| outset | (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, showtime, start, starting time |
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| outshine | (verb) attract more attention and praise than others | - |
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| (verb) shine brighter than | - |
| outshout | (verb) shout louder than | Synonyms: outcry |
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| outside | (adjective) relating to or being on or near the outer side or limit | - |
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| (adjective) located, suited for, or taking place in the open air | Synonyms: out-of-door, outdoor |
| (adjective) leading to or from the outside | - |
| (adjective) originating or belonging beyond some bounds | - |
| (adjective) functioning outside the boundaries or precincts of an organized unit | - |
| (adjective) coming from the outside | Synonyms: external, extraneous |
| (adjective) from or between other countries | Synonyms: external, international |
| (adjective) (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter | Synonyms: away |
| (adjective) on or toward an outer edge | - |
| (adjective) unlikely to occur | Synonyms: remote |
| (noun) the outer side or surface of something | Synonyms: exterior |
| (noun) the region that is outside of something | Synonyms: exterior |
| (adverb) outside a building | Synonyms: alfresco, out of doors, outdoors |
| (adverb) on the outside | - |
| outsider | (noun) someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group | Synonyms: foreigner |
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| (noun) a contestant (human or animal) not considered to have a good chance to win | - |
| outsize | (adjective) larger than normal for its kind | Synonyms: outsized, oversize, oversized |
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| (noun) an unusual garment size (especially one that is very large) | - |
| outsized | (adjective) larger than normal for its kind | Synonyms: outsize, oversize, oversized |
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| outskirt | (noun) a part of the city far removed from the center | Synonyms: fringe |
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| outskirts | (noun) outlying areas (as of a city or town) | - |
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| outsmart | (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outfox, outwit, overreach |
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| (verb) defeat by more skillful maneuvering | Synonyms: outmaneuver, outmanoeuvre |
| outsole | (noun) the outer sole of a shoe or boot that is the bottom of the shoe and makes contact with the ground | - |
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| outsource | (verb) obtain goods or services from an outside supplier; to contract work out | - |
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| outspan | (verb) remove the yoke or harness from | - |
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| outspoken | (adjective) given to expressing yourself freely or insistently | Synonyms: vocal |
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| (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: blunt, candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
| outspokenly | (adverb) in an outspoken manner | - |
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| outspokenness | (noun) the trait of being blunt and outspoken | Synonyms: frankness |
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| outspread | (adjective) fully extended in width | Synonyms: spread |
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| outstanding | (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: prominent, salient, spectacular, striking |
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| (adjective) of major significance or importance | Synonyms: great |
| (adjective) distinguished from others in excellence | - |
| (adjective) owed as a debt | Synonyms: owing, undischarged |
| outstandingly | (adverb) in an outstanding manner or to an outstanding degree | - |
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| outstare | (verb) overcome or cause to waver or submit by (or as if by) staring | Synonyms: outface, stare down |
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| outstation | (noun) a station in a remote or sparsely populated location | Synonyms: outpost |
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| outstay | (verb) stay too long | Synonyms: overstay |
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| (verb) surpass in staying power | - |
| outstretched | (adjective) fully extended especially in length | - |
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| outstrip | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, surmount, surpass |
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| (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: distance, outdistance |
| outstroke | (noun) the stroke of an engine piston moving toward the crankshaft | - |
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| outtake | (noun) a scene that is filmed but is not used in the final editing of the film | - |
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| outthrust | (noun) an outcropping of rock that extends outward | - |
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| outturn | (noun) what is produced in a given time period | Synonyms: output, turnout |
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| outvie | (verb) be more of a rival than | Synonyms: outrival |
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| outvote | (verb) defeat by a majority of votes | - |
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| outward | (adjective) relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or the mind | - |
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| (adjective) that is going out or leaving | Synonyms: departing, outbound, outward-bound |
| (adverb) toward the outside | Synonyms: outwards |
| outwardly | (adverb) in outward appearance | - |
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| (adverb) with respect to the outside | Synonyms: externally |
| outwardness | (noun) the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior | Synonyms: externality |
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| (noun) a concern with or responsiveness to outward things (especially material objects as opposed to ideal concepts) | - |
| (noun) concern with outward things or material objects as opposed to the mind and spirit | - |
| outwards | (adverb) toward the outside | Synonyms: outward |
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| outwear | (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
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| (verb) last longer than others | - |
| outweigh | (verb) be heavier than | - |
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| (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, overbalance, preponderate |
| outwit | (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, overreach |
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| outwork | (noun) subsidiary defensive structure lying outside the main fortified area | - |
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| pout | (noun) catfish common in eastern United States | Synonyms: Ameiurus Melas, horned pout, hornpout |
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| (noun) marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas | Synonyms: eelpout |
| (noun) a disdainful grimace | Synonyms: moue, wry face |
| (verb) make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip | Synonyms: mop, mow |
| (verb) be in a huff and display one's displeasure | Synonyms: brood, sulk |
| pouter | (noun) one of a breed of pigeon that enlarge their crop until their breast is puffed out | Synonyms: pouter pigeon |
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| (noun) someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression | Synonyms: gloomy Gus, picklepuss, sourpuss |
| poutine | (noun) a Canadian dish made with french fries and cheese curds topped with a light brown gravy | - |
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| poutingly | (adverb) with a pout or in a pouting manner | - |
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| printout | (noun) the output of a computer in printed form | - |
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| pullout | (noun) to break off a military action with an enemy | Synonyms: disengagement, fallback |
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| putout | (noun) an out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout) | - |
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| raceabout | (noun) a small sloop having the keep of a knockabout but with finer lines and carrying more sail | - |
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| ragout | (noun) well-seasoned stew of meat and vegetables | - |
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| readout | (noun) an electronic device that displays information | Synonyms: read-out |
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| (noun) the information displayed or recorded on an electronic device | Synonyms: read-out |
| (noun) the output of a computer in readable form | Synonyms: read-out |
| rigout | (noun) a person's costume (especially if bizarre) | - |
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| roundabout | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: circuitous, devious |
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| (adjective) marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct | Synonyms: circuitous |
| (noun) a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island | Synonyms: circle, rotary, traffic circle |
| (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round, whirligig |
| roustabout | (noun) a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor | Synonyms: deckhand |
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| rout | (noun) an overwhelming defeat | - |
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| (noun) a disorderly crowd of people | Synonyms: mob, rabble |
| (verb) cause to flee | Synonyms: expel, rout out |
| (verb) defeat disastrously | Synonyms: spread-eagle, spreadeagle |
| (verb) make a groove in | Synonyms: gouge |
| (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: root, rootle |
| route | (noun) an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation | Synonyms: road |
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| (noun) an established line of travel or access | Synonyms: itinerary, path |
| (verb) send via a specific route | - |
| (verb) divert in a specified direction | - |
| (verb) send documents or materials to appropriate destinations | - |
| routemarch | (noun) a long training march for troops | - |
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| router | (noun) (computer science) a device that forwards data packets between computer networks | - |
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| (noun) a worker who routes shipments for distribution and delivery | - |
| (noun) a power tool with a shaped cutter; used in carpentry for cutting grooves | - |
| routine | (adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: everyday, mundane, quotidian, unremarkable, workaday |
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| (noun) an unvarying or habitual method or procedure | Synonyms: modus operandi |
| (noun) a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program | Synonyms: function, procedure, subprogram, subroutine |
| (noun) a short performance that is part of a longer program | Synonyms: act, bit, number, turn |
| routinely | (adverb) according to routine or established practice | - |
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| routineness | (noun) The state or quality of being routine, of possessing the traits of being quotidian, and repeating a pattern regularly. | - |
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| runabout | (noun) an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat | Synonyms: roadster, two-seater |
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| scout | (noun) someone who can find paths through unexplored territory | Synonyms: guide, pathfinder |
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| (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, picket, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch |
| (noun) someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports) | Synonyms: talent scout |
| (verb) explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody | Synonyms: reconnoiter, reconnoitre |
| scouter | (noun) an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement | Synonyms: rover |
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| scouting | (noun) exploring in order to gain information | Synonyms: exploratory survey, reconnoitering, reconnoitring |
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| scoutmaster | (noun) the leader of a troop of Scouts | - |
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| sellout | (noun) a betrayal of one's principles principles, country, cause, etc. | - |
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| (noun) the selling of an entire stock of something | - |
| (noun) an event for which all tickets are sold | - |
| (noun) someone who has sold out | - |
| shakeout | (noun) an economic condition that results in the elimination of marginally financed participants in an industry | - |
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| shootout | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunfight, gunplay |
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| shout | (noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition | Synonyms: call, cry, outcry, vociferation, yell |
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| (verb) utter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice (usually denoting characteristic manner of speaking) | - |
| (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout out, squall, yell |
| (verb) utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy | Synonyms: call out, cry, cry out, exclaim, outcry |
| (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, blackguard, clapperclaw |
| shouted | (adjective) in a vehement outcry | Synonyms: yelled |
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| shouter | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, bellower, roarer, screamer, screecher, yeller |
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| shouting | (noun) encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators | Synonyms: cheering |
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| (noun) uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement | Synonyms: yelling |
| shutout | (noun) a defeat in a game where one side fails to score | Synonyms: skunk |
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| smallmouth | (noun) a variety of black bass; the angle of the jaw falls below the eye | Synonyms: Micropterus dolomieu, smallmouth bass, smallmouth black bass, smallmouthed bass, smallmouthed black bass |
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| snout | (noun) a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose | Synonyms: neb |
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| (noun) beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils | Synonyms: rostrum |
| (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot |
| soutache | (noun) a narrow braid used as a decorative trimming | - |
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| soutane | (noun) a long cassock with buttons down the front; worn by Roman Catholic priests | - |
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| south | (adjective) situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south | - |
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| (noun) a location in the southern part of a country, region, or city | - |
| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees | Synonyms: due south, S, southward |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southward cardinal compass point | - |
| (adverb) in a southern direction | Synonyms: in the south, to the south |
| southbound | (adjective) moving toward the south | Synonyms: southward |
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| southeast | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southeast | Synonyms: southeasterly, southeastern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southeast | Synonyms: southeasterly |
| (noun) a location in the southeastern part of a country, region, or city | - |
| (noun) the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees | Synonyms: SE, sou'-east, southeastward |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southeastward compass point | - |
| (adverb) to, toward, or in the southeast | Synonyms: sou'-east, south-east |
| southeaster | (noun) a strong wind from the southeast | Synonyms: sou'easter |
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| southeasterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southeast | Synonyms: southeast, southeastern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southeast | Synonyms: southeast |
| southeastern | (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including Alabama; Georgia; Florida; Tennessee; South Carolina; North Carolina | - |
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| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southeast | Synonyms: southeast, southeasterly |
| southeastward | (adjective) toward the southeast | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees | Synonyms: SE, sou'-east, southeast |
| (adverb) in a southeastward direction | Synonyms: southeastwardly |
| southeastwardly | (adverb) in a southeastward direction | Synonyms: southeastward |
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| souther | (noun) a wind from the south | Synonyms: south wind, southerly |
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| southerly | (adjective) from the south; used especially of wind | Synonyms: southern |
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| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the south | Synonyms: southern |
| (noun) a wind from the south | Synonyms: south wind, souther |
| (adverb) from the south | - |
| (adverb) toward the south | Synonyms: southward, southwards |
| southern | (adjective) situated in or coming from regions of the south | - |
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| (adjective) in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line | - |
| (adjective) from the south; used especially of wind | Synonyms: southerly |
| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the south | Synonyms: southerly |
| southernism | (noun) an attitude characteristic of Southerners (especially in the US) | - |
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| (noun) a locution or pronunciation peculiar to the southern United States | - |
| southernmost | (adjective) situated farthest south | Synonyms: southmost |
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| southernness | (noun) the property of being to the south | - |
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| southernwood | (noun) shrubby European wormwood naturalized in North America; sometimes used in brewing beer | Synonyms: Artemisia abrotanum |
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| southland | (noun) any region lying in or toward the south | - |
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| southmost | (adjective) situated farthest south | Synonyms: southernmost |
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| southpaw | (noun) a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right | Synonyms: left-hander, lefty |
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| (noun) a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand | Synonyms: left-handed pitcher, left-hander, left hander, lefthander, lefty |
| southward | (adjective) moving toward the south | Synonyms: southbound |
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| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees | Synonyms: due south, S, south |
| (adverb) toward the south | Synonyms: southerly, southwards |
| southwards | (adverb) toward the south | Synonyms: southerly, southward |
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| southwest | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwesterly, southwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southwest | Synonyms: southwesterly |
| (noun) a location in the southwestern part of a country, region, or city | - |
| (noun) the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees | Synonyms: sou'-west, southwestward, SW |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southwestward compass point | - |
| (adverb) to, toward, or in the southwest | Synonyms: sou'west, south-west |
| southwester | (noun) a strong wind from the southwest | Synonyms: sou'wester |
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| southwesterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwest, southwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southwest | Synonyms: southwest |
| southwestern | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwest, southwesterly |
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| (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California, and sometimes Nevada, Utah, Colorado | - |
| southwestward | (adjective) toward the southwest | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees | Synonyms: sou'-west, southwest, SW |
| (adverb) in a southwestward direction | Synonyms: southwestwardly |