| squab | (noun) an unfledged pigeon | - |
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| (noun) a soft padded sofa | - |
| (noun) flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled | Synonyms: dove |
| squabble | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, tiff |
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| squabbler | (noun) someone who quarrels about a small matter | - |
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| squad | (noun) a cooperative unit (especially in sports) | Synonyms: team |
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| (noun) a smallest army unit | - |
| (noun) a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime | Synonyms: police squad |
| squadron | (noun) an air force unit larger than a flight and smaller than a group | - |
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| (noun) a cavalry unit consisting of two or more troops and headquarters and supporting arms | - |
| (noun) a naval unit that is detached from the fleet for a particular task | - |
| squalidness | (noun) sordid dirtiness | Synonyms: sordidness, squalor |
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| squall | (noun) sudden violent winds; often accompanied by precipitation | - |
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| squalor | (noun) sordid dirtiness | Synonyms: sordidness, squalidness |
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| squama | (noun) a protective structure resembling a scale | - |
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| squamule | (noun) a minute scale | - |
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| squanderer | (noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer | Synonyms: prodigal, profligate |
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| squandering | (noun) spending resources lavishly and wastefully | - |
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| squandermania | (noun) prodigious squandering (usually by a government) | - |
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| square | (noun) a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles | - |
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| (noun) any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles | - |
| (noun) an open area at the meeting of two or more streets | Synonyms: public square |
| (noun) a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views | Synonyms: square toes |
| (noun) someone who doesn't understand what is going on | Synonyms: lame |
| (noun) the product of two equal terms | Synonyms: second power |
| (noun) (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon | Synonyms: foursquare |
| (noun) something approximating the shape of a square | - |
| squareness | (noun) the property of being shaped like a square | - |
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| squaretail | (noun) sluggish square-tailed fish armored with tough bony scales; of deep warm waters | - |
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| squark | (noun) a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1 | Synonyms: strange quark |
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| squash | (noun) a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets | Synonyms: squash rackets, squash racquets |
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| (noun) edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable | - |
| (noun) any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits | Synonyms: squash vine |
| squat | (noun) the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels | Synonyms: squatting |
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| (noun) exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles | Synonyms: knee bend, squatting |
| (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit |
| squatness | (noun) the property of being short and broad | Synonyms: stubbiness |
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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 |
| squattiness | (noun) a short and stout physique | Synonyms: dumpiness |
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| squatting | (noun) the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels | Synonyms: squat |
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| (noun) exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles | Synonyms: knee bend, squat |
| squaw | (noun) derogatory terms for an American Indian woman | - |
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| squawbush | (noun) deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit | Synonyms: Rhus trilobata, skunkbush, squaw-bush |
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| squawk | (noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, bitch, gripe, kick |
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| (noun) the noise of squawking | - |
| squawker | (noun) the loudspeaker on an intercom or public address system | Synonyms: intercom speaker, squawk box |
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| (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, whiner |
| squawroot | (noun) tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: blue cohosh, blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, papooseroot, squaw root |
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