| reader | (noun) one of a series of texts for students learning to read | - |
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| (noun) a person who enjoys reading | - |
| (noun) a public lecturer at certain universities | Synonyms: lector, lecturer |
| (noun) someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication | Synonyms: subscriber |
| (noun) a person who can read; a literate person | - |
| (noun) someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections | Synonyms: proofreader |
| (noun) someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication | Synonyms: referee, reviewer |
| (noun) someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: lector |
| readership | (noun) the audience reached by written communications (books or magazines or newspapers etc.) | - |
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| reconsider | (verb) consider again; give new consideration to; usually with a view to changing | - |
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| (verb) consider again (a bill) that had been voted upon before, with a view to altering it | - |
| reconsideration | (noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: afterthought, rethink, second thought |
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| (noun) a consideration of a topic (as in a meeting) with a view to changing an earlier decision | - |
| recorder | (noun) a tubular wind instrument with 8 finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece | Synonyms: fipple flute, fipple pipe, vertical flute |
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| (noun) equipment for making records | Synonyms: recording equipment, recording machine |
| (noun) someone responsible for keeping records | Synonyms: record-keeper, registrar |
| (noun) a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs | - |
| redheader | (noun) someone who has red hair | Synonyms: carrottop, red-header, redhead |
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| rejoinder | (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, replication, retort, return, riposte |
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| (noun) (law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replication | - |
| remainder | (noun) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold | Synonyms: end, oddment, remnant |
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| (noun) the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend | Synonyms: difference |
| (noun) the part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor | - |
| (noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest |
| (verb) sell cheaply as remainders | - |
| reminder | (noun) an experience that causes you to remember something | - |
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| (noun) a message that helps you remember something | - |
| (noun) someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided | Synonyms: admonisher, monitor |
| render | (noun) a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls | - |
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| (verb) cause to become | - |
| (verb) melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities | Synonyms: try |
| (verb) bestow | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) pass down | Synonyms: deliver, return |
| (verb) restate (words) from one language into another language | Synonyms: interpret, translate |
| (verb) coat with plastic or cement | - |
| (verb) give or supply | Synonyms: generate, give, return, yield |
| (verb) give an interpretation or rendition of | Synonyms: interpret |
| (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, picture, show |
| (verb) give back | Synonyms: return |
| (verb) make over as a return | Synonyms: submit |
| (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: furnish, offer, provide, supply |
| (verb) to surrender someone or something to another | Synonyms: deliver, fork out, fork over, fork up, hand over, turn in |
| rendering | (noun) giving in acknowledgment of obligation | - |
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| (noun) the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance | Synonyms: interpretation, rendition |
| (noun) perspective drawing of an architect's design | - |
| (noun) a coat of stucco applied to a masonry wall | - |
| (noun) an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | Synonyms: interpretation, interpreting, rendition |
| (noun) a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc. | Synonyms: rendition |
| (noun) a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language | Synonyms: interlingual rendition, translation, version |
| reorder | (noun) a repeated order for the same merchandise | - |
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| (verb) assign a new order to | - |
| (verb) make a new request to be supplied with | - |
| reordering | (noun) a rearrangement in a different order | - |
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| responder | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: answerer, respondent |
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| rider | (noun) a clause that is appended to a legislative bill | - |
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| (noun) a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel) | - |
| (noun) a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it | Synonyms: passenger |
| (noun) a traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or motorcycle) | - |
| righthander | (noun) a person who uses the right hand more skillfully than the left | Synonyms: right-hander, right hander |
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| rinderpest | (noun) an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes | Synonyms: cattle plague |
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| ringleader | (noun) a person who leads (especially in illicit activities) | - |
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| rollerblader | (noun) a skater who uses Rollerblades | - |
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| roughrider | (noun) a horseman skilled at breaking wild horses to the saddle | - |
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| rounder | (noun) a tool for rounding corners or edges | - |
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| (noun) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained | Synonyms: debauchee, libertine |
| rounders | (noun) an English ball game similar to baseball | - |
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| rudder | (noun) (nautical) steering mechanism consisting of a hinged vertical plate mounted at the stern of a vessel | - |
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| (noun) a hinged vertical airfoil mounted at the tail of an aircraft and used to make horizontal course changes | - |
| rudderfish | (noun) fish having the habit of following ships; found in North American and South American coastal waters | Synonyms: banded rudderfish, Seriola zonata |
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| (noun) food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships | Synonyms: Bermuda chub, Kyphosus sectatrix |
| rudderless | (adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: adrift, afloat, aimless, directionless, planless, undirected |
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| rudderpost | (noun) a vertical post at the forward edge of a rudder that enables the rudder to pivot | Synonyms: rudderstock |
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| rudderstock | (noun) a vertical post at the forward edge of a rudder that enables the rudder to pivot | Synonyms: rudderpost |
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| salamander | (noun) any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed | - |
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| (noun) fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire | Synonyms: fire hook, poker, stove poker |
| (noun) reptilian creature supposed to live in fire | - |
| sander | (noun) a power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor | Synonyms: drum sander, electric sander, smoother |
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| sanderling | (noun) small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world | Synonyms: Crocethia alba |
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| scleroderma | (noun) an autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels and connective tissue; fibrous connective tissue is deposited in the skin | Synonyms: dermatosclerosis |
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| scolder | (noun) someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault | Synonyms: common scold, nag, nagger, scold |
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| seconder | (noun) someone who endorses a motion or petition as a necessary preliminary to a discussion or vote | - |
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| seeder | (noun) a kitchen utensil that removes seeds from fruit | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical device that sows grass seed or grain evenly over the ground | - |
| (noun) a person who seeds clouds | Synonyms: cloud seeder |
| sender | (noun) set used to broadcast radio or tv signals | Synonyms: transmitter |
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| (noun) someone who transmits a message | Synonyms: transmitter |
| shareholder | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareowner, stockholder |
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| shedder | (noun) an attacker who sheds or spills blood | Synonyms: spiller |
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| sheepherder | (noun) a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock | Synonyms: sheepman, shepherd |
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| shielder | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: defender, guardian, protector |
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| shipbuilder | (noun) a business that builds and repairs ships | - |
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| (noun) a person who builds ships as a business | Synonyms: ship builder |
| (noun) a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels | Synonyms: ship builder, shipwright |
| shoulder | (noun) a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road | Synonyms: berm |
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| (noun) the part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder | - |
| (noun) the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm | - |
| (noun) a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula | Synonyms: articulatio humeri, shoulder joint |
| (noun) a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg | - |
| (verb) push with the shoulders | - |
| (verb) carry a burden, either real or metaphoric | - |
| (verb) lift onto one's shoulders | - |
| shouldered | (adjective) having shoulders or shoulders as specified; usually used as a combining form | - |
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| shredder | (noun) a device that shreds documents (usually in order to prevent the wrong people from reading them) | - |
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| shudder | (noun) an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear) | Synonyms: tremor |
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| (noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, frisson, quiver, shiver, thrill, tingle |
| (verb) shake, as from cold | Synonyms: shiver |
| (verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shiver, thrill, throb |
| shuddering | (adjective) shaking convulsively or violently | - |
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| shudderingly | (adverb) with a shudder | - |
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| shuddery | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: chilling, scary, shivery |
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| sidereal | (adjective) (of divisions of time) determined by daily motion of the stars | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the stars or constellations | - |
| siderite | (noun) a meteorite consisting principally of nickel and iron | - |
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| (noun) iron ore in the form of ferrous carbonate | Synonyms: chalybite |
| sideroblast | (noun) an erythroblast having granules of ferritin | - |
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| siderocyte | (noun) an abnormal red blood cell containing granules of iron not bound in hemoglobin | - |
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| sideropenia | (noun) a deficiency of iron; results from inadequate iron in the diet or from hemorrhage | - |
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| siderophilin | (noun) a globulin in blood plasma that carries iron | Synonyms: beta globulin, transferrin |
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| siderosis | (noun) fibrosis of the lung caused by iron dust; occurs among welders and other metal workers | - |
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| sidewinder | (noun) small pale-colored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States; body moves in an s-shaped curve | Synonyms: Crotalus cerastes, horned rattlesnake |
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| (noun) air-to-air missile with infrared homing device | - |
| sightreader | (noun) a performer who reads without preparation or prior acquaintance (as in music) | - |
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| skateboarder | (noun) someone who skates on a skateboard | - |
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| skidder | (noun) a tractor used to haul logs over rough terrain | - |
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| (noun) a worker who uses a skid to move logs | - |
| (noun) a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction | Synonyms: slider, slipper |
| slander | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, calumny, defamation, denigration |
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| (noun) words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another | - |
| (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, smear, smirch, sully |
| slanderer | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, maligner, traducer, vilifier |
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| slanderous | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous |
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| slanderously | (adverb) in a false and slanderous and defamatory manner; with slander or calumny | Synonyms: calumniously |
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| slanderousness | (noun) The property of being both untrue and harmful to a reputation. | - |
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| slaveholder | (noun) someone who holds slaves | Synonyms: slave owner, slaver |
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| sledder | (noun) someone who rides a sled | - |
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| slender | (adjective) very narrow | Synonyms: thin |
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| (adjective) small in quantity | Synonyms: slim |
| (adjective) having little width in proportion to the length or height | - |
| (adjective) being of delicate or slender build | Synonyms: slight, slim, svelte |
| slenderise | (verb) make slender or appear to be slender | Synonyms: slenderize |
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| slenderize | (verb) take off weight | Synonyms: melt off, reduce, slim, slim down, thin |
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| (verb) make slender or appear to be slender | Synonyms: slenderise |
| slenderly | (adverb) in a slim or slender manner | Synonyms: slightly, slimly |
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| (adverb) to a meager degree or in a meager manner | Synonyms: meagerly, meagrely, sparingly |
| slenderness | (noun) the quality of being slight or inadequate | - |
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| (noun) the property of an attractively thin person | Synonyms: slightness, slimness |
| (noun) relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width | Synonyms: tenuity, thinness |
| slider | (noun) a fastball that curves slightly away from the side from which it was thrown | - |
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| (noun) freshwater turtle of United States and South America; frequently raised commercially; some young sold as pets | Synonyms: Pseudemys scripta, yellow-bellied terrapin |
| (noun) someone who races the luge | Synonyms: luger |
| (noun) a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction | Synonyms: skidder, slipper |
| smallholder | (noun) a person owning or renting a smallholding | - |
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| smolder | (noun) a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame | Synonyms: smoulder |
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| (verb) burn slowly and without a flame | Synonyms: smoulder |
| (verb) have strong suppressed feelings | Synonyms: smoulder |
| smoldering | (adjective) showing scarcely suppressed anger | Synonyms: smouldering |
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| smolderingly | (adverb) with barely repressed anger | Synonyms: smoulderingly |
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| smoulder | (noun) a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame | Synonyms: smolder |
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| (verb) burn slowly and without a flame | Synonyms: smolder |
| (verb) have strong suppressed feelings | Synonyms: smolder |
| smouldering | (adjective) showing scarcely suppressed anger | Synonyms: smoldering |
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| smoulderingly | (adverb) with barely repressed anger | Synonyms: smolderingly |
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| snowboarder | (noun) someone who slides down snow-covered slopes while standing on a snowboard | - |
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| solder | (noun) an alloy (usually of lead and tin) used when melted to join two metal surfaces | - |
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| (verb) join or fuse with solder | - |
| solderer | (noun) a worker who joins or mends with solder | - |
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| soldering | (noun) fastening firmly together | Synonyms: bonding |
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| sounder | (noun) a device for making soundings | - |
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| speeder | (noun) a driver who exceeds the safe speed limit | Synonyms: speed demon |
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| spellbinder | (noun) an orator who can hold his listeners spellbound | - |
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| spender | (noun) someone who spends money to purchase goods or services | Synonyms: disburser, expender |
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| (noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: scattergood, spend-all, spendthrift |
| spider | (noun) predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey | - |
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| (noun) a skillet made of cast iron | - |
| (noun) a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine | Synonyms: wanderer |
| spiderflower | (noun) any of various often strong-smelling plants of the genus Cleome having showy spider-shaped flowers | Synonyms: cleome |
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| spiderlike | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, arachnoid, spiderly, spidery |
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| spiderly | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, arachnoid, spiderlike, spidery |
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| spiderwort | (noun) any plant of the family Commelinaceae | Synonyms: dayflower |
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| spidery | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, arachnoid, spiderlike, spiderly |
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| spreader | (noun) a hand tool for spreading something | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions | Synonyms: broadcaster |
| squander | (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: consume, ware, waste |
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| (verb) spend thoughtlessly; throw away | Synonyms: blow, waste |
| squandered | (adjective) not used to good advantage | Synonyms: wasted |
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| squanderer | (noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer | Synonyms: prodigal, profligate |
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| squandering | (noun) spending resources lavishly and wastefully | - |
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| squandermania | (noun) prodigious squandering (usually by a government) | - |
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| stakeholder | (noun) someone entrusted to hold the stakes for two or more persons betting against one another; must deliver the stakes to the winner | - |
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| stander | (noun) an organism (person or animal) that stands | - |
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