| spiritualty | (noun) property or income owned by a church | Synonyms: church property, spirituality |
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| stealth | (noun) avoiding detection by moving carefully | Synonyms: stealing |
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| stealthiness | (noun) a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously | Synonyms: furtiveness, sneakiness |
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| stilt | (noun) long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons | Synonyms: Himantopus stilt, long-legs, longlegs, stilt plover, stiltbird |
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| (noun) long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia | Synonyms: Australian stilt |
| (noun) one of two stout poles with foot rests in the middle; used for walking high above the ground | - |
| (noun) a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure | Synonyms: pile, piling, spile |
| stiltbird | (noun) long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons | Synonyms: Himantopus stilt, long-legs, longlegs, stilt, stilt plover |
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| stultification | (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, deadening, impairment |
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| (noun) derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent | Synonyms: befooling |
| subaltern | (noun) a British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain | - |
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| subculture | (noun) a social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior and beliefs | - |
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| sultan | (noun) the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire) | Synonyms: grand Turk |
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| sultana | (noun) dried seedless grape | Synonyms: seedless raisin |
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| (noun) pale yellow seedless grape used for raisins and wine | - |
| sultanate | (noun) country or territory ruled by a sultan | - |
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| sultriness | (noun) the quality of expressing or arousing sexual desire | - |
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| (noun) oppressively hot and humid weather | - |
| summersault | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somersaulting, somerset, summerset |
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| telltale | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale |
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| temporalty | (noun) in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy | Synonyms: laity |
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| (noun) the worldly possessions of a church | Synonyms: temporality |
| thunderbolt | (noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: bombshell, thunderclap |
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| (noun) a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder | Synonyms: bolt, bolt of lightning |
| tilt | (noun) pitching dangerously to one side | Synonyms: careen, rock, sway |
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| (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, lean, leaning, list |
| (noun) a slight but noticeable partiality | - |
| (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation |
| (noun) a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances | Synonyms: joust |
| tilter | (noun) a device for emptying a cask by tilting it without disturbing the dregs | - |
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| (noun) someone who engages in a tilt or joust | - |
| tilth | (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, plowland, tillage, tilled land |
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| (noun) the state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth | - |
| tiltyard | (noun) (formerly) an enclosed field for tilting contests | - |
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| tumult | (noun) the act of making a noisy disturbance | Synonyms: commotion, din, ruckus, ruction, rumpus |
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| (noun) violent agitation | Synonyms: turmoil |
| (noun) a state of commotion and noise and confusion | Synonyms: garboil, tumultuousness, uproar |
| tumultuousness | (noun) a state of commotion and noise and confusion | Synonyms: garboil, tumult, uproar |
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| ulteriority | (noun) the quality of being ulterior | - |
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| ultima | (noun) the last syllable in a word | - |
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| ultimacy | (noun) the state or degree of being ultimate; the final or most extreme in degree or size or time or distance | Synonyms: ultimateness |
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| ultimate | (noun) the finest or most superior quality of its kind | - |
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| ultimateness | (noun) the state or degree of being ultimate; the final or most extreme in degree or size or time or distance | Synonyms: ultimacy |
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| ultimatum | (noun) a final peremptory demand | - |
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| ultracentrifugation | (noun) centrifugation at very high speeds | - |
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| ultracentrifuge | (noun) a high speed centrifuge used to determine the relative molecular masses of large molecules in high polymers and proteins | - |
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| ultraconservative | (noun) an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism | Synonyms: extreme right-winger, reactionary |
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| ultramarine | (noun) a vivid blue to purple-blue color | - |
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| (noun) blue pigment made of powdered lapis lazuli | Synonyms: ultramarine blue |
| ultramicroscope | (noun) light microscope that uses scattered light to show particles too small to see with ordinary microscopes | Synonyms: dark-field microscope |
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| ultramodernity | (noun) The property of being extremely modern. | - |
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| ultramontane | (noun) a Roman Catholic who advocates ultramontanism (supreme papal authority in matters of faith and discipline) | - |
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| ultramontanism | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) the policy that the absolute authority of the church should be vested in the pope | - |
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| ultranationalism | (noun) fanatical patriotism | Synonyms: chauvinism, jingoism, superpatriotism |
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| ultrasonography | (noun) using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs | Synonyms: echography, sonography, ultrasound |
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| ultrasound | (noun) using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs | Synonyms: echography, sonography, ultrasonography |
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| (noun) very high frequency sound; used in ultrasonography | - |
| ultraviolet | (noun) radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays | Synonyms: ultraviolet illumination, ultraviolet light, ultraviolet radiation, UV |
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| unalterability | (noun) the quality of not being alterable | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being fixed and unchangeable | Synonyms: fixedness |
| underfelt | (noun) a carpet pad of thick felt | - |
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| unhealthfulness | (noun) the quality of promoting poor health | - |
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| unhealthiness | (noun) a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain | Synonyms: health problem, ill health |
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| vault | (noun) the act of jumping over an obstacle | Synonyms: hurdle |
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| (noun) an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof | - |
| (noun) a burial chamber (usually underground) | Synonyms: burial vault |
| (noun) a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables | Synonyms: bank vault |
| vaulter | (noun) an athlete who jumps over a high crossbar with the aid of a long pole | Synonyms: pole jumper, pole vaulter |
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| vaulting | (noun) a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down | Synonyms: curvet |
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| (noun) (architecture) a vaulted structure | - |
| viceroyalty | (noun) a district or province governed by a viceroy | - |
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| viniculture | (noun) the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing | Synonyms: viticulture |
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| viticulture | (noun) the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing | Synonyms: viniculture |
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| viticulturist | (noun) a cultivator of grape vine | - |
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| volt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to the potential difference between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is 1 watt; equivalent to the potential difference across a resistance of 1 ohm when 1 ampere of current flows through it | Synonyms: V |
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| voltage | (noun) the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts | Synonyms: electric potential, potential, potential difference, potential drop |
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| (noun) the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit; expressed in volts | Synonyms: electromotive force, emf |
| voltmeter | (noun) meter that measures the potential difference between two points | - |
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| vulture | (noun) any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion | - |
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| (noun) someone who attacks in search of booty | Synonyms: marauder, piranha, predator |
| waltz | (noun) a ballroom dance in triple time with a strong accent on the first beat | Synonyms: valse |
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| (noun) music composed in triple time for waltzing | - |
| (noun) an assured victory (especially in an election) | Synonyms: walk-in |
| waltzer | (noun) a dancer who waltzes | - |
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| wealth | (noun) the quality of profuse abundance | - |
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| (noun) property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value | - |
| (noun) an abundance of material possessions and resources | Synonyms: riches |
| (noun) the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money | Synonyms: wealthiness |
| wealthiness | (noun) the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money | Synonyms: wealth |
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| welt | (noun) a raised or strengthened seam | - |
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| (noun) a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions | Synonyms: wale, weal, wheal |
| welter | (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother |
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| welterweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the lightweight division and lighter than those in the middleweight division. | - |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 141 and 147 pounds | - |
| (noun) a wrestler who weighs 154-172 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 148 pounds | - |
| (noun) a weight of 28 pounds; sometimes imposed as a handicap in a horse race (such as a steeplechase) | - |
| wilt | (noun) causing to become limp or drooping | Synonyms: wilting |
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| (noun) any plant disease characterized by drooping and shriveling; usually caused by parasites attacking the roots | Synonyms: wilt disease |
| wilting | (noun) causing to become limp or drooping | Synonyms: wilt |
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