| reliant | (adjective) relying on another for support | - |
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| reluctant | (adjective) disinclined to become involved | - |
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| (adjective) not eager | - |
| (adjective) unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom | Synonyms: loath, loth |
| remnant | (noun) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold | Synonyms: end, oddment, remainder |
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| (noun) a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists | Synonyms: leftover |
| renunciant | (adjective) used especially of behavior | Synonyms: renunciative, self-abnegating, self-denying |
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| repellant | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| (adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: rebarbative, repellent |
| (noun) the power to repel | Synonyms: repellent |
| (noun) a chemical substance that repels animals | Synonyms: repellent |
| (noun) a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water | Synonyms: repellent |
| repentant | (adjective) feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds | Synonyms: penitent |
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| replant | (verb) plant again or anew | - |
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| repugnant | (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repulsive |
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| resistant | (adjective) disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | Synonyms: insubordinate, resistive |
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| (adjective) impervious to being affected | - |
| (adjective) incapable of absorbing or mixing with | Synonyms: repellent |
| (adjective) able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress | Synonyms: tolerant |
| (adjective) relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection) | Synonyms: immune |
| resonant | (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: evocative, redolent, remindful, reminiscent |
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| (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative |
| restaurant | (noun) a building where people go to eat | Synonyms: eatery, eating house, eating place |
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| resultant | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, sequent |
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| (noun) a vector that is the sum of two or more other vectors | Synonyms: vector sum |
| (noun) something that results | Synonyms: final result, outcome, result, termination |
| (noun) the final point in a process | Synonyms: end point |
| retardant | (noun) any agent that retards or delays or hinders | Synonyms: retardation, retardent |
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| retreatant | (noun) a participant in a religious retreat | - |
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| revenant | (adjective) of or relating to or typical of a revenant | - |
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| (adjective) coming back | Synonyms: recurring |
| (noun) someone who has returned from the dead | - |
| (noun) a person who returns after a lengthy absence | - |
| reverberant | (adjective) having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected | - |
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| riant | (adjective) showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness | Synonyms: laughing |
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| ruminant | (adjective) related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud | - |
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| (noun) any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments | - |
| saturant | (noun) a substance which is used to saturate another. | - |
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| savant | (noun) someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field | Synonyms: initiate, learned person, pundit |
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| scant | (adjective) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so | Synonyms: light, short |
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| (verb) supply sparingly and with restricted quantities | Synonyms: skimp, stint |
| (verb) limit in quality or quantity | Synonyms: skimp |
| (verb) work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially | Synonyms: skimp |
| scintillant | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillating, sparkly |
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| sealant | (noun) a kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface) | Synonyms: sealer |
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| secant | (noun) ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: sec |
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| (noun) a straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points | - |
| sergeant | (noun) a lawman with the rank of sergeant | Synonyms: police sergeant |
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| (noun) any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal | - |
| (noun) an English barrister of the highest rank | Synonyms: sergeant-at-law, serjeant-at-law, serjeant |
| serjeant | (noun) an English barrister of the highest rank | Synonyms: sergeant-at-law, sergeant, serjeant-at-law |
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| servant | (noun) a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) | Synonyms: retainer |
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| (noun) in a subordinate position | Synonyms: handmaid, handmaiden |
| sextant | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the angular distance between celestial objects; resembles an octant | - |
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| (noun) a unit of angular distance equal to 60 degrees | - |
| sibilant | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, fricative, spirant, strident |
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| (noun) a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh) | Synonyms: sibilant consonant |
| significant | (adjective) important in effect or meaning | Synonyms: important |
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| (adjective) too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation | - |
| (adjective) of considerable importance, size, or worth | Synonyms: substantial |
| (adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: meaning, pregnant |
| slant | (noun) degree of deviation from a horizontal plane | Synonyms: pitch, rake |
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| (noun) a biased way of looking at or presenting something | Synonyms: angle |
| (verb) present with a bias | Synonyms: angle, weight |
| (verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: angle, lean, tilt, tip |
| (verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant, cant over, pitch, tilt |
| (verb) lie obliquely | - |
| sonant | (adjective) produced with vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: soft, voiced |
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| (noun) a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords | Synonyms: voiced sound |
| spirant | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, fricative, sibilant, strident |
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| (noun) a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract | Synonyms: fricative, fricative consonant |
| stagnant | (adjective) not circulating or flowing | Synonyms: dead |
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| (adjective) not growing or changing; without force or vitality | Synonyms: moribund |
| statant | (adjective) standing on four feet | - |
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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 |
| subdominant | (noun) (music) the fourth note of the diatonic scale | - |
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| sublieutenant | (noun) an officer ranking next below a lieutenant | - |
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| submediant | (noun) (music) the sixth note of a major or minor scale (or the third below the tonic) | - |
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| superabundant | (adjective) most excessively abundant | - |
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| supergiant | (noun) an extremely bright star of very large diameter and low density | - |
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| supernatant | (adjective) of a liquid; floating on the surface above a sediment or precipitate | - |
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| (noun) the clear liquid that lies above a sediment or precipitate | - |
| supplant | (verb) take the place or move into the position of | Synonyms: replace, supersede, supervene upon |
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| suppliant | (adjective) humbly entreating | Synonyms: supplicant, supplicatory |
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| (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: petitioner, requester, supplicant |
| supplicant | (adjective) humbly entreating | Synonyms: suppliant, supplicatory |
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| (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: petitioner, requester, suppliant |
| (noun) someone who prays to God | Synonyms: prayer |
| suppressant | (noun) a drug that suppresses appetite | Synonyms: appetite suppressant |
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| surfactant | (noun) a chemical agent capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved | Synonyms: surface-active agent, wetter, wetting agent |
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| susurrant | (adjective) making a low continuous indistinct sound | Synonyms: murmuring, whispering |
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| sycophant | (noun) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage | Synonyms: ass-kisser, crawler, lackey, toady |
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| tenant | (noun) someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else | Synonyms: renter |
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| (noun) any occupant who dwells in a place | - |
| (noun) a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease) | - |
| (verb) occupy as a tenant | - |
| termagant | (noun) a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman | Synonyms: shrew |
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| tolerant | (adjective) showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others | - |
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| (adjective) showing or characterized by broad-mindedness | Synonyms: broad, large-minded, liberal |
| (adjective) tolerant and forgiving under provocation | Synonyms: kind |
| (adjective) showing the capacity for endurance | Synonyms: patient of |
| (adjective) able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress | Synonyms: resistant |
| topgallant | (noun) a mast fixed to the head of a topmast on a square-rigged vessel | Synonyms: topgallant mast |
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| (noun) a sail set on a yard of a topgallant mast | Synonyms: topgallant sail |
| toxicant | (adjective) having the qualities or effects of a poison | Synonyms: poisonous |
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| (noun) any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism | Synonyms: poison, poisonous substance |
| transplant | (noun) the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location | Synonyms: transplantation, transplanting |
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| (noun) an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient) | Synonyms: organ transplant, transplantation |
| (noun) (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient | Synonyms: graft |
| (verb) transfer from one place or period to another | Synonyms: transfer, transpose |
| (verb) place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient | Synonyms: graft |
| (verb) lift and reset in another soil or situation | Synonyms: transfer |
| (verb) be transplantable | - |
| trenchant | (adjective) clearly or sharply defined to the mind | Synonyms: clear-cut, distinct |
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| (adjective) characterized by or full of force and vigor | Synonyms: hard-hitting |
| (adjective) having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect | Synonyms: searching |
| triumphant | (adjective) joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success | Synonyms: exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal |
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| (adjective) experiencing triumph | Synonyms: victorious |
| truant | (adjective) absent without permission | Synonyms: awol |
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| (noun) one who is absent from school without permission | Synonyms: hooky player |
| (noun) someone who shirks duty | Synonyms: no-show, nonattender |
| tyrant | (noun) a cruel and oppressive dictator | Synonyms: autocrat, despot |
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| (noun) any person who exercises power in a cruel way | - |
| (noun) in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it | - |
| undulant | (adjective) resembling waves in form or outline or motion | Synonyms: undulatory |
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| ungallant | (adjective) offensively discourteous | Synonyms: caddish, unchivalrous |
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| unimportant | (adjective) not important | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of importance, meaning, or force | Synonyms: insignificant |
| unobservant | (adjective) not consciously observing | Synonyms: unseeing |
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| unpleasant | (adjective) offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappiness | - |
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| unrepentant | (adjective) not penitent or remorseful | Synonyms: impenitent, unremorseful |
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| (adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | Synonyms: cussed, obdurate, obstinate |
| unresistant | (adjective) (often followed by `to') likely to be affected with | Synonyms: liable, nonimmune, nonresistant |
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| unreverberant | (adjective) not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberate | Synonyms: nonresonant |
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| unvigilant | (adjective) not alert to what is potentially dangerous | Synonyms: unalert, unwatchful |
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| vacant | (adjective) without an occupant or incumbent | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of intelligence or thought | Synonyms: mindless, vacuous |
| vacillant | (adjective) uncertain in purpose or action | Synonyms: vacillating, wavering |
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| vagrant | (adjective) continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another | Synonyms: aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond |
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| (noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: clochard, drifter, floater, vagabond |
| valiant | (adjective) having or showing valor | Synonyms: valorous |
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| variant | (adjective) differing from a norm or standard | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting variation and change | - |
| (noun) a variable quantity that is random | Synonyms: chance variable, random variable, stochastic variable, variate |
| (noun) something a little different from others of the same type | Synonyms: edition, variation, version |
| (noun) an event that departs from expectations | Synonyms: discrepancy, variance |
| (noun) (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups | Synonyms: form, strain, var. |
| verdant | (adjective) characterized by abundance of verdure | - |
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| versant | (noun) the side or slope of a mountain | Synonyms: mountainside |
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| vesicant | (adjective) causing blisters | Synonyms: vesicatory |
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| (noun) a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas) | Synonyms: vesicatory |
| vibrant | (adjective) of colors that are bright and striking | - |
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| (adjective) of sounds that are strong and resonating | - |
| (adjective) vigorous and animated | Synonyms: vivacious |
| vigilant | (adjective) carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger | Synonyms: argus-eyed, open-eyed, wakeful, watchful |
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| visitant | (noun) someone who visits | Synonyms: visitor |
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| volant | (adjective) with wings extended in a flying position | - |
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| want | (noun) a specific feeling of desire | Synonyms: wish, wishing |
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| (noun) anything that is necessary but lacking | Synonyms: need |
| (noun) a state of extreme poverty | Synonyms: deprivation, neediness, privation |
| (noun) the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Synonyms: deficiency, lack |
| (verb) wish or demand the presence of | - |
| (verb) have need of | Synonyms: need, require |
| (verb) hunt or look for; want for a particular reason | - |
| (verb) feel or have a desire for; want strongly | Synonyms: desire |
| (verb) be without, lack; be deficient in | - |
| warrant | (noun) a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts | - |
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| (noun) a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications | Synonyms: guarantee, warrantee, warranty |
| (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, indorsement, sanction |
| (noun) a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price | Synonyms: stock-purchase warrant, stock warrant |
| (verb) provide adequate grounds to justify (a certain course of action) | - |
| (verb) stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of | Synonyms: guarantee |
| xenotransplant | (noun) a surgical procedure in which tissue or whole organs are transferred from one species to another species | Synonyms: xenotransplantation |
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