| shamanism | (noun) an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans | Synonyms: Asian shamanism |
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| (noun) any animistic religion similar to Asian shamanism (especially as practiced by certain Native American tribes) | - |
| sinistrality | (noun) preference for using the left hand | Synonyms: left-handedness |
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| solemnisation | (noun) the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual | Synonyms: celebration, solemnization |
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| southernism | (noun) an attitude characteristic of Southerners (especially in the US) | - |
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| (noun) a locution or pronunciation peculiar to the southern United States | - |
| swinishness | (noun) The quality of resembling a swine; being gluttonous, coarse, debased. | - |
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| symphonist | (noun) a composer of symphonies | - |
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| synchronisation | (noun) coordinating by causing to indicate the same time | Synonyms: synchronization, synchronizing |
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| (noun) an adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison | Synonyms: synchronising, synchronization, synchronizing |
| (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at the same time | Synonyms: synchroneity, synchronicity, synchronism, synchronization, synchronizing, synchrony |
| synchroniser | (noun) an instrument that indicates whether two periodic motions are synchronous (especially an instrument that enables a pilot to synchronize the propellers of a plane that has two or more engines) | Synonyms: synchronizer, synchronoscope, synchroscope |
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| synchronising | (noun) an adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison | Synonyms: synchronisation, synchronization, synchronizing |
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| synchronism | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at the same time | Synonyms: synchroneity, synchronicity, synchronisation, synchronization, synchronizing, synchrony |
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| tarnish | (noun) discoloration of metal surface caused by oxidation | - |
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| telephonist | (noun) someone who helps callers get the person they are calling | Synonyms: switchboard operator, telephone operator |
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| tennis | (noun) a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court | Synonyms: lawn tennis |
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| timpanist | (noun) a person who plays the kettledrums | Synonyms: tympanist |
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| tobacconist | (noun) a shop that sells pipes and pipe tobacco and cigars and cigarettes | Synonyms: tobacco shop, tobacconist shop |
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| (noun) a retail dealer in tobacco and tobacco-related articles | - |
| tobogganist | (noun) someone who rides a toboggan | - |
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| totalitarianism | (noun) an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government. | Synonyms: absolutism, totalism |
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| (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, tyranny |
| treasonist | (noun) someone who betrays his country by committing treason | Synonyms: traitor |
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| trombonist | (noun) a musician who plays the trombone | Synonyms: trombone player |
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| tympanist | (noun) a person who plays the kettledrums | Synonyms: timpanist |
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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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| unionisation | (noun) act of forming labor unions | Synonyms: unionization |
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| unionism | (noun) the system or principles and theory of labor unions | Synonyms: trade unionism |
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| unionist | (noun) a worker who belongs to a trade union | Synonyms: trade unionist, union member |
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| unison | (noun) (music) two or more sounds or tones at the same pitch or in octaves | - |
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| (noun) occurring together or simultaneously | - |
| (noun) corresponding exactly | - |
| urbanisation | (noun) the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban | Synonyms: urbanization |
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| (noun) the condition of being urbanized | Synonyms: urbanization |
| utilitarianism | (noun) doctrine that the useful is the good; especially as elaborated by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill; the aim was said to be the greatest happiness for the greatest number | - |
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| vacationist | (noun) someone on vacation; someone who is devoting time to pleasure or relaxation rather than to work | Synonyms: vacationer |
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| vaginismus | (noun) muscular contraction that causes the vagina to close; usually an anxiety reaction before coitus or pelvic examination | - |
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| valetudinarianism | (noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) | Synonyms: debility, feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity |
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| vanisher | (noun) a person who disappears | - |
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| vanishing | (noun) a sudden disappearance from sight | - |
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| (noun) a sudden or mysterious disappearance | - |
| varnish | (noun) a coating that provides a hard, lustrous, transparent finish to a surface | - |
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| varnisher | (noun) someone who applies a finishing coat of varnish | - |
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| vegetarianism | (noun) a diet excluding all meat and fish | - |
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| venison | (noun) meat from a deer used as food | - |
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| vibraphonist | (noun) a musician who plays the vibraphone | Synonyms: vibist |
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| violinist | (noun) a musician who plays the violin | Synonyms: fiddler |
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| vivisectionist | (noun) a biologist who cuts open live animals for research | - |
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| volcanism | (noun) the phenomena associated with volcanic activity | - |
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| vulcanisation | (noun) process of treating rubber or rubberlike materials with sulphur at great heat to improve elasticity and strength or to harden them | Synonyms: vulcanization |
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| vulcaniser | (noun) a device used for the vulcanization of rubber. | Synonyms: vulcanizer |
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| (noun) someone who vulcanizes rubber to improve its strength and resiliency | Synonyms: vulcanizer |
| womaniser | (noun) a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them | Synonyms: philanderer, womanizer |
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| womanishness | (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminacy, effeminateness, sissiness, softness, unmanliness |
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| xylophonist | (noun) someone who plays a xylophone | - |
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