| punchayet | (noun) a village council in India or southern Pakistan | Synonyms: panchayat, panchayet |
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| punnet | (noun) a small light basket used as a measure for fruits | - |
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| puppet | (noun) a doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers | - |
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| (noun) a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer | Synonyms: marionette |
| (noun) a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else | Synonyms: creature, tool |
| quadruplet | (noun) a set of four similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quadruple, quartet, quartette |
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| (noun) one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy | Synonyms: quad |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
| quartet | (noun) a musical composition for four performers | Synonyms: quartette |
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| (noun) four people considered as a unit | Synonyms: foursome, quartette |
| (noun) a set of four similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quadruple, quadruplet, quartette |
| (noun) four performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: quartette |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
| quickset | (noun) cuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines | - |
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| quiet | (noun) a disposition free from stress or emotion | Synonyms: placidity, repose, serenity, tranquility, tranquillity |
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| (noun) the absence of sound | Synonyms: silence |
| (noun) a period of calm weather | Synonyms: lull |
| (noun) an untroubled state; free from disturbances | Synonyms: tranquility, tranquillity |
| quintet | (noun) a musical composition for five performers | Synonyms: quintette |
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| (noun) five people considered as a unit | Synonyms: fivesome, quintette |
| (noun) a set of five similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintette, quintuple, quintuplet |
| (noun) five performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: quintette |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintuplet, V |
| quintuplet | (noun) a set of five similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintette, quintuple |
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| (noun) one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy | Synonyms: quin, quint |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, V |
| quodlibet | (noun) an issue that is presented for formal disputation | - |
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| rabbet | (noun) a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together | Synonyms: rebate |
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| rachet | (noun) mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction | Synonyms: ratch, ratchet |
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| racket | (noun) an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit | Synonyms: fraudulent scheme, illegitimate enterprise |
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| (noun) a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games | Synonyms: racquet |
| (noun) the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience | Synonyms: dissonance, noise |
| (noun) a loud and disturbing noise | - |
| racquet | (noun) a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games | Synonyms: racket |
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| ramjet | (noun) a simple type of jet engine; must be launched at high speed | Synonyms: atherodyde, athodyd, flying drainpipe, ramjet engine |
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| ratchet | (noun) mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction | Synonyms: rachet, ratch |
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| regret | (noun) sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment | Synonyms: rue, ruefulness, sorrow |
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| rennet | (noun) a substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket | - |
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| reset | (noun) device for resetting instruments or controls | - |
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| retrorocket | (noun) a small rocket engine on a larger rocket or spacecraft that is fired to slow or alter its course | - |
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| ricochet | (noun) a glancing rebound | Synonyms: carom |
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| ringlet | (noun) any of various butterflies belonging to the family Satyridae | Synonyms: ringlet butterfly |
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| (noun) a little ring | - |
| (noun) lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl | Synonyms: curl, whorl |
| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, roll, scroll, whorl |
| rivet | (noun) heavy pin having a head at one end and the other end being hammered flat after being passed through holes in the pieces that are fastened together | - |
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| (noun) ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt) | Synonyms: stud |
| rivulet | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, run, runnel, streamlet |
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| rocket | (noun) a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion | Synonyms: rocket engine |
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| (noun) any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine | Synonyms: projectile |
| (noun) sends a firework display high into the sky | Synonyms: skyrocket |
| (noun) propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon | Synonyms: skyrocket |
| (noun) erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender | Synonyms: arugula, Eruca sativa, Eruca vesicaria sativa, garden rocket, rocket salad, roquette |
| rondelet | (noun) a shorter form of rondeau | - |
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| rootlet | (noun) small root or division of a root | - |
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| russet | (noun) a reddish brown homespun fabric | - |
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| sachet | (noun) a small soft bag containing perfumed powder; used to perfume items in a drawer or chest | - |
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| sallet | (noun) a light medieval helmet with a slit for vision | Synonyms: salade |
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| sarcenet | (noun) a fine soft silk fabric often used for linings | Synonyms: sarsenet |
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| sarsenet | (noun) a fine soft silk fabric often used for linings | Synonyms: sarcenet |
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| satinet | (noun) a fabric with a finish resembling satin but made partly or wholly from cotton or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: satinette |
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| sayeret | (noun) Israel's elite secret commando unit responsible for counterterrorist and top secret intelligence gathering and hostage rescue missions | Synonyms: Sayeret Mat'kal, Sayeret Matkal |
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| scarlet | (noun) a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge | Synonyms: orange red, vermilion |
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| secret | (noun) something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained | Synonyms: closed book, enigma, mystery |
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| (noun) something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on) | - |
| (noun) information known only to a special group | Synonyms: arcanum |
| septet | (noun) a musical composition written for seven performers | Synonyms: septette |
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| (noun) seven people considered as a unit | Synonyms: septette, sevensome |
| (noun) a set of seven similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: septette |
| (noun) seven performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: septette |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one | Synonyms: 7, heptad, septenary, seven, sevener, VII |
| sestet | (noun) a musical composition written for six performers | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
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| (noun) a rhythmic group of six lines of verse | - |
| (noun) a set of six similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
| (noun) six performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sextet, sextuplet, sise, six, sixer, VI |
| set | (noun) several exercises intended to be done in series | Synonyms: exercise set |
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| (noun) the act of putting something in position | - |
| (noun) representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production | Synonyms: stage set |
| (noun) any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals | - |
| (noun) (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way | Synonyms: readiness |
| (noun) a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way | Synonyms: bent |
| (noun) the descent of a heavenly body below the horizon | - |
| (noun) a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used | - |
| (noun) an unofficial association of people or groups | Synonyms: band, circle, lot |
| (noun) (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols | - |
| (noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: curing, hardening, solidification, solidifying |
| (noun) a unit of play in tennis or squash | - |
| sextet | (noun) a musical composition written for six performers | Synonyms: sestet, sextette |
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| (noun) six people considered as a unit | Synonyms: sextette, sixsome |
| (noun) a set of six similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: sestet, sextette |
| (noun) six performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: sestet, sextette |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sestet, sextuplet, sise, six, sixer, VI |
| sextuplet | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sestet, sextet, sise, six, sixer, VI |
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| sheet | (noun) bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs | Synonyms: bed sheet |
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| (noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind | Synonyms: mainsheet, shroud, tack, weather sheet |
| (noun) a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width | Synonyms: flat solid |
| (noun) a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel | Synonyms: canvas, canvass, sail |
| (noun) paper used for writing or printing | Synonyms: piece of paper, sheet of paper |
| (noun) newspaper with half-size pages | Synonyms: rag, tabloid |
| (noun) any broad thin expanse or surface | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape | Synonyms: plane |
| sherbet | (noun) a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin | Synonyms: sherbert |
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| shrublet | (noun) dwarf shrub | - |
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| signet | (noun) a seal (especially one used to mark documents officially) | - |
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| singlet | (noun) a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body | Synonyms: undershirt, vest |
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| skeet | (noun) the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird | Synonyms: skeet shooting, trapshooting |
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| skillet | (noun) a pan used for frying foods | Synonyms: frying pan, frypan |
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| skirret | (noun) an Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root | Synonyms: Sium sisarum |
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| skyrocket | (noun) sends a firework display high into the sky | Synonyms: rocket |
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| (noun) propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon | Synonyms: rocket |
| sleet | (noun) partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow) | - |
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| snippet | (noun) a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) | Synonyms: snip, snipping |
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| sobriquet | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname, soubriquet |
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| socket | (noun) a receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted | - |
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| (noun) receptacle where something (a pipe or probe or end of a bone) is inserted | - |
| (noun) a bony hollow into which a structure fits | - |
| solleret | (noun) armor plate that protects the foot; consists of mail with a solid toe and heel | Synonyms: sabaton |
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| somerset | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somersaulting, summersault, summerset |
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| sonnet | (noun) a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme | - |
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| sorbet | (noun) an ice containing no milk but having a mushy consistency; usually made from fruit juice | Synonyms: water ice |
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| soubriquet | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname, sobriquet |
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| soviet | (noun) an elected governmental council in a communist country (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) | - |
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| spikelet | (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spine, sticker, thorn |
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| spinet | (noun) early model harpsichord with only one string per note | - |
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| (noun) a small and compactly built upright piano | - |
| spreadsheet | (noun) a screen-oriented interactive program enabling a user to lay out financial data on the screen | - |
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| sprocket | (noun) thin wheel with teeth that engage with a chain | Synonyms: sprocket wheel |
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| (noun) tooth on the rim of gear wheel | Synonyms: cog |
| (noun) roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through | - |
| starlet | (noun) a small star | - |
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| (noun) a young (film) actress who is publicized as a future star | - |
| stockinet | (noun) knit used especially for infants' wear and undergarments | Synonyms: stockinette |
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| straightjacket | (noun) a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person | Synonyms: straitjacket |
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| straitjacket | (noun) a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person | Synonyms: straightjacket |
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| (noun) anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines | - |
| streamlet | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, rivulet, run, runnel |
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| street | (noun) a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings | - |
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| (noun) the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel | - |
| (noun) people living or working on the same street | - |
| (noun) the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction | - |
| (noun) a situation offering opportunities | - |
| strumpet | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, trollop |
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| stylet | (noun) small needlelike appendage; especially the feeding organ of a tardigrade | - |
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| sublet | (noun) a lease from one lessee to another | Synonyms: sublease |
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| subset | (noun) a set whose members are members of another set; a set contained within another set | - |
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| suet | (noun) hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and sheep | - |
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| summerset | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somersaulting, somerset, summersault |
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| sunbonnet | (noun) a large bonnet that shades the face; worn by girls and women | - |
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| sunset | (noun) the daily event of the sun sinking below the horizon | - |
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| (noun) atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily disappearance of the sun | - |
| (noun) the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon | Synonyms: sundown |
| superhet | (noun) a radio receiver that combines a locally generated frequency with the carrier frequency to produce a supersonic signal that is demodulated and amplified | Synonyms: heterodyne receiver, superheterodyne receiver |
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| supermarket | (noun) a large self-service grocery store selling groceries and dairy products and household goods | - |
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| surmullet | (noun) brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels | Synonyms: goatfish, Mullus surmuletus, red mullet |
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| sweet | (noun) the property of tasting as if it contains sugar | Synonyms: sweetness |
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| (noun) the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth | Synonyms: sugariness, sweetness |
| (noun) a food rich in sugar | Synonyms: confection |
| (noun) a dish served as the last course of a meal | Synonyms: afters, dessert |
| swiftlet | (noun) swift of eastern Asia; produces the edible bird's nest | Synonyms: Collocalia inexpectata |
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| swimmeret | (noun) one of the paired abdominal appendages of certain aquatic crustaceans that function primarily for carrying the eggs in females and are usually adapted for swimming | Synonyms: pleopod |
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| swivet | (noun) a panic or extreme discomposure | - |
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| synset | (noun) a set of one or more synonyms | - |
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| tablet | (noun) a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet | Synonyms: lozenge, pill, tab |
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| (noun) a small flat compressed cake of some substance | - |
| (noun) a slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription | - |
| (noun) a portable computer with a touchscreen | Synonyms: tablet computer |
| (noun) a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge | Synonyms: pad, pad of paper |
| taboret | (noun) a low stool in the shape of a drum | Synonyms: tabouret |
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| tabouret | (noun) a low stool in the shape of a drum | Synonyms: taboret |
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| tappet | (noun) a lever that is moved in order to tap something else | - |
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| target | (noun) sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at | Synonyms: butt |
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| (noun) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) | Synonyms: aim, object, objective |
| (noun) a reference point to shoot at | Synonyms: mark |
| (noun) the location of the target that is to be hit | Synonyms: target area |
| (noun) a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence | Synonyms: fair game, prey, quarry |
| tartlet | (noun) a small tart usually used as a canape | - |
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| tasset | (noun) one of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs | Synonyms: tasse |
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| templet | (noun) a model or standard for making comparisons | Synonyms: guide, template |
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| tenet | (noun) a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof | Synonyms: dogma |
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| tercelet | (noun) male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon | Synonyms: tercel, tiercel |
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| tercet | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
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| thicket | (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brush, brushwood, coppice, copse |
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| ticket | (noun) the appropriate or desirable thing | Synonyms: just the ticket |
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| (noun) a summons issued to an offender (especially to someone who violates a traffic regulation) | - |
| (noun) a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment) | - |
| (noun) a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices | Synonyms: slate |
| (noun) a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc. | Synonyms: tag |
| tippet | (noun) a woman's fur shoulder cape with hanging ends; often consisting of the whole fur of a fox or marten | - |
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