| sightseer | (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: excursionist, rubberneck, tripper |
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| sightsing | (verb) sing from a score without having seen it before | Synonyms: sight-sing |
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| silents | (noun) a movie without a soundtrack | Synonyms: silent movie, silent picture |
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| siltstone | (noun) a fine-grained sandstone of consolidated silt | - |
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| slyboots | (noun) a shifty deceptive person | Synonyms: dodger, fox |
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| spirits | (noun) an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented | Synonyms: booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, liquor, strong drink |
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| splitsaw | (noun) a handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood | Synonyms: ripsaw |
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| splitsville | (noun) separation or breakup or divorce | - |
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| sportsball | (noun) Sports of an unspecified kind, usually condescending | - |
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| sportscast | (noun) a broadcast of sports news or commentary | - |
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| (verb) broadcast a sports event | - |
| sportscaster | (noun) an announcer who reads sports news or describes sporting events | Synonyms: sports announcer, sports commentator |
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| sportsman | (noun) a male who engages in sports | - |
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| sportsmanlike | (adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | Synonyms: clean, sporting, sporty |
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| sportsmanship | (noun) fairness in following the rules of the game | - |
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| sportswear | (noun) attire worn for sport or for casual wear | Synonyms: activewear, athletic wear |
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| sportswoman | (noun) a female who engages in sports | - |
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| sportswriter | (noun) a journalist who writes about sports | Synonyms: sports writer |
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| spots | (noun) spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens | Synonyms: floater, musca volitans, muscae volitantes |
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| spritsail | (noun) a fore-and-aft sail extended by a sprit | - |
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| starets | (noun) a religious adviser (not necessarily a priest) in the Eastern Orthodox Church | - |
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| straits | (noun) a difficult juncture | Synonyms: head, pass |
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| (noun) a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs | Synonyms: pass, strait |
| studentship | (noun) the position of student | - |
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| sweatpants | (noun) loose-fitting trousers with elastic cuffs; worn by athletes | Synonyms: sweat pants |
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| sweats | (noun) garment consisting of sweat pants and a sweatshirt | Synonyms: sweat suit, sweatsuit, workout suit |
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| sweatshirt | (noun) cotton knit pullover with long sleeves worn during athletic activity | - |
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| sweatshop | (noun) factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry | - |
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| sweatsuit | (noun) garment consisting of sweat pants and a sweatshirt | Synonyms: sweat suit, sweats, workout suit |
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| sweetsop | (noun) sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds | Synonyms: annon, sugar apple |
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| (noun) tropical American tree bearing sweet pulpy fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds | Synonyms: Annona squamosa, sweetsop tree |
| teentsy | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weensy, weeny |
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| thereabouts | (adverb) near that place | Synonyms: thereabout |
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| (adverb) near that time or date | Synonyms: thereabout |
| thriftshop | (noun) a shop that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices | Synonyms: second-hand store |
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| tights | (noun) skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls | Synonyms: leotards |
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| trumpets | (noun) pitcher plant of southeastern United States having erect yellow trumpet-shaped pitchers with wide mouths and erect lids | Synonyms: huntsman's horn, huntsman's horns, Sarracenia flava, yellow pitcher plant, yellow trumpet |
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| tsar | (noun) a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917) | Synonyms: czar, tzar |
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| tsarina | (noun) the wife or widow of a czar | Synonyms: czarina, czaritza, tsaritsa, tzarina |
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| tsarist | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a czar | Synonyms: czarist, czaristic, tsaristic, tzarist |
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| tsaristic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a czar | Synonyms: czarist, czaristic, tsarist, tzarist |
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| tsaritsa | (noun) the wife or widow of a czar | Synonyms: czarina, czaritza, tsarina, tzarina |
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| tsatske | (noun) (Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket | Synonyms: chachka, tchotchke, tshatshke |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman | Synonyms: chachka, tchotchke, tchotchkeleh, tshatshke |
| tsetse | (noun) bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc. | Synonyms: glossina, tsetse fly, tzetze, tzetze fly |
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| tshatshke | (noun) (Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket | Synonyms: chachka, tchotchke, tsatske |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman | Synonyms: chachka, tchotchke, tchotchkeleh, tsatske |
| tsine | (noun) wild ox of the Malay Archipelago | Synonyms: banteng, banting, Bos banteng |
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| tsk | (verb) utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval | Synonyms: tut-tut, tut |
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| tsoris | (noun) (Yiddish) trouble and suffering | - |
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| tsunami | (noun) a cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption | - |
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| tsundere | (noun) a person who is initially cold and even hostile towards another person before gradually showing a warmer side over time. | - |
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| (noun) a character development process that describes a person who is initially cold and even hostile towards another person before gradually showing a warmer side over time. | - |
| tsuris | (noun) (Yiddish) aggravating trouble | - |
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| tutsan | (noun) deciduous bushy Eurasian shrub with golden yellow flowers and reddish-purple fruits from which a soothing salve is made in Spain | Synonyms: common St John's wort, Hypericum androsaemum |
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| underpants | (noun) an undergarment that covers the body from the waist no further than to the thighs; usually worn next to the skin | - |
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| unsportsmanlike | (adjective) violating accepted standards or rules | Synonyms: cheating, dirty, foul, unsporting |
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| welwitschia | (noun) curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old | Synonyms: Welwitschia mirabilis |
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| westside | (adjective) of the western part of a city | - |
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| whatsis | (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, whatchamacallum, widget |
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| whatsoever | (adjective) one or some or every or all without specification; entity, elective existential pronoun; quantifier, elective existential | Synonyms: any, whatever |
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| whereabouts | (noun) the general location where something is | - |
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| whetstone | (noun) a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives | - |
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| wits | (noun) the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception | Synonyms: marbles |
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| yachtsman | (noun) a male person who owns or sails a yacht | - |
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| yachtsperson | (noun) a person who owns or sails a yacht | - |
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| yachtswoman | (noun) a female person who owns or sails a yacht | - |
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