| skulduggery | (noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery |
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| skullduggery | (noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, slickness, trickery |
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| slavery | (noun) work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay | - |
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| (noun) the practice of owning slaves | Synonyms: slaveholding |
| (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: bondage, thraldom, thrall, thralldom |
| slurry | (noun) a suspension of insoluble particles (as plaster of Paris or lime or clay etc.) usually in water | - |
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| smeltery | (noun) an industrial plant for smelting | Synonyms: smelter |
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| snakeberry | (noun) North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries | Synonyms: Actaea rubra, red-berry, red baneberry, redberry |
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| snobbery | (noun) the trait of condescending to those of lower social status | Synonyms: snobbishness, snobbism |
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| snowberry | (noun) deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries | Synonyms: common snowberry, Symphoricarpos alba, waxberry |
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| snuggery | (noun) a small secluded room | Synonyms: cubby, cubbyhole, snug |
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| soapberry | (noun) a tree of the genus Sapindus whose fruit is rich in saponin | Synonyms: soapberry tree |
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| sociometry | (noun) the quantitative study of social relationships | - |
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| soldiery | (noun) soldiers collectively | Synonyms: military personnel, troops |
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| solitary | (noun) one who lives in solitude | Synonyms: hermit, recluse, solitudinarian, troglodyte |
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| (noun) confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners | Synonyms: solitary confinement |
| sophistry | (noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | Synonyms: sophism, sophistication |
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| sorcery | (noun) the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world | Synonyms: black art, black magic, necromancy |
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| sparkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: farkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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| spectrometry | (noun) the use of spectroscopes to analyze spectra | Synonyms: spectrographic analysis, spectroscopic analysis, spectroscopy, spectrum analysis |
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| spiceberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India | Synonyms: Ardisia crenata, coralberry |
| spicery | (noun) the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored | Synonyms: spice, spiciness |
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| spindleberry | (noun) any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries | Synonyms: spindle tree, spindleberry tree |
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| spirometry | (noun) the use of a spirometer to measure vital capacity | - |
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| stationery | (noun) paper cut to an appropriate size for writing letters; usually with matching envelopes | Synonyms: letter paper |
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| statuary | (noun) statues collectively | - |
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| sternutatory | (noun) a chemical substance that causes sneezing and coughing and crying | Synonyms: sternutator |
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| stipendiary | (noun) (United Kingdom) a paid magistrate (appointed by the Home Secretary) dealing with police cases | Synonyms: stipendiary magistrate |
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| stitchery | (noun) needlework on which you are working with needle and thread | Synonyms: sewing |
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| stoichiometry | (noun) (chemistry) the relation between the quantities of substances that take part in a reaction or form a compound (typically a ratio of whole integers) | - |
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| story | (noun) a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale | Synonyms: floor, level, storey |
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| (noun) a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events | - |
| (noun) a short account of the news | Synonyms: account, news report, report, write up |
| (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle |
| (noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narration, narrative, tale |
| (noun) a record or narrative description of past events | Synonyms: account, chronicle, history |
| strawberry | (noun) a soft red birthmark | Synonyms: hemangioma simplex, strawberry mark |
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| (noun) sweet fleshy red fruit | - |
| (noun) any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible fruits having many small achenes scattered on the surface of an enlarged red pulpy berry | - |
| subdirectory | (noun) (computer science) a directory that is listed in another directory | - |
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| subentry | (noun) An entry, such as one in an account or reference work, that is included within a main entry. | - |
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| subsidiary | (noun) a company that is completely controlled by another company | Synonyms: subsidiary company |
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| (noun) an assistant subject to the authority or control of another | Synonyms: foot soldier, subordinate, underling |
| subtreasury | (noun) a subordinate treasury or place of deposit | - |
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| succory | (noun) perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads | Synonyms: chicory, chicory plant, Cichorium intybus |
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| sudatory | (noun) a bathhouse for hot air baths or steam baths | Synonyms: sudatorium |
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| (noun) a medicine that causes or increases sweating | Synonyms: sudorific |
| sugarberry | (noun) small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States | Synonyms: hackberry |
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| (noun) deciduous shade tree with small black berries; southern United States; yields soft yellowish wood | Synonyms: Celtis laevigata |
| summary | (noun) a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form | Synonyms: sum-up |
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| sunberry | (noun) improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries | Synonyms: garden huckleberry, Solanum burbankii, Solanum melanocerasum, Solanum nigrum guineese, wonderberry |
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| supernumerary | (noun) a minor actor in crowd scenes | Synonyms: extra, spear carrier |
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| (noun) a person serving no apparent function | - |
| supersymmetry | (noun) (physics) a theory that tries to link the four fundamental forces | - |
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| suppository | (noun) a small plug of medication designed for insertion into the rectum or vagina where it melts | - |
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| surgery | (noun) a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Synonyms: operation, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process |
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| (noun) a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations | Synonyms: operating room, operating theater, operating theatre, OR |
| (noun) a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted | - |
| (noun) the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures | - |
| suspensory | (noun) a bandage of elastic fabric applied to uplift a dependant part (as the scrotum or a pendulous breast) | Synonyms: suspensory bandage |
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| syllabary | (noun) a writing system whose characters represent syllables | Synonyms: syllabic script |
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| symbolatry | (noun) the worship of symbols | Synonyms: symbol-worship, symbololatry |
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| symbololatry | (noun) the worship of symbols | Synonyms: symbol-worship, symbolatry |
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| symmetry | (noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, correspondence, symmetricalness |
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| (noun) (physics) the property of being isotropic; having the same value when measured in different directions | Synonyms: isotropy |
| (noun) balance among the parts of something | Synonyms: proportion |
| sympatry | (noun) the occurrence of organisms in overlapping geographical areas, but without interbreeding | - |
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| tannery | (noun) workplace where skins and hides are tanned | - |
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| tapestry | (noun) a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric often with pictorial designs | Synonyms: arras |
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| (noun) a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery | Synonyms: tapis |
| (noun) something that resembles a tapestry in its intricacy | - |
| teaberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, wintergreen |
| telemetry | (noun) automatic transmission and measurement of data from remote sources by wire or radio or other means | - |
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| temporary | (noun) a worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis | Synonyms: temp, temporary worker |
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| tenantry | (noun) tenants of an estate considered as a group | - |
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| tercentenary | (noun) the 300th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: tercentennial, triennial |
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| ternary | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
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| territory | (noun) an area of knowledge or interest | - |
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| (noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: district, dominion, territorial dominion |
| (noun) the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state | Synonyms: soil |
| terry | (noun) a pile fabric (usually cotton) with uncut loops on both sides; used to make bath towels and bath robes | Synonyms: terry cloth, terrycloth |
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| thaumatolatry | (noun) the worship of miracles | Synonyms: miracle-worship |
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| theory | (noun) a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena | - |
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| (noun) a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena | Synonyms: hypothesis, possibility |
| (noun) a belief that can guide behavior | - |
| thermocautery | (noun) cautery (destruction of tissue) by heat | - |
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| thermochemistry | (noun) the branch of chemistry that studies the relation between chemical action and the amount of heat absorbed or generated | - |
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| thermogravimetry | (noun) the measurement of changes in weight as a function of changes in temperature used as a technique of chemically analyzing substances | - |
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| thermometry | (noun) the measurement of temperature | - |
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| thievery | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: larceny, stealing, theft, thieving |
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| thimbleberry | (noun) raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: black raspberry, blackcap, blackcap raspberry, Rubus occidentalis |
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| (noun) white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries | Synonyms: Rubus parviflorus, salmon berry, salmonberry |
| (noun) shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: flowering raspberry, purple-flowering raspberry, Rubus odoratus |
| thuggery | (noun) violent or brutal acts as of thugs | - |
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| toiletry | (noun) artifacts used in making your toilet (washing and taking care of your body) | Synonyms: toilet articles |
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| tomfoolery | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, foolery, indulgence, lunacy |
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| tonometry | (noun) the measurement of intraocular pressure by determining the amount of force needed to make a slight indentation in the cornea | - |
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| topiary | (noun) making decorative shapes by trimming shrubs or trees | - |
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| (noun) a garden having shrubs clipped or trimmed into decorative shapes especially of animals | - |
| topolatry | (noun) the worship of places | Synonyms: place-worship |
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| touristry | (noun) the business of providing services to tourists | Synonyms: tourism |
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| tracery | (noun) decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs | - |
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| trajectory | (noun) the path followed by an object moving through space | Synonyms: flight |
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| treachery | (noun) an act of deliberate betrayal | Synonyms: betrayal, perfidy, treason |
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| (noun) betrayal of a trust | Synonyms: perfidiousness, perfidy |
| treasury | (noun) a depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely | - |
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| (noun) the government department responsible for collecting and managing and spending public revenues | - |
| (noun) the funds of a government or institution or individual | Synonyms: exchequer |
| tributary | (noun) a branch that flows into the main stream | Synonyms: affluent, confluent, feeder |
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| trickery | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, wile |
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| (noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness |
| trigonometry | (noun) the mathematics of triangles and trigonometric functions | Synonyms: trig |
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| trinketry | (noun) trinkets and other ornaments of dress collectively | - |
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| trumpery | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense |
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| (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, wish-wash |
| try | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour |
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| turnery | (noun) products made on a lathe | - |
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| (noun) workshop where objects are made on a lathe | - |
| tushery | (noun) writing of poor quality; characterized by affected choice of archaic words | - |
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| twinberry | (noun) shrubby honeysuckle with purple flowers; western North America | Synonyms: Lonicera involucrata |
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| (noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: boxberry, Mitchella repens, partridgeberry |
| unary | (noun) the bijective base-1 numeral system: in order to represent a number N, an arbitrarily chosen symbol representing 1 is repeated N times. | Synonyms: unary numeral system |
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| undersecretary | (noun) a secretary immediately subordinate to the head of a department of government | - |
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| upholstery | (noun) the craft of upholstering | - |
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| (noun) covering (padding and springs and webbing and fabric) on a piece of furniture | - |
| usufructuary | (noun) someone who holds property by usufruct | - |
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| usury | (noun) the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest | - |
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| (noun) an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest | Synonyms: vigorish |
| vagary | (noun) an unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.) | - |
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| vainglory | (noun) outspoken conceit | Synonyms: boastfulness |
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| valedictory | (noun) a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) | Synonyms: valediction, valedictory address, valedictory oration |
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| veery | (noun) tawny brown North American thrush noted for its song | Synonyms: Hylocichla fuscescens, Wilson's thrush |
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| verbolatry | (noun) the worship of words | Synonyms: grammatolatry, word-worship |
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| vesicatory | (noun) a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas) | Synonyms: vesicant |
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| vestry | (noun) a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held | Synonyms: sacristy |
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| (noun) in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church | - |
| veterinary | (noun) a doctor who practices veterinary medicine | Synonyms: vet, veterinarian, veterinary surgeon |
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| victory | (noun) a successful ending of a struggle or contest | Synonyms: triumph |
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