| prattler | (noun) someone who speaks in a childish way | - |
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| profitless | (adjective) without profit or reward | - |
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| profitlessly | (adverb) without gain or profit | Synonyms: gainlessly, unprofitably |
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| raimentless | (adjective) possessing no clothing | Synonyms: clothesless, garmentless |
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| rattle | (noun) loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail | - |
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| (noun) a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken | - |
| (noun) a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders) | Synonyms: rale, rattling |
| (verb) shake and cause to make a rattling noise | - |
| (verb) make short successive sounds | - |
| rattlebox | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops | Synonyms: crotalaria |
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| rattlebrained | (adjective) lacking sense or discretion | Synonyms: rattlepated, scatterbrained, scatty |
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| rattled | (adjective) thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term) | Synonyms: flustered, hot and bothered, perturbed |
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| rattlepated | (adjective) lacking sense or discretion | Synonyms: rattlebrained, scatterbrained, scatty |
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| rattler | (noun) pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken | Synonyms: rattlesnake |
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| (noun) a railroad train consisting of freight cars | Synonyms: freight train |
| rattlesnake | (noun) pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken | Synonyms: rattler |
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| relentless | (adjective) never-ceasing | Synonyms: persistent, unrelenting |
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| (adjective) not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty | Synonyms: grim, inexorable, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting |
| relentlessly | (adverb) in a relentless manner | Synonyms: unrelentingly |
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| relentlessness | (noun) mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up | Synonyms: inexorability, inexorableness |
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| resettle | (verb) settle in a new place | - |
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| resettled | (adjective) settled in a new location | Synonyms: relocated |
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| resettlement | (noun) the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind) | Synonyms: relocation |
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| resistless | (adjective) impossible to resist; overpowering | Synonyms: irresistible |
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| (adjective) offering no resistance, passively accepting of a situation | Synonyms: unresisting |
| restless | (adjective) lacking or not affording physical or mental rest | Synonyms: uneasy |
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| (adjective) worried and uneasy | Synonyms: ungratified, unsatisfied |
| (adjective) ceaselessly in motion | - |
| (adjective) nervous and unable to relax | Synonyms: antsy, fidgety, fretful, itchy |
| restlessly | (adverb) in a restless manner | - |
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| restlessness | (noun) inability to rest or relax or be still | Synonyms: queasiness, uneasiness |
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| (noun) the quality of being ceaselessly moving or active | - |
| (noun) a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion | Synonyms: fidget, fidgetiness |
| (noun) a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay | Synonyms: impatience |
| rootle | (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: root, rout |
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| rootless | (adjective) wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community | Synonyms: vagabond |
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| rootlet | (noun) small root or division of a root | - |
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| rustle | (noun) a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind | Synonyms: rustling, whisper, whispering |
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| (verb) make a dry crackling sound | - |
| (verb) take illegally | Synonyms: lift |
| (verb) forage food | - |
| rustler | (noun) someone who steals livestock (especially cattle) | Synonyms: cattle thief |
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| rustless | (adjective) without rust | - |
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| scentless | (adjective) lacking the sense of smell | - |
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| (adjective) emitting or holding no odor | - |
| scuttle | (noun) container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire | Synonyms: coal scuttle |
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| (noun) an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship | Synonyms: hatchway, opening |
| (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scurry, skitter |
| scuttlebutt | (noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: comment, gossip |
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| settle | (noun) a long wooden bench with a back | Synonyms: settee |
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| (verb) take up residence and become established | Synonyms: locate |
| (verb) form a community | - |
| (verb) become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style | Synonyms: root, settle down, steady down, take root |
| (verb) establish or develop as a residence | - |
| (verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form | Synonyms: finalise, finalize, nail down |
| (verb) become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet | - |
| (verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: descend, fall |
| (verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: adjudicate, decide, resolve |
| (verb) settle conclusively; come to terms | Synonyms: determine, square off, square up |
| (verb) end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement | - |
| (verb) come to terms | Synonyms: conciliate, make up, patch up, reconcile |
| (verb) accept despite lack of complete satisfaction | - |
| (verb) get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury | Synonyms: get back |
| (verb) fix firmly | Synonyms: ensconce |
| (verb) arrange or fix in the desired order | - |
| (verb) come to rest | - |
| (verb) settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground | Synonyms: settle down |
| (verb) cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids) | - |
| (verb) sink down or precipitate | Synonyms: subside |
| (verb) go under | Synonyms: go down, go under, sink |
| (verb) become clear by the sinking of particles | - |
| (verb) dispose of; make a financial settlement | - |
| settled | (adjective) established in a desired position or place; not moving about | - |
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| (adjective) established or decided beyond dispute or doubt | - |
| (adjective) not changeable | - |
| (adjective) inhabited by colonists | Synonyms: colonised, colonized |
| settledness | (noun) The quality or state of being fixed, permanent or stationary; established. | - |
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| settlement | (noun) termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities | Synonyms: liquidation |
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| (noun) the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies | Synonyms: colonisation, colonization |
| (noun) something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making | Synonyms: closure, resolution |
| (noun) a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it | - |
| (noun) a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government | Synonyms: colony |
| (noun) a community of people smaller than a town | Synonyms: small town, village |
| (noun) an area where a group of families live together | - |
| settler | (noun) a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country | Synonyms: colonist |
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| (noun) a clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings | - |
| (noun) a negotiator who settles disputes | - |
| shiftless | (adjective) lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative | - |
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| shiftlessness | (noun) a failure to be active as a consequence of lack of initiative or ambition | - |
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| shitless | (adjective) (used as complement) to the utmost degree | Synonyms: witless |
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| shuttle | (noun) bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads | - |
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| (noun) public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that flies back and forth between two points | - |
| (noun) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers | Synonyms: bird, birdie, shuttlecock |
| (verb) travel back and forth between two points | - |
| shuttlecock | (noun) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers | Synonyms: bird, birdie, shuttle |
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| (verb) send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock | - |
| sightless | (adjective) lacking sight | Synonyms: eyeless, unseeing |
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| sightlessness | (noun) the state of being blind or lacking sight | Synonyms: blindness, cecity |
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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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| spiritless | (adjective) lacking ardor or vigor or energy | - |
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| (adjective) evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant | Synonyms: meek |
| spiritlessness | (noun) the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally | Synonyms: apathy, indifference, numbness |
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| spittle | (noun) a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches | Synonyms: saliva, spit |
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| spittlebug | (noun) small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete | Synonyms: spittle insect |
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| spotless | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: immaculate, speckless, spic-and-span, spic, spick-and-span, spick |
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| spotlessly | (adverb) in a spotless manner | - |
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| spotlessness | (noun) the state of being spotlessly clean | Synonyms: immaculateness |
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| 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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| subtitle | (noun) secondary or explanatory title | - |
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| (noun) translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen | Synonyms: caption |
| (verb) supply (a movie) with subtitles | - |
| subtle | (adjective) working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way | Synonyms: insidious, pernicious |
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| (adjective) difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze | Synonyms: elusive |
| (adjective) able to make fine distinctions | - |
| subtlety | (noun) the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze | Synonyms: niceness |
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| (noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, nuance, refinement, shade |
| supertitle | (noun) translation of the words of a foreign opera (or choral work) projected on a screen above the stage | Synonyms: surtitle |
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| surtitle | (noun) translation of the words of a foreign opera (or choral work) projected on a screen above the stage | Synonyms: supertitle |
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| sutler | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: provisioner, victualer, victualler |
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| sweetleaf | (noun) small yellowwood tree of southern United States having small fragrant white flowers; leaves and bark yield a yellow dye | Synonyms: Symplocus tinctoria |
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| swiftlet | (noun) swift of eastern Asia; produces the edible bird's nest | Synonyms: Collocalia inexpectata |
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| tactless | (adjective) lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others | Synonyms: untactful |
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| (adjective) revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse | Synonyms: inept |
| tactlessly | (adverb) without tact; in a tactless manner | - |
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| tactlessness | (noun) the quality of lacking tact | - |
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| talentless | (adjective) devoid of talent; not gifted | Synonyms: untalented |
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| talentlessness | (noun) a lack of talent | - |
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| tartlet | (noun) a small tart usually used as a canape | - |
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| tattle | (noun) disclosing information or giving evidence about another | Synonyms: singing, telling |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk |
| tattler | (noun) any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry | - |
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| (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattletale, telltale |
| tattletale | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, telltale |
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| teakettle | (noun) kettle for boiling water to make tea | - |
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| thistle | (noun) any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves | - |
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| thistledown | (noun) pappus of a thistle consisting of silky featherlike hairs attached to the seed-like fruit of a thistle | - |
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| thistlelike | (adjective) resembling a thistle | - |
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| thoughtless | (adjective) showing lack of careful thought | - |
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| (adjective) without care or thought for others | Synonyms: uncaring, unthinking |
| thoughtlessly | (adverb) showing thoughtlessness | - |
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| (adverb) in a thoughtless manner | Synonyms: unthinking, unthinkingly |
| thoughtlessness | (noun) the trait of not thinking carefully before acting | Synonyms: unthoughtfulness |
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| (noun) the quality of failing to be considerate of others | Synonyms: inconsiderateness, inconsideration |
| thriftless | (adjective) careless of the future | - |
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| thriftlessly | (adverb) in a thriftless manner | - |
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| thriftlessness | (noun) the trait of wasting resources | Synonyms: waste, wastefulness |
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| throstle | (noun) common Old World thrush noted for its song | Synonyms: mavis, song thrush, Turdus philomelos |
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| (noun) a spinning machine formerly used to twist and wind fibers of cotton or wool continuously | - |
| throttle | (noun) a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine | Synonyms: accelerator, throttle valve |
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| (noun) a pedal that controls the throttle valve | Synonyms: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas, gas pedal, gun |
| (verb) reduce the air supply | Synonyms: choke |
| (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, restrict, trammel |
| (verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air | Synonyms: strangle, strangulate |
| throttlehold | (noun) complete power over a person or situation | Synonyms: chokehold, stranglehold |
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| throttler | (noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: choker, garroter, garrotter, strangler |
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| title | (noun) an established or recognized right | Synonyms: claim |
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| (noun) an informal right to something | Synonyms: claim |
| (noun) the name of a work of art or literary composition etc. | - |
| (noun) a general or descriptive heading for a section of a written work | - |
| (noun) an identifying appellation signifying status or function: e.g. `Mr.' or `General' | Synonyms: form of address, title of respect |
| (noun) an appellation signifying nobility | - |
| (noun) a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it | Synonyms: deed, deed of conveyance |
| (noun) a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with | Synonyms: rubric, statute title |
| (noun) (usually plural) written material introduced into a movie or TV show to give credits or represent dialogue or explain an action | - |
| (noun) the status of being a champion | Synonyms: championship |
| (verb) give a title to | Synonyms: entitle |
| (verb) designate by an identifying term | Synonyms: style |
| titled | (adjective) belonging to the peerage | Synonyms: coroneted, highborn |
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| tittle | (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, whit |
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| tootle | (noun) the sound of casual playing on a musical instrument | - |
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| (verb) play (a musical instrument) casually | - |
| trestle | (noun) sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop | - |
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| (noun) a supporting tower used to support a bridge | - |
| trestlework | (noun) a supporting structure composed of a system of connected trestles; for a bridge or pier or scaffold e.g. | - |
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| turtle | (noun) any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming | - |
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| (noun) a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar | Synonyms: polo-neck, turtleneck |
| (verb) hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation | - |
| (verb) overturn accidentally | Synonyms: capsize, turn turtle |
| turtledove | (noun) any of several Old World wild doves | - |
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| (noun) small Australian dove | Synonyms: Australian turtledove, Stictopelia cuneata |
| turtlehead | (noun) showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple | Synonyms: Chelone glabra, shell-flower, shellflower, snake-head, snakehead |
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| turtleneck | (noun) a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar | Synonyms: polo-neck, turtle |
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| turtler | (noun) someone whose occupation is hunting turtles | - |
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| unentitled | (adjective) having no right or entitlement | Synonyms: unqualified |
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| ungentle | (adjective) not of the nobility | Synonyms: ignoble, untitled |
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| ungentlemanlike | (adjective) not befitting a gentleman | Synonyms: ungentlemanly |
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| ungentlemanly | (adjective) not befitting a gentleman | Synonyms: ungentlemanlike |
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| unsettle | (verb) disturb the composure of | Synonyms: enervate, faze, unnerve |
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