| nightmarishness | (noun) The property of being extremely bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying; resembling a nightmare. | Synonyms: hellishness |
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| nightrider | (noun) member of a secret mounted band in United States South after the American Civil War; committed acts of intimidation and revenge | Synonyms: night rider |
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| nightshade | (noun) any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit | - |
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| nightshirt | (noun) nightclothes worn by men | - |
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| nightspot | (noun) a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | Synonyms: cabaret, club, night club, nightclub |
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| nightstick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, billystick, truncheon |
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| nighttime | (noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: dark, night |
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| nightwalker | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, red worm, wiggler |
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| nightwear | (noun) garments designed to be worn in bed | Synonyms: nightclothes, sleepwear |
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| nightwork | (noun) work to be done at night | - |
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| outfight | (verb) to fight better than; get the better of | - |
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| outright | (adjective) without reservation or exception | Synonyms: straight-out, unlimited |
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| (adverb) without reservation or concealment | - |
| (adverb) without restrictions or stipulations or further payments | - |
| (adverb) without any delay | Synonyms: in a flash, instantaneously, instantly |
| (adverb) thoroughgoing | Synonyms: downright |
| overflight | (noun) a flight by an aircraft over a particular area (especially over an area in foreign territory) | - |
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| overnight | (adjective) lasting, open, or operating through the whole night | Synonyms: all-night, nightlong |
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| (adverb) during or for the length of one night | - |
| (adverb) happening in a short time or with great speed | - |
| overnighter | (noun) a small traveling bag to carry clothing and accessories for staying overnight | Synonyms: overnight bag, overnight case |
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| (noun) a guest who stays overnight | - |
| oversight | (noun) a mistake resulting from inattention | Synonyms: lapse |
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| (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: superintendence, supervising, supervision |
| (noun) an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something | Synonyms: inadvertence |
| overweight | (adjective) usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it | Synonyms: fleshy, heavy |
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| (noun) the property of excessive fatness | Synonyms: adiposis, corpulence, stoutness |
| paperweight | (noun) a weight used to hold down a stack of papers | - |
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| penlight | (noun) a small flashlight resembling a fountain pen | - |
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| pennyweight | (noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains | - |
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| playwright | (noun) someone who writes plays | Synonyms: dramatist |
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| plight | (noun) a solemn pledge of fidelity | Synonyms: troth |
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| (noun) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one | Synonyms: predicament, quandary |
| (verb) promise solemnly and formally | Synonyms: pledge |
| (verb) give to in marriage | Synonyms: affiance, betroth, engage |
| ploughwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs plows | Synonyms: plowwright |
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| plowwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs plows | Synonyms: ploughwright |
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| prizefight | (noun) a boxing match between professional boxers for a cash prize | Synonyms: prize fight |
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| (verb) box for a prize or money | - |
| prizefighter | (noun) a professional boxer | Synonyms: gladiator |
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| quarterlight | (noun) car window consisting of a small pivoted glass vent in the door of a car | - |
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| right | (adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the east when facing north | - |
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| (adjective) in conformance with justice or law or morality | - |
| (adjective) free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth | Synonyms: correct |
| (adjective) of or belonging to the political or intellectual right | - |
| (adjective) correct in opinion or judgment | Synonyms: correct |
| (adjective) precisely accurate | Synonyms: veracious |
| (adjective) appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs | Synonyms: proper |
| (adjective) (informal) very; used informally as an intensifier | Synonyms: one |
| (adjective) most suitable or right for a particular purpose | Synonyms: good, ripe |
| (adjective) (of the side of cloth or clothing) facing or intended to face outward | - |
| (adjective) having the axis perpendicular to the base | - |
| (adjective) intended for the right hand | Synonyms: right-hand |
| (adjective) in or into a satisfactory condition | - |
| (adjective) socially right or correct | Synonyms: correct |
| (adjective) in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure | Synonyms: correct |
| (noun) a turn toward the side of the body that is on the south when the person is facing east | - |
| (noun) the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right | Synonyms: right field, rightfield |
| (noun) an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature | - |
| (noun) anything in accord with principles of justice | Synonyms: rightfulness |
| (noun) the hand that is on the right side of the body | Synonyms: right hand |
| (noun) those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged | Synonyms: right wing |
| (noun) location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east | - |
| (noun) (frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing | - |
| (adverb) an interjection expressing agreement; Yes, you are indeed correct | Synonyms: right on |
| (adverb) in the right manner; correctly; suitably | Synonyms: decent, decently, properly |
| (adverb) in an accurate manner | Synonyms: aright, correctly |
| (adverb) toward or on the right; also used figuratively | - |
| (adverb) precisely, exactly | - |
| (adverb) in accordance with moral or social standards | Synonyms: justly |
| (adverb) (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree | Synonyms: mightily, mighty, powerful |
| (adverb) to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely | Synonyms: all, altogether, completely, entirely, totally, whole, wholly |
| (adverb) immediately | - |
| (adverb) completely | Synonyms: flop |
| (verb) make right or correct | Synonyms: correct, rectify |
| (verb) regain an upright or proper position | - |
| (verb) put in or restore to an upright position | - |
| (verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: compensate, correct, redress |
| righteous | (adjective) characterized by or proceeding from accepted standards of morality or justice | - |
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| (adjective) morally justified | - |
| righteously | (adverb) in a righteous manner | - |
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| righteousness | (noun) adhering to moral principles | - |
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| rightfield | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the right third of the outfield (looking from home plate) | Synonyms: right field |
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| (noun) the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right | Synonyms: right, right field |
| rightful | (adjective) legally valid | - |
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| (adjective) having a legally established claim | Synonyms: lawful, true |
| rightfully | (adverb) by right | Synonyms: truly |
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| rightfulness | (noun) anything in accord with principles of justice | Synonyms: right |
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| righthander | (noun) a person who uses the right hand more skillfully than the left | Synonyms: right-hander, right hander |
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| rightish | (adjective) tending toward the political right | - |
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| rightism | (noun) the ideology of the political right; belief in or support of the tenets of the political right | - |
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| rightist | (adjective) believing in or supporting tenets of the political right | Synonyms: right-wing |
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| (noun) a member of a right wing political party | Synonyms: right-winger |
| rightly | (adverb) with honesty | Synonyms: justifiedly, justly |
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| rightmost | (adjective) farthest to the right | - |
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| rightness | (noun) according with conscience or morality | - |
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| (noun) conformity to fact or truth | Synonyms: correctness |
| (noun) appropriate conduct; doing the right thing | Synonyms: appropriateness |
| (noun) conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety | Synonyms: justness, nicety |
| rushlight | (noun) a tallow candle with a rush stem as the wick | Synonyms: rush candle |
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| searchlight | (noun) a light source with reflectors that projects a beam of light in a particular direction | - |
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| shipwright | (noun) a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels | Synonyms: ship builder, shipbuilder |
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| shortsighted | (adjective) unable to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: myopic, nearsighted |
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| (adjective) lacking foresight or scope | Synonyms: myopic, short, unforesightful |
| (adjective) not given careful consideration | Synonyms: ill-considered, ill-judged, improvident |
| shortsightedness | (noun) a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources | Synonyms: improvidence |
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| (noun) (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred | Synonyms: myopia, nearsightedness |
| sidelight | (noun) light carried by a boat that indicates the boat's direction; vessels at night carry a red light on the port bow and a green light on the starboard bow | Synonyms: running light |
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| sight | (noun) the act of looking or seeing or observing | Synonyms: survey, view |
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| (noun) the ability to see; the visual faculty | Synonyms: vision, visual modality, visual sense |
| (noun) an instance of visual perception | - |
| (noun) the range of vision | Synonyms: ken |
| (noun) a range of mental vision | - |
| (noun) a place of interest, especially to visitors | - |
| (noun) anything that is seen | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (verb) catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes | Synonyms: spy |
| (verb) take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device) | - |
| sighted | (adjective) able to see | - |
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| sightedness | (noun) normal use of the faculty of vision | Synonyms: eyesight, seeing |
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| sighting | (noun) the act of observing | - |
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| sightless | (adjective) lacking sight | Synonyms: eyeless, unseeing |
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| sightlessness | (noun) the state of being blind or lacking sight | Synonyms: blindness, cecity |
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| sightly | (adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonnie, bonny, comely, fair |
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| sightread | (verb) perform music from a score without having seen the score before | Synonyms: sight-read |
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| sightreader | (noun) a performer who reads without preparation or prior acquaintance (as in music) | - |
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| sights | (noun) an optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument | - |
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| sightsee | (verb) visit famous or interesting sights | - |
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| sightseeing | (noun) going about to look at places of interest | Synonyms: rubber-necking |
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| sightseer | (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: excursionist, rubberneck, tripper |
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| sightsing | (verb) sing from a score without having seen it before | Synonyms: sight-sing |
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| skintight | (adjective) so tight as to cling to the skin | Synonyms: skin-tight |
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| skylight | (noun) a window in a roof to admit daylight | Synonyms: fanlight |
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| sleight | (noun) adroitness in using the hands | Synonyms: dexterity, manual dexterity |
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| slight | (adjective) (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some | Synonyms: little |
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| (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: flimsy, fragile, tenuous, thin |
| (adjective) being of delicate or slender build | Synonyms: slender, slim, svelte |
| (noun) a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) | Synonyms: rebuff |
| (verb) pay no attention to, disrespect | Synonyms: cold-shoulder |
| slighting | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory |
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| slightingly | (adverb) in a disparaging manner | Synonyms: disparagingly |
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| slightly | (adverb) to a small degree or extent | Synonyms: more or less, somewhat |
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| (adverb) in a slim or slender manner | Synonyms: slenderly, slimly |
| slightness | (noun) slenderness | Synonyms: delicacy |
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| (noun) the property of an attractively thin person | Synonyms: slenderness, slimness |
| (noun) the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous | Synonyms: pettiness, puniness, triviality |
| spaceflight | (noun) a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere | Synonyms: space travel, spacefaring |
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| spotlight | (noun) a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer | Synonyms: spot |
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| (noun) a focus of public attention | Synonyms: glare, limelight, public eye |
| (verb) illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater | - |
| (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: foreground, highlight, play up |
| sprightliness | (noun) animation and energy in action or expression | Synonyms: life, liveliness, spirit |
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| sprightly | (adjective) full of spirit and vitality | - |
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| starlight | (noun) the light of the stars | - |
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| steamtightness | (noun) The property of being being sealed in such a way that steam cannot leak out. | - |
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| sticktight | (noun) parasitic on especially the heads of chickens | Synonyms: Echidnophaga gallinacea, sticktight flea |
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| (noun) any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing | Synonyms: beggar's-ticks, beggar-ticks, bur marigold, burr marigold |
| stoplight | (noun) a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections | Synonyms: traffic light, traffic signal |
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| (noun) a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop | Synonyms: brake light |
| straight | (adjective) having no deviations | - |
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| (adjective) no longer coiled | Synonyms: uncoiled |
| (adjective) (of hair) having no waves or curls | - |
| (adjective) characterized by honesty and fairness | Synonyms: square |
| (adjective) free from curves or angles | - |
| (adjective) in keeping with the facts | - |
| (adjective) successive (without a break) | Synonyms: consecutive |
| (adjective) rigidly conventional or old-fashioned | Synonyms: square |
| (adjective) following a correct or logical method | - |
| (adjective) without evasion or compromise | Synonyms: square, straightforward |
| (adjective) erect in posture | Synonyms: unbent, unbowed |
| (adjective) not homosexual | - |
| (adjective) neatly arranged; not disorderly | - |
| (adjective) (of an alcoholic drink) without water | Synonyms: full-strength, neat |
| (adjective) accurately fitted; level | Synonyms: true |
| (noun) a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse | Synonyms: straightaway |
| (noun) a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit) | - |
| (noun) a person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight person |
| (adverb) in a straight line; in a direct course | - |
| (adverb) in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly | Synonyms: directly, flat |
| (adverb) without deviation | Synonyms: direct, directly |
| straightarrow | (adjective) conventionally moral and upright | - |
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| straightaway | (adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: immediate, prompt, quick |
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| (noun) a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse | Synonyms: straight |
| (adverb) without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening | Synonyms: at once, directly, forthwith, immediately, instantly, like a shot, now, right away, straight off |
| straightedge | (noun) hand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness) | - |
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| straighten | (verb) put (things or places) in order | Synonyms: clean up, neaten, square away, straighten out, tidy, tidy up |
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| (verb) make straight or straighter | - |
| (verb) make straight | Synonyms: straighten out |
| (verb) straighten by unrolling | Synonyms: roll out |
| (verb) straighten up or out; make straight | Synonyms: unbend |
| (verb) get up from a sitting or slouching position | - |
| straightener | (noun) a device for straightening | - |
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| straightforward | (adjective) pointed directly ahead | - |
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| (adjective) without evasion or compromise | Synonyms: square, straight |
| (adjective) without concealment or deception; honest | Synonyms: aboveboard |
| (adjective) free from ambiguity | - |
| straightforwardly | (adverb) with firmness and conviction; without compromise | Synonyms: foursquare, squarely |
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| straightforwardness | (noun) the quality of being direct and straightforward | Synonyms: downrightness |
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| (noun) without hypocrisy | Synonyms: singleness |
| straightjacket | (noun) a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person | Synonyms: straitjacket |
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| straightlaced | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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| straightness | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexualism, heterosexuality |
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| (noun) freedom from crooks or curves or bends or angles | - |
| (noun) (of hair) lack of a tendency to curl | - |
| (noun) having honest intentions | Synonyms: good faith |
| (noun) trueness of course toward a goal | Synonyms: directness |
| straightway | (adverb) in a direct course | - |
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| (adverb) at once | - |
| streetlight | (noun) a lamp supported on a lamppost; for illuminating a street | Synonyms: street lamp |
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| sunlight | (noun) the rays of the sun | Synonyms: sun, sunshine |
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| taillight | (noun) lamp (usually red) mounted at the rear of a motor vehicle | Synonyms: rear lamp, rear light, tail lamp |
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| tight | (adjective) closely constrained or constricted or constricting | - |
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| (adjective) of such close construction as to be impermeable | - |
| (adjective) pressed tightly together | Synonyms: compressed |
| (adjective) packed closely together | - |
| (adjective) demanding strict attention to rules and procedures | Synonyms: rigorous, stringent |
| (adjective) exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent | Synonyms: nasty |
| (adjective) (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched | Synonyms: close |
| (adjective) of textiles | Synonyms: close |
| (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, wet |
| (adjective) set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration | - |
| (adjective) affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow | - |
| (adjective) securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid | - |
| (adjective) (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity | Synonyms: mean, mingy, miserly |
| (adjective) pulled or drawn tight | Synonyms: taut |
| (adverb) firmly or closely | Synonyms: fast |
| (adverb) in an attentive manner | Synonyms: close, closely |
| tighten | (verb) become tight or tighter | - |
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| (verb) make tight or tighter | Synonyms: fasten |
| (verb) severely restrict in scope or extent | Synonyms: constrain, stiffen, tighten up |
| (verb) narrow or limit | Synonyms: reduce |
| tightening | (noun) the act of making something tighter | - |
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| tightfisted | (adjective) unwilling to part with money | Synonyms: closefisted, hardfisted |
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| tightfistedness | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightness |
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| tightfitting | (adjective) fitting snugly | Synonyms: skinny, tight-fitting, tight fitting, tightly fitting |
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