| starer | (noun) a viewer who gazes fixedly (often with hostility) | - |
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| starets | (noun) a religious adviser (not necessarily a priest) in the Eastern Orthodox Church | - |
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| starfish | (noun) echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk | Synonyms: sea star |
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| starflower | (noun) common Old World herb having grasslike leaves and clusters of star-shaped white flowers with green stripes; naturalized in the eastern United States | Synonyms: Ornithogalum umbellatum, sleepy dick, summer snowflake |
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| stargaze | (verb) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy | Synonyms: daydream, dream, woolgather |
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| (verb) observe the stars | - |
| stargazer | (noun) heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head | - |
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| (noun) a physicist who studies astronomy | Synonyms: astronomer, uranologist |
| (noun) someone indifferent to the busy world | Synonyms: lotus-eater |
| stargazing | (noun) observation of the stars | - |
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| staring | (adjective) (used of eyes) open and fixed as if in fear or wonder | Synonyms: agaze |
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| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| stark | (adjective) complete or extreme | - |
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| (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, desolate |
| (adjective) severely simple | Synonyms: austere, severe, stern |
| (adjective) devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment | Synonyms: blunt, crude |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| (adverb) to the fullest degree | - |
| starkers | (adjective) (British informal) stark naked | - |
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| starkly | (adverb) in a blunt manner | - |
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| (adverb) in sharp outline or contrast | - |
| (adverb) in a stark manner | - |
| starkness | (noun) an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation | Synonyms: bareness |
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| (noun) the quality of being complete or utter or extreme | Synonyms: absoluteness, utterness |
| starless | (adjective) not starry; having no stars or starlike objects | - |
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| starlessness | (noun) The state of being without visible stars. | - |
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| starlet | (noun) a small star | - |
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| (noun) a young (film) actress who is publicized as a future star | - |
| starlight | (noun) the light of the stars | - |
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| starlike | (adjective) resembling a star | - |
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| starling | (noun) gregarious birds native to the Old World | - |
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| starlit | (adjective) lighted only by stars | - |
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| starred | (adjective) marked with an asterisk | Synonyms: asterisked |
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| starring | (adjective) indicating the most important performer or role | Synonyms: leading, prima, star, stellar |
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| starry | (adjective) abounding with or resembling stars | - |
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| starship | (noun) a spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space (especially in science fiction) | Synonyms: spaceship |
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| start | (noun) the act of starting something | Synonyms: beginning, commencement |
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| (noun) a sudden involuntary movement | Synonyms: jump, startle |
| (noun) a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning) | Synonyms: starting |
| (noun) the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race) | Synonyms: head start |
| (noun) a signal to begin (as in a race) | Synonyms: starting signal |
| (noun) the beginning of anything | - |
| (noun) a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game | Synonyms: scratch, scratch line, starting line |
| (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, starting time |
| (verb) take the first step or steps in carrying out an action | Synonyms: begin, commence, get, get down, set about, set out, start out |
| (verb) set in motion, cause to start | Synonyms: begin, commence, lead off |
| (verb) play in the starting lineup | - |
| (verb) bring into being | Synonyms: initiate, originate |
| (verb) get off the ground | Synonyms: commence, embark on, start up |
| (verb) begin or set in motion | Synonyms: get going, go |
| (verb) get going or set in motion | Synonyms: start up |
| (verb) depart for someplace | Synonyms: depart, part, set forth, set off, set out, start out, take off |
| (verb) bulge outward | Synonyms: bug out, bulge, bulge out, come out, pop, pop out, protrude |
| (verb) move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm | Synonyms: jump, startle |
| (verb) begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job | Synonyms: take up |
| (verb) begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object | Synonyms: begin |
| (verb) have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense | Synonyms: begin |
| (verb) have a beginning characterized in some specified way | Synonyms: begin |
| starter | (noun) a culture containing yeast or bacteria that is used to start the process of fermentation or souring in making butter or cheese or dough | - |
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| (noun) a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle | Synonyms: crank |
| (noun) an electric motor for starting an engine | Synonyms: starter motor, starting motor |
| (noun) food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) | Synonyms: appetiser, appetizer |
| (noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: entrant, fledgeling, fledgling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, newcomer |
| (noun) the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition | Synonyms: dispatcher |
| (noun) a contestant in a team sport who is in the game at the beginning | - |
| starting | (adjective) appropriate to the beginning or start of an event | - |
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| (adjective) (especially of eyes) bulging or protruding as with fear | - |
| (noun) a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning) | Synonyms: start |
| startle | (noun) a sudden involuntary movement | Synonyms: jump, start |
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| (verb) to stimulate to action | Synonyms: galvanise, galvanize |
| (verb) move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm | Synonyms: jump, start |
| startled | (adjective) excited by sudden surprise or alarm and making a quick involuntary movement | - |
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| startling | (adjective) so remarkably different or sudden as to cause momentary shock or alarm | - |
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| startlingly | (adverb) in a startling manner | - |
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| startup | (noun) the act of starting a new operation or practice | Synonyms: inauguration |
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| (noun) the act of setting in operation | - |
| starvation | (noun) the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine | Synonyms: starving |
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| (noun) a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period | Synonyms: famishment |
| starve | (verb) be hungry; go without food | Synonyms: famish, hunger |
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| (verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: crave, hunger, lust, thirst |
| (verb) die of food deprivation | Synonyms: famish |
| (verb) deprive of food | Synonyms: famish |
| (verb) deprive of a necessity and cause suffering | - |
| starved | (adjective) extremely hungry | Synonyms: esurient, famished, ravenous, sharp-set |
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| (adjective) suffering from lack of food | Synonyms: starving |
| starveling | (noun) someone who is starving (or being starved) | - |
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| starving | (adjective) suffering from lack of food | Synonyms: starved |
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| (noun) the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine | Synonyms: starvation |
| starwort | (noun) low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped flowers; named for its alleged ability to ease sharp pains in the side | Synonyms: greater stitchwort, Stellaria holostea, stitchwort |
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| straightarrow | (adjective) conventionally moral and upright | - |
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| superstar | (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
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| supplementary | (adjective) added to complete or make up a deficiency | Synonyms: supplemental |
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| (adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity | Synonyms: auxiliary, subsidiary, supplemental |
| tar | (noun) a man who serves as a sailor | Synonyms: gob, Jack-tar, Jack, mariner, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, seaman |
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| (noun) any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue | Synonyms: pitch |
| (verb) coat with tar | - |
| taradiddle | (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, story, tale, tarradiddle |
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| (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
| tarantella | (noun) a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons | Synonyms: tarantelle |
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| (noun) music composed in six-eight time for dancing the tarantella | - |
| tarantelle | (noun) a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons | Synonyms: tarantella |
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| tarantism | (noun) a nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance; popularly attributed to bite of the southern European tarantula or wolf spider | - |
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| tarantula | (noun) large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites | - |
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| (noun) large southern European spider once thought to be the cause of tarantism (uncontrollable bodily movement) | Synonyms: European wolf spider, Lycosa tarentula |
| tarboosh | (noun) a felt cap (usually red) for a man; shaped like a flat-topped cone with a tassel that hangs from the crown | Synonyms: fez |
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| tardigrade | (noun) an arthropod of the division Tardigrada | - |
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| tardily | (adverb) without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly') | Synonyms: easy, slow, slowly |
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| (adverb) later than usual or than expected | Synonyms: belatedly, late |
| tardiness | (noun) the quality or habit of not adhering to a correct or usual or expected time | - |
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| tardive | (adjective) late-occurring (especially with reference to symptoms of a disease) | - |
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| tardy | (adjective) after the expected or usual time; delayed | Synonyms: belated, late |
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| tare | (noun) (chemical analysis) a counterweight used in chemical analysis; consists of an empty container that counterbalances the weight of the container holding chemicals | - |
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| (noun) the weight of a motor vehicle, railroad car, or aircraft without its fuel or cargo | - |
| (noun) any of several weedy vetches grown for forage | - |
| (noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, cheat, darnel, Lolium temulentum |
| (noun) an adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods | - |
| target | (noun) sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at | Synonyms: butt |
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| (noun) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) | Synonyms: aim, object, objective |
| (noun) a reference point to shoot at | Synonyms: mark |
| (noun) the location of the target that is to be hit | Synonyms: target area |
| (noun) a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence | Synonyms: fair game, prey, quarry |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, direct, place, point |
| tariff | (noun) a government tax on imports or exports | Synonyms: duty |
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| (verb) charge a tariff | - |
| tarmac | (noun) a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar | Synonyms: macadam, tarmacadam |
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| (noun) a paving material of tar and broken stone; mixed in a factory and shaped during paving | Synonyms: tarmacadam |
| (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadam, macadamise, macadamize |
| tarmacadam | (noun) a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar | Synonyms: macadam, tarmac |
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| (noun) a paving material of tar and broken stone; mixed in a factory and shaped during paving | Synonyms: tarmac |
| tarn | (noun) a mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers) | - |
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| tarnish | (noun) discoloration of metal surface caused by oxidation | - |
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| (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, maculate, stain, sully |
| taro | (noun) tropical starchy tuberous root | Synonyms: cocoyam, dasheen, edda, taro root |
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| (noun) herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves | Synonyms: Colocasia esculenta, dalo, dasheen, taro plant |
| (noun) edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants | Synonyms: cocoyam, dasheen, eddo |
| tarot | (noun) any of a set of (usually 78) cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc.; used for playing card games and for divination by fortunetellers | Synonyms: tarot card |
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| tarp | (noun) waterproofed canvas | Synonyms: tarpaulin |
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| tarpan | (noun) European wild horse extinct since the early 20th century | Synonyms: Equus caballus gomelini |
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| tarpaulin | (noun) waterproofed canvas | Synonyms: tarp |
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| tarpon | (noun) large silvery game fish of warm Atlantic coastal waters especially off Florida | Synonyms: Tarpon atlanticus |
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| tarradiddle | (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, story, tale, taradiddle |
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| (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
| tarragon | (noun) fresh leaves (or leaves preserved in vinegar) used as seasoning | Synonyms: estragon |
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| (noun) aromatic perennial of southeastern Russia | Synonyms: Artemisia dracunculus, estragon |
| tarriance | (noun) the act of tarrying | Synonyms: lingering |
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| tarry | (adjective) having the characteristics of pitch or tar | Synonyms: pitchy, resinous, resiny |
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| (verb) leave slowly and hesitantly | Synonyms: linger |
| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around |
| tarsal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the tarsus of the foot | - |
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| (noun) any bone of the tarsus | Synonyms: tarsal bone |
| tarsier | (noun) nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing; the only primate that spurns all plant material as food living entirely on insects and small vertebrates | - |
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| tarsitis | (noun) inflammation of the eyelid | - |
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| tarsus | (noun) the part of the foot of a vertebrate between the metatarsus and the leg; in human beings the bones of the ankle and heel collectively | - |
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| tart | (adjective) tasting sour like a lemon | Synonyms: lemonlike, lemony, sourish, tangy |
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| (adjective) harsh | Synonyms: sharp-worded, sharp |
| (noun) a small open pie with a fruit filling | - |
| (noun) a pastry cup with a filling of fruit or custard and no top crust | - |
| (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
| tartan | (noun) a cloth having a crisscross design | Synonyms: plaid |
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| tartar | (noun) an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums | Synonyms: calculus, tophus |
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| (noun) a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman | Synonyms: dragon |
| (noun) a salt used especially in baking powder | Synonyms: cream of tartar, potassium bitartrate, potassium hydrogen tartrate |
| tartaric | (adjective) relating to or derived from or resembling tartar | - |
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| tartlet | (noun) a small tart usually used as a canape | - |
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| tartly | (adverb) in a tart manner | - |
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| tartness | (noun) a sharp sour taste | Synonyms: acerbity |
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| (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, bitterness, jaundice, thorniness |
| (noun) the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: sour, sourness |
| tartrate | (noun) a salt or ester of tartaric acid | - |
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| tarweed | (noun) any of various resinous glandular plants of the genus Madia; of western North and South America | - |
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| (noun) any of various western American plants of the genus Grindelia having resinous leaves and stems formerly used medicinally; often poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: gum plant, gumweed, rosinweed |
| tarwood | (noun) New Zealand shrub | Synonyms: Dacrydium bidwilli, Halocarpus bidwilli, New Zealand mountain pine, tar-wood |
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| (noun) New Zealand silver pine of conical habit with long slender flexuous branches; adapted to cold wet summers and high altitudes | Synonyms: Dacrydium colensoi, tar-wood |
| testamentary | (adjective) of or relating to a will or testament or bequeathed by a will or testament | - |
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| tetartanopia | (noun) a form of dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to yellow light; so rare that its existence has been questioned | Synonyms: yellow-blindness |
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| totalitarian | (adjective) of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life | Synonyms: totalistic |
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| (adjective) characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control | - |
| (noun) an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government | - |
| totalitarianism | (noun) an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government. | Synonyms: absolutism, totalism |
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| (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, tyranny |
| totara | (noun) valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves | Synonyms: Podocarpus totara |
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| tributary | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributive, contributory |
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| (adjective) paying tribute | - |
| (adjective) (of a stream) flowing into a larger stream | - |
| (noun) a branch that flows into the main stream | Synonyms: affluent, confluent, feeder |
| tuatara | (noun) only extant member of the order Rhynchocephalia of large spiny lizard-like diapsid reptiles of coastal islands off New Zealand | Synonyms: Sphenodon punctatum |
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| uncomplimentary | (adjective) tending to (or intended to) detract or disparage | - |
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| (adjective) showing or representing unfavorably | Synonyms: unflattering |
| undersecretary | (noun) a secretary immediately subordinate to the head of a department of government | - |
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| unitard | (noun) a tight-fitting garment of stretchy material that covers the body from the shoulders to the thighs (and may have long sleeves or legs reaching down to the ankles); worn by ballet dancers and acrobats for practice or performance | Synonyms: body suit, cat suit, leotard |
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| unitariness | (noun) The quality or state of pertaining to a unit, having the quality of oneness. | - |
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| unitarism | (noun) Politics which favors the process of uniting a political entity which consists of smaller regions, either by cancelling the regions completely or by transferring their power to the central government. | - |
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| unitary | (adjective) characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is held by one central authority | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to or involving the use of units | - |
| (adjective) relating to or characterized by or aiming toward unity | - |
| (adjective) having the indivisible character of a unit | Synonyms: one |
| unmilitary | (adjective) not associated with soldiers or the military | Synonyms: nonmilitary |
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| unparliamentary | (adjective) so rude and abusive as to be unsuitable for parliament | - |
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| unsanitariness | (noun) a state that is not conducive to health | - |
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| unsanitary | (adjective) not sanitary or healthful | Synonyms: insanitary, unhealthful |
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