| ire | (noun) belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: anger, ira, wrath |
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| (noun) a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance | Synonyms: anger, choler |
| legionnaire | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionary |
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| luminaire | (noun) an electrical device used to create artificial light by use of an electric lamp; all light fixtures have a fixture body and a light socket to hold the lamp and allow for its replacement | Synonyms: light fitting, light fixture |
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| millionaire | (noun) a person whose material wealth is valued at more than a million dollars | - |
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| millionairess | (noun) a woman millionaire | - |
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| millirem | (noun) a dosage of ionizing radiation equivalent to one thousandth (1/1000) of a rem | Synonyms: mrem |
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| mire | (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | Synonyms: morass, quag, quagmire, slack |
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| (noun) a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from | - |
| (noun) deep soft mud in water or slush | Synonyms: slop |
| misdirection | (noun) management that is careless or inefficient | Synonyms: mismanagement |
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| (noun) the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: distraction |
| (noun) incorrect directions or instructions | - |
| (noun) an incorrect charge to a jury given by a judge | - |
| misfire | (noun) an explosion that fails to occur | Synonyms: dud |
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| (noun) a failure to hit (or meet or find etc) | Synonyms: miss |
| moire | (noun) silk fabric with a wavy surface pattern | Synonyms: watered-silk |
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| perspirer | (noun) a person who perspires | Synonyms: sweater |
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| pismire | (noun) social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers | Synonyms: ant, emmet |
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| pourboire | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshis, bakshish, gratuity, tip |
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| protirelin | (noun) hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary | Synonyms: thyrotropin-releasing factor, thyrotropin-releasing hormone, TRF, TRH |
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| quagmire | (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | Synonyms: mire, morass, quag, slack |
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| questionnaire | (noun) a form containing a set of questions; submitted to people to gain statistical information | - |
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| quire | (noun) a quantity of paper; 24 or 25 sheets | - |
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| repairer | (noun) a skilled worker who mends or repairs things | Synonyms: fixer, mender |
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| repertoire | (noun) a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule | Synonyms: repertory |
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| (noun) the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation | Synonyms: repertory |
| requirement | (noun) something that is required in advance | Synonyms: prerequisite |
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| (noun) required activity | Synonyms: demand |
| (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessary, necessity, requisite |
| retiree | (noun) someone who has retired from active working | Synonyms: retired person |
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| retirement | (noun) withdrawal from your position or occupation | - |
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| (noun) withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation | Synonyms: retreat |
| (noun) the state of being retired from one's business or occupation | - |
| saltire | (noun) a cross resembling the letter x, with diagonal bars of equal length | Synonyms: St. Andrew's cross |
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| samphire | (noun) fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass | Synonyms: glasswort, Salicornia europaea |
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| sapphire | (noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: azure, cerulean, lazuline, sky-blue |
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| (noun) a transparent piece of sapphire that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
| (noun) a precious transparent stone of rich blue corundum valued as a gemstone | - |
| satire | (noun) witty language used to convey insults or scorn | Synonyms: caustic remark, irony, sarcasm |
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| (noun) a genre of literature and performing arts, in which shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming others | - |
| secretaire | (noun) a desk used for writing | Synonyms: escritoire, secretary, writing table |
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| shellfire | (noun) shooting artillery shells | - |
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| shire | (noun) British breed of large heavy draft horse | Synonyms: shire horse |
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| (noun) a former administrative district of England; equivalent to a county | - |
| sire | (noun) male parent of an animal especially a domestic animal such as a horse | - |
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| (noun) the founder of a family | Synonyms: father, forefather |
| (noun) a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority | - |
| siren | (noun) eellike aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills | - |
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| (noun) an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning | - |
| (noun) a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound | - |
| (noun) a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive | Synonyms: Delilah, enchantress, femme fatale, temptress |
| sirenian | (noun) any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs | Synonyms: sea cow, sirenian mammal |
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| soiree | (noun) a party of people assembled in the evening (usually at a private house) | - |
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| solitaire | (noun) a card game played by one person | Synonyms: patience |
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| (noun) a dull grey North American thrush noted for its beautiful song | - |
| (noun) extinct flightless bird related to the dodo | Synonyms: Pezophaps solitaria |
| (noun) a gem (usually a diamond) in a setting by itself | - |
| spire | (noun) a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top | Synonyms: steeple |
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| spirea | (noun) any rosaceous plant of the genus Spiraea; has sprays of small white or pink flowers | Synonyms: spiraea |
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| (noun) a Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea; widely cultivated in many varieties for its dense panicles of flowers in many colors; often forced by florists for Easter blooming | Synonyms: Astilbe japonica, spiraea |
| spitfire | (noun) a highly emotional and quick-tempered person (especially a girl or woman) | - |
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| squire | (noun) an English country landowner | - |
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| (noun) young nobleman attendant on a knight | - |
| (noun) a man who attends or escorts a woman | Synonyms: gallant |
| squirearchy | (noun) the gentry who own land (considered as a class) | Synonyms: landed gentry |
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| subdirectory | (noun) (computer science) a directory that is listed in another directory | - |
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| tire | (noun) hoop that covers a wheel | Synonyms: tyre |
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| tiredness | (noun) temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work | Synonyms: fatigue, weariness |
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| tirelessness | (noun) tireless determination | Synonyms: indefatigability, indefatigableness |
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| tiresomeness | (noun) dullness owing to length or slowness | Synonyms: tediousness, tedium |
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| trireme | (noun) ancient Greek or Roman galley or warship having three tiers of oars on each side | - |
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| umpire | (noun) an official at a baseball game | Synonyms: ump |
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| (noun) someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue | Synonyms: arbiter, arbitrator |
| vampire | (noun) (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living | Synonyms: lamia |
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| venire | (noun) (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen) | Synonyms: panel |
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| viremia | (noun) the presence of a virus in the blood stream | Synonyms: viraemia |
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| vireo | (noun) any of various small insectivorous American birds chiefly olive-grey in color | - |
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| wildfire | (noun) a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration | - |
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| wire | (noun) ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc | - |
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| (noun) a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance | Synonyms: conducting wire |
| (noun) a message transmitted by telegraph | Synonyms: telegram |
| (noun) the finishing line on a racetrack | - |
| wirehair | (noun) a terrier with wiry hair | Synonyms: wire-haired terrier, wirehaired terrier |
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| wireless | (noun) a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves | Synonyms: radio |
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| (noun) an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals | Synonyms: radio, radio receiver, radio set, receiving set, tuner |
| (noun) transmission by radio waves | - |
| (noun) medium for communication | Synonyms: radio, radiocommunication |
| wirelessness | (noun) The state or condition of being wireless; lack of wires or cables. | - |
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| wireman | (noun) a worker who installs and repairs electric wiring | Synonyms: wirer |
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| wirer | (noun) a worker who installs and repairs electric wiring | Synonyms: wireman |
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| (noun) someone who sends a telegram | - |
| wiretap | (noun) the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information | Synonyms: tap |
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| wiretapper | (noun) someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire | Synonyms: phone tapper, tapper |
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| wirework | (noun) mesh netting made of wires | Synonyms: grillwork |
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| wireworm | (noun) wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants | - |
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| zaire | (noun) the basic unit of money in Zaire | - |
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