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soup a liquid food usu. consisting of small pieces of vegetables, meat, fish, or the like cooked in stock or water. [2 definitions]
soupçon a slight amount; trace.
soup du jour in a restaurant, the featured, or sometimes the only, soup served on a particular day.
soup kitchen a place where food such as soup is distributed for little or no charge to needy people.
soupspoon a spoon with a large bowl, used for eating soup.
soupy resembling or suggesting soup, esp. in texture or thinness; watery. [2 definitions]
sour having a tart or acid taste, like that of lemon juice or vinegar. [10 definitions]
sourball a round piece of hard candy that has a tart or sour flavor.
source the origin or cause of something. [4 definitions]
source book a document used as a primary source by those writing about a person, period, idea, or movement.
source language the computer language in which a program is originally written, and which must be converted into another language for use in a computer. [2 definitions]
sourceless combined form of source.
sour cherry a tree that bears white flowers and small tart red fruit. [2 definitions]
sour cream a thick cream that has been soured by lactic acid, used as an ingredient in soups, salads, and various other dishes.
sourdough fermented dough used instead of yeast to cause bread to rise.
sour grapes (used with a sing. verb) pretended scorn for an unreached or unreachable objector goal.
sour gum a tree of eastern North America that has glossy leathery leaves and soft wood; tupelo.
sour mash a mixture of new mash and mash from an earlier run, used in the distilling of certain whiskeys. [2 definitions]
sourpuss (informal) a person with a gloomy or disagreeable expression or disposition.
sousaphone a brass wind instrument of the tuba family that has a large movable bell and a tube that encircles the player's body, used esp. in marching bands.
souse to plunge into a liquid; immerse. [7 definitions]