| resuscitation | (noun) the act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness | - |
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| resuscitator | (noun) a breathing apparatus used for resuscitation by forcing oxygen into the lungs of a person who has undergone asphyxia or arrest of respiration | - |
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| resuspension | (noun) a renewed suspension of insoluble particles after they have been precipitated | - |
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| retrogression | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, regression, retroversion, reversion |
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| (noun) passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form | Synonyms: degeneration |
| rockcress | (noun) any of several rock-loving cresses of the genus Arabis | Synonyms: rock cress |
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| (noun) noxious cress with yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sisymbrium | Synonyms: Barbarea vulgaris, rocket cress, Sisymbrium barbarea, yellow rocket |
| schoolmistress | (noun) a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) | Synonyms: mistress, schoolma'am, schoolmarm |
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| scores | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| sculptress | (noun) a woman sculptor | - |
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| seamstress | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: modiste, needlewoman, sempstress |
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| seductress | (noun) a woman who seduces | - |
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| sempstress | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: modiste, needlewoman, seamstress |
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| shirtdress | (noun) a dress that is tailored like a shirt and has buttons all the way down the front | - |
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| songstress | (noun) a woman songster (especially of popular songs) | - |
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| sorceress | (noun) a woman sorcerer | - |
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| stonecress | (noun) any Old World herb of the genus Aethionema; native of sunny limestone habitats | Synonyms: stone cress |
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| stress | (noun) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | Synonyms: accent, emphasis |
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| (noun) (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body | - |
| (noun) (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense | Synonyms: tenseness, tension |
| (noun) difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension | Synonyms: strain |
| (noun) special emphasis attached to something | Synonyms: focus |
| stressor | (noun) any agent that causes stress to an organism | - |
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| sundress | (noun) a light loose sleeveless summer dress with a wide neckline and thin shoulder straps that expose the arms and shoulders | - |
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| suppressant | (noun) a drug that suppresses appetite | Synonyms: appetite suppressant |
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| suppresser | (noun) an electrical device for suppressing unwanted currents | Synonyms: suppressor |
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| (noun) a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene) | Synonyms: suppresser gene, suppressor, suppressor gene |
| (noun) someone who suppresses | Synonyms: suppressor |
| suppression | (noun) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation | Synonyms: curtailment |
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| (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: crushing, quelling, stifling |
| (noun) (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires | Synonyms: inhibition |
| (noun) the failure to develop some part or organ | - |
| suppressor | (noun) an electrical device for suppressing unwanted currents | Synonyms: suppresser |
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| (noun) a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene) | Synonyms: suppresser, suppresser gene, suppressor gene |
| (noun) someone who suppresses | Synonyms: suppresser |
| synaeresis | (noun) the separation of liquid from a gel that is caused by contraction (as in cheese making) | Synonyms: syneresis |
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| (noun) the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong | Synonyms: syneresis |
| syneresis | (noun) the separation of liquid from a gel that is caused by contraction (as in cheese making) | Synonyms: synaeresis |
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| (noun) the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong | Synonyms: synaeresis |
| taskmistress | (noun) a woman taskmaster | - |
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| temptress | (noun) a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive | Synonyms: Delilah, enchantress, femme fatale, siren |
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| teres | (noun) either of two muscles in the shoulder region that move the shoulders and arms | Synonyms: teres muscle |
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| thermocompressor | (noun) An injector, ejector, steam ejector, steam injector, eductor-jet pump or thermocompressor is a type of pump. | Synonyms: eductor-jet pump, ejector, injector, steam ejector, steam injector |
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| thresher | (noun) large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed | Synonyms: Alopius vulpinus, fox shark, thrasher, thresher shark |
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| (noun) a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw | Synonyms: thrasher, threshing machine |
| threshing | (noun) the separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw | - |
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| threshold | (noun) the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway | Synonyms: doorsill, doorstep |
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| (noun) the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close | Synonyms: door, doorway, room access |
| (noun) the smallest detectable sensation | Synonyms: limen |
| (noun) a region marking a boundary | Synonyms: brink, verge |
| (noun) the starting point for a new state or experience | - |
| tigress | (noun) a female tiger | - |
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| tiresomeness | (noun) dullness owing to length or slowness | Synonyms: tediousness, tedium |
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| traitress | (noun) female traitor | - |
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| transgression | (noun) the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle | Synonyms: evildoing |
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| (noun) the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit | - |
| (noun) the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata | - |
| transgressor | (noun) someone who transgresses; someone who violates a law or command | - |
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| trespass | (noun) entry to another's property without right or permission | Synonyms: encroachment, intrusion, usurpation, violation |
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| (noun) a wrongful interference with the possession of property (personal property as well as realty), or the action instituted to recover damages | - |
| trespasser | (noun) someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission | Synonyms: interloper, intruder |
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| tress | (noun) a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair | Synonyms: braid, plait, twist |
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| trestle | (noun) sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop | - |
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| (noun) a supporting tower used to support a bridge | - |
| trestlework | (noun) a supporting structure composed of a system of connected trestles; for a bridge or pier or scaffold e.g. | - |
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| underestimate | (noun) an estimation that is too low; an estimate that is less than the true or actual value | Synonyms: underestimation, underrating, underreckoning |
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| underestimation | (noun) an estimation that is too low; an estimate that is less than the true or actual value | Synonyms: underestimate, underrating, underreckoning |
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| undress | (noun) partial or complete nakedness | - |
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| uninterestingness | (noun) inability to capture or hold one's interest | - |
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| unrespectability | (noun) dishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation | Synonyms: disreputability, disreputableness |
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| unresponsiveness | (noun) the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events | Synonyms: deadness |
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| unrest | (noun) a feeling of restless agitation | - |
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| (noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development | Synonyms: agitation, ferment, fermentation, tempestuousness |
| unrestraint | (noun) the quality of lacking restraint | - |
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| vasopressin | (noun) hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus; affects blood pressure by stimulating capillary muscles and reduces urine flow by affecting reabsorption of water by kidney tubules | Synonyms: ADH, antidiuretic hormone, Pitressin |
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| vasopressor | (noun) any agent that produces vasoconstriction and a rise in blood pressure (usually understood as increased arterial pressure) | - |
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| venturesomeness | (noun) the trait of being adventurous | Synonyms: adventurousness |
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| waitress | (noun) a woman waiter | - |
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| wardress | (noun) a woman warder | - |
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| watercress | (noun) cresses that grow in clear ponds and streams | - |
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| (noun) any of several water-loving cresses | - |
| whoreson | (noun) the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents | Synonyms: bastard, by-blow, illegitimate, illegitimate child, love child |
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| (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch |
| winepress | (noun) a press that is used to extract the juice from grapes | - |
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| wrester | (noun) someone who obtains something by pulling it violently with twisting movements | - |
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| wrestle | (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestling |
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| wrestler | (noun) combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground | Synonyms: grappler, matman |
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| wrestling | (noun) the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down | Synonyms: grappling, rassling |
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| (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle |