| overbold | (adjective) improperly forward or bold | Synonyms: fresh, impertinent, impudent, sassy, saucy, smart, wise |
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| overshielding | (noun) excessive protection | Synonyms: momism, overprotection |
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| paraldehyde | (noun) a colorless liquid (a cyclic trimer of acetaldehyde) that is used as a sedative and a solvent | Synonyms: ethanal trimer |
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| piebald | (adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: calico, motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, pied, varicolored, varicoloured |
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| pinfold | (noun) a pen where stray animals are confined | - |
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| placeholder | (noun) a symbol in a logical or mathematical expression that can be replaced by the name of any member of specified set | - |
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| (noun) a person authorized to act for another | Synonyms: procurator, proxy |
| polder | (noun) low-lying land that has been reclaimed and is protected by dikes (especially in the Netherlands) | - |
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| policyholder | (noun) a person who holds an insurance policy; usually, the client in whose name an insurance policy is written | - |
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| potholder | (noun) an insulated pad for holding hot pots | - |
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| propionaldehyde | (noun) a colorless liquid aldehyde | Synonyms: propanal |
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| rebuild | (verb) build again | Synonyms: reconstruct |
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| rebuilding | (noun) building again | - |
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| remold | (verb) give new treads to (a tire) | Synonyms: remould, retread |
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| (verb) cast again | Synonyms: recast, remould |
| (verb) shape again or shape differently | Synonyms: reshape |
| remould | (verb) give new treads to (a tire) | Synonyms: remold, retread |
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| (verb) cast again | Synonyms: recast, remold |
| ribald | (adjective) humorously vulgar | Synonyms: bawdy, off-color |
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| (noun) a ribald person; someone who uses vulgar and offensive language | - |
| ribaldry | (noun) behavior or language bordering on indelicacy | Synonyms: gaminess, raciness, spiciness |
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| (noun) ribald humor | - |
| 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 |
| safehold | (noun) a refuge from attack | - |
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| scaffold | (noun) a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers | - |
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| (noun) a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded) | - |
| (verb) provide with a scaffold for support | - |
| scaffolding | (noun) a system of scaffolds | Synonyms: staging |
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| scald | (noun) the act of burning with steam or hot water | - |
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| (noun) a burn cause by hot liquid or steam | - |
| (verb) burn with a hot liquid or steam | - |
| (verb) heat to the boiling point | - |
| (verb) treat with boiling water | - |
| (verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: blister, scorch, whip |
| schoolchild | (noun) a young person attending school (up through senior high school) | Synonyms: pupil, school-age child |
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| schooldays | (noun) the time of life when you are going to school | Synonyms: schooltime |
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| scold | (noun) someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault | Synonyms: common scold, nag, nagger, scolder |
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| (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, take to task, trounce |
| (verb) show one's unhappiness or critical attitude | Synonyms: grouch, grumble |
| scolder | (noun) someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault | Synonyms: common scold, nag, nagger, scold |
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| scolding | (noun) rebuking a person harshly | Synonyms: chiding, objurgation, tongue-lashing |
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| seldom | (adverb) not often | Synonyms: rarely |
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| sevenfold | (adjective) having seven units or components | Synonyms: septuple, seven-fold |
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| (adverb) seven times | - |
| shareholder | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareowner, stockholder |
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| shareholding | (noun) a holding in the form of shares of corporations | - |
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| sheepfold | (noun) a pen for sheep | Synonyms: fold, sheep pen, sheepcote |
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| sheldrake | (noun) Old World gooselike duck slightly larger than a mallard with variegated mostly black-and-white plumage and a red bill | - |
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| (noun) large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | Synonyms: fish duck, merganser, sawbill |
| shelduck | (noun) female sheldrake | - |
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| shield | (noun) hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles | Synonyms: carapace, cuticle, shell |
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| (noun) armor carried on the arm to intercept blows | Synonyms: buckler |
| (noun) a protective covering or structure | - |
| (verb) protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm | Synonyms: screen |
| (verb) hold back a thought or feeling about | Synonyms: harbor, harbour |
| shielded | (adjective) (used especially of machinery) protected by a shield to prevent injury | - |
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| shielder | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: defender, guardian, protector |
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| shielding | (noun) the act of shielding from harm | - |
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| (noun) a shield of lead or concrete intended as a barrier to radiation emitted in nuclear decay | - |
| (noun) shield consisting of an arrangement of metal mesh or plates designed to protect electronic equipment from ambient electromagnetic interference | - |
| shipbuilder | (noun) a business that builds and repairs ships | - |
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| (noun) a person who builds ships as a business | Synonyms: ship builder |
| (noun) a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels | Synonyms: ship builder, shipwright |
| shipbuilding | (noun) the construction of ships | Synonyms: ship building |
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| shoulder | (noun) a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road | Synonyms: berm |
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| (noun) the part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder | - |
| (noun) the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm | - |
| (noun) a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula | Synonyms: articulatio humeri, shoulder joint |
| (noun) a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg | - |
| (verb) push with the shoulders | - |
| (verb) carry a burden, either real or metaphoric | - |
| (verb) lift onto one's shoulders | - |
| shouldered | (adjective) having shoulders or shoulders as specified; usually used as a combining form | - |
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| sild | (noun) any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway | - |
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| sildenafil | (noun) virility drug (trade name Viagra) used to treat erectile dysfunction in men | Synonyms: sildenafil citrate, Viagra |
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| sixfold | (adjective) having six units or components | Synonyms: sextuple, six-fold |
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| (adverb) by a factor of six | Synonyms: six times |
| skulduggery | (noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery |
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| skullduggery | (noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, slickness, trickery |
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| slaveholder | (noun) someone who holds slaves | Synonyms: slave owner, slaver |
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| slaveholding | (adjective) allowing slavery | - |
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| (noun) the practice of owning slaves | Synonyms: slavery |
| smallholder | (noun) a person owning or renting a smallholding | - |
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| smallholding | (noun) a piece of land under 50 acres that is sold or let to someone for cultivation | - |
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| smolder | (noun) a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame | Synonyms: smoulder |
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| (verb) burn slowly and without a flame | Synonyms: smoulder |
| (verb) have strong suppressed feelings | Synonyms: smoulder |
| smoldering | (adjective) showing scarcely suppressed anger | Synonyms: smouldering |
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| smolderingly | (adverb) with barely repressed anger | Synonyms: smoulderingly |
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| smoulder | (noun) a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame | Synonyms: smolder |
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| (verb) burn slowly and without a flame | Synonyms: smolder |
| (verb) have strong suppressed feelings | Synonyms: smolder |
| smouldering | (adjective) showing scarcely suppressed anger | Synonyms: smoldering |
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| smoulderingly | (adverb) with barely repressed anger | Synonyms: smolderingly |
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| snowfield | (noun) a permanent wide expanse of snow | - |
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| sold | (adjective) disposed of to a purchaser | - |
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| solder | (noun) an alloy (usually of lead and tin) used when melted to join two metal surfaces | - |
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| (verb) join or fuse with solder | - |
| solderer | (noun) a worker who joins or mends with solder | - |
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| soldering | (noun) fastening firmly together | Synonyms: bonding |
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| soldier | (noun) a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony | - |
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| (noun) an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army | - |
| (verb) serve as a soldier in the military | - |
| soldierfish | (noun) the larger squirrelfishes | Synonyms: soldier-fish |
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| soldiering | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, shirking, slacking |
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| (noun) skills that are required for the life of soldier | Synonyms: soldiership |
| soldierlike | (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: martial, soldierly, warriorlike |
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| soldierly | (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: martial, soldierlike, warriorlike |
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| soldiership | (noun) skills that are required for the life of soldier | Synonyms: soldiering |
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| soldiery | (noun) soldiers collectively | Synonyms: military personnel, troops |
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| spelldown | (noun) a contest in which you are eliminated if you fail to spell a word correctly | Synonyms: spelling bee, spelling contest |
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| spotweld | (verb) make circular welds | Synonyms: spot-weld |
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| stakeholder | (noun) someone entrusted to hold the stakes for two or more persons betting against one another; must deliver the stakes to the winner | - |
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| stepchild | (noun) a child of your spouse by a former marriage | - |
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| stockholder | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareholder, shareowner |
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| stockholding | (noun) ownership of stocks; the state or fact of holding stock | - |
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| (noun) a specific number of stocks or shares owned | Synonyms: stockholdings |
| stockholdings | (noun) a specific number of stocks or shares owned | Synonyms: stockholding |
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| stokehold | (noun) (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired | Synonyms: fireroom, stokehole |
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| stranglehold | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe | - |
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| (noun) complete power over a person or situation | Synonyms: chokehold, throttlehold |
| stronghold | (noun) a strongly fortified defensive structure | Synonyms: fastness |
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| tenfold | (adjective) containing ten or ten parts | Synonyms: denary, ten-fold |
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| (adverb) by ten times as much | - |
| tetramethyldiarsine | (noun) a poisonous oily liquid with a garlicky odor composed of 2 cacodyl groups; undergoes spontaneous combustion in dry air | Synonyms: cacodyl |
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| thraldom | (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom |
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| thralldom | (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: bondage, slavery, thraldom, thrall |
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| threefold | (adjective) three times as great or many | Synonyms: three-fold, treble, triple |
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| (adjective) having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities | Synonyms: double, dual, three-fold, treble, two-fold, twofold |
| (adverb) by a factor of three | Synonyms: three times |
| threshold | (noun) the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway | Synonyms: doorsill, doorstep |
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| (noun) the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close | Synonyms: door, doorway, room access |
| (noun) the smallest detectable sensation | Synonyms: limen |
| (noun) a region marking a boundary | Synonyms: brink, verge |
| (noun) the starting point for a new state or experience | - |
| throttlehold | (noun) complete power over a person or situation | Synonyms: chokehold, stranglehold |
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| tilde | (noun) a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization | - |
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| toehold | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the toe is held and the leg is twisted against the joints | - |
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| (noun) a small foothold used in climbing | - |
| (noun) a relatively insignificant position from which future progress might be made | - |
| twofold | (adjective) twice as great or many | Synonyms: double, doubled, two-fold |
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| (adjective) having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities | Synonyms: double, dual, three-fold, threefold, treble, two-fold |
| (adverb) by a factor of two | Synonyms: two times |
| unbeholden | (adjective) free of moral obligation | - |
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| underworld | (noun) (religion) the world of the dead | Synonyms: Hades, Hell, infernal region, netherworld, Scheol |
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| (noun) the criminal class | - |
| unfold | (verb) develop or come to a promising stage | Synonyms: blossom, blossom forth, blossom out |
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| (verb) spread out or open from a closed or folded state | Synonyms: open, spread, spread out |
| (verb) extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length | Synonyms: extend, stretch, stretch out |
| (verb) open to the view | - |
| unfolding | (noun) a developmental process | Synonyms: flowering |
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| unheralded | (adjective) without warning or announcement | Synonyms: unannounced, unpredicted |
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| unshielded | (adjective) (used especially of machinery) not protected by a shield | - |
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| unsold | (adjective) not disposed of by purchase | - |
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| unsolder | (verb) remove the soldering from | - |
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| unsoldierly | (adjective) not conforming to military standards | - |
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| untold | (adjective) too much to be measured | Synonyms: incalculable |
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| unwieldiness | (noun) trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape | Synonyms: awkwardness, cumbersomeness |
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| (noun) the quality of being difficult to direct or control by reason of complexity | - |
| unwieldy | (adjective) difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape | Synonyms: unmanageable |
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| (adjective) lacking grace in movement or posture | Synonyms: clumsy, clunky, gawky, ungainly |
| (adjective) difficult to work or manipulate | - |