| sprite | (noun) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers | Synonyms: faerie, faery, fairy, fay |
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| sprites | (noun) atmospheric electricity (lasting 10 msec) appearing as globular flashes of red (pink to blood-red) light rising to heights of 60 miles (sometimes seen together with elves) | Synonyms: red sprites |
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| spritsail | (noun) a fore-and-aft sail extended by a sprit | - |
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| spritz | (noun) a quick squirt of some liquid (usually carbonated water) | - |
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| (verb) cover (a location) wholly or partially by squirting a liquid onto it | - |
| (verb) eject (a liquid) quickly | - |
| spritzer | (noun) a mixed drink made of wine mixed with a sparkling water | - |
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| subsidiarity | (noun) secondary importance | Synonyms: subordinateness |
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| supercritical | (adjective) (especially of fissionable material) able to sustain a chain reaction in such a manner that the rate of reaction increases | - |
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| superiority | (noun) the quality of being superior | Synonyms: high quality |
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| (noun) the quality of being at a competitive advantage | Synonyms: favorable position, favourable position |
| (noun) displaying a sense of being better than others | - |
| (noun) the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits | Synonyms: transcendence, transcendency |
| sybarite | (noun) a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses | Synonyms: voluptuary |
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| sybaritic | (adjective) displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses | Synonyms: epicurean, luxuriant, luxurious, voluptuary, voluptuous |
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| teletypewriter | (noun) a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter | Synonyms: teleprinter, teletype machine, telex, telex machine |
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| temerity | (noun) fearless daring | Synonyms: audaciousness, audacity |
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| territorial | (adjective) belonging to the territory of any state or ruler | - |
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| (adjective) displaying territoriality; defending a territory from intruders | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to a territory | - |
| (noun) a territorial military unit | Synonyms: territorial reserve |
| (noun) nonprofessional soldier member of a territorial military unit | - |
| territorialisation | (noun) the act of organizing as a territory | Synonyms: territorialization |
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| territorialise | (verb) extend by adding territory | Synonyms: territorialize |
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| (verb) place on a territorial basis | Synonyms: territorialize |
| (verb) organize as a territory | Synonyms: territorialize |
| territoriality | (noun) the behavior of a male animal that defines and defends its territory | - |
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| territorialization | (noun) the act of organizing as a territory | Synonyms: territorialisation |
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| territorialize | (verb) extend by adding territory | Synonyms: territorialise |
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| (verb) place on a territorial basis | Synonyms: territorialise |
| (verb) organize as a territory | Synonyms: territorialise |
| territorially | (adverb) with respect to territory | - |
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| territory | (noun) an area of knowledge or interest | - |
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| (noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: district, dominion, territorial dominion |
| (noun) the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state | Synonyms: soil |
| thorite | (noun) a radioactive mineral consisting of thorium silicate; it is a source of thorium that is found in coarse granite | - |
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| triangularity | (noun) the property of being shaped like a triangle | - |
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| tritanopia | (noun) rare form of dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to blue light resulting in an inability to distinguish blue and yellow | Synonyms: blue-blindness |
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| tritanopic | (adjective) inability to see the color blue or to distinguish the colors blue and yellow | Synonyms: blue-blind |
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| trite | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, well-worn |
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| tritely | (adverb) in a trite manner | - |
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| triteness | (noun) unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed | Synonyms: staleness |
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| tritheism | (noun) (Christianity) the heretical belief that the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are three separate gods | - |
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| tritheist | (noun) someone (not an orthodox Christian) who believes that the Father and Son and Holy Ghost are three separate gods | - |
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| tritium | (noun) a radioactive isotope of hydrogen; atoms of tritium have three times the mass of ordinary hydrogen atoms | - |
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| tritoma | (noun) a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers | Synonyms: flame-flower, flame flower, flameflower, kniphofia |
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| triton | (noun) small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia | Synonyms: newt |
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| (noun) tropical marine gastropods having beautifully colored spiral shells | - |
| tsaritsa | (noun) the wife or widow of a czar | Synonyms: czarina, czaritza, tsarina, tzarina |
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| typewrite | (verb) write by means of a keyboard with types | Synonyms: type |
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| typewriter | (noun) hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time | - |
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| typewriting | (noun) writing done with a typewriter | Synonyms: typing |
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| ulteriority | (noun) the quality of being ulterior | - |
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| uncharitable | (adjective) lacking love and generosity | - |
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| uncritical | (adjective) not critical; not tending to find or call attention to errors | - |
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| (adjective) marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures | Synonyms: noncritical |
| uncritically | (adverb) in an uncritical manner | - |
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| underwrite | (verb) protect by insurance | Synonyms: cover, insure |
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| (verb) guarantee financial support of | Synonyms: subvent, subvention |
| underwriter | (noun) a financial institution that sells insurance | Synonyms: insurance company, insurance firm, insurance underwriter, insurer |
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| (noun) a banker who deals chiefly in underwriting new securities | Synonyms: investment banker |
| (noun) an agent who sells insurance | Synonyms: general agent, insurance agent, insurance broker |
| unfamiliarity | (noun) unusualness as a consequence of not being well known | Synonyms: strangeness |
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| unmerited | (adjective) not merited or deserved | - |
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| (adjective) not merited | - |
| unmeritorious | (adjective) without merit | - |
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| unpopularity | (noun) the quality of lacking general approval or acceptance | - |
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| unregularity | (noun) not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals | Synonyms: irregularity |
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| unsimilarity | (noun) the quality of being dissimilar | Synonyms: dissimilarity |
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| unwritten | (adjective) based on custom rather than documentation | - |
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| (adjective) using speech rather than writing | Synonyms: oral |
| (adjective) said or done without having been planned or written in advance | Synonyms: ad-lib, spontaneous |
| urarthritis | (noun) a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints | Synonyms: gout, gouty arthritis |
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| ureteritis | (noun) inflammation of the ureter | - |
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| urethritis | (noun) inflammation of the urethra; results in painful urination | - |
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| vascularity | (noun) the property being vascular | - |
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| veritable | (adjective) not counterfeit or copied | Synonyms: authentic, bona fide, unquestionable |
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| (adjective) often used as intensifiers | Synonyms: regular |
| verity | (noun) an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth | - |
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| (noun) conformity to reality or actuality | Synonyms: the true, trueness, truth |
| vulgarity | (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: coarseness, commonness, grossness, raunch, vulgarism |
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| writ | (noun) (law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer | Synonyms: judicial writ |
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| write | (verb) communicate or express by writing | - |
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| (verb) record data on a computer | Synonyms: save |
| (verb) contact in writing | Synonyms: drop a line |
| (verb) produce a literary work | Synonyms: compose, indite, pen |
| (verb) mark or trace words or symbols on a surface | - |
| (verb) write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word) | Synonyms: spell |
| (verb) write music | Synonyms: compose |
| (verb) create code, write a computer program | - |
| writer | (noun) writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) | Synonyms: author |
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| (noun) a person who is able to write and has written something | - |
| writhe | (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, twist, worm, wrestle, wriggle |
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| writhed | (adjective) twisted (especially as in pain or struggle) | Synonyms: contorted, writhen |
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| writhen | (adjective) twisted (especially as in pain or struggle) | Synonyms: contorted, writhed |
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| writhing | (adjective) moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion | Synonyms: wiggly, wriggling, wriggly |
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| writing | (noun) the activity of putting something in written form | Synonyms: committal to writing |
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| (noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: authorship, composition, penning |
| (noun) the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect) | Synonyms: piece of writing, written material |
| (noun) letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) the collected work of an author | - |
| written | (adjective) set down in writing in any of various ways | - |
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| (adjective) systematically collected and written down | - |
| (adjective) written as for a film or play or broadcast | Synonyms: scripted |