| shillyshally | (verb) be uncertain and vague | - |
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| (verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, stall |
| shrill | (verb) utter a shrill cry | Synonyms: pipe, pipe up, shriek |
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| sibilate | (verb) make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval | Synonyms: hiss, siss, sizz |
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| (verb) express or utter with a hiss | Synonyms: hiss, siss, sizz |
| (verb) utter a sibilant | - |
| (verb) pronounce with an initial sibilant | - |
| silence | (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush, hush up, quieten, shut up, still |
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| (verb) keep from expression, for example by threats or pressure | - |
| silhouette | (verb) represent by a silhouette | - |
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| (verb) project on a background, such as a screen, like a silhouette | - |
| silkscreen | (verb) print by silkscreen | - |
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| silt | (verb) become chocked with silt | Synonyms: silt up |
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| silver | (verb) make silver in color | - |
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| (verb) turn silver | - |
| (verb) coat with a layer of silver or a silver amalgam | - |
| silverplate | (verb) plate with silver | Synonyms: silver-plate |
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| smile | (verb) change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure | - |
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| (verb) express with a smile | - |
| snail | (verb) gather snails | - |
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| snowmobile | (verb) ride a snowmobile | - |
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| soil | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime |
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| soliloquise | (verb) talk to oneself | Synonyms: monologuise, monologuize, soliloquize |
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| soliloquize | (verb) talk to oneself | Synonyms: monologuise, monologuize, soliloquise |
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| spill | (verb) reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail) | - |
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| (verb) reveal information | Synonyms: talk |
| (verb) cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over | Synonyms: disgorge, shed |
| (verb) pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities | Synonyms: pour forth, shed |
| (verb) cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container | Synonyms: slop, splatter |
| (verb) flow, run or fall out and become lost | Synonyms: run out |
| spoil | (verb) become unfit for consumption or use | Synonyms: go bad |
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| (verb) alter from the original | Synonyms: corrupt |
| (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: deflower, impair, mar, vitiate |
| (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, plunder, rape, violate |
| (verb) have a strong desire or urge to do something | Synonyms: itch |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, thwart |
| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up |
| stabilise | (verb) become stable or more stable | Synonyms: stabilize |
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| (verb) make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium | Synonyms: stabilize |
| (verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: brace, stabilize, steady |
| stabilize | (verb) become stable or more stable | Synonyms: stabilise |
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| (verb) make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium | Synonyms: stabilise |
| (verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: brace, stabilise, steady |
| stencil | (verb) mark or print with a stencil | - |
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| sterilise | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilize, unsex |
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| (verb) make free from bacteria | Synonyms: sterilize |
| sterilize | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilise, unsex |
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| (verb) make free from bacteria | Synonyms: sterilise |
| still | (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush, hush up, quieten, shut up, silence |
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| (verb) make motionless | - |
| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of or calm | Synonyms: allay, ease, relieve |
| stockpile | (verb) have on hand | Synonyms: carry, stock |
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| subtilise | (verb) make (senses) more keen | Synonyms: subtilize |
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| subtilize | (verb) make more subtle or refined | Synonyms: rarefy, sublimate |
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| (verb) make (senses) more keen | Synonyms: subtilise |
| (verb) mark fine distinctions and subtleties, as among words | - |
| surveil | (verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: follow, survey |
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| swill | (verb) drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink) | Synonyms: swill down |
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| (verb) feed pigs | Synonyms: slop |
| tail | (verb) remove or shorten the tail of an animal | Synonyms: bob, dock |
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| (verb) remove the stalk of fruits or berries | - |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, track, trail |
| tailgate | (verb) follow at a dangerously close distance | - |
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| tailor | (verb) adjust to a specific need or market | Synonyms: orient |
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| (verb) create (clothes) with cloth | Synonyms: sew, tailor-make |
| (verb) style and tailor in a certain fashion | Synonyms: cut |
| thrill | (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exalt, exhilarate, inebriate, tickle pink |
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| (verb) feel sudden intense sensation or emotion | Synonyms: tickle, vibrate |
| (verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shiver, shudder, throb |
| (verb) cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input | - |
| tile | (verb) cover with tiles | - |
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| till | (verb) work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation | - |
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| tiller | (verb) grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers | Synonyms: stool |
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| tilt | (verb) charge with a tilt | - |
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| (verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: angle, lean, slant, tip |
| (verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant, cant over, pitch, slant |
| (verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: careen, shift, wobble |
| titillate | (verb) excite pleasurably or erotically | - |
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| (verb) touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements | Synonyms: tickle, vellicate |
| toenail | (verb) drive obliquely | Synonyms: toe |
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| toil | (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, travail |
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| trail | (verb) drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground | Synonyms: train |
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| (verb) hang down so as to drag along the ground | - |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track |
| (verb) move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly | Synonyms: shack |
| (verb) to lag or linger behind | Synonyms: drag, drop back, drop behind, get behind, hang back |
| tranquilize | (verb) cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to | Synonyms: calm, sedate, tranquillise, tranquillize |
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| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| tranquillise | (verb) cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to | Synonyms: calm, sedate, tranquilize, tranquillize |
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| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillize |
| tranquillize | (verb) cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to | Synonyms: calm, sedate, tranquilize, tranquillise |
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| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise |
| travail | (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil |
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| trill | (verb) sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below | Synonyms: quaver, warble |
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| (verb) pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r' | - |
| twill | (verb) weave diagonal lines into (textiles) | - |
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| uncoil | (verb) unwind or untwist | - |
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| unveil | (verb) remove the veil from | - |
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| (verb) remove the cover from | - |
| (verb) make manifest | Synonyms: bring out, reveal |
| utilise | (verb) put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose | Synonyms: apply, employ, use, utilize |
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| utilize | (verb) convert (from an investment trust to a unit trust) | - |
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| (verb) put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose | Synonyms: apply, employ, use, utilise |
| vacillate | (verb) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern | Synonyms: fluctuate, waver |
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| (verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: hover, oscillate, vibrate |
| veil | (verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, hide, obliterate, obscure |
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| (verb) to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil | - |
| ventilate | (verb) expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen | Synonyms: air, air out, vent |
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| (verb) furnish with an opening to allow air to circulate or gas to escape | - |
| (verb) give expression or utterance to | Synonyms: give vent, vent |
| (verb) circulate through and freshen | - |
| (verb) expose to the circulation of fresh air so as to retard spoilage | - |
| vermilion | (verb) color vermilion | - |
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| vilify | (verb) spread negative information about | Synonyms: rail, revile, vituperate |
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| vilipend | (verb) belittle | Synonyms: deprecate, depreciate |
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| virilise | (verb) produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy | Synonyms: masculinise, masculinize, virilize |
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| virilize | (verb) produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy | Synonyms: masculinise, masculinize, virilise |
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| volatilise | (verb) make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor | Synonyms: volatilize |
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| volatilize | (verb) make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor | Synonyms: volatilise |
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| wail | (verb) cry weakly or softly | Synonyms: mewl, pule, whimper |
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| (verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, roar, ululate, yaup, yawl |
| wassail | (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, pledge, salute, toast |
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| (verb) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | Synonyms: jollify, make happy, make merry, make whoopee, racket, revel, whoop it up |
| will | (verb) determine by choice | - |
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| (verb) decree or ordain | - |
| (verb) leave or give by will after one's death | Synonyms: bequeath, leave |
| wilt | (verb) become limp | Synonyms: droop |
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| (verb) lose strength | - |