| sketchy | (adjective) giving only major points; lacking completeness | Synonyms: unelaborated |
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| skiagraphy | (noun) the process of making a radiograph; producing an image on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light | Synonyms: radiography |
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| slouchy | (adjective) lacking stiffness in form or posture | - |
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| sloughy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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| slushy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy |
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| (adjective) being or resembling melting snow | - |
| smithy | (noun) a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering | Synonyms: forge |
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| smoothy | (noun) someone with an assured and ingratiating manner | Synonyms: charmer, smoothie, sweet talker |
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| sonography | (noun) using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs | Synonyms: echography, ultrasonography, ultrasound |
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| splashy | (adjective) characterized by water flying about haphazardly | - |
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| (adjective) covered with patches of bright color | - |
| (adjective) marked by ostentation but often tasteless | Synonyms: flamboyant, showy |
| squashy | (adjective) like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness | Synonyms: pulpy |
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| (adjective) easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility | Synonyms: spongelike, spongy, squishy |
| (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, swampy, waterlogged |
| squirearchy | (noun) the gentry who own land (considered as a class) | Synonyms: landed gentry |
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| squishy | (adjective) easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility | Synonyms: spongelike, spongy, squashy |
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| starchy | (adjective) consisting of or containing starch | - |
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| (adjective) rigidly formal | Synonyms: buckram, stiff |
| stealthy | (adjective) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed | Synonyms: furtive, sneak, sneaky, surreptitious |
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| steganography | (noun) act of writing in code or cipher | Synonyms: coding, cryptography, secret writing |
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| stenography | (noun) the act or art of writing in shorthand | - |
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| (noun) a method of writing rapidly using an abbreviated symbolic system | Synonyms: shorthand, tachygraphy |
| stereophotography | (noun) photography producing images that appear to have depth and solidness and that are created by using a special device (called a stereoscope) to look at two slightly different photographs of something at the same time. | Synonyms: stereo photography, stereoscopic photography |
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| stratigraphy | (noun) the branch of geology that studies the arrangement and succession of strata | - |
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| stretchy | (adjective) capable of being easily stretched and resuming former size or shape | Synonyms: stretchable |
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| swarthy | (adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color | Synonyms: dark-skinned, dusky, swart |
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| swishy | (adjective) resembling a sustained `sh' or soft whistle | - |
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| symmachy | (noun) Fighting together or in an alliance with an ally (or allies) | - |
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| sympathy | (noun) an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion | Synonyms: understanding |
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| (noun) sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish) | Synonyms: fellow feeling |
| (noun) a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other | - |
| tachygraphy | (noun) a method of writing rapidly using an abbreviated symbolic system | Synonyms: shorthand, stenography |
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| tauromachy | (noun) the activity at a bullfight | Synonyms: bullfighting |
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| techy | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy |
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| telegraphy | (noun) apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code) | Synonyms: telegraph |
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| (noun) communicating at a distance by electric transmission over wire | - |
| telepathy | (noun) apparent communication from one mind to another without using sensory perceptions | Synonyms: thought transference |
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| telephotography | (noun) photography using a telephoto lens | - |
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| (noun) transmission and reproduction of photographs and charts and pictures over a distance | - |
| tetchy | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy |
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| theosophy | (noun) a system of belief based on mystical insight into the nature of God and the soul | - |
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| thermography | (noun) diagnostic technique using a thermograph to record the heat produced by different parts of the body; used to study blood flow and to detect tumors | - |
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| timothy | (noun) a grass grown for hay | - |
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| (noun) grass with long cylindrical spikes grown in northern United States and Europe for hay | Synonyms: herd's grass, Phleum pratense |
| tomography | (noun) (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body | Synonyms: imaging |
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| toothy | (adjective) having or showing prominent teeth | - |
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| topography | (noun) the configuration of a surface and the relations among its man-made and natural features | - |
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| (noun) precise detailed study of the surface features of a region | - |
| touchy | (adjective) difficult to handle; requiring great tact | Synonyms: delicate, ticklish |
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| (adjective) quick to take offense | Synonyms: feisty, huffy, thin-skinned |
| trashy | (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry |
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| (adjective) cheap and inferior; of no value | Synonyms: rubbishy |
| trophy | (noun) something given as a token of victory | Synonyms: prize |
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| (noun) an award for success in war or hunting | - |
| trustworthy | (adjective) worthy of trust or belief | Synonyms: trusty |
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| (adjective) taking responsibility for one's conduct and obligations | - |
| typography | (noun) the craft of composing type and printing from it | - |
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| (noun) art and technique of printing with movable type | Synonyms: composition |
| ultrasonography | (noun) using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs | Synonyms: echography, sonography, ultrasound |
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| unairworthy | (adjective) not fit to fly | - |
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| unhealthy | (adjective) not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind | - |
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| (adjective) not conducive to good health | - |
| (adjective) detrimental to health | Synonyms: insalubrious, unhealthful |
| unseaworthy | (adjective) unfit for a voyage | - |
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| untrustworthy | (adjective) not worthy of trust or belief | Synonyms: untrusty |
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| unworthy | (adjective) lacking in value or merit | - |
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| (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: despicable, slimy, ugly, vile, worthless, wretched |
| (adjective) not deserving | Synonyms: undeserving |
| uropathy | (noun) any pathology of the urinary tract | - |
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| venography | (noun) roentgenographic examination of veins | - |
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| washy | (adjective) having lost freshness or brilliance of color | Synonyms: bleached, faded, washed-out |
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| (adjective) overly diluted; thin and insipid | Synonyms: watery, weak |
| wealthy | (adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: affluent, flush, loaded, moneyed, substantial |
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| why | (noun) the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores' | Synonyms: wherefore |
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| withy | (noun) strong flexible twig | Synonyms: withe |
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| worthy | (adjective) having worth or merit or value; being honorable or admirable | - |
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| (adjective) worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse | Synonyms: desirable, suitable |
| (adjective) having qualities or abilities that merit recognition in some way | - |
| (noun) an important, honorable person (word is often used humorously) | - |
| xerography | (noun) forming an image by the action of light on a specially coated charged plate; the latent image is developed with powders that adhere only to electrically charged areas | - |
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| xeroradiography | (noun) radiography using X-rays and xerographic (rather than roentgenographic) techniques | - |
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