| rushing | (noun) (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line | Synonyms: rush |
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| (noun) the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner | Synonyms: haste, hurry, rush |
| rushlight | (noun) a tallow candle with a rush stem as the wick | Synonyms: rush candle |
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| rushlike | (adjective) resembling rush or sedge | Synonyms: sedgelike |
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| rushy | (adjective) abounding in rushes | - |
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| sagebrush | (noun) any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium | Synonyms: sage brush |
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| saltbush | (noun) any of various shrubby plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in dry alkaline soil | - |
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| shadbush | (noun) any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit | Synonyms: Juneberry, service tree, serviceberry, shadblow |
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| shush | (verb) silence (someone) by uttering `shush!' | - |
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| silverbush | (noun) deciduous unarmed North American shrub with silvery leaves and fruits | Synonyms: Elaeagnus commutata, silver-bush, silver berry, silverberry |
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| (noun) silvery hairy European shrub with evergreen foliage and pale yellow flowers | Synonyms: Anthyllis barba-jovis, Jupiter's beard, silver-bush |
| skunkbush | (noun) deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit | Synonyms: Rhus trilobata, squaw-bush, squawbush |
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| slush | (noun) partially melted snow | - |
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| (verb) spill or splash copiously or clumsily | Synonyms: slosh, slosh around, slush around |
| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slosh, splash, splosh |
| slushy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy |
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| (adjective) being or resembling melting snow | - |
| spicebush | (noun) deciduous shrub of the eastern United States having highly aromatic leaves and bark and yellow flowers followed by scarlet or yellow berries | Synonyms: American spicebush, Benjamin bush, Benzoin odoriferum, Lindera benzoin, spice bush |
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| (noun) straggling aromatic shrub of southwestern United States having fragrant brown flowers | Synonyms: California allspice, Calycanthus occidentalis |
| squawbush | (noun) deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit | Synonyms: Rhus trilobata, skunkbush, squaw-bush |
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| staggerbush | (noun) deciduous shrub of coastal plain of the eastern United States having nodding pinkish-white flowers; poisonous to stock | Synonyms: Lyonia mariana, stagger bush |
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| sushi | (noun) rice (with raw fish) wrapped in seaweed | - |
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| tanglebush | (noun) spiny branching deciduous shrub of southwestern United States having clusters of insignificant yellow-white flowers appearing before leaves followed by attractive black berrylike fruits | Synonyms: desert olive, Forestiera neomexicana |
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| thrush | (noun) songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast | - |
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| (noun) a woman who sings popular songs | - |
| (noun) candidiasis of the oral cavity; seen mostly in infants or debilitated adults | - |
| toothbrush | (noun) small brush; has long handle; used to clean teeth | - |
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| (noun) slang for a mustache | Synonyms: soup-strainer |
| tush | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie |
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| tushery | (noun) writing of poor quality; characterized by affected choice of archaic words | - |
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| unblushing | (adjective) feeling no shame | Synonyms: shameless |
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| unblushingly | (adverb) without blushing | - |
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| unbrushed | (adjective) (of hair or clothing) not brushed | - |
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| underbrush | (noun) the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest | Synonyms: undergrowth, underwood |
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| usher | (noun) someone employed to conduct others | Synonyms: guide |
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| (noun) an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber | Synonyms: doorkeeper |
| (verb) take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums | Synonyms: show |
| usherette | (noun) a female usher | - |
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