| slayer | (noun) someone who causes the death of a person or animal | Synonyms: killer |
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| slaying | (noun) unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being | Synonyms: execution, murder |
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| slideway | (noun) sloping channel through which things can descend | Synonyms: chute, slide, sloping trough |
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| slipway | (noun) structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired | Synonyms: shipway, ways |
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| sluiceway | (noun) conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate | Synonyms: penstock, sluice |
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| someday | (adverb) some unspecified time in the future | - |
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| someway | (adverb) in some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means | Synonyms: somehow, someways |
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| someways | (adverb) in some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means | Synonyms: somehow, someway |
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| soothsayer | (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: forecaster, predictor, prognosticator |
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| soothsaying | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: divination, foretelling, fortune telling |
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| spay | (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: alter, castrate, neuter |
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| spayed | (adjective) (of a female animal) having the ovaries removed | - |
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| spaying | (noun) neutering a female by removing the ovaries | - |
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| speedway | (noun) a racetrack for racing automobiles or motorcycles | - |
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| (noun) road where high speed driving is allowed | - |
| spillway | (noun) a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction | Synonyms: spill, wasteweir |
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| splay | (adjective) turned outward in an ungainly manner | - |
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| (noun) an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger | - |
| (verb) move out of position | Synonyms: dislocate, luxate, slip |
| (verb) turn outward | Synonyms: rotate, spread out, turn out |
| (verb) spread open or apart | - |
| splayfoot | (adjective) having feet that turn outward | Synonyms: splayfooted |
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| (noun) a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out | Synonyms: flatfoot, pes planus |
| splayfooted | (adjective) having feet that turn outward | Synonyms: splayfoot |
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| spray | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, sprayer |
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| (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a single branch or shoot bearing flowers and foliage | - |
| (noun) a jet of vapor | - |
| (noun) a quantity of small objects flying through the air | Synonyms: spraying |
| (noun) water in small drops in the atmosphere; blown from waves or thrown up by a waterfall | - |
| (noun) a pesticide in suspension or solution; intended for spraying | - |
| (verb) scatter in a mass or jet of droplets | - |
| (verb) be discharged in sprays of liquid | - |
| (verb) cover by spraying with a liquid | - |
| sprayer | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray |
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| (noun) a worker who applies spray to a surface | - |
| spraying | (noun) the application of a liquid in the form of small particles ejected from a sprayer | - |
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| (noun) the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft) | Synonyms: crop-dusting |
| (noun) a quantity of small objects flying through the air | Synonyms: spray |
| stairway | (noun) a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps | Synonyms: staircase |
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| stay | (noun) continuing or remaining in a place or state | - |
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| (noun) (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar | - |
| (noun) a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset) | - |
| (noun) a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted | - |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stop, stoppage |
| (verb) stay the same; remain in a certain state | Synonyms: remain, rest |
| (verb) stop or halt | Synonyms: delay, detain |
| (verb) overcome or allay | Synonyms: appease, quell |
| (verb) fasten with stays | - |
| (verb) be in a certain place and not leave | Synonyms: persist, remain, stay put, stick, stick around |
| (verb) stop a judicial process | - |
| (verb) dwell | Synonyms: abide, bide |
| (verb) continue in a place, position, or situation | Synonyms: continue, remain, stay on |
| (verb) hang on during a trial of endurance | Synonyms: last out, outride, ride out |
| stayer | (noun) a person or other animal having powers of endurance or perseverance | - |
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| stays | (noun) a woman's close-fitting foundation garment | Synonyms: corset, girdle |
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| staysail | (noun) a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay (as between two masts) | - |
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| steerageway | (noun) (nautical) the minimum rate of motion needed for a vessel to be maneuvered | - |
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| stingray | (noun) large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable of inflicting severe wounds | - |
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| stowaway | (noun) a person who hides aboard a ship or plane in the hope of getting free passage | - |
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| straightaway | (adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: immediate, prompt, quick |
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| (noun) a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse | Synonyms: straight |
| (adverb) without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening | Synonyms: at once, directly, forthwith, immediately, instantly, like a shot, now, right away, straight off |
| straightway | (adverb) in a direct course | - |
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| (adverb) at once | - |
| stray | (adjective) (of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home | - |
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| (adjective) not close together in time | Synonyms: isolated |
| (noun) an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal) | - |
| (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, divagate, wander |
| (verb) wander from a direct course or at random | Synonyms: drift, err |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| strayer | (noun) someone who strays or falls behind | Synonyms: straggler |
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| straying | (adjective) unable to find your way | - |
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| subway | (noun) an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) | Synonyms: metro, subway system, tube, underground |
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| (noun) an underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway | Synonyms: underpass |
| sunray | (noun) a ray of sunlight | Synonyms: sunbeam |
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| (noun) a ray of artificial ultraviolet light from a sunray lamp | Synonyms: sun-ray |
| (noun) herb having a basal cluster of grey-green leaves and leafless stalks each with a solitary broad yellow flower head; desert areas Idaho to Arizona | Synonyms: Enceliopsis nudicaulis |
| superhighway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, throughway, thruway |
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| (noun) an extensive electronic network (such as the internet) used for the rapid transfer of sound and video and graphics in digital form | Synonyms: information superhighway |
| sway | (noun) pitching dangerously to one side | Synonyms: careen, rock, tilt |
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| (noun) controlling influence | - |
| (verb) move back and forth or sideways | Synonyms: rock, shake |
| (verb) move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner | Synonyms: swing |
| (verb) cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: rock |
| (verb) win approval or support for | Synonyms: carry, persuade |
| swayback | (adjective) having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses) | Synonyms: dipped, lordotic, swaybacked |
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| swaybacked | (adjective) having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses) | Synonyms: dipped, lordotic, swayback |
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| swayer | (noun) a person who rules or commands | Synonyms: ruler |
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| swordplay | (noun) the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully | Synonyms: play |
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| 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 |
| tatouay | (noun) naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America | Synonyms: cabassous, Cabassous unicinctus |
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| taxiway | (noun) a paved surface in the form of a strip; used by planes taxiing to or from the runway at an airport | Synonyms: taxi strip |
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| taxpayer | (noun) someone who pays taxes | - |
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| taxpaying | (adjective) not exempt from paying taxes | - |
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| tayra | (noun) long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central America and South America | Synonyms: Eira barbara, taira |
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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 | - |
| throughway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, thruway |
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| 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 |
| thruway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway |
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| tideway | (noun) a channel in which a tidal current runs | - |
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| today | (noun) the present time or age | - |
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| (noun) the day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow) | - |
| (adverb) on this day as distinct from yesterday or tomorrow | - |
| (adverb) in these times | Synonyms: now, nowadays |
| tracklayer | (noun) a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks | Synonyms: platelayer |
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| tramway | (noun) the track on which trams or streetcars run | Synonyms: streetcar track, tramline |
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| (noun) a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers | Synonyms: aerial tramway, cable tramway, ropeway, tram |
| tray | (noun) an open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food | - |
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| trayful | (noun) as much as a tray will hold; enough to fill a tray. | - |
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| twayblade | (noun) orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown; Europe to central Asia | Synonyms: Listera ovata |
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| (noun) an orchid of the genus Liparis having a pair of leaves | - |
| underlay | (noun) a pad placed under a carpet | Synonyms: carpet pad, rug pad, underlayment |
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| (verb) provide with a base, support, lining, or backing | - |
| (verb) put (something) under or beneath | - |
| (verb) raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type | - |
| underlayment | (noun) a pad placed under a carpet | Synonyms: carpet pad, rug pad, underlay |
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| underpay | (verb) pay too little | - |
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| underpayment | (noun) the act of paying less than required | - |
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| (noun) a payment smaller than needed or expected | - |
| underplay | (verb) play a card lower than (a held high card) | - |
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| (verb) act (a role) with great restraint | Synonyms: underact |
| underway | (adjective) currently in progress | Synonyms: afoot |
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| undismayed | (adjective) unshaken in purpose | Synonyms: undaunted, unshaken |
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| unplayable | (adjective) not capable of or suitable for being played or played on | - |
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| unplayful | (adjective) completely lacking in playfulness | Synonyms: serious, sober |
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| unsay | (verb) take back what one has said | Synonyms: swallow, take back, withdraw |
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| unswayed | (adjective) not influenced or affected | Synonyms: uninfluenced, untouched |
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| vacay | (noun) informal term for vacation | Synonyms: vac |
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| walkaway | (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: blowout, laugher, romp, runaway, shoo-in |
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| walkway | (noun) a path set aside for walking | Synonyms: paseo, walk |
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| washday | (noun) a day set aside for doing household laundry | Synonyms: washing day |
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| waterway | (noun) a conduit through which water flows | Synonyms: watercourse |
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| (noun) a navigable body of water | - |
| way | (noun) a course of conduct | Synonyms: path, way of life |
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| (noun) to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end | Synonyms: agency, means |
| (noun) a journey or passage | - |
| (noun) any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another | - |
| (noun) how something is done or how it happens | Synonyms: fashion, manner, mode, style |
| (noun) the property of distance in general | - |
| (noun) doing as one pleases or chooses | - |
| (noun) a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of' | - |
| (noun) a line leading to a place or point | Synonyms: direction |
| (noun) a portion of something divided into shares | - |
| (noun) space for movement | Synonyms: elbow room, room |
| (noun) the condition of things generally | - |
| (adverb) to a great degree or by a great distance; very much (`right smart' is regional in the United States) | Synonyms: right smart |
| waybill | (noun) a receipt given by the carrier to the shipper acknowledging receipt of the goods being shipped and specifying the terms of delivery | Synonyms: bill of lading |
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| wayfarer | (noun) a traveler going on a trip | Synonyms: journeyer |
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| (noun) a pedestrian who walks from place to place | - |
| wayfaring | (adjective) traveling especially on foot | Synonyms: peripatetic |
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| (noun) traveling (especially on foot) | - |
| waylay | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper |
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| ways | (noun) structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired | Synonyms: shipway, slipway |
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| wayside | (noun) edge of a way or road or path | Synonyms: roadside |
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| wayward | (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrary, obstinate, perverse |
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| weekday | (noun) any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday) | - |
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| wordplay | (noun) a humorous play on words | Synonyms: paronomasia, pun, punning |
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| workaday | (adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: everyday, mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable |
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| workday | (noun) the amount of time that a worker must work for an agreed daily wage | Synonyms: working day |
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| (noun) a day on which work is done | Synonyms: work day, working day |
| yesterday | (noun) the recent past | - |
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| (noun) the day immediately before today | - |
| (adverb) on the day preceding today | - |
| (adverb) in the recent past; only a short time ago | - |
| zayin | (noun) the 7th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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