| spell | (noun) a verbal formula believed to have magical force | Synonyms: charm, magic spell, magical spell |
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| (noun) a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation | Synonyms: enchantment, trance |
| (noun) a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) | Synonyms: go, tour, turn |
| (noun) a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition | Synonyms: patch, piece, while |
| spellbinder | (noun) an orator who can hold his listeners spellbound | - |
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| spelldown | (noun) a contest in which you are eliminated if you fail to spell a word correctly | Synonyms: spelling bee, spelling contest |
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| speller | (noun) an introductory textbook to teach spelling | - |
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| (noun) someone who spells words | Synonyms: good speller, poor speller |
| spelling | (noun) forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage | - |
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| stairwell | (noun) a vertical well around which there is a stairway | - |
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| storyteller | (noun) someone who tells a story | Synonyms: narrator, teller |
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| (noun) someone who tells lies | Synonyms: fabricator, fibber |
| superintelligence | (noun) Remarkable intelligence, intelligence at or above and beyond the level of a genius. | Synonyms: hyperintelligence |
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| swell | (noun) a crescendo followed by a decrescendo | - |
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| (noun) the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea | Synonyms: crestless wave |
| (noun) a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor) | - |
| (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik |
| swellhead | (noun) a conceited and self-centered person | Synonyms: egoist, egotist |
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| swelling | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescence, intumescency |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance |
| (noun) an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement | Synonyms: lump, puffiness |
| tagliatelle | (noun) pasta cut in narrow ribbons | - |
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| taleteller | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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| tarantella | (noun) a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons | Synonyms: tarantelle |
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| (noun) music composed in six-eight time for dancing the tarantella | - |
| tarantelle | (noun) a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons | Synonyms: tarantella |
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| teleselling | (noun) the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales | Synonyms: telecommerce, telemarketing |
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| teller | (noun) an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money | Synonyms: bank clerk, cashier |
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| (noun) an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly) | Synonyms: vote counter |
| (noun) someone who tells a story | Synonyms: narrator, storyteller |
| telling | (noun) informing by words | Synonyms: apprisal, notification |
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| (noun) an act of narration | Synonyms: recounting, relation |
| (noun) disclosing information or giving evidence about another | Synonyms: singing, tattle |
| telltale | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale |
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| tellurian | (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthling, earthman, worldling |
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| telluride | (noun) any binary compound of tellurium with other more electropositive elements | - |
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| tellurium | (noun) a brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur; it is used in alloys and as a semiconductor; occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of copper and nickel and silver and gold | Synonyms: atomic number 52, Te |
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| telly | (noun) an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen | Synonyms: boob tube, goggle box, idiot box, television, television receiver, television set, tv, tv set |
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| tessella | (noun) a small tessera | - |
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| tessellation | (noun) the act of adorning with mosaic | - |
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| (noun) the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern | - |
| tortellini | (noun) small ring-shaped stuffed pasta | - |
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| tortoiseshell | (noun) a cat having black and cream-colored and yellowish markings | Synonyms: calico cat, tortoiseshell-cat |
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| (noun) brilliantly colored; larvae feed on nettles | Synonyms: tortoiseshell butterfly |
| (noun) the mottled horny substance of the shell of some turtles | - |
| towelling | (noun) any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels | Synonyms: toweling |
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| traveller | (noun) a person who changes location | Synonyms: traveler |
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| travelling | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: travel, traveling |
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| trellis | (noun) latticework used to support climbing plants | Synonyms: treillage |
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| umbellifer | (noun) any of numerous aromatic herbs of the family Umbelliferae | Synonyms: umbelliferous plant |
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| umbrella | (noun) a formation of military planes maintained over ground operations or targets | - |
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| (noun) having the function of uniting a group of similar things | - |
| (noun) a lightweight handheld collapsible canopy | - |
| umbrellawort | (noun) a plant of the genus Mirabilis | - |
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| underbelly | (noun) the quality of being weak or unprotected | - |
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| (noun) the soft belly or underside of an animal's body | Synonyms: underbody |
| (noun) lower side | - |
| underseller | (noun) a seller that sells at a lower price than others do | - |
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| unintelligibility | (noun) incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible | - |
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| (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherence, incoherency |
| unraveller | (noun) a person who removes tangles; someone who takes something out of a tangled state | Synonyms: disentangler, unraveler |
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| unwellness | (noun) impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism | Synonyms: illness, malady, sickness |
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| varicella | (noun) an acute contagious disease caused by herpes varicella zoster virus; causes a rash of vesicles on the face and body | Synonyms: chickenpox |
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| velleity | (noun) volition in its weakest form | - |
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| (noun) a mere wish, unaccompanied by effort to obtain | - |
| vellication | (noun) a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition | Synonyms: twitch, twitching |
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| vellum | (noun) fine parchment prepared from the skin of a young animal e.g. a calf or lamb | - |
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| (noun) a heavy creamy-colored paper resembling parchment | - |
| vermicelli | (noun) pasta in strings thinner than spaghetti | - |
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| violoncellist | (noun) someone who plays a violoncello | Synonyms: cellist |
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| violoncello | (noun) a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing | Synonyms: cello |
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| vitellarium | (noun) A modified part of the ovary that in many flatworms and rotifers produces yolk-filled cells serving to nourish the true eggs. | - |
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| vitellus | (noun) nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg) | Synonyms: yolk |
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| volvelle | (noun) a circular slide chart having rotating parts | Synonyms: wheel chart |
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| vorticella | (noun) any of various protozoa having a transparent goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk | - |
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| well | (noun) a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine | - |
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| (noun) an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps | - |
| (noun) an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway) | - |
| (noun) a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid | - |
| (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: fountainhead, wellspring |
| wellbeing | (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaemonia, eudaimonia, upbeat, welfare, well-being |
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| wellerism | (noun) a comparison comprising a well-known quotation followed by a facetious sequel | - |
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| wellhead | (noun) a structure built over a well | - |
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| (noun) the source of water for a well | Synonyms: wellspring |
| wellness | (noun) a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease | Synonyms: health |
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| wellpoint | (noun) a perforated tube driven into the ground to collect water from the surrounding area | Synonyms: well point |
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| wellspring | (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: fountainhead, well |
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| (noun) the source of water for a well | Synonyms: wellhead |
| workfellow | (noun) an associate that one works with | Synonyms: co-worker, colleague, fellow worker |
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| yell | (noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition | Synonyms: call, cry, outcry, shout, vociferation |
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| (noun) a loud utterance of emotion (especially when inarticulate) | Synonyms: cry |
| yeller | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, bellower, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter |
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| yelling | (noun) uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement | Synonyms: shouting |
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| yellow | (noun) yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons | Synonyms: yellowness |
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| yellowbird | (noun) American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer | Synonyms: goldfinch, New World goldfinch, Spinus tristis |
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| (noun) yellow-throated American wood warbler | Synonyms: Dendroica petechia, golden warbler, yellow warbler |
| yellowcake | (noun) an impure mixture of uranium oxides obtained during the processing of uranium ore | Synonyms: U308 |
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| yellowfin | (noun) may reach 400 pounds; worldwide in tropics | Synonyms: Thunnus albacares, yellowfin tuna |
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| yellowhammer | (noun) European bunting the male being bright yellow | Synonyms: Emberiza citrinella, yellow bunting |
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| (noun) large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail | Synonyms: Colaptes auratus, yellow-shafted flicker |
| yellowlegs | (noun) either of two North American shorebird with yellow legs | - |
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| yellowness | (noun) yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons | Synonyms: yellow |
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| yellowtail | (noun) superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail | Synonyms: Ocyurus chrysurus, yellowtail snapper |
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| (noun) game fish of southern California and Mexico having a yellow tail fin | Synonyms: Seriola dorsalis |
| yellowthroat | (noun) small olive-colored American warblers with yellow breast and throat | - |
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| yellowwood | (noun) any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract | Synonyms: yellowwood tree |
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| (noun) the yellow wood of any of various yellowwood trees | - |
| yodeller | (noun) a singer who changes register rapidly (popular in Swiss folk songs) | - |
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| zooflagellate | (noun) flagellate protozoan lacking photosynthesis and other plant-like characteristics | Synonyms: zoomastigote |
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