| razorback | (noun) a mongrel hog with a thin body and long legs and a ridged back; a wild or semi-wild descendant of improved breeds; found chiefly in the southeastern United States | Synonyms: razorback hog, razorbacked hog |
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| (noun) any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin | Synonyms: rorqual |
| rickrack | (noun) a narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming | Synonyms: ricrac |
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| rollback | (noun) the act of forcing the enemy to withdraw | Synonyms: push back |
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| (noun) reducing prices back to some earlier level | - |
| rucksack | (noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder | Synonyms: back pack, backpack, haversack, knapsack, packsack |
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| sack | (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sacking |
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| (noun) the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter | - |
| (noun) a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases | Synonyms: carrier bag, paper bag, poke |
| (noun) a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist | Synonyms: chemise, shift |
| (noun) a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily | Synonyms: hammock |
| (noun) a woman's full loose hiplength jacket | Synonyms: sacque |
| (noun) any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry) | - |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a sack | Synonyms: sackful |
| (noun) an enclosed space | Synonyms: pocket, pouch, sac |
| sackbut | (noun) a medieval musical instrument resembling a trombone | - |
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| sackcloth | (noun) a coarse cloth resembling sacking | - |
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| (noun) a garment made of coarse sacking; formerly worn as an indication of remorse | - |
| sackful | (noun) the quantity contained in a sack | Synonyms: sack |
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| sacking | (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack |
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| (noun) coarse fabric used for bags or sacks | Synonyms: bagging |
| saddleback | (noun) a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end | Synonyms: gable roof, saddle roof, saddleback roof |
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| (noun) a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle) | Synonyms: saddle |
| safecracker | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: cracksman, safebreaker |
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| setback | (noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, blow, reversal, reverse |
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| shack | (noun) small crude shelter used as a dwelling | Synonyms: hovel, hut, hutch, shanty |
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| shackle | (noun) a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) | Synonyms: bond, hamper, trammel |
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| (noun) a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar | - |
| shoeblack | (noun) a person who polishes shoes and boots | Synonyms: bootblack |
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| sidetrack | (noun) a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass | Synonyms: railroad siding, siding, turnout |
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| silverback | (noun) an adult male gorilla with grey hairs across the back | - |
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| sixpack | (noun) a carton containing six bottles or cans | Synonyms: six-pack, six pack |
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| skipjack | (noun) oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito | Synonyms: Euthynnus pelamis, skipjack tuna |
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| (noun) medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters; less valued than tuna | Synonyms: Atlantic bonito, Sarda sarda |
| (noun) able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound | Synonyms: click beetle, snapping beetle |
| slack | (noun) a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being loose (not taut) | Synonyms: slackness |
| (noun) a stretch of water without current or movement | Synonyms: slack water |
| (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | Synonyms: mire, morass, quag, quagmire |
| (noun) a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality | Synonyms: drop-off, falling off, falloff, slump |
| (noun) dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve | - |
| slackening | (noun) an occurrence of control or strength weakening | Synonyms: loosening, relaxation |
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| slacker | (noun) a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) | Synonyms: shirker |
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| slacking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, shirking, soldiering |
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| slackline | (noun) a partially tensioned line for balance or walking | - |
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| slackness | (noun) the quality of being loose (not taut) | Synonyms: slack |
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| (noun) the quality of being lax and neglectful | Synonyms: laxity, laxness, remissness |
| (noun) weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy | Synonyms: inanition, lassitude, lethargy |
| slacks | (noun) (used in the plural) pants for casual wear | - |
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| slingback | (noun) a shoe that has a strap that wraps around the heel | Synonyms: sling |
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| smack | (noun) the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand | Synonyms: slap, smacking |
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| (noun) an enthusiastic kiss | Synonyms: smooch |
| (noun) street names for heroin | Synonyms: big H, hell dust, nose drops, scag, skag, thunder |
| (noun) a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast | - |
| (noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: flavor, flavour, nip, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, tang |
| (noun) a blow from a flat object (as an open hand) | Synonyms: slap |
| smacker | (noun) a loud kiss | - |
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| (noun) a very powerful blow with the fist | - |
| smacking | (noun) the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand | Synonyms: slap, smack |
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| smokestack | (noun) a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated | Synonyms: stack |
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| snack | (noun) a light informal meal | Synonyms: bite, collation |
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| snacker | (noun) someone who eats lightly or eats snacks between meals | Synonyms: nosher |
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| softback | (noun) a book with paper covers | Synonyms: paper-back book, paperback, paperback book, soft-cover, soft-cover book, softback book |
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| soundtrack | (noun) sound recording on a narrow strip of a motion picture film | - |
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| spackle | (noun) powder (containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste used to fill cracks and holes in plaster | Synonyms: spackling compound |
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| stack | (noun) a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated | Synonyms: smokestack |
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| (noun) a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO) | Synonyms: push-down storage, push-down store |
| (noun) a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO) | Synonyms: push-down list, push-down stack |
| (noun) an orderly pile | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, tidy sum, wad |
| stacker | (noun) a laborer who builds up a stack or pile | - |
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| stacks | (noun) storage space in a library consisting of an extensive arrangement of bookshelves where most of the books are stored | - |
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| (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, tons, wads |
| steeplejack | (noun) someone who builds or maintains very tall structures | - |
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| stickleback | (noun) small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research | Synonyms: prickleback |
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| straightjacket | (noun) a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person | Synonyms: straitjacket |
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| straitjacket | (noun) a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person | Synonyms: straightjacket |
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| (noun) anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines | - |
| supplejack | (noun) walking stick made from the wood of an American tropical vine | - |
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| tack | (noun) sailing a zigzag course | - |
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| (noun) (nautical) the act of changing tack | Synonyms: tacking |
| (noun) a short nail with a sharp point and a large head | - |
| (noun) gear for a horse | Synonyms: saddlery, stable gear |
| (noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind | Synonyms: mainsheet, sheet, shroud, weather sheet |
| (noun) the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails | - |
| tacker | (noun) a hand-held machine for driving staples home | Synonyms: staple gun, staplegun |
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| (noun) a sewer who fastens a garment with long loose stitches | Synonyms: baster |
| (noun) a worker who fastens things by tacking them (as with tacks or by spotwelding) | - |
| tackiness | (noun) tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar | Synonyms: cheapness, sleaze, tat |
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| (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: cohesiveness, glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, viscidity, viscidness |
| tacking | (noun) (nautical) the act of changing tack | Synonyms: tack |
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| (noun) a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together | Synonyms: baste, basting, basting stitch |
| tackle | (noun) (American football) grasping an opposing player with the intention of stopping by throwing to the ground | - |
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| (noun) (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, typically opposite one of the offensive guards | - |
| (noun) gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails | Synonyms: rigging |
| (noun) gear used in fishing | Synonyms: fishing gear, fishing rig, fishing tackle, rig |
| (noun) the person who plays offensive or defensive tackle on a football team | - |
| tackler | (noun) a football player who tackles the ball carrier | - |
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| tailback | (noun) (American football) the position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage | - |
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| (noun) (American football) the person who plays tailback | - |
| tamarack | (noun) medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark | Synonyms: American larch, black larch, Larix laricina |
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| throwback | (noun) a reappearance of an earlier characteristic | Synonyms: atavism, reversion |
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| (noun) an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism | Synonyms: atavist |
| thumbtack | (noun) a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board | Synonyms: drawing pin, pushpin |
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| thwack | (noun) a hard blow with a flat object | - |
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| ticktack | (noun) system of signalling by hand signs used by bookmakers at racetracks | - |
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| ticktacktoe | (noun) a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does | Synonyms: noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoo, tit-tat-toe |
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| ticktacktoo | (noun) a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does | Synonyms: noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoe, tit-tat-toe |
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| tieback | (noun) a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back | Synonyms: pullback |
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| tintack | (noun) tack or small nail of tinned iron | - |
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| toastrack | (noun) a rack for holding slices of toast | - |
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| touchback | (noun) (American football) a play in which the opposing team has kicked the football into your end zone | - |
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| track | (noun) the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track | Synonyms: running |
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| (noun) any road or path affording passage especially a rough one | Synonyms: cart track, cartroad |
| (noun) a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll | Synonyms: rail, rails, runway |
| (noun) a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels | - |
| (noun) a groove on a phonograph recording | - |
| (noun) (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data | Synonyms: data track |
| (noun) a course over which races are run | Synonyms: racecourse, racetrack, raceway |
| (noun) an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground | Synonyms: caterpillar track, caterpillar tread |
| (noun) evidence pointing to a possible solution | Synonyms: lead, trail |
| (noun) a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) a line or route along which something travels or moves | Synonyms: course, path |
| trackball | (noun) an electronic device consisting of a rotatable ball in a housing; used to position the cursor and move images on a computer screen | - |
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| tracker | (noun) someone who tracks down game | - |
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| tracking | (noun) the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind | Synonyms: trailing |
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| tracklayer | (noun) a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks | Synonyms: platelayer |
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| wacko | (noun) a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad | Synonyms: nutter, whacko |
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| wetback | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent | Synonyms: greaser, taco |
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| whack | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: belt, knock, rap, whang |
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| (noun) the sound made by a sharp swift blow | - |
| whacker | (noun) something especially big or impressive of its kind | Synonyms: whopper |
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| whacking | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing |
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| whacko | (noun) a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad | Synonyms: nutter, wacko |
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| wingback | (noun) (American football) the position of the offensive back who lines up behind or outside the end | - |
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| (noun) (football) the person who plays wingback | - |
| wisecrack | (noun) witty remark | Synonyms: crack, quip, sally |
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| wrack | (noun) dried seaweed especially that cast ashore | - |
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| (noun) growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp | Synonyms: sea wrack |
| (noun) the destruction or collapse of something | Synonyms: rack |
| yack | (noun) noisy talk | Synonyms: cackle, chatter, yak, yakety-yak |
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| zwieback | (noun) slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp | Synonyms: Brussels biscuit, rusk, twice-baked bread |
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