| slanguage | (noun) language characterized by excessive use of slang or cant | - |
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| sledge | (noun) a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges | Synonyms: maul, sledgehammer |
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| (noun) a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow | Synonyms: sled, sleigh |
| (verb) beat with a sledgehammer | Synonyms: sledgehammer |
| (verb) transport in a sleigh | - |
| (verb) ride in or travel with a sledge | - |
| slippage | (noun) failing to hold or slipping out of place | - |
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| (noun) a decrease of transmitted power in a mechanical system caused by slipping | - |
| (noun) decline from a standard level of performance or achievement | - |
| sludge | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, gook, goop, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, slime |
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| (noun) the precipitate produced by sewage treatment | - |
| smidge | (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, shred, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit |
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| smudge | (noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, daub, slur, smear, smirch, spot |
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| (noun) a smoky fire to drive away insects | - |
| (verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging | Synonyms: blur, smear, smutch |
| soakage | (noun) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: soak, soaking |
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| socage | (noun) land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent; not burdened with military service | - |
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| solfege | (noun) a voice exercise; singing scales or runs to the same syllable | Synonyms: solfeggio |
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| (noun) singing using solfa syllables to denote the notes of the scale of C major | Synonyms: solfeggio, solmization |
| sparge | (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sprinkle, sprinkling |
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| (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: besprinkle, sprinkle |
| (verb) agitate by introducing air or compressed gas | - |
| spillage | (noun) the act of allowing a fluid to escape | Synonyms: release, spill |
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| (noun) the amount that has spilled | - |
| splodge | (noun) an irregularly shaped spot | Synonyms: blotch, splotch |
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| splurge | (noun) any act of immoderate indulgence | Synonyms: binge, orgy |
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| (noun) an ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.) | - |
| (verb) be showy or ostentatious | - |
| (verb) indulge oneself | Synonyms: fling |
| spoilage | (noun) the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it | Synonyms: spoil, spoiling |
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| (noun) the process of becoming spoiled | Synonyms: spoiling |
| (noun) the amount that has spoiled | - |
| sponge | (noun) primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies | Synonyms: parazoan, poriferan |
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| (noun) a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage | Synonyms: leech, parasite, sponger |
| (noun) someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily | Synonyms: quick study |
| (noun) a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used | - |
| (verb) wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten | - |
| (verb) erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard | - |
| (verb) soak up with a sponge | - |
| (verb) gather sponges, in the ocean | - |
| (verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, cadge, grub, mooch |
| spurge | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice | - |
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| stage | (noun) a section or portion of a journey or course | Synonyms: leg |
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| (noun) a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience | - |
| (noun) a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns | Synonyms: stagecoach |
| (noun) a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination | Synonyms: microscope stage |
| (noun) the theater as a profession (usually `the stage') | - |
| (noun) any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something | - |
| (noun) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | Synonyms: degree, level, point |
| (noun) any distinct time period in a sequence of events | Synonyms: phase |
| (verb) perform (a play), especially on a stage | Synonyms: present, represent |
| (verb) plan, organize, and carry out (an event) | Synonyms: arrange |
| steerage | (noun) the act of steering a ship | Synonyms: steering |
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| (noun) the cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship | - |
| stodge | (noun) heavy and filling (and usually starchy) food | - |
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| stooge | (noun) a person of unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: flunkey, flunky, yes-man |
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| (noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: butt, goat, laughingstock |
| (verb) act as a stooge, in a compliant or subordinate manner | - |
| (verb) act as the stooge | - |
| (verb) cruise in slow or routine flights | - |
| stoppage | (noun) the act of stopping something | Synonyms: stop |
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| (noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: block, blockage, closure, occlusion, stop |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop |
| storage | (noun) the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials | - |
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| (noun) the act of storing something | - |
| (noun) depositing in a warehouse | Synonyms: repositing, reposition, warehousing |
| (noun) a depository for goods | Synonyms: depot, entrepot, store, storehouse |
| (noun) an electronic memory device | Synonyms: computer memory, computer storage, memory, memory board, store |
| (noun) (computer science) the process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic tape or disk | - |
| stowage | (noun) the act of packing or storing away | Synonyms: stowing |
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| (noun) a room in which things are stored | Synonyms: storage room, storeroom |
| (noun) the charge for stowing goods | - |
| straightedge | (noun) hand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness) | - |
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| strange | (adjective) being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird | Synonyms: unusual |
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| (adjective) relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world | Synonyms: foreign |
| (adjective) not known before | Synonyms: unknown |
| submerge | (verb) fill or cover completely, usually with water | Synonyms: deluge, inundate |
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| (verb) cover completely or make imperceptible | Synonyms: drown, overwhelm |
| (verb) put under water | Synonyms: submerse |
| (verb) sink below the surface; go under or as if under water | Synonyms: submerse |
| subterfuge | (noun) something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity | Synonyms: blind |
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| suffrage | (noun) a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment | Synonyms: right to vote, vote |
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| supercharge | (verb) increase the pressure on a gas or liquid | Synonyms: pressurise, pressurize |
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| (verb) increase or raise | Synonyms: advance, boost |
| surcharge | (noun) an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill) | - |
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| (verb) show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given | - |
| (verb) fill to an excessive degree | - |
| (verb) place too much a load on | Synonyms: overcharge, overload |
| (verb) print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote | - |
| (verb) fill to capacity with people | - |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak |
| (verb) charge an extra fee, as for a special service | - |
| surge | (noun) a sudden or abrupt strong increase | Synonyms: upsurge |
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| (noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: rush, spate, upsurge |
| (noun) a large sea wave | Synonyms: billow |
| (verb) see one's performance improve | - |
| (verb) rise rapidly | Synonyms: soar, soar up, soar upwards, zoom |
| (verb) rise and move, as in waves or billows | Synonyms: billow, heave |
| (verb) rise or move forward | Synonyms: tide |
| (verb) rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave | Synonyms: scend |
| surplusage | (noun) a quantity much larger than is needed | Synonyms: excess, nimiety, surplus |
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| swage | (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: upset |
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| (verb) form metals with a swage | Synonyms: upset |
| swinge | (verb) burn superficially or lightly | Synonyms: singe |
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| syringe | (noun) a medical instrument used to inject or withdraw fluids | - |
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| (verb) spray or irrigate (a body part) with a syringe | - |
| tamponage | (noun) blockage or closure (as of a wound or body cavity) by (or as if by) a tampon (especially to stop bleeding) | Synonyms: tamponade |
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| tankage | (noun) the act of storing in tanks | - |
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| (noun) the charge for storing something in tanks | - |
| (noun) the quantity contained in (or the capacity of) a tank or tanks | - |
| teenage | (adjective) being of the age 13 through 19 | Synonyms: adolescent, teen, teenaged |
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| telferage | (noun) a transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity | Synonyms: telpherage |
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| telpherage | (noun) a transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity | Synonyms: telferage |
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| tenge | (noun) the basic unit of money in Kazakhstan | - |
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| (noun) 100 tenge equal 1 manat in Turkmenistan | - |
| thaumaturge | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, necromancer, sorcerer, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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| tillage | (noun) the cultivation of soil for raising crops | - |
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| (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, plowland, tilled land, tilth |
| tinge | (noun) a pale or subdued color | Synonyms: undertone |
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| (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, touch |
| (verb) color lightly | Synonyms: tinct, tint, touch |
| (verb) affect as in thought or feeling | Synonyms: color, colour, distort |
| tonnage | (noun) a tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship | Synonyms: tonnage duty, tunnage |
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| towage | (noun) the act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope | Synonyms: tow |
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| treillage | (noun) latticework used to support climbing plants | Synonyms: trellis |
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| triage | (noun) sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food | - |
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| truckage | (noun) the activity of transporting goods by truck | Synonyms: hauling, trucking |
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| (noun) a fee charged for transporting goods by truckage | - |
| trudge | (noun) a long difficult walk | - |
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| (verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | Synonyms: footslog, pad, plod, slog, tramp |
| tunnage | (noun) a tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship | Synonyms: tonnage, tonnage duty |
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| tutelage | (noun) teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately) | Synonyms: tuition, tutorship |
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| (noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety | Synonyms: care, charge, guardianship |
| twinge | (noun) a sharp stab of pain | - |
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| (noun) a sudden sharp feeling | Synonyms: pang, stab |
| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, pinch, squeeze, tweet, twitch |
| (verb) cause a stinging pain | Synonyms: prick, sting |
| (verb) feel a sudden sharp, local pain | - |
| ullage | (noun) the amount that a container (as a wine bottle or tank) lacks of being full | - |
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| ultracentrifuge | (noun) a high speed centrifuge used to determine the relative molecular masses of large molecules in high polymers and proteins | - |
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| (verb) subject to the action of an ultracentrifuge | - |
| umbrage | (noun) a feeling of anger caused by being offended | Synonyms: offence, offense |
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| umpirage | (noun) the act of umpiring | Synonyms: officiating, officiation, refereeing |
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| (noun) mediation by an umpire | - |
| underage | (adjective) not of legal age | Synonyms: minor, nonaged |
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| (adjective) dependent by virtue of youth | - |
| undercarriage | (noun) framework that serves as a support for the body of a vehicle | - |
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| undercharge | (noun) an insufficient charge | - |
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| (noun) a price that is too low | - |
| (verb) charge (someone) too little money | - |
| unhinge | (verb) remove the hinges from | - |
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| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, perturb, trouble |
| upstage | (adjective) of the back half of a stage | - |
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| (adjective) remote in manner | Synonyms: aloof, distant |
| (noun) the rear part of the stage | - |
| (adverb) at or toward the rear of the stage | - |
| (verb) steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else | - |
| (verb) move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the audience | - |
| (verb) treat snobbishly, put in one's place | - |
| upsurge | (noun) a sudden or abrupt strong increase | Synonyms: surge |
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| (noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: rush, spate, surge |
| urge | (noun) a strong restless desire | Synonyms: itch |
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| (noun) an instinctive motive | Synonyms: impulse |
| (verb) force or impel in an indicated direction | Synonyms: exhort, press, urge on |
| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, cheer, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge on |
| (verb) push for something | Synonyms: advocate, recommend |
| usage | (noun) the act of using | Synonyms: employment, exercise, use, utilisation, utilization |
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| (noun) accepted or habitual practice | Synonyms: custom, usance |
| (noun) the customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written | - |
| vagabondage | (noun) travelling about without any clear destination | Synonyms: roving, wandering |
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| vantage | (noun) the quality of having a superior or more favorable position | Synonyms: advantage |
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| (noun) place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective) | - |
| vassalage | (noun) the state of a serf | Synonyms: serfdom, serfhood |
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| verbiage | (noun) the manner in which something is expressed in words | Synonyms: choice of words, diction, phraseology, phrasing, wording |
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| (noun) overabundance of words | Synonyms: verbalism |
| verge | (noun) a grass border along a road | - |
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| (noun) the limit beyond which something happens or changes | Synonyms: brink |
| (noun) a ceremonial or emblematic staff | Synonyms: scepter, sceptre, wand |
| (noun) a region marking a boundary | Synonyms: brink, threshold |
| (verb) border on; come close to | - |
| vermifuge | (noun) a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, anthelmintic, helminthic |
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| vestige | (noun) an indication that something has been present | Synonyms: shadow, tincture, trace |
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| vicarage | (noun) an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector | Synonyms: parsonage, rectory |
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| village | (noun) a community of people smaller than a town | Synonyms: settlement, small town |
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| (noun) a settlement smaller than a town | Synonyms: hamlet |
| villainage | (noun) the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf | Synonyms: villeinage |
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| villeinage | (noun) tenure by which a villein held land | - |
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| (noun) the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf | Synonyms: villainage |
| vintage | (noun) the oldness of wines | Synonyms: time of origin |
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| (noun) a season's yield of wine from a vineyard | - |
| visage | (noun) the appearance conveyed by a person's face | Synonyms: countenance |
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| (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: countenance, kisser, mug, phiz, physiognomy, smiler |
| voltage | (noun) the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts | Synonyms: electric potential, potential, potential difference, potential drop |
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| (noun) the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit; expressed in volts | Synonyms: electromotive force, emf |
| vouge | (noun) a kind of pike used by foot soldiers in the 14th century | - |
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| voyage | (noun) a journey to some distant place | - |
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| (noun) an act of traveling by water | Synonyms: ocean trip |
| (verb) travel on water propelled by wind or by other means | Synonyms: navigate, sail |
| wage | (noun) something that remunerates | Synonyms: earnings, pay, remuneration, salary |
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| (verb) carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns) | Synonyms: engage |
| wastage | (noun) anything lost by wear or waste | - |
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| (noun) the process of wasting | - |
| wattage | (noun) the product of voltage and current | Synonyms: electric power, electrical power |
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| webpage | (noun) a document connected to the World Wide Web and viewable by anyone connected to the internet who has a web browser | Synonyms: web page |
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| wedge | (noun) something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them | - |
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| (noun) a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object | Synonyms: chock |
| (noun) a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe | Synonyms: wedge heel |
| (noun) (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole | - |
| (noun) a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: hacek |
| (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, zep |
| (noun) any shape that is triangular in cross section | Synonyms: cuneus, wedge shape |
| (verb) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space | Synonyms: force, squeeze |
| (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: deposit, lodge, stick |
| weighbridge | (noun) platform scale flush with a roadway for weighing vehicles and cattle etc | - |
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| wharfage | (noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: dock, pier, wharf |
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| (noun) a fee charged for the use of a wharf or quay | Synonyms: quayage |
| windage | (noun) the deflection of a projectile resulting from the effects of wind | Synonyms: wind deflection |
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| (noun) exposure to the wind (as the exposed part of a vessel's hull which is responsible for wind resistance) | Synonyms: wind exposure |
| (noun) the space between the projectile of a smoothbore gun and the surface of the bore of the gun | - |
| (noun) the retarding force of air friction on a moving object | - |
| wreckage | (noun) the remaining parts of something that has been wrecked | - |
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| yardage | (noun) distance measured in the aggregate number of yards | - |
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