| sharing | (adjective) unselfishly willing to share with others | - |
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| (noun) a distribution in shares | Synonyms: share-out |
| (noun) sharing thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: communion |
| (noun) having in common | - |
| (noun) using or enjoying something jointly with others | - |
| shattering | (adjective) seemingly loud enough to break something; violently rattling or clattering | - |
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| (noun) the act of breaking something into small pieces | Synonyms: smashing |
| shearing | (noun) removing by cutting off or clipping | - |
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| sheepshearing | (noun) act of shearing sheep | - |
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| (noun) a festival held at the time sheep are normally sheared | - |
| (noun) the time or season when sheep are sheared | - |
| shirring | (noun) baking shelled eggs | - |
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| shivering | (adjective) vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze | Synonyms: shaky, trembling |
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| (noun) a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever | Synonyms: chill |
| shoestring | (noun) a lace used for fastening shoes | Synonyms: shoe lace, shoe string, shoelace |
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| (noun) a small amount of money | Synonyms: shoe string |
| shoring | (noun) the act of propping up with shores | Synonyms: propping up, shoring up |
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| (noun) a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support | Synonyms: shore |
| shuddering | (adjective) shaking convulsively or violently | - |
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| simmering | (noun) cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil | Synonyms: boiling, stewing |
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| slithering | (adjective) moving as on a slippery surface | Synonyms: slipping |
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| sloganeering | (noun) persuasion by means of empty slogans | - |
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| smattering | (noun) a slight or superficial understanding of a subject | - |
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| (noun) a small number or amount | Synonyms: handful |
| smoldering | (adjective) showing scarcely suppressed anger | Synonyms: smouldering |
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| smothering | (adjective) causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat | Synonyms: choking, suffocating, suffocative |
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| smouldering | (adjective) showing scarcely suppressed anger | Synonyms: smoldering |
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| sneering | (adjective) expressive of contempt | Synonyms: snide, supercilious |
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| snoring | (noun) the act of snoring or producing a snoring sound | Synonyms: snore, stertor |
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| soaring | (adjective) of imposing height; especially standing out above others | Synonyms: eminent, lofty, towering |
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| (adjective) ascending to a level markedly higher than the usual | - |
| (noun) the activity of flying a glider | Synonyms: glide, gliding, sailing, sailplaning |
| sobering | (adjective) tending to make sober or more serious | - |
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| soldering | (noun) fastening firmly together | Synonyms: bonding |
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| soldiering | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, shirking, slacking |
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| (noun) skills that are required for the life of soldier | Synonyms: soldiership |
| souring | (noun) the process of becoming sour | - |
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| spacefaring | (noun) a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere | Synonyms: space travel, spaceflight |
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| sparing | (adjective) avoiding waste | Synonyms: economical, frugal, scotch, stinting |
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| sparring | (noun) making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer | Synonyms: spar |
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| (noun) an argument in which the participants are trying to gain some advantage | - |
| spattering | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spatter, splash, splashing, splattering |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputter, sputtering |
| splattering | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splash, splashing |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splutter, sputter, sputtering |
| splintering | (noun) the act of chipping something | Synonyms: chip, chipping |
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| spring | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, bound, leap, leaping, saltation |
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| (noun) a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed | - |
| (noun) the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length | Synonyms: give, springiness |
| (noun) a point at which water issues forth | - |
| (noun) a natural flow of ground water | Synonyms: fountain, natural spring, outflow, outpouring |
| (noun) the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring | Synonyms: springtime |
| (verb) develop suddenly | - |
| (verb) produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly | - |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, take a hop |
| (verb) move forward by leaps and bounds | Synonyms: bound, jump, leap |
| (verb) develop into a distinctive entity | Synonyms: form, take form, take shape |
| spurring | (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, goading, prod, prodding, spur, urging |
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| sputtering | (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputter |
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| squandering | (noun) spending resources lavishly and wastefully | - |
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| staggering | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astonishing, astounding, stupefying |
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| staring | (adjective) (used of eyes) open and fixed as if in fear or wonder | Synonyms: agaze |
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| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| starring | (adjective) indicating the most important performer or role | Synonyms: leading, prima, star, stellar |
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| steering | (noun) the act of setting and holding a course | Synonyms: direction, guidance |
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| (noun) the act of guiding or showing the way | Synonyms: guidance |
| (noun) the act of steering a ship | Synonyms: steerage |
| stirring | (adjective) exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions | Synonyms: soul-stirring |
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| (adjective) capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement | Synonyms: rousing |
| (noun) agitating a liquid with an implement | - |
| (noun) arousing to a particular emotion or action | Synonyms: inspiration |
| string | (noun) a lightweight cord | Synonyms: twine |
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| (noun) a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening | Synonyms: drawing string, drawstring |
| (noun) a necklace made by stringing objects together | Synonyms: chain, strand |
| (noun) a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, as a part of an instrument or a tennis racket | - |
| (noun) a collection of things threaded on a single strand, or as if threaded on a single strand | - |
| (noun) stringed instruments that are played with a bow | Synonyms: bowed stringed instrument |
| (noun) a linear sequence (as of characters, words, proteins, etc.) | - |
| (noun) a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding | Synonyms: train |
| (noun) (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop | Synonyms: cosmic string |
| (noun) a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod) | - |
| (verb) add as if on a string | Synonyms: string up |
| (verb) provide with strings | - |
| (verb) thread on or as if on a string | Synonyms: draw, thread |
| (verb) remove the stringy parts of | - |
| (verb) string together; tie or fasten with a string | - |
| (verb) stretch out or arrange like a string | - |
| (verb) move or come along | Synonyms: string along |
| substring | (noun) a string that is part of a longer string | - |
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| suffering | (adjective) troubled by pain or loss | - |
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| (adjective) very unhappy; full of misery | Synonyms: miserable, wretched |
| (noun) feelings of mental or physical pain | Synonyms: hurt |
| (noun) psychological suffering | Synonyms: distress, hurt |
| (noun) a state of acute pain | Synonyms: agony, excruciation |
| (noun) misery resulting from affliction | Synonyms: woe |
| superstring | (noun) a hypothetical particle that is the elementary particle in a theory of space-time | - |
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| suturing | (noun) surgical joining of two surfaces | - |
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| swaggering | (adjective) flamboyantly adventurous | Synonyms: swashbuckling |
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| (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious |
| swearing | (noun) a commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of law); to lie under oath is to become subject to prosecution for perjury | Synonyms: oath |
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| (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse, curse word, cuss, expletive, oath, swearword |
| sweltering | (adjective) excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness | Synonyms: sweltry |
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| tailoring | (noun) the occupation of a tailor | - |
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| talebearing | (adjective) prone to communicate confidential information | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, leaky, tattling |
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| tampering | (noun) the act of altering something secretly or improperly | Synonyms: meddling |
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| tapering | (adjective) gradually decreasing until little remains | Synonyms: dwindling, tapering off |
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| (adjective) becoming gradually narrower | Synonyms: narrowing, tapered |
| (noun) the act of gradually lowering the size or amount | - |
| tearing | (adjective) marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid | Synonyms: fierce, trigger-happy, vehement, violent |
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| (noun) shedding tears | Synonyms: lachrymation, lacrimation, watering |
| tempering | (adjective) moderating by making more temperate | - |
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| (noun) hardening something by heat treatment | Synonyms: annealing |
| thundering | (adjective) extraordinarily big or impressive | - |
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| (adjective) sounding like thunder | - |
| tiring | (adjective) producing exhaustion | Synonyms: exhausting, wearing, wearying |
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| tittering | (adjective) being or sounding of nervous or suppressed laughter | Synonyms: thoriated |
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| torturing | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturous |
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| (noun) the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason | Synonyms: torture |
| tottering | (adjective) (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse | - |
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| (adjective) unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age | Synonyms: tottery |
| towering | (adjective) of imposing height; especially standing out above others | Synonyms: eminent, lofty, soaring |
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| transpiring | (adjective) that is passing through | - |
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| trousering | (noun) any fabric used to make trousers | Synonyms: panting |
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| uncaring | (adjective) without care or thought for others | Synonyms: thoughtless, unthinking |
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| (adjective) lacking affection or warm feeling | Synonyms: detached, unaffectionate |
| uncovering | (noun) the act of discovering something | Synonyms: discovery, find |
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| (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, denudation, husking, stripping |
| undesiring | (adjective) having or feeling no desire | Synonyms: undesirous |
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| unerring | (adjective) not liable to error | Synonyms: inerrable, inerrant |
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| unfaltering | (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steadfast, steady, stiff, unbendable, unshakable, unwavering |
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| unfearing | (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid |
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| unflattering | (adjective) showing or representing unfavorably | Synonyms: uncomplimentary |
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| unforbearing | (adjective) unwilling to endure | - |
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| unhearing | (adjective) totally deaf; unable to hear anything | Synonyms: deaf as a post, profoundly deaf, stone-deaf |
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| uninquiring | (adjective) not inquiring | Synonyms: uninquisitive |
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| (adjective) deficient in curiosity | Synonyms: uninquisitive |
| uninspiring | (adjective) depressing to the spirit | - |
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| unreassuring | (adjective) not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety | Synonyms: worrisome |
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| unsparing | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unstinted, unstinting |
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| (adjective) not forbearing; ruthless | - |
| unstring | (verb) remove the strings from | - |
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| untiring | (adjective) characterized by hard work and perseverance | Synonyms: hardworking, industrious, tireless |
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| unwavering | (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steadfast, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable |
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| (adjective) not showing abrupt variations | Synonyms: level |
| vaporing | (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, bragging, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting |
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| veering | (noun) the act of turning aside suddenly | Synonyms: swerve, swerving |
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| veneering | (noun) the act of applying veneer | - |
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| (noun) coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood | Synonyms: veneer |
| wandering | (adjective) of a path e.g. | Synonyms: meandering, rambling, winding |
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| (adjective) having no fixed course | Synonyms: erratic, planetary |
| (adjective) migratory | Synonyms: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving |
| (noun) travelling about without any clear destination | Synonyms: roving, vagabondage |
| warmongering | (noun) a policy of advocating war | Synonyms: war advocacy |
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| warring | (adjective) engaged in war | Synonyms: belligerent, militant, war-ridden |
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| watering | (noun) wetting with water | - |
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| (noun) shedding tears | Synonyms: lachrymation, lacrimation, tearing |
| wavering | (adjective) uncertain in purpose or action | Synonyms: vacillant, vacillating |
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| (noun) the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes | Synonyms: fluctuation |
| (noun) indecision in speech or action | Synonyms: hesitation, vacillation |
| wayfaring | (adjective) traveling especially on foot | Synonyms: peripatetic |
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| (noun) traveling (especially on foot) | - |
| wearing | (adjective) producing exhaustion | Synonyms: exhausting, tiring, wearying |
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| (noun) the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment | Synonyms: wear |
| (noun) (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it), also figuratively | Synonyms: eating away, eroding, erosion, wearing away |
| wellspring | (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: fountainhead, well |
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| (noun) the source of water for a well | Synonyms: wellhead |
| whirring | (adjective) like the sound of rapidly vibrating wings | - |
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| (noun) sound of something in rapid motion | Synonyms: birr, whir, whirr |
| whispering | (adjective) making a low continuous indistinct sound | Synonyms: murmuring, susurrant |
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| (noun) speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: susurration, voicelessness, whisper |
| (noun) a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind | Synonyms: rustle, rustling, whisper |
| wiring | (noun) the work of installing the wires for an electrical system or device | - |
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| (noun) a circuit of wires for the distribution of electricity | - |
| withering | (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, annihilative, devastating |
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| (adjective) making light of | Synonyms: annihilating, devastating |
| (noun) any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use) | Synonyms: atrophy |
| wondering | (adjective) showing curiosity | Synonyms: inquisitive, questioning, speculative |
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| woolgathering | (adjective) dreamy in mood or nature | Synonyms: dreamy, moony |
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| (noun) an idle indulgence in fantasy | - |
| wring | (noun) a twisting squeeze | Synonyms: squeeze |
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| (verb) twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish | Synonyms: wrench |
| (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: contort, deform, distort |
| (verb) twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid | - |
| (verb) obtain by coercion or intimidation | Synonyms: extort, gouge, rack, squeeze |