contentment
- marked by cordiality and secure privacy
- affording a degree of comfort and ease
- offering safe concealment
- a small private room or compartment in a pub
snug·gery ['snə-g(ə-)rē] -n
- a snug cozy place
- a small room
snug·gle ['snə-gəl] -vb, n
- to curl up comfortably or cozily
- to draw close esp. for comfort or in affection
- to make snug