| quicklime | (noun) a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide | Synonyms: burnt lime, calcined lime, calcium oxide, calx, fluxing lime, lime, unslaked lime |
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| raceme | (noun) usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first | - |
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| radome | (noun) a housing for a radar antenna; transparent to radio waves | Synonyms: radar dome |
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| ragtime | (noun) music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano) | Synonyms: rag |
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| regime | (noun) (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet) | Synonyms: regimen |
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| (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: authorities, government |
| rename | (verb) assign a new name to | - |
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| (verb) name again or anew | - |
| resublime | (verb) sublime (a compound) once again | - |
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| resume | (noun) short descriptive summary (of events) | Synonyms: sketch, survey |
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| (noun) a summary of your academic and work history | Synonyms: curriculum vitae, CV |
| (verb) take up or begin anew | Synonyms: re-start, restart |
| (verb) return to a previous location or condition | Synonyms: take up |
| (verb) give a summary (of) | Synonyms: sum up, summarise, summarize |
| (verb) assume anew | - |
| rhizome | (noun) a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure | Synonyms: rootstalk, rootstock |
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| rhyme | (noun) correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds) | Synonyms: rime |
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| (noun) a piece of poetry | Synonyms: verse |
| (verb) compose rhymes | Synonyms: rime |
| (verb) be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable | Synonyms: rime |
| ribosome | (noun) an organelle in the cytoplasm of a living cell; they attach to mRNA and move down it one codon at a time and then stop until tRNA brings the required amino acid; when it reaches a stop codon it falls apart and releases the completed protein molecule for use by the cell | - |
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| rime | (noun) correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds) | Synonyms: rhyme |
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| (noun) ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) | Synonyms: frost, hoar, hoarfrost |
| (verb) compose rhymes | Synonyms: rhyme |
| (verb) be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable | Synonyms: rhyme |
| same | (adjective) closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree | - |
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| (adjective) same in identity | - |
| (adjective) equal in amount or value | Synonyms: like |
| (adjective) unchanged in character or nature | - |
| sarcosome | (noun) a large mitochondrion in a striated muscle fiber | - |
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| scheme | (noun) an elaborate and systematic plan of action | Synonyms: strategy |
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| (noun) an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world | Synonyms: schema |
| (noun) a schematic or preliminary plan | Synonyms: outline, schema |
| (noun) a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery | Synonyms: dodge, dodging |
| (noun) a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole | Synonyms: system |
| (verb) form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner | Synonyms: connive, intrigue |
| (verb) devise a system or form a scheme for | - |
| schistosome | (noun) flatworms parasitic in the blood vessels of mammals | Synonyms: blood fluke |
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| schooltime | (noun) the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session | Synonyms: school, school day |
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| (noun) the time of life when you are going to school | Synonyms: schooldays |
| seedtime | (noun) the time during which seeds should be planted | - |
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| (noun) any time of new development | - |
| selfsame | (adjective) being the exact same one; not any other: | Synonyms: identical, very |
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| sesame | (noun) East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil | Synonyms: benne, benni, benny, Sesamum indicum |
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| sevensome | (noun) seven people considered as a unit | Synonyms: septet, septette |
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| shame | (noun) an unfortunate development | Synonyms: pity |
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| (noun) a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt | - |
| (noun) a state of dishonor | Synonyms: disgrace, ignominy |
| (verb) surpass or beat by a wide margin | - |
| (verb) cause to be ashamed | - |
| (verb) bring shame or dishonor upon | Synonyms: attaint, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour |
| (verb) compel through a sense of shame | - |
| showtime | (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, start, starting time |
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| sixsome | (noun) six people considered as a unit | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
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| slime | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, gook, goop, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, sludge |
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| (verb) cover or stain with slime | - |
| some | (adjective) (quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity | - |
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| (adjective) remarkable | - |
| (adjective) relatively many but unspecified in number | - |
| (adverb) (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct | Synonyms: about, approximately, around, close to, just about, more or less, or so, roughly |
| sometime | (adjective) belonging to some prior time | Synonyms: erstwhile, former, old, one-time, onetime, quondam |
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| (adverb) at some indefinite or unstated time | - |
| sprechstimme | (noun) a style of dramatic vocalization between singing and speaking | Synonyms: sprechgesang |
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| springtime | (noun) the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring | Synonyms: spring |
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| spume | (noun) foam or froth on the sea | - |
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| (verb) make froth or foam and become bubbly | Synonyms: froth, suds |
| sublime | (adjective) lifted up or set high | - |
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| (adjective) inspiring awe | Synonyms: empyreal, empyrean |
| (adjective) greatest or maximal in degree; extreme | Synonyms: supreme |
| (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: elevated, exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified |
| (adjective) worthy of adoration or reverence | Synonyms: reverend |
| (verb) vaporize and then condense right back again | Synonyms: sublimate |
| (verb) change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting | Synonyms: sublimate |
| subsume | (verb) consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle | Synonyms: colligate |
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| (verb) contain or include | - |
| summertime | (noun) the warmest season of the year; in the Northern Hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox | Synonyms: summer |
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| suppertime | (noun) the customary or habitual hour for the evening meal | Synonyms: dinnertime |
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| supreme | (adjective) greatest in status or authority or power | Synonyms: sovereign |
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| (adjective) greatest or maximal in degree; extreme | Synonyms: sublime |
| (adjective) highest in excellence or achievement | - |
| (adjective) final or last in your life or progress | - |
| surname | (noun) the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) | Synonyms: cognomen, family name, last name |
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| syncategoreme | (noun) a syncategorematic expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a term in a logical proposition | Synonyms: syncategorem |
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| syndrome | (noun) a complex of concurrent things | - |
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| (noun) a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease | - |
| tame | (adjective) brought from wildness into a domesticated state | Synonyms: tamed |
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| (adjective) very restrained or quiet | - |
| (adjective) very docile | Synonyms: meek |
| (adjective) flat and uninspiring | - |
| (verb) correct by punishment or discipline | Synonyms: chasten, subdue |
| (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, naturalize |
| (verb) make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans | Synonyms: domesticate |
| (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, reclaim |
| (verb) make less strong or intense; soften | Synonyms: moderate, tone down |
| teatime | (noun) a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes | Synonyms: afternoon tea, tea |
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| theme | (noun) a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work | Synonyms: motif |
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| (noun) the subject matter of a conversation or discussion | Synonyms: subject, topic |
| (noun) an essay (especially one written as an assignment) | Synonyms: composition, paper, report |
| (noun) (music) melodic subject of a musical composition | Synonyms: idea, melodic theme, musical theme |
| (noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed | Synonyms: base, radical, root, root word, stem |
| (verb) provide with a particular theme or motive | - |
| threesome | (noun) three people considered as a unit | Synonyms: triad, trinity, trio |
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| (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, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| thyme | (noun) leaves can be used as seasoning for almost any meat and stews and stuffings and vegetables | - |
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| (noun) any of various mints of the genus Thymus | - |
| tichodrome | (noun) crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa | Synonyms: Tichodroma muriaria, wall creeper |
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| time | (noun) the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past | - |
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| (noun) rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration | Synonyms: meter, metre |
| (noun) an instance or single occasion for some event | Synonyms: clip |
| (noun) a person's experience on a particular occasion | - |
| (noun) an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities) | - |
| (noun) the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned | Synonyms: prison term, sentence |
| (noun) a reading of a point in time as given by a clock | Synonyms: clock time |
| (noun) the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event | Synonyms: fourth dimension |
| (noun) a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something | - |
| (noun) a suitable moment | - |
| (verb) measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time | Synonyms: clock |
| (verb) regulate or set the time of | - |
| (verb) adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time | - |
| (verb) assign a time for an activity or event | - |
| (verb) set the speed, duration, or execution of | - |
| tiresome | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, wearisome |
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| toilsome | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing |
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| tome | (noun) a (usually) large and scholarly book | - |
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| toothsome | (adjective) acceptable to the taste or mind | Synonyms: palatable |
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| (adjective) having strong sexual appeal | Synonyms: juicy, luscious, lush, red-hot, voluptuous |
| (adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delectable, delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, yummy |
| torturesome | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous |
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| trichrome | (adjective) having or involving three colors | Synonyms: trichromatic, tricolor |
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| trireme | (noun) ancient Greek or Roman galley or warship having three tiers of oars on each side | - |
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| troublesome | (adjective) causing difficulty or annoyance | - |
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| twosome | (noun) a pair who associate with one another | Synonyms: couple, duet, duo |
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| (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, yoke |
| underframe | (noun) the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape | Synonyms: frame, skeletal frame, skeleton |
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| unwelcome | (adjective) not welcome; not giving pleasure or received with pleasure | - |
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| (adjective) not welcome | Synonyms: unwished-for, unwished |
| unwholesome | (adjective) detrimental to physical or moral well-being | - |
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| uptime | (noun) a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is functioning and available for use | - |
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| velodrome | (noun) a banked oval track for bicycle or motorcycle racing | - |
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| venturesome | (adjective) disposed to venture or take risks | Synonyms: audacious, daring, venturous |
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| volume | (noun) physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together | Synonyms: book |
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| (noun) the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction) | Synonyms: intensity, loudness |
| (noun) the property of something that is great in magnitude | Synonyms: bulk, mass |
| (noun) a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications | - |
| (noun) the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object | - |
| (noun) a relative amount | - |
| wartime | (noun) a period of time during which there is armed conflict | - |
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| wearisome | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome |
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| welcome | (adjective) giving pleasure or satisfaction or received with pleasure or freely granted | - |
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| (noun) a greeting or reception | - |
| (noun) the state of being welcome | - |
| (verb) bid welcome to; greet upon arrival | Synonyms: receive |
| (verb) receive someone, as into one's house | - |
| (verb) accept gladly | - |
| wholesome | (adjective) conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being | - |
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| (adjective) sound or exhibiting soundness in body or mind | - |
| winsome | (adjective) charming in a childlike or naive way | - |
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| wintertime | (noun) the coldest season of the year; in the Northern Hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox | Synonyms: winter |
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| worrisome | (adjective) not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety | Synonyms: unreassuring |
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| (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrying |
| xenotime | (noun) a brown-to-yellow mineral that is a phosphate of yttrium in crystalline form | - |
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