| represser | (noun) an agent that represses | Synonyms: repressor |
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| repressing | (adjective) restrictive of action | Synonyms: inhibitory, repressive |
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| repression | (noun) the act of repressing; control by holding down | - |
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| (noun) (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious | - |
| (noun) a state of forcible subjugation | - |
| repressive | (adjective) restrictive of action | Synonyms: inhibitory, repressing |
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| repressor | (noun) an agent that represses | Synonyms: represser |
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| retrogress | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, regress, relapse |
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| (verb) get worse or fall back to a previous condition | Synonyms: regress, retrograde |
| retrogression | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, regression, retroversion, reversion |
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| (noun) passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form | Synonyms: degeneration |
| retrogressive | (adjective) going from better to worse | Synonyms: retrograde |
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| rockcress | (noun) any of several rock-loving cresses of the genus Arabis | Synonyms: rock cress |
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| (noun) noxious cress with yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sisymbrium | Synonyms: Barbarea vulgaris, rocket cress, Sisymbrium barbarea, yellow rocket |
| schoolmistress | (noun) a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) | Synonyms: mistress, schoolma'am, schoolmarm |
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| sculptress | (noun) a woman sculptor | - |
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| seamstress | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: modiste, needlewoman, sempstress |
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| seductress | (noun) a woman who seduces | - |
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| sempstress | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: modiste, needlewoman, seamstress |
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| shirtdress | (noun) a dress that is tailored like a shirt and has buttons all the way down the front | - |
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| songstress | (noun) a woman songster (especially of popular songs) | - |
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| sorceress | (noun) a woman sorcerer | - |
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| stonecress | (noun) any Old World herb of the genus Aethionema; native of sunny limestone habitats | Synonyms: stone cress |
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| stress | (noun) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | Synonyms: accent, emphasis |
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| (noun) (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body | - |
| (noun) (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense | Synonyms: tenseness, tension |
| (noun) difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension | Synonyms: strain |
| (noun) special emphasis attached to something | Synonyms: focus |
| (verb) to suffer from stress | - |
| (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate |
| (verb) put stress on; utter with an accent | Synonyms: accent, accentuate |
| (verb) test the limits of | Synonyms: strain, try |
| stressed | (adjective) bearing a stress or accent | Synonyms: accented |
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| (adjective) suffering severe physical strain or distress | Synonyms: distressed |
| stressful | (adjective) extremely irritating to the nerves | Synonyms: nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, trying |
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| stressor | (noun) any agent that causes stress to an organism | - |
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| sundress | (noun) a light loose sleeveless summer dress with a wide neckline and thin shoulder straps that expose the arms and shoulders | - |
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| suppress | (verb) bring under control by force or authority | Synonyms: conquer, stamp down, subdue |
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| (verb) lessen to the point of stopping | - |
| (verb) put out of one's consciousness | Synonyms: repress |
| (verb) consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior | Synonyms: bottle up, inhibit |
| (verb) come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority | Synonyms: crush, oppress |
| suppressant | (noun) a drug that suppresses appetite | Synonyms: appetite suppressant |
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| suppressed | (adjective) kept from public knowledge by various means | - |
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| (adjective) manifesting or subjected to suppression | - |
| (adjective) held in check with difficulty | Synonyms: smothered, stifled, strangled |
| suppresser | (noun) an electrical device for suppressing unwanted currents | Synonyms: suppressor |
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| (noun) a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene) | Synonyms: suppresser gene, suppressor, suppressor gene |
| (noun) someone who suppresses | Synonyms: suppressor |
| suppression | (noun) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation | Synonyms: curtailment |
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| (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: crushing, quelling, stifling |
| (noun) (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires | Synonyms: inhibition |
| (noun) the failure to develop some part or organ | - |
| suppressive | (adjective) tending to suppress | - |
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| suppressor | (noun) an electrical device for suppressing unwanted currents | Synonyms: suppresser |
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| (noun) a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene) | Synonyms: suppresser, suppresser gene, suppressor gene |
| (noun) someone who suppresses | Synonyms: suppresser |
| taskmistress | (noun) a woman taskmaster | - |
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| temptress | (noun) a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive | Synonyms: Delilah, enchantress, femme fatale, siren |
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| thermocompressor | (noun) An injector, ejector, steam ejector, steam injector, eductor-jet pump or thermocompressor is a type of pump. | Synonyms: eductor-jet pump, ejector, injector, steam ejector, steam injector |
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| tigress | (noun) a female tiger | - |
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| topdress | (verb) scatter manure or fertilizer over (land) | - |
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| traitress | (noun) female traitor | - |
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| transgress | (verb) pass beyond (limits or boundaries) | Synonyms: overstep, trespass |
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| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, infract, offend, violate |
| (verb) commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law | Synonyms: sin, trespass |
| (verb) spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline | - |
| transgression | (noun) the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle | Synonyms: evildoing |
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| (noun) the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit | - |
| (noun) the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata | - |
| transgressor | (noun) someone who transgresses; someone who violates a law or command | - |
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| tress | (noun) a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair | Synonyms: braid, plait, twist |
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| unaddressed | (adjective) not addressed | - |
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| unaggressive | (adjective) not aggressive; not given to fighting or assertiveness | Synonyms: nonaggressive |
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| uncompress | (verb) restore to its uncompressed form | Synonyms: decompress |
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| underdress | (verb) dress informally and casually | Synonyms: dress down |
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| (verb) dress without sufficient warmth | - |
| underdressed | (adjective) inadequately or too informally clothed | - |
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| undress | (noun) partial or complete nakedness | - |
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| (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe |
| (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: disinvest, divest, strip |
| undressed | (adjective) having removed clothing | Synonyms: unappareled, unattired, unclad, ungarbed, ungarmented |
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| (adjective) of lumber or stone or hides; not finished or dressed | - |
| unexpressed | (adjective) not made explicit | Synonyms: unsaid, unspoken, unstated, unuttered, unverbalised, unverbalized, unvoiced |
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| unexpressible | (adjective) defying expression | Synonyms: inexpressible |
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| unexpressive | (adjective) deliberately impassive in manner | Synonyms: deadpan, expressionless, impassive, poker-faced |
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| unimpressed | (adjective) not moved to serious regard | - |
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| unimpressionable | (adjective) not sensitive or susceptible to impression | - |
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| unimpressive | (adjective) not capable of impressing | - |
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| unimpressively | (adverb) in an unimpressive manner | - |
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| unpressed | (adjective) (of clothing) not smoothed with heat | - |
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| unprogressive | (adjective) old-fashioned and out of date | Synonyms: fusty, nonprogressive, standpat |
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| unrepressed | (adjective) not repressed | - |
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| unstressed | (adjective) not bearing a stress or accent | - |
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| unsuppressed | (adjective) given vent to | - |
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| vasopressin | (noun) hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus; affects blood pressure by stimulating capillary muscles and reduces urine flow by affecting reabsorption of water by kidney tubules | Synonyms: ADH, antidiuretic hormone, Pitressin |
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| vasopressor | (noun) any agent that produces vasoconstriction and a rise in blood pressure (usually understood as increased arterial pressure) | - |
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| waitress | (noun) a woman waiter | - |
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| (verb) serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant | Synonyms: wait |
| wardress | (noun) a woman warder | - |
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| watercress | (adjective) of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green | Synonyms: cress green, cresson |
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| (noun) cresses that grow in clear ponds and streams | - |
| (noun) any of several water-loving cresses | - |
| winepress | (noun) a press that is used to extract the juice from grapes | - |
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