sunbonnet | (noun) a large bonnet that shades the face; worn by girls and women | - |
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sunset | (adjective) providing for termination | - |
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(adjective) of a declining industry or technology | - |
(noun) the daily event of the sun sinking below the horizon | - |
(noun) atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily disappearance of the sun | - |
(noun) the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon | Synonyms: sundown |
superhet | (noun) a radio receiver that combines a locally generated frequency with the carrier frequency to produce a supersonic signal that is demodulated and amplified | Synonyms: heterodyne receiver, superheterodyne receiver |
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supermarket | (noun) a large self-service grocery store selling groceries and dairy products and household goods | - |
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surmullet | (noun) brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels | Synonyms: goatfish, Mullus surmuletus, red mullet |
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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 |
swiftlet | (noun) swift of eastern Asia; produces the edible bird's nest | Synonyms: Collocalia inexpectata |
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swimmeret | (noun) one of the paired abdominal appendages of certain aquatic crustaceans that function primarily for carrying the eggs in females and are usually adapted for swimming | Synonyms: pleopod |
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swivet | (noun) a panic or extreme discomposure | - |
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synset | (noun) a set of one or more synonyms | - |
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tablet | (noun) a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet | Synonyms: lozenge, pill, tab |
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(noun) a small flat compressed cake of some substance | - |
(noun) a slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription | - |
(noun) a portable computer with a touchscreen | Synonyms: tablet computer |
(noun) a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge | Synonyms: pad, pad of paper |
taboret | (noun) a low stool in the shape of a drum | Synonyms: tabouret |
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tabouret | (noun) a low stool in the shape of a drum | Synonyms: taboret |
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tappet | (noun) a lever that is moved in order to tap something else | - |
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target | (noun) sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at | Synonyms: butt |
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(noun) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) | Synonyms: aim, object, objective |
(noun) a reference point to shoot at | Synonyms: mark |
(noun) the location of the target that is to be hit | Synonyms: target area |
(noun) a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence | Synonyms: fair game, prey, quarry |
(verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, direct, place, point |
tartlet | (noun) a small tart usually used as a canape | - |
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tasset | (noun) one of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs | Synonyms: tasse |
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templet | (noun) a model or standard for making comparisons | Synonyms: guide, template |
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tenet | (noun) a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof | Synonyms: dogma |
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tercelet | (noun) male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon | Synonyms: tercel, tiercel |
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tercet | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
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thermoset | (adjective) having the property of becoming permanently hard and rigid when heated or cured | Synonyms: thermosetting |
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thicket | (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brush, brushwood, coppice, copse |
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thickset | (adjective) planted or growing close together | - |
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(adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: compact, heavyset, stocky, thick |
ticket | (noun) the appropriate or desirable thing | Synonyms: just the ticket |
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(noun) a summons issued to an offender (especially to someone who violates a traffic regulation) | - |
(noun) a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment) | - |
(noun) a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices | Synonyms: slate |
(noun) a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc. | Synonyms: tag |
(verb) provide with a ticket for passage or admission | - |
(verb) record a fine as a penalty in a police record | Synonyms: fine |
tippet | (noun) a woman's fur shoulder cape with hanging ends; often consisting of the whole fur of a fox or marten | - |
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toilet | (noun) the act of dressing and preparing yourself | Synonyms: toilette |
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(noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, can, john, lav, lavatory, privy |
(noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne |
(noun) misfortune resulting in lost effort or money | Synonyms: gutter, sewer |
toucanet | (noun) small toucan | - |
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tourniquet | (noun) bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure | Synonyms: compression bandage |
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trebuchet | (noun) catapult that uses a swinging arm to throw a projectile | Synonyms: trebucket |
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trebucket | (noun) catapult that uses a swinging arm to throw a projectile | Synonyms: trebuchet |
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treelet | (noun) a small tree | - |
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trinket | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, bauble, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, novelty |
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triplet | (noun) a set of three similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: triad, trio, triple |
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(noun) one of three offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy | - |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, troika |
trivet | (noun) a stand with short feet used under a hot dish on a table | - |
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(noun) a three-legged metal stand for supporting a cooking vessel in a hearth | - |
trumpet | (noun) a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves | Synonyms: cornet, horn, trump |
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(verb) proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet | - |
(verb) utter in trumpet-like sounds | - |
(verb) play or blow on the trumpet | - |
tucket | (noun) (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments | Synonyms: fanfare, flourish |
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tuffet | (noun) a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person | Synonyms: footrest, footstool, ottoman |
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turbojet | (noun) a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust | Synonyms: fan-jet, fanjet, fanjet engine, turbofan, turbofan engine, turbojet engine |
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(noun) an airplane propelled by a fanjet engine | Synonyms: fan-jet, fanjet, turbofan |
turret | (noun) a small tower extending above a building | - |
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(noun) a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation | Synonyms: gun enclosure, gun turret |
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 |
twinjet | (noun) a jet plane propelled by two jet engines | - |
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typeset | (verb) set in type | Synonyms: set |
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ultraviolet | (adjective) having or employing wavelengths shorter than light but longer than X-rays; lying outside the visible spectrum at its violet end | - |
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(noun) radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays | Synonyms: ultraviolet illumination, ultraviolet light, ultraviolet radiation, UV |
unquiet | (adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder | - |
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(adjective) causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | Synonyms: anxious, nervous, queasy, uneasy |
unsweet | (adjective) distasteful | - |
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(adjective) (of champagne) moderately dry | Synonyms: sec |
upmarket | (adjective) designed for consumers with high incomes | - |
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upset | (adjective) thrown into a state of disarray or confusion | Synonyms: broken, confused, disordered |
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(adjective) mildly physically distressed | - |
(adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief | Synonyms: disquieted, distressed, disturbed, worried |
(adjective) having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom | Synonyms: overturned, upturned |
(adjective) used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win | - |
(noun) an improbable and unexpected victory | Synonyms: overturn |
(noun) the act of disturbing the mind or body | Synonyms: derangement, overthrow |
(noun) the act of upsetting something | Synonyms: overturn, turnover |
(noun) a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging | Synonyms: swage |
(noun) an unhappy and worried mental state | Synonyms: disturbance, perturbation |
(noun) a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning | Synonyms: disorder |
(verb) disturb the balance or stability of | - |
(verb) defeat suddenly and unexpectedly | - |
(verb) form metals with a swage | Synonyms: swage |
(verb) move deeply | Synonyms: disturb, trouble |
(verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune |
(verb) cause to overturn from an upright or normal position | Synonyms: bowl over, knock over, overturn, tip over, tump over, turn over |
valet | (noun) a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer | Synonyms: gentleman's gentleman, gentleman, man, valet de chambre |
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(verb) serve as a personal attendant to | - |
valvelet | (noun) a small valve | Synonyms: valvula, valvule |
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varlet | (noun) in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood | Synonyms: page |
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(noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scalawag, scallywag |
velvet | (adjective) smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste | Synonyms: velvet-textured, velvety |
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(adjective) resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface | Synonyms: velvety |
(noun) a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back | - |
vervet | (noun) South African monkey with black face and hands | Synonyms: Cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus, vervet monkey |
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vet | (noun) a doctor who practices veterinary medicine | Synonyms: veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon |
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(noun) a person who has served in the armed forces | Synonyms: ex-serviceman, veteran |
(verb) provide veterinary care for | - |
(verb) provide (a person) with medical care | - |
(verb) examine carefully | - |
(verb) work as a veterinarian | - |
videlicet | (adverb) as follows | Synonyms: namely, that is to say, to wit, viz. |
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violet | (adjective) of a color intermediate between red and blue | Synonyms: purple, purplish |
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(noun) a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum | Synonyms: reddish blue |
(noun) any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers | - |
wallet | (noun) a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money | Synonyms: billfold, notecase, pocketbook |
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wastebasket | (noun) a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish | Synonyms: circular file, waste-paper basket, waste basket, wastepaper basket |
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wavelet | (noun) a small wave on the surface of a liquid | Synonyms: riffle, ripple, rippling |
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wet | (adjective) covered or soaked with a liquid such as water | - |
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(adjective) producing or secreting milk | Synonyms: lactating |
(adjective) supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages | - |
(adjective) containing moisture or volatile components | - |
(adjective) consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor | - |
(adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight |
(noun) wetness caused by water | Synonyms: moisture |
(verb) make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating | - |
(verb) cause to become wet | - |
whet | (verb) sharpen by rubbing, as on a whetstone | - |
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(verb) make keen or more acute | Synonyms: quicken |
whippet | (noun) small slender dog of greyhound type developed in England | - |
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wicket | (noun) small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted | Synonyms: grille, lattice |
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(noun) small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger door) | Synonyms: wicket door, wicket gate |
(noun) a small arch used as croquet equipment | Synonyms: hoop |
(noun) cricket equipment consisting of a set of three stumps topped by crosspieces; used in playing cricket | - |
widget | (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gismo, gizmo |
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(noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis |
willet | (noun) large North American shorebird of eastern and Gulf Coasts | Synonyms: Catoptrophorus semipalmatus |
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woodlet | (noun) garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth | Synonyms: grove, orchard, plantation |
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wordnet | (noun) any of the machine-readable lexical databases modeled after the Princeton WordNet | - |
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workbasket | (noun) container for holding implements and materials for work (especially for sewing) | Synonyms: workbag, workbox |
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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 | - |
wristlet | (noun) a band or bracelet worn around the wrist | Synonyms: wrist band |
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yet | (adverb) within an indefinite time or at an unspecified future time | Synonyms: in time |
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(adverb) up to the present time | - |
(adverb) to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons | Synonyms: even, still |
(adverb) used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time | Synonyms: as yet, heretofore, hitherto, so far, thus far, til now, until now, up to now |
(adverb) used after a superlative | Synonyms: so far |
(adverb) despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession) | Synonyms: all the same, at the same time, even so, however, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, still, withal |