| stepladder | (noun) a folding portable ladder hinged at the top | Synonyms: step ladder |
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| stockholder | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareholder, shareowner |
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| strider | (noun) a person who walks rapidly with long steps | - |
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| subdivider | (noun) someone who divides parts into smaller parts (especially a divider of land into building sites) | - |
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| suborder | (noun) (biology) taxonomic group that is a subdivision of an order | - |
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| succeeder | (noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: achiever, success, winner |
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| sunder | (verb) break apart or in two, using violence | - |
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| superorder | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group ranking above an order and below a class or subclass | - |
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| surfboarder | (noun) someone who engages in surfboarding | Synonyms: surfer |
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| surrejoinder | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rejoinder | - |
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| surrender | (noun) the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) | Synonyms: capitulation, fall |
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| (noun) the delivery of a principal into lawful custody | - |
| (noun) a verbal act of admitting defeat | Synonyms: giving up, yielding |
| (noun) acceptance of despair | Synonyms: resignation |
| (verb) give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another | Synonyms: give up |
| (verb) relinquish possession or control over | Synonyms: cede, deliver, give up |
| surrenderer | (noun) a person who yields or surrenders | Synonyms: yielder |
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| suspender | (noun) elastic straps that hold trousers up | Synonyms: brace, gallus |
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| taxidermist | (noun) a craftsman who stuffs and mounts the skins of animals for display | Synonyms: animal stuffer, stuffer |
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| taxidermy | (noun) the art of mounting the skins of animals so that they have lifelike appearance | - |
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| tender | (adjective) easy to cut or chew | - |
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| (adjective) physically untoughened | Synonyms: untoughened |
| (adjective) given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality | - |
| (adjective) (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition | - |
| (adjective) having or displaying warmth or affection | Synonyms: affectionate, fond, lovesome |
| (adjective) hurting | Synonyms: raw, sensitive, sore |
| (adjective) (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail | Synonyms: crank, cranky, tippy |
| (adjective) young and immature | - |
| (noun) ship that usually provides supplies to other ships | Synonyms: supply ship |
| (noun) a boat for communication between ship and shore | Synonyms: cutter, pinnace, ship's boat |
| (noun) car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water | - |
| (noun) a formal proposal to buy at a specified price | Synonyms: bid |
| (noun) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another | Synonyms: attendant, attender |
| (noun) something that can be used as an official medium of payment | Synonyms: legal tender, stamp |
| (verb) make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer | Synonyms: tenderise, tenderize |
| (verb) make a tender of; in legal settlements | - |
| (verb) offer or present for acceptance | - |
| (verb) propose a payment | Synonyms: bid, offer |
| tenderfoot | (noun) an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living) | - |
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| tendergreen | (noun) Asiatic plant cultivated for its swollen root crown and edible foliage | Synonyms: Brassica perviridis, Brassica rapa perviridis, spinach mustard |
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| tenderhearted | (adjective) easily moved by another's distress | - |
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| (adjective) easily moved to love | - |
| tenderheartedness | (noun) warm compassionate feelings | Synonyms: tenderness |
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| tenderisation | (noun) the act of making meat tender by pounding or marinating it | Synonyms: tenderization |
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| tenderise | (verb) make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer | Synonyms: tender, tenderize |
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| tenderised | (adjective) made tender as by marinating or pounding | Synonyms: tenderized |
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| tenderiser | (noun) a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender | Synonyms: tenderizer |
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| tenderization | (noun) the act of making meat tender by pounding or marinating it | Synonyms: tenderisation |
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| tenderize | (verb) make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer | Synonyms: tender, tenderise |
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| tenderized | (adjective) made tender as by marinating or pounding | Synonyms: tenderised |
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| tenderizer | (noun) a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender | Synonyms: tenderiser |
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| tenderloin | (noun) the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column | Synonyms: undercut |
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| (noun) a city district known for its vice and high crime rate | Synonyms: combat zone |
| tenderly | (adverb) with tenderness; in a tender manner | - |
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| tenderness | (noun) a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless) | Synonyms: softheartedness |
| (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, warmheartedness, warmness |
| (noun) warm compassionate feelings | Synonyms: tenderheartedness |
| (noun) a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched) | Synonyms: rawness, soreness |
| tenpounder | (noun) game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller | Synonyms: Elops saurus, ladyfish |
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| threader | (noun) a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops | Synonyms: bodkin |
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| thunder | (noun) street names for heroin | Synonyms: big H, hell dust, nose drops, scag, skag, smack |
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| (noun) a deep prolonged loud noise | Synonyms: boom, roar, roaring |
| (noun) a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning | - |
| (verb) utter words loudly and forcefully | Synonyms: roar |
| (verb) to make or produce a loud noise | - |
| (verb) move fast, noisily, and heavily | - |
| (verb) be the case that thunder is being heard | Synonyms: boom |
| thunderbird | (noun) (mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird | - |
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| thunderbolt | (noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: bombshell, thunderclap |
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| (noun) a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder | Synonyms: bolt, bolt of lightning |
| thunderclap | (noun) a single sharp crash of thunder | - |
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| (noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: bombshell, thunderbolt |
| thundercloud | (noun) a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms | Synonyms: cumulonimbus, cumulonimbus cloud |
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| thunderer | (noun) a noisemaker that makes a sound like thunder | - |
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| thunderhead | (noun) a rounded projecting mass of a cumulus cloud with shining edges; often appears before a thunderstorm | - |
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| thundering | (adjective) extraordinarily big or impressive | - |
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| (adjective) sounding like thunder | - |
| thunderous | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: deafening, earsplitting, thundery |
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| (adjective) extremely ominous | - |
| thunderousness | (noun) The state or condition of being very loud, suggestive of thunder; booming loudness. | - |
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| thundershower | (noun) a short rainstorm accompanied by thunder and lightning | - |
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| thunderstorm | (noun) a storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning | Synonyms: electric storm, electrical storm |
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| thunderstruck | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied |
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| thundery | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: deafening, earsplitting, thunderous |
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| (adjective) accompanied with thunder | - |
| tinder | (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: kindling, punk, spunk, touchwood |
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| tinderbox | (noun) a box for holding tinder | - |
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| (noun) a dangerous state of affairs; a situation that is a potential source of violence | - |
| toothpowder | (noun) a dentifrice in the form of a powder | Synonyms: tooth powder |
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| trader | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: bargainer, dealer, monger |
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| transdermal | (adjective) through the unbroken skin; refers to medications applied directly to the skin (creams or ointments) or in time-release forms (skin patches) | Synonyms: percutaneous, transcutaneous, transdermic |
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| transdermic | (adjective) through the unbroken skin; refers to medications applied directly to the skin (creams or ointments) or in time-release forms (skin patches) | Synonyms: percutaneous, transcutaneous, transdermal |
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| transgender | (adjective) involving a partial or full reversal of gender | Synonyms: transgendered |
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| transgendered | (adjective) involving a partial or full reversal of gender | Synonyms: transgender |
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| (noun) a person who has undergone a sex change operation | Synonyms: transexual, transsexual |
| transponder | (noun) electrical device designed to receive a specific signal and automatically transmit a specific reply | - |
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| tsundere | (noun) a person who is initially cold and even hostile towards another person before gradually showing a warmer side over time. | - |
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| (noun) a character development process that describes a person who is initially cold and even hostile towards another person before gradually showing a warmer side over time. | - |
| udder | (noun) mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats) | Synonyms: bag |
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| ultramodern | (adjective) extremely modern | - |
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| ultramodernity | (noun) The property of being extremely modern. | - |
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| unbordered | (adjective) having no border | - |
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| unconsidered | (adjective) without proper consideration or reflection | Synonyms: inconsiderate |
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| under | (adjective) located below or beneath something else | Synonyms: nether |
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| (adjective) lower in rank, power, or authority | - |
| (adverb) further down | Synonyms: below |
| (adverb) down below | - |
| (adverb) below the horizon | - |
| (adverb) below some quantity or limit | - |
| (adverb) in or into a state of subordination or subjugation | - |
| (adverb) down to defeat, death, or ruin | - |
| (adverb) into unconsciousness | - |
| (adverb) through a range downward | - |
| underachieve | (verb) perform less well or with less success than expected | Synonyms: underperform |
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| underachievement | (noun) poorer than expected performance (poorer than might have been predicted from intelligence tests) | - |
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| underachiever | (noun) a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates | Synonyms: nonachiever, underperformer |
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| underact | (verb) act (a role) with great restraint | Synonyms: underplay |
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| underactive | (adjective) abnormally inactive | Synonyms: hypoactive |
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| underage | (adjective) not of legal age | Synonyms: minor, nonaged |
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| (adjective) dependent by virtue of youth | - |
| underarm | (adjective) with hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level | Synonyms: underhand, underhanded |
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| (adverb) with the hand swung below shoulder level | Synonyms: underhand |
| underbelly | (noun) the quality of being weak or unprotected | - |
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| (noun) the soft belly or underside of an animal's body | Synonyms: underbody |
| (noun) lower side | - |
| underbid | (verb) bid too low | - |
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| (verb) bid lower than a competing bidder | - |
| (verb) bid (a hand of cards) at less than the strength of the hand warrants | - |
| underbodice | (noun) a short sleeveless undergarment for women | Synonyms: camisole |
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| underbody | (noun) the soft belly or underside of an animal's body | Synonyms: underbelly |
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| underboss | (noun) an assistant or second-in-command to a chief (especially in a crime syndicate) | - |
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| underbred | (adjective) of inferior or mixed breed | - |
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| (adjective) (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace | Synonyms: bounderish, ill-bred, lowbred, rude, yokelish |
| underbrush | (noun) the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest | Synonyms: undergrowth, underwood |
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| undercarriage | (noun) framework that serves as a support for the body of a vehicle | - |
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| undercharge | (noun) an insufficient charge | - |
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| (noun) a price that is too low | - |
| (verb) charge (someone) too little money | - |
| underclass | (adjective) belonging to the lowest and least privileged social stratum | - |
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| (noun) the social class lowest in the social hierarchy | Synonyms: lower class |
| underclassman | (noun) an undergraduate who is not yet a senior | Synonyms: lowerclassman |
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| underclothed | (adjective) inadequately clothed | Synonyms: half-clothed, scantily clad |
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| underclothes | (noun) undergarment worn next to the skin and under the outer garments | Synonyms: underclothing, underwear |
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| underclothing | (noun) undergarment worn next to the skin and under the outer garments | Synonyms: underclothes, underwear |
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| undercoat | (noun) thick soft fur lying beneath the longer and coarser guard hair | Synonyms: underfur |
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| (noun) the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface | Synonyms: flat coat, ground, primer, primer coat, priming, priming coat |
| (noun) seal consisting of a coating of a tar or rubberlike material on the underside of a motor vehicle to retard corrosion | Synonyms: underseal |
| (verb) cover with a primer; apply a primer to | Synonyms: ground, prime |
| undercoated | (adjective) (of motor vehicles) having a coating of tar or other rustproof material applied to the underside | Synonyms: undersealed |
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| undercover | (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, underground |
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| undercurrent | (noun) a subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning | Synonyms: undertone |
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| (noun) a current below the surface of a fluid | Synonyms: undertide |
| undercut | (noun) (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball | Synonyms: cut |
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| (noun) a cut made underneath to remove material | - |
| (noun) a notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall | - |
| (noun) the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column | Synonyms: tenderloin |
| (noun) the material removed by a cut made underneath | - |
| (verb) strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot | - |
| (verb) cut away the underpart of | - |
| (verb) cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief | - |
| (verb) cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall | - |
| (verb) sell cheaper than one's competition | Synonyms: undersell |
| underdevelop | (verb) process (a film or photographic plate) less than the required time or in an ineffective solution or at an insufficiently high temperature | - |
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| underdeveloped | (adjective) not yet fully developed | - |
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| (adjective) relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply | Synonyms: developing |
| underdevelopment | (noun) (photography) inadequate processing of film resulting in inadequate contrast | - |
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| (noun) state of inadequate development | - |
| underdog | (noun) one at a disadvantage and expected to lose | - |
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| underdone | (adjective) insufficiently cooked | Synonyms: half-baked |
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| underdrawers | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, boxershorts, drawers, shorts |
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| underdress | (verb) dress informally and casually | Synonyms: dress down |
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| (verb) dress without sufficient warmth | - |
| underdressed | (adjective) inadequately or too informally clothed | - |
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| undereducated | (adjective) poorly or insufficiently educated | - |
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| underemployed | (adjective) employed only part-time when one needs full-time employment or not making full use of your skills | - |
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| underestimate | (noun) an estimation that is too low; an estimate that is less than the true or actual value | Synonyms: underestimation, underrating, underreckoning |
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| (verb) make a deliberately low estimate | Synonyms: lowball |
| (verb) make too low an estimate of | Synonyms: underrate |
| (verb) assign too low a value to | Synonyms: undervalue |