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- POLKAA lively dance originating in Bohemia.
- POODAn obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian funt, or about 16.38 kg (approximately 36.11 pounds).
- POSHAssociated with the upper classes.
- POULAINEA long, pointed toe of a shoe, a style fashionable in the 14th and 15th centuries.
- REDOWAA dance of Czech origin with turning, leaping waltz steps.
- REFLEXOLOGYThe study and interpretation of behavior in terms of simple and complex reflexes.
- REFUSENIKOne of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate (typically but not exclusively a Jewish citizen denied permission to immigrate to Israel).
- REPOLISHTo polish again.
- REVEALThe outer side of a window or door frame.
- ROULETTEA game of chance in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered (usually red and black) spaces. When the ball stops, it indicates the res
- RUBLEThe monetary unit of Russia, Belarus and Transnistria, equal to 100 kopeks. (Russian: копе́йка (kopéjka), Belarusian: капе́йка (kapjéjka)).
- RUGELACHA type of Jewish pastry, which may be filled with various fruit, nuts, chocolate, etc.
- RUSALKAA female water spirit that leads handsome men to their deaths underwater.
- SABLEA small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
- SAICA kind of ketch heavily used in the Black Sea, Tisa, Danube and Sava
- SAIGASaiga tatarica, an antelope which inhabits a vast area between Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia.
- SAMIZDATThe secret copying and sharing of illegal publications, chiefly in the Soviet Union; underground publishing and its publications.
- SAMOVARA metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea. Traditionally, the water is heated by hot coals or charcoal in a chimney-like tube which runs through the center of the
- SAXAULEither of two species of the amaranth genus Haloxylon: Haloxylon ammodendron (syn. Haloxylon aphyllum; black saxaul) and Haloxylon persicum (white saxaul), found in sandy habitats
- SCHAVA kind of borscht made with sorrel (or occasionally lemongrass).
- SCHLUBA person who is clumsy, oafish, socially awkward, unattractive or unkempt.
- SCUFFLEA rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters.
- SEVRUGAstellate sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus).
- SIMONIZETo polish to a high sheen with a wax-like substance.
- SOLONCHAKA pale or grey soil found in arid to subhumid conditions with poor drainage.
- SOLONETZA type of soil with a so-called "natric horizon" within the upper metre of the soil profile and a subsoil with higher clay content than the upper horizon, the latter having more th
- SOVIETA workers' council, an institution first formed during the 1905 Russian Revolution and then instituted as the main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union; b
- SOVIETICSynonym of soviet.
- SOVKHOZA large, state-owned farm in the Soviet Union.
- SPRUCEAny of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.
- SPUTNIKAny of a series of Soviet robotic space satellites, especially the first one in 1957.
- TAIGAA subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere.
- TARPANAn extinct Northern European wild horse, Equus ferus ferus.
- TAXINGWith respect to an experience: exhausting; draining.
- TELEGAA simple four-wheeled Russian cart without springs.
- TOVARISHComrade, especially with reference to the former USSR.
- TRAINElongated or trailing portion. The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.
- TROIKAA Russian carriage drawn by a team of three horses abreast.
- TSAREVICHA son of a tsar, a prince in Russia or Bulgaria.
- TSAREVNAThe daughter of a tsar.
- TUNDRAA flat and treeless Arctic biome.
- TURNKEYReady to use without further assembly or test; supplied in a state that is ready to turn on and operate (typically refers to an assembly that is outsourced for manufacture).
- UKASEAn authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or later ruler.
- UNPOLISHTo deprive of polish
- UNPOLISHEDNot polished; not brought to a polish.
- VAMPIREA mythological creature (usually humanoid and undead) said to feed on the blood or life energy of the living.
- VIGORISHA charge taken on bets, as by a bookie or gambling establishment.
- VITAMINAny of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function. They are found in minute amounts in
- VODKAA clear distilled alcoholic liquor made from grain mash.
- VOIVODEA local ruler or official in various parts of central and eastern Europe, especially early semi-independent rulers of Transylvania.
- VOZHDA Soviet leader.
- WENTsimple past of go
- YUFTRussia leather.
- YURTA large, round, semi-permanent tent with vertical walls and a conical roof, usually associated with Central Asia and Mongolia (where it is known as a ger).
- ZANDERA European freshwater fish in the family Percidae, closely related to the perch, Sander lucioperca.
- ZASTRUGAAlternative form of sastruga.
- ZASTRUGIplural of zastruga
- ZELKOVAA kind of tree in the elm family (genus Zelkova).
- ZEMSTVAplural of zemstvo
- ZEMSTVOA Russian district or provincial council, or elective local-governmental administrative division, founded in 1864 by Tsar Alexander the Liberator.
- ZLOTEplural of zloty
- ZLOTYThe currency unit of Poland, divided into 100 groszy.
- ZLOTYCHplural of zloty