| schoolroom | (noun) a room in a school where lessons take place | Synonyms: classroom |
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| schoolteacher | (noun) a teacher in a school below the college level | Synonyms: school teacher |
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| schooltime | (noun) the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session | Synonyms: school, school day |
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| (noun) the time of life when you are going to school | Synonyms: schooldays |
| schoolwork | (noun) work, such as schoolwork or piecework, that is done at home | Synonyms: homework, school assignment |
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| schoolyard | (noun) the yard associated with a school | - |
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| schooner | (noun) sailing vessel used in former times | - |
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| (noun) a large beer glass | - |
| serfhood | (noun) the state of a serf | Synonyms: serfdom, vassalage |
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| sharpshooter | (noun) a fast schooner once used by New England fisherman for illegal fishing in Canadian waters | - |
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| (noun) someone skilled in shooting | Synonyms: crack shot, marksman |
| (noun) an athlete noted for accurate aim | - |
| shoofly | (noun) a child's rocking chair with the seat built between two flat sides that are shaped to resemble an animal (such as a swan or duck) | - |
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| (noun) an undercover police officer who investigates other policemen | - |
| shook | (noun) a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment | - |
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| shoot | (noun) the act of shooting at targets | - |
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| (noun) a new branch | - |
| shooter | (noun) a large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles | Synonyms: taw |
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| (noun) a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot) | Synonyms: shot |
| (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, torpedo, triggerman |
| (noun) (sports) a player who drives or kicks a ball at the goal (or a basketball player who shoots at the basket) | - |
| (noun) a gambler who throws dice in the game of craps | Synonyms: crap-shooter |
| shooting | (noun) the act of firing a projectile | Synonyms: shot |
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| (noun) killing someone by gunfire | - |
| shootout | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunfight, gunplay |
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| sisterhood | (noun) a religious society of women who live together as sisters (especially an order of nuns) | - |
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| (noun) an association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest | Synonyms: sistership |
| (noun) the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings | Synonyms: sistership |
| skyhook | (noun) a hook that is imagined to be suspended from the sky | - |
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| (noun) helicopter carrying a reel of steel cable that can be used to lift and transport heavy objects | - |
| spinsterhood | (noun) the state of being a spinster (usually an elderly unmarried woman) | - |
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| tenterhook | (noun) one of a series of hooks used to hold cloth on a tenter | - |
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| trapshooter | (noun) a person who engages in shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled into the air by a trap | - |
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| trapshooting | (noun) the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird | Synonyms: skeet, skeet shooting |
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| troubleshooter | (noun) a worker whose job is to locate and fix sources of trouble (especially in mechanical devices) | Synonyms: trouble shooter |
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| typhoon | (noun) a tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans | - |
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| unlikelihood | (noun) the improbability of a specified outcome | Synonyms: unlikeliness |
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| wahoo | (noun) large fast-moving predacious food and game fish; found worldwide | Synonyms: Acanthocybium solandri |
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| (noun) deciduous shrub having purple capsules enclosing scarlet seeds | Synonyms: burning bush, Euonymus atropurpureus |
| (noun) upright deciduous plant with crimson pods and seeds; the eastern United States from New York to Florida and Texas | Synonyms: Euonymus americanus, strawberry bush |
| whoop | (noun) a loud hooting cry of exultation or excitement | - |
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| whoopee | (noun) noisy and boisterous revelry | - |
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| whooper | (noun) common Old World swan noted for its whooping call | Synonyms: Cygnus cygnus, whooper swan |
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| (noun) rare North American crane having black-and-white plumage and a trumpeting call | Synonyms: Grus americana, whooping crane |
| whoosh | (noun) the noise produced by the sudden rush of a fluid (a gas or liquid) | Synonyms: swoosh |
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| whooty | (noun) a white woman with a large butt | - |
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| widowhood | (noun) the state of being a widow who has not remarried | - |
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| (noun) the time of a woman's life when she is a widow | - |
| womanhood | (noun) the status of a woman | - |
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| (noun) women as a class | Synonyms: fair sex, woman |
| (noun) the state of being an adult woman | Synonyms: muliebrity |
| yahoo | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yokel |
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