| sprawling | (noun) an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about | Synonyms: sprawl |
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| sprinkling | (noun) the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) | Synonyms: aspersion |
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| (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkle |
| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: scattering, sprinkle |
| (noun) a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly | Synonyms: scattering |
| stabling | (noun) accommodation for animals (especially for horses) | - |
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| stalling | (noun) a tactic used to mislead or delay | Synonyms: stall |
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| starling | (noun) gregarious birds native to the Old World | - |
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| starveling | (noun) someone who is starving (or being starved) | - |
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| stealing | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: larceny, theft, thievery, thieving |
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| (noun) avoiding detection by moving carefully | Synonyms: stealth |
| sterling | (noun) British money; especially the pound sterling as the basic monetary unit of the UK | - |
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| stifling | (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: crushing, quelling, suppression |
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| stockpiling | (noun) accumulating and storing a reserve supply | - |
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| stonewalling | (noun) stalling or delaying especially by refusing to answer questions or cooperate | - |
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| strangling | (noun) the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe | Synonyms: choking, strangulation, throttling |
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| stripling | (noun) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, teen, teenager |
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| suckling | (noun) feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast | Synonyms: lactation |
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| (noun) a young mammal that has not been weaned | - |
| (noun) an infant considered in relation to its nurse | Synonyms: nurseling, nursling |
| swashbuckling | (noun) flamboyantly reckless and boastful behavior | - |
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| swelling | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescence, intumescency |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance |
| (noun) an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement | Synonyms: lump, puffiness |
| swilling | (noun) the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly | Synonyms: gulping, guzzling |
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| tailing | (noun) the act of following someone secretly | Synonyms: shadowing |
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| teetotaling | (noun) abstaining from alcohol | Synonyms: teetotalism |
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| teleselling | (noun) the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales | Synonyms: telecommerce, telemarketing |
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| telling | (noun) informing by words | Synonyms: apprisal, notification |
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| (noun) an act of narration | Synonyms: recounting, relation |
| (noun) disclosing information or giving evidence about another | Synonyms: singing, tattle |
| throttling | (noun) the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe | Synonyms: choking, strangling, strangulation |
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| tickling | (noun) the act of tickling | Synonyms: tickle, titillation |
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| tiling | (noun) the application of tiles to cover a surface | - |
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| tilling | (noun) cultivation of the land in order to raise crops | - |
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| tingling | (noun) a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings | Synonyms: prickling, tingle |
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| toweling | (noun) any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels | Synonyms: towelling |
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| towelling | (noun) any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels | Synonyms: toweling |
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| trailing | (noun) the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind | Synonyms: tracking |
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| trampling | (noun) the sound of heavy treading or stomping | Synonyms: trample |
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| traveling | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: travel, travelling |
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| travelling | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: travel, traveling |
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| trembling | (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shakiness, shaking, vibration |
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| trifling | (noun) the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working | Synonyms: dalliance, dawdling |
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| tripling | (noun) increase by a factor of three | - |
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| trolling | (noun) angling by drawing a baited line through the water | Synonyms: troll |
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| truckling | (noun) the act of obeying meanly (especially obeying in a humble manner or for unworthy reasons) | - |
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| tumbling | (noun) the gymnastic moves of an acrobat | Synonyms: acrobatics |
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| twinkling | (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, wink |
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| underling | (noun) an assistant subject to the authority or control of another | Synonyms: foot soldier, subordinate, subsidiary |
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| unsnarling | (noun) the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition | Synonyms: disentanglement, extrication, untangling |
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| untangling | (noun) the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition | Synonyms: disentanglement, extrication, unsnarling |
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| unveiling | (noun) the act of beginning something new | Synonyms: debut, entry, first appearance, introduction, launching |
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| (noun) putting on display for the first time | - |
| veiling | (noun) a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave | Synonyms: gauze, netting |
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| vetchling | (noun) any of various small plants of the genus Lathyrus; climb usually by means of tendrils | - |
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| wailing | (noun) loud cries made while weeping | Synonyms: bawling |
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| wangling | (noun) an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery | Synonyms: wangle |
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| weakling | (noun) a person who is physically weak and ineffectual | Synonyms: doormat, wuss |
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| wheedling | (noun) the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery | Synonyms: blandishment |
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| wheeling | (noun) propelling something on wheels | Synonyms: rolling |
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| whirling | (noun) the act of rotating in a circle or spiral | Synonyms: gyration |
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| whistling | (noun) the act of whistling a tune | - |
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| (noun) the act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or blowing a whistle | Synonyms: whistle |
| (noun) the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture | Synonyms: whistle |
| willing | (noun) the act of making a choice | Synonyms: volition |
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| worldling | (noun) a person absorbed by the concerns and interests and pleasures of the present world | - |
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| (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthling, earthman, tellurian |
| wrangling | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggle, haggling, wrangle |
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| wrestling | (noun) the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down | Synonyms: grappling, rassling |
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| (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle |
| yearling | (noun) an animal in its second year | - |
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| (noun) a racehorse considered one year old until the second Jan. 1 following its birth | - |
| (noun) a young child who is just beginning to walk | Synonyms: bambino, toddler, tot |
| yelling | (noun) uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement | Synonyms: shouting |
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| yodeling | (noun) singing by changing back and forth between the chest voice and a falsetto | - |
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