| rattled | (adjective) thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term) | Synonyms: flustered, hot and bothered, perturbed |
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| rattlepated | (adjective) lacking sense or discretion | Synonyms: rattlebrained, scatterbrained, scatty |
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| rattler | (noun) pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken | Synonyms: rattlesnake |
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| (noun) a railroad train consisting of freight cars | Synonyms: freight train |
| rattlesnake | (noun) pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken | Synonyms: rattler |
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| rattling | (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, lively, merry, snappy, spanking, zippy |
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| (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
| (noun) a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders) | Synonyms: rale, rattle |
| (adverb) used to give emphasis | Synonyms: real, really, very |
| rattrap | (noun) a trap for catching rats | - |
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| (noun) filthy run-down dilapidated housing | - |
| (noun) a difficult entangling situation | - |
| ratty | (adjective) of or characteristic of rats | - |
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| (adjective) dirty and infested with rats | - |
| (adjective) showing signs of wear and tear | Synonyms: moth-eaten, shabby, tatty |
| reattribute | (verb) attribute to another source | - |
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| regatta | (noun) a meeting for boat races | - |
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| scatter | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scattering, strewing |
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| (noun) a haphazard distribution in all directions | Synonyms: spread |
| (verb) cause to separate | Synonyms: break up, disperse |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, sprinkle |
| (verb) sow by scattering | - |
| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: disperse, dissipate, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, disperse, dissipate |
| (verb) strew or distribute over an area | Synonyms: spread, spread out |
| scatterbrain | (noun) a flighty and disorganized person | Synonyms: forgetful person |
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| scatterbrained | (adjective) lacking sense or discretion | Synonyms: rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatty |
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| (adjective) guided by whim and fancy | Synonyms: flighty, flyaway, head-in-the-clouds |
| scattered | (adjective) occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space | - |
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| (adjective) lacking orderly continuity | Synonyms: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, unconnected |
| scattergood | (noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: spend-all, spender, spendthrift |
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| scattergun | (noun) firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges | Synonyms: shotgun |
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| scattering | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scatter, strewing |
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| (noun) spreading widely or driving off | Synonyms: dispersion |
| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: sprinkle, sprinkling |
| (noun) the physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions | - |
| (noun) a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly | Synonyms: sprinkling |
| scattershot | (adjective) covering a wide range in a haphazard way | - |
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| scatty | (adjective) lacking sense or discretion | Synonyms: rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained |
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| (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, absentminded, abstracted |
| shatter | (verb) break into many pieces | - |
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| (verb) cause to break into many pieces | - |
| (verb) damage or destroy | - |
| shattered | (adjective) ruined or disrupted | Synonyms: tattered |
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| shattering | (adjective) seemingly loud enough to break something; violently rattling or clattering | - |
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| (noun) the act of breaking something into small pieces | Synonyms: smashing |
| shatterproof | (adjective) resistant to shattering or splintering | Synonyms: splinterless, splinterproof |
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| slattern | (noun) a dirty untidy woman | Synonyms: slovenly woman, slut, trollop |
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| (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, street girl, streetwalker |
| slatternliness | (noun) in the manner of a slattern | Synonyms: sluttishness |
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| slatternly | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowsy, blowzy, sluttish |
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| smatter | (verb) speak with spotty or superficial knowledge | - |
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| (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blather, blether, blither |
| (verb) work with in an amateurish manner | Synonyms: dabble, play around |
| smattering | (noun) a slight or superficial understanding of a subject | - |
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| (noun) a small number or amount | Synonyms: handful |
| spatter | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spattering, splash, splashing, splattering |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spattering, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputter, sputtering |
| (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, splash, splatter, splosh, swash |
| (verb) spot, splash, or soil | Synonyms: bespatter |
| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: patter, pitter-patter, spit, sprinkle |
| spatterdock | (noun) common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers; in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water | Synonyms: cow lily, Nuphar advena, yellow pond lily |
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| spattered | (adjective) covered with bright patches (often used in combination) | Synonyms: dabbled, splashed, splattered |
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| spattering | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spatter, splash, splashing, splattering |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputter, sputtering |
| splatter | (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splattering, splutter, sputter, sputtering |
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| (noun) a small quantity of something moist or liquid | Synonyms: dab, splash |
| (verb) cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container | Synonyms: slop, spill |
| (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splash, splosh, swash |
| splattered | (adjective) covered with bright patches (often used in combination) | Synonyms: dabbled, spattered, splashed |
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| splattering | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splash, splashing |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splutter, sputter, sputtering |
| 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 |
| squatty | (adjective) short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature | Synonyms: chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, stumpy |
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| superfatted | (adjective) (of soap) containing extra unsaponified fat | - |
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| swatter | (noun) an implement with a flat part (of mesh or plastic) and a long handle; used to kill insects | Synonyms: flyswat, flyswatter |
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| (verb) splash and flutter about in or as if in water | - |
| tatted | (adjective) having many tattooes | - |
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| tatter | (noun) a small piece of cloth | Synonyms: rag, shred, tag, tag end |
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| tatterdemalion | (adjective) worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing | Synonyms: tattered |
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| (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down |
| (noun) a dirty shabbily clothed urchin | Synonyms: ragamuffin |
| tattered | (adjective) ruined or disrupted | Synonyms: shattered |
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| (adjective) worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing | Synonyms: tatterdemalion |
| tattily | (adverb) in a cheap manner | Synonyms: cheaply, inexpensively |
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| tatting | (noun) the act or art of making handmade lace | Synonyms: lace making |
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| (noun) needlework consisting of handmade lace made by looping and knotting a single thread on a small shuttle | - |
| tattle | (noun) disclosing information or giving evidence about another | Synonyms: singing, telling |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| (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 |
| tattler | (noun) any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry | - |
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| (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattletale, telltale |
| tattletale | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, telltale |
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| tattling | (adjective) prone to communicate confidential information | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, leaky, talebearing |
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| tattoo | (noun) the practice of making a design on the skin by pricking and staining | - |
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| (noun) a design on the skin made by tattooing | - |
| (noun) a drumbeat or bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters | - |
| (verb) stain (skin) with indelible color | - |
| tatty | (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tawdry, trashy |
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| (adjective) showing signs of wear and tear | Synonyms: moth-eaten, ratty, shabby |
| unattached | (adjective) not associated in an exclusive sexual relationship | Synonyms: uncommitted |
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| (adjective) not fastened together | - |
| (adjective) (of animals) able to swim about; not attached | Synonyms: free-swimming |
| unattackable | (adjective) immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with | Synonyms: impregnable, inviolable, secure, strong, unassailable |
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| unattainability | (noun) The fact of being unattainable, of not being able to be reached or acquired. | - |
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| unattainable | (adjective) impossible to achieve | Synonyms: unachievable, undoable, unrealizable |
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| unattainableness | (noun) the state of being unattainable | - |
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| unattainably | (adverb) in an unattainable manner or to an unattainable degree | Synonyms: unachievably |
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| unattended | (adjective) lacking accompaniment or a guard or escort | - |
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| (adjective) lacking a caretaker | Synonyms: neglected |
| (adjective) not watched | - |
| unattired | (adjective) having removed clothing | Synonyms: unappareled, unclad, undressed, ungarbed, ungarmented |
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| unattractive | (adjective) lacking beauty or charm | - |
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| (adjective) lacking power to arouse interest | - |
| (adjective) not appealing to the senses | Synonyms: untempting |
| unattractively | (adverb) in an unattractive manner | - |
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| unattractiveness | (noun) an ugliness of appearance that is not appealing to viewers | - |
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| unattributable | (adjective) not attributable | Synonyms: unascribable |
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| unfattened | (adjective) (of market animals) not optimal for marketing | - |
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| unflattering | (adjective) showing or representing unfavorably | Synonyms: uncomplimentary |
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| unpatterned | (adjective) lacking patterns especially in color | Synonyms: plain |
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| watt | (noun) a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a resistance of 1 ohm | Synonyms: W |
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| wattage | (noun) the product of voltage and current | Synonyms: electric power, electrical power |
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| wattle | (noun) framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence | - |
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| (noun) a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards | Synonyms: lappet |
| (noun) any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle | - |
| (verb) interlace to form wattle | - |
| (verb) build of or with wattle | - |
| wattmeter | (noun) an instrument for measuring in watts the flow of power in an electrical circuit | - |
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| wildcatter | (noun) an oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not known to be an oil field | - |
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