| revenge | (noun) action taken in return for an injury or offense | Synonyms: retaliation |
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| ridge | (noun) a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters | Synonyms: ridgepole, rooftree |
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| (noun) any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane | - |
| (noun) a long narrow natural elevation or striation | - |
| (noun) a long narrow range of hills | Synonyms: ridgeline |
| (noun) a long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean | - |
| (noun) any long raised strip | - |
| rootage | (noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: beginning, origin, root, source |
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| (noun) a developed system of roots | Synonyms: root system |
| (noun) fixedness by or as if by roots | - |
| rouge | (noun) makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | Synonyms: blush, blusher, paint |
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| roughage | (noun) coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis | Synonyms: fiber, fibre |
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| rummage | (noun) a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion) | Synonyms: ransacking |
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| (noun) a jumble of things to be given away | - |
| sabotage | (noun) a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged | - |
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| sacrilege | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | Synonyms: blasphemy, desecration, profanation |
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| sage | (noun) aromatic fresh or dried grey-green leaves used widely as seasoning for meats and fowl and game etc | - |
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| (noun) a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom | - |
| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb | Synonyms: salvia |
| salvage | (noun) the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire | - |
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| (noun) the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction | - |
| (noun) property or goods saved from damage or destruction | - |
| sausage | (noun) a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon | Synonyms: blimp, sausage balloon |
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| (noun) highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings | - |
| savage | (noun) a member of an uncivilized people | Synonyms: barbarian |
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| (noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: beast, brute, wildcat, wolf |
| saxifrage | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga | Synonyms: breakstone, rockfoil |
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| scalage | (noun) the act of scaling in weight or quantity or dimension | - |
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| (noun) estimation of the amount of lumber in a log | - |
| schmegegge | (noun) (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense | Synonyms: shmegegge |
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| scourge | (noun) a whip used to inflict punishment | Synonyms: flagellum |
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| (noun) a person who inspires fear or dread | Synonyms: terror, threat |
| (noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: bane, curse, nemesis |
| scrimmage | (noun) a noisy riotous fight | Synonyms: battle royal, melee |
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| (noun) (American football) practice play between a football team's squads | - |
| scrooge | (noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend | Synonyms: churl, niggard, skinflint |
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| scrummage | (noun) (rugby) the method of beginning play in which the forwards of each team crouch side by side with locked arms; play starts when the ball is thrown in between them and the two sides compete for possession | Synonyms: scrum |
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| sedge | (noun) grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers | - |
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| seepage | (noun) the process of seeping | Synonyms: ooze, oozing |
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| seigniorage | (noun) charged by a government for coining bullion | - |
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| selvage | (noun) the edge of a fabric that is woven so that it will not ravel or fray | Synonyms: selvedge |
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| (noun) border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet | Synonyms: selvedge |
| selvedge | (noun) the edge of a fabric that is woven so that it will not ravel or fray | Synonyms: selvage |
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| (noun) border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet | Synonyms: selvage |
| serge | (noun) a twilled woolen fabric | - |
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| sewage | (noun) waste matter carried away in sewers or drains | Synonyms: sewerage |
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| sewerage | (noun) a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water | Synonyms: cloaca, sewer |
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| (noun) waste matter carried away in sewers or drains | Synonyms: sewage |
| shmegegge | (noun) (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense | Synonyms: schmegegge |
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| shortage | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | Synonyms: deficit, shortfall |
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| (noun) an acute insufficiency | Synonyms: dearth, famine |
| shrinkage | (noun) the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store | Synonyms: shoplifting |
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| (noun) the amount by which something shrinks | - |
| (noun) process or result of becoming less or smaller | Synonyms: shrinking |
| siege | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: beleaguering, besieging, military blockade |
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| signage | (noun) signs collectively (especially commercial signs or posters) | - |
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| silage | (noun) fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo | Synonyms: ensilage |
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| singe | (noun) a surface burn | Synonyms: scorch |
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| slanguage | (noun) language characterized by excessive use of slang or cant | - |
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| sledge | (noun) a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges | Synonyms: maul, sledgehammer |
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| (noun) a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow | Synonyms: sled, sleigh |
| slippage | (noun) failing to hold or slipping out of place | - |
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| (noun) a decrease of transmitted power in a mechanical system caused by slipping | - |
| (noun) decline from a standard level of performance or achievement | - |
| sludge | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, gook, goop, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, slime |
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| (noun) the precipitate produced by sewage treatment | - |
| smidge | (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, shred, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit |
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| smudge | (noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, daub, slur, smear, smirch, spot |
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| (noun) a smoky fire to drive away insects | - |
| soakage | (noun) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: soak, soaking |
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| socage | (noun) land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent; not burdened with military service | - |
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| solfege | (noun) a voice exercise; singing scales or runs to the same syllable | Synonyms: solfeggio |
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| (noun) singing using solfa syllables to denote the notes of the scale of C major | Synonyms: solfeggio, solmization |
| sparge | (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sprinkle, sprinkling |
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| spillage | (noun) the act of allowing a fluid to escape | Synonyms: release, spill |
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| (noun) the amount that has spilled | - |
| splodge | (noun) an irregularly shaped spot | Synonyms: blotch, splotch |
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| splurge | (noun) any act of immoderate indulgence | Synonyms: binge, orgy |
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| (noun) an ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.) | - |
| spoilage | (noun) the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it | Synonyms: spoil, spoiling |
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| (noun) the process of becoming spoiled | Synonyms: spoiling |
| (noun) the amount that has spoiled | - |
| sponge | (noun) primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies | Synonyms: parazoan, poriferan |
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| (noun) a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage | Synonyms: leech, parasite, sponger |
| (noun) someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily | Synonyms: quick study |
| (noun) a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used | - |
| spurge | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice | - |
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| stage | (noun) a section or portion of a journey or course | Synonyms: leg |
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| (noun) a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience | - |
| (noun) a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns | Synonyms: stagecoach |
| (noun) a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination | Synonyms: microscope stage |
| (noun) the theater as a profession (usually `the stage') | - |
| (noun) any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something | - |
| (noun) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | Synonyms: degree, level, point |
| (noun) any distinct time period in a sequence of events | Synonyms: phase |
| steerage | (noun) the act of steering a ship | Synonyms: steering |
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| (noun) the cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship | - |
| stodge | (noun) heavy and filling (and usually starchy) food | - |
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| stooge | (noun) a person of unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: flunkey, flunky, yes-man |
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| (noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: butt, goat, laughingstock |
| stoppage | (noun) the act of stopping something | Synonyms: stop |
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| (noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: block, blockage, closure, occlusion, stop |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop |
| storage | (noun) the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials | - |
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| (noun) the act of storing something | - |
| (noun) depositing in a warehouse | Synonyms: repositing, reposition, warehousing |
| (noun) a depository for goods | Synonyms: depot, entrepot, store, storehouse |
| (noun) an electronic memory device | Synonyms: computer memory, computer storage, memory, memory board, store |
| (noun) (computer science) the process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic tape or disk | - |
| stowage | (noun) the act of packing or storing away | Synonyms: stowing |
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| (noun) a room in which things are stored | Synonyms: storage room, storeroom |
| (noun) the charge for stowing goods | - |
| straightedge | (noun) hand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness) | - |
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| subterfuge | (noun) something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity | Synonyms: blind |
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| suffrage | (noun) a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment | Synonyms: right to vote, vote |
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| surcharge | (noun) an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill) | - |
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| surge | (noun) a sudden or abrupt strong increase | Synonyms: upsurge |
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| (noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: rush, spate, upsurge |
| (noun) a large sea wave | Synonyms: billow |
| surplusage | (noun) a quantity much larger than is needed | Synonyms: excess, nimiety, surplus |
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| swage | (noun) a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging | Synonyms: upset |
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| syringe | (noun) a medical instrument used to inject or withdraw fluids | - |
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| tamponage | (noun) blockage or closure (as of a wound or body cavity) by (or as if by) a tampon (especially to stop bleeding) | Synonyms: tamponade |
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| tankage | (noun) the act of storing in tanks | - |
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| (noun) the charge for storing something in tanks | - |
| (noun) the quantity contained in (or the capacity of) a tank or tanks | - |
| telferage | (noun) a transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity | Synonyms: telpherage |
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| telpherage | (noun) a transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity | Synonyms: telferage |
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| tenge | (noun) the basic unit of money in Kazakhstan | - |
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| (noun) 100 tenge equal 1 manat in Turkmenistan | - |
| thaumaturge | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, necromancer, sorcerer, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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| tillage | (noun) the cultivation of soil for raising crops | - |
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| (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, plowland, tilled land, tilth |
| tinge | (noun) a pale or subdued color | Synonyms: undertone |
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| (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, touch |
| tonnage | (noun) a tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship | Synonyms: tonnage duty, tunnage |
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| towage | (noun) the act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope | Synonyms: tow |
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| treillage | (noun) latticework used to support climbing plants | Synonyms: trellis |
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| triage | (noun) sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food | - |
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| truckage | (noun) the activity of transporting goods by truck | Synonyms: hauling, trucking |
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| (noun) a fee charged for transporting goods by truckage | - |
| trudge | (noun) a long difficult walk | - |
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| tunnage | (noun) a tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship | Synonyms: tonnage, tonnage duty |
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| tutelage | (noun) teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately) | Synonyms: tuition, tutorship |
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| (noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety | Synonyms: care, charge, guardianship |
| twinge | (noun) a sharp stab of pain | - |
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| (noun) a sudden sharp feeling | Synonyms: pang, stab |
| ullage | (noun) the amount that a container (as a wine bottle or tank) lacks of being full | - |
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| ultracentrifuge | (noun) a high speed centrifuge used to determine the relative molecular masses of large molecules in high polymers and proteins | - |
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| umbrage | (noun) a feeling of anger caused by being offended | Synonyms: offence, offense |
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| umpirage | (noun) the act of umpiring | Synonyms: officiating, officiation, refereeing |
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| (noun) mediation by an umpire | - |
| undercarriage | (noun) framework that serves as a support for the body of a vehicle | - |
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| undercharge | (noun) an insufficient charge | - |
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| (noun) a price that is too low | - |
| upstage | (noun) the rear part of the stage | - |
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| upsurge | (noun) a sudden or abrupt strong increase | Synonyms: surge |
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| (noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: rush, spate, surge |
| urge | (noun) a strong restless desire | Synonyms: itch |
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| (noun) an instinctive motive | Synonyms: impulse |
| usage | (noun) the act of using | Synonyms: employment, exercise, use, utilisation, utilization |
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| (noun) accepted or habitual practice | Synonyms: custom, usance |
| (noun) the customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written | - |
| vagabondage | (noun) travelling about without any clear destination | Synonyms: roving, wandering |
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| vantage | (noun) the quality of having a superior or more favorable position | Synonyms: advantage |
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| (noun) place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective) | - |
| vassalage | (noun) the state of a serf | Synonyms: serfdom, serfhood |
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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 |
| 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 |
| vermifuge | (noun) a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, anthelmintic, helminthic |
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| vestige | (noun) an indication that something has been present | Synonyms: shadow, tincture, trace |
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| vicarage | (noun) an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector | Synonyms: parsonage, rectory |
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