| reassertion | (noun) renewed affirmation | Synonyms: reaffirmation |
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| reassess | (verb) revise or renew one's assessment | Synonyms: reevaluate |
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| reassessment | (noun) a new appraisal or evaluation | Synonyms: reappraisal, revaluation, review |
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| reassign | (verb) transfer somebody to a different position or location of work | Synonyms: transfer |
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| reassignment | (noun) assignment to a different duty | - |
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| reassurance | (noun) the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence | - |
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| reassure | (verb) give reassurance to; give or restore confidence in; cause to feel sure or certain | - |
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| reassured | (adjective) having confidence restored; freed from anxiety | - |
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| reassuring | (adjective) restoring confidence and relieving anxiety | - |
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| reassuringly | (adverb) in a reassuring manner | - |
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| reata | (noun) a long noosed rope used to catch animals | Synonyms: lariat, lasso, riata |
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| reattribute | (verb) attribute to another source | - |
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| reave | (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, rifle, strip |
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| reawaken | (verb) awaken once again | - |
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| recreant | (adjective) lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful | Synonyms: craven |
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| (adjective) having deserted a cause or principle | Synonyms: renegade |
| (noun) an abject coward | Synonyms: craven, poltroon |
| (noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: apostate, deserter, ratter, renegade, turncoat |
| recreate | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind | Synonyms: re-create |
| (verb) produce or make another of | Synonyms: re-create |
| (verb) make a replica of | Synonyms: copy, re-create |
| (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, embolden, hearten |
| (verb) engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion | Synonyms: play |
| recreation | (noun) an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates | Synonyms: diversion |
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| (noun) activity that refreshes and recreates; activity that renews your health and spirits by enjoyment and relaxation | Synonyms: refreshment |
| recreational | (adjective) of or relating to recreation | - |
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| (adjective) engaged in as a pastime | Synonyms: amateur, unpaid |
| redbreast | (noun) small Old World songbird with a reddish breast | Synonyms: Erithacus rubecola, Old World robin, robin, robin redbreast |
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| reread | (verb) read anew; read again | - |
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| retread | (noun) a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads | Synonyms: recap |
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| (verb) give new treads to (a tire) | Synonyms: remold, remould |
| (verb) use again in altered form | Synonyms: make over, rework |
| retreat | (noun) (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat | - |
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| (noun) withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation | Synonyms: retirement |
| (noun) the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant) | - |
| (noun) an area where you can be alone | Synonyms: hideaway |
| (noun) (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset | - |
| (noun) (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position | - |
| (noun) a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet | - |
| (verb) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, withdraw |
| (verb) pull back or move away or backward | Synonyms: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retire, withdraw |
| (verb) move back | Synonyms: retrograde |
| (verb) move away, as for privacy | - |
| retreatant | (noun) a participant in a religious retreat | - |
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| retreated | (noun) people who have retreated | - |
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| safebreaker | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: cracksman, safecracker |
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| screak | (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screech, skreak, skreigh, squawk |
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| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screech, skreak, squeak, whine |
| screakily | (adverb) in a creaky manner | Synonyms: creakily, creakingly |
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| screaky | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screechy, squeaking, squeaky, squealing |
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| (adjective) having a rasping or grating sound | Synonyms: creaky |
| scream | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: screaming, screech, screeching, shriek, shrieking |
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| (noun) a joke that seems extremely funny | Synonyms: belly laugh, howler, riot, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper, wow |
| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: screaming, screech, screeching, shriek, shrieking |
| (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, shout, shout out, squall, yell |
| (verb) utter or declare in a very loud voice | Synonyms: yell |
| (verb) make a loud, piercing sound | - |
| screamer | (noun) a very hard hit ball | Synonyms: scorcher |
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| (noun) gooselike aquatic bird of South America having a harsh trumpeting call | - |
| (noun) a sensational newspaper headline | - |
| (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, bellower, roarer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
| screaming | (adjective) marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter | Synonyms: hilarious, uproarious |
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| (adjective) so extremely intense as to evoke screams | - |
| (adjective) resembling a scream in effect | - |
| (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screech, screeching, shriek, shrieking |
| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screech, screeching, shriek, shrieking |
| screamingly | (adverb) funny to the point where screams of laughter are excited | - |
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| shortbread | (noun) very rich thick butter cookie | Synonyms: shortbread cookie |
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| sidereal | (adjective) (of divisions of time) determined by daily motion of the stars | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the stars or constellations | - |
| 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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| skreak | (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreigh, squawk |
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| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screak, screech, squeak, whine |
| slipstream | (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: airstream, backwash, race, wash |
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| sowbread | (noun) common wild European cyclamen with pink flowers | Synonyms: Cyclamen hederifolium, Cyclamen neopolitanum |
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| spirea | (noun) any rosaceous plant of the genus Spiraea; has sprays of small white or pink flowers | Synonyms: spiraea |
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| (noun) a Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea; widely cultivated in many varieties for its dense panicles of flowers in many colors; often forced by florists for Easter blooming | Synonyms: Astilbe japonica, spiraea |
| spread | (adjective) distributed or spread over a considerable extent | Synonyms: dispersed |
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| (adjective) fully extended in width | Synonyms: outspread |
| (adjective) prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out | - |
| (noun) act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time | Synonyms: spreading |
| (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, bedspread, counterpane |
| (noun) farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle) | Synonyms: cattle farm, cattle ranch, ranch |
| (noun) a haphazard distribution in all directions | Synonyms: scatter |
| (noun) the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age) | - |
| (noun) a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures | Synonyms: gap |
| (noun) two facing pages of a book or other publication | Synonyms: facing pages, spread head, spreadhead |
| (noun) process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space | Synonyms: spreading |
| (noun) a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes | Synonyms: paste |
| (noun) a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed | Synonyms: banquet, feast |
| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate |
| (verb) become widely known and passed on | Synonyms: circulate, go around |
| (verb) distribute or disperse widely | Synonyms: distribute |
| (verb) spread out or open from a closed or folded state | Synonyms: open, spread out, unfold |
| (verb) become distributed or widespread | Synonyms: propagate |
| (verb) cover by spreading something over | - |
| (verb) distribute over a surface in a layer | - |
| (verb) strew or distribute over an area | Synonyms: scatter, spread out |
| (verb) move outward | Synonyms: diffuse, fan out, spread out |
| (verb) spread across or over | Synonyms: overspread |
| spreadeagle | (verb) defeat disastrously | Synonyms: rout, spread-eagle |
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| spreader | (noun) a hand tool for spreading something | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions | Synonyms: broadcaster |
| spreadhead | (noun) two facing pages of a book or other publication | Synonyms: facing pages, spread, spread head |
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| spreading | (noun) act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time | Synonyms: spread |
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| (noun) the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate | Synonyms: airing, dissemination, public exposure |
| (noun) process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space | Synonyms: spread |
| spreadsheet | (noun) a screen-oriented interactive program enabling a user to lay out financial data on the screen | - |
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| squirearchy | (noun) the gentry who own land (considered as a class) | Synonyms: landed gentry |
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| streak | (noun) a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background | Synonyms: bar, stripe |
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| (noun) a distinctive characteristic | - |
| (noun) a sudden flash (as of lightning) | - |
| (noun) an unbroken series of events | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained | Synonyms: blotch, mottle |
| (verb) move quickly in a straight line | - |
| (verb) run naked in a public place | - |
| streaked | (adjective) marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations | Synonyms: streaky |
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| streaker | (noun) someone who takes off all their clothes and runs naked through a public place | - |
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| streaky | (adjective) marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations | Synonyms: streaked |
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| stream | (noun) the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression | Synonyms: flow |
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| (noun) a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes) | Synonyms: current |
| (noun) dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas | Synonyms: current, flow |
| (noun) a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth | Synonyms: watercourse |
| (noun) something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously | Synonyms: flow |
| (verb) exude profusely | - |
| (verb) flow freely and abundantly | Synonyms: well out |
| (verb) to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind | - |
| (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, pullulate, swarm, teem |
| (verb) rain heavily | Synonyms: pelt, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs |
| streambed | (noun) a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a stream | Synonyms: creek bed |
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| streamer | (noun) long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising | Synonyms: banner |
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| (noun) a long flag; often tapering | Synonyms: pennant, pennon, waft |
| (noun) a newspaper headline that runs across the full page | Synonyms: banner |
| (noun) light that streams | - |
| streaming | (adjective) exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts | - |
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| (adjective) (computer science) using or relating to a form of continuous tape transport; used mainly to provide backup storage of unedited data; data that is transmitted and loaded continuously as earlier parts are being accessed/processed/displayed | - |
| (noun) the circulation of cytoplasm within a cell | Synonyms: cyclosis |
| streamlet | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, rivulet, run, runnel |
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| streamline | (verb) contour economically or efficiently | - |
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| streamlined | (adjective) made efficient by stripping off nonessentials | - |
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| (adjective) designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow | Synonyms: aerodynamic, flowing, sleek |
| streamliner | (noun) a streamlined train | - |
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| strikebreaker | (noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: blackleg, rat, scab |
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| strikebreaking | (noun) confrontational activities intended to break up a strike by workers | - |
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| subtreasury | (noun) a subordinate treasury or place of deposit | - |
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| sulfonylurea | (noun) antidiabetic consisting of any of several drugs that reduce the level of glucose in the blood; used to treat diabetes mellitus | - |
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| surreal | (adjective) resembling a dream | Synonyms: dreamlike |
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| (adjective) characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions | Synonyms: phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, surrealistic |
| surrealism | (noun) a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams | - |
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| surrealist | (noun) an artist who is a member of the movement called surrealism | - |
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| surrealistic | (adjective) characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions | Synonyms: phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, surreal |
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| sweetbread | (noun) edible glands of an animal | Synonyms: sweetbreads |
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| sweetbreads | (noun) edible glands of an animal | Synonyms: sweetbread |
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| terpsichorean | (adjective) of or relating to dancing | - |
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| (noun) a performer who dances professionally | Synonyms: dancer, professional dancer |
| thereabout | (adverb) near that place | Synonyms: thereabouts |
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| (adverb) near that time or date | Synonyms: thereabouts |
| thereabouts | (adverb) near that place | Synonyms: thereabout |
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| (adverb) near that time or date | Synonyms: thereabout |
| thereafter | (adverb) from that time on | Synonyms: thenceforth |
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| thickspread | (adjective) covered thickly | - |
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| thread | (noun) a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving | Synonyms: yarn |
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| (noun) the raised helical rib going around a screw | Synonyms: screw thread |
| (noun) the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together | Synonyms: train of thought |
| (noun) any long object resembling a thin line | Synonyms: ribbon |
| (verb) pass a thread through | - |
| (verb) thread on or as if on a string | Synonyms: draw, string |
| (verb) remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string | - |
| (verb) pass through or into | - |
| (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: meander, wander, weave, wind |
| threadbare | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
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| (adjective) having the nap worn away so that the threads show through | - |
| threaded | (adjective) (of bolts or screws) having screw threads | - |
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| threader | (noun) a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops | Synonyms: bodkin |
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| threadfin | (noun) mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays | - |
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| threadfish | (noun) fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins | Synonyms: Alectis ciliaris, thread-fish |
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| threadiness | (noun) The state or quality of consisting of or bearing fibers or filaments. | - |
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| threadlike | (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentlike, filamentous, filiform, thready |
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| threads | (noun) informal terms for clothing | Synonyms: duds, togs |
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| threadworm | (noun) small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children | Synonyms: Enterobius vermicularis, pinworm |
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| thready | (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropey, ropy, stringy |
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| (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentlike, filamentous, filiform, threadlike |
| threat | (noun) a warning that something unpleasant is imminent | - |
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| (noun) declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another | - |
| (noun) a person who inspires fear or dread | Synonyms: scourge, terror |
| (noun) something that is a source of danger | Synonyms: menace |
| threaten | (verb) to utter intentions of injury or punishment against | - |
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| (verb) to be a menacing indication of something | - |
| (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril |
| threatened | (adjective) (of flora or fauna) likely in the near future to become endangered | - |
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| threatening | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister |
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| (adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: heavy, lowering, sullen |
| threateningly | (adverb) in a menacing manner | Synonyms: menacingly |
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| tiebreaker | (noun) overtime play in order to break a tie; e.g. tennis and soccer | - |
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| toreador | (noun) someone who fights bulls | Synonyms: bullfighter |
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| treacherous | (adjective) dangerously unstable and unpredictable | Synonyms: unreliable |
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| (adjective) tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans | Synonyms: perfidious, punic |
| treacherously | (adverb) in a disloyal and faithless manner | Synonyms: faithlessly, false, traitorously, treasonably |
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| treacherousness | (noun) The characteristic of providing insecure footing or support; of being marked by hidden dangers, hazards, or perils. | - |
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| treachery | (noun) an act of deliberate betrayal | Synonyms: betrayal, perfidy, treason |
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| (noun) betrayal of a trust | Synonyms: perfidiousness, perfidy |
| treacle | (noun) writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental | Synonyms: glop, mush, slop |
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| (noun) a pale cane syrup | Synonyms: golden syrup |
| treacly | (adjective) overly sweet | Synonyms: cloying, saccharine, syrupy |
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| tread | (noun) a step in walking or running | Synonyms: pace, stride |
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| (noun) structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step | - |
| (noun) the part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground | - |
| (noun) the grooved surface of a pneumatic tire | - |
| (verb) crush as if by treading on | - |
| (verb) brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center | - |
| (verb) mate with (used of male birds) | - |
| (verb) tread or stomp heavily or roughly | Synonyms: trample |
| (verb) put down or press the foot, place the foot | Synonyms: step |
| (verb) apply (the tread) to a tire | - |
| treadle | (noun) a lever that is operated with the foot | Synonyms: foot lever, foot pedal, pedal |
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| (verb) operate (machinery) by a treadle | - |
| (verb) tread over | - |