| meshuggeneh | (adjective) senseless; crazy | Synonyms: meshuga, meshugga, meshugge, meshuggener |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a crazy fool | Synonyms: meshuggener |
| meshuggener | (adjective) senseless; crazy | Synonyms: meshuga, meshugga, meshugge, meshuggeneh |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a crazy fool | Synonyms: meshuggeneh |
| nonchurchgoing | (adjective) no longer active or practicing | Synonyms: lapsed |
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| nonhuman | (adjective) not human; not belonging to or produced by or appropriate to human beings | - |
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| nosohusial | (adjective) taking place related or acquired under home healthcare | - |
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| overenthusiastic | (adjective) unduly enthusiastic | - |
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| pachuco | (noun) a Mexican-American teenager who belongs to a neighborhood gang and who dresses in showy clothes | - |
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| parachute | (noun) rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall | Synonyms: chute |
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| (verb) jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute | Synonyms: chute, jump |
| parachuter | (noun) a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute | Synonyms: parachute jumper, parachutist |
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| parachuting | (noun) descent with a parachute | Synonyms: jump |
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| parachutist | (noun) a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute | Synonyms: parachute jumper, parachuter |
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| philadelphus | (noun) any of various chiefly deciduous ornamental shrubs of the genus Philadelphus having white sweet-scented flowers, single or in clusters; widely grown in temperate regions | - |
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| plectranthus | (noun) any of various ornamental plants of the genus Plectranthus | - |
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| polyanthus | (noun) florists' primroses; considered a complex hybrid derived from oxlip, cowslip, and common primrose | Synonyms: Primula polyantha |
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| posthumous | (adjective) occurring or coming into existence after a person's death | - |
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| posthumously | (adverb) after death | - |
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| pothunter | (noun) a nonprofessional archeologist | - |
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| (noun) someone who participates in contests in order to collect trophies | - |
| (noun) someone who hunts for food (not for sport) | - |
| pushup | (noun) an arm exercise performed lying face to the floor and pushing the body up and down with the arms | Synonyms: press-up |
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| pyrrhuloxia | (noun) crested grey-and-red bird of southwest United States and Mexico | Synonyms: Pyrrhuloxia sinuata |
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| reshuffle | (noun) shuffling again | Synonyms: reshuffling |
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| (noun) a redistribution of something | - |
| (verb) reorganize and assign posts to different people | - |
| (verb) shuffle again | - |
| reshuffling | (noun) shuffling again | Synonyms: reshuffle |
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| rhonchus | (noun) a sound like whistling or snoring that is heard with a stethoscope during expiration as air passes through obstructed channels | - |
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| rhubarb | (noun) long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened | Synonyms: pieplant |
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| (noun) plants having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks growing in basal clumps; stems (and only the stems) are edible when cooked; leaves are poisonous | Synonyms: rhubarb plant |
| rhumb | (noun) a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a constant compass direction | Synonyms: loxodrome, rhumb line |
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| rhumba | (noun) a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and violent movement | Synonyms: rumba |
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| (noun) a ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance | Synonyms: rumba |
| (noun) syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba | Synonyms: rumba |
| (verb) dance the rhumba | Synonyms: rumba |
| rockchuck | (noun) heavy-bodied yellowish-brown marmot of rocky areas of western North America | Synonyms: Marmota flaviventris, yellowbelly marmot |
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| saddhu | (noun) (Hinduism) an ascetic holy man | Synonyms: sadhu |
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| sadhu | (noun) (Hinduism) an ascetic holy man | Synonyms: saddhu |
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| sahuaro | (noun) extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit | Synonyms: Carnegiea gigantea, saguaro |
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| scapulohumeral | (adjective) relating to the shoulder blade and upper arm bone | - |
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| schizanthus | (noun) any plant of the genus Schizanthus having finely divided leaves and showy variegated flowers | Synonyms: butterfly flower, poor man's orchid |
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| schuss | (verb) ski downhill | - |
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| scyphus | (noun) an ancient Greek drinking cup; two handles and footed base | - |
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| shuck | (noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: chaff, husk, stalk, straw, stubble |
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| (verb) remove the shucks from | - |
| (verb) remove from the shell | - |
| shucks | (noun) something of little value | Synonyms: damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shit, tinker's dam, tinker's damn |
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| (noun) an expression of disappointment or irritation | - |
| shudder | (noun) an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear) | Synonyms: tremor |
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| (noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, frisson, quiver, shiver, thrill, tingle |
| (verb) shake, as from cold | Synonyms: shiver |
| (verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shiver, thrill, throb |
| shuddering | (adjective) shaking convulsively or violently | - |
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| shudderingly | (adverb) with a shudder | - |
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| shuddery | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: chilling, scary, shivery |
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| shudra | (noun) the lowest of the four varnas: the servants and workers of low status | Synonyms: sudra |
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| shuffle | (noun) the act of mixing cards haphazardly | Synonyms: make, shuffling |
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| (noun) walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet | Synonyms: shamble, shambling, shuffling |
| (verb) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement | Synonyms: mix, ruffle |
| (verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: scuffle, shamble |
| (verb) move about, move back and forth | - |
| shuffleboard | (noun) a game in which players use long sticks to shove wooden disks onto the scoring area marked on a smooth surface | Synonyms: shovelboard |
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| shuffler | (noun) someone who walks without raising the feet | - |
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| (noun) the card player who shuffles the cards | - |
| shuffling | (noun) the act of mixing cards haphazardly | Synonyms: make, shuffle |
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| (noun) walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet | Synonyms: shamble, shambling, shuffle |
| shufti | (noun) a quick look around (originally military slang) | - |
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| shumac | (noun) a shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus) | Synonyms: sumac, sumach |
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| shun | (verb) avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of | Synonyms: eschew |
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| (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize |
| shunning | (noun) deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | Synonyms: avoidance, dodging, turning away |
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| shunt | (noun) implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body | - |
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| (noun) a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current | Synonyms: bypass, electrical shunt |
| (noun) a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another | - |
| (verb) transfer to another track, of trains | - |
| (verb) provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt | - |
| shunter | (noun) a small locomotive used to move cars around but not to make trips | - |
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| shush | (verb) silence (someone) by uttering `shush!' | - |
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| shut | (adjective) not open | Synonyms: closed, unopen |
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| (adjective) used especially of mouth or eyes | Synonyms: closed |
| (verb) move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut | Synonyms: close |
| (verb) become closed | Synonyms: close |
| (verb) prevent from entering; shut out | Synonyms: exclude, keep out, shut out |
| shutdown | (noun) termination of operations | Synonyms: closedown, closing, closure |
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| shuteye | (noun) informal term for sleep | Synonyms: shut-eye |
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| shutout | (noun) a defeat in a game where one side fails to score | Synonyms: skunk |
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| shutter | (noun) a hinged blind for a window | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure | - |
| (verb) close with shutters | - |
| shutterbug | (noun) a photography enthusiast | - |
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| shuttered | (adjective) provided with shutters or shutters as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| shutting | (noun) the act of closing something | Synonyms: closing |
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| shuttle | (noun) bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads | - |
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| (noun) public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that flies back and forth between two points | - |
| (noun) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers | Synonyms: bird, birdie, shuttlecock |
| (verb) travel back and forth between two points | - |
| shuttlecock | (noun) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers | Synonyms: bird, birdie, shuttle |
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| (verb) send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock | - |
| sorghum | (noun) made from juice of sweet sorghum | Synonyms: sorghum molasses |
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| (noun) economically important Old World tropical cereal grass | - |
| strophanthus | (noun) any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Strophanthus having whorled leaves and showy flowers of various colors in dense and corymbose clusters; some have poisonous seeds | - |
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| subhuman | (adjective) less than human or not worthy of a human being | - |
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| (adjective) unfit for human beings | - |
| sulphur | (noun) an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions) | Synonyms: atomic number 16, S, sulfur |
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| (verb) treat with sulphur in order to preserve | Synonyms: sulfur |
| sulphurette | (verb) combine with sulfur | Synonyms: sulfurette |
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| sulphuretted | (adjective) treated or impregnated with sulfur | Synonyms: sulfuretted, sulfurized |
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| sulphuric | (adjective) of or relating to or containing sulfur | Synonyms: sulfuric |
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| sulphurous | (adjective) of or related to or containing sulfur or derived from sulfur | Synonyms: sulfurous |
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| (adjective) characterized by oppressive heat and humidity | Synonyms: stifling, sulfurous, sultry |
| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| superhuman | (adjective) above or beyond the human or demanding more than human power or endurance | - |
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| superhumanity | (noun) The state or condition of being beyond what is possible for a human being. | - |
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| taichichuan | (noun) a Chinese system of slow meditative physical exercise designed for relaxation and balance and health | Synonyms: t'ai chi, t'ai chi chuan, tai chi, tai chi chuan, taichi |
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| thud | (noun) a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) | Synonyms: clump, clunk, thump, thumping |
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| (verb) strike with a dull sound | - |
| (verb) make a dull sound | Synonyms: thump |
| (verb) make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants | Synonyms: crump, scrunch |
| thudding | (adjective) not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft | Synonyms: dull |
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| thug | (noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, tough, toughie |
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| (verb) Acting like a criminal or antisocially but with positive connotations | - |
| thuggee | (noun) murder and robbery by thugs | - |
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| thuggery | (noun) violent or brutal acts as of thugs | - |
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| thulium | (noun) a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group; isotope 170 emits X-rays and is used in small portable X-ray machines; it occurs in monazite and apatite and xenotime | Synonyms: atomic number 69, Tm |
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| thumb | (noun) the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb | - |
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| (noun) a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse | Synonyms: ovolo, quarter round |
| (noun) the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb | Synonyms: pollex |
| (verb) feel or handle with the fingers | Synonyms: finger |
| (verb) travel by getting free rides from motorists | Synonyms: hitch, hitchhike |
| (verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, flip, leaf, riff, riffle |
| thumbed | (adjective) (of pages) worn or soiled by thumb and fingers by frequent handling or turning | - |
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| thumbhole | (noun) a finger hole made to fit the thumb (as in a bowling ball) | - |
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| (noun) the hole in a woodwind that is closed and opened with the thumb | - |
| thumbnail | (noun) the nail of the thumb | - |
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| thumbnut | (noun) a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning | Synonyms: butterfly nut, wing-nut, wing nut, wing screw |
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| thumbprint | (noun) fingerprint made by the thumb (especially by the pad of the thumb) | - |
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| thumbscrew | (noun) screw designed to be turned with the thumb and fingers | - |
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| (noun) instrument of torture that crushes the thumb | - |
| thumbstall | (noun) protective covering for an injured thumb | - |
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| thumbtack | (noun) a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board | Synonyms: drawing pin, pushpin |
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| (verb) fasten with thumbtacks | - |
| thump | (noun) a heavy blow with the hand | - |
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| (noun) a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) | Synonyms: clump, clunk, thud, thumping |
| (verb) hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument | Synonyms: poke, pound |
| (verb) move rhythmically | Synonyms: beat, pound |
| (verb) make a dull sound | Synonyms: thud |
| thumping | (adjective) (used informally) very large | Synonyms: banging, humongous, walloping, whopping |
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| (noun) a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) | Synonyms: clump, clunk, thud, thump |
| thunder | (noun) street names for heroin | Synonyms: big H, hell dust, nose drops, scag, skag, smack |
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| (noun) a deep prolonged loud noise | Synonyms: boom, roar, roaring |
| (noun) a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning | - |
| (verb) utter words loudly and forcefully | Synonyms: roar |
| (verb) to make or produce a loud noise | - |
| (verb) move fast, noisily, and heavily | - |
| (verb) be the case that thunder is being heard | Synonyms: boom |
| thunderbird | (noun) (mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird | - |
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| thunderbolt | (noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: bombshell, thunderclap |
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| (noun) a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder | Synonyms: bolt, bolt of lightning |
| thunderclap | (noun) a single sharp crash of thunder | - |
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| (noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: bombshell, thunderbolt |
| thundercloud | (noun) a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms | Synonyms: cumulonimbus, cumulonimbus cloud |
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| thunderer | (noun) a noisemaker that makes a sound like thunder | - |
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| thunderhead | (noun) a rounded projecting mass of a cumulus cloud with shining edges; often appears before a thunderstorm | - |
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| thundering | (adjective) extraordinarily big or impressive | - |
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| (adjective) sounding like thunder | - |
| thunderous | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: deafening, earsplitting, thundery |
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| (adjective) extremely ominous | - |
| thunderousness | (noun) The state or condition of being very loud, suggestive of thunder; booming loudness. | - |
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| thundershower | (noun) a short rainstorm accompanied by thunder and lightning | - |
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