| skillfully | (adverb) with skill | Synonyms: skilfully |
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| skillfulness | (noun) the state of being cognitively skillful | - |
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| skilly | (noun) a thin porridge or soup (usually oatmeal and water flavored with meat) | - |
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| skim | (adjective) used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed | Synonyms: skimmed |
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| (noun) reading or glancing through quickly | Synonyms: skimming |
| (noun) a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid | - |
| (verb) read superficially | Synonyms: skim over |
| (verb) move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of | Synonyms: skim over |
| (verb) remove from the surface | Synonyms: cream, cream off, skim off |
| (verb) cause to skip over a surface | Synonyms: skip, skitter |
| (verb) coat (a liquid) with a layer | - |
| (verb) travel on the surface of water | Synonyms: plane |
| (verb) examine hastily | Synonyms: glance over, rake, run down, scan |
| skimcoat | (verb) coat with a mixture of gypsum and spackle | - |
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| skimmed | (adjective) used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed | Synonyms: skim |
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| skimmer | (noun) gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food | - |
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| (noun) a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown | Synonyms: boater, leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, straw hat |
| (noun) a cooking utensil used to skim fat from the surface of liquids | - |
| (noun) a rapid superficial reader | - |
| skimming | (noun) the act of removing floating material from the surface of a liquid | - |
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| (noun) failure to declare income in order to avoid paying taxes on it | - |
| (noun) the act of brushing against while passing | Synonyms: grazing, shaving |
| (noun) reading or glancing through quickly | Synonyms: skim |
| skimp | (verb) subsist on a meager allowance | Synonyms: scrimp, stint |
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| (verb) supply sparingly and with restricted quantities | Synonyms: scant, stint |
| (verb) work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially | Synonyms: scant |
| (verb) limit in quality or quantity | Synonyms: scant |
| skimpily | (adverb) in a skimpy manner | Synonyms: scantily |
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| skimpiness | (noun) Of a garment, the property of being very small, light, or revealing. | Synonyms: scantiness |
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| skimpy | (adjective) containing little excess | Synonyms: lean |
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| (adjective) (of clothing) revealing the body | Synonyms: scanty |
| skin | (noun) body covering of a living animal | Synonyms: hide, pelt |
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| (noun) an outer surface (usually thin) | - |
| (noun) a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal | - |
| (noun) a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch | Synonyms: cutis, tegument |
| (noun) the rind of a fruit or vegetable | Synonyms: peel |
| (noun) a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent | Synonyms: skinhead |
| (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, baldy, skinhead |
| (noun) a person's skin regarded as their life | - |
| (verb) remove the skin from | Synonyms: pare, peel |
| (verb) remove the bark of a tree | Synonyms: bark |
| (verb) bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of | Synonyms: scrape |
| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, sputter, struggle |
| skincare | (noun) care for the skin | Synonyms: skin care |
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| skinflint | (noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend | Synonyms: churl, niggard, scrooge |
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| skinful | (noun) a quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk | - |
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| skinhead | (noun) a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent | Synonyms: skin |
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| (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, baldy, skin |
| skinheads | (noun) a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism | Synonyms: bootboys |
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| skink | (noun) alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide | Synonyms: scincid, scincid lizard |
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| skinless | (adjective) having no skin | - |
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| skinned | (adjective) having skin of a specified kind | - |
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| skinner | (noun) a person who prepares or deals in animal skins | - |
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| (noun) a worker who drives mules | Synonyms: mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer |
| skinniness | (noun) the bodily property of lacking flesh | Synonyms: scrawniness |
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| skinny | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling skin | - |
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| (adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching |
| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, underweight, weedy |
| (adjective) fitting snugly | Synonyms: tight-fitting, tight fitting, tightfitting, tightly fitting |
| (noun) confidential information about a topic or person | - |
| skint | (adjective) lacking funds | Synonyms: broke, bust, stone-broke, stony-broke |
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| skintight | (adjective) so tight as to cling to the skin | Synonyms: skin-tight |
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| skip | (noun) a mistake resulting from neglect | Synonyms: omission |
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| (noun) a gait in which steps and hops alternate | - |
| (verb) bypass | Synonyms: jump, pass over, skip over |
| (verb) cause to skip over a surface | Synonyms: skim, skitter |
| (verb) jump lightly | Synonyms: hop-skip, hop |
| (verb) leave suddenly | Synonyms: decamp, vamoose |
| (verb) bound off one point after another | Synonyms: bound off |
| (verb) intentionally fail to attend | Synonyms: cut |
| skipjack | (noun) oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito | Synonyms: Euthynnus pelamis, skipjack tuna |
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| (noun) medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters; less valued than tuna | Synonyms: Atlantic bonito, Sarda sarda |
| (noun) able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound | Synonyms: click beetle, snapping beetle |
| skipper | (noun) the naval officer in command of a military ship | Synonyms: captain |
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| (noun) an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship | Synonyms: captain, master, sea captain |
| (noun) a student who fails to attend classes | - |
| (verb) work as the skipper on a vessel | - |
| skirl | (noun) the sound of (the chanter of) a bagpipe | - |
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| (verb) play the bagpipes | - |
| (verb) make a shrill, wailing sound | - |
| skirmish | (noun) a minor short-term fight | Synonyms: brush, clash, encounter |
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| (verb) engage in a skirmish | - |
| skirmisher | (noun) someone who skirmishes (e.g., as a member of a scouting party) | - |
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| skirret | (noun) an Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root | Synonyms: Sium sisarum |
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| skirt | (noun) a garment hanging from the waist; worn mainly by girls and women | - |
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| (noun) cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waist | - |
| (noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, chick, dame, doll, wench |
| (noun) (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar | Synonyms: annulus |
| (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep |
| (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, environ, ring, surround |
| (verb) pass around or about; move along the border | - |
| (verb) form the edge of | - |
| skirting | (adjective) being all around the edges; enclosing | Synonyms: encircling |
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| skit | (noun) a short theatrical episode | - |
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| skitter | (verb) twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water | - |
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| (verb) cause to skip over a surface | Synonyms: skim, skip |
| (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scurry, scuttle |
| (verb) glide easily along a surface | - |
| skittish | (adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | Synonyms: flighty, nervous, spooky |
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| skittishly | (adverb) in a skittish manner | - |
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| skittishness | (noun) characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright | Synonyms: restiveness |
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| skittle | (noun) a bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles | Synonyms: ninepin, skittle pin |
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| (verb) play skittles | - |
| skittles | (noun) a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins | Synonyms: ninepins |
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| skive | (verb) remove the surface of | - |
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| skivvies | (noun) (used in the plural) men's underwear consisting of cotton undershirt and underpants | - |
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| skivvy | (noun) a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work | Synonyms: slavey |
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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 |
| skreigh | (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreak, squawk |
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| skua | (noun) gull-like jaeger of northern seas | Synonyms: bonxie |
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| skulduggery | (noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery |
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| skulk | (verb) move furtively | - |
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| (verb) avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill | Synonyms: malinger |
| (verb) lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner | Synonyms: lurk |
| skulker | (noun) someone waiting in concealment | Synonyms: lurcher, lurker |
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| (noun) someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity | Synonyms: malingerer, shammer |
| skulking | (noun) evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated | Synonyms: malingering |
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| skull | (noun) the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates | - |
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| skullcap | (noun) rounded brimless cap fitting the crown of the head | - |
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| (noun) the dome of the skull | Synonyms: calvaria |
| (noun) a herbaceous plant of the genus Scutellaria which has a calyx that, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised | Synonyms: helmetflower |
| skullduggery | (noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, slickness, trickery |
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| skunk | (noun) American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae | Synonyms: polecat, wood pussy |
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| (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, smoke, weed |
| (noun) a defeat in a game where one side fails to score | Synonyms: shutout |
| (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
| (verb) defeat by a lurch | Synonyms: lurch |
| skunkbush | (noun) deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit | Synonyms: Rhus trilobata, squaw-bush, squawbush |
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| skunkweed | (noun) tall herb of the Rocky Mountains having sticky leaves and an offensive smell | Synonyms: Polemonium viscosum, skunk-weed |
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| sky | (noun) the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth | - |
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| (verb) throw or toss with a light motion | Synonyms: flip, pitch, toss |
| skybox | (noun) an elevated box for viewing events at a sports stadium | - |
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| skycap | (noun) a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at an airport | - |
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| skydive | (verb) jump from an airplane and perform various maneuvers before opening one's parachute | Synonyms: sky dive |
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| skydiver | (noun) a person who jumps from a plane and performs various gymnastic maneuvers before pulling the parachute cord | - |
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| skydiving | (noun) performing acrobatics in free fall before pulling the ripcord of a parachute | - |
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| skyhook | (noun) a hook that is imagined to be suspended from the sky | - |
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| (noun) helicopter carrying a reel of steel cable that can be used to lift and transport heavy objects | - |
| skyjack | (verb) subject an aircraft to air piracy | - |
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| skylark | (noun) brown-speckled European lark noted for singing while hovering at a great height | Synonyms: Alauda arvensis |
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| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, sport |
| skylight | (noun) a window in a roof to admit daylight | Synonyms: fanlight |
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| skyline | (noun) the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet | Synonyms: apparent horizon, horizon, sensible horizon, visible horizon |
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| (noun) the outline of objects seen against the sky | - |
| skype | (verb) to communicate using Skype or similar web conference software | - |
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| skyrocket | (noun) sends a firework display high into the sky | Synonyms: rocket |
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| (noun) propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon | Synonyms: rocket |
| (verb) shoot up abruptly, like a rocket | Synonyms: rocket |
| skysail | (noun) the sail above the royal on a square-rigger | - |
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| skyscraper | (noun) a very tall building with many stories | - |
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| skywalk | (noun) an elevated walkway between buildings (usually enclosed) | - |
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| skyward | (adjective) directed toward heaven or the sky | Synonyms: heavenward |
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| (adverb) toward the sky | Synonyms: skywards |
| skywards | (adverb) toward the sky | Synonyms: skyward |
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| skyway | (noun) a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another | Synonyms: air lane, airway, flight path |
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| skywriting | (noun) writing formed in the sky by smoke released from an airplane | - |
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| speedskater | (noun) an ice-skater who races competitively; usually around an oval course | Synonyms: speed skater |
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| tamarisk | (noun) any shrub or small tree of the genus Tamarix having small scalelike or needle-shaped leaves and feathery racemes of small white or pinkish flowers; of mostly coastal areas with saline soil | - |
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| task | (noun) a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee | Synonyms: chore, job |
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| (noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labor, labour, project, undertaking |
| (verb) use to the limit | Synonyms: tax |
| (verb) assign a task to | - |
| taskmaster | (noun) someone who imposes hard or continuous work | - |
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| taskmistress | (noun) a woman taskmaster | - |
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| tetraskele | (noun) a figure consisting of four stylized human arms or legs (or bent lines) radiating from a center | Synonyms: tetraskelion |
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| tetraskelion | (noun) a figure consisting of four stylized human arms or legs (or bent lines) radiating from a center | Synonyms: tetraskele |
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| torsk | (noun) large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters; related to cod | Synonyms: Brosme brosme, cusk |
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| triskaidekaphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of the number 13 | - |
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| triskaidekaphobic | (adjective) suffering from triskaidekaphobia (abnormal fear of the number 13) | - |
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| triskele | (noun) a figure consisting of three stylized human arms or legs (or three bent lines) radiating from a center | Synonyms: triskelion |
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| triskelion | (noun) a figure consisting of three stylized human arms or legs (or three bent lines) radiating from a center | Synonyms: triskele |
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| tsatske | (noun) (Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket | Synonyms: chachka, tchotchke, tshatshke |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman | Synonyms: chachka, tchotchke, tchotchkeleh, tshatshke |
| tsk | (verb) utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval | Synonyms: tut-tut, tut |
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| tusk | (noun) a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog | - |
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| (noun) a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses | Synonyms: ivory |
| (verb) remove the tusks of animals | Synonyms: detusk |
| (verb) stab or pierce with a horn or tusk | Synonyms: horn |
| tusked | (adjective) having tusks | - |
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| tusker | (noun) any mammal with prominent tusks (especially an elephant or wild boar) | - |
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| unasked | (adjective) uninvited | - |
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| unasterisked | (adjective) not marked with an asterisk | Synonyms: unstarred |
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| underskirt | (noun) undergarment worn under a skirt | Synonyms: half-slip, petticoat |
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| unmask | (verb) reveal the true nature of | Synonyms: uncloak |
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| (verb) take the mask off | - |
| unmasking | (noun) the exposure of an impostor or a fraud | Synonyms: expose |
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