| softheartedness | (noun) a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless) | Synonyms: tenderness |
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| softie | (noun) a person who is weak and excessively sentimental | Synonyms: softy |
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| softish | (adjective) somewhat soft | Synonyms: semisoft |
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| softly | (adverb) with low volume | Synonyms: quietly |
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| (adverb) with little weight or force | Synonyms: gently, lightly |
| (adverb) used as a direction in music; to be played relatively softly | Synonyms: piano |
| (adverb) in a manner that is pleasing to the senses | - |
| softness | (noun) the property of giving little resistance to pressure and being easily cut or molded | - |
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| (noun) a sound property that is free from loudness or stridency | - |
| (noun) a disposition to be lenient in judging others | - |
| (noun) acting in a manner that is gentle and mild and even-tempered | Synonyms: gentleness, mildness |
| (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminacy, effeminateness, sissiness, unmanliness, womanishness |
| (noun) the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines | Synonyms: blurriness, fogginess, fuzziness, indistinctness |
| (noun) a visual property that is subdued and free from brilliance or glare | - |
| (noun) a state of declining economic condition | - |
| (noun) poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury) | Synonyms: unfitness |
| (noun) the quality of weather that is deliciously mild and soothing | Synonyms: balminess |
| software | (noun) (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory | Synonyms: computer software, package, software package, software program, software system |
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| softwood | (noun) wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir) | Synonyms: deal |
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| softy | (noun) a person who is weak and excessively sentimental | Synonyms: softie |
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| spacecraft | (noun) a craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sun | Synonyms: ballistic capsule, space vehicle |
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| spendthrift | (adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: extravagant, prodigal, profligate |
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| (noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: scattergood, spend-all, spender |
| spindrift | (noun) spray blown up from the surface of the sea | Synonyms: spoondrift |
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| spoondrift | (noun) spray blown up from the surface of the sea | Synonyms: spindrift |
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| stagecraft | (noun) skill in writing or staging plays | - |
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| statecraft | (noun) wisdom in the management of public affairs | Synonyms: diplomacy, statesmanship |
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| swift | (adjective) moving very fast | Synonyms: fleet |
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| (noun) a small bird that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight | - |
| (noun) common western lizard; seen on logs or rocks | Synonyms: blue-belly, Sceloporus occidentalis, western fence lizard |
| swiftie | (noun) Fan of Taylor Swift | - |
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| swiftlet | (noun) swift of eastern Asia; produces the edible bird's nest | Synonyms: Collocalia inexpectata |
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| swiftly | (adverb) in a swift manner | Synonyms: fleetly |
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| swiftness | (noun) a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens | Synonyms: fastness, speed |
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| theft | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: larceny, stealing, thievery, thieving |
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| thereafter | (adverb) from that time on | Synonyms: thenceforth |
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| thereinafter | (adverb) in the following part of a given matter, as in a document or speech | - |
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| thrift | (noun) extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily | Synonyms: parsimoniousness, parsimony, penny-pinching |
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| (noun) any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers | - |
| thriftily | (adverb) in a thrifty manner | - |
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| thriftiness | (noun) frugality in the expenditure of money or resources | Synonyms: economy |
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| thriftless | (adjective) careless of the future | - |
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| thriftlessly | (adverb) in a thriftless manner | - |
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| thriftlessness | (noun) the trait of wasting resources | Synonyms: waste, wastefulness |
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| thriftshop | (noun) a shop that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices | Synonyms: second-hand store |
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| thrifty | (adjective) careful and diligent in the use of resources | - |
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| (adjective) mindful of the future in spending money | Synonyms: careful |
| tradecraft | (noun) skill acquired through experience in a trade; often used to discuss skill in espionage | - |
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| tuft | (noun) a bunch of feathers or hair | - |
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| (noun) a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass | Synonyms: tussock |
| tufted | (adjective) having or adorned with tufts | - |
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| (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: caespitose, cespitose |
| (adjective) (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination | Synonyms: crested, topknotted |
| twelfth | (adjective) coming next after the eleventh and just before the thirteenth in position | Synonyms: 12th |
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| (noun) one part in twelve equal parts | Synonyms: duodecimal, one-twelfth, twelfth part |
| (noun) position 12 in a countable series of things | - |
| untufted | (adjective) not adorned with tufts | - |
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| updraft | (noun) a strong upward air current | - |
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| uplift | (noun) a brassiere that lifts and supports the breasts | - |
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| (noun) (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) | Synonyms: upheaval, upthrow, upthrust |
| (verb) fill with high spirits; fill with optimism | Synonyms: elate, intoxicate, lift up, pick up |
| (verb) lift up or elevate | - |
| (verb) lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces | - |
| uplifted | (adjective) exalted emotionally especially with pride | - |
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| uplifting | (noun) the rise of something | - |
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| waft | (noun) a long flag; often tapering | Synonyms: pennant, pennon, streamer |
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| (verb) be driven or carried along, as by the air | - |
| (verb) blow gently | - |
| wafture | (noun) the act of signaling by a movement of the hand | Synonyms: wave, waving |
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| watercraft | (noun) a craft designed for water transportation | Synonyms: vessel |
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| (noun) skill in the management of boats | - |
| weft | (noun) the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving | Synonyms: filling, pick, woof |
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| weightlift | (noun) bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights | Synonyms: weightlifting |
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| (verb) lift weights | Synonyms: press, weight-lift |
| weightlifter | (noun) an athlete who lifts barbells | Synonyms: lifter |
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| weightlifting | (noun) bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights | Synonyms: weightlift |
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| witchcraft | (noun) the art of sorcery | Synonyms: witchery |
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| woodcraft | (noun) skill in carving or fashioning objects from wood | - |
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| (noun) skill and experience in matters relating to the woods (as hunting or fishing or camping) | - |
| xenograft | (noun) tissue from an animal of one species used as a temporary graft (as in cases of severe burns) on an individual of another species | Synonyms: heterograft |
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| zaftig | (adjective) (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous | Synonyms: buxom, zoftig |
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| zoftig | (adjective) (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous | Synonyms: buxom, zaftig |
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