| sphingid | (noun) any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed | Synonyms: hawk moth, hawkmoth, hummingbird moth, sphinx moth |
|---|
| sphingine | (adjective) resembling a sphinx | - |
|---|
| sphinx | (noun) one of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians | - |
|---|
| (noun) an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret | - |
| splashiness | (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness |
|---|
| splashing | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splash, splattering |
|---|
| (noun) the act of scattering water about haphazardly | Synonyms: splash |
| sportfishing | (noun) the act of someone who fishes as a diversion | Synonyms: fishing |
|---|
| stealthiness | (noun) a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously | Synonyms: furtiveness, sneakiness |
|---|
| stitching | (noun) joining or attaching by stitches | Synonyms: sewing |
|---|
| stretchiness | (noun) the capacity for being stretched | Synonyms: stretch, stretchability |
|---|
| stretching | (noun) exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent | Synonyms: stretch |
|---|
| (noun) act of expanding by lengthening or widening | - |
| strophanthin | (noun) a bitter and very toxic glycoside derived from plants of the genus Strophanthus; in moderate doses it is a cardiac stimulant but in larger doses it is a powerful poison; used in Africa as an arrow poison | - |
|---|
| sulfamezathine | (noun) a sulfa drug used like sulfadiazine and also in veterinary medicine | Synonyms: sulfamethazine |
|---|
| sunshine | (noun) the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom | Synonyms: cheer, cheerfulness, sunniness |
|---|
| (noun) the rays of the sun | Synonyms: sun, sunlight |
| (noun) moderate weather; suitable for outdoor activities | Synonyms: fair weather, temperateness |
| swarthiness | (noun) a swarthy complexion | Synonyms: darkness, duskiness |
|---|
| swathing | (noun) cloth coverings wrapped around something (as a wound or a baby) | - |
|---|
| switching | (noun) the act of changing one thing or position for another | Synonyms: shift, switch |
|---|
| tahini | (noun) a thick Middle Eastern paste made from ground sesame seeds | - |
|---|
| teaching | (noun) the profession of a teacher | Synonyms: instruction, pedagogy |
|---|
| (noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: didactics, education, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy |
| (noun) a doctrine that is taught | Synonyms: commandment, precept |
| teething | (noun) the eruption through the gums of baby teeth | Synonyms: dentition, odontiasis |
|---|
| tetchiness | (noun) feeling easily irritated | Synonyms: testiness, touchiness |
|---|
| thin | (adjective) of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section | - |
|---|
| (adjective) relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous | - |
| (adjective) lacking excess flesh | Synonyms: lean |
| (adjective) (of sound) lacking resonance or volume | - |
| (adjective) not dense | Synonyms: sparse |
| (adjective) very narrow | Synonyms: slender |
| (adjective) lacking spirit or sincere effort | - |
| (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous |
| (adverb) without viscosity | Synonyms: thinly |
| (verb) take off weight | Synonyms: melt off, reduce, slenderize, slim, slim down |
| (verb) lose thickness; become thin or thinner | - |
| (verb) make thin or thinner | - |
| (verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: cut, dilute, reduce, thin out |
| thing | (noun) a separate and self-contained entity | - |
|---|
| (noun) an action | - |
| (noun) an artifact | - |
| (noun) an entity that is not named specifically | - |
| (noun) any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence | - |
| (noun) a special abstraction | - |
| (noun) a special objective | - |
| (noun) a vaguely specified concern | Synonyms: affair, matter |
| (noun) a statement regarded as an object | - |
| (noun) an event | - |
| (noun) a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion | - |
| (noun) a special situation | - |
| thingamabob | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
|---|
| thingamajig | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
|---|
| thingmabob | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
|---|
| thingmajig | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
|---|
| things | (noun) any movable possession (especially articles of clothing) | - |
|---|
| thingumabob | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
|---|
| thingumajig | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
|---|
| thingummy | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
|---|
| think | (noun) an instance of deliberate thinking | - |
|---|
| (verb) bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation | - |
| (verb) use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments | Synonyms: cerebrate, cogitate |
| (verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: believe, conceive, consider |
| (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, recollect, remember, retrieve |
| (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: guess, imagine, opine, reckon, suppose |
| (verb) have in mind as a purpose | Synonyms: intend, mean |
| (verb) be capable of conscious thought | - |
| (verb) focus one's attention on a certain state | - |
| (verb) decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting | - |
| (verb) ponder; reflect on, or reason about | - |
| (verb) have or formulate in the mind | - |
| (verb) dispose the mind in a certain way | - |
| (verb) imagine or visualize | - |
| thinkable | (adjective) capable of being conceived or imagined or considered | - |
|---|
| thinker | (noun) an important intellectual | Synonyms: creative thinker, mind |
|---|
| (noun) someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision) | - |
| thinking | (adjective) endowed with the capacity to reason | Synonyms: intelligent, reasoning |
|---|
| (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: cerebration, intellection, mentation, thought, thought process |
| thinly | (adverb) without viscosity | Synonyms: thin |
|---|
| (adverb) in a small quantity or extent | Synonyms: lightly |
| (adverb) in a widely distributed manner | - |
| (adverb) without force or sincere effort | - |
| thinned | (adjective) mixed with water | Synonyms: cut, weakened |
|---|
| thinner | (noun) a diluting agent | Synonyms: diluent, dilutant |
|---|
| thinness | (noun) the property of having little body fat | Synonyms: leanness, spareness |
|---|
| (noun) relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width | Synonyms: slenderness, tenuity |
| (noun) a consistency of low viscosity | - |
| (noun) the property of being very narrow or thin | Synonyms: fineness |
| (noun) the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness | Synonyms: spareness, sparseness, sparsity |
| (noun) The property of lacking substance or strength. | - |
| thinning | (noun) the act of diluting something | Synonyms: cutting |
|---|
| thrashing | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, trouncing, whacking |
|---|
| (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
| threshing | (noun) the separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw | - |
|---|
| thyrotrophin | (noun) anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland | Synonyms: thyroid-stimulating hormone, thyrotrophic hormone, thyrotropic hormone, thyrotropin, TSH |
|---|
| touchiness | (noun) feeling easily irritated | Synonyms: testiness, tetchiness |
|---|
| touching | (adjective) arousing affect | Synonyms: affecting, poignant |
|---|
| (noun) the act of putting two things together with no space between them | Synonyms: touch |
| (noun) the event of something coming in contact with the body | Synonyms: touch |
| touchingly | (adverb) in a poignant or touching manner | Synonyms: affectingly, poignantly |
|---|
| trashiness | (noun) the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better | Synonyms: shoddiness |
|---|
| trephination | (noun) an operation that removes a circular section of bone from the skull | - |
|---|
| trephine | (noun) a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull | Synonyms: trepan |
|---|
| (verb) operate on with a trephine | - |
| trichina | (noun) parasitic nematode occurring in the intestines of pigs and rats and human beings and producing larvae that form cysts in skeletal muscles | Synonyms: Trichinella spiralis |
|---|
| trichiniasis | (noun) infestation by trichina larvae that are transmitted by eating inadequately cooked meat (especially pork); larvae migrate from the intestinal tract to the muscles where they become encysted | Synonyms: myositis trichinosa, trichinosis |
|---|
| trichinosis | (noun) infestation by trichina larvae that are transmitted by eating inadequately cooked meat (especially pork); larvae migrate from the intestinal tract to the muscles where they become encysted | Synonyms: myositis trichinosa, trichiniasis |
|---|
| trustworthiness | (noun) the trait of deserving trust and confidence | Synonyms: trustiness |
|---|
| twitching | (noun) a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition | Synonyms: twitch, vellication |
|---|
| unblushing | (adjective) feeling no shame | Synonyms: shameless |
|---|
| unblushingly | (adverb) without blushing | - |
|---|
| unbranching | (adjective) without branches | Synonyms: unbranched |
|---|
| underclothing | (noun) undergarment worn next to the skin and under the outer garments | Synonyms: underclothes, underwear |
|---|
| unflinching | (adjective) not shrinking from danger | Synonyms: unblinking, unintimidated, unshrinking |
|---|
| unhealthiness | (noun) a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain | Synonyms: health problem, ill health |
|---|
| unhindered | (adjective) not slowed or blocked or interfered with | Synonyms: unhampered |
|---|
| unhinge | (verb) remove the hinges from | - |
|---|
| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, perturb, trouble |
| unhinged | (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced |
|---|
| unthinkable | (adjective) incapable of being conceived or considered | - |
|---|
| unthinkably | (adverb) to an unimaginable extent | Synonyms: unimaginably |
|---|
| unthinking | (adjective) without care or thought for others | Synonyms: thoughtless, uncaring |
|---|
| (adjective) mentally sluggish | Synonyms: lumpen, lumpish |
| (adjective) not exhibiting or characterized by careful thought | Synonyms: unreflective, unthoughtful |
| (adverb) in a thoughtless manner | Synonyms: thoughtlessly, unthinkingly |
| unthinkingly | (adverb) in a thoughtless manner | Synonyms: thoughtlessly, unthinking |
|---|
| untrustworthiness | (noun) the trait of not deserving trust or confidence | Synonyms: untrustiness |
|---|
| unworthiness | (noun) the quality or state of lacking merit or value | - |
|---|
| (noun) the quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting | Synonyms: inappropriateness |
| urchin | (noun) poor and often mischievous city child | - |
|---|
| vanishing | (noun) a sudden disappearance from sight | - |
|---|
| (noun) a sudden or mysterious disappearance | - |
| vanishingly | (adverb) so as to disappear or approach zero | - |
|---|
| washing | (noun) the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) | Synonyms: lavation, wash |
|---|
| (noun) garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering | Synonyms: laundry, wash, washables |
| watching | (noun) the act of observing; taking a patient look | Synonyms: observance, observation |
|---|
| wealthiness | (noun) the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money | Synonyms: wealth |
|---|
| weighing | (noun) careful consideration | Synonyms: advisement, deliberation |
|---|
| whin | (noun) any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) | Synonyms: whinstone |
|---|
| (noun) small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental | Synonyms: dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, greenweed, woadwaxen, woodwaxen |
| (noun) very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe | Synonyms: furze, gorse, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus |
| whinberry | (noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: bilberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whortleberry |
|---|
| whinchat | (noun) brown-and-buff European songbird of grassy meadows | Synonyms: Saxicola rubetra |
|---|
| whine | (noun) a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way | Synonyms: whimper |
|---|
| (verb) complain whiningly | Synonyms: grizzle, yammer, yawp |
| (verb) talk in a tearful manner | Synonyms: snivel |
| (verb) move with a whining sound | - |
| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screak, screech, skreak, squeak |
| whiner | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker |
|---|
| whiney | (adjective) habitually complaining | Synonyms: fretful, querulous, whiny |
|---|
| whinny | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: neigh, nicker, whicker |
|---|
| (verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: neigh, nicker, whicker |
| whinstone | (noun) any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) | Synonyms: whin |
|---|
| whiny | (adjective) habitually complaining | Synonyms: fretful, querulous, whiney |
|---|
| whipstitching | (noun) a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally | Synonyms: whipping, whipstitch |
|---|
| wishing | (noun) a specific feeling of desire | Synonyms: want, wish |
|---|
| witching | (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: charming, magic, magical, sorcerous, wizard, wizardly |
|---|
| (noun) the use or practice of witchcraft | - |
| within | (adverb) on the inside | Synonyms: inside |
|---|
| worthiness | (noun) the quality or state of having merit or value | - |
|---|
| wrenching | (adjective) causing great physical or mental suffering | Synonyms: racking |
|---|
| writhing | (adjective) moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion | Synonyms: wiggly, wriggling, wriggly |
|---|
| xanthine | (noun) crystalline oxidation product of the metabolism of nucleoproteins; precursor of uric acid; found in many organs and in urine | - |
|---|
| zeaxanthin | (noun) yellow carotenoid (isomeric with lutein and occurs widely with it) that is the main pigment in yellow Indian corn | - |
|---|
| zucchini | (noun) small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow; typically dark green | Synonyms: courgette |
|---|
| (noun) marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small | Synonyms: courgette |