| scleredema | (noun) a skin disease marked by hard edema of the tissue usually beginning in the face | - |
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| sclerite | (noun) hard plate or element of the exoskeleton of some arthropods | - |
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| scleritis | (noun) inflammation of the sclera | - |
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| scleroderma | (noun) an autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels and connective tissue; fibrous connective tissue is deposited in the skin | Synonyms: dermatosclerosis |
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| sclerometer | (noun) a measuring instrument that measures the hardness of materials by penetrating them with a stylus that has a diamond point | - |
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| scleroprotein | (noun) a simple protein found in horny and cartilaginous tissues and in the lens of the eye | Synonyms: albuminoid |
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| sclerosed | (adjective) relating to or having sclerosis; hardened | Synonyms: sclerotic |
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| sclerosis | (noun) any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue | Synonyms: induration |
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| sclerotic | (adjective) of or relating to the sclera of the eyeball | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or having sclerosis; hardened | Synonyms: sclerosed |
| sclerotinia | (noun) any fungus of the genus Sclerotinia; some causing brown rot diseases in plants | - |
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| sclerotium | (noun) compact usually dark-colored mass of hardened mycelium constituting a vegetative food-storage body in various true fungi; detaches when mature and can give rise to new growth | - |
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| sclerotomy | (noun) surgical incision of the sclerotic coat of the eye | - |
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| scrambler | (noun) electronic equipment that makes speech unintelligible during transmission and restores it at reception | - |
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| (noun) a lightweight motorcycle equipped with rugged tires and suspension; an off-road motorcycle designed for riding cross country or over unpaved ground | Synonyms: dirt bike, trail bike |
| (noun) a rapid mover; someone who scrambles | - |
| scrawler | (noun) a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read | Synonyms: scribbler |
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| screwballer | (noun) (baseball) a pitcher who throws screwballs | - |
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| scribbler | (noun) a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read | Synonyms: scrawler |
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| (noun) informal terms for journalists | Synonyms: penman, scribe |
| sculler | (noun) someone who sculls (moves a long oar pivoted on the back of the boat to propel the boat forward) | - |
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| scullery | (noun) a small room (in large old British houses) next to the kitchen; where kitchen utensils are cleaned and kept and other rough household jobs are done | - |
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| sealer | (noun) an official who affixes a seal to a document | - |
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| (noun) a kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface) | Synonyms: sealant |
| seller | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, trafficker, vender, vendor |
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| semitrailer | (noun) a trailer having wheels only in the rear; the front is supported by the towing vehicle | Synonyms: semi |
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| settler | (noun) a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country | Synonyms: colonist |
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| (noun) a clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings | - |
| (noun) a negotiator who settles disputes | - |
| sheller | (noun) a worker who removes shells (as of peas or oysters) | - |
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| shingler | (noun) a worker who shingles roofs | - |
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| shoveler | (noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, broadbill, shoveller |
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| (noun) a worker who shovels | Synonyms: shoveller |
| shoveller | (noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, broadbill, shoveler |
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| (noun) a worker who shovels | Synonyms: shoveler |
| shuffler | (noun) someone who walks without raising the feet | - |
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| (noun) the card player who shuffles the cards | - |
| signaler | (noun) someone who communicates by signals | Synonyms: signaller |
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| signaller | (noun) someone who communicates by signals | Synonyms: signaler |
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| slopseller | (noun) a dealer in cheap ready-made clothing | Synonyms: slop-seller |
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| smaller | (adjective) small or little relative to something else | Synonyms: littler |
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| smiler | (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: countenance, kisser, mug, phiz, physiognomy, visage |
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| (noun) a person who smiles | - |
| smuggler | (noun) someone who imports or exports without paying duties | Synonyms: contrabandist, moon-curser, moon curser, runner |
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| sniffler | (noun) a person who breathes audibly through a congested nose | Synonyms: sniveler |
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| sniveler | (noun) a person who breathes audibly through a congested nose | Synonyms: sniffler |
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| sniveller | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, squawker, whiner |
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| snuffler | (noun) a person who breathes noisily (as through a nose blocked by mucus) | - |
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| solleret | (noun) armor plate that protects the foot; consists of mail with a solid toe and heel | Synonyms: sabaton |
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| sparkler | (noun) a firework that burns slowly and throws out a shower of sparks | - |
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| (noun) diamonds | Synonyms: ice |
| speller | (noun) an introductory textbook to teach spelling | - |
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| (noun) someone who spells words | Synonyms: good speller, poor speller |
| sphalerite | (noun) an ore that is the chief source of zinc; consists largely of zinc sulfide in crystalline form | Synonyms: blende, zinc blende |
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| spiller | (noun) a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) | Synonyms: setline, trawl, trawl line, trotline |
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| (noun) an attacker who sheds or spills blood | Synonyms: shedder |
| spoiler | (noun) a hinged airfoil on the upper surface of an aircraft wing that is raised to reduce lift and increase drag | - |
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| (noun) an airfoil mounted on the rear of a car to reduce lift at high speeds | - |
| (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider |
| (noun) a candidate with no chance of winning but who may draw enough votes to prevent one of the leading candidates from winning | - |
| (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: coddler, mollycoddler, pamperer |
| sprawler | (noun) a person who sprawls | - |
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| sprinkler | (noun) mechanical device that attaches to a garden hose for watering lawn or garden | - |
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| squabbler | (noun) someone who quarrels about a small matter | - |
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| squealer | (noun) domestic swine | Synonyms: grunter, hog, pig, Sus scrofa |
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| (noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: betrayer, blabber, informer, rat |
| stapler | (noun) a machine that inserts staples into sheets of paper in order to fasten them together | Synonyms: stapling machine |
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| stealer | (noun) a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it | Synonyms: thief |
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| steamroller | (noun) vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements | Synonyms: road roller |
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| (noun) a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way | Synonyms: juggernaut |
| (verb) make level or flat with a steamroller | Synonyms: steamroll |
| (verb) overwhelm by using great force | Synonyms: steamroll |
| (verb) crush with a steamroller as if to level | - |
| (verb) proceed with great force | Synonyms: steamroll |
| (verb) bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure | Synonyms: steamroll |
| sternwheeler | (noun) a paddle steamer having the paddle wheel in the stern | - |
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| stickler | (noun) someone who insists on something | - |
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| sticklerism | (noun) The behaviour of a stickler; inflexible adherence to rules. | - |
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| stifler | (noun) a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses | Synonyms: smotherer |
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| stippler | (noun) a painter who stipples (creates a stippled effect) | - |
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| stonewaller | (noun) one who stonewalls or refuses to answer or cooperate; someone who delays by lengthy speeches etc. | - |
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| storyteller | (noun) someone who tells a story | Synonyms: narrator, teller |
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| (noun) someone who tells lies | Synonyms: fabricator, fibber |
| straggler | (noun) someone who strays or falls behind | Synonyms: strayer |
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| strangler | (noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: choker, garroter, garrotter, throttler |
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| (noun) an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree | Synonyms: strangler tree |
| stroller | (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pram, pushchair, pusher |
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| (noun) someone who walks at a leisurely pace | Synonyms: ambler, saunterer |
| struggler | (noun) a person who struggles with difficulties or with great effort | - |
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| stumbler | (noun) a walker or runner who trips and almost falls | Synonyms: tripper |
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| (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack |
| styler | (noun) someone who cuts or beautifies hair | Synonyms: hairdresser, hairstylist, stylist |
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| sutler | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: provisioner, victualer, victualler |
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| swashbuckler | (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: daredevil, harum-scarum, hothead, lunatic, madcap |
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| swindler | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer |
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| tackler | (noun) a football player who tackles the ball carrier | - |
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| taleteller | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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| tattler | (noun) any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry | - |
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| (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattletale, telltale |
| teetotaler | (noun) a total abstainer | Synonyms: teetotalist, teetotaller |
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| teetotaller | (noun) a total abstainer | Synonyms: teetotaler, teetotalist |
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| telerobotics | (noun) the area of robotics that is concerned with the control of robots from a distance | - |
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| teller | (noun) an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money | Synonyms: bank clerk, cashier |
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| (noun) an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly) | Synonyms: vote counter |
| (noun) someone who tells a story | Synonyms: narrator, storyteller |
| thimblerig | (noun) a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under | Synonyms: shell game |
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| thriller | (noun) a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie | - |
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| throttler | (noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: choker, garroter, garrotter, strangler |
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| tickler | (noun) a file of memoranda or notices that remind of things to be done | Synonyms: tickler file |
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| tiddler | (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tike, tyke, youngster |
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| tiler | (noun) a worker who lays tile | - |
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| tiller | (noun) lever used to turn the rudder on a boat | - |
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| (noun) a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture) | Synonyms: cultivator |
| (noun) someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops) | - |
| (noun) a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass | - |
| (verb) grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers | Synonyms: stool |
| tippler | (noun) someone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities | Synonyms: social drinker |
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| toddler | (noun) a young child who is just beginning to walk | Synonyms: bambino, tot, yearling |
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| toiler | (noun) one who works strenuously | - |
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| tolerable | (adjective) capable of being borne or endured | - |
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| (adjective) about average; acceptable | Synonyms: adequate, fair to middling, passable |
| tolerably | (adverb) in an acceptable (but not outstanding) manner | Synonyms: acceptably, so-so |
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| tolerance | (noun) the act of tolerating something | - |
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| (noun) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits | Synonyms: allowance, leeway, margin |
| (noun) the power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions | - |
| (noun) a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior | Synonyms: permissiveness |
| (noun) willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others | - |
| tolerant | (adjective) showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others | - |
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| (adjective) showing or characterized by broad-mindedness | Synonyms: broad, large-minded, liberal |
| (adjective) tolerant and forgiving under provocation | Synonyms: kind |
| (adjective) showing the capacity for endurance | Synonyms: patient of |
| (adjective) able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress | Synonyms: resistant |
| tolerantly | (adverb) in a tolerant manner | - |
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| tolerate | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support |
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| (verb) allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting | Synonyms: allow, permit |
| (verb) have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen or environmental condition | - |
| (verb) recognize and respect (rights and beliefs of others) | - |
| toleration | (noun) official recognition of the right of individuals to hold dissenting opinions (especially in religion) | - |
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| (noun) a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations | Synonyms: acceptance, sufferance |
| toller | (noun) someone employed to collect tolls | Synonyms: toll agent, toll collector, toll taker, tollgatherer, tollkeeper, tollman |
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| (noun) a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation) | Synonyms: bell ringer, ringer |
| tomfoolery | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, foolery, indulgence, lunacy |
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| trailer | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that can be pulled by a car or truck and is equipped for occupancy | Synonyms: house trailer |
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| (noun) a large transport conveyance designed to be pulled by a truck or tractor | - |
| (noun) an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future | Synonyms: preview, prevue |
| (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, poke |
| trampler | (noun) someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground | Synonyms: stamper, stomper, tramper |
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| (noun) someone who injures by trampling | - |
| traveler | (noun) a person who changes location | Synonyms: traveller |
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| traveller | (noun) a person who changes location | Synonyms: traveler |
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| trawler | (noun) a fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish | Synonyms: dragger |
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| (noun) a fisherman who use a trawl net | - |
| trembler | (noun) one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear | Synonyms: quaker |
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| trifler | (noun) one who behaves lightly or not seriously | - |
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| troller | (noun) a fisherman who uses a hook and line | Synonyms: angler |
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