| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 |
| superstring | (noun) a hypothetical particle that is the elementary particle in a theory of space-time | - |
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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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| tailoring | (noun) the occupation of a tailor | - |
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| tampering | (noun) the act of altering something secretly or improperly | Synonyms: meddling |
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| tapering | (noun) the act of gradually lowering the size or amount | - |
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| tearing | (noun) shedding tears | Synonyms: lachrymation, lacrimation, watering |
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| tempering | (noun) hardening something by heat treatment | Synonyms: annealing |
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| torturing | (noun) the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason | Synonyms: torture |
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| trousering | (noun) any fabric used to make trousers | Synonyms: panting |
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| uncovering | (noun) the act of discovering something | Synonyms: discovery, find |
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| (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, denudation, husking, stripping |
| upbringing | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing |
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| (noun) properties acquired during a person's formative years | - |
| vaporing | (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, bragging, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting |
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| veering | (noun) the act of turning aside suddenly | Synonyms: swerve, swerving |
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| veneering | (noun) the act of applying veneer | - |
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| (noun) coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood | Synonyms: veneer |
| wandering | (noun) travelling about without any clear destination | Synonyms: roving, vagabondage |
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| warmongering | (noun) a policy of advocating war | Synonyms: war advocacy |
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| watering | (noun) wetting with water | - |
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| (noun) shedding tears | Synonyms: lachrymation, lacrimation, tearing |
| wavering | (noun) the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes | Synonyms: fluctuation |
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| (noun) indecision in speech or action | Synonyms: hesitation, vacillation |
| wayfaring | (noun) traveling (especially on foot) | - |
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| wearing | (noun) the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment | Synonyms: wear |
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| (noun) (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it), also figuratively | Synonyms: eating away, eroding, erosion, wearing away |
| wellspring | (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: fountainhead, well |
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| (noun) the source of water for a well | Synonyms: wellhead |
| whirring | (noun) sound of something in rapid motion | Synonyms: birr, whir, whirr |
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| whispering | (noun) speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: susurration, voicelessness, whisper |
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| (noun) a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind | Synonyms: rustle, rustling, whisper |
| wiring | (noun) the work of installing the wires for an electrical system or device | - |
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| (noun) a circuit of wires for the distribution of electricity | - |
| withering | (noun) any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use) | Synonyms: atrophy |
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| woolgathering | (noun) an idle indulgence in fantasy | - |
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| wring | (noun) a twisting squeeze | Synonyms: squeeze |
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| wringer | (noun) a clothes dryer consisting of two rollers between which the wet clothes are squeezed | - |
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