| serrulate | (adjective) minutely serrated | - |
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| sertindole | (noun) an antipsychotic medication used in the treatment of schizophrenia. | - |
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| sertraline | (noun) a selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitor commonly prescribed as an antidepressant (trade name Zoloft) | Synonyms: Zoloft |
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| sertularian | (noun) feathery colony of long-branched stems bearing stalkless paired polyps | - |
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| serum | (noun) an amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates | Synonyms: blood serum |
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| serval | (noun) slender long-legged African wildcat having large untufted ears and tawny black-spotted coat | Synonyms: Felis serval |
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| servant | (noun) a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) | Synonyms: retainer |
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| (noun) in a subordinate position | Synonyms: handmaid, handmaiden |
| serve | (noun) (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play | Synonyms: service |
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| (verb) do duty or hold offices; serve in a specific function | - |
| (verb) put the ball into play | - |
| (verb) provide (usually but not necessarily food) | Synonyms: dish, dish out, dish up, serve up |
| (verb) help to some food; help with food or drink | Synonyms: help |
| (verb) deliver a warrant or summons to someone | Synonyms: process, swear out |
| (verb) mate with | Synonyms: service |
| (verb) be used by; as of a utility | Synonyms: service |
| (verb) work for, or be a servant to | Synonyms: assist, attend, attend to, wait on |
| (verb) devote (part of) one's life or efforts to, as of countries, institutions, or ideas | - |
| (verb) do military service | - |
| (verb) spend time in prison or in a labor camp | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) contribute or conduce to | - |
| (verb) promote, benefit, or be useful or beneficial to | Synonyms: serve well |
| (verb) serve a purpose, role, or function | Synonyms: function |
| (verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: answer, do, suffice |
| server | (noun) utensil used in serving food or drink | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network | Synonyms: host |
| (noun) a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant) | Synonyms: waiter |
| (noun) (court games) the player who serves to start a point | - |
| service | (noun) an act of help or assistance; something (such as a tool, software or system) used to render said help or assistance | - |
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| (noun) the act of public worship following prescribed rules | Synonyms: divine service, religious service |
| (noun) (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play | Synonyms: serve |
| (noun) the act of mating by male animals | Synonyms: servicing |
| (noun) the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone | Synonyms: service of process, serving |
| (noun) periodic maintenance on a car or machine | Synonyms: inspection and repair, overhaul |
| (noun) the performance of duties by a waiter or servant | - |
| (noun) employment in or work for another | - |
| (noun) work done by one person or group that benefits another | - |
| (noun) (law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him | - |
| (noun) tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table | Synonyms: table service |
| (noun) a means of serving | Synonyms: avail, help |
| (noun) a force that is a branch of the armed forces | Synonyms: armed service, military service |
| (noun) a company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation | - |
| (verb) make fit for use | - |
| (verb) mate with | Synonyms: serve |
| (verb) be used by; as of a utility | Synonyms: serve |
| serviceability | (noun) the quality of being able to provide good service | Synonyms: serviceableness, usability, usableness, useableness |
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| serviceable | (adjective) ready for service or able to give long service | - |
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| (adjective) intended or able to serve a purpose without elaboration | - |
| (adjective) capable of being put to good use | - |
| serviceableness | (noun) the quality of being able to provide good service | Synonyms: serviceability, usability, usableness, useableness |
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| serviceberry | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: juneberry, saskatoon, shadberry |
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| (noun) any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit | Synonyms: Juneberry, service tree, shadblow, shadbush |
| serviceman | (noun) someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force | Synonyms: man, military man, military personnel |
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| services | (noun) performance of duties or provision of space and equipment helpful to others | - |
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| servicing | (noun) the act of mating by male animals | Synonyms: service |
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| serviette | (noun) a small piece of table linen that is used to wipe the mouth and to cover the lap in order to protect clothing | Synonyms: napkin, table napkin |
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| servile | (adjective) submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants | - |
| servilely | (adverb) in an obsequious manner | Synonyms: obsequiously, subserviently |
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| servility | (noun) abject or cringing submissiveness | Synonyms: obsequiousness, subservience |
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| serving | (noun) the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone | Synonyms: service, service of process |
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| (noun) an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal | Synonyms: helping, portion |
| servitor | (noun) someone who performs the duties of an attendant for someone else | - |
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| servitude | (noun) state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment | - |
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| servo | (adjective) of or involving servomechanisms | Synonyms: servomechanical |
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| (noun) control system that converts a small mechanical motion into one requiring much greater power; may include a negative feedback system | Synonyms: servomechanism, servosystem |
| servomechanical | (adjective) of or involving servomechanisms | Synonyms: servo |
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| servomechanism | (noun) control system that converts a small mechanical motion into one requiring much greater power; may include a negative feedback system | Synonyms: servo, servosystem |
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| servosystem | (noun) control system that converts a small mechanical motion into one requiring much greater power; may include a negative feedback system | Synonyms: servo, servomechanism |
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| socialiser | (noun) a person who takes part in social activities | Synonyms: socializer |
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| specialiser | (noun) an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning | Synonyms: specialist, specializer |
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| stabiliser | (noun) a device for making something stable | Synonyms: stabilizer |
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| standardiser | (noun) a person who sets a standard for things to conform to | Synonyms: standardizer |
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| steeplechaser | (noun) a horse trained to run in steeplechases | - |
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| steriliser | (noun) a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments | Synonyms: autoclave, sterilizer |
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| stripteaser | (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, stripper, striptease, striptease artist |
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| subserve | (verb) be helpful or useful | - |
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| subservience | (noun) abject or cringing submissiveness | Synonyms: obsequiousness, servility |
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| (noun) the condition of being something that is useful in reaching an end or carrying out a plan | - |
| (noun) in a subservient state | Synonyms: subservientness |
| subservient | (adjective) serving or acting as a means or aid | Synonyms: implemental, instrumental |
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| (adjective) abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant | Synonyms: slavish, submissive |
| (adjective) compliant and obedient to authority | - |
| subserviently | (adverb) in an obsequious manner | Synonyms: obsequiously, servilely |
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| subservientness | (noun) in a subservient state | Synonyms: subservience |
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| subsidiser | (noun) someone who assists or supports by giving a subsidy | Synonyms: subsidizer |
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| subvocaliser | (noun) someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds | Synonyms: subvocalizer |
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| 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 |
| surpriser | (noun) a captor who uses surprise to capture the victim | - |
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| syllogiser | (noun) logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning | Synonyms: syllogist, syllogizer |
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| symboliser | (noun) someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols | Synonyms: symbolist, symbolizer |
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| sympathiser | (noun) someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful | Synonyms: sympathizer, well-wisher |
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| (noun) a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune | Synonyms: comforter, sympathizer |
| synchroniser | (noun) an instrument that indicates whether two periodic motions are synchronous (especially an instrument that enables a pilot to synchronize the propellers of a plane that has two or more engines) | Synonyms: synchronizer, synchronoscope, synchroscope |
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| synthesiser | (noun) (music) an electronic instrument (usually played with a keyboard) that generates and modifies sounds electronically and can imitate a variety of other musical instruments | Synonyms: synthesizer |
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| (noun) an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods | Synonyms: synthesist, synthesizer |
| systematiser | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematist, systematizer, systemiser, systemizer |
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| systemiser | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematiser, systematist, systematizer, systemizer |
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| tantaliser | (noun) someone who tantalizes; a tormentor who offers something desirable but keeps it just out of reach | Synonyms: tantalizer |
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| teaser | (noun) a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings | Synonyms: tormenter, tormentor |
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| (noun) a device for teasing wool | - |
| (noun) a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution | Synonyms: mystifier, puzzle, puzzler |
| (noun) an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest | - |
| (noun) an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show | - |
| (noun) someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) | Synonyms: annoyer, tease, vexer |
| (noun) a worker who teases wool | - |
| temporiser | (noun) someone who temporizes; someone who tries to gain time or who waits for a favorable time | Synonyms: temporizer |
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| tenderiser | (noun) a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender | Synonyms: tenderizer |
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| tessera | (noun) a small square tile of stone or glass used in making mosaics | - |
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| tesseract | (noun) the four-dimensional analogue of a cube | - |
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| theologiser | (noun) someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology | Synonyms: theologian, theologist, theologizer |
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| theoriser | (noun) someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) | Synonyms: idealogue, theoretician, theorist, theorizer |
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| timeserver | (noun) one who conforms to current ways and opinions for personal advantage | - |
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| timeserving | (adjective) taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit | Synonyms: opportunist, opportunistic |
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| tosser | (noun) someone who throws lightly (as with the palm upward) | - |
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| (noun) terms of abuse for a masturbator | Synonyms: jerk-off, wanker |
| totaliser | (noun) a calculator that performs simple arithmetic functions | Synonyms: adding machine, totalizer |
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| (noun) computer that registers bets and divides the total amount bet among those who won | Synonyms: pari-mutuel machine, totalisator, totalizator, totalizer |
| tranquilliser | (noun) a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity | Synonyms: antianxiety agent, ataractic, ataractic agent, ataractic drug, tranquilizer, tranquillizer |
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| traverser | (noun) someone who moves or passes across | - |
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| trespasser | (noun) someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission | Synonyms: interloper, intruder |
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| trouser | (noun) a garment (or part of a garment) designed for or relating to trousers | - |
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| trousered | (adjective) dressed in trousers | Synonyms: breeched, pantalooned |
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| trousering | (noun) any fabric used to make trousers | Synonyms: panting |
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| trousers | (noun) (usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately | Synonyms: pair of trousers, pant |
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| tusser | (noun) oriental moth that produces brownish silk | Synonyms: Antheraea mylitta, tussah, tusseh, tussore, tussur |
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| ultraconservative | (adjective) extremely conservative | - |
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| (noun) an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism | Synonyms: extreme right-winger, reactionary |
| unassertive | (adjective) inclined to timidity or lack of self-confidence | - |
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| unassertively | (adverb) in an unassertive manner | - |
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| unassertiveness | (noun) diffidence about self promotion | - |
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| undeserved | (adjective) not deserved or earned | - |
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| undeservedly | (adverb) in an unmerited manner | - |
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| undeserving | (adjective) not deserving | Synonyms: unworthy |
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| unobservable | (adjective) not accessible to direct observation | - |
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| unobservant | (adjective) not consciously observing | Synonyms: unseeing |
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| unobserved | (adjective) unnoticed | Synonyms: unseen |
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| unreserved | (adjective) not cautious or reticent | - |
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| (adjective) not reserved | - |
| unreservedly | (adverb) without reservation | - |
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| unserviceable | (adjective) not ready for service | - |
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| (adjective) not capable of being used | Synonyms: unusable, unuseable |
| unservile | (adjective) not servile or submissive | Synonyms: unsubmissive |
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| user | (noun) a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something | - |
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| (noun) a person who uses something or someone selfishly or unethically | Synonyms: exploiter |
| (noun) a person who takes drugs | Synonyms: drug user, substance abuser |
| utiliser | (noun) someone who puts to good use | Synonyms: utilizer |
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| vaporiser | (noun) a device that puts out a substance in the form of a vapor (especially for medicinal inhalation) | Synonyms: vaporizer |
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| verbaliser | (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer |
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| victimiser | (noun) a person who victimizes others | Synonyms: victimizer |
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| visualiser | (noun) one whose prevailing mental imagery is visual | Synonyms: visualizer |
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| vitaliser | (noun) someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | Synonyms: animator, energiser, energizer, vitalizer |
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| vocaliser | (noun) a person who sings | Synonyms: singer, vocalist, vocalizer |
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| (noun) an organism that can utter vocal sounds | Synonyms: utterer, vocalizer |
| vulcaniser | (noun) a device used for the vulcanization of rubber. | Synonyms: vulcanizer |
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| (noun) someone who vulcanizes rubber to improve its strength and resiliency | Synonyms: vulcanizer |
| vulgariser | (noun) someone who makes something vulgar | Synonyms: vulgarizer |
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| (noun) someone who makes something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: populariser, popularizer, vulgarizer |
| warehouser | (noun) a workman who manages or works in a warehouse | Synonyms: warehouseman |
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| witnesser | (noun) someone who sees an event and reports what happened | Synonyms: informant, witness |
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| womaniser | (noun) a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them | Synonyms: philanderer, womanizer |
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