| strawboard | (noun) a coarse yellow cardboard made of straw pulp | - |
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| strawflower | (noun) Australian plant naturalized in Spain having flowers of lemon yellow to deep gold; the frequent choice of those who love dried flowers | Synonyms: golden everlasting, Helichrysum bracteatum, yellow paper daisy |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Helipterum | - |
| (noun) plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried | Synonyms: cornflower, Uvularia grandiflora |
| strawman | (noun) an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds | Synonyms: bird-scarer, scarecrow, scarer, straw man |
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| (noun) a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted | Synonyms: straw man |
| (noun) a person used as a cover for some questionable activity | Synonyms: figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man |
| strawworm | (noun) larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains | Synonyms: jointworm |
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| (noun) larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris | Synonyms: caddisworm |
| takeaway | (noun) the act of taking the ball or puck away from the team on the offense (as by the interception of a pass) | - |
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| (noun) a concession made by a labor union to a company that is trying to lower its expenditures | - |
| (noun) prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises | Synonyms: takeout, takeout food |
| taw | (noun) a large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles | Synonyms: shooter |
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| (noun) the 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
| tawdrily | (adverb) in a tastelessly garish manner | Synonyms: garishly, gaudily |
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| tawdriness | (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness |
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| tawdry | (adjective) made of inferior workmanship and materials | Synonyms: cheapjack, shoddy |
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| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, trashy |
| tawniness | (noun) the quality or state of being the color of tanned leather | - |
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| tawny | (adjective) of a light brown to brownish orange color; the color of tanned leather | Synonyms: tawny-brown |
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| tawse | (noun) a leather strap for punishing children | - |
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| tearaway | (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap |
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| (noun) a reckless and impetuous person | - |
| thaw | (noun) a relaxation or slackening of tensions or reserve; becoming less hostile | - |
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| (noun) warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt | Synonyms: thawing, warming |
| (noun) the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid | Synonyms: melt, melting, thawing |
| (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dethaw, dissolve, melt, unfreeze, unthaw |
| thawed | (adjective) no longer frozen solid | - |
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| (adjective) no longer frozen | - |
| thawing | (noun) warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt | Synonyms: thaw, warming |
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| (noun) the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid | Synonyms: melt, melting, thaw |
| throwaway | (adjective) intended to be thrown away after use | - |
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| (adjective) thrown away | Synonyms: cast-off, discarded, thrown-away |
| (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill |
| (noun) words spoken in a casual way with conscious under-emphasis | - |
| (noun) (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets | Synonyms: gamin, street arab |
| tomahawk | (noun) weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American Indians | Synonyms: hatchet |
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| (verb) cut with a tomahawk | - |
| (verb) kill with a tomahawk | - |
| trawl | (noun) a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths | Synonyms: dragnet, trawl net |
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| (noun) a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) | Synonyms: setline, spiller, trawl line, trotline |
| (verb) fish with trawlers | - |
| trawler | (noun) a fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish | Synonyms: dragger |
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| (noun) a fisherman who use a trawl net | - |
| umbrellawort | (noun) a plant of the genus Mirabilis | - |
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| unawakened | (adjective) not aroused or activated | - |
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| (adjective) still asleep | - |
| 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 |
| unawed | (adjective) not awed | - |
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| underdrawers | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, boxershorts, drawers, shorts |
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| undrawn | (adjective) not represented in a drawing | - |
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| unflawed | (adjective) without a flaw | Synonyms: flawless |
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| unlawful | (adjective) contrary to or prohibited by or defiant of law | - |
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| (adjective) contrary to or forbidden by law | Synonyms: illegitimate, illicit, outlaw, outlawed |
| (adjective) having no legally established claim | Synonyms: wrongful |
| (adjective) not morally right or permissible | - |
| (adjective) not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention | Synonyms: improper, unconventional |
| unlawfully | (adverb) not conforming to the law | - |
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| unlawfulness | (noun) the quality of failing to conform to law | - |
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| unseaworthy | (adjective) unfit for a voyage | - |
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| unthaw | (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dethaw, dissolve, melt, thaw, unfreeze |
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| unthawed | (adjective) still frozen | - |
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| walkaway | (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: blowout, laugher, romp, runaway, shoo-in |
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| waw | (noun) the 6th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| wawl | (verb) make high-pitched, whiney noises | Synonyms: squall, waul |
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| whipsaw | (noun) a saw with handles at both ends; intended for use by two people | Synonyms: lumberman's saw, two-handed saw, two-man saw |
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| (verb) saw with a whipsaw | - |
| (verb) victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations | - |
| withdraw | (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: seclude, sequester, sequestrate |
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| (verb) remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract | Synonyms: remove, take, take away |
| (verb) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, retreat |
| (verb) take back what one has said | Synonyms: swallow, take back, unsay |
| (verb) release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles | Synonyms: disengage |
| (verb) lose interest | Synonyms: retire |
| (verb) pull back or move away or backward | Synonyms: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retire, retreat |
| (verb) remove (a commodity) from (a supply source) | Synonyms: draw, draw off, take out |
| (verb) cause to be returned | Synonyms: call back, call in, recall |
| (verb) break from a meeting or gathering | Synonyms: adjourn, retire |
| (verb) withdraw from active participation | Synonyms: retire |
| (verb) retire gracefully | Synonyms: bow out |
| withdrawal | (noun) the act of withdrawing | - |
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| (noun) formal separation from an alliance or federation | Synonyms: secession |
| (noun) the termination of drug taking | Synonyms: drug withdrawal |
| (noun) the act of taking out money or other capital | - |
| (noun) a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation | Synonyms: coitus interruptus, onanism, pulling out, withdrawal method |
| (noun) the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc. | - |
| (noun) the act of ceasing to participate in an activity | - |
| (noun) a retraction of a previously held position | Synonyms: backdown, climb-down |
| (noun) avoiding emotional involvement | Synonyms: detachment |
| withdrawer | (noun) a depositor who withdraws funds previously deposited | - |
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| (noun) a student who withdraws from the educational institution in which he or she was enrolled | - |
| (noun) a contestant who withdraws from competition | - |
| (noun) a drug addict who is discontinuing the use of narcotics | - |
| (noun) an individualist who withdraws from social interaction | - |
| (noun) an authority who withdraws permission | - |
| withdrawn | (adjective) tending to reserve or introspection | Synonyms: indrawn |
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| (adjective) withdrawn from society; seeking solitude | Synonyms: recluse, reclusive |
| withdrawnness | (noun) a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner | Synonyms: aloofness, remoteness, standoffishness |
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| wrawl | (verb) cry loudly, as of animals | Synonyms: howl, yammer, yowl |
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| yaw | (noun) an erratic deflection from an intended course | Synonyms: swerve |
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| (verb) deviate erratically from a set course | - |
| (verb) swerve off course momentarily | - |
| (verb) be wide open | Synonyms: gape, yawn |
| yawl | (noun) a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost | Synonyms: dandy |
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| (noun) a ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars) | - |
| (verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, roar, ululate, wail, yaup |
| yawn | (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitance, oscitancy, yawning |
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| (verb) utter a yawn, as from lack of oxygen or when one is tired | - |
| (verb) be wide open | Synonyms: gape, yaw |
| yawner | (noun) a person who yawns | - |
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| yawning | (adjective) showing lack of attention or boredom | Synonyms: drowsy, oscitant |
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| (adjective) gaping open as if threatening to engulf someone or something | - |
| (adjective) with the mouth wide open indicating boredom or sleepiness | - |
| (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitance, oscitancy, yawn |
| yawp | (verb) complain whiningly | Synonyms: grizzle, whine, yammer |
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| (verb) make a raucous noise | Synonyms: bawl |
| yaws | (noun) an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions | Synonyms: frambesia, framboesia |
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| zebrawood | (noun) any of various trees or shrubs having mottled or striped wood | Synonyms: zebrawood tree |
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| (noun) handsomely striped or mottled wood of the zebrawood tree; used especially for cabinetwork | - |