| revivalist | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: evangelist, gospeler, gospeller |
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| rival | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competition, competitor, contender |
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| rivalry | (noun) the act of competing as for profit or a prize | Synonyms: competition, contention |
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| saliva | (noun) a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches | Synonyms: spit, spittle |
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| salivation | (noun) the secretion of saliva | - |
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| salvage | (noun) the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire | - |
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| (noun) the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction | - |
| (noun) property or goods saved from damage or destruction | - |
| salvager | (noun) someone who salvages | Synonyms: salvor |
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| salvation | (noun) (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil | Synonyms: redemption |
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| (noun) a means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness | - |
| (noun) saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation | - |
| (noun) the state of being saved or preserved from harm | - |
| samovar | (noun) a metal urn with a spigot at the base; used in Russia to boil water for tea | - |
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| savage | (noun) a member of an uncivilized people | Synonyms: barbarian |
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| (noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: beast, brute, wildcat, wolf |
| savageness | (noun) the property of being untamed and ferocious | Synonyms: savagery |
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| savagery | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarism, barbarity, brutality |
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| (noun) the trait of extreme cruelty | Synonyms: brutality, ferociousness, viciousness |
| (noun) the property of being untamed and ferocious | Synonyms: savageness |
| savanna | (noun) a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | Synonyms: savannah |
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| savannah | (noun) a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | Synonyms: savanna |
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| savant | (noun) someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field | Synonyms: initiate, learned person, pundit |
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| savarin | (noun) a sponge cake baked in a ring mold | - |
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| selva | (noun) a rain forest in a tropical area | Synonyms: tropical rain forest |
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| selvage | (noun) the edge of a fabric that is woven so that it will not ravel or fray | Synonyms: selvedge |
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| (noun) border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet | Synonyms: selvedge |
| serval | (noun) slender long-legged African wildcat having large untufted ears and tawny black-spotted coat | Synonyms: Felis serval |
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| servant | (noun) a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) | Synonyms: retainer |
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| (noun) in a subordinate position | Synonyms: handmaid, handmaiden |
| shiva | (noun) (Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative | Synonyms: shibah, shivah |
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| shivah | (noun) (Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative | Synonyms: shibah, shiva |
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| shivaree | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, callithump, charivari, chivaree |
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| silva | (noun) the forest trees growing in a country or region | Synonyms: sylva |
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| silvan | (noun) a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods | Synonyms: sylvan |
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| simvastatin | (noun) an oral lipid-lowering medicine (trade name Zocor) administered to reduce blood cholesterol levels; recommended after heart attacks | Synonyms: Zocor |
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| solvability | (noun) the property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it possible to solve | Synonyms: solubility |
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| solvate | (noun) a compound formed by solvation (the combination of solvent molecules with molecules or ions of the solute) | - |
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| solvation | (noun) a chemical process in which solvent molecules and molecules or ions of the solute combine to form a compound | - |
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| starvation | (noun) the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine | Synonyms: starving |
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| (noun) a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period | Synonyms: famishment |
| supernova | (noun) a star that explodes and becomes extremely luminous in the process | - |
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| survival | (noun) something that survives | - |
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| (noun) a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment | Synonyms: natural selection, selection, survival of the fittest |
| (noun) a state of surviving; remaining alive | Synonyms: endurance |
| survivalist | (noun) someone who tries to insure their personal survival or the survival of their group or nation | - |
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| sylva | (noun) the forest trees growing in a country or region | Synonyms: silva |
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| sylvan | (noun) a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods | Synonyms: silvan |
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| sylvanite | (noun) a silver-white mineral consisting of silver gold telluride; a source of gold in Australia and America | Synonyms: graphic tellurium |
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| televangelism | (noun) evangelism at a distance by the use of television | - |
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| televangelist | (noun) an evangelist who conducts services on television | - |
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| titivation | (noun) sprucing up; making decorative additions to | Synonyms: tittivation |
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| tittivation | (noun) sprucing up; making decorative additions to | Synonyms: titivation |
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| tovarich | (noun) a comrade (especially in Russian communism) | Synonyms: tovarisch |
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| tovarisch | (noun) a comrade (especially in Russian communism) | Synonyms: tovarich |
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| travail | (noun) use of physical or mental energy; hard work | Synonyms: effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat |
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| (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency |
| ultraconservative | (noun) an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism | Synonyms: extreme right-winger, reactionary |
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| unavailability | (noun) the quality of not being available when needed | - |
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| underevaluation | (noun) an appraisal that underestimates the value of something | - |
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| undervaluation | (noun) too low a value or price assigned to something | - |
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| univalve | (noun) a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes | Synonyms: gastropod |
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| unsolvability | (noun) the property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it impossible to solve | Synonyms: insolubility |
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| unvariedness | (noun) characterized by an absence of variation | - |
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| upheaval | (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: agitation, excitement, hullabaloo, turmoil |
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| (noun) (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) | Synonyms: uplift, upthrow, upthrust |
| (noun) a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally) | Synonyms: Sturm und Drang, turbulence |
| (noun) a violent disturbance | Synonyms: convulsion, turmoil |
| vac | (noun) informal term for vacation | Synonyms: vacay |
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| vacancy | (noun) an empty area or space | Synonyms: emptiness, vacuum, void |
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| (noun) being unoccupied | - |
| vacation | (noun) the act of making something legally void | - |
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| (noun) leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure | Synonyms: holiday |
| vacationer | (noun) someone on vacation; someone who is devoting time to pleasure or relaxation rather than to work | Synonyms: vacationist |
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| vacationing | (noun) the act of taking a vacation | - |
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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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| vacay | (noun) informal term for vacation | Synonyms: vac |
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| vaccina | (noun) a local infection induced in humans by inoculation with the virus causing cowpox in order to confer resistance to smallpox; normally lasts three weeks and leaves a pitted scar | Synonyms: vaccinia, variola vaccina, variola vaccine, variola vaccinia |
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| vaccinating | (noun) the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity | Synonyms: inoculating |
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| vaccination | (noun) taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease | Synonyms: inoculation |
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| (noun) the scar left following inoculation with a vaccine | - |
| vaccinator | (noun) a medical practitioner who inoculates people against diseases | Synonyms: inoculator |
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| vaccine | (noun) immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies | Synonyms: vaccinum |
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| vaccinee | (noun) a patient who has been vaccinated | - |
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| vaccinia | (noun) a viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox | Synonyms: cowpox |
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| (noun) a local infection induced in humans by inoculation with the virus causing cowpox in order to confer resistance to smallpox; normally lasts three weeks and leaves a pitted scar | Synonyms: vaccina, variola vaccina, variola vaccine, variola vaccinia |
| vaccinum | (noun) immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies | Synonyms: vaccine |
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| vacillation | (noun) changing location by moving back and forth | Synonyms: swing, swinging |
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| (noun) indecision in speech or action | Synonyms: hesitation, wavering |
| vacillator | (noun) one who hesitates (usually out of fear) | Synonyms: hesitater, hesitator, waverer |
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| vacuity | (noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: inanity, mindlessness, pointlessness, senselessness |
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| (noun) a region that is devoid of matter | Synonyms: vacuum |
| (noun) the absence of matter | Synonyms: vacuum |
| vacuolation | (noun) the state of having become filled with vacuoles | Synonyms: vacuolisation, vacuolization |
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| vacuole | (noun) a tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cell | - |
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| vacuolisation | (noun) the state of having become filled with vacuoles | Synonyms: vacuolation, vacuolization |
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| vacuolization | (noun) the state of having become filled with vacuoles | Synonyms: vacuolation, vacuolisation |
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| vacuousness | (noun) indicative of or marked by mental vacuity and an absence of ideas | - |
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| vacuum | (noun) an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction | Synonyms: vacuum cleaner |
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| (noun) a region that is devoid of matter | Synonyms: vacuity |
| (noun) an empty area or space | Synonyms: emptiness, vacancy, void |
| (noun) the absence of matter | Synonyms: vacuity |
| vagabond | (noun) anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place | - |
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| (noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: clochard, drifter, floater, vagrant |
| vagabondage | (noun) travelling about without any clear destination | Synonyms: roving, wandering |
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| vagary | (noun) an unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.) | - |
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| vagina | (noun) the lower part of the female reproductive tract; a moist canal in female mammals extending from the labia minora to the uterus | - |
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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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| vaginitis | (noun) inflammation of the vagina (usually associated with candidiasis) | - |
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| vaginocele | (noun) hernia projecting into the vagina | Synonyms: colpocele |
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| vaginoscope | (noun) An endoscopic instrument that magnifies the epithelia of the vagina and cervix in vivo to allow direct observation and study of these tissues. | Synonyms: colposcope |
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| vagrancy | (noun) the state of wandering from place to place; having no permanent home or means of livelihood | - |
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| vagrant | (noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: clochard, drifter, floater, vagabond |
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| vagueness | (noun) unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning | - |
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| (noun) indistinctness of shape or character | - |
| vagus | (noun) a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera | Synonyms: nervus vagus, pneumogastric, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve, vagus nerve, wandering nerve |
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| vainglory | (noun) outspoken conceit | Synonyms: boastfulness |
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| vaisya | (noun) the third of the four varnas: the commoners or yeoman farmers or mercantile and professional category | - |
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| valance | (noun) a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing | Synonyms: cornice, pelmet, valance board |
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| valdecoxib | (noun) a Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Bextra) that relieves pain and inflammation without harming the digestive tract | Synonyms: Bextra |
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| vale | (noun) a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river | Synonyms: valley |
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| valediction | (noun) the act of saying farewell | - |
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| (noun) a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) | Synonyms: valedictory, valedictory address, valedictory oration |
| valedictorian | (noun) the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement | Synonyms: valedictory speaker |
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| valedictory | (noun) a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) | Synonyms: valediction, valedictory address, valedictory oration |
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| valence | (noun) (chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent) | Synonyms: valency |
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| (noun) (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate | Synonyms: valency |
| valency | (noun) (chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent) | Synonyms: valence |
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| (noun) (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate | Synonyms: valence |
| (noun) the phenomenon of forming chemical bonds | - |
| valentine | (noun) a sweetheart chosen to receive a greeting on Saint Valentine's Day | - |
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| valerian | (noun) a plant of the genus Valeriana having lobed or dissected leaves and cymose white or pink flowers | - |
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| valet | (noun) a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer | Synonyms: gentleman's gentleman, gentleman, man, valet de chambre |
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