| smutch | (verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging | Synonyms: blur, smear, smudge |
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| snatch | (noun) the act of catching an object with the hands | Synonyms: catch, grab, snap |
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| (noun) a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted overhead in one rapid motion | - |
| (noun) (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment | Synonyms: kidnapping |
| (noun) obscene terms for female genitals | Synonyms: cunt, puss, pussy, slit, twat |
| (noun) a small fragment | Synonyms: bit |
| (verb) to grasp hastily or eagerly | Synonyms: snap, snatch up |
| (verb) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom | Synonyms: abduct, kidnap, nobble |
| (verb) to make grasping motions | - |
| snatcher | (noun) someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom) | Synonyms: abductor, kidnaper, kidnapper |
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| (noun) a thief who grabs and runs | - |
| snitch | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, sneaker, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
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| (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, grass, rat, shit, shop, stag, tell on |
| (verb) take by theft | Synonyms: cop, glom, hook, knock off, thieve |
| snitcher | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
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| (noun) a thief who steals without using violence | Synonyms: pilferer, sneak thief |
| spatchcock | (noun) flesh of a chicken (or game bird) split down the back and grilled (usually immediately after being killed) | - |
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| (verb) interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story | - |
| (verb) prepare for eating if or as if a spatchcock | - |
| splotch | (noun) an irregularly shaped spot | Synonyms: blotch, splodge |
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| (verb) blotch or spot | - |
| splotched | (adjective) marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots | Synonyms: blotched, blotchy |
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| stitch | (noun) a link or loop or knot made by an implement in knitting, crocheting, embroidery, or sewing | - |
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| (noun) a sharp spasm of pain in the side resulting from running | - |
| (verb) fasten by sewing; do needlework | Synonyms: run up, sew, sew together |
| stitched | (adjective) fastened with stitches | Synonyms: sewed, sewn |
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| stitcher | (noun) a garmentmaker who performs the finishing steps | - |
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| stitchery | (noun) needlework on which you are working with needle and thread | Synonyms: sewing |
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| stitching | (noun) joining or attaching by stitches | Synonyms: sewing |
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| stitchwort | (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, starwort, Stellaria holostea |
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| stopwatch | (noun) a timepiece that can be started or stopped for exact timing (as of a race) | Synonyms: stop watch |
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| stretch | (adjective) easily stretched | - |
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| (adjective) having an elongated seating area | - |
| (noun) exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent | Synonyms: stretching |
| (noun) the act of physically reaching or thrusting out | Synonyms: reach, reaching |
| (noun) extension to or beyond the ordinary limit | - |
| (noun) a straightaway section of a racetrack | - |
| (noun) the capacity for being stretched | Synonyms: stretchability, stretchiness |
| (noun) a large and unbroken expanse or distance | - |
| (noun) an unbroken period of time during which you do something | Synonyms: stint |
| (verb) extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) extend one's body or limbs | Synonyms: stretch out |
| (verb) become longer by being stretched and pulled | - |
| (verb) make long or longer by pulling and stretching | Synonyms: elongate |
| (verb) extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly | - |
| (verb) increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, debase, dilute, load |
| (verb) pull in opposite directions | - |
| (verb) extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length | Synonyms: extend, stretch out, unfold |
| (verb) lie down comfortably | Synonyms: stretch out |
| (verb) occupy a large, elongated area | Synonyms: stretch along |
| stretchability | (noun) the capacity for being stretched | Synonyms: stretch, stretchiness |
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| stretchable | (adjective) capable of being easily stretched and resuming former size or shape | Synonyms: stretchy |
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| stretched | (adjective) (of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching | - |
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| (adjective) extended or spread over a wide area or distance | - |
| stretcher | (noun) a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles | - |
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| (noun) a stone that forms the top of wall or building | Synonyms: capstone, copestone, coping stone |
| (noun) a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it | - |
| (noun) a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting | - |
| stretchiness | (noun) the capacity for being stretched | Synonyms: stretch, stretchability |
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| stretching | (noun) exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent | Synonyms: stretch |
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| (noun) act of expanding by lengthening or widening | - |
| stretchy | (adjective) capable of being easily stretched and resuming former size or shape | Synonyms: stretchable |
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| swatch | (noun) a sample piece of cloth | - |
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| switch | (noun) the act of changing one thing or position for another | Synonyms: shift, switching |
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| (noun) a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other | - |
| (noun) a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment | - |
| (noun) control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit | Synonyms: electric switch, electrical switch |
| (noun) railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock | - |
| (noun) hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure | - |
| (noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: permutation, replacement, substitution, transposition |
| (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, flip, interchange, tack |
| (verb) make a shift in or exchange of | Synonyms: change over, shift |
| (verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another | Synonyms: change, shift |
| (verb) change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence | Synonyms: exchange, switch over |
| (verb) cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation | Synonyms: flip, throw |
| (verb) flog with or as if with a flexible rod | - |
| (verb) exchange or give (something) in exchange for | Synonyms: swap, swop, trade |
| switchblade | (noun) a pocketknife with a blade that springs open at the press of a button | Synonyms: flick-knife, flick knife, switchblade knife |
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| switchboard | (noun) telephone central where circuits are completed with patchcords | Synonyms: patchboard, plugboard |
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| switcher | (noun) a person who administers punishment by wielding a switch or whip | Synonyms: whipper |
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| switcheroo | (noun) a sudden unexpected switch | - |
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| switching | (noun) the act of changing one thing or position for another | Synonyms: shift, switch |
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| switchman | (noun) a man who operates railroad switches | - |
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| tchotchke | (noun) (Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket | Synonyms: chachka, tsatske, tshatshke |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman | Synonyms: chachka, tchotchkeleh, tsatske, tshatshke |
| tchotchkeleh | (noun) (Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman | Synonyms: chachka, tchotchke, tsatske, tshatshke |
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| tetchily | (adverb) in an ill-natured and tetchy manner | - |
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| tetchiness | (noun) feeling easily irritated | Synonyms: testiness, touchiness |
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| tetchy | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy |
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| thatch | (noun) a house roof made with a plant material (as straw) | Synonyms: thatched roof |
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| (noun) hair resembling thatched roofing material | - |
| (noun) plant stalks used as roofing material | - |
| (verb) cover with thatch | - |
| thatcher | (noun) someone skilled in making a roof from plant stalks or foliage | - |
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| topnotch | (adjective) of the highest quality | Synonyms: A-one, ace, crack, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, tops |
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| twitch | (noun) a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition | Synonyms: twitching, vellication |
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| (verb) make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion | Synonyms: jerk |
| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, pinch, squeeze, tweet, twinge |
| (verb) move or pull with a sudden motion | - |
| (verb) toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air | Synonyms: flip |
| (verb) move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions | Synonyms: jerk |
| twitching | (noun) a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition | Synonyms: twitch, vellication |
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| unhatched | (adjective) not yet emerged from an egg | - |
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| unhitch | (verb) unfasten or release from or as if from a hitch | - |
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| unlatched | (adjective) not firmly fastened or secured | Synonyms: unbarred, unbolted, unlocked, unsecured |
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| unmatchable | (adjective) eminent beyond or above comparison | Synonyms: matchless, nonpareil, one, one and only, peerless, unmatched, unrivaled, unrivalled |
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| unmatched | (adjective) eminent beyond or above comparison | Synonyms: matchless, nonpareil, one, one and only, peerless, unmatchable, unrivaled, unrivalled |
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| (adjective) of the remaining member of a pair | Synonyms: odd, unmated, unpaired |
| unnotched | (adjective) having no notches | Synonyms: untoothed |
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| unwatchful | (adjective) not alert to what is potentially dangerous | Synonyms: unalert, unvigilant |
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| vetch | (noun) any of various climbing plants of the genus Vicia having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small variously colored flowers; includes valuable forage and soil-building plants | - |
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| vetchling | (noun) any of various small plants of the genus Lathyrus; climb usually by means of tendrils | - |
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| vetchworm | (noun) larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops | Synonyms: corn earworm, cotton bollworm, Heliothis zia, tobacco budworm, tomato fruitworm |
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| watch | (noun) a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe | Synonyms: vigil |
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| (noun) the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival) | Synonyms: vigil |
| (noun) a small portable timepiece | Synonyms: ticker |
| (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter |
| (noun) a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty | - |
| (noun) the period during which someone (especially a guard) is on duty | - |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, check, determine, find out, learn, see |
| (verb) look attentively | - |
| (verb) be vigilant, be on the lookout or be careful | Synonyms: look out, watch out |
| (verb) observe without intervening | Synonyms: look on |
| (verb) observe or determine by looking | - |
| (verb) see or watch | Synonyms: catch, see, take in, view |
| (verb) follow with the eyes or the mind | Synonyms: follow, keep an eye on, observe, watch over |
| watchband | (noun) a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist | Synonyms: bracelet, watch bracelet, watchstrap, wristband |
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| watchdog | (noun) a dog trained to guard property | Synonyms: guard dog |
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| (noun) a guardian or defender against theft or illegal practices or waste | - |
| watcher | (noun) a guard who keeps watch | Synonyms: security guard, watchman |
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| (noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | Synonyms: looker, spectator, viewer, witness |
| (noun) a person who keeps a devotional vigil by a sick bed or by a dead body | - |
| watchful | (adjective) engaged in or accustomed to close observation | Synonyms: alert |
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| (adjective) experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness | Synonyms: insomniac, sleepless |
| (adjective) carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger | Synonyms: argus-eyed, open-eyed, vigilant, wakeful |
| watchfully | (adverb) in a watchful manner | Synonyms: vigilantly |
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| watchfulness | (noun) vigilant attentiveness | Synonyms: vigilance, weather eye |
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| (noun) the process of paying close and continuous attention | Synonyms: alertness, vigilance, wakefulness |
| watching | (noun) the act of observing; taking a patient look | Synonyms: observance, observation |
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| watchmaker | (noun) someone who makes or repairs watches | Synonyms: horologer, horologist |
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| watchman | (noun) a guard who keeps watch | Synonyms: security guard, watcher |
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| watchstrap | (noun) a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist | Synonyms: bracelet, watch bracelet, watchband, wristband |
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| watchtower | (noun) an observation tower for a lookout to watch over prisoners or watch for fires or enemies | - |
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| watchword | (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: countersign, parole, password, word |
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| (noun) a slogan used to rally support for a cause | Synonyms: battle cry, cry, rallying cry, war cry |
| whatchamacallit | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| whatchamacallum | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatsis, widget |
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| whipstitch | (noun) a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally | Synonyms: whipping, whipstitching |
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| whipstitching | (noun) a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally | Synonyms: whipping, whipstitch |
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| witch | (noun) a female sorcerer or magician | Synonyms: enchantress |
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| (noun) a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil | - |
| (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, beldame, crone, hag |
| (noun) a believer in Wicca | Synonyms: Wiccan |
| (verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: bewitch, enchant, glamour, hex, jinx |
| witchcraft | (noun) the art of sorcery | Synonyms: witchery |
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| witchery | (noun) the art of sorcery | Synonyms: witchcraft |
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| witchgrass | (noun) North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land | Synonyms: old witch grass, old witchgrass, Panicum capillare, tumble grass, witch grass |
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| (noun) European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed | Synonyms: Agropyron repens, couch grass, dog grass, quack grass, quackgrass, quick grass, witch grass |
| witching | (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: charming, magic, magical, sorcerous, wizard, wizardly |
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| (noun) the use or practice of witchcraft | - |
| witchlike | (adjective) being or having the character of witchcraft | - |
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| wretch | (noun) someone you feel sorry for | Synonyms: poor devil |
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| (noun) performs some wicked deed | - |
| wretched | (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: despicable, slimy, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless |
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| (adjective) of very poor quality or condition | Synonyms: deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful |
| (adjective) characterized by physical misery | Synonyms: miserable |
| (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor |
| (adjective) very unhappy; full of misery | Synonyms: miserable, suffering |
| wretchedly | (adverb) in a wretched manner | - |
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| wretchedness | (noun) the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry | - |
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| (noun) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune | Synonyms: miserableness, misery |
| (noun) the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant | - |
| wristwatch | (noun) a watch that is worn strapped to the wrist | Synonyms: wrist watch |
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