| restraint | (noun) the act of controlling by restraining someone or something | - |
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| (noun) a device that retards something's motion | Synonyms: constraint |
| (noun) discipline in personal and social activities | Synonyms: control |
| (noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: chasteness, simpleness, simplicity |
| (noun) a rule or condition that limits freedom | - |
| (noun) the state of being physically constrained | Synonyms: constraint |
| restrengthen | (verb) make strong again | - |
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| restrict | (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, throttle, trammel |
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| (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curb, curtail, cut back |
| (verb) place under restrictions; limit access to by law | Synonyms: control |
| (verb) prevent (information) from being circulated or disclosed | - |
| restricted | (adjective) subject to restriction or subjected to restriction | - |
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| (adjective) the lowest level of official classification for documents | - |
| (adjective) restricted in meaning; (as e.g. `man' in `a tall man') | Synonyms: qualified |
| restricting | (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting |
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| restriction | (noun) an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) | Synonyms: limitation |
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| (noun) the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary) | Synonyms: confinement |
| (noun) a principle that limits the extent of something | Synonyms: limitation |
| restrictive | (adjective) serving to restrict | - |
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| (adjective) (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports | - |
| restrictively | (adverb) in a restrictive manner | - |
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| restrictiveness | (noun) a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits | Synonyms: unpermissiveness |
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| (noun) a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific (`red hat' has a more specific meaning than `hat') | - |
| restroom | (noun) a toilet that is available to the public | Synonyms: comfort station, convenience, public convenience, public lavatory, public toilet, toilet facility, wash room |
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| restructure | (verb) construct or form anew or provide with a new structure | Synonyms: reconstitute |
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| rhinestone | (noun) an imitation diamond made from rock crystal or glass or paste | - |
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| rhymester | (noun) a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) | Synonyms: poetiser, poetizer, rhymer, versifier |
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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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| rupestral | (adjective) composed of or inscribed on rock | Synonyms: rupicolous |
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| semester | (noun) one of two divisions of an academic year | - |
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| (noun) half a year; a period of 6 months | - |
| semestral | (adjective) occurring every six months or during every period of six months | Synonyms: semestrial |
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| semestrial | (adjective) occurring every six months or during every period of six months | Synonyms: semestral |
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| semiterrestrial | (adjective) chiefly but not exclusively terrestrial | - |
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| sequester | (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: seclude, sequestrate, withdraw |
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| (verb) set apart from others | Synonyms: isolate, keep apart, sequestrate, set apart |
| (verb) undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion | - |
| (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, impound, seize |
| (verb) requisition forcibly, as of enemy property | - |
| sequestered | (adjective) providing privacy or seclusion | Synonyms: cloistered, reclusive, secluded |
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| (adjective) kept separate and secluded | - |
| sequestrate | (verb) set apart from others | Synonyms: isolate, keep apart, sequester, set apart |
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| (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: seclude, sequester, withdraw |
| sequestration | (noun) the act of segregating or sequestering | Synonyms: segregation |
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| (noun) seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized | Synonyms: requisition |
| (noun) a writ that authorizes the seizure of property | - |
| (noun) the action of forming a chelate or other stable compound with an ion or atom or molecule so that it is no longer available for reactions | - |
| sestet | (noun) a musical composition written for six performers | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
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| (noun) a rhythmic group of six lines of verse | - |
| (noun) a set of six similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
| (noun) six performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sextet, sextuplet, sise, six, sixer, VI |
| shoestring | (noun) a lace used for fastening shoes | Synonyms: shoe lace, shoe string, shoelace |
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| (noun) a small amount of money | Synonyms: shoe string |
| sidestep | (noun) a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing) | - |
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| (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, skirt |
| sidestroke | (noun) a swimming stroke in which the arms move forward and backward while the legs do a scissors kick | - |
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| siesta | (noun) a nap in the early afternoon (especially in hot countries) | - |
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| singlestick | (noun) a stick used instead of a sword for fencing | Synonyms: backsword, fencing stick |
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| slowest | (adverb) most slowly | - |
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| slugfest | (noun) a fight with bare fists | Synonyms: fistfight, fisticuffs |
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| smokestack | (noun) a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated | Synonyms: stack |
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| somaesthesia | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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| (noun) the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations | Synonyms: somatesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia |
| somaesthesis | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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| somataesthesis | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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| somatesthesia | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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| (noun) the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia |
| somesthesia | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesis |
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| (noun) the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation |
| somesthesis | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia |
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| soonest | (adverb) with the least delay | Synonyms: earliest |
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| southwest | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwesterly, southwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southwest | Synonyms: southwesterly |
| (noun) a location in the southwestern part of a country, region, or city | - |
| (noun) the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees | Synonyms: sou'-west, southwestward, SW |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southwestward compass point | - |
| (adverb) to, toward, or in the southwest | Synonyms: sou'west, south-west |
| southwester | (noun) a strong wind from the southwest | Synonyms: sou'wester |
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| southwesterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwest, southwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southwest | Synonyms: southwest |
| southwestern | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwest, southwesterly |
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| (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California, and sometimes Nevada, Utah, Colorado | - |
| southwestward | (adjective) toward the southwest | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees | Synonyms: sou'-west, southwest, SW |
| (adverb) in a southwestward direction | Synonyms: southwestwardly |
| southwestwardly | (adverb) in a southwestward direction | Synonyms: southwestward |
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| stilbesterol | (noun) synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilbesterol |
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| stilbestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilbestrol, diethylstilboestrol, stilboestrol |
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| stilboestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilbestrol, diethylstilboestrol, stilbestrol |
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| suggest | (verb) make a proposal, declare a plan for something | Synonyms: advise, propose |
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| (verb) call to mind | Synonyms: evoke, paint a picture |
| (verb) imply as a possibility | Synonyms: intimate |
| (verb) drop a hint; intimate by a hint | Synonyms: hint |
| suggester | (noun) someone who advances a suggestion or proposal | Synonyms: proposer |
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| suggestibility | (noun) susceptibility or responsiveness to suggestion | - |
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| suggestible | (adjective) susceptible or responsive to suggestion | - |
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| suggestion | (noun) the act of inducing hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotism, mesmerism |
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| (noun) an idea that is suggested | - |
| (noun) the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association | - |
| (noun) a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: proffer, proposition |
| (noun) persuasion formulated as a suggestion | Synonyms: prompting |
| (noun) a just detectable amount | Synonyms: hint, tint, trace |
| suggestive | (adjective) tending to suggest or imply | Synonyms: implicative |
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| (adjective) tending to suggest something improper or indecent | - |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, indicatory, revelatory, significative |
| suggestively | (adverb) in a suggestive manner | - |
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| suggestiveness | (noun) The state or quality of being full of suggestions, of stimulating thought. | - |
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| synaesthesia | (noun) a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated | Synonyms: synesthesia |
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| synaesthetic | (adjective) relating to or experiencing synesthesia; involving more than one sense | Synonyms: synesthetic |
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| synesthesia | (noun) a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated | Synonyms: synaesthesia |
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| synesthetic | (adjective) relating to or experiencing synesthesia; involving more than one sense | Synonyms: synaesthetic |
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| tapestried | (adjective) hung or decorated with tapestry | - |
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| tapestry | (noun) a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric often with pictorial designs | Synonyms: arras |
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| (noun) a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery | Synonyms: tapis |
| (noun) something that resembles a tapestry in its intricacy | - |
| tempest | (noun) (literary) a violent wind | - |
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| (noun) a violent commotion or disturbance | Synonyms: storm |
| tempestuous | (adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger | Synonyms: angry, furious, raging, wild |
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| (adjective) characterized by violent emotions or behavior | Synonyms: stormy |
| tempestuousness | (noun) a state of wild storminess | - |
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| (noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development | Synonyms: agitation, ferment, fermentation, unrest |
| terrestrial | (adjective) operating or living or growing on land | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | Synonyms: tellurian, telluric, terrene |
| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants | Synonyms: planetary |
| (adjective) of this earth | Synonyms: sublunar, sublunary |
| (adjective) concerned with the world or worldly matters | Synonyms: mundane |
| terrestrially | (adverb) to a land environment | - |
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| (adverb) in a worldly manner | Synonyms: mundanely |
| test | (noun) the act of testing something | Synonyms: run, trial |
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| (noun) any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc | Synonyms: mental test, mental testing, psychometric test |
| (noun) the act of undergoing testing | Synonyms: trial |
| (noun) a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins | - |
| (noun) trying something to find out about it | Synonyms: trial, trial run, tryout |
| (noun) a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge | Synonyms: exam, examination |
| (verb) undergo a test | - |
| (verb) examine someone's knowledge of something | Synonyms: quiz |
| (verb) determine the presence or properties of (a substance) | - |
| (verb) achieve a certain score or rating on a test | - |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: essay, examine, prove, try, try out |
| (verb) test or examine for the presence of disease or infection | Synonyms: screen |
| (verb) show a certain characteristic when tested | - |
| testa | (noun) protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants | Synonyms: episperm, seed coat |
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| testacean | (noun) any of various rhizopods of the order Testacea characterized by having a shell | - |
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| testaceous | (adjective) relating to or possessing a testa or hard shell | - |
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| testament | (noun) a profession of belief | - |
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| (noun) a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die | Synonyms: will |
| (noun) strong evidence for something | - |
| testamentary | (adjective) of or relating to a will or testament or bequeathed by a will or testament | - |
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| testate | (adjective) having made a legally valid will before death | - |
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| (noun) a person who makes a will | Synonyms: testator |
| testator | (noun) a person who makes a will | Synonyms: testate |
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| testatrix | (noun) a female testator | - |
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| testcross | (noun) a cross between an organism whose genotype for a certain trait is unknown and an organism that is homozygous recessive for that trait so the unknown genotype can be determined from that of the offspring | Synonyms: test-cross |
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| tested | (adjective) tested and proved useful or correct | Synonyms: tried, well-tried |
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| (adjective) tested and proved to be reliable | Synonyms: time-tested, tried, tried and true |
| testee | (noun) someone who is tested (as by an intelligence test or an academic examination) | Synonyms: examinee |
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| tester | (noun) a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed) | - |
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| (noun) someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications | Synonyms: examiner, quizzer |
| testicle | (noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, ballock, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testis |
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| testicular | (adjective) of or involving the testes | - |
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| testiere | (noun) medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head | Synonyms: chamfron, chanfron, front-stall, frontstall |
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| testifier | (noun) a person who testifies or gives a deposition | Synonyms: deponent, deposer |
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| testify | (verb) give testimony in a court of law | Synonyms: attest, bear witness, take the stand |
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| (verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, evidence, prove, show |
| testily | (adverb) in a petulant manner | Synonyms: irritably, pettishly, petulantly |
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| testimonial | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting testimony | - |
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| (adjective) expressing admiration or appreciation | - |
| (noun) something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable | Synonyms: good word, recommendation |
| (noun) something given or done as an expression of esteem | Synonyms: tribute |
| (noun) something that serves as evidence | Synonyms: testimony |
| testimony | (noun) a solemn statement made under oath | - |
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| (noun) an assertion offering firsthand authentication of a fact | - |
| (noun) something that serves as evidence | Synonyms: testimonial |
| testiness | (noun) feeling easily irritated | Synonyms: tetchiness, touchiness |
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| testing | (noun) the act of subjecting to experimental test in order to determine how well something works | - |
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| (noun) the act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned | Synonyms: examination |
| (noun) an examination of the characteristics of something | - |
| testis | (noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, ballock, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle |
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| testosterone | (noun) a potent androgenic hormone produced chiefly by the testes; responsible for the development of male secondary sex characteristics | - |
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| testudo | (noun) a movable protective covering that provided protection from above; used by Roman troops when approaching the walls of a besieged fortification | - |
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| testy | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, tetchy |
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| transvestic | (adjective) receiving sexual gratification from wearing clothing of the opposite sex | Synonyms: transvestite |
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| transvestism | (noun) the practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: cross dressing, transvestitism |
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| transvestite | (adjective) receiving sexual gratification from wearing clothing of the opposite sex | Synonyms: transvestic |
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| (noun) someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: cross-dresser |
| transvestitism | (noun) the practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: cross dressing, transvestism |
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| travesty | (noun) a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations | Synonyms: farce, farce comedy |
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| (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff |
| (verb) make a travesty of | - |
| trestle | (noun) sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop | - |
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| (noun) a supporting tower used to support a bridge | - |