| struck | (adjective) (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming | Synonyms: smitten, stricken |
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| stuck | (adjective) caught or fixed | - |
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| (adjective) baffled | - |
| suck | (noun) the act of sucking | Synonyms: sucking, suction |
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| (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suckle, wet-nurse |
| (verb) draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth | - |
| (verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: absorb, draw, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, take in, take up |
| (verb) draw something in by or as if by a vacuum | - |
| (verb) provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation | Synonyms: blow, fellate, go down on |
| (verb) be inadequate or objectionable | Synonyms: blow |
| (verb) attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc. | Synonyms: suck in |
| sunblock | (noun) a cream spread on the skin; contains a chemical (as PABA) to filter out ultraviolet light and so protect from sunburn | Synonyms: sun blocker, sunscreen |
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| sunstruck | (adjective) lighted by sunlight | Synonyms: sunlit |
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| supplejack | (noun) walking stick made from the wood of an American tropical vine | - |
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| swanneck | (noun) any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan | Synonyms: swan-flower, swan-neck, swan orchid, swanflower |
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| swayback | (adjective) having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses) | Synonyms: dipped, lordotic, swaybacked |
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| sweptback | (adjective) used of hair | Synonyms: backswept |
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| (adjective) (especially of aircraft wings) angled rearward from the point of attachment | - |
| tack | (noun) sailing a zigzag course | - |
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| (noun) (nautical) the act of changing tack | Synonyms: tacking |
| (noun) a short nail with a sharp point and a large head | - |
| (noun) gear for a horse | Synonyms: saddlery, stable gear |
| (noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind | Synonyms: mainsheet, sheet, shroud, weather sheet |
| (noun) the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails | - |
| (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch |
| (verb) fasten with tacks | - |
| (verb) sew together loosely, with large stitches | Synonyms: baste |
| (verb) fix to; attach | Synonyms: append, hang on, tack on, tag on |
| (verb) create by putting components or members together | Synonyms: assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack together |
| (verb) turn into the wind | Synonyms: wear round |
| tailback | (noun) (American football) the position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage | - |
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| (noun) (American football) the person who plays tailback | - |
| tailstock | (noun) support consisting of the movable part of a lathe that slides along the bed in alignment with the headstock and is locked into position to support the free end of the workpiece | - |
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| tamarack | (noun) medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark | Synonyms: American larch, black larch, Larix laricina |
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| thick | (adjective) not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions | - |
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| (adjective) relatively dense in consistency | - |
| (adjective) abounding; having a lot of | - |
| (adjective) (used informally) associated on close terms | Synonyms: buddy-buddy, chummy |
| (adjective) having component parts closely crowded together | Synonyms: dense |
| (adjective) hard to pass through because of dense growth | Synonyms: dense |
| (adjective) (of darkness) densely dark | Synonyms: deep |
| (adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: compact, heavyset, stocky, thickset |
| (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
| (adjective) spoken as if with a thick tongue | Synonyms: slurred |
| (noun) the location of something surrounded by other things | Synonyms: midst |
| (adverb) in quick succession | Synonyms: thickly |
| (adverb) with a thick consistency | Synonyms: thickly |
| throwback | (adjective) characteristic of an atavist | Synonyms: atavistic |
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| (noun) a reappearance of an earlier characteristic | Synonyms: atavism, reversion |
| (noun) an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism | Synonyms: atavist |
| thumbtack | (noun) a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board | Synonyms: drawing pin, pushpin |
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| (verb) fasten with thumbtacks | - |
| thunderstruck | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied |
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| thwack | (noun) a hard blow with a flat object | - |
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| (verb) deliver a hard blow to | Synonyms: smack |
| tick | (noun) any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals | - |
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| (noun) a light mattress | - |
| (noun) a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc. | Synonyms: check, check mark |
| (noun) a metallic tapping sound | Synonyms: ticking |
| (verb) put a check mark on or near or next to | Synonyms: check, check off, mark, mark off, tick off |
| (verb) sew | Synonyms: retick |
| (verb) make a clicking or ticking sound | Synonyms: click |
| (verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: beat, ticktack, ticktock |
| ticktack | (noun) system of signalling by hand signs used by bookmakers at racetracks | - |
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| (verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: beat, tick, ticktock |
| ticktock | (noun) steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock | Synonyms: tictac, tocktact |
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| (verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: beat, tick, ticktack |
| tieback | (noun) a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back | Synonyms: pullback |
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| tintack | (noun) tack or small nail of tinned iron | - |
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| toastrack | (noun) a rack for holding slices of toast | - |
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| toothpick | (noun) pick consisting of a small strip of wood or plastic; used to pick food from between the teeth | - |
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| touchback | (noun) (American football) a play in which the opposing team has kicked the football into your end zone | - |
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| track | (noun) the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track | Synonyms: running |
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| (noun) any road or path affording passage especially a rough one | Synonyms: cart track, cartroad |
| (noun) a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll | Synonyms: rail, rails, runway |
| (noun) a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels | - |
| (noun) a groove on a phonograph recording | - |
| (noun) (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data | Synonyms: data track |
| (noun) a course over which races are run | Synonyms: racecourse, racetrack, raceway |
| (noun) an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground | Synonyms: caterpillar track, caterpillar tread |
| (noun) evidence pointing to a possible solution | Synonyms: lead, trail |
| (noun) a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) a line or route along which something travels or moves | Synonyms: course, path |
| (verb) make tracks upon | - |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, trail |
| (verb) travel across or pass over | Synonyms: cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, traverse |
| (verb) carry on the feet and deposit | - |
| (verb) observe or plot the moving path of something | - |
| trick | (noun) a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement | Synonyms: antic, caper, joke, prank, put-on |
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| (noun) (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner | - |
| (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy |
| (noun) an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent | - |
| (noun) a cunning or deceitful action or device | Synonyms: fast one |
| (noun) a prostitute's customer | Synonyms: john, whoremaster, whoremonger |
| (noun) a period of work or duty | - |
| (verb) deceive somebody | Synonyms: flim-flam, fob, fox, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on |
| truck | (noun) an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling | Synonyms: motortruck |
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| (noun) a handcart that has a frame with two low wheels and a ledge at the bottom and handles at the top; used to move crates or other heavy objects | Synonyms: hand truck |
| (verb) convey (goods etc.) by truck | - |
| tuck | (noun) a narrow flattened pleat or fold that is stitched in place | - |
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| (noun) a straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges | Synonyms: rapier |
| (noun) (sports) a bodily position adopted in some sports (such as diving or skiing) in which the knees are bent and the thighs are drawn close to the chest | - |
| (noun) eatables (especially sweets) | - |
| (verb) fit snugly into | Synonyms: insert |
| (verb) make a tuck or several folds in | - |
| (verb) draw together into folds or puckers | Synonyms: gather, pucker |
| turncock | (noun) faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid | Synonyms: cock, stopcock |
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| (noun) one employed to control water supply by turning water mains on and off | - |
| turtleneck | (noun) a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar | Synonyms: polo-neck, turtle |
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| tussock | (noun) a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass | Synonyms: tuft |
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| unblock | (verb) make (assets) available | Synonyms: free, release, unfreeze |
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| (verb) play the cards of (a suit) so that the last trick on which a hand can follow suit will be taken by a higher card in the hand of a partner who has the remaining cards of a combined holding | - |
| (verb) clear or remove an obstruction from | - |
| understock | (verb) stock with less than the usual or desirable number or quantity | - |
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| undock | (verb) take (a ship) out of a dock | - |
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| (verb) move out of a dock | - |
| unfrock | (verb) divest of the frock; of church officials | Synonyms: defrock |
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| unlock | (verb) become unlocked | - |
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| (verb) open the lock of | - |
| (verb) set free or release | - |
| unpack | (verb) remove from its packing | Synonyms: take out |
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| unpick | (verb) become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of | Synonyms: unknot, unravel, unscramble, untangle |
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| (verb) undo (the stitches) of (a piece of sewing) | - |
| unstuck | (adjective) free | - |
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| (adjective) thrown into a state of disorganization or incoherence | Synonyms: undone |
| upchuck | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, vomit, vomit up |
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| uptick | (noun) a transaction in the stock market at a price above the price of the preceding transaction | - |
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| walkingstick | (noun) any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies | Synonyms: stick insect, walking stick |
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| warlock | (noun) a male witch or demon | - |
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| waterbuck | (noun) any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus having curved ridged horns and frequenting e.g. swamps and rivers | - |
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| weathercock | (noun) weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster | - |
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| wedlock | (noun) the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce) | Synonyms: marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, union |
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| wetback | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent | Synonyms: greaser, taco |
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| whack | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: belt, knock, rap, whang |
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| (noun) the sound made by a sharp swift blow | - |
| (verb) strike hard | Synonyms: wallop, wham, whop |
| wick | (noun) a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame | Synonyms: taper |
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| (noun) any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action | - |
| windsock | (noun) a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: air-sleeve, air sock, drogue, sock, wind cone, wind sleeve, wind sock |
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| wingback | (noun) (American football) the position of the offensive back who lines up behind or outside the end | - |
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| (noun) (football) the person who plays wingback | - |
| wisecrack | (noun) witty remark | Synonyms: crack, quip, sally |
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| (verb) make a comment, usually ironic | - |
| woodchuck | (noun) reddish brown North American marmot | Synonyms: groundhog, Marmota monax |
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| woodcock | (noun) game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe | - |
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| wrack | (noun) dried seaweed especially that cast ashore | - |
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| (noun) growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp | Synonyms: sea wrack |
| (noun) the destruction or collapse of something | Synonyms: rack |
| (verb) smash or break forcefully | Synonyms: bust up, wreck |
| wreck | (noun) a ship that has been destroyed at sea | - |
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| (noun) a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles) | Synonyms: crash |
| (noun) an accident that destroys a ship at sea | Synonyms: shipwreck |
| (noun) something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation | - |
| (verb) smash or break forcefully | Synonyms: bust up, wrack |
| wrick | (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, kink, rick |
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| (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, turn, twist, wrench |
| wryneck | (noun) Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck | - |
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| (noun) an unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted | Synonyms: torticollis |
| yack | (noun) noisy talk | Synonyms: cackle, chatter, yak, yakety-yak |
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| (verb) talk incessantly and tiresomely | Synonyms: jaw, rattle on, yack away, yap away |
| yardstick | (noun) a ruler or tape that is three feet long | Synonyms: yard measure |
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| (noun) a measure or standard used for comparison | - |
| zumbooruck | (noun) a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies | Synonyms: camel cavalry, zamboorak, zamburak, zamburek, zumbooruk |
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| zwieback | (noun) slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp | Synonyms: Brussels biscuit, rusk, twice-baked bread |
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