| rotgut | (noun) any alcoholic beverage of inferior quality | - |
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| roundabout | (noun) a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island | Synonyms: circle, rotary, traffic circle |
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| (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round, whirligig |
| roustabout | (noun) a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor | Synonyms: deckhand |
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| rout | (noun) an overwhelming defeat | - |
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| (noun) a disorderly crowd of people | Synonyms: mob, rabble |
| runabout | (noun) an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat | Synonyms: roadster, two-seater |
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| rut | (noun) a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape | Synonyms: groove |
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| (noun) a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels) | - |
| (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity | Synonyms: estrus, heat, oestrus |
| sackbut | (noun) a medieval musical instrument resembling a trombone | - |
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| sauerkraut | (noun) shredded cabbage fermented in brine | - |
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| scout | (noun) someone who can find paths through unexplored territory | Synonyms: guide, pathfinder |
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| (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, picket, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch |
| (noun) someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports) | Synonyms: talent scout |
| scut | (noun) a short erect tail | - |
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| sellout | (noun) a betrayal of one's principles principles, country, cause, etc. | - |
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| (noun) the selling of an entire stock of something | - |
| (noun) an event for which all tickets are sold | - |
| (noun) someone who has sold out | - |
| shakeout | (noun) an economic condition that results in the elimination of marginally financed participants in an industry | - |
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| shootout | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunfight, gunplay |
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| shortcut | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: crosscut, cutoff |
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| shout | (noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition | Synonyms: call, cry, outcry, vociferation, yell |
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| shutout | (noun) a defeat in a game where one side fails to score | Synonyms: skunk |
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| sinciput | (noun) the front part of the head or skull (including the forehead) | - |
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| slut | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, strumpet, trollop |
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| (noun) a dirty untidy woman | Synonyms: slattern, slovenly woman, trollop |
| (noun) A sexually loose woman | Synonyms: ho, hoe, hussy, trollop |
| smut | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: erotica, porn, porno, pornography |
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| (noun) an offensive or indecent word or phrase | Synonyms: dirty word, filth, obscenity, vulgarism |
| (noun) any fungus of the order Ustilaginales | Synonyms: smut fungus |
| (noun) destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores | - |
| (noun) a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink | Synonyms: carbon black, crock, lampblack, soot |
| snout | (noun) a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose | Synonyms: neb |
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| (noun) beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils | Synonyms: rostrum |
| (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot |
| spout | (noun) an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain | - |
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| sprout | (noun) a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed) | - |
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| (noun) any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud | - |
| stakeout | (noun) surveillance of some place or some person by the police (as in anticipation of a crime) | - |
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| stout | (noun) a garment size for a large or heavy person | - |
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| (noun) a strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops | - |
| strikeout | (noun) an out resulting from the batter getting three strikes | - |
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| strut | (noun) a proud stiff pompous gait | Synonyms: prance, swagger |
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| (noun) brace consisting of a bar or rod used to resist longitudinal compression | - |
| surtout | (noun) a man's overcoat in the style of a frock coat | - |
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| takeout | (noun) (bridge) a bid that asks your partner to bid another suit | - |
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| (noun) prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises | Synonyms: takeaway, takeout food |
| throughput | (noun) output relative to input; the amount passing through a system from input to output (especially of a computer program over a period of time) | - |
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| thumbnut | (noun) a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning | Synonyms: butterfly nut, wing-nut, wing nut, wing screw |
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| tout | (noun) someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way | Synonyms: touter |
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| (noun) one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack) | Synonyms: tipster |
| (noun) someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit | Synonyms: ticket tout |
| trout | (noun) any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons | - |
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| (noun) flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes | - |
| tryout | (noun) a test of the suitability of a performer | Synonyms: audition |
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| (noun) trying something to find out about it | Synonyms: test, trial, trial run |
| turnabout | (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reverse, reversion, turnaround |
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| (noun) a decision to reverse an earlier decision | Synonyms: change of mind, flip-flop, reversal, turnaround |
| turnout | (noun) attendance for a particular event or purpose (as to vote in an election) | - |
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| (noun) (ballet) the outward rotation of a dancer's leg from the hip | - |
| (noun) what is produced in a given time period | Synonyms: output, outturn |
| (noun) a part of a road that has been widened to allow cars to pass or park | Synonyms: widening |
| (noun) a set of clothing (with accessories) | Synonyms: getup, outfit, rig |
| (noun) a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass | Synonyms: railroad siding, sidetrack, siding |
| (noun) the group that gathers together for a particular occasion | - |
| umlaut | (noun) a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate a change in sound in some languages | - |
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| undercut | (noun) (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball | Synonyms: cut |
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| (noun) a cut made underneath to remove material | - |
| (noun) a notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall | - |
| (noun) the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column | Synonyms: tenderloin |
| (noun) the material removed by a cut made underneath | - |
| uppercut | (noun) a swinging blow directed upward (especially at an opponent's chin) | - |
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| ut | (noun) the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization | Synonyms: do, doh |
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| walkabout | (noun) nomadic excursions into the bush made by an Aborigine | - |
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| (noun) a public stroll by a celebrity to meet people informally | - |
| (noun) a walking trip or tour | - |
| walkout | (noun) a strike in which the workers walk out | - |
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| (noun) the act of walking out (of a meeting or organization) as a sign of protest | - |
| walnut | (noun) nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell | - |
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| (noun) any of various trees of the genus Juglans | Synonyms: walnut tree |
| (noun) hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling | - |
| washout | (noun) someone who is unsuccessful | Synonyms: dud, flop |
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| (noun) the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway) | Synonyms: wash |
| (noun) the channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water | - |
| waterspout | (noun) a channel through which water is discharged (especially one used for drainage from the gutters of a roof) | - |
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| (noun) a tornado passing over water and picking up a column of water and mist | - |
| (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, pelter, soaker, torrent |
| whiteout | (noun) an arctic atmospheric condition with clouds over snow produce a uniform whiteness and objects are difficult to see; occurs when the light reflected off the snow equals the light coming through the clouds | - |
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| wipeout | (noun) a spill in some sport (as a fall from a bicycle or while skiing or being capsized on a surfboard) | - |
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| (noun) an event that completely destroys something | Synonyms: demolition, destruction |
| woodcut | (noun) engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it; used to make prints | Synonyms: wood block, wood engraving |
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| (noun) a print made from a woodcut | Synonyms: wood engraving |
| workout | (noun) the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit | Synonyms: exercise, exercising, physical exercise, physical exertion |
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