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eat anything they come across in their diggings, although it
is still unknown how they convert some of these things into
something of nutritional value.
rodent*
A gnawing mammal (order _Rodentia_) having in each jaw two
(rarely four) incisors, growing continually from persistent
pulps, and no canine teeth, as a squirrel, beaver, or rat.
[ Webster's Comprehensive International Dictionary
of the English Language ]
rogue
* rogue
I understand the business, I hear it: to have an open ear, a
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conceal it; and therein am I constant to my profession.
[ Autolycus the Rogue, from The Winter's Tale by
William Shakespeare ]
roshi
Roshi is a Japanese word, common in Zen Buddhism, meaning "old"
(ro) and "teacher" (shi). Roshi can be used as a term of
respect, as in the Rinzai school; as a simple reference to
actual age, as in the Soto school; or it can mean a teacher who
has transmitted knowledge to, and thus "given birth" to, a new
teacher.
[ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ]
rothe
The rothe (pronounced roth-AY) is a musk ox-like creature with
an aversion to light. It prefers to live underground near
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seven and a half pounds to start off with would increase in
weight to five tons!"
[ Royal Jelly, by Roald Dahl ]
ruby
sapphire
_Corundum._ Mineral, aluminum oxide, Al2O3. The clear
varieties are used as gems and the opaque as abrasive materials.
Corundum occurs in crystals of the hexagonal system and in
masses. It is transparent to opaque and has a vitreous to
adamantine luster. ... The chief corundum gems are the ruby
(red) and the sapphire (blue).
[ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ]
rust monster
These strange creatures live on a diet of metals. They can
turn a suit of armour into so much useless rusted scrap in no
time at all.
# takes "rust monster or disenchanter" when specifying 'R'
rust monster or disenchanter
These ground-dwelling monsters are known to make short
work out of degrading adventurers' combat equipment.
*saber
*sabre
Flashed all their sabres bare,
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a Sasquatch -- not Burns's giant Indian, but the hairy apelike
creature that we have all come to know.
[ The Encyclopedia of Monsters, by Daniel Cohen ]
scalpel
A scalpel is a very sharp knife used for surgery ... Merely
touching a medical scalpel with bare hands to test it will
cut through the skin. ... Medical scalpel blades are gradually
curved for greater precision when cutting through tissue.
[ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ]
*sceptre of might
This mace was created aeons ago in some unknown cave,
and has been passed down from generation to generation of
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I read these words, and read again, and tried
My eyes against the heavens, and read again.
[ Endymion, by John Keats ]
set
seth
The ancient Egyptian god of chaos (Set), the embodiment of
hostility and even of outright evil. He is also a god of war,
deserts, storms, and foreign lands. ... In the Book of the
Dead, Seth is called "Lord of the Northern Sky" and is held
responsible for storms and cloudy weather. ... Seth was
portrayed as a man with the head of undeterminable origin,
although some see in it the head of an aardvark. He had a
curved snout, erect square-tipped ears and a long forked tail.
He was sometimes entirely in animal form with the body similar
to that of a greyhound. Animals sacred to this god were the
dog, the jackal, the gazelle, the donkey, the crocodile, the
hippopotamus, and the pig.
[ Encyclopedia Mythica, ed. M.F. Lindemans ]
shad*
Shades are undead creatures. They differ from zombies in
that a zombie is an undead animation of a corpse, while a
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[ Close to Shore, by Michael Capuzzo ]
shito
A Japanese stabbing knife.
shopkeeper
There have been three general theories put forward to explain
the phenomenon of the wandering shops or, as they are
generically known, _tabernae vagantes._
The first postulates that many thousands of years ago there
evolved somewhere in the multiverse a race whose single talent
was to buy cheap and sell dear. Soon they controlled a vast
galactic empire or, as they put it, Emporium, and the more
advanced members of the species found a way to equip their very
shops with unique propulsion units that could break the dark
walls of space itself and open up vast new markets. And long
after the worlds of the Emporium perished in the heat death of
their particular universe, after one last defiant fire sale,
the wandering starshops still ply their trade, eating their way
through the pages of spacetime like a worm through a three-
volume novel.
The second is that they are the creation of a sympathetic Fate,
charged with the role of supplying exactly the right thing
at the right time.
The third is that they are simply a very clever way of getting
around the various Sunday Closing acts.
All these theories, diverse as they are, have two things in
common. They explain the observed facts, and they are
completely and utterly wrong.
[ The Light Fantastic, by Terry Pratchett ]
shrieker
With a single, savage thrust of her spear, the warrior-woman
impaled the fungus, silencing it. However, it was too late:
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shall pay for this, and seven heads for the dog, who was a
better warrior than many a man."
[ Conan The Warrior, by Robert E Howard ]
*sleep
Sleep is a death; oh, make me try
By sleeping, what it is to die,
And as gently lay my head
On my grave, as now my bed.
[ Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne ]
slime mold
Slime mold or slime fungus, organism usually classified with
the fungi, but showing equal affinity to the protozoa. Slime
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*snake
serpent
water moccasin
python
pit viper
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field
which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea,
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--Koko, Lord high executioner of Titipu
[ The Mikado, by Sir W.S. Gilbert ]
sokoban
Sokoban (Japanese for "warehouse person") is a puzzle-type
game where the player must push around treasure to a goal
area. It apparently won first prize in a Japanese programming
contest.
[ Xsokoban web site ]
Sokoban (Japanese for "warehouse keeper") is a transport puzzle
in which the player pushes boxes around a maze, viewed from
above, and tries to put them in designated locations. Only one
box may be pushed at a time, not two, and boxes cannot be pulled.
As the puzzle would be extremely difficult to create physically,
it is usually implemented as a video game.
Sokoban was created in 1982 by Hiroyuki Imabayashi, and was
published by Thinking Rabbit, a software house based in
Takarazuka, Japan. Thinking Rabbit also released three sequels:
Boxxle, Sokoban Perfect and Sokoban Revenge.
[ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ]
*soldier
sergeant
lieutenant
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against which you cannot prepare a perfect defense.
--Human aphorism
[ The Dosadi Experiment, by Frank Herbert ]
squeaky board
A floorboard creaked. Galder had spent many hours tuning them,
always a wise precaution with an ambitious assistant who walked
like a cat.
D flat. That meant he was just to the right of the door.
"Ah, Trymon," he said, without turning, and noted with some
satisfaction the faint indrawing of breath behind him. "Good
of you to come. Shut the door, will you?"
[ The Light Fantastic, by Terry Pratchett ]
~*aesculapius
*staff
So they stood, each in his place, neither moving a finger's