| sole | (verb) put a new sole on | Synonyms: resole |
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| spangle | (verb) decorate with spangles | Synonyms: bespangle |
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| (verb) glitter as if covered with spangles | - |
| sparkle | (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: effervesce, fizz, foam, form bubbles, froth |
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| (verb) be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity | Synonyms: coruscate, scintillate |
| (verb) reflect brightly | Synonyms: coruscate, scintillate |
| (verb) emit or produce sparks | Synonyms: spark |
| speckle | (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: bespeckle |
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| (verb) produce a mottled effect | Synonyms: stipple |
| spreadeagle | (verb) defeat disastrously | Synonyms: rout, spread-eagle |
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| sprinkle | (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: besprinkle, sparge |
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| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splash, splosh |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, scatter |
| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: patter, pitter-patter, spatter, spit |
| squabble | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, niggle, pettifog, quibble |
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| stable | (verb) shelter in a stable | - |
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| stale | (verb) urinate, of cattle and horses | - |
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| staple | (verb) secure or fasten with a staple or staples | - |
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| startle | (verb) to stimulate to action | Synonyms: galvanise, galvanize |
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| (verb) move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm | Synonyms: jump, start |
| stickle | (verb) dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points) | - |
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| stifle | (verb) suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity | Synonyms: dampen |
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| (verb) be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen | Synonyms: asphyxiate, suffocate |
| (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, repress, smother, strangle |
| (verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: asphyxiate, choke, suffocate |
| stipple | (verb) produce a mottled effect | Synonyms: speckle |
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| (verb) engrave by means of dots and flicks | - |
| (verb) make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink | - |
| (verb) apply (paint) in small dots or strokes | - |
| stockpile | (verb) have on hand | Synonyms: carry, stock |
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| stopple | (verb) close or secure with or as if with a stopper | Synonyms: stopper |
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| straddle | (verb) be noncommittal | - |
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| (verb) sit or stand astride of | - |
| (verb) range or extend over; occupy a certain area | Synonyms: range |
| straggle | (verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: depart, digress, sidetrack |
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| (verb) go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way | Synonyms: sprawl |
| strangle | (verb) constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing | Synonyms: choke |
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| (verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: choke, gag, suffocate |
| (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: cramp, halter, hamper |
| (verb) die from strangulation | - |
| (verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air | Synonyms: strangulate, throttle |
| (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, repress, smother, stifle |
| strickle | (verb) smooth with a strickle | Synonyms: strike |
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| (verb) level off with a strickle in a measuring container | - |
| struggle | (verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: contend, fight |
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| (verb) to exert strenuous effort against opposition | - |
| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter |
| (verb) make a strenuous or labored effort | Synonyms: fight |
| stumble | (verb) make an error | Synonyms: slip up, trip up |
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| (verb) miss a step and fall or nearly fall | Synonyms: trip |
| (verb) walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly | Synonyms: bumble, falter |
| (verb) encounter by chance | Synonyms: hit |
| style | (verb) designate by an identifying term | Synonyms: title |
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| (verb) make consistent with certain rules of style | - |
| (verb) make consistent with a certain fashion or style | - |
| subtitle | (verb) supply (a movie) with subtitles | - |
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| suckle | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, wet-nurse |
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| (verb) suck milk from the mother's breasts | - |
| supple | (verb) make pliant and flexible | - |
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| swaddle | (verb) wrap in swaddling clothes | Synonyms: swathe |
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| swindle | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, victimize |
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| table | (verb) arrange or enter in tabular form | Synonyms: tabularise, tabularize, tabulate |
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| (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve |
| tackle | (verb) seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries the ball | - |
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| (verb) put a harness | Synonyms: harness |
| (verb) accept as a challenge | Synonyms: take on, undertake |
| tangle | (verb) twist together or entwine into a confusing mass | Synonyms: entangle, mat, snarl |
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| (verb) disarrange or rumple; dishevel | Synonyms: dishevel, tousle |
| (verb) tangle or complicate | Synonyms: knot, ravel |
| (verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | Synonyms: drag, drag in, embroil, sweep, sweep up |
| tattle | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk |
| throttle | (verb) reduce the air supply | Synonyms: choke |
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| (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, restrict, trammel |
| (verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air | Synonyms: strangle, strangulate |
| tickle | (verb) touch or stroke lightly | - |
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| (verb) feel sudden intense sensation or emotion | Synonyms: thrill, vibrate |
| (verb) touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements | Synonyms: titillate, vellicate |
| tile | (verb) cover with tiles | - |
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| tingle | (verb) cause a stinging or tingling sensation | Synonyms: prickle |
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| tinkle | (verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: chink, clink, tink |
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| tipple | (verb) drink moderately but regularly | Synonyms: bib |
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| title | (verb) give a title to | Synonyms: entitle |
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| (verb) designate by an identifying term | Synonyms: style |
| toddle | (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, paddle, totter, waddle |
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| toggle | (verb) fasten with, or as if with, a toggle | - |
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| (verb) release by a toggle switch | - |
| (verb) provide with a toggle or toggles | - |
| tootle | (verb) play (a musical instrument) casually | - |
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| topple | (verb) fall down, as if collapsing | Synonyms: tumble |
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| (verb) cause to topple or tumble by pushing | Synonyms: tip, tumble |
| tousle | (verb) disarrange or rumple; dishevel | Synonyms: dishevel, tangle |
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| trample | (verb) injure by trampling or as if by trampling | - |
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| (verb) tread or stomp heavily or roughly | Synonyms: tread |
| (verb) walk on and flatten | Synonyms: tramp down, tread down |
| treadle | (verb) operate (machinery) by a treadle | - |
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| (verb) tread over | - |
| treble | (verb) increase threefold | Synonyms: triple |
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| (verb) sing treble | - |
| tremble | (verb) move or jerk quickly and involuntarily up and down or sideways | - |
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| trickle | (verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream | Synonyms: dribble, filter |
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| trifle | (verb) consider not very seriously | Synonyms: dally, play |
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| (verb) act frivolously | Synonyms: frivol |
| (verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle, piddle away, wanton, wanton away |
| triple | (verb) increase threefold | Synonyms: treble |
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| (verb) hit a three-base hit | - |
| trouble | (verb) cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed | Synonyms: ail, pain |
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| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, perturb, unhinge |
| (verb) move deeply | Synonyms: disturb, upset |
| (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out |
| (verb) take the trouble to do something; concern oneself | Synonyms: bother, inconvenience oneself, trouble oneself |
| truckle | (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady |
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| (verb) yield to out of weakness | - |
| trundle | (verb) move heavily | - |
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| tumble | (verb) do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully | - |
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| (verb) fall suddenly and sharply | - |
| (verb) suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat | - |
| (verb) put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying | - |
| (verb) understand, usually after some initial difficulty | Synonyms: catch on, cotton on, get it, get onto, get wise, latch on, twig |
| (verb) throw together in a confused mass | - |
| (verb) fall down, as if collapsing | Synonyms: topple |
| (verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, collapse, crumble, crumple |
| (verb) roll over and over, back and forth | - |
| (verb) cause to topple or tumble by pushing | Synonyms: tip, topple |
| (verb) fly around | Synonyms: whirl, whirl around |
| turtle | (verb) hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation | - |
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| (verb) overturn accidentally | Synonyms: capsize, turn turtle |
| tussle | (verb) make messy or untidy | Synonyms: muss |
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| (verb) fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters | Synonyms: scuffle |
| twaddle | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle |
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| tweedle | (verb) entice through the use of music | - |
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| (verb) play negligently on a musical instrument | - |
| (verb) sing in modulation | Synonyms: chirp |
| twiddle | (verb) manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner | Synonyms: fiddle with |
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| (verb) turn in a twisting or spinning motion | Synonyms: swirl, twirl, whirl |
| twinkle | (verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: blink, flash, wink, winkle |
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| (verb) emit or reflect light in a flickering manner | Synonyms: scintillate, winkle |
| unbridle | (verb) remove the bridle from (a horse or mule) | - |
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| unbuckle | (verb) undo the buckle of | - |
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| uncouple | (verb) disconnect or separate | Synonyms: decouple |
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| unicycle | (verb) ride a unicycle | - |
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| unmuzzle | (verb) remove the muzzle from (a dog) | - |
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| unsaddle | (verb) remove the saddle from | Synonyms: offsaddle |
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| unscramble | (verb) make intelligible | - |
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| (verb) become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of | Synonyms: unknot, unpick, unravel, untangle |
| unsettle | (verb) disturb the composure of | Synonyms: enervate, faze, unnerve |
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| unstaple | (verb) take the staples off | - |
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| untangle | (verb) become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of | Synonyms: unknot, unpick, unravel, unscramble |
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| (verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disencumber, disentangle, extricate |
| upcycle | (verb) To transform an old product into a newer and more expensive form with a different use | - |
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| waddle | (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, paddle, toddle, totter |
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| waffle | (verb) pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness | Synonyms: hesitate, waver |
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| waggle | (verb) move from side to side | Synonyms: wag |
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| (verb) move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion | Synonyms: wamble |
| wamble | (verb) move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion | Synonyms: waggle |
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| wangle | (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: finagle, manage |
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| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent |
| warble | (verb) sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below | Synonyms: quaver, trill |
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| (verb) sing by changing register; sing by yodeling | Synonyms: descant, yodel |
| wattle | (verb) interlace to form wattle | - |
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| (verb) build of or with wattle | - |
| whale | (verb) hunt for whales | - |
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| wheedle | (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: blarney, cajole, coax, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk |
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| whistle | (verb) utter or express by whistling | - |
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| (verb) make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound | Synonyms: sing |
| (verb) give a signal by whistling | - |
| (verb) move with, or as with, a whistling sound | - |
| (verb) move, send, or bring as if by whistling | - |
| (verb) make whistling sounds | - |
| whittle | (verb) cut small bits or pare shavings from | Synonyms: pare |
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| wholesale | (verb) sell in large quantities | - |
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| wiggle | (verb) move to and fro | Synonyms: jiggle, joggle |
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| winkle | (verb) remove or displace from a position | Synonyms: winkle out |
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| (verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: blink, flash, twinkle, wink |
| (verb) emit or reflect light in a flickering manner | Synonyms: scintillate, twinkle |
| wobble | (verb) move unsteadily | Synonyms: coggle |
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| (verb) tremble or shake | Synonyms: shimmy |
| (verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: careen, shift, tilt |
| wrangle | (verb) to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively | Synonyms: brawl |
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| (verb) herd and care for | - |
| wrestle | (verb) engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate | - |
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| (verb) combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force | - |
| (verb) engage in a wrestling match | - |
| (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, twist, worm, wriggle, writhe |
| wriggle | (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, twist, worm, wrestle, writhe |
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| wrinkle | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crumple, rumple |
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| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up |
| (verb) gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker | Synonyms: purse |
| (verb) make wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: crease, furrow |