| scorchingness | (noun) The quality of being scorching; extreme heat. | - |
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| scratching | (noun) a harsh noise made by scraping | Synonyms: scrape, scraping, scratch |
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| screeching | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, shriek, shrieking |
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| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, shriek, shrieking |
| searching | (adjective) exploring thoroughly | - |
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| (adjective) diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation | Synonyms: inquisitory, probing |
| (adjective) having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect | Synonyms: trenchant |
| searchingly | (adverb) in a searching manner | - |
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| seething | (adjective) in constant agitation | - |
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| sheathing | (noun) protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior | Synonyms: overlay, overlayer |
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| shingle | (noun) a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g. | - |
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| (noun) building material used as siding or roofing | Synonyms: shake |
| (noun) coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel) | - |
| (verb) cover with shingles | - |
| shingler | (noun) a worker who shingles roofs | - |
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| shingles | (noun) eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia | Synonyms: herpes zoster, zoster |
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| shingling | (noun) the laying on of shingles | - |
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| (noun) (geology) sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction | - |
| shingly | (adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: gravelly, pebbly |
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| slashing | (adjective) as if striking with slashing blows | - |
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| sleuthing | (noun) a police investigation to determine the perpetrator | Synonyms: detecting, detection, detective work |
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| slouchingly | (adverb) with a slouching gait or posture | - |
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| sloughing | (noun) the process whereby something is shed | Synonyms: shedding |
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| smashing | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, swell |
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| (noun) the act of breaking something into small pieces | Synonyms: shattering |
| smashingly | (adverb) with a loud crash | Synonyms: smash |
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| smooching | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, snuggling |
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| soothing | (adjective) affording physical relief | - |
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| (adjective) freeing from fear and anxiety | Synonyms: assuasive |
| soothingly | (adverb) in a soothing manner | - |
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| soughing | (adjective) characterized by soft sounds | Synonyms: murmurous, rustling, susurrous |
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| soughingly | (adverb) with a soft sound | - |
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| 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 |
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| sphingine | (adjective) resembling a sphinx | - |
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| splashing | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splash, splattering |
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| (noun) the act of scattering water about haphazardly | Synonyms: splash |
| sportfishing | (noun) the act of someone who fishes as a diversion | Synonyms: fishing |
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| stitching | (noun) joining or attaching by stitches | Synonyms: sewing |
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| stretching | (noun) exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent | Synonyms: stretch |
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| (noun) act of expanding by lengthening or widening | - |
| swathing | (noun) cloth coverings wrapped around something (as a wound or a baby) | - |
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| switching | (noun) the act of changing one thing or position for another | Synonyms: shift, switch |
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| teaching | (noun) the profession of a teacher | Synonyms: instruction, pedagogy |
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| (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 |
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| thing | (noun) a separate and self-contained entity | - |
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| (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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| things | (noun) any movable possession (especially articles of clothing) | - |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| thrashing | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, trouncing, whacking |
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| (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
| threshing | (noun) the separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw | - |
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| touching | (adjective) arousing affect | Synonyms: affecting, poignant |
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| (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 |
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| twitching | (noun) a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition | Synonyms: twitch, vellication |
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| unblushing | (adjective) feeling no shame | Synonyms: shameless |
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| unblushingly | (adverb) without blushing | - |
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| unbranching | (adjective) without branches | Synonyms: unbranched |
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| underclothing | (noun) undergarment worn next to the skin and under the outer garments | Synonyms: underclothes, underwear |
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| unflinching | (adjective) not shrinking from danger | Synonyms: unblinking, unintimidated, unshrinking |
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| unhinge | (verb) remove the hinges from | - |
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| (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 |
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| vanishing | (noun) a sudden disappearance from sight | - |
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| (noun) a sudden or mysterious disappearance | - |
| vanishingly | (adverb) so as to disappear or approach zero | - |
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| washing | (noun) the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) | Synonyms: lavation, wash |
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| (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 |
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| weighing | (noun) careful consideration | Synonyms: advisement, deliberation |
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| whipstitching | (noun) a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally | Synonyms: whipping, whipstitch |
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| wishing | (noun) a specific feeling of desire | Synonyms: want, wish |
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| witching | (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: charming, magic, magical, sorcerous, wizard, wizardly |
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| (noun) the use or practice of witchcraft | - |
| wrenching | (adjective) causing great physical or mental suffering | Synonyms: racking |
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| writhing | (adjective) moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion | Synonyms: wiggly, wriggling, wriggly |
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