| shrieking | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shriek |
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| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shriek |
| shrinking | (noun) the act of becoming less | - |
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| (noun) process or result of becoming less or smaller | Synonyms: shrinkage |
| silkiness | (noun) the smooth feel of silk fabric | Synonyms: sleekness |
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| sinking | (noun) a descent as through liquid (especially through water) | - |
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| (noun) a slow fall or decline (as for lack of strength) | - |
| (noun) a feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension | Synonyms: sinking feeling |
| siskin | (noun) small yellow-and-black Eurasian finch with a sharp beak | Synonyms: Carduelis spinus |
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| skin | (noun) body covering of a living animal | Synonyms: hide, pelt |
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| (noun) an outer surface (usually thin) | - |
| (noun) a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal | - |
| (noun) a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch | Synonyms: cutis, tegument |
| (noun) the rind of a fruit or vegetable | Synonyms: peel |
| (noun) a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent | Synonyms: skinhead |
| (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, baldy, skinhead |
| (noun) a person's skin regarded as their life | - |
| (verb) remove the skin from | Synonyms: pare, peel |
| (verb) remove the bark of a tree | Synonyms: bark |
| (verb) bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of | Synonyms: scrape |
| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, sputter, struggle |
| skincare | (noun) care for the skin | Synonyms: skin care |
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| skinflint | (noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend | Synonyms: churl, niggard, scrooge |
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| skinful | (noun) a quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk | - |
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| skinhead | (noun) a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent | Synonyms: skin |
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| (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, baldy, skin |
| skinheads | (noun) a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism | Synonyms: bootboys |
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| skink | (noun) alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide | Synonyms: scincid, scincid lizard |
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| skinless | (adjective) having no skin | - |
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| skinned | (adjective) having skin of a specified kind | - |
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| skinner | (noun) a person who prepares or deals in animal skins | - |
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| (noun) a worker who drives mules | Synonyms: mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer |
| skinniness | (noun) the bodily property of lacking flesh | Synonyms: scrawniness |
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| skinny | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling skin | - |
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| (adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching |
| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, underweight, weedy |
| (adjective) fitting snugly | Synonyms: tight-fitting, tight fitting, tightfitting, tightly fitting |
| (noun) confidential information about a topic or person | - |
| skint | (adjective) lacking funds | Synonyms: broke, bust, stone-broke, stony-broke |
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| skintight | (adjective) so tight as to cling to the skin | Synonyms: skin-tight |
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| skulking | (noun) evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated | Synonyms: malingering |
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| slacking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, shirking, soldiering |
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| sleepwalking | (noun) walking by a person who is asleep | Synonyms: noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulation, somnambulism |
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| smacking | (noun) the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand | Synonyms: slap, smack |
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| smocking | (noun) embroidery consisting of ornamental needlework on a garment that is made by gathering the cloth tightly in stitches | - |
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| smoking | (adjective) emitting smoke in great volume | - |
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| (noun) the act of smoking tobacco or other substances | Synonyms: smoke |
| (noun) a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion | Synonyms: smoke |
| sneakiness | (noun) a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously | Synonyms: furtiveness, stealthiness |
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| sneaking | (adjective) not openly expressed | Synonyms: unavowed |
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| sneakingly | (adverb) in a sneaky manner | - |
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| soaking | (noun) washing something by allowing it to soak | Synonyms: soak |
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| (noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: drenching, souse, sousing |
| (noun) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: soak, soakage |
| (adverb) extremely wet | Synonyms: dripping, sopping |
| spanking | (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, zippy |
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| (noun) the act of slapping on the buttocks | - |
| speaking | (adjective) capable of or involving speech or speaking | - |
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| (adjective) capable of speech | Synonyms: speech-endowed |
| (noun) delivering an address to a public audience | Synonyms: oral presentation, public speaking, speechmaking |
| (noun) the utterance of intelligible speech | Synonyms: speech production |
| speechmaking | (noun) delivering an address to a public audience | Synonyms: oral presentation, public speaking, speaking |
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| spillikin | (noun) a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws | Synonyms: jackstraw |
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| spillikins | (noun) a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others | Synonyms: jackstraws |
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| squeakiness | (noun) the state of tending to produce a high-pitched sound or squeak. | - |
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| squeaking | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screaky, screechy, squeaky, squealing |
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| stalking | (noun) the act of following prey stealthily | Synonyms: stalk |
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| (noun) a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush | Synonyms: stalk, still hunt |
| stickiness | (noun) the property of sticking to a surface | - |
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| sticking | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking out |
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| stinkiness | (noun) the attribute of having a strong offensive smell | Synonyms: fetidness, foulness, malodorousness, rankness |
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| stinking | (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinky |
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| (adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, foul, funky, ill-scented, noisome, smelly |
| stockiness | (noun) The quality of being compact, sturdy, and relatively thick in build. | - |
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| stockinet | (noun) knit used especially for infants' wear and undergarments | Synonyms: stockinette |
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| stockinette | (noun) knit used especially for infants' wear and undergarments | Synonyms: stockinet |
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| stocking | (noun) the activity of supplying a stock of something | - |
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| (noun) close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural) | - |
| stockinged | (adjective) wearing stockings | - |
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| stocktaking | (noun) making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand | Synonyms: inventory, inventorying, stock-taking |
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| (noun) reappraisal of a situation or position or outlook | Synonyms: stock-taking |
| streptokinase | (noun) an enzyme produced by some strains of streptococcus that can liquefy blood clots by converting plasminogen to plasmin; used medicinally in some cases of myocardial infarction and pulmonary embolism | - |
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| strikebreaking | (noun) confrontational activities intended to break up a strike by workers | - |
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| striking | (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular |
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| (adjective) sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect | Synonyms: dramatic, spectacular |
| (noun) the act of contacting one thing with another | Synonyms: hit, hitting |
| (noun) the physical coming together of two or more things | Synonyms: contact, impinging |
| strikingly | (adverb) in a striking manner | - |
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| strikingness | (noun) the quality of standing out strongly and distinctly | Synonyms: boldness |
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| (noun) the state of being salient | Synonyms: salience, saliency |
| stroking | (noun) a light touch with the hands | Synonyms: stroke |
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| subkingdom | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group comprising a major division of a kingdom | - |
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| sucking | (noun) the act of sucking | Synonyms: suck, suction |
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| sulkiness | (noun) a sullen moody resentful disposition | Synonyms: moroseness, sourness, sullenness |
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| (noun) a feeling of sulky resentment | Synonyms: huffishness |
| (noun) a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal | Synonyms: sulk |
| tackiness | (noun) tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar | Synonyms: cheapness, sleaze, tat |
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| (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: cohesiveness, glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, viscidity, viscidness |
| tacking | (noun) (nautical) the act of changing tack | Synonyms: tack |
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| (noun) a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together | Synonyms: baste, basting, basting stitch |
| takin | (noun) large heavily built goat antelope of eastern Himalayan area | Synonyms: Budorcas taxicolor, gnu goat |
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| taking | (adjective) very attractive; capturing interest | Synonyms: fetching, winning |
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| (noun) the act of someone who picks up or takes something | Synonyms: pickings |
| takings | (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, yield |
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| talking | (noun) an exchange of ideas via conversation | Synonyms: talk |
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| telekinesis | (noun) the power to move something by thinking about it without the application of physical force | Synonyms: psychokinesis |
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| teleworking | (noun) employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem | Synonyms: telecommuting |
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| thinking | (adjective) endowed with the capacity to reason | Synonyms: intelligent, reasoning |
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| (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: cerebration, intellection, mentation, thought, thought process |
| thrombokinase | (noun) an enzyme liberated from blood platelets that converts prothrombin into thrombin as blood starts to clot | Synonyms: factor III, thromboplastin |
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| ticking | (noun) a strong fabric used for mattress and pillow covers | - |
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| (noun) a metallic tapping sound | Synonyms: tick |
| tracking | (noun) the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind | Synonyms: trailing |
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| trickiness | (noun) the quality of being a slippery rascal | Synonyms: rascality, shiftiness, slipperiness |
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| (noun) the quality of requiring skill or caution | - |
| trucking | (noun) the activity of transporting goods by truck | Synonyms: hauling, truckage |
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| unblinking | (adjective) not shrinking from danger | Synonyms: unflinching, unintimidated, unshrinking |
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| (adjective) showing no visible emotion | - |
| unblinkingly | (adverb) showing no emotion | - |
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| undertaking | (noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labor, labour, project, task |
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| (noun) the trade of a funeral director | - |
| unkind | (adjective) lacking kindness | - |
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| (adjective) deficient in humane and kindly feelings | Synonyms: pitiless |
| unkindled | (adjective) not set afire | - |
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| unkindly | (adjective) lacking in sympathy and kindness | Synonyms: unsympathetic |
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| (adverb) in an unkind manner or with unkindness | - |
| unkindness | (noun) lack of sympathy | - |
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| unmasking | (noun) the exposure of an impostor or a fraud | Synonyms: expose |
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| unprovoking | (adjective) not provocative | Synonyms: unprovocative |
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| unshrinking | (adjective) not shrinking from danger | Synonyms: unblinking, unflinching, unintimidated |
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| unthinking | (adjective) without care or thought for others | Synonyms: thoughtless, uncaring |
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| (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 |
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| urokinase | (noun) protease produced in the kidney that converts plasminogen to plasmin and so initiates fibrinolysis | Synonyms: plasminogen activator |
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| waking | (adjective) marked by full consciousness or alertness | Synonyms: wakeful |
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| (noun) the state of remaining awake | - |
| walking | (adjective) close enough to be walked to | Synonyms: walk-to |
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| (noun) the act of traveling by foot | Synonyms: walk |
| walkingstick | (noun) any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies | Synonyms: stick insect, walking stick |
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| waterskin | (noun) a container of skin for holding water | Synonyms: water skin |
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| welkin | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven |
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| whacking | (adjective) (British informal) enormous | - |
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| (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing |
| (adverb) to an abnormal extent | - |
| winemaking | (noun) the craft and science of growing grapes and making wine | Synonyms: wine making |
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| wineskin | (noun) an animal skin (usually a goatskin) that forms a bag and is used to hold and dispense wine | - |
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| winking | (adjective) closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly | Synonyms: blinking |
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| (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, blinking, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink |
| womankind | (noun) women as distinguished from men | - |
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| wonderworking | (adjective) performing or able to perform wonders or miracles | - |
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| woodworking | (noun) the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood | Synonyms: carpentry, woodwork |
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| working | (adjective) actively engaged in paid work | Synonyms: on the job |
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| (adjective) (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing | Synonyms: functional, operative, running |
| (adjective) adopted as a temporary basis for further work | - |
| (adjective) adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something | - |
| (adjective) serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity | - |
| (noun) a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked | Synonyms: workings |
| workingman | (noun) an employee who performs manual or industrial labor | Synonyms: working man, working person, workman |
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| workings | (noun) the internal mechanism of a device | Synonyms: works |
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| (noun) a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked | Synonyms: working |
| wrecking | (noun) destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined | Synonyms: laying waste, ruin, ruination, ruining |
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| (noun) the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled | Synonyms: razing |