treadmill
salt mine | a job involving drudgery and confinement |
| bath salts | a preparation that softens or scents a bath |
| Epsom salts | (used with a singular noun) hydrated magnesium sulfate used as a laxative |
| pepper-and-salt | a fabric woven with flecks of light and dark |
| salt mine | a mine where salt is dug |
saltshaker
salt shaker | a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt |
salt
saltiness
salinity | the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth |
| SALT I | the first treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
| SALT II | the second treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
SALT | negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons |
low-sodium diet
low-salt diet
salt-free diet | a diet that limits the intake of salt (sodium chloride), often used in treating hypertension or edema or certain other disorders |
| salt pork | fat from the back and sides and belly of a hog carcass cured with salt |
| salt cod | codfish preserved in salt, must be desalted and flaked by soaking in water and pounding, used in e.g. codfish cakes |
salt
table salt
common salt | white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food |
| celery salt | ground celery seed and salt |
| garlic salt | ground dried garlic and salt |
| onion salt | ground dried onion and salt |
| seasoned salt | combination of salt and vegetable extracts and spices and monosodium glutamate |
| sour salt | crystals of citric acid used as seasoning |
Salt Lake City
capital of Utah | the capital and largest city of Utah, located near the Great Salt Lake in north central Utah, world capital of the Mormon Church |
Dasht-e-Kavir
Kavir Desert
Great Salt Desert | a salt desert in north central Iran |
| Great Salt Lake | a shallow body of salt water in northwestern Utah |
salt flat
salt plain | a flat expanse of salt left by the evaporation of a body of salt water |
salt lick
lick | a salt deposit that animals regularly lick |
| salt marsh | low-lying wet land that is frequently flooded with saltwater |
mariner
seaman
tar
Jack-tar
Jack
old salt
seafarer
gob
sea dog | a man who serves as a sailor |
salter
salt merchant | someone who makes or deals in salt |
thaw
thawing
warming | warm weather following a freeze, snow and ice melt, they welcomed the spring thaw |
salt rush
Juncus leseurii | rush of the Pacific coast of North America |
| annual salt-marsh aster | a variety of aster |
| perennial salt marsh aster | a variety of aster |
salt reed grass
Spartina cynosuroides | tall reedlike grass common in salt meadows |
salt marsh mallow
Kosteletzya virginica | subshrub of southeastern United States to New York |
salt tree
Halimodendron halodendron
Halimodendron argenteum | spiny shrub of the Caspian salt plains and Siberia having elegant silvery, downy young foliage and mildly fragrant pink-purple blooms |
thaw
melt
thawing
melting | the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid, the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster, the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours |
| salt depletion | loss of salt from the body without replacement (loss by vomiting or profuse perspiration or urination or diarrhea) thus upsetting the electrolyte balance |
| dibasic salt | a salt derived by replacing two hydrogen atoms per molecule |
sodium chloride
common salt | a white crystalline solid consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl) |
halite
rock salt | naturally occurring crystalline sodium chloride |
Epsom salts
bitter salts | hydrated magnesium sulfate that is taken orally to treat heartburn and constipation and injected to prevent seizures |
Rochelle salt
Rochelle salts
potassium sodium tartrate | a double salt used in Seidlitz powder, acts as a cathartic |
| salt | a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) |
| double salt | a solution of two simple salts that forms a single substance on crystallization |
| bile salt | a salt of bile acid and a base, functions as an emulsifier of lipids and fatty acids |
Glauber's salt
Glauber's salts | (NaSO.HO) a colorless salt used as a cathartic |
| microcosmic salt | a white salt present in urine and used to test for metal oxides |
| smelling salts | a pungent preparation of ammonium carbonate and perfume, sniffed as a stimulant to relieve faintness |
| salt | preserve with salt, people used to salt meats on ships |
| salt | add zest or liveliness to, She salts her lectures with jokes |
| salt | sprinkle as if with salt, the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps |