| ragtime | (noun) music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano) | Synonyms: rag |
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| sanctimonious | (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistic, pietistical, self-righteous |
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| sanctimoniously | (adverb) in a sanctimonious manner | Synonyms: self-righteously |
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| sanctimoniousness | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimony |
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| sanctimony | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimoniousness |
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| santims | (noun) 100 santimi equal 1 lats in Latvia | - |
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| schooltime | (noun) the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session | Synonyms: school, school day |
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| (noun) the time of life when you are going to school | Synonyms: schooldays |
| seedtime | (noun) the time during which seeds should be planted | - |
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| (noun) any time of new development | - |
| sentiment | (noun) a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty | Synonyms: opinion, persuasion, thought, view |
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| (noun) tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion | - |
| sentimental | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| (adjective) given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality | - |
| sentimentalisation | (noun) the act of indulging in sentiment | Synonyms: romanticisation, romanticization, sentimentalization |
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| sentimentalise | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalize, sentimentise, sentimentize |
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| (verb) look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment | Synonyms: sentimentalize |
| (verb) make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities | Synonyms: sentimentalize |
| sentimentalism | (noun) a predilection for sentimentality | - |
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| (noun) the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form | - |
| sentimentalist | (noun) someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality | Synonyms: romanticist |
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| sentimentality | (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, sloppiness, soupiness |
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| (noun) extravagant or affected feeling or emotion | - |
| sentimentalization | (noun) the act of indulging in sentiment | Synonyms: romanticisation, romanticization, sentimentalisation |
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| sentimentalize | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalise, sentimentise, sentimentize |
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| (verb) look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment | Synonyms: sentimentalise |
| (verb) make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities | Synonyms: sentimentalise |
| sentimentally | (adverb) in a sentimental manner | - |
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| sentimentise | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalise, sentimentalize, sentimentize |
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| sentimentize | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalise, sentimentalize, sentimentise |
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| seriatim | (adverb) in a series; point by point | - |
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| shittim | (noun) shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit | Synonyms: Bumelia lycioides, mock orange, shittimwood, southern buckthorn |
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| shittimwood | (noun) wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle | - |
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| (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittamwood, chittimwood, false buckthorn |
| (noun) shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit | Synonyms: Bumelia lycioides, mock orange, shittim, southern buckthorn |
| showtime | (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, start, starting time |
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| sometime | (adjective) belonging to some prior time | Synonyms: erstwhile, former, old, one-time, onetime, quondam |
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| (adverb) at some indefinite or unstated time | - |
| sometimes | (adverb) on certain occasions or in certain cases but not always | - |
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| sprechstimme | (noun) a style of dramatic vocalization between singing and speaking | Synonyms: sprechgesang |
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| springtime | (noun) the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring | Synonyms: spring |
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| stimulant | (adjective) that stimulates | Synonyms: stimulating |
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| (noun) a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process | Synonyms: excitant, stimulant drug |
| (noun) any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action | Synonyms: input, stimulation, stimulus |
| stimulate | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, brace, energise, energize, perk up |
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| (verb) act as a stimulant | Synonyms: excite |
| (verb) provide the needed stimulus for | Synonyms: provoke |
| (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: cause, get, have, induce, make |
| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: hasten, induce, rush |
| (verb) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of | Synonyms: excite, shake, shake up, stir |
| (verb) stir feelings in | Synonyms: excite, stir |
| stimulated | (adjective) emotionally aroused | Synonyms: aroused, stirred, stirred up |
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| stimulating | (adjective) rousing or quickening activity or the senses | - |
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| (adjective) making lively and cheerful | Synonyms: exhilarating |
| (adjective) that stimulates | Synonyms: stimulant |
| stimulation | (noun) the act of arousing an organism to action | - |
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| (noun) mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse | Synonyms: arousal, foreplay |
| (noun) any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action | Synonyms: input, stimulant, stimulus |
| (noun) (physiology) the effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.) | - |
| stimulative | (adjective) capable of arousing or accelerating physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent | - |
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| stimulus | (noun) any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action | Synonyms: input, stimulant, stimulation |
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| summertime | (noun) the warmest season of the year; in the Northern Hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox | Synonyms: summer |
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| suppertime | (noun) the customary or habitual hour for the evening meal | Synonyms: dinnertime |
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| teatime | (noun) a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes | Synonyms: afternoon tea, tea |
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| testimonial | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting testimony | - |
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| (adjective) expressing admiration or appreciation | - |
| (noun) something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable | Synonyms: good word, recommendation |
| (noun) something given or done as an expression of esteem | Synonyms: tribute |
| (noun) something that serves as evidence | Synonyms: testimony |
| testimony | (noun) a solemn statement made under oath | - |
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| (noun) an assertion offering firsthand authentication of a fact | - |
| (noun) something that serves as evidence | Synonyms: testimonial |
| timbale | (noun) individual serving of minced e.g. meat or fish in a rich creamy sauce baked in a small pastry mold or timbale shell | - |
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| (noun) small pastry shell for creamy mixtures of minced foods | Synonyms: timbale case |
| timber | (noun) a beam made of wood | - |
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| (noun) a post made of wood | - |
| (noun) (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) | Synonyms: quality, timbre, tone |
| (noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timberland, woodland |
| (noun) the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material | Synonyms: lumber |
| timbered | (adjective) furnished with or made of wood or timbers | - |
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| (adjective) covered with growing timber | - |
| timberland | (noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timber, woodland |
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| timberline | (noun) line marking the upper limit of tree growth in mountains or northern latitudes | Synonyms: timber line, tree line |
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| timberman | (noun) an owner or manager of a company that is engaged in lumbering | - |
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| timbre | (noun) (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) | Synonyms: quality, timber, tone |
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| timbrel | (noun) small hand drum similar to a tambourine; formerly carried by itinerant jugglers | - |
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| time | (noun) the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past | - |
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| (noun) rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration | Synonyms: meter, metre |
| (noun) an instance or single occasion for some event | Synonyms: clip |
| (noun) a person's experience on a particular occasion | - |
| (noun) an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities) | - |
| (noun) the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned | Synonyms: prison term, sentence |
| (noun) a reading of a point in time as given by a clock | Synonyms: clock time |
| (noun) the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event | Synonyms: fourth dimension |
| (noun) a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something | - |
| (noun) a suitable moment | - |
| (verb) measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time | Synonyms: clock |
| (verb) regulate or set the time of | - |
| (verb) adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time | - |
| (verb) assign a time for an activity or event | - |
| (verb) set the speed, duration, or execution of | - |
| timecard | (noun) a card used with a time clock to record an employee's starting and quitting times each day | - |
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| (noun) a card recording an employee's starting and quitting times each work day | - |
| timed | (adjective) regularly spaced in time | - |
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| timekeeper | (noun) a measuring instrument or device for keeping time | Synonyms: horologe, timepiece |
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| (noun) a clerk who keeps track of the hours worked by employees | - |
| (noun) (sports) an official who keeps track of the time elapsed | Synonyms: timer |
| timekeeping | (noun) the act or process of determining the time | - |
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| timeless | (adjective) unaffected by time | Synonyms: dateless |
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| timelessness | (noun) The property of not being restricted to a particular time or date. | - |
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| (noun) a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife | Synonyms: eternity, timeless existence |
| timeline | (noun) a sequence of related events arranged in chronological order and displayed along a line (usually drawn left to right or top to bottom) | - |
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| timeliness | (noun) timely convenience | Synonyms: opportuneness, patness |
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| (noun) being at the right time | Synonyms: seasonableness |
| timely | (adjective) done or happening at the appropriate or proper time | Synonyms: seasonable, well-timed, well timed |
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| (adjective) before a time limit expires | - |
| (adverb) at an opportune time | Synonyms: apropos, seasonably, well-timed |
| timepiece | (noun) a measuring instrument or device for keeping time | Synonyms: horologe, timekeeper |
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| timer | (noun) a timepiece that measures a time interval and signals its end | - |
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| (noun) a regulator that activates or deactivates a mechanism at set times | - |
| (noun) (sports) an official who keeps track of the time elapsed | Synonyms: timekeeper |
| times | (noun) an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed | Synonyms: multiplication |
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| (noun) a more or less definite period of time now or previously present | - |
| 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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| timetable | (noun) a schedule of times of arrivals and departures | - |
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| (noun) a schedule listing events and the times at which they will take place | - |
| timework | (noun) work paid for at a rate per unit of time | - |
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| timeworn | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, tired, trite, well-worn |
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| timid | (adjective) showing fear and lack of confidence | - |
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| (adjective) lacking self-confidence | Synonyms: diffident, shy, unsure |
| (adjective) lacking conviction or boldness or courage | Synonyms: faint-hearted, faint, fainthearted |
| (noun) people who are fearful and cautious | Synonyms: cautious |
| timidity | (noun) fearfulness in venturing into new and unknown places or activities | Synonyms: timorousness |
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| (noun) fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions | Synonyms: timidness, timorousness |
| timidly | (adverb) in a shy or timid or bashful manner | Synonyms: bashfully, shyly |
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| timidness | (noun) fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions | Synonyms: timidity, timorousness |
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| timing | (noun) the regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect (as in music, theater, athletics, mechanics) | - |
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| (noun) the time when something happens | - |
| timolol | (noun) a beta blocker (trade name Blocadren) administered after heart attacks | Synonyms: Blocadren |
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| timorous | (adjective) timid by nature or revealing timidity | Synonyms: fearful, trepid |
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| timorously | (adverb) in a timorous and trepid manner | Synonyms: trepidly |
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| timorousness | (noun) fearfulness in venturing into new and unknown places or activities | Synonyms: timidity |
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| (noun) fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions | Synonyms: timidity, timidness |
| timothy | (noun) a grass grown for hay | - |
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| (noun) grass with long cylindrical spikes grown in northern United States and Europe for hay | Synonyms: herd's grass, Phleum pratense |
| timpani | (noun) a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it | Synonyms: kettle, kettledrum, tympani, tympanum |
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| timpanist | (noun) a person who plays the kettledrums | Synonyms: tympanist |
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| timucu | (noun) found in warm waters of western Atlantic | - |
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| ultima | (noun) the last syllable in a word | - |
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| ultimacy | (noun) the state or degree of being ultimate; the final or most extreme in degree or size or time or distance | Synonyms: ultimateness |
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| ultimate | (adjective) furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme | - |
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| (adjective) being the last or concluding element of a series | - |
| (noun) the finest or most superior quality of its kind | - |
| ultimately | (adverb) as the end result of a succession or process | Synonyms: at last, at long last, finally, in the end |
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| ultimateness | (noun) the state or degree of being ultimate; the final or most extreme in degree or size or time or distance | Synonyms: ultimacy |
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| ultimatum | (noun) a final peremptory demand | - |
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| ultimo | (adjective) in or of the month preceding the present one | Synonyms: ult |
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| underestimate | (noun) an estimation that is too low; an estimate that is less than the true or actual value | Synonyms: underestimation, underrating, underreckoning |
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| (verb) make a deliberately low estimate | Synonyms: lowball |
| (verb) make too low an estimate of | Synonyms: underrate |
| (verb) assign too low a value to | Synonyms: undervalue |
| underestimation | (noun) an estimation that is too low; an estimate that is less than the true or actual value | Synonyms: underestimate, underrating, underreckoning |
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| unintimidated | (adjective) not shrinking from danger | Synonyms: unblinking, unflinching, unshrinking |
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| unsentimental | (adjective) facing facts or difficulties realistically and with determination | Synonyms: tough-minded |
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| unsentimentally | (adverb) in an unsentimental manner | - |
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| unstimulating | (adjective) not stimulating | Synonyms: unexciting |
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| untimbered | (adjective) lacking timbers | - |
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| (adjective) without trees | - |
| untimeliness | (noun) the quality of occurring at an inconvenient time | Synonyms: inopportuneness |
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| (noun) being at an inappropriate time | Synonyms: unseasonableness |
| untimely | (adjective) uncommonly early or before the expected time | Synonyms: premature |
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| (adjective) badly timed | Synonyms: ill-timed, unseasonable, wrong |
| (adverb) too soon; in a premature manner | Synonyms: prematurely |
| uptime | (noun) a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is functioning and available for use | - |
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| verbatim | (adjective) in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker | Synonyms: direct |
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| (adverb) using exactly the same words | Synonyms: word for word |
| victim | (noun) an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance | - |
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| (noun) a person who is tricked or swindled | Synonyms: dupe |
| victimisation | (noun) an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly) | Synonyms: exploitation, using, victimization |
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| victimise | (verb) punish unjustly | Synonyms: victimize |
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| (verb) make a victim of | Synonyms: victimize |