| salamander | (noun) any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed | - |
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| (noun) fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire | Synonyms: fire hook, poker, stove poker |
| (noun) reptilian creature supposed to live in fire | - |
| sander | (noun) a power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor | Synonyms: drum sander, electric sander, smoother |
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| scolder | (noun) someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault | Synonyms: common scold, nag, nagger, scold |
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| seconder | (noun) someone who endorses a motion or petition as a necessary preliminary to a discussion or vote | - |
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| seeder | (noun) a kitchen utensil that removes seeds from fruit | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical device that sows grass seed or grain evenly over the ground | - |
| (noun) a person who seeds clouds | Synonyms: cloud seeder |
| sender | (noun) set used to broadcast radio or tv signals | Synonyms: transmitter |
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| (noun) someone who transmits a message | Synonyms: transmitter |
| shareholder | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareowner, stockholder |
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| shedder | (noun) an attacker who sheds or spills blood | Synonyms: spiller |
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| sheepherder | (noun) a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock | Synonyms: sheepman, shepherd |
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| shielder | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: defender, guardian, protector |
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| shipbuilder | (noun) a business that builds and repairs ships | - |
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| (noun) a person who builds ships as a business | Synonyms: ship builder |
| (noun) a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels | Synonyms: ship builder, shipwright |
| shoulder | (noun) a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road | Synonyms: berm |
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| (noun) the part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder | - |
| (noun) the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm | - |
| (noun) a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula | Synonyms: articulatio humeri, shoulder joint |
| (noun) a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg | - |
| shredder | (noun) a device that shreds documents (usually in order to prevent the wrong people from reading them) | - |
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| shudder | (noun) an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear) | Synonyms: tremor |
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| (noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, frisson, quiver, shiver, thrill, tingle |
| sidewinder | (noun) small pale-colored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States; body moves in an s-shaped curve | Synonyms: Crotalus cerastes, horned rattlesnake |
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| (noun) air-to-air missile with infrared homing device | - |
| sightreader | (noun) a performer who reads without preparation or prior acquaintance (as in music) | - |
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| skateboarder | (noun) someone who skates on a skateboard | - |
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| skidder | (noun) a tractor used to haul logs over rough terrain | - |
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| (noun) a worker who uses a skid to move logs | - |
| (noun) a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction | Synonyms: slider, slipper |
| slander | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, calumny, defamation, denigration |
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| (noun) words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another | - |
| slaveholder | (noun) someone who holds slaves | Synonyms: slave owner, slaver |
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| sledder | (noun) someone who rides a sled | - |
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| slider | (noun) a fastball that curves slightly away from the side from which it was thrown | - |
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| (noun) freshwater turtle of United States and South America; frequently raised commercially; some young sold as pets | Synonyms: Pseudemys scripta, yellow-bellied terrapin |
| (noun) someone who races the luge | Synonyms: luger |
| (noun) a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction | Synonyms: skidder, slipper |
| smallholder | (noun) a person owning or renting a smallholding | - |
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| smolder | (noun) a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame | Synonyms: smoulder |
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| smoulder | (noun) a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame | Synonyms: smolder |
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| snowboarder | (noun) someone who slides down snow-covered slopes while standing on a snowboard | - |
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| solder | (noun) an alloy (usually of lead and tin) used when melted to join two metal surfaces | - |
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| sounder | (noun) a device for making soundings | - |
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| speeder | (noun) a driver who exceeds the safe speed limit | Synonyms: speed demon |
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| spellbinder | (noun) an orator who can hold his listeners spellbound | - |
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| spender | (noun) someone who spends money to purchase goods or services | Synonyms: disburser, expender |
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| (noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: scattergood, spend-all, spendthrift |
| spider | (noun) predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey | - |
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| (noun) a skillet made of cast iron | - |
| (noun) a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine | Synonyms: wanderer |
| spreader | (noun) a hand tool for spreading something | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions | Synonyms: broadcaster |
| stakeholder | (noun) someone entrusted to hold the stakes for two or more persons betting against one another; must deliver the stakes to the winner | - |
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| stander | (noun) an organism (person or animal) that stands | - |
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| stepladder | (noun) a folding portable ladder hinged at the top | Synonyms: step ladder |
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| stockholder | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareholder, shareowner |
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| strider | (noun) a person who walks rapidly with long steps | - |
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| subdivider | (noun) someone who divides parts into smaller parts (especially a divider of land into building sites) | - |
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| suborder | (noun) (biology) taxonomic group that is a subdivision of an order | - |
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| succeeder | (noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: achiever, success, winner |
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| superorder | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group ranking above an order and below a class or subclass | - |
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| surfboarder | (noun) someone who engages in surfboarding | Synonyms: surfer |
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| surrejoinder | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rejoinder | - |
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| surrender | (noun) the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) | Synonyms: capitulation, fall |
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| (noun) the delivery of a principal into lawful custody | - |
| (noun) a verbal act of admitting defeat | Synonyms: giving up, yielding |
| (noun) acceptance of despair | Synonyms: resignation |
| suspender | (noun) elastic straps that hold trousers up | Synonyms: brace, gallus |
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| tender | (noun) ship that usually provides supplies to other ships | Synonyms: supply ship |
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| (noun) a boat for communication between ship and shore | Synonyms: cutter, pinnace, ship's boat |
| (noun) car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water | - |
| (noun) a formal proposal to buy at a specified price | Synonyms: bid |
| (noun) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another | Synonyms: attendant, attender |
| (noun) something that can be used as an official medium of payment | Synonyms: legal tender, stamp |
| tenpounder | (noun) game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller | Synonyms: Elops saurus, ladyfish |
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| threader | (noun) a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops | Synonyms: bodkin |
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| thunder | (noun) street names for heroin | Synonyms: big H, hell dust, nose drops, scag, skag, smack |
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| (noun) a deep prolonged loud noise | Synonyms: boom, roar, roaring |
| (noun) a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning | - |
| tinder | (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: kindling, punk, spunk, touchwood |
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| toothpowder | (noun) a dentifrice in the form of a powder | Synonyms: tooth powder |
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| trader | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: bargainer, dealer, monger |
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| transponder | (noun) electrical device designed to receive a specific signal and automatically transmit a specific reply | - |
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| udder | (noun) mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats) | Synonyms: bag |
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| upbraider | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: rebuker, reproacher, reprover |
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| upholder | (noun) someone who upholds or maintains | Synonyms: maintainer, sustainer |
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| vender | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, seller, trafficker, vendor |
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| viewfinder | (noun) optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest | Synonyms: finder, view finder |
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| voider | (noun) a hamper that holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet clothes to be dried | Synonyms: clothes basket, clothes hamper, laundry basket |
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| (noun) a piece of chain mail covering a place unprotected by armor plate | Synonyms: gusset |
| (noun) an official who can invalidate or nullify | Synonyms: invalidator, nullifier |
| (noun) a person who defecates | Synonyms: defecator, shitter |
| wader | (noun) any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food | Synonyms: wading bird |
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| warder | (noun) a person who works in a prison and is in charge of prisoners | - |
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| waterfinder | (noun) forked stick that is said to dip down to indicate underground water or oil | Synonyms: divining rod, dowser, dowsing rod, water finder |
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| weeder | (noun) a hand tool for removing weeds | Synonyms: weed-whacker |
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| (noun) a farmhand hired to remove weeds | - |
| weekender | (noun) a small suitcase to carry clothing and accessories for a weekend trip | - |
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| (noun) someone who vacations on a weekend | - |
| welder | (noun) joins pieces of metal by welding them together | - |
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| winder | (noun) mechanical device around which something can be wound | - |
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| (noun) mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock) | Synonyms: key |
| (noun) a worker who winds (e.g., a winch or clock or other mechanism) | - |
| withholder | (noun) a person who restrains or checks or holds back | - |
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| (noun) a person who refrains from granting | - |
| withstander | (noun) an opponent who resists with force or resolution | - |
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| (noun) a fighter who holds out against attack | Synonyms: defender |
| wonder | (noun) a state in which you want to learn more about something | Synonyms: curiosity |
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| (noun) something that causes feelings of wonder | Synonyms: marvel |
| (noun) the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising | Synonyms: admiration, wonderment |
| wordfinder | (noun) a thesaurus organized to help you find the word you want but cannot think of | Synonyms: word finder |
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| yarder | (noun) a winch (or system of winches) powered by an engine and used to haul logs from a stump to a landing or to a skid road | Synonyms: yard donkey |
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| (noun) (used only in combinations) the height or length of something in yards | - |
| yielder | (noun) a person who yields or surrenders | Synonyms: surrenderer |
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