| rare | (adjective) marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind | Synonyms: uncommon |
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| (adjective) recurring only at long intervals | - |
| (adjective) (of meat) cooked a short time; still red inside | - |
| (adjective) not widely distributed | - |
| (adjective) having low density | Synonyms: rarefied, rarified |
| (adjective) not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness | - |
| rarebit | (noun) cheese melted with ale or beer served over toast | Synonyms: Welsh rabbit, Welsh rarebit |
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| rarefaction | (noun) a decrease in the density of something | - |
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| rarefied | (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: elevated, exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarified, sublime |
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| (adjective) having low density | Synonyms: rare, rarified |
| rarefy | (verb) weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) | Synonyms: attenuate |
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| (verb) make more subtle or refined | Synonyms: sublimate, subtilize |
| (verb) lessen the density or solidity of | - |
| rarely | (adverb) not often | Synonyms: seldom |
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| rareness | (noun) noteworthy scarcity | Synonyms: infrequency, rarity |
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| roarer | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, bellower, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
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| sangaree | (noun) sweetened red wine and orange or lemon juice with soda water | Synonyms: sangria |
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| saree | (noun) a dress worn primarily by Hindu women; consists of several yards of light material that is draped around the body | Synonyms: sari |
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| scare | (noun) a sudden attack of fear | Synonyms: panic attack |
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| (noun) sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events | Synonyms: panic |
| (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, fright, frighten |
| (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare away, scare off |
| scarecrow | (noun) an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds | Synonyms: bird-scarer, scarer, straw man, strawman |
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| scarecrowish | (adjective) resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged | - |
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| scared | (adjective) made afraid | Synonyms: frightened |
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| scaremonger | (noun) a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble | Synonyms: stirrer |
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| scarer | (noun) an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds | Synonyms: bird-scarer, scarecrow, straw man, strawman |
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| scillaren | (noun) a crystalline steroidal glycoside present in squill (Drimia maritima). | - |
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| seafarer | (noun) a man who serves as a sailor | Synonyms: gob, Jack-tar, Jack, mariner, old salt, sea dog, seaman, tar |
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| seared | (adjective) having the surface burned quickly with intense heat | - |
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| semitransparency | (noun) the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely | Synonyms: translucence, translucency |
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| semitransparent | (adjective) allowing light to pass through diffusely | Synonyms: translucent |
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| share | (noun) the allotment of some amount by dividing something | Synonyms: parcel, portion |
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| (noun) the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result | Synonyms: contribution, part |
| (noun) a sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil | Synonyms: ploughshare, plowshare |
| (noun) assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group | Synonyms: part, percentage, portion |
| (noun) any of the equal portions into which the capital stock of a corporation is divided and ownership of which is evidenced by a stock certificate | - |
| (verb) communicate | - |
| (verb) give out as one's portion or share | Synonyms: apportion, deal, divvy up, portion out |
| (verb) have, give, or receive a share of | Synonyms: partake, partake in |
| (verb) use jointly or in common | - |
| (verb) have in common | - |
| sharecropper | (noun) small farmers and tenants | Synonyms: cropper, sharecrop farmer |
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| shared | (adjective) have in common; held or experienced in common | - |
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| (adjective) distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose | Synonyms: divided, divided up, shared out |
| shareholder | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareowner, stockholder |
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| shareholding | (noun) a holding in the form of shares of corporations | - |
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| shareowner | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareholder, stockholder |
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| sharer | (noun) someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share | Synonyms: partaker |
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| shareware | (noun) software that is available free of charge; may be distributed for evaluation with a fee requested for additional features or a manual etc. | - |
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| sheared | (adjective) having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers | Synonyms: shorn |
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| (adjective) (used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length | - |
| shearer | (noun) a skilled worker who shears the wool off of sheep or other animals | - |
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| (noun) a workman who uses shears to cut leather or metal or textiles | - |
| shivaree | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, callithump, charivari, chivaree |
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| silverware | (noun) tableware made of silver or silver plate or pewter or stainless steel | - |
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| skincare | (noun) care for the skin | Synonyms: skin care |
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| snare | (noun) a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose | Synonyms: gin, noose |
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| (noun) strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit | - |
| (noun) a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head | Synonyms: side drum, snare drum |
| (noun) a surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities | - |
| (noun) something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares | Synonyms: trap |
| (verb) entice and trap | Synonyms: hook |
| (verb) catch in or as if in a trap | Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, trammel, trap |
| snarer | (noun) someone who sets snares for birds or small animals | - |
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| software | (noun) (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory | Synonyms: computer software, package, software package, software program, software system |
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| spare | (adjective) lacking in magnitude or quantity | Synonyms: bare, scanty |
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| (adjective) thin and fit | Synonyms: trim |
| (adjective) lacking embellishment or ornamentation | Synonyms: bare, plain, unembellished, unornamented |
| (adjective) not taken up by scheduled activities | Synonyms: free |
| (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: excess, extra, redundant, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus |
| (adjective) kept in reserve especially for emergency use | - |
| (noun) a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls | - |
| (noun) an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle | Synonyms: fifth wheel |
| (noun) an extra component of a machine or other apparatus | Synonyms: spare part |
| (verb) use frugally or carefully | - |
| (verb) give up what is not strictly needed | Synonyms: dispense with, give up, part with |
| (verb) refrain from harming | Synonyms: save |
| (verb) save or relieve from an experience or action | - |
| spareness | (noun) the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness | Synonyms: sparseness, sparsity, thinness |
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| (noun) the property of having little body fat | Synonyms: leanness, thinness |
| sparer | (noun) someone who refrains from injuring or destroying | - |
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| sparerib | (noun) a cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off | - |
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| spareribs | (noun) cut of pork from the rib section with most of the meat trimmed off | - |
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| (noun) baked or roasted with a spicy sauce | Synonyms: barbecued spareribs |
| spyware | (noun) computer software that obtains information from a user's computer without the user's knowledge or consent | - |
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| square | (adjective) having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by honesty and fairness | Synonyms: straight |
| (adjective) rigidly conventional or old-fashioned | Synonyms: straight |
| (adjective) without evasion or compromise | Synonyms: straight, straightforward |
| (adjective) leaving no balance | - |
| (adjective) providing abundant nourishment | Synonyms: hearty, satisfying, solid, substantial |
| (noun) a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles | - |
| (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 | - |
| (adverb) in a straight direct way | Synonyms: squarely |
| (adverb) firmly and solidly | Synonyms: squarely |
| (adverb) in a square shape | Synonyms: squarely |
| (verb) make square | Synonyms: square up |
| (verb) raise to the second power | - |
| (verb) turn the oar, while rowing | Synonyms: feather |
| (verb) turn the paddle; in canoeing | Synonyms: feather |
| (verb) position so as to be square | - |
| (verb) pay someone and settle a debt | - |
| (verb) be compatible with | - |
| (verb) cause to match, as of ideas or acts | - |
| squared | (adjective) having been made square | - |
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| squarely | (adverb) with firmness and conviction; without compromise | Synonyms: foursquare, straightforwardly |
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| (adverb) firmly and solidly | Synonyms: square |
| (adverb) in a square shape | Synonyms: square |
| (adverb) directly and without evasion; not roundabout | Synonyms: forthright, forthrightly |
| (adverb) in a straight direct way | Synonyms: 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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| stare | (noun) a fixed look with eyes open wide | - |
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| (verb) fixate one's eyes | - |
| (verb) look at with fixed eyes | Synonyms: gaze |
| starer | (noun) a viewer who gazes fixedly (often with hostility) | - |
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| starets | (noun) a religious adviser (not necessarily a priest) in the Eastern Orthodox Church | - |
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| stepparent | (noun) the spouse of your parent by a subsequent marriage | - |
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| stoneware | (noun) ceramic ware that is fired in high heat and vitrified and nonporous | - |
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| sugared | (adjective) with sweetening added | Synonyms: sweet-flavored, sweet, sweetened |
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| suprarenalectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both adrenal glands | Synonyms: adrenalectomy |
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| swearer | (noun) someone who takes a solemn oath | - |
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| (noun) someone who uses profanity | - |
| tableware | (noun) articles for use at the table (dishes and silverware and glassware) | - |
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| talebearer | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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| tare | (noun) (chemical analysis) a counterweight used in chemical analysis; consists of an empty container that counterbalances the weight of the container holding chemicals | - |
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| (noun) the weight of a motor vehicle, railroad car, or aircraft without its fuel or cargo | - |
| (noun) any of several weedy vetches grown for forage | - |
| (noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, cheat, darnel, Lolium temulentum |
| (noun) an adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods | - |
| thoroughfare | (noun) a public road from one place to another | - |
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| threadbare | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
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| (adjective) having the nap worn away so that the threads show through | - |
| tinware | (noun) articles of commerce made of tin plate | - |
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| torchbearer | (noun) a leader in a campaign or movement | - |
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| trainbearer | (noun) one who holds up the train of a gown or robe on a ceremonial occasion | - |
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| transparence | (noun) the quality of being clear and transparent | Synonyms: transparency, transparentness |
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| (noun) permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: transparency |
| transparency | (noun) picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector | Synonyms: foil |
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| (noun) the quality of being clear and transparent | Synonyms: transparence, transparentness |
| (noun) permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: transparence |
| transparent | (adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, crystalline, limpid, lucid, pellucid |
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| (adjective) easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety) | - |
| (adjective) free of deceit | Synonyms: guileless |
| (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, vaporous, vapourous |
| transparently | (adverb) so as to allow the passage of light | - |
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| (adverb) so as to be easily understood or seen through | - |
| transparentness | (noun) the quality of being clear and transparent | Synonyms: transparence, transparency |
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| tularemia | (noun) a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals | Synonyms: deer fly fever, rabbit fever, tularaemia, yatobyo |
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| unappareled | (adjective) having removed clothing | Synonyms: unattired, unclad, undressed, ungarbed, ungarmented |
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| unapparent | (adjective) not readily apparent | - |
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| unaware | (adjective) (often followed by `of') not aware | Synonyms: incognizant |
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| unawareness | (noun) unconsciousness resulting from lack of knowledge or attention | Synonyms: unknowingness |
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| unawares | (adverb) suddenly and unexpectedly | - |
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| (adverb) without forethought or plan; inadvertently | - |
| (adverb) at a disadvantage | Synonyms: short |
| uncleared | (adjective) not cleared; not rid of objects or obstructions | - |
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| undeclared | (adjective) not announced or openly acknowledged | - |
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| ungeared | (adjective) having gears not engaged or disconnected | - |
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| unparented | (adjective) having no parent or parents or not cared for by parent surrogates | Synonyms: parentless |
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| unpillared | (adjective) lacking pillars | - |
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| unprepared | (adjective) without preparation; not prepared for | - |
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| unshared | (adjective) not shared | - |
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| unsheared | (adjective) not sheared | Synonyms: unshorn |
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| (adjective) (used especially of fur or wool) not having been sheared | - |
| unsugared | (adjective) with no sugar added | - |
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| ware | (noun) articles of the same kind or material; usually used in combination: `silverware', `software' | - |
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| (noun) items for sale to the individual consumer | Synonyms: merchandise, product |
| (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: consume, squander, waste |
| warehouse | (noun) a storehouse for goods and merchandise | Synonyms: storage warehouse |
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| (verb) store in a warehouse | - |
| warehouseman | (noun) a workman who manages or works in a warehouse | Synonyms: warehouser |
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| warehouser | (noun) a workman who manages or works in a warehouse | Synonyms: warehouseman |
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| warehousing | (noun) depositing in a warehouse | Synonyms: repositing, reposition, storage |
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| warfare | (noun) the waging of armed conflict against an enemy | Synonyms: war |
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| (noun) an active struggle between competing entities | Synonyms: war |
| wayfarer | (noun) a traveler going on a trip | Synonyms: journeyer |
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| (noun) a pedestrian who walks from place to place | - |
| wearer | (noun) a person who wears or carries or displays something as a body covering or accessory | - |
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| welfare | (noun) governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need | Synonyms: public assistance, social welfare |
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| (noun) something that aids or promotes well-being | Synonyms: benefit |
| (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaemonia, eudaimonia, upbeat, well-being, wellbeing |
| willowware | (noun) chinaware decorated with a blue Chinese design on a white background depicting a willow tree and often a river | Synonyms: willow-pattern |
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| woodenware | (noun) ware for domestic use made of wood | - |
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