| shuffleboard | (noun) a game in which players use long sticks to shove wooden disks onto the scoring area marked on a smooth surface | Synonyms: shovelboard |
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| sidebar | (noun) (law) a courtroom conference between the lawyers and the judge that is held out of the jury's hearing | - |
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| (noun) a short news story presenting sidelights on a major story | - |
| sideboard | (noun) a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers | Synonyms: buffet, counter |
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| (noun) a board that forms part of the side of a bed or crib | - |
| (noun) a removable board fitted on the side of a wagon to increase its capacity | - |
| sideboob | (noun) A breast exposed from the side | - |
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| sideburn | (noun) facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off) | Synonyms: burnside, mutton chop, side-whiskers |
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| skateboard | (noun) a board with wheels that is ridden in a standing or crouching position and propelled by foot | - |
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| (verb) ride on a flat board with rollers attached to the bottom | - |
| skateboarder | (noun) someone who skates on a skateboard | - |
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| skateboarding | (noun) the sport of skating on a skateboard | - |
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| snakeberry | (noun) North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries | Synonyms: Actaea rubra, red-berry, red baneberry, redberry |
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| snakebird | (noun) fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill | Synonyms: anhinga, darter |
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| snakebite | (noun) a bite inflicted by a (venomous) snake | - |
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| snakeblenny | (noun) found in Arctic and northern Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Lumpenus lumpretaeformis |
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| solebar | (noun) one of the longitudinal beams running along either side of a railway vehicle, onto which the bodywork is mounted, in passenger-carrying vehicles usually forming the side or the base of the floor. | Synonyms: side sill |
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| somebody | (noun) a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential | Synonyms: individual, mortal, person, someone, soul |
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| sparkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: farkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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| spiceberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India | Synonyms: Ardisia crenata, coralberry |
| spicebush | (noun) deciduous shrub of the eastern United States having highly aromatic leaves and bark and yellow flowers followed by scarlet or yellow berries | Synonyms: American spicebush, Benjamin bush, Benzoin odoriferum, Lindera benzoin, spice bush |
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| (noun) straggling aromatic shrub of southwestern United States having fragrant brown flowers | Synonyms: California allspice, Calycanthus occidentalis |
| spindleberry | (noun) any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries | Synonyms: spindle tree, spindleberry tree |
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| spittlebug | (noun) small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete | Synonyms: spittle insect |
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| stableboy | (noun) someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses | Synonyms: groom, hostler, ostler, stableman |
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| stickleback | (noun) small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research | Synonyms: prickleback |
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| strikebound | (adjective) closed or immobilized by a strike | - |
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| strikebreaker | (noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: blackleg, rat, scab |
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| strikebreaking | (noun) confrontational activities intended to break up a strike by workers | - |
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| stumblebum | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf |
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| (noun) a second-rate prize fighter | Synonyms: palooka |
| surrebuttal | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rebutter | Synonyms: surrebutter |
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| surrebutter | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rebutter | Synonyms: surrebuttal |
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| talebearer | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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| talebearing | (adjective) prone to communicate confidential information | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, leaky, tattling |
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| tanglebush | (noun) spiny branching deciduous shrub of southwestern United States having clusters of insignificant yellow-white flowers appearing before leaves followed by attractive black berrylike fruits | Synonyms: desert olive, Forestiera neomexicana |
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| tastebud | (noun) an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue | Synonyms: gustatory organ, taste bud |
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| tebibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibits or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bits | Synonyms: Tibit |
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| tebibyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes | Synonyms: TB, terabyte, TiB |
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| tenebrific | (adjective) dark and gloomy | Synonyms: tenebrious, tenebrous |
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| tenebrionid | (noun) sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain | Synonyms: darkling beetle, darkling groung beetle |
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| tenebrious | (adjective) dark and gloomy | Synonyms: tenebrific, tenebrous |
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| tenebrous | (adjective) dark and gloomy | Synonyms: tenebrific, tenebrious |
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| terebinth | (noun) a Mediterranean tree yielding Chian turpentine | Synonyms: Pistacia terebinthus |
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| thebe | (noun) 100 thebe equal 1 pula in Botswana | - |
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| thereby | (adverb) by that means or because of that | - |
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| thimbleberry | (noun) raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: black raspberry, blackcap, blackcap raspberry, Rubus occidentalis |
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| (noun) white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries | Synonyms: Rubus parviflorus, salmon berry, salmonberry |
| (noun) shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: flowering raspberry, purple-flowering raspberry, Rubus odoratus |
| thrombophlebitis | (noun) phlebitis in conjunction with the formation of a blood clot (thrombus) | - |
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| tieback | (noun) a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back | Synonyms: pullback |
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| tiebreaker | (noun) overtime play in order to break a tie; e.g. tennis and soccer | - |
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| treble | (adjective) having or denoting a high range | Synonyms: soprano |
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| (adjective) three times as great or many | Synonyms: three-fold, threefold, triple |
| (adjective) having three units or components or elements | Synonyms: ternary, triple, triplex |
| (adjective) having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities | Synonyms: double, dual, three-fold, threefold, two-fold, twofold |
| (noun) the pitch range of the highest female voice | Synonyms: soprano |
| (verb) increase threefold | Synonyms: triple |
| (verb) sing treble | - |
| trebuchet | (noun) catapult that uses a swinging arm to throw a projectile | Synonyms: trebucket |
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| trebucket | (noun) catapult that uses a swinging arm to throw a projectile | Synonyms: trebuchet |
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| tumblebug | (noun) any of various dung beetles | - |
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| uninebriated | (adjective) not inebriated | Synonyms: unintoxicated |
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| unwebbed | (adjective) (of the feet of some animals) not webbed | - |
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| vertebra | (noun) one of the bony segments of the spinal column | - |
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| vertebral | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting vertebrae | - |
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| vertebrate | (adjective) having a backbone or spinal column | - |
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| (noun) animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium | Synonyms: craniate |
| wakeboard | (noun) a buoyant board (resembling a surfboard) that is used to ride over water while being pulled behind a motorboat | Synonyms: wake board |
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| wastebasket | (noun) a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish | Synonyms: circular file, waste-paper basket, waste basket, wastepaper basket |
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| wastebin | (noun) a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected | Synonyms: ash-bin, ash bin, ashbin, ashcan, dustbin, garbage can, trash barrel, trash bin, trash can |
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| waveband | (noun) a band of adjacent radio frequencies (e.g., assigned for transmitting radio or television signals) | Synonyms: frequency band |
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| web | (noun) the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft | Synonyms: vane |
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| (noun) membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and mammals | - |
| (noun) an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim | Synonyms: entanglement |
| (noun) a fabric (especially a fabric in the process of being woven) | - |
| (noun) computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol | Synonyms: World Wide Web, WWW |
| (noun) an interconnected system of things or people | Synonyms: network |
| (noun) an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving | - |
| (verb) construct or form a web, as if by weaving | Synonyms: net |
| webbed | (adjective) (of the feet of some animals) having the digits connected by a thin fold of skin | - |
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| (adjective) having open interstices or resembling a web | Synonyms: lacy, netlike, netted, webby, weblike |
| webbing | (noun) a strong fabric woven in strips | - |
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| (noun) a narrow closely woven tape; used in upholstery or for seat belts | - |
| (noun) something forming a web (as between the toes of birds) | - |
| webby | (adjective) having open interstices or resembling a web | Synonyms: lacy, netlike, netted, webbed, weblike |
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| webcam | (noun) a digital camera designed to take digital photographs and transmit them over the internet | - |
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| weber | (noun) a unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells | Synonyms: Wb |
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| webfoot | (noun) a foot having the toes connected by folds of skin | - |
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| weblike | (adjective) having open interstices or resembling a web | Synonyms: lacy, netlike, netted, webbed, webby |
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| webmaster | (noun) a technician who designs or maintains a website | - |
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| webpage | (noun) a document connected to the World Wide Web and viewable by anyone connected to the internet who has a web browser | Synonyms: web page |
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| website | (noun) a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web; a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web | Synonyms: internet site, site, web site |
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| webworm | (noun) several gregarious moth larvae that spin webs over foliage on which they feed | - |
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| weeb | (noun) A white person, who is obsessed with Japanese culture, usually pejorative | Synonyms: weeaboo |
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| whaleboat | (noun) a long narrow boat designed for quick turning and use in rough seas | - |
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| whalebone | (noun) a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets | Synonyms: baleen |
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| whistleblower | (noun) an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it | Synonyms: whistle-blower, whistle blower |
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| whitebait | (noun) the edible young of especially herrings and sprats and smelts | - |
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| (noun) minnows or other small fresh- or saltwater fish (especially herring); usually cooked whole | - |
| whortleberry | (noun) blue-black berries similar to American blueberries | Synonyms: bilberry, European blueberry |
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| (noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: bilberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whinberry |
| wideband | (adjective) responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies | Synonyms: broadband |
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| wildebeest | (noun) large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail | Synonyms: gnu |
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| wineberry | (noun) raspberry of China and Japan having pale pink flowers grown for ornament and for the small red acid fruits | Synonyms: Rubus phoenicolasius |
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| (noun) graceful deciduous shrub or small tree having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine | Synonyms: Aristotelia racemosa, Aristotelia serrata, makomako, New Zealand wine berry |
| woebegone | (adjective) affected by or full of grief or woe | Synonyms: woeful |
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| (adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down |
| zebibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 exbibits or 2^70 bits | Synonyms: Zibit |
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| zebibyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 exbibytes or 2^70 bytes | Synonyms: ZB, zettabyte, ZiB |
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| zebra | (noun) any of several fleet black-and-white striped African equines | - |
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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 | - |
| zebu | (noun) domesticated ox having a humped back and long horns and a large dewlap; used chiefly as a draft animal in India and east Asia | - |
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| zwieback | (noun) slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp | Synonyms: Brussels biscuit, rusk, twice-baked bread |
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