splintery | (adjective) resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points | Synonyms: slivery |
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(adjective) subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces | - |
stationery | (noun) paper cut to an appropriate size for writing letters; usually with matching envelopes | Synonyms: letter paper |
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stitchery | (noun) needlework on which you are working with needle and thread | Synonyms: sewing |
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summery | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of or occurring in summer | - |
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surgery | (noun) a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Synonyms: operation, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process |
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(noun) a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations | Synonyms: operating room, operating theater, operating theatre, OR |
(noun) a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted | - |
(noun) the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures | - |
tannery | (noun) workplace where skins and hides are tanned | - |
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thermocautery | (noun) cautery (destruction of tissue) by heat | - |
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thievery | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: larceny, stealing, theft, thieving |
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thuggery | (noun) violent or brutal acts as of thugs | - |
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thundery | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: deafening, earsplitting, thunderous |
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(adjective) accompanied with thunder | - |
tomfoolery | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, foolery, indulgence, lunacy |
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tottery | (adjective) unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age | Synonyms: tottering |
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tracery | (noun) decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs | - |
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treachery | (noun) an act of deliberate betrayal | Synonyms: betrayal, perfidy, treason |
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(noun) betrayal of a trust | Synonyms: perfidiousness, perfidy |
trickery | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, wile |
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(noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness |
trumpery | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense |
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(noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, wish-wash |
turnery | (noun) products made on a lathe | - |
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(noun) workshop where objects are made on a lathe | - |
tushery | (noun) writing of poor quality; characterized by affected choice of archaic words | - |
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upholstery | (noun) the craft of upholstering | - |
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(noun) covering (padding and springs and webbing and fabric) on a piece of furniture | - |
veery | (noun) tawny brown North American thrush noted for its song | Synonyms: Hylocichla fuscescens, Wilson's thrush |
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very | (adjective) precisely as stated | - |
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(adjective) being the exact same one; not any other: | Synonyms: identical, selfsame |
(adverb) used to give emphasis | Synonyms: rattling, real, really |
(adverb) precisely so | - |
vinery | (noun) a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced | Synonyms: vineyard |
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waggery | (noun) a quaint and amusing jest | Synonyms: drollery |
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(noun) waggish behavior | Synonyms: waggishness |
watery | (adjective) overly diluted; thin and insipid | Synonyms: washy, weak |
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(adjective) relating to or resembling or consisting of water | - |
(adjective) wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears | Synonyms: reeking |
(adjective) filled with water | - |
whiskery | (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: barbate, bearded, bewhiskered, whiskered |
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winery | (noun) an establishment where wine is made | Synonyms: wine maker |
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wintery | (adjective) characteristic of or occurring in winter | Synonyms: wintry |
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witchery | (noun) the art of sorcery | Synonyms: witchcraft |
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