| silverspot | (noun) butterfly with silver spots on the underside of the hind wings | - |
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| silversword | (noun) low-growing plant found only in volcanic craters on Hawaii having rosettes of narrow pointed silver-green leaves and clusters of profuse red-purple flowers on a tall stem | Synonyms: Argyroxiphium sandwicense |
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| silvertip | (noun) powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America | Synonyms: grizzly, grizzly bear, silver-tip, Ursus arctos horribilis, Ursus horribilis |
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| silvervine | (noun) ornamental vine of eastern Asia having yellow edible fruit and leaves with silver-white markings | Synonyms: Actinidia polygama, silver vine |
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| silverware | (noun) tableware made of silver or silver plate or pewter or stainless steel | - |
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| silverweed | (noun) any of various twining shrubs of the genus Argyreia having silvery leaves and showy purple flowers | - |
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| (noun) low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath; northern United States, Europe, Asia | Synonyms: goose-tansy, goose grass, Potentilla anserina |
| silverwork | (noun) decorative work made of silver | - |
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| silverworker | (noun) someone who makes or repairs articles of silver | Synonyms: silver-worker, silversmith |
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| skydiver | (noun) a person who jumps from a plane and performs various gymnastic maneuvers before pulling the parachute cord | - |
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| slaver | (noun) a person engaged in slave trade | Synonyms: slave dealer, slave trader |
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| (noun) someone who holds slaves | Synonyms: slave owner, slaveholder |
| slavery | (noun) work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay | - |
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| (noun) the practice of owning slaves | Synonyms: slaveholding |
| (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: bondage, thraldom, thrall, thralldom |
| sleepover | (noun) an occasion of spending a night away from home or having a guest spend the night in your home (especially as a party for children) | - |
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| slipcover | (noun) a removable fitted cloth covering for upholstered furniture | - |
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| slipover | (noun) a sweater that is put on by pulling it over the head | Synonyms: pullover |
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| sliver | (noun) a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something | Synonyms: paring, shaving |
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| (noun) a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal | Synonyms: splinter |
| solver | (noun) a thinker who focuses on the problem as stated and tries to synthesize information and knowledge to achieve a solution | Synonyms: convergent thinker, problem solver |
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| sovereign | (noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | Synonyms: crowned head, monarch |
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| sovereignty | (noun) the authority of a state to govern another state | - |
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| (noun) government free from external control | - |
| (noun) royal authority; the dominion of a monarch | Synonyms: reign |
| spillover | (noun) (economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure | - |
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| stopover | (noun) a brief stay in the course of a journey | Synonyms: layover, stop |
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| (noun) a stopping place on a journey | Synonyms: way station |
| stover | (noun) the dried stalks and leaves of a field crop (especially corn) used as animal fodder after the grain has been harvested | - |
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| striver | (noun) someone who works as hard as a slave | Synonyms: hard worker, slave |
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| subversion | (noun) destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity | Synonyms: corruption |
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| (noun) the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government | Synonyms: subversive activity |
| subversive | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, revolutionist, subverter |
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| subversiveness | (noun) disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior | Synonyms: traitorousness, treason |
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| subverter | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, revolutionist, subversive |
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| takeover | (noun) a change by sale or merger in the controlling interest of a corporation | - |
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| (noun) a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force | Synonyms: coup, coup d'etat, putsch |
| tavern | (noun) a building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks | Synonyms: tap house |
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| taxidriver | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabdriver, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taximan |
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| tergiversation | (noun) falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language | Synonyms: equivocation |
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| (noun) the act of abandoning a party for cause | Synonyms: apostasy |
| tergiversator | (noun) a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer | Synonyms: equivocator, hedger |
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| thievery | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: larceny, stealing, theft, thieving |
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| timeserver | (noun) one who conforms to current ways and opinions for personal advantage | - |
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| traversal | (noun) taking a zigzag path on skis | Synonyms: traverse |
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| (noun) travel across | Synonyms: traverse |
| traverse | (noun) taking a zigzag path on skis | Synonyms: traversal |
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| (noun) travel across | Synonyms: traversal |
| (noun) a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it | Synonyms: transom |
| (noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crossbeam, crosspiece, trave |
| traverser | (noun) someone who moves or passes across | - |
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| turnover | (noun) the act of upsetting something | Synonyms: overturn, upset |
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| (noun) the volume measured in dollars | Synonyms: dollar volume |
| (noun) a dish made by folding a piece of pastry over a filling | - |
| (noun) the ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average number of workers | Synonyms: employee turnover, turnover rate |
| turnverein | (noun) a club of tumblers or gymnasts | - |
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| twitterverse | (noun) the social sphere of the Twitter service | - |
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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 |
| underachiever | (noun) a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates | Synonyms: nonachiever, underperformer |
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| universal | (noun) coupling that connects two rotating shafts allowing freedom of movement in all directions | Synonyms: universal joint |
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| (noun) a behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings | - |
| (noun) (logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class | Synonyms: universal proposition |
| (noun) (linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages | Synonyms: linguistic universal |
| universalism | (noun) the theological doctrine that all people will eventually be saved | - |
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| universality | (noun) the quality of being universal; existing everywhere | Synonyms: catholicity |
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| universe | (noun) everything stated or assumed in a given discussion | Synonyms: universe of discourse |
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| (noun) (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn | Synonyms: population |
| (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, existence, macrocosm, world |
| university | (noun) establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching | - |
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| (noun) the body of faculty and students at a university | - |
| (noun) a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees | - |
| veracity | (noun) unwillingness to tell lies | - |
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| veranda | (noun) a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) | Synonyms: gallery, verandah |
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| verandah | (noun) a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) | Synonyms: gallery, veranda |
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| verapamil | (noun) a drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine | Synonyms: Calan, Isoptin |
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| verb | (noun) a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence | - |
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| (noun) the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence | - |
| verbalisation | (noun) the activity of expressing something in words | Synonyms: verbalization |
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| (noun) the words that are spoken in the activity of verbalization | Synonyms: verbalization |
| verbaliser | (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer |
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| verbalism | (noun) the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions | Synonyms: expression, verbal expression |
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| (noun) overabundance of words | Synonyms: verbiage |
| verbalization | (noun) the activity of expressing something in words | Synonyms: verbalisation |
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| (noun) the words that are spoken in the activity of verbalization | Synonyms: verbalisation |
| verbalizer | (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser |
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| verbena | (noun) any of numerous tropical or subtropical American plants of the genus Verbena grown for their showy spikes of variously colored flowers | Synonyms: vervain |
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| verbiage | (noun) the manner in which something is expressed in words | Synonyms: choice of words, diction, phraseology, phrasing, wording |
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| (noun) overabundance of words | Synonyms: verbalism |
| verbolatry | (noun) the worship of words | Synonyms: grammatolatry, word-worship |
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| verboseness | (noun) an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words | Synonyms: verbosity |
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| verbosity | (noun) an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words | Synonyms: verboseness |
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| verdancy | (noun) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation | Synonyms: greenness, verdure |
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| verdict | (noun) (law) the findings of a jury on issues of fact submitted to it for decision; can be used in formulating a judgment | Synonyms: finding of fact |
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| verdigris | (noun) a green patina that forms on copper or brass or bronze that has been exposed to the air or water for long periods of time | - |
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| (noun) a blue or green powder used as a paint pigment | Synonyms: cupric acetate |
| verdin | (noun) very small yellow-headed titmouse of western North America | Synonyms: Auriparus flaviceps |
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| verdolagas | (noun) weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: common purslane, Portulaca oleracea, pussley, pussly |
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| verdure | (noun) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation | Synonyms: greenness, verdancy |
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| (noun) green foliage | Synonyms: greenery |
| verge | (noun) a grass border along a road | - |
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| (noun) the limit beyond which something happens or changes | Synonyms: brink |
| (noun) a ceremonial or emblematic staff | Synonyms: scepter, sceptre, wand |
| (noun) a region marking a boundary | Synonyms: brink, threshold |
| verger | (noun) a church officer who takes care of the interior of the building and acts as an attendant (carries the verge) during ceremonies | - |
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| verifiability | (noun) The state or property of being capable of being verified; confirmability. | - |
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| verification | (noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: check, confirmation, substantiation |
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| (noun) (law) an affidavit attached to a statement confirming the truth of that statement | - |
| verifier | (noun) someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement | Synonyms: voucher |
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| verisimilitude | (noun) the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true | - |
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| verity | (noun) an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth | - |
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| (noun) conformity to reality or actuality | Synonyms: the true, trueness, truth |
| vermicelli | (noun) pasta in strings thinner than spaghetti | - |
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| vermicide | (noun) an agent that kills worms (especially those in the intestines) | - |
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| vermiculation | (noun) a decoration consisting of wormlike carvings | - |
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| (noun) the process of wavelike muscle contractions of the alimentary tract that moves food along | Synonyms: peristalsis |
| vermiculite | (noun) any of a group of yellow or brown hydrous silicate minerals having a micaceous structure | - |
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| vermifuge | (noun) a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, anthelmintic, helminthic |
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| vermilion | (noun) a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge | Synonyms: orange red, scarlet |
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| vermin | (noun) any of various small animals or insects that are pests; e.g. cockroaches or rats | - |
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| (noun) an irritating or obnoxious person | Synonyms: varmint |
| vermis | (noun) the narrow central part of the cerebellum between the two hemispheres | Synonyms: vermis cerebelli |
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| vermouth | (noun) any of several white wines flavored with aromatic herbs; used as aperitifs or in mixed drinks | - |
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| vernacular | (noun) the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) | - |
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| (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang |
| vernation | (noun) (botany) the arrangement of young leaves in a leaf bud before it opens | - |
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| vernier | (noun) a small movable scale that slides along a main scale; the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale | Synonyms: vernier scale |
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| vernix | (noun) a white cheeselike protective material that covers the skin of a fetus | Synonyms: vernix caseosa |
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| vernonia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions of especially North America that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue | Synonyms: ironweed |
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| veronal | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, diethylmalonylurea |
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| veronica | (noun) any plant of the genus Veronica | Synonyms: speedwell |
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| verruca | (noun) (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus | Synonyms: wart |
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| versant | (noun) the side or slope of a mountain | Synonyms: mountainside |
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| versatility | (noun) having a wide variety of skills | - |
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| verse | (noun) a piece of poetry | Synonyms: rhyme |
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| (noun) a line of metrical text | Synonyms: verse line |
| (noun) literature in metrical form | Synonyms: poesy, poetry |
| versicle | (noun) a short verse said or sung by a priest or minister in public worship and followed by a response from the congregation | - |
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| versification | (noun) the art or practice of writing verse | - |
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| (noun) the form or metrical composition of a poem | - |
| (noun) a metrical adaptation of something (e.g., of a prose text) | - |
| versifier | (noun) a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) | Synonyms: poetiser, poetizer, rhymer, rhymester |
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| version | (noun) manual turning of a fetus in the uterus (usually to aid delivery) | - |
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| (noun) a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something | Synonyms: interpretation, reading |
| (noun) something a little different from others of the same type | Synonyms: edition, variant, variation |
| (noun) a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language | Synonyms: interlingual rendition, rendering, translation |
| (noun) an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint | - |
| (noun) a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form | Synonyms: adaptation |
| verso | (noun) the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design | Synonyms: reverse |
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| (noun) left-hand page | - |
| verst | (noun) a Russian unit of length (1.067 km) | - |
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