| shellac | (noun) a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood | Synonyms: shellac varnish |
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| (noun) lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white | - |
| (verb) cover with shellac | Synonyms: shellack |
| shellack | (verb) cover with shellac | Synonyms: shellac |
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| shellbark | (noun) North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts | Synonyms: Carya ovata, shagbark, shagbark hickory, shellbark hickory |
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| shelled | (adjective) of animals or fruits that have a shell | - |
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| sheller | (noun) a worker who removes shells (as of peas or oysters) | - |
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| shellfire | (noun) shooting artillery shells | - |
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| shellfish | (noun) invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | Synonyms: mollusc, mollusk |
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| (noun) meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) | - |
| shellflower | (noun) showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple | Synonyms: Chelone glabra, shell-flower, snake-head, snakehead, turtlehead |
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| (noun) cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes | Synonyms: Alpinia speciosa, Alpinia Zerumbet, Languas speciosa, shall-flower, shell ginger |
| shelling | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment |
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| shellproof | (adjective) able to resist the explosive force of bombs and shells | Synonyms: bombproof |
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| shigella | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals; can be used as a bioweapon | - |
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| shigellosis | (noun) an acute infection of the intestine by shigella bacteria; characterized by diarrhea and fever and abdominal pains | Synonyms: bacillary dysentery |
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| shoveller | (noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, broadbill, shoveler |
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| (noun) a worker who shovels | Synonyms: shoveler |
| shrivelled | (adjective) reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity | Synonyms: shriveled, shrunken |
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| (adjective) (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture | Synonyms: dried-up, sear, sere, shriveled, withered |
| (adjective) lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness | Synonyms: shriveled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened |
| slopseller | (noun) a dealer in cheap ready-made clothing | Synonyms: slop-seller |
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| smell | (noun) the act of perceiving the odor of something | Synonyms: smelling |
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| (noun) any property detected by the olfactory system | Synonyms: aroma, odor, odour, olfactory property, scent |
| (noun) the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents | Synonyms: olfaction, olfactory modality, sense of smell |
| (noun) the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form | Synonyms: odor, odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation |
| (noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, spirit, tone |
| (verb) become aware of not through the senses but instinctively | Synonyms: sense, smell out |
| (verb) emit an odor | - |
| (verb) inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense | - |
| (verb) smell bad | - |
| (verb) have an element suggestive (of something) | Synonyms: reek, smack |
| smelling | (adjective) (used with `of' or `with') noticeably odorous | Synonyms: redolent |
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| (noun) the act of perceiving the odor of something | Synonyms: smell |
| smelly | (adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, foul, funky, ill-scented, noisome, stinking |
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| sniveller | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, squawker, whiner |
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| snowbell | (noun) small tree native to Japan | Synonyms: Styrax obassia |
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| sowbelly | (noun) salt pork from the belly of a hog carcass | - |
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| speedwell | (noun) any plant of the genus Veronica | Synonyms: veronica |
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| spell | (noun) a verbal formula believed to have magical force | Synonyms: charm, magic spell, magical spell |
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| (noun) a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation | Synonyms: enchantment, trance |
| (noun) a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) | Synonyms: go, tour, turn |
| (noun) a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition | Synonyms: patch, piece, while |
| (verb) take turns working | - |
| (verb) orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of | Synonyms: spell out |
| (verb) indicate or signify | Synonyms: import |
| (verb) place under a spell | - |
| (verb) write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word) | Synonyms: write |
| (verb) relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn | - |
| spellbind | (verb) put into a trance | Synonyms: entrance |
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| (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize |
| (verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: fascinate, grip, transfix |
| spellbinder | (noun) an orator who can hold his listeners spellbound | - |
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| spellbinding | (adjective) attracting and holding interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: hypnotic, mesmeric, mesmerizing |
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| spellbound | (adjective) having your attention fixated as though by a spell | Synonyms: fascinated, hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerised, mesmerized, spell-bound, transfixed |
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| spelldown | (noun) a contest in which you are eliminated if you fail to spell a word correctly | Synonyms: spelling bee, spelling contest |
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| speller | (noun) an introductory textbook to teach spelling | - |
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| (noun) someone who spells words | Synonyms: good speller, poor speller |
| spelling | (noun) forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage | - |
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| stairwell | (noun) a vertical well around which there is a stairway | - |
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| stellar | (adjective) being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars | Synonyms: astral |
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| (adjective) indicating the most important performer or role | Synonyms: leading, prima, star, starring |
| stellate | (adjective) arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center | Synonyms: radial, radiate |
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| storyteller | (noun) someone who tells a story | Synonyms: narrator, teller |
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| (noun) someone who tells lies | Synonyms: fabricator, fibber |
| superintelligence | (noun) Remarkable intelligence, intelligence at or above and beyond the level of a genius. | Synonyms: hyperintelligence |
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| swell | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing |
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| (noun) a crescendo followed by a decrescendo | - |
| (noun) the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea | Synonyms: crestless wave |
| (noun) a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor) | - |
| (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik |
| (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: intumesce, swell up, tumefy, tumesce |
| (verb) cause to become swollen | - |
| (verb) increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity | - |
| (verb) come up, as of a liquid | Synonyms: well |
| (verb) become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger | Synonyms: puff up |
| (verb) come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things) | Synonyms: well up |
| swelled | (adjective) feeling self-importance | Synonyms: big, vainglorious |
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| swellhead | (noun) a conceited and self-centered person | Synonyms: egoist, egotist |
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| swelling | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescence, intumescency |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance |
| (noun) an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement | Synonyms: lump, puffiness |
| tagliatelle | (noun) pasta cut in narrow ribbons | - |
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| taleteller | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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| tarantella | (noun) a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons | Synonyms: tarantelle |
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| (noun) music composed in six-eight time for dancing the tarantella | - |
| tarantelle | (noun) a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons | Synonyms: tarantella |
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| tasselled | (adjective) fringed or adorned with tassels | Synonyms: tasseled |
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| teleselling | (noun) the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales | Synonyms: telecommerce, telemarketing |
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| tell | (verb) discern or comprehend | - |
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| (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell apart |
| (verb) let something be known | - |
| (verb) narrate or give a detailed account of | Synonyms: narrate, recite, recount |
| (verb) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | Synonyms: enjoin, order, say |
| (verb) give evidence | Synonyms: evidence |
| (verb) express in words | Synonyms: say, state |
| (verb) inform positively and with certainty and confidence | Synonyms: assure |
| teller | (noun) an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money | Synonyms: bank clerk, cashier |
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| (noun) an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly) | Synonyms: vote counter |
| (noun) someone who tells a story | Synonyms: narrator, storyteller |
| telling | (adjective) producing a strong effect | Synonyms: impressive |
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| (adjective) disclosing unintentionally something concealed | Synonyms: revealing, telltale |
| (adjective) powerfully persuasive | Synonyms: cogent, weighty |
| (noun) informing by words | Synonyms: apprisal, notification |
| (noun) an act of narration | Synonyms: recounting, relation |
| (noun) disclosing information or giving evidence about another | Synonyms: singing, tattle |
| tellingly | (adverb) in a telling manner | - |
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| telltale | (adjective) disclosing unintentionally something concealed | Synonyms: revealing, telling |
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| (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale |
| tellurian | (adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | Synonyms: telluric, terrene, terrestrial |
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| (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthling, earthman, worldling |
| telluric | (adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | Synonyms: tellurian, terrene, terrestrial |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or containing the chemical element tellurium | - |
| telluride | (noun) any binary compound of tellurium with other more electropositive elements | - |
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| tellurium | (noun) a brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur; it is used in alloys and as a semiconductor; occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of copper and nickel and silver and gold | Synonyms: atomic number 52, Te |
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| telly | (noun) an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen | Synonyms: boob tube, goggle box, idiot box, television, television receiver, television set, tv, tv set |
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| tessella | (noun) a small tessera | - |
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| tessellate | (verb) tile with tesserae | - |
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| (verb) fit together exactly, of identical shapes | - |
| tessellated | (adjective) decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together in a mosaic | - |
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| (adjective) having a checkered or mottled appearance | - |
| tessellation | (noun) the act of adorning with mosaic | - |
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| (noun) the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern | - |
| tinselly | (adjective) glittering with gold or silver | Synonyms: clinquant, tinseled |
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| tortellini | (noun) small ring-shaped stuffed pasta | - |
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| tortoiseshell | (noun) a cat having black and cream-colored and yellowish markings | Synonyms: calico cat, tortoiseshell-cat |
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| (noun) brilliantly colored; larvae feed on nettles | Synonyms: tortoiseshell butterfly |
| (noun) the mottled horny substance of the shell of some turtles | - |
| towelling | (noun) any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels | Synonyms: toweling |
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| travelled | (adjective) familiar with many parts of the world | Synonyms: traveled |
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| traveller | (noun) a person who changes location | Synonyms: traveler |
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| travelling | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: travel, traveling |
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| trellis | (noun) latticework used to support climbing plants | Synonyms: treillage |
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| (verb) train on a trellis, as of a vine | - |
| umbellar | (adjective) bearing or consisting of or resembling umbels | Synonyms: umbellate |
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| umbellate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of or resembling umbels | Synonyms: umbellar |
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| (adjective) resembling an umbel in form | Synonyms: umbel-like |
| umbellifer | (noun) any of numerous aromatic herbs of the family Umbelliferae | Synonyms: umbelliferous plant |
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| umbelliferous | (adjective) relating to or belonging to plants of the family Umbelliferae | - |
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| umbelliform | (adjective) resembling or in the form of an umbel | - |
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| umbrella | (adjective) covering or applying simultaneously to a number of similar items or elements or groups | - |
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| (noun) a formation of military planes maintained over ground operations or targets | - |
| (noun) having the function of uniting a group of similar things | - |
| (noun) a lightweight handheld collapsible canopy | - |
| umbrellalike | (adjective) resembling an umbrella | - |
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| umbrellawort | (noun) a plant of the genus Mirabilis | - |
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| unbarrelled | (adjective) not in a barrel | Synonyms: unbarreled |
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| 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 | - |
| undersell | (verb) sell cheaper than one's competition | Synonyms: undercut |
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| underseller | (noun) a seller that sells at a lower price than others do | - |
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| unembellished | (adjective) lacking embellishment or ornamentation | Synonyms: bare, plain, spare, unornamented |
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| unexcelled | (adjective) not capable of being improved on | Synonyms: unexceeded, unsurpassed |
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| unicellular | (adjective) having or consisting of a single cell | - |
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| unintelligent | (adjective) lacking intelligence | Synonyms: stupid |
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| unintelligently | (adverb) in an unintelligent manner | - |
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| unintelligibility | (noun) incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible | - |
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| (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherence, incoherency |
| unintelligible | (adjective) poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise | - |
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| (adjective) hard or impossible to understand | Synonyms: opaque |
| unintelligibly | (adverb) in an unintelligible manner | Synonyms: ununderstandably |
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| unlabelled | (adjective) lacking a label or tag | Synonyms: unlabeled, untagged |
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| unlaurelled | (adjective) not crowned with laurel; having no acclaim or reward | Synonyms: unlaureled |
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| unraveller | (noun) a person who removes tangles; someone who takes something out of a tangled state | Synonyms: disentangler, unraveler |
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| unshelled | (adjective) of animals or fruits that have no shell | Synonyms: shell-less |
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| unspell | (verb) release from a spell | - |
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| untellable | (adjective) defying expression or description | Synonyms: indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, unutterable |
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| untrammelled | (adjective) not confined or limited | Synonyms: untrammeled |
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| untravelled | (adjective) not traveled over or through | Synonyms: untraveled |
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| (adjective) not having traveled much, especially to foreign lands; not having gained experience by travel | Synonyms: untraveled |
| unwell | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather |
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| unwellness | (noun) impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism | Synonyms: illness, malady, sickness |
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| varicella | (noun) an acute contagious disease caused by herpes varicella zoster virus; causes a rash of vesicles on the face and body | Synonyms: chickenpox |
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| varicelliform | (adjective) resembling the rash of chickenpox | - |
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| velleity | (noun) volition in its weakest form | - |
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| (noun) a mere wish, unaccompanied by effort to obtain | - |