| recidivist | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: backslider, reversionist |
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| (noun) someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) | Synonyms: habitual criminal, repeater |
| recitalist | (noun) a musician who gives recitals | - |
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| redbreast | (noun) small Old World songbird with a reddish breast | Synonyms: Erithacus rubecola, Old World robin, robin, robin redbreast |
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| reformist | (noun) a disputant who advocates reform | Synonyms: crusader, meliorist, reformer, social reformer |
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| regest | (noun) (archaic, obsolete) A register. | - |
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| religionist | (noun) a person addicted to religion or a religious zealot | - |
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| repast | (noun) the food served and eaten at one time | Synonyms: meal |
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| repost | (noun) A post on social media that has already been posted | - |
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| request | (noun) the verbal act of requesting | Synonyms: asking |
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| (noun) a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority | Synonyms: petition, postulation |
| reservist | (noun) a member of a military reserve | - |
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| rest | (noun) freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility) | Synonyms: ease, relaxation, repose |
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| (noun) a support on which things can be put | - |
| (noun) a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration | - |
| (noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: balance, remainder, residual, residue, residuum |
| (noun) a state of inaction | - |
| (noun) euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb) | Synonyms: eternal rest, eternal sleep, quietus, sleep |
| (noun) a pause for relaxation | Synonyms: relief, respite, rest period |
| reversionist | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: backslider, recidivist |
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| revisionist | (noun) a Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position | - |
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| revivalist | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: evangelist, gospeler, gospeller |
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| revolutionist | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, subversive, subverter |
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| rheumatologist | (noun) a physician specializing in rheumatic diseases | - |
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| rhinolaryngologist | (noun) a specialist in the disorders of the ear or nose or throat | Synonyms: ear-nose-and-throat doctor, ENT man, otolaryngologist, otorhinolaryngologist |
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| rightist | (noun) a member of a right wing political party | Synonyms: right-winger |
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| rinderpest | (noun) an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes | Synonyms: cattle plague |
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| ritualist | (noun) an advocate of strict observance of ritualistic forms | - |
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| (noun) a social anthropologist who is expert on rites and ceremonies | - |
| roast | (noun) negative criticism | Synonyms: knock |
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| (noun) a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion | Synonyms: joint |
| romanticist | (noun) an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism | Synonyms: romantic |
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| (noun) someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality | Synonyms: sentimentalist |
| roost | (noun) a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep | - |
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| (noun) a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds | - |
| roughcast | (noun) a rough preliminary model | - |
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| (noun) a coarse plaster for the surface of external walls | - |
| royalist | (noun) an advocate of the principles of monarchy | Synonyms: monarchist |
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| rudderpost | (noun) a vertical post at the forward edge of a rudder that enables the rudder to pivot | Synonyms: rudderstock |
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| ruralist | (noun) an advocate of rural living | - |
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| (noun) a man who lives in the country and has country ways | Synonyms: countryman |
| rust | (noun) A strong reddish brown color. | - |
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| (noun) any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants | Synonyms: rust fungus |
| (noun) the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water | Synonyms: rusting |
| (noun) a plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; caused by various rust fungi | - |
| (noun) a red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture | - |
| sadist | (noun) someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain on others | - |
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| sadomasochist | (noun) someone who enjoys both sadism and masochism | - |
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| sandblast | (noun) a blast of wind laden with sand | - |
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| satirist | (noun) a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm | Synonyms: ironist, ridiculer |
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| sawdust | (noun) fine particles of wood made by sawing wood | - |
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| saxist | (noun) a musician who plays the saxophone | Synonyms: saxophonist |
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| saxophonist | (noun) a musician who plays the saxophone | Synonyms: saxist |
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| scenarist | (noun) a writer of screenplays | - |
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| schist | (noun) any metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers | - |
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| scholiast | (noun) a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author) | - |
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| scientist | (noun) a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences | - |
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| sciolist | (noun) an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge | Synonyms: dabbler, dilettante |
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| seacoast | (noun) the shore of a sea or ocean | Synonyms: coast, sea-coast, seashore |
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| secessionist | (noun) an advocate of secessionism | - |
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| sectarist | (noun) a member of a sect | Synonyms: sectarian, sectary |
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| secularist | (noun) an advocate of secularism; someone who believes that religion should be excluded from government and education | - |
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| segregationist | (noun) someone who believes the racial groups should be kept apart | Synonyms: segregator |
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| seismologist | (noun) a geophysicist who studies earthquakes and the mechanical characteristics of the Earth | - |
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| semanticist | (noun) a specialist in the study of meaning | Synonyms: semiotician |
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| semifinalist | (noun) one of four competitors remaining in a tournament by elimination | - |
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| seminarist | (noun) a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary) | Synonyms: seminarian |
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| sensationalist | (noun) someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention | Synonyms: ballyhoo artist |
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| sensualist | (noun) a person who enjoys sensuality | - |
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| sentimentalist | (noun) someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality | Synonyms: romanticist |
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| separationist | (noun) an advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union) | Synonyms: separatist |
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| separatist | (noun) an advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union) | Synonyms: separationist |
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| sericulturist | (noun) a producer of raw silk | - |
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| serologist | (noun) a medical scientist who specializes in serology | - |
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| sexist | (noun) a man with a chauvinistic belief in the inferiority of women | Synonyms: male chauvinist |
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| shirtwaist | (noun) a blouse with buttons down the front | Synonyms: shirtwaister |
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| shitlist | (noun) a list of people who are out of favor | Synonyms: black book, blacklist |
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| shitpost | (noun) A poor quality and controversial Internet post | - |
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| shortlist | (noun) a list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen | Synonyms: short list |
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| sideroblast | (noun) an erythroblast having granules of ferritin | - |
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| signpost | (noun) a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way | Synonyms: guidepost |
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| simulcast | (noun) a broadcast that is carried simultaneously by radio and television (or by FM and AM radio) | - |
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| slugfest | (noun) a fight with bare fists | Synonyms: fistfight, fisticuffs |
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| socialist | (noun) a political advocate of socialism | - |
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| sociobiologist | (noun) a biologist who studies the biological determinants of social behavior | - |
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| sociolinguist | (noun) a linguist who studies the social and cultural factors that influence linguistic communication | - |
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| sociologist | (noun) a social scientist who studies the institutions and development of human society | - |
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| sodalist | (noun) a member of a sodality | - |
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| sodomist | (noun) someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) | Synonyms: bugger, sod, sodomite |
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| soloist | (noun) a musician who performs a solo | - |
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| somnambulist | (noun) someone who walks about in their sleep | Synonyms: noctambulist, sleepwalker |
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| somniloquist | (noun) someone who talks while asleep | - |
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| sophist | (noun) someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious | Synonyms: casuist |
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| southeast | (noun) a location in the southeastern part of a country, region, or city | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees | Synonyms: SE, sou'-east, southeastward |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southeastward compass point | - |
| southwest | (noun) a location in the southwestern part of a country, region, or city | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees | Synonyms: sou'-west, southwestward, SW |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southwestward compass point | - |
| specialist | (noun) an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning | Synonyms: specialiser, specializer |
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| (noun) practices one branch of medicine | Synonyms: medical specialist |
| spelaeologist | (noun) a person who explores caves | Synonyms: potholer, speleologist, spelunker |
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| speleologist | (noun) a person who explores caves | Synonyms: potholer, spelaeologist, spelunker |
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| spiritualist | (noun) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead | Synonyms: medium, sensitive |
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| spongioblast | (noun) any of various columnar epithelial cells in the central nervous system that develop into neuroglia | - |
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| sportscast | (noun) a broadcast of sports news or commentary | - |
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| stardust | (noun) a dreamy romantic or sentimental quality | - |
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| sternpost | (noun) (nautical) the principal upright timber at the stern of a vessel | - |
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| stigmatist | (noun) a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ) | Synonyms: stigmatic |
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| stockist | (noun) one (as a retailer or distributor) that stocks goods | - |
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| strategist | (noun) an expert in strategy (especially in warfare) | Synonyms: strategian |
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| stylist | (noun) an artist who is a master of a particular style | - |
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| (noun) someone who cuts or beautifies hair | Synonyms: hairdresser, hairstylist, styler |
| subjectivist | (noun) a person who subscribes to subjectivism | - |
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| suffragist | (noun) an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women) | - |
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| sunburst | (noun) a jeweled brooch with a pattern resembling the sun | - |
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| (noun) a design consisting of a central disk resembling the sun and rays emanating from it | - |
| (noun) a sudden emergence of the sun from behind clouds | - |
| supremacist | (noun) a person who advocates the supremacy of some particular group or racial group over all others | - |
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| suprematist | (noun) an artist of the school of suprematism | - |
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| surrealist | (noun) an artist who is a member of the movement called surrealism | - |
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| survivalist | (noun) someone who tries to insure their personal survival or the survival of their group or nation | - |
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| syllogist | (noun) logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning | Synonyms: syllogiser, syllogizer |
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| symbolist | (noun) a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols | - |
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| (noun) someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols | Synonyms: symboliser, symbolizer |
| symphonist | (noun) a composer of symphonies | - |
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| symposiast | (noun) someone who participates in a symposium | - |
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