teriyaki
nounHow to pronounce teriyaki:
Definition of teriyaki:
- teriyaki (noun):
- beef or chicken or seafood marinated in spicy soy sauce and grilled or broiled.
- a japanese dish of meat or fish that is grilled or broiled after being soaked in a seasoned soy sauce marinade
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- temperatures
- temperately
- telephoto
- telephony
- teeter-totter
- taylormarie
- tachytelic
- synthesizing
- syntactician
- synalgia
- synalepha
- symptomatic
- symphonious
- sympetalous
- sympathizes
- sycophancy
- supremacy
- suprailiac
- supernova
- suffocation
- sufficiency
- subterranean
- subhanallah
- studebaker
- strabotomy
- stolichnaya
- stipulated
- stimulation
- stimulating
- standard-bearer
- stalemated
- stability
- squillionaire
- spondylosis
- splenorrhexis
- splendiferous
- splanchnology
- spizzerinctum
- speculation
- spaciality
- somnambulist
- sommelier
- somersaulting
- soliloquized
- soliloquize
- solidifies
- solicitor
- solfeggio
- solecism
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