| squib | (noun) firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise | - |
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| squid | (noun) widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins | - |
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| (noun) (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food | Synonyms: calamari, calamary |
| squiffy | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, stiff, tight, wet |
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| squiggle | (noun) a short twisting line | Synonyms: curlicue |
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| (noun) an illegible scrawl | - |
| squiggly | (adjective) wavy and twisting | - |
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| squill | (noun) an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers | Synonyms: scilla |
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| (noun) having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties | Synonyms: sea onion, sea squill, Urginea maritima |
| (noun) bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant | - |
| squilla | (noun) a kind of mantis shrimp | Synonyms: mantis prawn |
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| squinch | (noun) a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire) | - |
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| (verb) cross one's eyes as if in strabismus | Synonyms: squint |
| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, wince |
| (verb) crouch down | - |
| squinched | (adjective) having eyes half closed in order to see better | Synonyms: squinting |
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| squint | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askance, askant, asquint, sidelong, squint-eyed, squinty |
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| (noun) the act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closed | - |
| (noun) abnormal alignment of one or both eyes | Synonyms: strabismus |
| (verb) cross one's eyes as if in strabismus | Synonyms: squinch |
| (verb) partly close one's eyes, as when hit by direct blinding light | - |
| (verb) be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus | - |
| squinter | (noun) a person with strabismus | Synonyms: squint-eye |
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| squinting | (adjective) having eyes half closed in order to see better | Synonyms: squinched |
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| squinty | (adjective) characterized by squinting | - |
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| (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askance, askant, asquint, sidelong, squint-eyed, squint |
| squire | (noun) an English country landowner | - |
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| (noun) young nobleman attendant on a knight | - |
| (noun) a man who attends or escorts a woman | Synonyms: gallant |
| (verb) attend upon as a squire; serve as a squire | - |
| squirearchy | (noun) the gentry who own land (considered as a class) | Synonyms: landed gentry |
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| squirm | (noun) the act of wiggling | Synonyms: wiggle, wriggle |
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| (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: twist, worm, wrestle, wriggle, writhe |
| squirmer | (noun) one who can't stay still (especially a child) | Synonyms: wiggler, wriggler |
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| squirrel | (noun) a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail | - |
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| (noun) the fur of a squirrel | - |
| squirrelfish | (noun) very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark | - |
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| (noun) similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States | Synonyms: Lagodon rhomboides, pinfish, sailor's-choice |
| squirt | (noun) the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) | Synonyms: jet, spirt, spurt |
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| (noun) someone who is small and insignificant | Synonyms: pip-squeak, small fry |
| (verb) cause to come out in a squirt | Synonyms: eject, force out, squeeze out |
| (verb) wet with a spurt of liquid | Synonyms: spurt |
| squirter | (noun) plaything consisting of a toy pistol that squirts water | Synonyms: squirt gun, water gun, water pistol |
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| squirting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: jetting, spouting, spurting |
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| squish | (noun) the noise of soft mud being walked on | - |
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| (verb) put (a liquid) into a container or another place by means of a squirting action | - |
| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, slosh, splash, splosh, squelch |
| squishy | (adjective) easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility | Synonyms: spongelike, spongy, squashy |
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