| beet | (noun) round red root vegetable | Synonyms: beetroot |
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| (noun) biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop | Synonyms: Beta vulgaris, common beet |
| bittersweet | (adjective) tinged with sadness | - |
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| (adjective) having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness | Synonyms: semisweet |
| (noun) twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds | Synonyms: American bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, shrubby bittersweet, staff vine, waxwork |
| (noun) poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America | Synonyms: bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, poisonous nightshade, Solanum dulcamara, woody nightshade |
| broadsheet | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
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| discreet | (adjective) marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint | - |
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| (adjective) heedful of potential consequences | Synonyms: circumspect |
| (adjective) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic | Synonyms: discerning |
| fleet | (adjective) moving very fast | Synonyms: swift |
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| (noun) a group of warships organized as a tactical unit | - |
| (noun) a group of steamships operating together under the same ownership | - |
| (noun) group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership | - |
| (noun) group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership | - |
| (verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fade, pass, pass off |
| (verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: dart, flit, flutter |
| gleet | (noun) a thin morbid discharge as from a wound or especially chronic gonorrhea | - |
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| greet | (verb) react to in a certain way | - |
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| (verb) express greetings upon meeting someone | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) send greetings to | - |
| (verb) be perceived by | - |
| groundsheet | (noun) a waterproofed piece of cloth spread on the ground (as under a tent) to protect from moisture | Synonyms: ground cloth |
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| helpmeet | (noun) a helpful partner | Synonyms: helpmate |
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| indiscreet | (adjective) lacking discretion; injudicious | - |
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| lorikeet | (noun) any of various small lories | - |
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| mainsheet | (noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind | Synonyms: sheet, shroud, tack, weather sheet |
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| meet | (adjective) being precisely fitting and right | Synonyms: fitting |
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| (noun) a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held | Synonyms: sports meeting |
| (verb) contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle | Synonyms: encounter, play, take on |
| (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fill, fit, fulfil, fulfill, satisfy |
| (verb) be in direct physical contact with; make contact | Synonyms: adjoin, contact, touch |
| (verb) come together | Synonyms: come across, encounter, run across, run into, see |
| (verb) meet by design; be present at the arrival of | - |
| (verb) undergo or suffer | Synonyms: suffer |
| (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, foregather, forgather, gather |
| (verb) get together socially or for a specific purpose | Synonyms: get together |
| (verb) get to know; get acquainted with | - |
| (verb) experience as a reaction | Synonyms: encounter, receive |
| (verb) be adjacent or come together | Synonyms: converge |
| munjeet | (noun) perennial East Indian creeping or climbing herb used for dye in the orient | Synonyms: Indian madder, Rubia cordifolia |
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| newssheet | (noun) report or open letter giving informal or confidential news of interest to a special group | Synonyms: newsletter |
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| nonsweet | (adjective) not containing sugar | Synonyms: sugarless |
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| parakeet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: paraquet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquet |
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| parrakeet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: parakeet, paraquet, paroquet, parroket, parroquet |
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| paysheet | (noun) a list of employees and their salaries | Synonyms: payroll |
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| (noun) the total amount of money paid in wages | Synonyms: payroll |
| semisweet | (adjective) having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness | Synonyms: bittersweet |
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| sheet | (noun) bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs | Synonyms: bed sheet |
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| (noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind | Synonyms: mainsheet, shroud, tack, weather sheet |
| (noun) a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width | Synonyms: flat solid |
| (noun) a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel | Synonyms: canvas, canvass, sail |
| (noun) paper used for writing or printing | Synonyms: piece of paper, sheet of paper |
| (noun) newspaper with half-size pages | Synonyms: rag, tabloid |
| (noun) any broad thin expanse or surface | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape | Synonyms: plane |
| (verb) cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping | - |
| (verb) come down as if in sheets | - |
| skeet | (noun) the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird | Synonyms: skeet shooting, trapshooting |
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| sleet | (noun) partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow) | - |
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| (verb) precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow | - |
| spreadsheet | (noun) a screen-oriented interactive program enabling a user to lay out financial data on the screen | - |
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| street | (noun) a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings | - |
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| (noun) the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel | - |
| (noun) people living or working on the same street | - |
| (noun) the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction | - |
| (noun) a situation offering opportunities | - |
| sweet | (adjective) not containing or composed of salt water | Synonyms: fresh |
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| (adjective) (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content | - |
| (adjective) having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar | - |
| (adjective) having a natural fragrance | Synonyms: odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling |
| (adjective) having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic |
| (adjective) pleasing to the ear | Synonyms: dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant |
| (adjective) with sweetening added | Synonyms: sugared, sweet-flavored, sweetened |
| (adjective) not soured or preserved | Synonyms: fresh, unfermented |
| (adjective) pleasing to the mind or feeling | Synonyms: gratifying |
| (adjective) pleasing to the senses | - |
| (noun) the property of tasting as if it contains sugar | Synonyms: sweetness |
| (noun) the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth | Synonyms: sugariness, sweetness |
| (noun) a food rich in sugar | Synonyms: confection |
| (noun) a dish served as the last course of a meal | Synonyms: afters, dessert |
| (adverb) in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly') | Synonyms: sweetly |
| tweet | (noun) A post on the social media site Twitter | - |
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| (noun) a weak chirping sound as of a small bird | - |
| (verb) To post a message on Twitter; post tweets, i.e. short text messages on the popular social media website Twitter | - |
| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, pinch, squeeze, twinge, twitch |
| (verb) make a weak, chirping sound | Synonyms: twirp |
| unsweet | (adjective) distasteful | - |
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| (adjective) (of champagne) moderately dry | Synonyms: sec |
| worksheet | (noun) a sheet of paper with multiple columns; used by an accountant to assemble figures for financial statements | - |
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| (noun) a piece of paper recording work planned or done on a project | - |