| symbolize | (verb) express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol | Synonyms: represent, stand for, symbolise, typify |
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| (verb) represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols | Synonyms: symbolise |
| symbolizer | (noun) someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols | Synonyms: symboliser, symbolist |
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| symbolizing | (noun) the act of representing something with a symbol | Synonyms: symbolising |
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| symbology | (noun) the study or the use of symbols and symbolism | - |
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| symbololatry | (noun) the worship of symbols | Synonyms: symbol-worship, symbolatry |
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| symmachy | (noun) Fighting together or in an alliance with an ally (or allies) | - |
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| symmetric | (adjective) having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts | Synonyms: symmetrical |
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| symmetrical | (adjective) having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts | Synonyms: symmetric |
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| (adjective) exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities | Synonyms: harmonious, proportionate |
| symmetrically | (adverb) in a symmetrical manner | - |
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| symmetricalness | (noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, correspondence, symmetry |
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| symmetrise | (verb) make symmetric | Synonyms: symmetrize |
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| symmetrize | (verb) make symmetric | Synonyms: symmetrise |
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| symmetry | (noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, correspondence, symmetricalness |
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| (noun) (physics) the property of being isotropic; having the same value when measured in different directions | Synonyms: isotropy |
| (noun) balance among the parts of something | Synonyms: proportion |
| sympathectomy | (noun) surgical interruption of a nerve pathway in the sympathetic nervous system | - |
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| sympathetic | (adjective) expressing or feeling or resulting from sympathy or compassion or friendly fellow feelings; disposed toward | - |
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| (adjective) (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings | Synonyms: appealing, likable, likeable |
| (adjective) of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system | - |
| (adjective) relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body | Synonyms: harmonic |
| (adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: benevolent, charitable, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted |
| (adjective) having similar disposition and tastes | - |
| sympathetically | (adverb) with respect to the sympathetic nervous system | - |
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| (adverb) in a sympathetic manner | Synonyms: empathetically |
| sympathise | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathise, empathize, sympathize, understand |
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| (verb) to feel or express sympathy or compassion | Synonyms: commiserate, sympathize |
| (verb) share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of | Synonyms: sympathize |
| sympathiser | (noun) someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful | Synonyms: sympathizer, well-wisher |
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| (noun) a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune | Synonyms: comforter, sympathizer |
| sympathize | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathise, empathize, sympathise, understand |
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| (verb) to feel or express sympathy or compassion | Synonyms: commiserate, sympathise |
| (verb) share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of | Synonyms: sympathise |
| sympathizer | (noun) someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful | Synonyms: sympathiser, well-wisher |
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| (noun) a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune | Synonyms: comforter, sympathiser |
| sympathomimetic | (adjective) relating to epinephrine (its release or action) | Synonyms: adrenergic |
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| sympathy | (noun) an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion | Synonyms: understanding |
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| (noun) sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish) | Synonyms: fellow feeling |
| (noun) a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other | - |
| sympatric | (adjective) (of biological species or speciation) occurring in the same or overlapping geographical areas | - |
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| sympatry | (noun) the occurrence of organisms in overlapping geographical areas, but without interbreeding | - |
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| sympetalous | (adjective) having a corolla composed of partially or wholly fused petals forming a corolla shaped like a tube or funnel | Synonyms: gamopetalous |
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| symphilid | (noun) minute arthropod often infesting the underground parts of truck-garden and greenhouse crops | Synonyms: garden centipede, garden symphilid, Scutigerella immaculata |
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| symphonic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic or suggestive of a symphony | - |
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| (adjective) harmonious in sound | Synonyms: symphonious |
| symphonious | (adjective) harmonious in sound | Synonyms: symphonic |
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| symphonise | (verb) play or sound together, in harmony | Synonyms: symphonize |
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| symphonist | (noun) a composer of symphonies | - |
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| symphonize | (verb) play or sound together, in harmony | Synonyms: symphonise |
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| symphony | (noun) a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra | Synonyms: symphonic music |
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| (noun) a large orchestra; can perform symphonies | Synonyms: philharmonic, symphony orchestra |
| symphysion | (noun) the most forward point of the alveolar process of the mandible | - |
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| symphysis | (noun) a growing together of parts or structures | - |
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| (noun) an abnormal adhesion of two or more structures | - |
| symploce | (noun) repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses, i.e., simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe | - |
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| symposiarch | (noun) the person who proposes toasts and introduces speakers at a banquet | Synonyms: toastmaster |
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| symposiast | (noun) someone who participates in a symposium | - |
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| symposium | (noun) a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations | - |
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| symptom | (noun) anything that accompanies X and is regarded as an indication of X's existence | - |
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| (noun) (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease | - |
| symptomatic | (adjective) relating to or according to or affecting a symptom or symptoms | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic or indicative of a disease | Synonyms: diagnostic |
| symptomatically | (adverb) by symptoms | - |
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| symptomless | (adjective) having no symptoms of illness or disease | Synonyms: asymptomatic |
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| synonym | (noun) two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context | Synonyms: equivalent word |
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| synonymist | (noun) a student of synonyms | - |
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| synonymity | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning | Synonyms: synonymousness, synonymy |
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| synonymous | (adjective) (of words) meaning the same or nearly the same | - |
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| synonymously | (adverb) in a synonymous manner | - |
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| synonymousness | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning | Synonyms: synonymity, synonymy |
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| synonymy | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning | Synonyms: synonymity, synonymousness |
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| tachymeter | (noun) a theodolite designed for rapid measurements | Synonyms: tacheometer |
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| tallyman | (noun) one who keeps a tally of quantity or weight of goods produced or shipped or received | Synonyms: tally clerk |
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| (noun) one who sells goods on the installment plan | - |
| tetrahymena | (noun) relative of the paramecium; often used in genetics research | - |
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| thyme | (noun) leaves can be used as seasoning for almost any meat and stews and stuffings and vegetables | - |
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| (noun) any of various mints of the genus Thymus | - |
| thymidine | (noun) a nucleoside component of DNA; composed of thymine and deoxyribose | Synonyms: deoxythymidine |
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| thymine | (noun) a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine | Synonyms: T |
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| thymol | (noun) a colorless crystalline solid used in perfume or preserving biological specimens or in embalming or medically as a fungicide or antiseptic | Synonyms: thyme camphor, thymic acid |
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| thymosin | (noun) hormone secreted by the thymus; stimulates immunological activity of lymphoid tissue | - |
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| thymus | (noun) a ductless glandular organ at the base of the neck that produces lymphocytes and aids in producing immunity; atrophies with age | Synonyms: thymus gland |
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| toponym | (noun) the name by which a geographical place is known | Synonyms: place name |
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| toponymy | (noun) the branch of lexicology that studies the place names of a region or a language | Synonyms: toponomy |
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| (noun) the nomenclature of regional anatomy | Synonyms: toponomy |
| tridymite | (noun) a mineral form of silica | - |
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| troponym | (noun) a word that denotes a manner of doing something | Synonyms: manner name |
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| troponymy | (noun) the place names of a region or a language considered collectively | Synonyms: troponomy |
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| (noun) the semantic relation of being a manner of does something | - |
| tympan | (noun) a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end | Synonyms: drum, membranophone |
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| tympani | (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, timpani, tympanum |
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| tympanic | (adjective) associated with the eardrum | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a drum | - |
| tympanist | (noun) a person who plays the kettledrums | Synonyms: timpanist |
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| tympanites | (noun) distension of the abdomen that is caused by the accumulation of gas in the intestines or the peritoneal cavity | - |
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| tympanitic | (adjective) of or relating to tympanites | - |
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| tympanitis | (noun) inflammation of the inner ear | - |
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| tympanoplasty | (noun) surgical correction or repair of defects or injuries in the eardrum or the bones of the middle ear | - |
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| tympanum | (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, timpani, tympani |
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| (noun) the membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound | Synonyms: eardrum, myringa, tympanic membrane |
| (noun) the main cavity of the ear; between the eardrum and the inner ear | Synonyms: middle ear, tympanic cavity |
| underlayment | (noun) a pad placed under a carpet | Synonyms: carpet pad, rug pad, underlay |
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| underpayment | (noun) the act of paying less than required | - |
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| (noun) a payment smaller than needed or expected | - |
| unemployment | (noun) the state of being unemployed or not having a job | - |
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| unrhymed | (adjective) not having rhyme | Synonyms: rhymeless, rimeless, unrimed |
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| unsymbolic | (adjective) not standing for something else | Synonyms: nonrepresentative |
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| unsymmetric | (adjective) lacking symmetry | Synonyms: unsymmetrical |
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| unsymmetrical | (adjective) lacking symmetry | Synonyms: unsymmetric |
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| (adjective) having unsymmetrical parts or unequal dimensions or measurements | Synonyms: anisometric |
| unsymmetrically | (adverb) in an asymmetrical manner | Synonyms: asymmetrically |
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| unsympathetic | (adjective) not sympathetic or disposed toward | - |
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| (adjective) (of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings | Synonyms: unappealing, unlikable, unlikeable |
| (adjective) not agreeing with your tastes or expectations | Synonyms: disagreeable |
| (adjective) lacking in sympathy and kindness | Synonyms: unkindly |
| (adjective) not having an open mind | Synonyms: closed |
| unsympathetically | (adverb) without sympathy; in an unsympathetic manner | - |
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| unsympathising | (adjective) not showing or expressing sympathy | Synonyms: unsympathizing |
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| unsympathizing | (adjective) not showing or expressing sympathy | Synonyms: unsympathising |
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| vestryman | (noun) a man who is a member of a church vestry | - |
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| wrymouth | (noun) eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth | Synonyms: Cryptacanthodes maculatus, ghostfish |
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| zymase | (noun) a complex of enzymes that cause glycolysis; originally found in yeast but also present in higher organisms | - |
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| zymogen | (noun) any of a group of compounds that are inactive precursors of enzymes and require some change (such as the hydrolysis of a fragment that masks an active enzyme) to become active | Synonyms: proenzyme |
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| zymoid | (adjective) resembling an enzyme | - |
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| zymology | (noun) the branch of chemistry concerned with fermentation (as in making wine or brewing or distilling) | Synonyms: zymurgy |
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| zymolysis | (noun) a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol | Synonyms: ferment, fermentation, fermenting, zymosis |
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| zymolytic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing fermentation | Synonyms: zymotic |
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| zymosis | (noun) (medicine) the development and spread of an infectious disease (especially one caused by a fungus) | - |
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| (noun) a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol | Synonyms: ferment, fermentation, fermenting, zymolysis |
| zymotic | (adjective) relating to or caused by infection | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or causing fermentation | Synonyms: zymolytic |
| zymurgy | (noun) the branch of chemistry concerned with fermentation (as in making wine or brewing or distilling) | Synonyms: zymology |
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