| razorback | (noun) a mongrel hog with a thin body and long legs and a ridged back; a wild or semi-wild descendant of improved breeds; found chiefly in the southeastern United States | Synonyms: razorback hog, razorbacked hog |
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| (noun) any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin | Synonyms: rorqual |
| razorbill | (noun) black-and-white northern Atlantic auk having a compressed sharp-edged bill | Synonyms: Alca torda, razor-billed auk |
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| razorblade | (noun) a blade that has very sharp edge | - |
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| razz | (noun) a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt | Synonyms: bird, boo, Bronx cheer, hiss, hoot, raspberry, razzing, snort |
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| razzing | (noun) a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt | Synonyms: bird, boo, Bronx cheer, hiss, hoot, raspberry, razz, snort |
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| razzle | (noun) any exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent | Synonyms: razmataz, razzle-dazzle, razzmatazz |
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| razzmatazz | (noun) any exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent | Synonyms: razmataz, razzle-dazzle, razzle |
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| realization | (noun) making real or giving the appearance of reality | Synonyms: actualisation, actualization, realisation |
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| (noun) a sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained | Synonyms: realisation |
| (noun) something that is made real or concrete | Synonyms: fruition, realisation |
| (noun) the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer | Synonyms: realisation |
| (noun) coming to understand something clearly and distinctly | Synonyms: realisation, recognition |
| (noun) a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer | Synonyms: realisation |
| rebozo | (noun) a long woolen or linen scarf covering the head and shoulders (also used as a sling for holding a baby); traditionally worn by Latin-American women | - |
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| recognizance | (noun) (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited | Synonyms: recognisance |
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| regularization | (noun) the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular | Synonyms: regularisation, regulation |
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| (noun) the condition of having been made regular (or more regular) | Synonyms: regularisation |
| reharmonization | (noun) a piece of music whose original harmony has been revised | Synonyms: reharmonisation |
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| relativization | (noun) the act or result of making relative or regarding as relative rather than absolute. | Synonyms: relativisation |
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| remilitarization | (noun) the act of militarizing again | Synonyms: remilitarisation |
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| rendezvous | (noun) a meeting planned at a certain time and place | - |
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| (noun) a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex | Synonyms: tryst |
| (noun) a place where people meet | - |
| reorganization | (noun) the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes) | Synonyms: reorganisation, shake-up, shakeup |
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| (noun) an extensive alteration of the structure of a corporation or government | - |
| revitalization | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: resurgence, revitalisation, revival, revivification |
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| rhizoctinia | (noun) any fungus now or formerly belonging to the form genus Rhizoctinia | - |
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| rhizoid | (noun) any of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc | - |
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| rhizome | (noun) a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure | Synonyms: rootstalk, rootstock |
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| rhizomorph | (noun) a dense mass of hyphae forming a root-like structure characteristic of many fungi | - |
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| rhizopod | (noun) protozoa characterized by a pseudopod | Synonyms: rhizopodan |
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| rhizopodan | (noun) protozoa characterized by a pseudopod | Synonyms: rhizopod |
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| rhizopus | (noun) any of various rot causing fungi of the genus Rhizopus | - |
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| rhizotomy | (noun) surgical procedure in which spinal nerve roots are cut; done (anterior roots) to relieve intractable pain or (posterior roots) to stop severe muscle spasms | - |
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| ritz | (noun) ostentatious display of elegance | - |
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| romanticization | (noun) the act of indulging in sentiment | Synonyms: romanticisation, sentimentalisation, sentimentalization |
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| rozelle | (noun) East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber | Synonyms: Hibiscus sabdariffa, Jamaica sorrel, red sorrel, roselle, sorrel |
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| ruggedization | (noun) the act of making a piece of equipment rugged (strengthening to resist wear or abuse) | Synonyms: ruggedisation |
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| samizdat | (noun) a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature | Synonyms: underground press |
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| sanitization | (noun) making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing | Synonyms: sanitation, sanitisation |
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| scandalization | (noun) the act of scandalizing | Synonyms: outrage, scandalisation |
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| (noun) the condition of being shocked (as by improper behavior) | Synonyms: scandalisation |
| schematization | (noun) providing a chart or outline of a system | Synonyms: diagramming, schematisation |
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| (noun) the act of reducing to a scheme or formula | Synonyms: schematisation |
| schemozzle | (noun) (Yiddish) a confused situation or affair; a mess | Synonyms: shemozzle |
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| scherzo | (noun) a fast movement (usually in triple time) | - |
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| schizanthus | (noun) any plant of the genus Schizanthus having finely divided leaves and showy variegated flowers | Synonyms: butterfly flower, poor man's orchid |
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| schizocarp | (noun) a dry dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more parts each with a single seed | - |
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| schizogony | (noun) asexual reproduction by multiple fission; characteristic of many sporozoan protozoans | - |
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| schizoid | (noun) characterized by symptoms similar to but less severe than schizophrenia | Synonyms: schizotypal personality |
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| schizopetalon | (noun) a dainty South American annual having deeply pinnatifid leaves and racemes of fringed almond-scented purple-white flowers | Synonyms: Schizopetalon walkeri |
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| schizophrenia | (noun) any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact | Synonyms: dementia praecox, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis |
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| schizophrenic | (noun) someone who is afflicted with schizophrenia | - |
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| schizothymia | (noun) resembling schizophrenia but remaining within the bounds of normality | - |
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| schlimazel | (noun) (Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything | Synonyms: shlimazel |
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| schmaltz | (noun) (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | Synonyms: schmalz, shmaltz |
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| schmalz | (noun) (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | Synonyms: schmaltz, shmaltz |
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| schmooze | (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: chat, confab, confabulation, schmoose |
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| schmoozer | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationalist, conversationist |
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| schnauzer | (noun) old German breed of sturdy black or greyish wire-haired terriers having a blunt muzzle ranging in size from fairly small to very large; used as ratters and guard dogs or police dogs | - |
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| schnitzel | (noun) deep-fried breaded veal cutlets | Synonyms: Wiener schnitzel |
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| schnoz | (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
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| schnozzle | (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, snoot, snout |
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| scorzonera | (noun) long black salsify | Synonyms: black salsify |
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| (noun) perennial south European herb having narrow entire leaves and solitary yellow flower heads and long black edible roots shaped like carrots | Synonyms: black salsify, Scorzonera hispanica, viper's grass |
| scrutinizer | (noun) a careful examiner; someone who inspects with great care | Synonyms: scrutiniser |
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| scyphozoan | (noun) any of various usually free-swimming marine coelenterates having a gelatinous medusoid stage as the dominant phase of its life cycle | - |
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| sectionalization | (noun) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart | Synonyms: division, partition, partitioning, sectionalisation, segmentation |
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| secularization | (noun) transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession | Synonyms: secularisation |
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| (noun) the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion | Synonyms: secularisation |
| seizer | (noun) a kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship | Synonyms: shanghaier |
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| seizing | (noun) the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles) | Synonyms: grasping, prehension, taking hold |
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| (noun) small stuff that is used for lashing two or more ropes together | - |
| seizure | (noun) the taking possession of something by legal process | - |
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| (noun) the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property | Synonyms: capture, gaining control |
| (noun) the act of taking of a person by force | Synonyms: capture |
| (noun) a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease | Synonyms: ictus, raptus |
| seltzer | (noun) naturally effervescent mineral water | - |
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| (noun) effervescent beverage artificially charged with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: carbonated water, club soda, soda water, sparkling water |
| sensitization | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitising, sensitizing |
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| (noun) (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations) | Synonyms: sensitisation |
| (noun) the state of being sensitive (as to an antigen) | Synonyms: sensitisation |
| sensitizer | (noun) (chemistry) a substance other than a catalyst that facilitates the start of a catalytic reaction | Synonyms: sensitiser |
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| sensitizing | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitising, sensitization |
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| sentimentalization | (noun) the act of indulging in sentiment | Synonyms: romanticisation, romanticization, sentimentalisation |
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| serialization | (noun) publication in serial form | Synonyms: serialisation |
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| sermonizer | (noun) someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel | Synonyms: preacher, preacher man, sermoniser |
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| sezession | (noun) an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s | Synonyms: secession |
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| sforzando | (noun) (music) a notation written above a note and indicating that it is to be played with a strong initial attack | - |
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| (noun) an accented chord | - |
| shegetz | (noun) an offensive term for non-Jewish young man | - |
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| shemozzle | (noun) (Yiddish) a confused situation or affair; a mess | Synonyms: schemozzle |
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| shlimazel | (noun) (Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything | Synonyms: schlimazel |
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| shmaltz | (noun) (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | Synonyms: schmaltz, schmalz |
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| shmooze | (noun) (Yiddish) a warm heart-to-heart talk | - |
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| shoegazing | (noun) A subgenre of alternative rock typified by significant use of guitar distortion, feedback, obscured vocals and the blurring of component musical parts into indistinguishable "walls of sound" | - |
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| signalization | (noun) a conspicuous indication | Synonyms: signalisation |
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| simazine | (noun) a herbicide used to control weeds (especially among crops) | - |
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| size | (noun) the physical magnitude of something (how big it is) | - |
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| (noun) the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing) | - |
| (noun) a large magnitude | - |
| (noun) the actual state of affairs | Synonyms: size of it |
| (noun) any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics | Synonyms: sizing |
| sizeableness | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, vastness, wideness |
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| sizing | (noun) any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics | Synonyms: size |
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| sizzle | (noun) a sizzling noise | - |
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| sleaze | (noun) tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar | Synonyms: cheapness, tackiness, tat |
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| sleaziness | (noun) a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing | Synonyms: manginess, seediness, shabbiness |
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| (noun) morally dishonorable | - |
| slivovitz | (noun) a colorless plum brandy popular in the Balkans | - |
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| sneeze | (noun) a symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose | Synonyms: sneezing, sternutation |
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| sneezer | (noun) a person who sneezes | - |
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| sneezeweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Helenium characteristically causing sneezing | - |
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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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| sneezing | (noun) a symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose | Synonyms: sneeze, sternutation |
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| snooze | (noun) sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed) | Synonyms: catnap, forty winks, light sleep, nap, short sleep |
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| socialization | (noun) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | Synonyms: acculturation, enculturation, socialisation |
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| (noun) the act of meeting for social purposes | Synonyms: socialisation, socialising, socializing |
| (noun) the action of establishing on a socialist basis | Synonyms: socialisation |
| socializer | (noun) a person who takes part in social activities | Synonyms: socialiser |
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| socializing | (noun) the act of meeting for social purposes | Synonyms: socialisation, socialising, socialization |
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| solarization | (noun) exposure to the rays of the sun | Synonyms: solarisation |
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| solemnization | (noun) the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual | Synonyms: celebration, solemnisation |
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| solmization | (noun) singing using solfa syllables to denote the notes of the scale of C major | Synonyms: solfege, solfeggio |
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| (noun) a system of naming the notes of a musical scale by syllables instead of letters | Synonyms: solmisation |
| specialization | (noun) the special line of work you have adopted as your career | Synonyms: specialisation, specialism, speciality, specialty |
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| (noun) the act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose | Synonyms: specialisation |
| (noun) (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function | Synonyms: differentiation, specialisation |
| specializer | (noun) an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning | Synonyms: specialiser, specialist |
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| spermatozoan | (noun) the male reproductive cell; the male gamete | Synonyms: sperm, sperm cell, spermatozoon |
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| spermatozoid | (noun) a motile male gamete of a plant such as an alga or fern or gymnosperm | Synonyms: antherozoid |
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