| setterwort | (noun) digitate-leaved hellebore with an offensive odor and irritant qualities when taken internally | Synonyms: bear's foot, Helleborus foetidus, stinking hellebore |
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| shipworm | (noun) wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells | Synonyms: teredinid |
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| shittimwood | (noun) wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle | - |
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| (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittamwood, chittimwood, false buckthorn |
| (noun) shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit | Synonyms: Bumelia lycioides, mock orange, shittim, southern buckthorn |
| shitwork | (noun) trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores | Synonyms: scut work |
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| silkwood | (noun) a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and fleshy edible fruit; a bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves | Synonyms: calabur tree, calabura, Jamaican cherry, Muntingia calabura, silk wood |
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| silkworm | (noun) the commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber; the principal source of commercial silk | - |
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| (noun) larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon | Synonyms: giant silkworm, wild wilkworm |
| 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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| 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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| slipperwort | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip | Synonyms: calceolaria |
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| slowworm | (noun) small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind | Synonyms: Anguis fragilis, blindworm |
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| snakewood | (noun) East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents | Synonyms: Rauwolfia serpentina |
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| sneezewort | (noun) Eurasian herb having loose heads of button-shaped white flowers and long grey-green leaves that cause sneezing when powdered | Synonyms: Achillea ptarmica, sneezeweed yarrow |
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| soapwort | (noun) plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised | Synonyms: bouncing Bess, bouncing Bet, hedge pink, Saponaria officinalis |
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| softwood | (noun) wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir) | Synonyms: deal |
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| sourwood | (noun) deciduous shrubby tree of eastern North America having deeply fissured bark and sprays of small fragrant white flowers and sour-tasting leaves | Synonyms: Oxydendrum arboreum, sorrel tree, titi |
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| southernwood | (noun) shrubby European wormwood naturalized in North America; sometimes used in brewing beer | Synonyms: Artemisia abrotanum |
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| spadework | (noun) dull or routine preliminary work preparing for an undertaking | - |
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| spiderwort | (noun) any plant of the family Commelinaceae | Synonyms: dayflower |
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| spleenwort | (noun) any of various chiefly rock-inhabiting ferns of the genus Asplenium | - |
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| splitworm | (noun) greyish-brown moth whose larva is the potato tuberworm | Synonyms: Phthorimaea operculella, potato moth, potato tuber moth |
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| spokeswoman | (noun) a female spokesperson | - |
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| sportswoman | (noun) a female who engages in sports | - |
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| starwort | (noun) low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped flowers; named for its alleged ability to ease sharp pains in the side | Synonyms: greater stitchwort, Stellaria holostea, stitchwort |
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| stateswoman | (noun) a woman statesman | - |
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| steelworker | (noun) a worker engaged in making steel | Synonyms: steelmaker, steelman |
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| steelworks | (noun) a factory where steel is made | Synonyms: steel factory, steel mill, steel plant |
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| stitchwort | (noun) low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped flowers; named for its alleged ability to ease sharp pains in the side | Synonyms: greater stitchwort, starwort, Stellaria holostea |
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| stonework | (noun) masonry done with stone | - |
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| stonewort | (noun) any of various submerged aquatic algae of the genus Chara having nodes with whorled filamentlike branches; usually encrusted with calcium carbonate deposits | - |
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| strawworm | (noun) larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains | Synonyms: jointworm |
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| (noun) larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris | Synonyms: caddisworm |
| subwoofer | (noun) a loudspeaker that is designed to reproduce very low bass frequencies | - |
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| swallowwort | (noun) perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers | Synonyms: celandine, Chelidonium majus, greater celandine, swallow wort |
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| (noun) tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics | Synonyms: Asclepias curassavica, blood flower |
| swearword | (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse, curse word, cuss, expletive, oath, swearing |
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| swob | (noun) cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors | Synonyms: mop, swab |
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| swoon | (noun) a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain | Synonyms: deliquium, faint, syncope |
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| swoop | (noun) a swift descent through the air | - |
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| (noun) a very rapid raid | - |
| (noun) (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale | Synonyms: slide |
| swoosh | (noun) the noise produced by the sudden rush of a fluid (a gas or liquid) | Synonyms: whoosh |
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| swop | (noun) an equal exchange | Synonyms: barter, swap, trade |
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| sword | (noun) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard | Synonyms: blade, brand, steel |
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| swordfish | (noun) large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night | Synonyms: Xiphias gladius |
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| (noun) flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks | - |
| swordplay | (noun) the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully | Synonyms: play |
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| swordsman | (noun) someone skilled at fencing | Synonyms: fencer |
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| swordsmanship | (noun) skill in fencing | - |
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| swordtail | (noun) freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail; popular aquarium fish | Synonyms: helleri, topminnow, Xyphophorus helleri |
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| swot | (noun) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | Synonyms: dweeb, grind, nerd, wonk |
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| taekwondo | (noun) a Korean martial art similar to karate | Synonyms: tae kwon do |
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| tailwort | (noun) hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach | Synonyms: borage, Borago officinalis |
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| tapeworm | (noun) ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates | Synonyms: cestode |
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| tarwood | (noun) New Zealand shrub | Synonyms: Dacrydium bidwilli, Halocarpus bidwilli, New Zealand mountain pine, tar-wood |
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| (noun) New Zealand silver pine of conical habit with long slender flexuous branches; adapted to cold wet summers and high altitudes | Synonyms: Dacrydium colensoi, tar-wood |
| teakwood | (noun) hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding | Synonyms: teak |
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| teamwork | (noun) cooperative work done by a team (especially when it is effective) | - |
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| teleworking | (noun) employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem | Synonyms: telecommuting |
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| tetterwort | (noun) perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant | Synonyms: bloodroot, puccoon, redroot, Sanguinaria canadensis |
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| thoroughwort | (noun) perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine | Synonyms: agueweed, boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum |
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| threadworm | (noun) small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children | Synonyms: Enterobius vermicularis, pinworm |
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| throatwort | (noun) European bellflower with blue-purple to lilac flowers formerly used to treat sore throat | Synonyms: Campanula trachelium, nettle-leaved bellflower |
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| timework | (noun) work paid for at a rate per unit of time | - |
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| toothwort | (noun) North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots | Synonyms: Cardamine diphylla, crinkle-root, crinkle root, crinkleroot, Dentaria diphylla, pepper root |
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| touchwood | (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: kindling, punk, spunk, tinder |
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| 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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| trumpetwood | (noun) tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems | Synonyms: Cecropia peltata, imbauba, snake wood, trumpet-wood, trumpet tree |
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| trustworthiness | (noun) the trait of deserving trust and confidence | Synonyms: trustiness |
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| tulipwood | (noun) light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer | Synonyms: true tulipwood, white poplar, whitewood, yellow poplar |
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| (noun) the variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees | - |
| twistwood | (noun) vigorous deciduous European treelike shrub common along waysides; red berries turn black | Synonyms: twist wood, Viburnum lantana, wayfaring tree |
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| two | (noun) one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots | Synonyms: deuce |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number | Synonyms: 2, deuce, II |
| twofer | (noun) an offer of two for the price of one | - |
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| (noun) a coupon that allows the holder to purchase two items (as two tickets to a play) for the price of one | - |
| twopence | (noun) a former United Kingdom silver coin; United Kingdom bronze decimal coin worth two pennies | Synonyms: tuppence |
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| twosome | (noun) a pair who associate with one another | Synonyms: couple, duet, duo |
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| (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, yoke |
| umbrellawort | (noun) a plant of the genus Mirabilis | - |
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| underwood | (noun) the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest | Synonyms: underbrush, undergrowth |
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| underworld | (noun) (religion) the world of the dead | Synonyms: Hades, Hell, infernal region, netherworld, Scheol |
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| (noun) the criminal class | - |
| untrustworthiness | (noun) the trait of not deserving trust or confidence | Synonyms: untrustiness |
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| unworthiness | (noun) the quality or state of lacking merit or value | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting | Synonyms: inappropriateness |
| vestrywoman | (noun) a woman who is a member of a church vestry | - |
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| vetchworm | (noun) larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops | Synonyms: corn earworm, cotton bollworm, Heliothis zia, tobacco budworm, tomato fruitworm |
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| wartwort | (noun) not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun | Synonyms: devil's milk, Euphorbia helioscopia, sun spurge, wartweed |
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| washerwoman | (noun) a working woman who takes in washing | Synonyms: laundress, laundrywoman, washwoman |
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| washwoman | (noun) a working woman who takes in washing | Synonyms: laundress, laundrywoman, washerwoman |
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| watchword | (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: countersign, parole, password, word |
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| (noun) a slogan used to rally support for a cause | Synonyms: battle cry, cry, rallying cry, war cry |
| waterworks | (noun) workplace where water is stored and purified and distributed for a community | - |
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| (noun) a public utility that provides water | Synonyms: water company |
| waxwork | (noun) an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax | Synonyms: wax figure |
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| (noun) twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds | Synonyms: American bittersweet, bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, shrubby bittersweet, staff vine |
| webworm | (noun) several gregarious moth larvae that spin webs over foliage on which they feed | - |
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| werewolf | (noun) a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again | Synonyms: loup-garou, lycanthrope, wolfman |
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| wheatworm | (noun) small roundworm parasitic on wheat | Synonyms: Tylenchus tritici, wheat eel, wheat eelworm |
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| wheelwork | (noun) mechanical device including an arrangement of wheel in a machine (especially a train of gears) | - |
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| whitewood | (noun) light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer | Synonyms: true tulipwood, tulipwood, white poplar, yellow poplar |
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| whitlowwort | (noun) any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail) | - |
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| whorlywort | (noun) a tall perennial herb having spikes of small white or purple flowers; common in eastern North America | Synonyms: Culver's physic, Culver's root, Culvers physic, Culvers root, Veronicastrum virginicum |
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| wickerwork | (noun) work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) | Synonyms: caning, wicker |
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| wirework | (noun) mesh netting made of wires | Synonyms: grillwork |
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| wireworm | (noun) wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants | - |
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| woad | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Isatis | - |
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| (noun) a blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant | - |
| woadwaxen | (noun) small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental | Synonyms: dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, greenweed, whin, woodwaxen |
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| wobble | (noun) an unsteady rocking motion | - |
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| wobbler | (noun) something that wobbles | - |
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| woe | (noun) intense mournfulness | Synonyms: woefulness |
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| (noun) misery resulting from affliction | Synonyms: suffering |
| woefulness | (noun) intense mournfulness | Synonyms: woe |
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| wog | (noun) (offensive British slang) term used by the British to refer to people of color from Africa or Asia | - |
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| wok | (noun) pan with a convex bottom; used for frying in Chinese cooking | - |
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