| rink | (noun) building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating | Synonyms: skating rink |
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| rinkhals | (noun) highly venomous snake of southern Africa able to spit venom up to seven feet | Synonyms: Hemachatus haemachatus, ringhals, spitting snake |
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| rinse | (noun) washing lightly without soap | - |
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| (noun) the act of giving a light tint to the hair | - |
| (noun) the removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing | Synonyms: rinsing |
| (noun) a liquid preparation used on wet hair to give it a tint | - |
| rinsing | (noun) the removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing | Synonyms: rinse |
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| roaring | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, yowl |
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| (noun) a deep prolonged loud noise | Synonyms: boom, roar, thunder |
| saccharin | (noun) a crystalline substance 500 times sweeter than sugar; used as a calorie-free sweetener | - |
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| saccharinity | (noun) the excessive sweetness of saccharin | - |
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| salvinorin | (noun) a hallucinogen obtained from Salvia divinorum | - |
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| sanitariness | (noun) the state of being conducive to health | - |
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| sapphirine | (noun) a rare light blue or green mineral; consists of aluminum and magnesium silicate and occurs as small grains in some metamorphic rocks | - |
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| sarin | (noun) a highly toxic chemical nerve agent that inhibits the activity of cholinesterase | Synonyms: GB |
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| satisfactoriness | (noun) the quality of giving satisfaction sufficient to meet a demand or requirement | - |
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| savarin | (noun) a sponge cake baked in a ring mold | - |
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| savoriness | (noun) having an appetizing flavor | Synonyms: flavorsomeness, flavoursomeness |
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| savoring | (noun) taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | Synonyms: degustation, relishing, savouring, tasting |
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| savouring | (noun) taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | Synonyms: degustation, relishing, savoring, tasting |
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| scandalmongering | (noun) spreading malicious gossip | - |
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| scattering | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scatter, strewing |
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| (noun) spreading widely or driving off | Synonyms: dispersion |
| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: sprinkle, sprinkling |
| (noun) the physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions | - |
| (noun) a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly | Synonyms: sprinkling |
| scoring | (noun) evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score | Synonyms: grading, marking |
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| scouring | (noun) the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water | Synonyms: scrub, scrubbing |
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| (noun) moving over territory to search for something | - |
| seafaring | (noun) the work of a sailor | Synonyms: navigation, sailing |
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| (noun) travel by water | Synonyms: water travel |
| serin | (noun) any of various brown and yellow finches of parts of Europe | - |
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| serine | (noun) a sweetish crystalline amino acid involved in the synthesis by the body of cysteine | - |
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| severing | (noun) the act of severing | Synonyms: severance |
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| sharing | (noun) a distribution in shares | Synonyms: share-out |
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| (noun) sharing thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: communion |
| (noun) having in common | - |
| (noun) using or enjoying something jointly with others | - |
| shattering | (noun) the act of breaking something into small pieces | Synonyms: smashing |
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| shearing | (noun) removing by cutting off or clipping | - |
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| sheepshearing | (noun) act of shearing sheep | - |
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| (noun) a festival held at the time sheep are normally sheared | - |
| (noun) the time or season when sheep are sheared | - |
| shirring | (noun) baking shelled eggs | - |
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| shivering | (noun) a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever | Synonyms: chill |
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| shoestring | (noun) a lace used for fastening shoes | Synonyms: shoe lace, shoe string, shoelace |
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| (noun) a small amount of money | Synonyms: shoe string |
| shoring | (noun) the act of propping up with shores | Synonyms: propping up, shoring up |
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| (noun) a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support | Synonyms: shore |
| shrine | (noun) a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person | - |
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| shrink | (noun) a physician who specializes in psychiatry | Synonyms: head-shrinker, psychiatrist |
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| shrinkage | (noun) the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store | Synonyms: shoplifting |
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| (noun) the amount by which something shrinks | - |
| (noun) process or result of becoming less or smaller | Synonyms: shrinking |
| shrinking | (noun) the act of becoming less | - |
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| (noun) process or result of becoming less or smaller | Synonyms: shrinkage |
| signorina | (noun) an Italian courtesy title for an unmarried woman; equivalent to `Miss', it is either used alone or before a name | - |
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| simmering | (noun) cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil | Synonyms: boiling, stewing |
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| slipperiness | (noun) a slippery smoothness | Synonyms: slick, slickness, slip |
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| (noun) the quality of being a slippery rascal | Synonyms: rascality, shiftiness, trickiness |
| sloganeering | (noun) persuasion by means of empty slogans | - |
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| smattering | (noun) a slight or superficial understanding of a subject | - |
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| (noun) a small number or amount | Synonyms: handful |
| snoring | (noun) the act of snoring or producing a snoring sound | Synonyms: snore, stertor |
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| soaring | (noun) the activity of flying a glider | Synonyms: glide, gliding, sailing, sailplaning |
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| soldering | (noun) fastening firmly together | Synonyms: bonding |
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| soldiering | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, shirking, slacking |
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| (noun) skills that are required for the life of soldier | Synonyms: soldiership |
| solferino | (noun) a pink dye that was discovered in 1859, the year a battle was fought at Solferino | Synonyms: purplish pink |
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| solitariness | (noun) a disposition toward being alone | Synonyms: aloneness, loneliness, lonesomeness |
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| (noun) the state of being alone in solitary isolation | Synonyms: loneliness |
| sorriness | (noun) worthlessness due to insignificance | Synonyms: paltriness |
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| souring | (noun) the process of becoming sour | - |
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| spacefaring | (noun) a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere | Synonyms: space travel, spaceflight |
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| sparring | (noun) making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer | Synonyms: spar |
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| (noun) an argument in which the participants are trying to gain some advantage | - |
| spattering | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spatter, splash, splashing, splattering |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputter, sputtering |
| splattering | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splash, splashing |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splutter, sputter, sputtering |
| splintering | (noun) the act of chipping something | Synonyms: chip, chipping |
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| spring | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, bound, leap, leaping, saltation |
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| (noun) a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed | - |
| (noun) the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length | Synonyms: give, springiness |
| (noun) a point at which water issues forth | - |
| (noun) a natural flow of ground water | Synonyms: fountain, natural spring, outflow, outpouring |
| (noun) the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring | Synonyms: springtime |
| springboard | (noun) a beginning from which an enterprise is launched | Synonyms: jumping-off point, point of departure |
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| (noun) a flexible board for jumping upward | - |
| springbok | (noun) a South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air | Synonyms: Antidorcas euchore, Antidorcas marsupialis, springbuck |
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| springbuck | (noun) a South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air | Synonyms: Antidorcas euchore, Antidorcas marsupialis, springbok |
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| springer | (noun) a cow about to give birth | Synonyms: springing cow |
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| (noun) a large spaniel with wavy silky coat usually black or liver and white | Synonyms: springer spaniel |
| (noun) the lowest stone in an arch -- from which it springs | Synonyms: impost |
| springiness | (noun) the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length | Synonyms: give, spring |
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| springtail | (noun) any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special abdominal appendage that allows the characteristic nearly perpetual springing pattern; found in soil rich in organic debris or on the surface of snow or water | Synonyms: collembolan |
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| springtide | (noun) a greater than average tide occurring during the new and full moons | - |
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| (noun) a swelling rush of anything | - |
| springtime | (noun) the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring | Synonyms: spring |
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| sprinkle | (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkling |
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| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: scattering, sprinkling |
| sprinkler | (noun) mechanical device that attaches to a garden hose for watering lawn or garden | - |
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| sprinkles | (noun) bits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream | Synonyms: jimmies |
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| sprinkling | (noun) the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) | Synonyms: aspersion |
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| (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkle |
| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: scattering, sprinkle |
| (noun) a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly | Synonyms: scattering |
| sprint | (noun) a quick run | Synonyms: dash |
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| sprinter | (noun) someone who runs a short distance at top speed | - |
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| spurring | (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, goading, prod, prodding, spur, urging |
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| sputtering | (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputter |
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| squandering | (noun) spending resources lavishly and wastefully | - |
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| stationariness | (noun) remaining in place | Synonyms: fixedness, immobility |
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| stearin | (noun) an ester of glycerol and stearic acid | - |
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| steering | (noun) the act of setting and holding a course | Synonyms: direction, guidance |
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| (noun) the act of guiding or showing the way | Synonyms: guidance |
| (noun) the act of steering a ship | Synonyms: steerage |
| stirring | (noun) agitating a liquid with an implement | - |
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| (noun) arousing to a particular emotion or action | Synonyms: inspiration |
| string | (noun) a lightweight cord | Synonyms: twine |
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| (noun) a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening | Synonyms: drawing string, drawstring |
| (noun) a necklace made by stringing objects together | Synonyms: chain, strand |
| (noun) a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, as a part of an instrument or a tennis racket | - |
| (noun) a collection of things threaded on a single strand, or as if threaded on a single strand | - |
| (noun) stringed instruments that are played with a bow | Synonyms: bowed stringed instrument |
| (noun) a linear sequence (as of characters, words, proteins, etc.) | - |
| (noun) a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding | Synonyms: train |
| (noun) (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop | Synonyms: cosmic string |
| (noun) a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod) | - |
| stringency | (noun) conscientious attention to rules and details | Synonyms: strictness |
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| (noun) a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit | Synonyms: tightness |
| stringer | (noun) a long horizontal timber to connect uprights | - |
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| (noun) brace consisting of a longitudinal member to strengthen a fuselage or hull | - |
| (noun) a worker who strings | - |
| (noun) a member of a squad on a team | - |
| strings | (noun) (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement | Synonyms: condition, term |
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| (noun) the section of an orchestra that plays stringed instruments | Synonyms: string section |
| stringybark | (noun) any of several Australian eucalypts having fibrous inner bark | - |
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| submarine | (noun) a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes | Synonyms: pigboat, sub |
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| (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
| submariner | (noun) a member of the crew of a submarine | - |
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| substring | (noun) a string that is part of a longer string | - |
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| suffering | (noun) feelings of mental or physical pain | Synonyms: hurt |
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| (noun) psychological suffering | Synonyms: distress, hurt |
| (noun) a state of acute pain | Synonyms: agony, excruciation |
| (noun) misery resulting from affliction | Synonyms: woe |
| sugariness | (noun) the sweetness of sugar | - |
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| (noun) the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth | Synonyms: sweet, sweetness |
| sultriness | (noun) the quality of expressing or arousing sexual desire | - |
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| (noun) oppressively hot and humid weather | - |
| superinfection | (noun) infection that occurs while you are being treated for another infection | - |
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| superintelligence | (noun) Remarkable intelligence, intelligence at or above and beyond the level of a genius. | Synonyms: hyperintelligence |
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| superintendence | (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: oversight, supervising, supervision |
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| superintendent | (noun) a person who directs and manages an organization | Synonyms: overseer |
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| (noun) a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector | Synonyms: super |
| superstring | (noun) a hypothetical particle that is the elementary particle in a theory of space-time | - |
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| surprint | (noun) something added by overprinting | Synonyms: overprint |
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| suturing | (noun) surgical joining of two surfaces | - |
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| swearing | (noun) a commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of law); to lie under oath is to become subject to prosecution for perjury | Synonyms: oath |
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| (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse, curse word, cuss, expletive, oath, swearword |
| syringa | (noun) large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes | Synonyms: mock orange, Philadelphus coronarius |
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| syringe | (noun) a medical instrument used to inject or withdraw fluids | - |
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| syringeful | (noun) the quantity that a syringe will hold. | - |
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| syrinx | (noun) the vocal organ of a bird | - |
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| (noun) a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together | Synonyms: pandean pipe, panpipe |
| tailoring | (noun) the occupation of a tailor | - |
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