| sportswriter | (noun) a journalist who writes about sports | Synonyms: sports writer |
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| spotter | (noun) someone who is the first to observe something | Synonyms: discoverer, finder |
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| (noun) a worker employed to apply spots (as markers or identifiers) | - |
| (noun) a worker employed at a dry-cleaning establishment to remove spots | - |
| (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, sentry, watch |
| spouter | (noun) a spouting whale | - |
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| (noun) an oil well that is spouting | - |
| (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, prater |
| sprinter | (noun) someone who runs a short distance at top speed | - |
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| sprouter | (noun) A device for sprouting seeds. | Synonyms: seed sprouter |
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| sputter | (noun) an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage) | Synonyms: splutter |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputtering |
| spymaster | (noun) someone who directs clandestine intelligence activities | - |
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| squatter | (noun) someone who settles on land without right or title | - |
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| (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: homesteader, nester |
| squinter | (noun) a person with strabismus | Synonyms: squint-eye |
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| squirter | (noun) plaything consisting of a toy pistol that squirts water | Synonyms: squirt gun, water gun, water pistol |
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| stactometer | (noun) a device for investigating surface tension using the stalagmometric method. | Synonyms: stalagmometer, stalogometer |
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| stalagmometer | (noun) a device for investigating surface tension using the stalagmometric method. | Synonyms: stactometer, stalogometer |
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| stalogometer | (noun) a device for investigating surface tension using the stalagmometric method. | Synonyms: stactometer, stalagmometer |
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| starter | (noun) a culture containing yeast or bacteria that is used to start the process of fermentation or souring in making butter or cheese or dough | - |
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| (noun) a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle | Synonyms: crank |
| (noun) an electric motor for starting an engine | Synonyms: starter motor, starting motor |
| (noun) food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) | Synonyms: appetiser, appetizer |
| (noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: entrant, fledgeling, fledgling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, newcomer |
| (noun) the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition | Synonyms: dispatcher |
| (noun) a contestant in a team sport who is in the game at the beginning | - |
| stater | (noun) a resident of a particular state or group of states | - |
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| (noun) any of the various silver or gold coins of ancient Greece | - |
| stationmaster | (noun) the person in charge of a railway station | Synonyms: station agent |
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| steamfitter | (noun) a craftsman who installs and maintains equipment for ventilating or heating or refrigerating | - |
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| stepdaughter | (noun) a daughter of your spouse by a former marriage | - |
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| stepsister | (noun) a sister who has only one parent in common with you | Synonyms: half-sister, half sister |
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| stinter | (noun) an economizer who stints someone with something | - |
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| stonecutter | (noun) someone who cuts or carves stone | Synonyms: cutter |
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| stutter | (noun) a speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds | Synonyms: stammer |
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| submitter | (noun) someone who submits something (as an application for a job or a manuscript for publication etc.) for the judgment of others | - |
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| (noun) someone who yields to the will of another person or force | - |
| subsister | (noun) one who lives through affliction | Synonyms: survivor |
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| subtracter | (noun) a machine that subtracts numbers | - |
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| (noun) a person who subtracts numbers | - |
| subverter | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, revolutionist, subversive |
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| suggester | (noun) someone who advances a suggestion or proposal | Synonyms: proposer |
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| summercater | (noun) (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine | Synonyms: sport |
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| sumpter | (noun) an animal (such as a mule or burro or horse) used to carry loads | Synonyms: pack animal |
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| supercomputer | (noun) a mainframe computer that is one of the most powerful available at a given time | - |
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| supermarketer | (noun) an operator of a supermarket | Synonyms: supermarketeer |
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| supertwister | (noun) the most powerful tornado which can create enormously devastating damage | - |
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| supplanter | (noun) one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another | Synonyms: usurper |
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| supporter | (noun) a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve) | Synonyms: garter |
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| (noun) a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise | Synonyms: athletic supporter, jock, jockstrap, suspensor |
| (noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: admirer, booster, champion, friend, protagonist |
| (noun) a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose | Synonyms: assistant, help, helper |
| (noun) someone who supports or champions something | Synonyms: patron, sponsor |
| surmounter | (noun) someone who overcomes and establishes ascendancy and control by force or persuasion | Synonyms: overcomer, subduer |
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| surrebutter | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rebutter | Synonyms: surrebuttal |
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| swatter | (noun) an implement with a flat part (of mesh or plastic) and a long handle; used to kill insects | Synonyms: flyswat, flyswatter |
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| sweater | (noun) a crocheted or knitted garment covering the upper part of the body | Synonyms: jumper |
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| (noun) a person who perspires | Synonyms: perspirer |
| tacheometer | (noun) a theodolite designed for rapid measurements | Synonyms: tachymeter |
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| tachometer | (noun) measuring instrument for indicating speed of rotation | Synonyms: tach |
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| tachymeter | (noun) a theodolite designed for rapid measurements | Synonyms: tacheometer |
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| tailgater | (noun) a driver who follows too closely behind another motor vehicle | - |
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| tapster | (noun) a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks | Synonyms: tapper |
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| taskmaster | (noun) someone who imposes hard or continuous work | - |
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| taster | (noun) someone who samples food or drink for its quality | Synonyms: sampler, taste-tester, taste tester |
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| tater | (noun) an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland | Synonyms: Irish potato, murphy, potato, spud, white potato |
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| tatter | (noun) a small piece of cloth | Synonyms: rag, shred, tag, tag end |
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| taximeter | (noun) a meter in a taxi that registers the fare (based on the length of the ride) | - |
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| teamster | (noun) someone who drives a truck as an occupation | Synonyms: truck driver, trucker |
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| (noun) the driver of a team of horses doing hauling | - |
| teeter | (noun) a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end | Synonyms: dandle board, seesaw, teeter-totter, teeterboard, teetertotter, tilting board |
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| teetertotter | (noun) a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end | Synonyms: dandle board, seesaw, teeter-totter, teeter, teeterboard, tilting board |
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| telecaster | (noun) a television broadcaster | - |
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| telemeter | (noun) any scientific instrument for observing events at a distance and transmitting the information back to the observer | - |
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| teleprinter | (noun) a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter | Synonyms: teletype machine, teletypewriter, telex, telex machine |
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| telethermometer | (noun) a thermometer that registers the temperature at some distant point | - |
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| teletypewriter | (noun) a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter | Synonyms: teleprinter, teletype machine, telex, telex machine |
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| tempter | (noun) a person who tempts others | - |
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| tensimeter | (noun) a manometer for measuring vapor pressure | - |
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| tensiometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the surface tension of a liquid | - |
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| (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the tension in a wire or fiber or beam | - |
| (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the moisture content of soil | - |
| tenter | (noun) a framework with hooks used for stretching and drying cloth | - |
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| tester | (noun) a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed) | - |
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| (noun) someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications | Synonyms: examiner, quizzer |
| tetrameter | (noun) a verse line having four metrical feet | - |
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| theater | (noun) a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented | Synonyms: house, theatre |
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| (noun) the art of writing and producing plays | Synonyms: dramatic art, dramatics, dramaturgy, theatre |
| (noun) a region in which active military operations are in progress | Synonyms: field, field of operations, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations |
| thermogravimeter | (noun) a hydrometer that includes a thermometer | Synonyms: thermohydrometer |
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| thermohydrometer | (noun) a hydrometer that includes a thermometer | Synonyms: thermogravimeter |
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| thermometer | (noun) measuring instrument for measuring temperature | - |
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| thirster | (noun) a person with a strong desire for something | Synonyms: longer, yearner |
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| throwster | (noun) a person who twists silk or rayon filaments into a thread or yarn | Synonyms: thrower |
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| thruster | (noun) a small rocket engine that provides the thrust needed to maneuver a spacecraft | - |
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| (noun) one who intrudes or pushes himself forward | Synonyms: pusher |
| thwarter | (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructionist, obstructor, resister |
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| thysanopter | (noun) an insect of the order Thysanoptera | Synonyms: thysanopteron, thysanopterous insect |
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| tidewater | (noun) low-lying coastal land drained by tidal streams | - |
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| tilter | (noun) a device for emptying a cask by tilting it without disturbing the dregs | - |
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| (noun) someone who engages in a tilt or joust | - |
| tinter | (noun) a hairdresser who tints hair | - |
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| tintometer | (noun) a measuring instrument used in colorimetric analysis to determine the quantity of a substance from the color it yields with specific reagents | Synonyms: colorimeter |
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| tipster | (noun) one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack) | Synonyms: tout |
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| titer | (noun) the concentration of a solution as determined by titration | Synonyms: titre |
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| titter | (noun) a nervous restrained laugh | - |
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| toaster | (noun) a kitchen appliance (usually electric) for toasting bread | - |
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| (noun) someone who who drinks to the health of someone or the success of some venture | Synonyms: wassailer |
| toastmaster | (noun) the person who proposes toasts and introduces speakers at a banquet | Synonyms: symposiarch |
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| tonometer | (noun) measuring instrument for measuring tension or pressure (especially for measuring intraocular pressure in testing for glaucoma) | - |
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| tormenter | (noun) a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings | Synonyms: teaser, tormentor |
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| (noun) someone who torments | Synonyms: persecutor, tormentor |
| toter | (noun) someone whose employment involves carrying something | Synonyms: bearer, carrier |
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| touter | (noun) someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way | Synonyms: tout |
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| trainmaster | (noun) a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard | Synonyms: train dispatcher, yardmaster |
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| transmitter | (noun) set used to broadcast radio or tv signals | Synonyms: sender |
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| (noun) any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease | Synonyms: vector |
| (noun) someone who transmits a message | Synonyms: sender |
| transplanter | (noun) a gardener who moves plants to new locations | - |
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| transporter | (noun) a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory) | Synonyms: conveyer, conveyer belt, conveyor, conveyor belt |
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| (noun) a crane for moving material with dispatch as in loading and unloading ships | - |
| (noun) a long truck for carrying motor vehicles | Synonyms: car transporter |
| trapshooter | (noun) a person who engages in shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled into the air by a trap | - |
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| treater | (noun) someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) | Synonyms: negotiant, negotiator |
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| trickster | (noun) someone who plays practical jokes on others | Synonyms: cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, prankster, tricker |
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| (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker |
| (noun) a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts | - |
| trimester | (noun) a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided | - |
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| (noun) one of three divisions of an academic year | - |
| trochanter | (noun) one of the bony prominences developed near the upper extremity of the femur to which muscles are attached | - |
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| trotter | (noun) a horse trained to trot; especially a horse trained for harness racing | Synonyms: trotting horse |
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| (noun) foot of a pig or sheep especially one used as food | - |
| troubleshooter | (noun) a worker whose job is to locate and fix sources of trouble (especially in mechanical devices) | Synonyms: trouble shooter |
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| trumpeter | (noun) large gregarious crane-like bird of the forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated | - |
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| (noun) large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry | Synonyms: Cygnus buccinator, trumpeter swan |
| (noun) a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet | Synonyms: cornetist |
| (noun) (formal) a person who announces important news | Synonyms: herald |
| trustbuster | (noun) a federal agent who engages in trust busting | - |
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| truster | (noun) a supporter who accepts something as true | Synonyms: believer |
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| tweeter | (noun) a loudspeaker that reproduces higher audio frequency sounds | - |
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| twister | (noun) small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts | Synonyms: cruller |
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| (noun) a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground | Synonyms: tornado |