| somniloquist | (noun) someone who talks while asleep | - |
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| soonest | (adverb) with the least delay | Synonyms: earliest |
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| sophist | (noun) someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious | Synonyms: casuist |
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| southeast | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southeast | Synonyms: southeasterly, southeastern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southeast | Synonyms: southeasterly |
| (noun) a location in the southeastern part of a country, region, or city | - |
| (noun) the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees | Synonyms: SE, sou'-east, southeastward |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southeastward compass point | - |
| (adverb) to, toward, or in the southeast | Synonyms: sou'-east, south-east |
| southernmost | (adjective) situated farthest south | Synonyms: southmost |
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| southmost | (adjective) situated farthest south | Synonyms: southernmost |
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| southwest | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwesterly, southwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southwest | Synonyms: southwesterly |
| (noun) a location in the southwestern part of a country, region, or city | - |
| (noun) the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees | Synonyms: sou'-west, southwestward, SW |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southwestward compass point | - |
| (adverb) to, toward, or in the southwest | Synonyms: sou'west, south-west |
| specialist | (noun) an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning | Synonyms: specialiser, specializer |
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| (noun) practices one branch of medicine | Synonyms: medical specialist |
| spelaeologist | (noun) a person who explores caves | Synonyms: potholer, speleologist, spelunker |
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| speleologist | (noun) a person who explores caves | Synonyms: potholer, spelaeologist, spelunker |
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| spiritualist | (adjective) of or relating to or connected with spiritualism | Synonyms: spiritualistic |
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| (noun) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead | Synonyms: medium, sensitive |
| spongioblast | (noun) any of various columnar epithelial cells in the central nervous system that develop into neuroglia | - |
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| sportscast | (noun) a broadcast of sports news or commentary | - |
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| (verb) broadcast a sports event | - |
| stardust | (noun) a dreamy romantic or sentimental quality | - |
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| steadfast | (adjective) firm and dependable especially in loyalty | Synonyms: staunch, unswerving |
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| (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering |
| sternpost | (noun) (nautical) the principal upright timber at the stern of a vessel | - |
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| stigmatist | (noun) a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ) | Synonyms: stigmatic |
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| stockist | (noun) one (as a retailer or distributor) that stocks goods | - |
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| strategist | (noun) an expert in strategy (especially in warfare) | Synonyms: strategian |
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| stylist | (noun) an artist who is a master of a particular style | - |
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| (noun) someone who cuts or beautifies hair | Synonyms: hairdresser, hairstylist, styler |
| subjectivist | (noun) a person who subscribes to subjectivism | - |
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| subsist | (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: exist, live, survive |
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| suffragist | (noun) an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women) | - |
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| suggest | (verb) make a proposal, declare a plan for something | Synonyms: advise, propose |
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| (verb) call to mind | Synonyms: evoke, paint a picture |
| (verb) imply as a possibility | Synonyms: intimate |
| (verb) drop a hint; intimate by a hint | Synonyms: hint |
| sunburst | (noun) a jeweled brooch with a pattern resembling the sun | - |
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| (noun) a design consisting of a central disk resembling the sun and rays emanating from it | - |
| (noun) a sudden emergence of the sun from behind clouds | - |
| supernaturalist | (adjective) of or relating to supernaturalism | Synonyms: supernaturalistic |
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| supremacist | (noun) a person who advocates the supremacy of some particular group or racial group over all others | - |
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| suprematist | (noun) an artist of the school of suprematism | - |
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| surrealist | (noun) an artist who is a member of the movement called surrealism | - |
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| survivalist | (noun) someone who tries to insure their personal survival or the survival of their group or nation | - |
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| syllogist | (noun) logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning | Synonyms: syllogiser, syllogizer |
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| symbolist | (noun) a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols | - |
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| (noun) someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols | Synonyms: symboliser, symbolizer |
| symphonist | (noun) a composer of symphonies | - |
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| symposiast | (noun) someone who participates in a symposium | - |
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| syndicalist | (noun) an advocate of anarchism | Synonyms: anarchist, nihilist |
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| synergist | (noun) a drug that augments the activity of another drug | - |
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| synonymist | (noun) a student of synonyms | - |
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| synthesist | (noun) an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods | Synonyms: synthesiser, synthesizer |
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| systematist | (noun) a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior | Synonyms: taxonomer, taxonomist |
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| (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematiser, systematizer, systemiser, systemizer |
| taxidermist | (noun) a craftsman who stuffs and mounts the skins of animals for display | Synonyms: animal stuffer, stuffer |
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| taxonomist | (noun) a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior | Synonyms: systematist, taxonomer |
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| technologist | (noun) a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems | Synonyms: applied scientist, engineer |
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| teetotalist | (noun) a total abstainer | Synonyms: teetotaler, teetotaller |
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| telecast | (noun) a television broadcast | - |
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| (verb) broadcast via television | Synonyms: televise |
| telegraphist | (noun) someone who transmits messages by telegraph | Synonyms: telegraph operator, telegrapher |
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| teleologist | (noun) advocate of teleology | - |
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| teleost | (noun) a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei | Synonyms: teleost fish, teleostan |
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| telepathist | (noun) someone with the power of communicating thoughts directly | Synonyms: mental telepathist, mind reader, thought-reader |
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| (noun) a magician who seems to discern the thoughts of another person (usually by clever signals from an accomplice) | Synonyms: mind reader, thought-reader |
| telephonist | (noun) someone who helps callers get the person they are calling | Synonyms: switchboard operator, telephone operator |
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| televangelist | (noun) an evangelist who conducts services on television | - |
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| tempest | (noun) (literary) a violent wind | - |
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| (noun) a violent commotion or disturbance | Synonyms: storm |
| tenorist | (noun) a musician who plays the tenor saxophone | Synonyms: tenor saxophonist |
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| terrorist | (noun) a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities | - |
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| test | (noun) the act of testing something | Synonyms: run, trial |
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| (noun) any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc | Synonyms: mental test, mental testing, psychometric test |
| (noun) the act of undergoing testing | Synonyms: trial |
| (noun) a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins | - |
| (noun) trying something to find out about it | Synonyms: trial, trial run, tryout |
| (noun) a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge | Synonyms: exam, examination |
| (verb) undergo a test | - |
| (verb) examine someone's knowledge of something | Synonyms: quiz |
| (verb) determine the presence or properties of (a substance) | - |
| (verb) achieve a certain score or rating on a test | - |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: essay, examine, prove, try, try out |
| (verb) test or examine for the presence of disease or infection | Synonyms: screen |
| (verb) show a certain characteristic when tested | - |
| thaumaturgist | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, necromancer, sorcerer, thaumaturge, wizard |
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| theist | (adjective) of or relating to theism | Synonyms: theistic, theistical |
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| (noun) one who believes in the existence of a god or gods | - |
| theologist | (noun) someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology | Synonyms: theologian, theologiser, theologizer |
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| theorist | (noun) someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) | Synonyms: idealogue, theoretician, theoriser, theorizer |
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| theosophist | (noun) a believer in theosophy | - |
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| therapist | (noun) a person skilled in a particular type of therapy | Synonyms: healer |
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| thirst | (noun) strong desire for something (not food or drink) | Synonyms: hunger, hungriness, thirstiness |
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| (noun) a physiological need to drink | Synonyms: thirstiness |
| (verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: crave, hunger, lust, starve |
| (verb) feel the need to drink | - |
| thrust | (noun) the act of applying force to propel something | Synonyms: drive, driving force |
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| (noun) a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument | Synonyms: knife thrust, stab |
| (noun) a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) | Synonyms: jab, jabbing, poke, poking, thrusting |
| (noun) verbal criticism | - |
| (noun) the force used in pushing | Synonyms: push |
| (verb) impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably | Synonyms: force |
| (verb) penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument | Synonyms: pierce |
| (verb) place or put with great energy | Synonyms: throw |
| (verb) push forcefully | - |
| (verb) make a thrusting forward movement | Synonyms: hurl, hurtle, lunge |
| (verb) press or force | Synonyms: shove, squeeze, stuff |
| (verb) push violently in a specified direction | Synonyms: push up |
| (verb) force (molten rock) into pre-existing rock | - |
| timpanist | (noun) a person who plays the kettledrums | Synonyms: tympanist |
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| toast | (noun) slices of bread that have been toasted | - |
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| (noun) a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event | Synonyms: pledge |
| (noun) a celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention | - |
| (noun) a person in desperate straits; someone doomed | Synonyms: goner |
| (verb) make brown and crisp by heating | Synonyms: crisp, crispen |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, pledge, salute, wassail |
| tobacconist | (noun) a shop that sells pipes and pipe tobacco and cigars and cigarettes | Synonyms: tobacco shop, tobacconist shop |
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| (noun) a retail dealer in tobacco and tobacco-related articles | - |
| tobogganist | (noun) someone who rides a toboggan | - |
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| topmast | (noun) the mast next above a lower mast and topmost in a fore-and-aft rig | - |
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| topmost | (adjective) at or nearest to the top | Synonyms: upmost, uppermost |
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| totemist | (noun) a person who belongs to a clan or tribe having a totem | - |
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| tourist | (noun) someone who travels for pleasure | Synonyms: holidaymaker, tourer |
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| toxicologist | (noun) one who studies the nature and effects of poisons and their treatment | - |
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| traditionalist | (adjective) stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded | Synonyms: hidebound |
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| (noun) one who adheres to traditional views | Synonyms: diehard |
| transcendentalist | (noun) advocate of transcendentalism | - |
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| treasonist | (noun) someone who betrays his country by committing treason | Synonyms: traitor |
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| tribologist | (noun) a specialist in tribology | - |
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| tritheist | (noun) someone (not an orthodox Christian) who believes that the Father and Son and Holy Ghost are three separate gods | - |
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| trombonist | (noun) a musician who plays the trombone | Synonyms: trombone player |
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| trophoblast | (noun) the membrane that forms the wall of the blastocyst in early development; aids implantation in the uterine wall | - |
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| trust | (noun) the trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others | Synonyms: trustfulness, trustingness |
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| (noun) certainty based on past experience | Synonyms: reliance |
| (noun) complete confidence in a person or plan etc | Synonyms: faith |
| (noun) a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service | Synonyms: cartel, combine, corporate trust |
| (noun) something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary) | - |
| (noun) a trustful relationship | Synonyms: confidence |
| (verb) have confidence or faith in | - |
| (verb) be confident about something | Synonyms: believe |
| (verb) expect and wish | Synonyms: desire, hope |
| (verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: commit, confide, entrust, intrust |
| (verb) (chiefly archaic) extend credit to | - |
| (verb) allow without fear | - |
| tryst | (noun) a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) | Synonyms: assignation |
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| (noun) a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex | Synonyms: rendezvous |
| tsarist | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a czar | Synonyms: czarist, czaristic, tsaristic, tzarist |
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| twist | (noun) social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s | - |
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| (noun) any clever maneuver | Synonyms: device, gimmick |
| (noun) the act of rotating rapidly | Synonyms: spin, twirl, twisting, whirl |
| (noun) turning or twisting around (in place) | Synonyms: turn |
| (noun) the act of winding or twisting | Synonyms: wind, winding |
| (noun) a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair | Synonyms: braid, plait, tress |
| (noun) an interpretation of a text or action | Synonyms: construction |
| (noun) an unforeseen development | Synonyms: turn, turn of events |
| (noun) a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself | Synonyms: eddy |
| (noun) a jerky pulling movement | Synonyms: wrench |
| (noun) a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight | Synonyms: kink, twirl |
| (noun) a circular segment of a curve | Synonyms: bend, crook, turn |
| (noun) a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments | Synonyms: pull, wrench |
| (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, turn, wrench, wrick |
| (verb) form into twists | - |
| (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: convolute, pervert, sophisticate, twist around |
| (verb) turn in the opposite direction | - |
| (verb) form into a spiral shape | Synonyms: distort, twine |
| (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: bend, deform, flex, turn |
| (verb) twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates | Synonyms: wrench |
| (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, worm, wrestle, wriggle, writhe |
| (verb) do the twist | - |
| (verb) extend in curves and turns | Synonyms: curve, wind |
| tympanist | (noun) a person who plays the kettledrums | Synonyms: timpanist |
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| typecast | (verb) identify as belonging to a certain type | Synonyms: type |
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| (verb) cast repeatedly in the same kind of role | - |
| typist | (noun) someone paid to operate a typewriter | - |
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| tzarist | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a czar | Synonyms: czarist, czaristic, tsarist, tsaristic |
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| unbeknownst | (adjective) (usually used with `to') occurring or existing without the knowledge of | Synonyms: unbeknown |
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| (adverb) without someone's knowledge | Synonyms: unbeknown |
| unconformist | (adjective) not conforming to some norm or socially approved pattern of behavior or thought | Synonyms: nonconformist |
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| unicyclist | (noun) a person who rides a unicycle | - |
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| unilateralist | (noun) an advocate of unilateralism | - |
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| unionist | (noun) a worker who belongs to a trade union | Synonyms: trade unionist, union member |
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| universalist | (adjective) of or relating to or tending toward universalism | Synonyms: universalistic |
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| unjust | (adjective) violating principles of justice | - |
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| (adjective) not equitable or fair | Synonyms: inequitable |
| (adjective) not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception | Synonyms: unfair |
| unrest | (noun) a feeling of restless agitation | - |
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| (noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development | Synonyms: agitation, ferment, fermentation, tempestuousness |
| untwist | (verb) cause to become untwisted | - |
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| upcast | (noun) air passage consisting of a ventilation shaft through which air leaves a mine | - |
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| upmost | (adjective) at or nearest to the top | Synonyms: topmost, uppermost |
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| uppermost | (adjective) at or nearest to the top | Synonyms: topmost, upmost |
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| (adverb) in or into the highest position | - |
| (adverb) in or into the most prominent position, as in the mind | - |
| upthrust | (noun) (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) | Synonyms: upheaval, uplift, upthrow |
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| uranologist | (noun) a physicist who studies astronomy | Synonyms: astronomer, stargazer |
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