8 Letter 5 Letter Text Twist Words Starting With S

SAB (5) [noun] A saboteur, especially of fox hunts. | [verb] To sabotage, especially fox hunts in opposition to blood sports. SAC (5) [noun] A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid. | [noun] (games) A sacrifice. | [verb] (games) To sacrifice. | [noun] The privilege, formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines. SAD (4) [verb] To make melancholy; to sadden or grieve (someone). | [adjective] (heading) Emotionally negative. | [adjective] Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary. | [noun] The letter ص in the Arabic script. SAE (3) SAG (4) [noun] The state of sinking or bending; a droop. | [noun] The difference in elevation of a wire, cable, chain or rope suspended between two consecutive points. | [noun] The difference in height or depth between the vertex and the rim of a curved surface, specifically used for optical elements such as a mirror or lens. | [noun] An Indian dish made from greens (usually spinach) cooked down to a thick paste. SAL (3) [noun] Salt | [noun] Shorea robusta, a dipterocarpaceous tree. SAP (5) [noun] The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. | [noun] The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree. | [noun] Any juice. | [noun] A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack. | [noun] A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc. SAT (3) [verb] (of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks. | [verb] (of a person) To move oneself into such a position. | [verb] (of an object) To occupy a given position permanently. | [noun] A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one. SAU (3) SAW (6) [noun] A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal | [noun] A musical saw. | [noun] A sawtooth wave. | [noun] Something spoken; speech, discourse. | [interjection] What's up (either as a greeting or actual question). SAX (10) [noun] A slate-cutter's hammer; slate-ax. | [noun] A knife or sword; a dagger about 50 cm (20 inches) in length. | [verb] To cut or slash with a sharp instrument; incise; scarify. | [noun] A single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards. SAY (6) [noun] A chance to speak; the right or power to influence or make a decision. | [verb] To pronounce. | [verb] To recite. | [noun] A type of fine cloth similar to serge. | [noun] Trial by sample; assay; specimen. | [noun] A strainer for milk. SEA (3) [noun] A large body of salt water. | [noun] A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish. | [noun] The swell of the sea; a single wave; billow. SEC (5) [noun] Second, 1/60 of a minute. | [noun] One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest. | [noun] A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree. SEE (3) [verb] (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight. | [verb] To form a mental picture of. | [verb] (social) To meet, to visit. | [noun] A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop. SEG (4) SEI (3) [noun] A sei whale. SEL (3) SEN (3) [noun] A unit of Japanese currency, worth one hundredth of a yen. | [noun] A coin of this value. | [noun] Self | [noun] A unit of length equal 20 wa, 40 meters SER (3) SET (3) [verb] To put (something) down, to rest. | [verb] To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place. | [verb] To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be. | [noun] A punch for setting nails in wood. | [adjective] Fixed in position. | [noun] A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot. | [verb] To divide a class group in a subject according to ability SEW (6) [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together. | [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together. | [verb] Followed by into: to enclose by sewing. | [verb] To drain the water from. SEX (10) [noun] A category into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species. | [noun] Another category, especially of humans and especially based on sexuality or gender roles. | [noun] The members of such a category, taken collectively. | [noun] An offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs. SHA (6) SHE (6) [noun] A female. | [pronoun] (personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied. | [pronoun] (personal, sometimes affectionate) A ship or boat. SHH (9) [noun] An utterance of shh. | [verb] To utter shh. | [interjection] Requesting silence. SHY (9) [noun] An act of throwing. | [noun] A place for throwing. | [noun] A sudden start aside, as by a horse. SIB (5) [adjective] Having kinship or relationship; related by same-bloodedness; having affinity; being akin; kindred. | [noun] Kindred; kin; kinsmen; a body of persons related by blood in any degree. | [noun] A kinsman; a blood relation; a relative, near or remote; one closely allied to another; an intimate companion. | [verb] To bring into relation; establish a relationship between; make friendly; reconcile. | [verb] To engage in repetitive behaviors such as eye-poking, skin-picking, hand-biting, or head-banging. SIC (5) [verb] To mark with a bracketed sic. | [adverb] Thus; thus written; used to indicate, for example, that text is being quoted as it is from the source. | [verb] To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs. SIM (5) [noun] A simulation or simulator. SIN (3) [noun] A violation of God's will or religious law. | [noun] A misdeed. | [noun] A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin. | [noun] A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ | [noun] A traditional tube skirt worn by Lao and Thai women, particularly northern Thai and northeastern Thai women. SIP (5) [verb] To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc. | [verb] To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse. | [verb] To diminish or wane away slowly. SIR (3) [noun] A man of a higher rank or position. | [noun] A respectful term of address to a man of higher rank or position, particularly: | [noun] A respectful term of address to an adult male (often older), especially if his name or proper title is unknown. SIS (3) [noun] A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling. | [noun] A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informally) a nun. | [noun] Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns. SIT (3) [noun] Subsidence of the roof of a coal mine. | [noun] An event, usually lasting one full day or more, where the primary goal is to sit in meditation. | [verb] (of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks. | [noun] Short for situation. SIX (10) [noun] The digit or figure 6. | [noun] (by ellipsis of six o'clock) Rear, behind (rear side of something). | [noun] An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which does not bounce before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 6 runs for the batting team. SKA (7) [noun] A style of Jamaican dance music combining elements of Caribbean calypso and mento with American jazz and rhythm and blues. SKI (7) [noun] One of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow or water | [noun] One of a pair of long flat runners under some flying machines, used for landing | [verb] To move on skis SKY (10) [noun] The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the ground during the day. | [noun] The part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its condition, climate etc. | [noun] Heaven. SLY (6) [adjective] Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily. | [adjective] (having a positive sense) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice | [adjective] Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle SOB (5) [noun] A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath. | [noun] Sound of sob | [verb] To weep with convulsive gasps. | [verb] To soak. SOD (4) [noun] That stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward. | [noun] Turf grown and cut specifically for the establishment of lawns. | [verb] To cover with sod. | [noun] Sodomite; bugger. | [verb] To boil. | [noun] The rock dove. SOL (3) [noun] The fifth step in the solfège scale of C (Ut), preceded by fa and followed by la. | [noun] A solar day on Mars (equivalent to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds). | [noun] A Spanish-American gold or silver coin, now the main currency unit of Peru (also new sol), or a coin of this value. | [noun] A type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid. | [noun] An old French coin worth 12 deniers. SON (3) [noun] One's male offspring. | [noun] A male adopted person in relation to his adoptive parents. | [noun] A male person who has such a close relationship with an older or otherwise more authoritative person that he can be regarded as a son of the other person. | [verb] To produce (i.e. bear, father, beget) a son. SOP (5) [noun] Something entirely soaked. | [noun] A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food. | [noun] Something given or done to pacify or bribe. SOS (3) [noun] A syllable used in solfège to represent the fifth note of a major scale. SOT (3) [noun] Stupid person; fool | [noun] Drunkard | [verb] To drink until one becomes drunk SOU (3) [noun] An old French copper coin equal to one twentieth of a livre or twelve deniers; one sou is to the livre as one shilling is to the pound. | [noun] Cent; pocket money. | [noun] A thing of the smallest value; a whit; a jot. SOW (6) [noun] A female pig. | [noun] A female bear, she-bear. | [noun] A female guinea pig. | [verb] To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds). SOX (10) [noun] A knitted or woven covering for the foot. | [noun] A shoe worn by Greco-Roman comedy actors. | [noun] A color pattern (usually white) on a cat's or dog's lower leg that is different from the color pattern on the rest of the animal. SOY (6) [noun] A common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water. | [noun] Soybeans, or the protein derived from them. SPA (5) [noun] A health resort near a mineral spring or hot spring. | [noun] A trendy or fashionable resort. | [noun] A health club. | [noun] A clumsy person (see spastic) SPY (8) [noun] A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage). | [verb] To act as a spy. | [verb] To spot; to catch sight of. SRI (3) STY (6) [noun] A pen or enclosure for swine. | [noun] A messy, dirty or debauched place. | [verb] To place in, or as if in, a sty | [noun] A ladder. | [noun] An inflammation of the eyelid. SUB (5) [noun] A submarine. | [noun] A submarine sandwich: a sandwich made on a long bun. | [noun] A substitute, often in sports. | [verb] To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating. SUE (3) [verb] To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action. | [verb] To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead. | [verb] (of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.). SUM (5) [noun] A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation. | [noun] (often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition). | [noun] A quantity of money. | [noun] The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan. | [pronoun] A certain number, at least two. | [noun] A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a somon is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia where it is equivalent to a township. SUN (3) [noun] A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system. | [noun] The light and warmth which is received from the sun. | [noun] Something like the sun in brightness or splendor. | [noun] A traditional Japanese unit of length, approximately 30.3 millimetres (1.193 inches). | [noun] Crotalaria juncea, an East Indian leguminous plant yielding a fiber. SUP (5) [noun] A sip; a small amount of food or drink. | [verb] To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon. | [verb] To take supper. | [interjection] What's up (either as a greeting or actual question) | [adjective] Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of an up quark. | [noun] Superintendent. | [noun] Upper limit. | [noun] A stand-up paddleboard SUQ (12) [noun] A street market, particularly in Arabic- and Somali-speaking countries; a place where people buy and sell goods. SYN (6) [adjective] That has a torsion angle between 0° and 90°.

SABE (6) SABS (6) [verb] To sabotage, especially fox hunts in opposition to blood sports. SACK (10) [noun] A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel. | [noun] The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds). | [noun] The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city. | [noun] A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry. | [noun] A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid. | [noun] A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid. SACS (6) [noun] A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid. | [noun] (games) A sacrifice. SADE (5) SADI (5) SAFE (7) [noun] A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping. | [noun] A condom. | [noun] A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects. SAGA (5) [noun] An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends. | [noun] Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story. SAGE (5) [noun] A wise person or spiritual teacher; someone of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher. | [adjective] Wise. | [adjective] Grave; serious; solemn | [noun] The plant Salvia officinalis and savory spice produced from it; also planted for ornamental purposes. | [verb] The act of using the word or option sage in the email field or a checkbox of an imageboard when posting a reply. SAGO (5) [noun] A powdered starch obtained from certain palms used as a food thickener. | [noun] A similar starch obtained from a palm-like cycad, Cycas revoluta | [noun] Any of the palms from which sago is extracted. SAGS (5) [noun] The state of sinking or bending; a droop. | [noun] The difference in elevation of a wire, cable, chain or rope suspended between two consecutive points. | [noun] The difference in height or depth between the vertex and the rim of a curved surface, specifically used for optical elements such as a mirror or lens. SAGY (8) SAID (5) [adjective] Mentioned earlier; aforesaid. | [verb] To pronounce. | [verb] To recite. SAIL (4) [noun] A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes. | [noun] (nautical,uncountable) The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance. | [noun] The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use of this power for travel or transport. | [verb] To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power. SAIN (4) SAKE (8) [noun] Cause, interest or account | [noun] Purpose or end; reason | [noun] The benefit or regard of someone or something | [noun] An alcoholic beverage made from fermenting various forms of rice, usually with an ABV similar to wine. SAKI (8) [noun] An alcoholic beverage made from fermenting various forms of rice, usually with an ABV similar to wine. | [noun] A class of Japanese rice wines made from polished rice and typically about 20% alcohol by volume. | [noun] Any of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Pithecia. with large ears and a long hairy tail that is not prehensile. SALE (4) [noun] A hall. | [noun] An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit. | [noun] (Short for discount sale) The sale of goods at reduced prices. SALL (4) SALP (6) [noun] Any of the free-swimming tunicates of the order Salpida and its single family Salpidae. SALS (4) [noun] Shorea robusta, a dipterocarpaceous tree. SALT (4) [noun] A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative. | [noun] One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid. | [noun] A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea. SAME (6) [adjective] Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical. | [adjective] Lacking variety from; indistinguishable. | [adjective] Similar, alike. | [adverb] Together. SAMP (8) [noun] An article of food consisting of coarse ground maize, or a porridge made from it. SAND (5) [noun] Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction. | [noun] (often in the plural) A beach or other expanse of sand. | [noun] (circa 1920) Personal courage. | [verb] To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it. | [noun] A sandpiper. SANE (4) [adjective] Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; thinking rationally. | [adjective] Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge the effect of one's actions in an ordinary manner. | [adjective] Rational; reasonable; sensible. SANG (5) [verb] To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice. | [verb] To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization. | [verb] To soothe with singing. | [noun] A Chinese wind instrument, a free-reed mouth organ consisting of 13 or more bamboo pipes of various lengths, which are fixed at their bases in a wind chest made from a dried gourd (or, more recently, wood or chrome-plated brass). SANK (8) [verb] (heading, physical) To move or be moved into something. | [verb] (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished. | [verb] To conceal and appropriate. SANS (4) [adjective] Short for sans serif. | [preposition] Without; lacking | [noun] A letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet (uppercase Ϻ, lowercase ϻ) that came after pi and before qoppa. SAPS (6) [noun] The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. | [noun] The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree. | [noun] Any juice. SARD (5) [noun] A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color. | [noun] Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with (a woman). SARI (4) [noun] The traditional dress of women in the Indian Subcontinent; an outer garment consisting of a single length of cotton or silk, most often with one end wrapped around the waist to form a skirt, the other draped over the shoulder or head. SARK (8) [noun] A shirt. | [verb] To cover with sarking, or thin boards. SASH (7) [noun] A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist. | [noun] A decorative length of cloth worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip, often for ceremonial or other formal occasions. | [verb] To adorn with a sash. | [noun] The opening part (casement) of a window usually containing the glass panes, hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as in a sash window. SASS (4) [noun] Backtalk, cheek, sarcasm. | [noun] Vegetables used in making sauces. | [verb] To talk, to talk back. SATE (4) [verb] To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up. | [verb] (of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks. | [verb] (of a person) To move oneself into such a position. | [noun] Satay SATI (4) [noun] The traditional custom of a Hindu woman giving herself up to be cremated on her husband’s funeral pyre as a sign of her devotion. SAUL (4) SAVE (7) [noun] In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring. | [noun] When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins while continually being ahead. | [noun] A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten. SAWN (7) [verb] To cut (something) with a saw. | [verb] To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw. | [verb] To be cut with a saw. SAWS (7) [noun] A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal | [noun] A musical saw. | [noun] A sawtooth wave. SAYS (7) [noun] A chance to speak; the right or power to influence or make a decision. | [verb] To pronounce. | [verb] To recite. SCAB (8) [noun] An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing. | [noun] The scabies. | [noun] The mange, especially when it appears on sheep. SCAD (7) [noun] Any of several fish, of the family Carangidae, from the western Atlantic. | [noun] (in the plural) A large number or quantity. SCAG (7) [noun] Heroin. | [noun] (originally African American Vernacular English) A woman of loose morals. | [noun] A cigarette. SCAM (8) [noun] A fraudulent deal. | [noun] Something that is promoted using scams. | [verb] To defraud or embezzle. SCAN (6) [noun] Close investigation. | [noun] An instance of scanning. | [noun] The result or output of a scanning process. SCAR (6) [noun] A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound. | [noun] (by extension) A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience. | [noun] Any permanent mark resulting from damage. | [noun] A cliff or rock outcrop. | [noun] A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish (family Scaridae). SCAT (6) [noun] A tax; tribute. | [noun] A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands. | [noun] Animal excrement; droppings, dung. | [noun] Scat singing. | [verb] To leave quickly (often used in the imperative). | [noun] Any fish in the family Scatophagidae SCOP (8) SCOT (6) [noun] A local tax, paid originally to the lord or ruler and later to a sheriff. SCOW (9) [noun] A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends. | [verb] To transport in a scow. SCRY (9) [verb] To predict the future using crystal balls or other objects. | [verb] To descry; to see. | [noun] A cry or shout. SCUD (7) [noun] The act of scudding. | [noun] Clouds or rain driven by the wind. | [noun] A loose formation of small ragged cloud fragments (or fog) not attached to a larger higher cloud layer. SCUM (8) [noun] A layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal or water). | [noun] A greenish water vegetation (such as algae), usually found floating on the surface of ponds | [noun] The topmost liquid layer of a cesspool or septic tank. SCUP (8) [noun] A common sparoid food fish, Stenotomus chrysops, of temperate regions of the Atlantic coast of North America; the porgy. | [noun] A swing. SCUT (6) [noun] A hare; a hare as the game in a hunt. | [noun] A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer. | [noun] (by extension) The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva. | [noun] A contemptible person. | [noun] Distasteful work; drudgery; specifically some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes. | [verb] (originally Cumbria) To scamper off. SEAL (4) [noun] A pinniped (Pinnipedia), particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal. | [noun] A bearing representing a creature something like a walrus. | [verb] To hunt seals. | [noun] A stamp used to impress a design on a soft substance such as wax. | [verb] To tie up animals (especially cattle) in their stalls. SEAM (6) [noun] A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric. | [noun] A suture. | [noun] A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral. | [verb] To put together with a seam. | [noun] An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels. | [noun] Grease; tallow; lard SEAR (4) [adjective] Dry; withered, especially of vegetation. | [noun] A scar produced by searing | [noun] Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled. SEAS (4) [noun] A large body of salt water. | [noun] A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish. | [noun] The swell of the sea; a single wave; billow. SEAT (4) [noun] Something to be sat upon. | [noun] A location or site. | [noun] The starting point of a fire. SECS (6) [noun] Second, 1/60 of a minute. | [noun] One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest. | [noun] A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree. SECT (6) [noun] An offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs. | [noun] A group following a specific ideal or a leader. | [noun] A cutting; a scion. SEED (5) [noun] A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant. | [noun] Any small seed-like fruit. | [noun] Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs. | [verb] (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight. SEEK (8) [noun] The operation of navigating through a stream. | [verb] To try to find; to look for; to search for. | [verb] To ask for; to solicit; to beseech. SEEL (4) [adjective] Good; fortunate; opportune; happy. | [noun] Good fortune; happiness; bliss. | [noun] Opportunity; time; season. | [verb] To sew together the eyes of a young hawk. | [noun] The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm. SEEM (6) [verb] To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as. | [verb] To befit; to beseem. SEEN (4) [verb] (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight. | [verb] To form a mental picture of. | [verb] (social) To meet, to visit. | [noun] The letter س in the Arabic script. SEEP (6) [noun] A small spring, pool, or other spot where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface; a place of seeping. | [noun] Moisture, liquid, gas, etc. that seeps out; a seepage. | [noun] The seeping away of a liquid, etc. SEER (4) [noun] One who sees something; an eyewitness. | [noun] One who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner. | [noun] Unit of mass or volume in the Middle East and Indian subcontinent. SEES (4) [verb] (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight. | [verb] To form a mental picture of. | [verb] (social) To meet, to visit. SEGO (5) [noun] A perennial bulb lily found in Western North America, the Calochortus nuttallii, which has trumpet-shaped flowers. SEGS (5) SEIF (7) [noun] A sand dune that elongates parallel to the prevailing wind. SEIS (4) [noun] A sei whale. SELF (7) [noun] One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition. | [noun] The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts. | [noun] An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness (plural selves). SELL (4) [noun] An act of selling. | [noun] An easy task. | [noun] An imposition, a cheat; a hoax; a disappointment; anything occasioning a loss of pride or dignity. | [noun] A seat or stool. | [noun] A rope (usually for tying up cattle, but can also mean any sort of rope). SELS (4) SEME (6) [noun] Anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation or sign. | [verb] To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as. | [verb] To befit; to beseem. | [noun] A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric. | [adjective] Sprinkled, sown, strewn: said of a field or charge when strewn with small (identical) charges. | [noun] (Japanese fiction) An active or dominant male character in a same-sex relationship; a top. SEMI (6) [noun] A semi-detached house. | [noun] A semitrailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler; an artic. | [noun] A semifinal. SEND (5) [noun] The rising motion of water as a wave passes; a surge; the upward angular displacement of a vessel, opposed to pitch, the correlative downward movement. | [noun] An operation in which data is transmitted. | [noun] A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride. SENE (4) [noun] Senna. | [noun] A unit of currency equivalent to a hundredth of a Samoan tala. SENT (4) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Estonian kroon. | [noun] A distinctive odour or smell. | [noun] An odour left by an animal that may be used for tracing. SEPT (6) [noun] A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor (used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland). | [noun] An enclosure; a railing. SERA (4) [noun] The clear yellowish liquid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components after it has been allowed to clot. | [noun] Blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals, containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual, called antiserum. | [noun] A watery liquid from animal tissue, especially one that moistens the surface of serous membranes or that is exuded by such membranes when they become inflamed, such as in edema or a blister. SERE (4) [adjective] Without moisture; dry. | [adjective] Of fabrics: threadbare, worn out. | [noun] A natural succession of animal or plant communities in an ecosystem, especially a series of communities succeeding one another from the time a habitat is unoccupied to the point when a climax community is achieved. | [noun] A claw, a talon. | [adjective] Individual, separate, set apart. SERF (7) [noun] A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights | [noun] A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe | [noun] (strategy games) a worker unit SERS (4) SETA (4) [noun] A bristle or hair | [noun] The stalk of a moss sporangium, or occasionally in a liverwort. SETS (4) [verb] To put (something) down, to rest. | [verb] To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place. | [verb] To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be. SETT (4) [verb] To put (something) down, to rest. | [verb] To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place. | [verb] To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be. SEWN (7) [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together. | [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together. | [verb] Followed by into: to enclose by sewing. SEWS (7) [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together. | [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together. | [verb] Followed by into: to enclose by sewing. SEXT (11) [noun] Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight. | [noun] The service appointed for this hour. | [noun] A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees. | [noun] An electronic message involving sexual language or images. SEXY (14) [adjective] (of a person) Having sex appeal; suggestive of sex. | [adjective] That can sexually attract or arouse. | [adjective] (of a thing or concept) interesting, attractive, intriguing, or appealing. | [adjective] Used to describe prime numbers that differ from each other by six. SHAD (8) [noun] Any one of several species of food fishes that make up the genus Alosa in the family Clupeidae, to which the herrings also belong; river herring. | [noun] The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix). SHAG (8) [noun] Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc. | [noun] Coarse shredded tobacco. | [noun] A type of rough carpet pile. | [noun] Several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially the common shag or European shag, Phalacrocorax aristotelis, found on European and African coasts. | [noun] A swing dance. | [noun] (Northwestern Ontario) A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married. | [noun] Friend; mate; buddy. SHAH (10) [noun] A king of Persia or Iran. | [noun] A supreme ruler in some Middle Eastern or South Asian nations. | [noun] A Ukrainian monetary unit. SHAM (9) [noun] A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine. | [noun] Trickery, hoaxing. | [noun] A false front, or removable ornamental covering. SHAT (7) [verb] To defecate. | [verb] To excrete (something) through the anus. | [verb] To fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful. | [noun] A dry salt lake, in the Saharan area of Africa, that stays dry in the summer but receives some water in the winter. | [noun] A fragment of anything shattered. SHAW (10) [noun] A thicket; a small wood or grove. | [noun] The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips. SHAY (10) [noun] A chaise. SHEA (7) [noun] A tree (Vitellaria paradoxa) indigenous to Africa, occurring in Mali, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Togo, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Uganda. | [noun] The fruit of this tree, having a thin, tart, nutritious pulp that surrounds a relatively large, oil-rich seed. SHED (8) [verb] To part, separate or divide. | [verb] To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of. | [verb] To pour; to make flow. | [noun] An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven. | [noun] A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut. SHES (7) [noun] A female. SHEW (10) [noun] A play, dance, or other entertainment. | [noun] An exhibition of items. | [noun] A broadcast program/programme. | [verb] To display, to have somebody see (something). SHIM (9) [noun] A wedge. | [noun] A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support. | [noun] A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes. | [noun] A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits, also called a he-she; transsexual. SHIN (7) [noun] The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone | [noun] A fishplate for a railway. | [verb] (as "shin up") To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like. | [noun] The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) SHIP (9) [noun] A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat. | [noun] (chiefly in combination) A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship. | [noun] A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts. | [verb] To send by water-borne transport. | [noun] A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional. SHIT (7) [noun] Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces. | [noun] An instance of defecation. | [noun] Rubbish; worthless matter. | [verb] To defecate. SHIV (10) [noun] A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush). | [noun] A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp. | [verb] To stab someone with a shiv. SHMO (9) SHOD (8) [adjective] Wearing shoes. | [adjective] Having tires equipped. | [verb] To put shoes on one's feet. SHOE (7) [noun] A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of leather or synthetic material. Shoes generally do not extend above the ankle, as opposed to boots, which do. | [noun] A piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse's foot as a means of protection; a horseshoe. | [noun] A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles. SHOG (8) SHOO (7) [verb] To induce someone or something to leave. | [verb] To leave under inducement. | [verb] To usher someone. SHOP (9) [noun] An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well. | [noun] A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop. | [noun] A large garage where vehicle mechanics work. SHOT (7) [verb] To launch a projectile. | [verb] To move or act quickly or suddenly. | [verb] To act or achieve. | [noun] A charge to be paid, a scot or shout. | [interjection] Thank you. SHOW (10) [noun] A play, dance, or other entertainment. | [noun] An exhibition of items. | [noun] A broadcast program/programme. SHRI (7) SHUL (7) [noun] The synagogue. SHUN (7) [verb] To avoid, especially persistently. | [verb] To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc). | [verb] To screen, hide. SHUT (7) [adjective] Closed, shut. | [adjective] Narrow; confined. | [adjective] At a little distance; near. | [noun] A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets. SIAL (4) [noun] The rocks rich in silicon and aluminum that form the upper layer of the earth's crust, which lies beneath all continental landmasses. SIBB (8) SIBS (6) [noun] Kindred; kin; kinsmen; a body of persons related by blood in any degree. | [noun] A kinsman; a blood relation; a relative, near or remote; one closely allied to another; an intimate companion. | [noun] A sibling, brother or sister (irrespective of gender) SICE (6) [noun] A groom, or servant with responsibility for the horses. | [noun] (Malaya) usually syce: chauffeur, driver. | [noun] The number six in a game of dice. SICK (10) [noun] Sick people in general as a group. | [noun] Vomit. | [verb] To vomit. | [verb] To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs. SICS (6) [verb] To mark with a bracketed sic. | [verb] To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs. | [verb] To set upon; to chase; to attack. SIDE (5) [noun] A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape. | [noun] A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face. | [noun] One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone. | [verb] To clear, tidy or sort. SIFT (7) SIGH (8) [noun] A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing. | [noun] Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lament. | [noun] A person who is bored. SIGN (5) [noun] (sometimes also used uncountably) A visible indication. | [noun] Physical evidence left by an animal. | [noun] A clearly visible object, generally flat, bearing a short message in words or pictures. | [verb] To make a mark SIKE (8) [noun] A gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer. | [noun] A sigh. | [verb] To sigh or sob. | [interjection] Indicating that one's preceding statement was false and that one has successfully fooled one's interlocutor. Also sike. SILD (5) [noun] Any young herring (other than a sprat), especially if canned and processed in Scandinavia for sale as a sardine. SILK (8) [noun] A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider). | [noun] A fine, soft cloth woven from silk fibers. | [noun] Anything which resembles silk, such as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize, or the seed covering of bombaxes. SILL (4) [noun] (also window sill) A horizontal slat which forms the base of a window. | [noun] A horizontal, structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings or lying on the ground in earth-fast construction and bearing the upright portion of a frame. Also called a ground plate, groundsill, sole, sole-plate, mudsill. An interrupted sill fits between posts instead of being below and supporting the posts in timber framing. | [noun] A horizontal layer of igneous rock between older rock beds. | [noun] A young herring. | [noun] The shaft or thill of a carriage. SILO (4) [noun] A vertical building, usually cylindrical, used for the production of silage. | [noun] From the shape, a building used for the storage of grain. | [noun] An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched. SILT (4) [noun] Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water. | [noun] (by extension) Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport. | [noun] A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale. SIMA (6) [noun] The upturned edge of a roof which acts as a gutter; a cyma. | [noun] The lower layer of the earth's outer crust that underlies the sial and is rich in silica, iron, and magnesium. SIMP (8) [noun] A simple person lacking common sense; a fool or simpleton. | [verb] To melancholically reminisce; to recall once fond memories now tinged with sadness, especially regarding a former lover. | [noun] A man who foolishly overvalues and defers to a woman, putting her on a pedestal. | [adjective] Made more simple; having its complexity reduced. SIMS (6) [noun] A simulation or simulator. SINE (4) [noun] In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length of the hypotenuse. SING (5) [noun] A gathering at which people sing songs. | [verb] To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice. | [verb] To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization. SINH (7) [noun] A traditional tube skirt worn by Lao and Thai women, particularly northern Thai and northeastern Thai women. SINK (8) [noun] A basin used for holding water for washing. | [noun] A drain for carrying off wastewater. | [noun] A sinkhole. SINS (4) [noun] A violation of God's will or religious law. | [noun] A misdeed. | [noun] A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin. SIPE (6) [noun] Slit in a tire to drain away surface water and improve traction. | [noun] A drain. | [verb] To cut grooves in tires. SIPS (6) [noun] A small mouthful of drink SIRE (4) [noun] A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign. | [noun] A male animal; a stud, especially a horse or dog, that has fathered another. | [noun] A father; the head of a family; the husband. SIRS (4) [noun] A man of a higher rank or position. | [noun] A respectful term of address to a man of higher rank or position, particularly: | [noun] A respectful term of address to an adult male (often older), especially if his name or proper title is unknown. SITE (4) [noun] Sorrow, grief. | [noun] The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position | [noun] A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation SITH (7) SITS (4) [noun] Subsidence of the roof of a coal mine. | [noun] An event, usually lasting one full day or more, where the primary goal is to sit in meditation. | [verb] (of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks. SIZE (13) [noun] (obsolete outside dialectal) An assize. | [noun] A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc. | [noun] A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink. | [noun] A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon. SIZY (16) SKAG (9) [noun] Heroin. | [noun] (originally African American Vernacular English) A woman of loose morals. | [noun] A cigarette. SKAS (8) SKAT (8) [noun] A trick-taking card game for three players, popular in Germany. | [noun] A widow of two cards in the game of skat. SKEE (8) SKEG (9) [noun] A fin-like structure to the rear of the keel of a vessel that supports the rudder and protects a propeller. | [noun] A similar construction on a boat that acts as a keel. | [noun] A fin that serves to stabilize a surfboard. SKEP (10) [noun] A basket. | [noun] A beehive made of straw or wicker. SKEW (11) [noun] Something that has an oblique or slanted position. | [noun] An oblique or sideways movement. | [noun] A bias or distortion in a particular direction. | [noun] A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel. SKID (9) [noun] An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car. | [noun] A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a skidpan. | [noun] (by extension) A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose. | [noun] A stepchild. SKIM (10) [noun] A cursory reading, skipping the details. | [noun] Skim milk. | [noun] The act of skimming. SKIN (8) [noun] The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human. | [noun] The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant. | [noun] The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc. SKIP (10) [noun] A leaping, jumping or skipping movement. | [noun] The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part. | [noun] A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once. | [noun] A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep). | [noun] Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority. | [noun] An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent. | [noun] (college slang) A college servant. SKIS (8) [noun] One of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow or water | [noun] One of a pair of long flat runners under some flying machines, used for landing | [verb] To move on skis SKIT (8) [noun] A short comic performance. | [noun] A jeer or sally; a brief satire. | [noun] A wanton girl; a wench. SKUA (8) [noun] Any of various predatory seabirds of the family Stercorariidae that often chase other seabirds to steal their catches. SLAB (6) [noun] A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat. | [noun] A paving stone; a flagstone. | [noun] A carton containing 24 cans of beer. | [noun] Mud, sludge. | [noun] A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories. SLAG (5) [noun] Waste material from a coal mine | [noun] Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal | [noun] Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders SLAM (6) [noun] A sudden impact or blow. | [noun] The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object. | [noun] A slam dunk. | [noun] A type of card game, also called ruff and honours. | [noun] A shambling fellow. SLAP (6) [noun] A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat. | [noun] The sound of such a blow. | [noun] Makeup; cosmetics. SLAT (4) [noun] A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath) or metal. | [noun] (aeronautical) A movable control surface at the leading edge of a wing that when moved, changes the chord line of the airfoil, affecting the angle of attack. Employed in conjunction with flaps to allow for a lower stall speed in the landing attitude, facilitating slow flight. | [noun] A ski. SLAW (7) [noun] Coleslaw. SLAY (7) [verb] To kill, murder. | [verb] To eradicate or stamp out. | [verb] (by extension) To defeat, overcome (in a competition or contest). SLED (5) [noun] A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills. (A "sled" in this sense is not pulled by an animal as a "sleigh" is.) | [noun] A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice. (contrast "sleigh", which is larger) | [noun] A snowmobile. SLEW (7) [noun] The act, or process of slewing. | [noun] A device used for slewing. | [noun] A change of position. | [noun] A wet place; a river inlet. | [verb] To kill, murder. | [noun] A large amount. SLID (5) [verb] To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface | [verb] To move on a low-friction surface. | [verb] To drop down and skid into a base. SLIM (6) [noun] A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes. | [noun] A potato farl. | [noun] AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages. SLIP (6) [noun] A thin, slippery mix of clay and water. | [noun] Mud, slime. | [noun] A twig or shoot; a cutting. | [noun] An act or instance of slipping. SLIT (4) [noun] A narrow cut or opening; a slot. | [noun] The opening of the vagina. | [noun] A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute. SLOB (6) [noun] A lazy and slovenly person. | [noun] A lazy and obese person. SLOE (4) [noun] The small, bitter, wild fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa). | [noun] The tree Prunus spinosa. | [noun] Any of various other plants of the genus Prunus, as a shrub or small tree, Prunus alleghaniensis, bearing dark-purple fruit. SLOG (5) [noun] A long, tedious walk, or session of work. | [noun] An aggressive shot played with little skill. | [verb] To walk slowly, encountering resistance. SLOP (6) [noun] A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A rubber thong sandal. | [noun] (in the plural) See slops. | [noun] Liquid or semi-solid; goo, paste, mud. | [noun] (costers) A policeman. SLOT (4) [noun] A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc. | [noun] A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece. | [noun] An implement for baring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like. | [noun] A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it. SLOW (7) [noun] Someone who is slow; a sluggard. | [noun] A slow song. | [verb] To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of. SLUB (6) [noun] A small thickened portion or knot found on linen yarn, caused by defects. | [noun] Fabric fiber produced by slubbing. | [verb] To draw and twist fibers in order to prepare them for spinning. SLUE (4) [noun] The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued. | [noun] A slough; a run or wet place. | [verb] To rotate something on an axis. SLUG (5) [noun] Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. | [noun] A slow, lazy person; a sluggard. | [noun] A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug. | [noun] A hard blow, usually with the fist. SLUM (6) [noun] A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty. | [noun] Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game. | [verb] To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own. | [noun] Slumgullion; a meat-based stew SLUR (4) [noun] An insult or slight. | [noun] A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation. | [noun] The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie). SLUT (4) [noun] A sexually promiscuous woman or girl. | [noun] Any sexually promiscuous person, often a gay man. | [noun] Someone who seeks attention through inappropriate means or to an excessive degree. SMEW (9) [noun] A small compact diving duck, Mergus albellus, that breeds in the northern taiga of Europe and Asia and winters on sheltered coasts or inland lakes. SMIT (6) [noun] Fine clay or ochre made up into balls, used for marking sheep. | [noun] An infection. | [noun] A stain. | [verb] To hit, to strike. SMOG (7) [noun] A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution. | [verb] To get a smog check; to check a vehicle or have it checked for emissions. SMUG (7) [verb] To make smug, or spruce. | [verb] To seize; to confiscate. | [verb] To hush up. SMUT (6) [noun] Soot. | [noun] A flake of ash or soot. | [noun] Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material. SNAG (5) [noun] A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch. | [noun] A dead tree that remains standing. | [noun] A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk. | [noun] A light meal. | [noun] A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons). SNAP (6) [noun] A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound. | [noun] A sudden break. | [noun] An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab. SNAW (7) SNED (5) [verb] To lop. SNIB (6) [noun] A latch or fastening for a door, window etc. | [noun] A reprimand; a snub. | [verb] To latch (a door, window etc.). SNIP (6) [noun] The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something. | [noun] A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool. | [noun] Something acquired for a low price; a bargain. SNIT (4) [noun] A temper; a lack of patience; a bad mood. | [noun] A U.S. unit of volume for liquor equal to 2 jiggers, 3 U.S. fluid ounces, or 88.7 milliliters. | [noun] A beer chaser commonly served in three-ounce servings in highball or juice glasses with a Bloody Mary cocktail in the upper midwest states of United States including Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, and Illinois. SNOB (6) [noun] A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes. | [noun] A cobbler or shoemaker. | [noun] A member of the lower classes; a commoner. SNOG (5) [noun] A passionate kiss. | [verb] To kiss passionately. SNOT (4) [noun] Mucus, especially mucus from the nose. | [noun] A contemptible child. | [noun] A mean fellow. SNOW (7) [noun] The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation. | [noun] Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid. | [noun] A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water. | [noun] A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted. SNUB (6) [noun] A deliberate affront or slight. | [noun] A sudden checking of a cable or rope. | [noun] A knot; a protuberance; a snag. | [verb] To sob with convulsions. SNUG (5) [noun] A small, comfortable back room in a pub. | [noun] A lug. | [verb] To make secure or snug. SNYE (7) SOAK (8) [noun] An immersion in water etc. | [noun] A drunkard. | [noun] A carouse; a drinking session. SOAP (6) [noun] A substance able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning, often in the form of a solid bar or in liquid form, derived from fats or made synthetically. | [noun] A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid | [noun] Flattery or excessively complacent conversation. SOAR (4) [noun] The act of soaring. | [noun] An upward flight. | [verb] To fly high with little effort, like a bird. SOBS (6) [noun] A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath. | [noun] Sound of sob | [verb] To weep with convulsive gasps. SOCK (10) [noun] A knitted or woven covering for the foot. | [noun] A shoe worn by Greco-Roman comedy actors. | [noun] A color pattern (usually white) on a cat's or dog's lower leg that is different from the color pattern on the rest of the animal. | [noun] A violent blow; a punch. | [noun] A ploughshare. | [noun] An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket). SODA (5) [noun] Sodium bicarbonate (usually baking soda). | [noun] Sodium carbonate (usually washing soda). | [noun] Sodium in chemical combination. SODS (5) [verb] To cover with sod. | [noun] Sodomite; bugger. | [noun] (mildly pejorative, formerly considered vulgar) A person, usually male; often qualified with an adjective. SOFA (7) [noun] A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting. | [noun] (furniture) An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people. | [verb] To furnish with one or more sofas. SOFT (7) [noun] A soft or foolish person; an idiot. | [noun] Ellipsis of soft tyre (A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.) | [noun] A soft sound or part of a sound. SOIL (4) [noun] A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth. | [noun] The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants. | [noun] The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics. | [noun] Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes. | [noun] A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted. | [verb] To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food. SOJA (11) SOKE (8) [noun] Any of several medieval rights, either to hold a court, or to receive fines. | [noun] A district under a particular jurisdiction. SOLA (4) [noun] A wild plant found in Bengal and Assam, Aeschynomene aspera, having a milky-white, spongy pith used for the manufacture of pith helmets and decorative artefacts. SOLD (5) [verb] (ditransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money. | [verb] To be sold. | [verb] To promote a product or service. | [noun] Salary; military pay SOLE (4) [noun] A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall. | [noun] A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water. | [verb] To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug. | [adjective] Only | [noun] The bottom or plantar surface of the foot. SOLI (4) [noun] A piece of music for one performer. | [noun] A job or performance done by one person alone. | [noun] (games) A card game similar to whist in which each player plays against the others in turn without a partner SOLO (4) [noun] A piece of music for one performer. | [noun] A job or performance done by one person alone. | [noun] (games) A card game similar to whist in which each player plays against the others in turn without a partner SOLS (4) [noun] A solar day on Mars (equivalent to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds). | [noun] A Spanish-American gold or silver coin, now the main currency unit of Peru (also new sol), or a coin of this value. | [noun] A type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid. SOMA (6) [noun] The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail. | [noun] The corporeal body, as distinguished from the psyche or soul and the pneuma or spirit. | [noun] The bulbous part of a neuron, containing the cell nucleus. | [noun] (hinduism) A ritual drink in ancient Vedic and continuing Hindu culture, obtained by pressing the Soma plant. SOME (6) [adverb] Of a measurement: approximately, roughly. | [pronoun] A certain number, at least two. | [pronoun] An indefinite quantity. SONE (4) [noun] (acoustics) a subjective unit of loudness for an average listener equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz sound that has an intensity 40 decibels above the listener's own threshold of hearing SONG (5) [noun] A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing. | [noun] (by extension) Any musical composition. | [noun] Poetical composition; poetry; verse. SONS (4) [noun] One's male offspring. | [noun] A male adopted person in relation to his adoptive parents. | [noun] A male person who has such a close relationship with an older or otherwise more authoritative person that he can be regarded as a son of the other person. SOOK (8) [verb] To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast). | [verb] To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat. | [verb] To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk. | [noun] Familiar name for a calf. | [noun] A crybaby, a complainer, a whinger; a shy or timid person, a wimp; a coward. | [noun] A street market, particularly in Arabic- and Somali-speaking countries; a place where people buy and sell goods. | [noun] A mature female Chesapeake Bay blue crab, Callinectes sapidus. SOON (4) [adjective] Short in length of time from the present. | [adjective] Early | [adverb] Immediately, instantly. SOOT (4) [noun] Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc. | [verb] To cover or dress with soot. SOPH (9) SOPS (6) [noun] Something entirely soaked. | [noun] A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food. | [noun] Something given or done to pacify or bribe. SORA (4) [noun] A rail (Porzana carolina) of North, Central, and northern South America. SORB (6) [noun] The service tree, Sorbus domestica. | [noun] Any of various related trees, including the wild service tree, S. torminalis, and the rowan, S. aucuparia. | [noun] The fruit of any of these trees, especially of the service tree. | [verb] To absorb or adsorb. SORD (5) [noun] A flock of mallards | [noun] A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod. | [noun] An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow. SORE (4) [noun] An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin. | [noun] Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty. | [verb] To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait. | [noun] A group of ducks on land. | [noun] A young hawk or falcon in its first year. SORI (4) [noun] Any reproductive structure, in some lichens and fungi, that produces spores. | [noun] A cluster of sporangia on the edge or underside of a fern frond. | [noun] Copper sulphate SORN (4) SORT (4) [noun] A general type. | [noun] Manner; form of being or acting. | [noun] Condition above the vulgar; rank. | [verb] To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts. SOTH (7) SOTS (4) [noun] Stupid person; fool | [noun] Drunkard | [verb] To drink until one becomes drunk SOUK (8) [noun] A street market, particularly in Arabic- and Somali-speaking countries; a place where people buy and sell goods. SOUL (4) [noun] The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death. | [noun] The spirit or essence of anything. | [noun] Life, energy, vigor. | [verb] To afford suitable sustenance. SOUP (6) [noun] Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute flavor and texture. | [noun] Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency. | [verb] To feed: to provide with soup or a meal. | [verb] Alternative form of sup | [noun] Alternative form of sup | [verb] To sup or swallow. | [verb] To breathe out; to draw out. SOUR (4) [noun] The sensation of a sour taste. | [noun] A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar. | [noun] (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice. SOUS (4) [noun] An old French copper coin equal to one twentieth of a livre or twelve deniers; one sou is to the livre as one shilling is to the pound. | [noun] Cent; pocket money. | [noun] A thing of the smallest value; a whit; a jot. | [noun] An old French copper coin equal to one twentieth of a livre or twelve deniers; one sou is to the livre as one shilling is to the pound. | [noun] An old French copper coin equal to one twentieth of a livre or twelve deniers; one sou is to the livre as one shilling is to the pound. SOWN (7) [verb] To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds). | [verb] To spread abroad; to propagate. | [verb] To scatter over; to besprinkle. SOWS (7) [noun] A female pig. | [noun] A female bear, she-bear. | [noun] A female guinea pig. SOYA (7) [noun] A common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water. | [noun] Soybeans, or the protein derived from them. SOYS (7) [noun] A common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water. | [noun] Soybeans, or the protein derived from them. SPAE (6) [verb] To divine; foretell SPAN (6) [noun] The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; an eighth of a fathom. | [noun] (by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time. | [noun] A portion of something by length; a subsequence. | [verb] To extend through the distance between or across. | [verb] To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction. SPAR (6) [noun] A rafter of a roof. | [noun] A thick pole or piece of wood. | [noun] A bar of wood used to fasten a door. | [noun] A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting. | [noun] Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft. SPAS (6) [noun] A health resort near a mineral spring or hot spring. | [noun] A trendy or fashionable resort. | [noun] A health club. SPAT (6) [verb] To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc. | [verb] To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth; specifically, to rain or snow slightly. | [verb] To utter (something) violently. | [noun] The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs. | [noun] (often in the plural) A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe. | [noun] A brief argument, falling out, quarrel. | [noun] A light blow with something flat. | [noun] An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres. SPAY (9) [verb] To remove or destroy the ovaries (of an animal) so that it cannot become pregnant. | [noun] The hart in its third year; a young deer | [verb] To divine; foretell SPAZ (15) [noun] A stupid or incompetent person. | [noun] A hyperactive person. | [noun] A tantrum, a fit. SPEC (8) [noun] A special place (for hiding or viewing) | [noun] A spectacular mark (catch) in Australian rules football. | [verb] To specify, especially in a formal specification document. SPED (7) [verb] To succeed; to prosper, be lucky. | [verb] To help someone, to give them fortune; to aid or favour. | [verb] To go fast. SPEW (9) [noun] Vomit | [noun] Ejaculate or ejaculation. | [noun] Nonsense or lies. SPIC (8) [noun] A Spanish-speaking person, someone with a Central American or Latino accent. SPIK (10) SPIN (6) [noun] Rapid circular motion. | [noun] A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment. | [noun] A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation. SPIT (6) [noun] A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire. | [noun] A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula. | [verb] To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object. | [noun] A sudden impact or blow. | [noun] The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade. SPIV (9) [noun] A smartly dressed person who trades in illicit, black-market or stolen goods. | [noun] A flashy con artist, often homeless, who lives by his wits. | [noun] In Scotland Yard usage, a low and common thief. SPOT (6) [noun] A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape. | [noun] A stain or disfiguring mark. | [noun] A pimple, papule or pustule. SPRY (9) [adjective] Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active. | [adjective] Vigorous; lively; cheerful. SPUD (7) [noun] A potato. | [noun] A hole in a sock. | [noun] A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends. SPUE (6) [verb] To eject forcibly and in a stream | [verb] To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading. | [verb] To vomit SPUN (6) [verb] To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction. | [verb] To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together. | [verb] To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance. SPUR (6) [noun] A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight. | [noun] A jab given with the spurs. | [noun] Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse. | [noun] A tern. | [noun] A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal. | [noun] The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor. | [verb] To ask, to inquire SRIS (4) STAB (6) [noun] An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object. | [noun] A wound made by stabbing. | [noun] Pain inflicted on a person's feelings. STAG (5) [noun] An adult male deer. | [noun] A colt, or filly. | [noun] (by extension) A romping girl; a tomboy. STAR (4) [noun] Any small luminous dot appearing in the cloudless portion of the night sky, especially with a fixed location relative to other such dots. | [noun] A luminous celestial body, made up of plasma (particularly hydrogen and helium) and having a spherical shape. Depending on context the sun may or may not be included. | [noun] A concave polygon with regular, pointy protrusions and indentations, generally with five or six points. STAT (4) [adjective] With no delay; at once. | [adverb] Immediately; now. | [verb] To assign statistics to (a monster, etc. in a game). | [noun] A statutory public holiday (also as stat holiday) STAW (7) STAY (7) [noun] Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time; sojourn. | [noun] A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment. | [noun] A stop; a halt; a break or cessation of action, motion, or progress. | [noun] A prop; a support. | [noun] A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel. | [adjective] Steep; ascending. STEM (6) [noun] The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors. | [noun] A branch of a family. | [noun] An advanced or leading position; the lookout. | [verb] To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood). | [noun] A gleam of light; a flame. | [noun] Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics. STEP (6) [noun] An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace. | [noun] A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder. | [noun] A distinct part of a process; stage; phase. STET (4) [noun] A symbol used by proofreaders and typesetters to indicate that a word or phrase that was crossed out should still remain. | [verb] To let (edited material) stand, or remain as it was. STEW (7) [noun] A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron. | [noun] A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath. | [noun] A brothel. | [noun] A steward or stewardess on an airplane. STEY (7) STIR (4) [noun] The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.) | [noun] Agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements. | [noun] Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar. | [noun] Jail; prison. STOA (4) [noun] In Ancient Greece, a walkway with a roof supported by colonnades, often with a wall on one side; specifically, the Great Hall in Athens. STOB (6) [noun] A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting. | [noun] A small post for supporting paling. | [noun] A wedge in coal-mining. STOP (6) [noun] A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station. | [noun] An action of stopping; interruption of travel. | [noun] That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment. | [noun] A small well-bucket; a milk-pail. | [adjective] Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark. STOW (7) [noun] A place, stead. | [verb] To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place. | [verb] To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time. STUB (6) [noun] Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump. | [noun] A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes. | [noun] A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior. STUD (5) [noun] A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding. | [noun] A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding. | [noun] (also by extension) A group of such animals. | [noun] A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob. | [noun] A person who studies or learns about a particular subject. STUM (6) [noun] Unfermented grape juice; must. | [noun] Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must. | [verb] To ferment. STUN (4) [noun] The condition of being stunned. | [noun] That which stuns; a shock; a stupefying blow. | [noun] A person who lacks intelligence. STYE (7) [noun] A bacterial infection in the eyelash or eyelid. | [noun] A ladder. | [noun] An inflammation of the eyelid. SUBA (6) SUBS (6) [noun] A submarine. | [noun] A submarine sandwich: a sandwich made on a long bun. | [noun] A substitute, often in sports. SUCH (9) [noun] Something being indicated that is similar to something else. | [pronoun] A person, a thing, people or things like the one or ones already mentioned. SUCK (10) [noun] An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling. | [noun] Milk drawn from the breast. | [noun] A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser. SUDD (6) [noun] (Central Africa) A floating mass of plant matter, such as reeds, which obstructs the passage of boats. SUDS (5) [noun] Lather; foam or froth formed by mixing soap and water. | [noun] Beer | [verb] To cover with, or as if with, soapsuds. SUED (5) [verb] To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action. | [verb] To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead. | [verb] (of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.). SUER (4) SUES (4) [verb] To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action. | [verb] To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead. | [verb] (of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.). SUET (4) [noun] The fatty tissue that surrounds and protects the kidneys; that of sheep and cattle is used in cooking and in making tallow. SUGH (8) SUIT (4) [noun] A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman. | [noun] (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit. | [noun] (metonym) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor. SULK (8) [noun] A state of sulking. | [verb] To express ill humor or offence by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn. | [noun] A furrow. SULU (4) [noun] An all-purpose skirt-like garment worn by men and women in Fiji. SUMO (6) [noun] A stylised Japanese form of wrestling in which a wrestler loses if he is forced from the ring, or if any part of his body except the soles of his feet touches the ground. | [noun] A rikishi (sumo wrestler) SUMP (8) [noun] A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink. | [noun] The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains. | [noun] A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving. SUMS (6) [noun] A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a somon is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia where it is equivalent to a township. | [noun] A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation. | [noun] (often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition). SUNG (5) [verb] To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice. | [verb] To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization. | [verb] To soothe with singing. SUNK (8) [verb] (heading, physical) To move or be moved into something. | [verb] (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished. | [verb] To conceal and appropriate. SUNN (4) [noun] Crotalaria juncea, an East Indian leguminous plant yielding a fiber. SUNS (4) [noun] A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system. | [noun] The light and warmth which is received from the sun. | [noun] Something like the sun in brightness or splendor. SUPE (6) SUPS (6) [noun] A sip; a small amount of food or drink. | [noun] Superintendent. | [noun] Upper limit. SUQS (13) [noun] A street market, particularly in Arabic- and Somali-speaking countries; a place where people buy and sell goods. SURA (4) [noun] Any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an. | [noun] The sap of the palmyra or of the coconut palm, palm wine. SURD (5) [noun] An irrational number, especially one expressed using the √ symbol. | [noun] A voiceless consonant. | [adjective] Lacking the sense of hearing; deaf. SURE (4) [adjective] Physically secure and certain, non-failing, reliable. | [adjective] Certain in one's knowledge or belief. | [adjective] Certain to act or be a specified way. SURF (7) [noun] Waves that break on an ocean shoreline. | [noun] An instance or session of riding a surfboard in the surf. | [noun] The bottom of a drain. SUSS (4) [noun] Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle. | [noun] Suspicious behaviour; the act of loitering with intent. | [verb] To arrest for suspicious behaviour. | [noun] Social nous. SWAB (9) [noun] A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access. | [noun] A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material). | [noun] A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns. SWAG (8) [noun] (window coverings) A loop of draped fabric. | [noun] A low point or depression in land; especially, a place where water collects. | [verb] To (cause to) sway. | [noun] Style; fashionable appearance or manner. | [noun] (thieves' cant) A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods. | [noun] Initialism of scientific/speculative/sophisticated/stupid wild-ass guess. SWAM (9) [verb] To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. | [verb] To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid | [verb] To move around freely because of excess space. SWAN (7) [noun] Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage. | [noun] One whose grace etc. suggests a swan. | [noun] This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms of Buckinghamshire). | [verb] To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions). SWAP (9) [verb] To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else). | [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap. | [noun] An exchange of two comparable things. | [noun] A blow; a stroke. SWAT (7) [noun] A hard stroke, hit or blow, e.g., as part of a spanking. | [noun] Alternate spelling of swot: vigorous study at an educational institution. | [verb] To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit. | [verb] To illegitimately provoke a SWAT assault upon (someone). SWAY (10) [noun] The act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon. | [noun] A rocking or swinging motion. | [noun] Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side SWIG (8) [noun] Drink, liquor. | [noun] (by extension) A long draught from a drink. | [noun] A person who drinks deeply. SWIM (9) [noun] An act or instance of swimming. | [noun] The sound, or air bladder, of a fish. | [noun] A part of a stream much frequented by fish. | [noun] A dizziness; swoon. | [noun] Abbreviation of someone who isn't me. used as a way to avoid self-designation or self-incrimination, especially in online drug forums SWOB (9) [noun] A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access. | [noun] A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material). | [noun] A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns. SWOP (9) [verb] To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else). | [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap. | [noun] A fusion of swing and hip-hop dance styles. SWOT (7) [noun] One who swots. | [noun] Work. | [noun] Vigorous study at an educational institution. SWUM (9) [verb] To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. | [verb] To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid | [verb] To move around freely because of excess space. SYBO (9) SYCE (9) [noun] A groom, or servant with responsibility for the horses. | [noun] (Malaya) usually syce: chauffeur, driver. SYKE (11) SYLI (7) SYNC (9) [noun] Harmony. | [noun] A music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films. | [verb] To synchronize, especially in the senses of data synchronization, time synchronization, or synchronizing music with video. SYNE (7) [adverb] Subsequently; then. | [adverb] Before now; ago. | [adverb] Late SYPH (12)

SABED (8) SABER (7) [noun] A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point. | [noun] A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre. | [verb] To strike or kill with a sabre. SABES (7) SABIN (7) SABIR (7) SABLE (7) [noun] A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur (Wikipedia). | [noun] The marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana). | [noun] The fur or pelt of the sable or other species of martens; a coat made from this fur. SABOT (7) [noun] A wooden shoe. | [noun] A carrier around projectile(s) in firearms, cannons and artillery which holds the projectile in precision within the barrel SABRA (7) [noun] A native-born Israeli. SABRE (7) [noun] A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point. | [noun] A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre. | [verb] To strike or kill with a sabre. SACKS (11) [noun] A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid. | [noun] (games) A sacrifice. | [verb] (games) To sacrifice. SACRA (7) [noun] Sacral artery | [noun] A large triangular bone at the base of the spine, located between the two ilia (wings of the pelvis) and formed from vertebrae that fuse in adulthood. SADES (6) SADHE (9) SADHU (9) [noun] An ascetic or practitioner of yoga (yogi) who has given up pursuit of the first three Hindu goals of life: kama (enjoyment), artha (practical objectives) and even dharma (duty). SADIS (6) SADLY (9) [adverb] In a sad manner; sorrowfully. | [adverb] Unfortunately, sad to say. | [adverb] Very much (of a desire etc.); dearly; urgently. SAFER (8) [adjective] Not in danger; out of harm's reach. | [adjective] Free from risk. | [adjective] Providing protection from danger; providing shelter. SAFES (8) [noun] A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping. | [noun] A condom. | [noun] A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects. SAGAS (6) [noun] An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends. | [noun] Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story. SAGER (6) SAGES (6) [noun] A wise person or spiritual teacher; someone of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher. SAGGY (10) [adjective] Baggy or loose-fitting. | [adjective] That sinks or droops from wear or its own weight. SAGOS (6) [noun] A powdered starch obtained from certain palms used as a food thickener. | [noun] A similar starch obtained from a palm-like cycad, Cycas revoluta | [noun] Any of the palms from which sago is extracted. SAGUM (8) SAHIB (10) [noun] A term of respect for a white European or other person of rank in colonial India. SAICE (7) SAIDS (6) SAIGA (6) [noun] Saiga tatarica, an antelope which inhabits a vast area between Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia. SAILS (5) [noun] A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes. | [noun] (nautical,uncountable) The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance. | [noun] The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use of this power for travel or transport. SAINS (5) SAINT (5) [noun] A person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly; one eminent for piety and virtue. | [noun] (by extension) A person with positive qualities; one who does good. | [noun] One of the blessed in heaven. | [verb] To canonize, to formally recognize someone as a saint. SAITH (8) [verb] To pronounce. | [verb] To recite. | [verb] To tell, either verbally or in writing. | [noun] The pollock or coalfish or coley (Pollachius virens). SAJOU (12) SAKER (9) [noun] A falcon (Falco cherrug) native of Southern Europe and Asia. | [noun] A medium cannon slightly smaller than a culverin developed during the early 17th century. SAKES (9) [noun] An alcoholic beverage made from fermenting various forms of rice, usually with an ABV similar to wine. | [noun] Cause, interest or account | [noun] Purpose or end; reason | [noun] An alcoholic beverage made from fermenting various forms of rice, usually with an ABV similar to wine. SAKIS (9) [noun] An alcoholic beverage made from fermenting various forms of rice, usually with an ABV similar to wine. | [noun] A class of Japanese rice wines made from polished rice and typically about 20% alcohol by volume. | [noun] Any of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Pithecia. with large ears and a long hairy tail that is not prehensile. SALAD (6) [noun] A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise. | [noun] A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads. SALAL (5) [noun] A leathery-leaved North American shrub, Gaultheria shallon, with edible sepals and leaves. SALEP (7) [noun] A starch or jelly made out of plants in the Orchidaceae family, such as the early-purple orchid (Orchis mascula). SALES (5) [noun] A hall. | [noun] An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit. | [noun] (Short for discount sale) The sale of goods at reduced prices. SALIC (7) SALLY (8) [noun] A willow | [noun] Any tree that looks like a willow | [noun] An object made from the above trees' wood | [noun] A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy. | [noun] A member of the Salvation Army. | [noun] A kind of stonefly. SALMI (7) [noun] A rich stew or ragout, especially of game. SALOL (5) SALON (5) [noun] A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests. | [noun] A gathering of people for a social or intellectual meeting. | [noun] An art gallery or exhibition; especially the Paris salon or autumn salon. SALPA (7) SALPS (7) [noun] Any of the free-swimming tunicates of the order Salpida and its single family Salpidae. SALSA (5) [noun] A spicy tomato sauce, often including onions and hot peppers. | [noun] A style of urban music originally from New York heavily influenced by Cuban dance music, jazz and rock. | [noun] Any of several dances performed to salsa music. SALTS (5) [noun] A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative. | [noun] One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid. | [noun] A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea. SALTY (8) [adjective] Tasting of salt. | [adjective] Containing salt. | [adjective] Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language. SALVE (8) [noun] An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects. | [noun] Any remedy or action that soothes or heals. | [verb] To calm or assuage. | [verb] To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies). | [interjection] Hail; a greeting. | [verb] To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute. SALVO (8) [noun] An exception; a reservation; an excuse. | [noun] A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley. | [noun] A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon. SAMBA (9) [noun] A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style. | [noun] A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade. | [verb] To dance the samba. SAMBO (9) [noun] A sandwich. SAMEK (11) SAMPS (9) SANDS (6) [noun] Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction. | [noun] (often in the plural) A beach or other expanse of sand. | [noun] (circa 1920) Personal courage. SANDY (9) [adjective] Covered with sand. | [adjective] Sprinkled with sand. | [adjective] Containing sand. SANED (6) SANER (5) [adjective] Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; thinking rationally. | [adjective] Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge the effect of one's actions in an ordinary manner. | [adjective] Rational; reasonable; sensible. SANES (5) SANGA (6) [noun] Sandwich. SANGH (9) SANTO (5) SAPID (8) [adjective] Tasty, flavoursome or savoury SAPOR (7) SAPPY (12) [adjective] Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy) | [adjective] Having (a particularly large amount of) sap. | [adjective] Juicy. | [adjective] Musty; tainted; rancid. SARAN (5) [noun] A plastic resin used to make packaging films. SARDS (6) [noun] A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color. | [noun] Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with (a woman). SAREE (5) [noun] The traditional dress of women in the Indian Subcontinent; an outer garment consisting of a single length of cotton or silk, most often with one end wrapped around the waist to form a skirt, the other draped over the shoulder or head. SARGE (6) [noun] Sergeant | [verb] (pickup community) to go out and engage women in order to pick them up SARIN (5) [noun] The neurotoxin O-isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate, used as a chemical weapon. SARIS (5) [noun] The traditional dress of women in the Indian Subcontinent; an outer garment consisting of a single length of cotton or silk, most often with one end wrapped around the waist to form a skirt, the other draped over the shoulder or head. SARKS (9) [noun] A shirt. SARKY (12) [adjective] Sarcastic SAROD (6) [noun] A fretless string instrument used mainly in Indian classical music. SAROS (5) [noun] (history, Babylon) A quantity of 3600, such as a period of 3600 years. | [noun] A period of 223 synodic months (approximately 18 years 11 days 8 hours), after which the relative positions of the earth, sun and moon recur, used to predict eclipses. SASIN (5) [noun] Indian antelope; blackbuck SASSY (8) [adjective] Bold and spirited, cheeky, impudent, saucy. | [adjective] Somewhat sexy and provocative. | [adjective] Lively, vigorous. SATAY (8) [noun] A dish made from small pieces of meat or fish grilled on a skewer and served with a spicy peanut sauce, originating from Indonesia and Malaysia. SATED (6) [verb] To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up. | [adjective] In a state of complete and thorough satisfaction; having ones appetite fully satisfied, by having enough of something. | [adjective] Quelled of thirst or hunger. SATEM (7) SATES (5) SATIN (5) [noun] A cloth woven from silk, nylon or polyester with a glossy surface and a dull back. (The same weaving technique applied to cotton produces cloth termed sateen). | [verb] To make (paper, silver, etc.) smooth and glossy like satin. | [adjective] Semigloss. SATIS (5) [adjective] In a state of satisfaction. | [verb] To do enough for; to meet the needs of; to fulfill the wishes or requirements of. | [verb] To cause (a sentence) to be true when the sentence is interpreted in one's universe. SATYR (8) [noun] A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis. | [noun] A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness, sometimes pictured with a perpetual erection. SAUCE (7) [noun] A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food. | [noun] Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in: | [noun] (usually “the”) Alcohol, booze. SAUCH (10) SAUCY (10) [adjective] Similar to sauce; having the consistency or texture of sauce. | [adjective] Impertinent or disrespectful, often in a manner that is regarded as entertaining or amusing; smart. | [adjective] Impudently bold; pert. SAUGH (9) SAULS (5) SAULT (5) SAUNA (5) [noun] A room or a house designed for heat sessions. | [noun] The act of using a sauna. | [noun] A public sauna; a front for a brothel in some countries. SAURY (8) [noun] A marine epipelagic fish of the family Scomberesocidae, with beaklike jaws and a row of small finlets behind the dorsal and anal fins. SAUTE (5) [verb] To cook (food) using a small amount of fat in an open pan over a relatively high heat, allowing the food to brown and form a crust stopping it from sticking to the pan as it cooks. SAVED (9) [verb] To prevent harm or difficulty. | [verb] To put aside, to avoid. | [adjective] Rescued from the consequences of sin. SAVER (8) [noun] One who saves. | [noun] One who keeps savings more than usual. SAVES (8) [noun] In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring. | [noun] When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins while continually being ahead. | [noun] A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten. SAVIN (8) [noun] The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil. | [noun] The poisonous dried tips of this plant, with anthelmintic properties, used as a drug. | [noun] The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, of eastern North America. SAVOR (8) [noun] The specific taste or smell of something. | [noun] A distinctive sensation. | [noun] Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent. | [verb] To possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality. SAVOY (11) [noun] Savoy cabbage | [noun] An Italian noble family, which became the ruling (hereditary) dynasty of Sardinia and later of Italy | [noun] A member of the Savoy noble family SAVVY (14) [noun] Shrewdness. | [verb] To understand. | [adjective] Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive. SAWED (9) [verb] To cut (something) with a saw. | [verb] To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw. | [verb] To be cut with a saw. SAWER (8) SAXES (12) [noun] A slate-cutter's hammer; slate-ax. | [noun] A knife or sword; a dagger about 50 cm (20 inches) in length. | [noun] A single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards. SAYER (8) SAYID (9) SAYST (8) SCABS (9) [noun] An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing. | [noun] The scabies. | [noun] The mange, especially when it appears on sheep. SCADS (8) [noun] Any of several fish, of the family Carangidae, from the western Atlantic. | [noun] (in the plural) A large number or quantity. SCAGS (8) [noun] Heroin. | [noun] (originally African American Vernacular English) A woman of loose morals. | [noun] A cigarette. SCALD (8) [noun] A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam. | [verb] To burn with hot liquid. | [verb] To heat almost to boiling. | [noun] Scaliness; a scabby skin disease. | [noun] A Nordic poet of the Viking Age SCALE (7) [noun] A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending. | [noun] An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude. | [noun] Size; scope. | [noun] Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile. | [noun] A device to measure mass or weight. SCALL (7) SCALP (9) [noun] The top of the head; the skull. | [noun] The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from. | [noun] A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory. SCALY (10) [noun] The scaly yellowfish, Labeobarbus natalensis. | [adjective] Covered or abounding with scales. | [adjective] Composed of scales lying over each other. SCAMP (11) [noun] A rascal, swindler, or rogue; a ne'er-do-well. | [noun] A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster. | [verb] To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion. | [noun] A preliminary design sketch. SCAMS (9) [noun] A fraudulent deal. | [noun] Something that is promoted using scams. SCANS (7) [noun] Close investigation. | [noun] An instance of scanning. | [noun] The result or output of a scanning process. SCANT (7) [adjective] Very little, very few. | [adjective] Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager; not enough. | [adjective] Sparing; parsimonious; chary. | [verb] To limit in amount or share; to stint. | [noun] A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level. | [noun] Scarcity; lack. SCAPE (9) [noun] A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root. | [noun] The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body). | [noun] The basal part of the ovipositor of an insect, more specifically known as the oviscape. | [noun] Escape | [noun] The cry of the snipe when flushed. SCARE (7) [noun] A minor fright. | [noun] A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread. | [noun] A device or object used to frighten. | [verb] To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way. | [adjective] Lean; scanty SCARF (10) [noun] A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck. | [noun] A headscarf. | [noun] A neckcloth or cravat. | [noun] A type of joint in woodworking. | [verb] To eat very quickly. | [noun] A cormorant. SCARP (9) [noun] The steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet | [noun] A cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge caused by erosion or faulting; the steeper side of an escarpment | [verb] (earth science) to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment SCARS (7) [noun] A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound. | [noun] (by extension) A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience. | [noun] Any permanent mark resulting from damage. SCART (7) [noun] A slight wound. | [noun] A dash or stroke. | [noun] A niggard. SCARY (10) [adjective] Causing or able to cause fright. | [adjective] Uncannily striking or surprising. | [adjective] Subject to sudden alarm; easily frightened. | [noun] Barren land having only a thin coat of grass. SCATS (7) [noun] A tax; tribute. | [noun] A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands. | [noun] Scat singing. SCATT (7) SCAUP (9) [noun] The top of the head; the skull. | [noun] The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from. | [noun] A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory. SCAUR (7) [noun] A steep cliff or bank. SCENA (7) [noun] A scene in an opera. | [noun] An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria. | [noun] The stage of an ancient theatre. SCEND (8) [noun] The rising motion of water as a wave passes; a surge; the upward angular displacement of a vessel, opposed to pitch, the correlative downward movement. | [verb] To heave upward. SCENE (7) [noun] The location of an event that attracts attention. | [noun] The stage. | [noun] The decorations; furnishings and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set SCENT (7) [noun] A distinctive odour or smell. | [noun] An odour left by an animal that may be used for tracing. | [noun] The sense of smell. SCHAV (13) SCHMO (12) [noun] A stupid or obnoxious person. SCHUL (10) SCHWA (13) [noun] An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA. | [noun] The character ə. SCION (7) [noun] A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family. | [noun] The heir to a throne. | [noun] A guardian. SCOFF (13) [noun] Derision; ridicule; a derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach. | [noun] An object of scorn, mockery, or derision. | [verb] To jeer; to laugh with contempt and derision. | [noun] Food. SCOLD (8) [verb] To burn with hot liquid. | [verb] To heat almost to boiling. | [noun] A person who habitually scolds, in particular a troublesome and angry woman. SCONE (7) [noun] A small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle. | [noun] (Utah) Frybread served with honey butter spread on it. | [noun] The head. SCOOP (9) [noun] Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material. | [noun] The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop. | [noun] The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling. SCOOT (7) [noun] A dollar. | [noun] A scooter. | [noun] A sideways shuffling or sliding motion. | [noun] A sudden flow of water; a squirt. SCOPE (9) [noun] The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain. | [noun] A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target. | [noun] Opportunity; broad range; degree of freedom. | [noun] A bundle, as of twigs. SCOPS (9) SCORE (7) [noun] The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game. | [noun] The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers. | [noun] The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade. SCORN (7) [noun] Contempt or disdain. | [noun] A display of disdain; a slight. | [noun] An object of disdain, contempt, or derision. SCOTS (7) [noun] A local tax, paid originally to the lord or ruler and later to a sheriff. SCOUR (7) [noun] The removal of sediment caused by swiftly moving water. | [noun] A place scoured out by running water, as in the bed of a stream below a waterfall. | [noun] A place where wool is washed to remove grease and impurities prior to processing. | [verb] To search an area thoroughly. SCOUT (7) [noun] A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground. | [noun] An act of scouting or reconnoitering. | [noun] A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States. | [verb] To reject with contempt. | [noun] A swift sailing boat. | [noun] A projecting rock. | [noun] The guillemot. SCOWL (10) [noun] The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown. | [noun] (by extension) Gloom; dark or threatening aspect. | [verb] To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry. | [noun] Old workings of iron ore. SCOWS (10) [noun] A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends. | [verb] To transport in a scow. SCRAG (8) [noun] A thin or scrawny person or animal. | [noun] The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end. | [noun] The neck, especially of a sheep. SCRAM (9) [verb] Leave in a hurry, go away. | [noun] The emergency shutdown device of a nuclear reactor, originally specifically by insertion of one or more safety control rods. | [noun] An activation of the emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor. | [noun] A scratch, especially caused by claws or fingernails. SCRAP (9) [noun] A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Leftover food. | [noun] The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat. | [noun] A fight, tussle, skirmish. SCREE (7) [noun] Loose stony debris on a slope. | [noun] (by extension) Similar debris made up of broken building material such as bricks, concrete, etc. | [noun] A slope made up of loose stony debris at the base of a cliff, mountain, etc. | [noun] A harsh, high-pitched sound or cry (as of a hawk). | [verb] To flatten or level concrete while still wet, and remove protruding gravel and stones from the surface. | [noun] A coarse sieve. SCREW (10) [noun] A device that has a helical function. | [noun] The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side. | [noun] A prison guard. SCRIM (9) [noun] A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, -- used for curtains, etc,. | [noun] A large military scarf, usually camouflage coloured and used for concealment when not used as a scarf. | [noun] A woven, nonwoven or knitted fabric composed of continuous strands of material used for reinforcing or strengthening membranes. | [noun] A practice match between one or more organized teams usually in preparation for a more competitive format, such as a tournament. SCRIP (9) [noun] A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc. | [noun] Small change. | [noun] A scrap of paper. | [noun] A share certificate. | [noun] A medical prescription. SCROD (8) [noun] (sometimes New York) Any cod, pollock, haddock, or other whitefish. | [verb] To shred. SCRUB (9) [noun] One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. | [noun] One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks. | [noun] A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant | [noun] An instance of scrubbing. SCRUM (9) [noun] A tightly-packed and disorderly crowd of people. | [noun] Specifically used in the Canadian media to describe a tightly-packed group of reporters surrounding a member of the Canadian House of Commons while in the Parliament Buildings. | [noun] In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way. Also known as a scrummage. SCUBA (9) [noun] (underwater diving) An apparatus carried by a diver, which includes a tank holding compressed, filtered air and a regulator which delivers the air to the diver at ambient pressure which can be used underwater. | [verb] To perform scuba diving. SCUDI (8) [noun] A silver coin and unit of currency of various Italian states from the 16th to the 19th centuries. | [noun] A former unit of currency in Malta, now the official currency of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. | [noun] A unit of currency in 19th-century Bolivia, equal to 16 soles. SCUDO (8) [noun] A silver coin and unit of currency of various Italian states from the 16th to the 19th centuries. | [noun] A former unit of currency in Malta, now the official currency of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. | [noun] A unit of currency in 19th-century Bolivia, equal to 16 soles. SCUDS (8) [noun] The act of scudding. | [noun] Clouds or rain driven by the wind. | [noun] A loose formation of small ragged cloud fragments (or fog) not attached to a larger higher cloud layer. SCUFF (13) [noun] (sometimes attributive) A mark left by scuffing or scraping. | [verb] To scrape the feet while walking. | [verb] To hit lightly, to brush against. | [noun] A scurf; a scale. SCULK (11) SCULL (7) [noun] A single oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward. | [noun] One of a pair of oars handled by a single rower. | [noun] A small rowing boat, for one person. | [noun] A skull cap. A small bowl-shaped helmet, without visor or bever. | [noun] A shoal of fish. | [noun] The skua gull. SCULP (9) [verb] (sometimes humorous) To sculpture; to carve or engrave. | [verb] To flay. SCUMS (9) [noun] A layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal or water). | [noun] A greenish water vegetation (such as algae), usually found floating on the surface of ponds | [noun] The topmost liquid layer of a cesspool or septic tank. SCUPS (9) SCURF (10) [noun] A skin disease. | [noun] The flakes of skin that fall off as a result of a skin disease. | [noun] Any crust-like formations on the skin, or in general. | [noun] A grey bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus). SCUTA (7) [noun] A scutum. SCUTE (7) [noun] A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles. | [noun] A proneural gene, often associated with achaete, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs | [noun] A small shield. SCUTS (7) [noun] A hare; a hare as the game in a hunt. | [noun] A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer. | [noun] (by extension) The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva. SEALS (5) [noun] A pinniped (Pinnipedia), particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal. | [noun] A bearing representing a creature something like a walrus. | [verb] To hunt seals. SEAMS (7) [noun] A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric. | [noun] A suture. | [noun] A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral. SEAMY (10) [adjective] Sordid, squalid or corrupt. | [adjective] Having or showing a seam. SEARS (5) [verb] To char, scorch, or burn the surface of (something) with a hot instrument. | [verb] To wither; to dry up. | [verb] To make callous or insensible. SEATS (5) [noun] Something to be sat upon. | [noun] A location or site. | [noun] The starting point of a fire. SEBUM (9) [noun] A thick oily substance, secreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin, that consists of fat, keratin and cellular debris. SECCO (9) [noun] A work painted on dry plaster, as distinguished from a fresco. | [adjective] Dry | [adjective] Dry – sparse accompaniment, staccato, without resonance SECTS (7) [noun] An offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs. | [noun] A group following a specific ideal or a leader. | [noun] A cutting; a scion. SEDAN (6) [noun] An enclosed windowed chair suitable for a single occupant, carried by at least two porters, in equal numbers in front and behind, using wooden rails that passed through metal brackets on the sides of the chair. | [noun] An automobile designed in a configuration with separate compartments for engine space, driver/passenger space and luggage space. | [noun] A handbarrow for transporting fish. SEDER (6) [noun] The ceremonial meal held on the first night or two nights of Passover. | [noun] One of the 54 parts into which the Torah is divided. SEDGE (7) [noun] Any plant of the genus Carex, the true sedge, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species. | [noun] Any plant of the family Cyperaceae. | [noun] Certain other plants resembling sedges, such as Gentiana rubricaulis and Andropogon virginicus. | [noun] A dry fly used in fly fishing, designed to resemble a sedge or caddis fly. | [noun] Alternative spelling of segge SEDGY (10) SEDUM (8) [noun] Any of various succulent plants, of the genus Sedum, native to temperate zones; the stonecrop SEEDS (6) [noun] A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant. | [noun] Any small seed-like fruit. | [noun] Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs. SEEDY (9) [adjective] Full of seeds. | [adjective] Disreputable, run-down. | [adjective] Untidy; unkempt. SEEKS (9) [verb] To try to find; to look for; to search for. | [verb] To ask for; to solicit; to beseech. | [verb] To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at. SEELS (5) [verb] To sew together the eyes of a young hawk. | [verb] (by extension) To blind. | [verb] (of a ship) To roll on the waves in a storm. SEELY (8) SEEMS (7) [verb] To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as. | [verb] To befit; to beseem. SEEPS (7) [noun] A small spring, pool, or other spot where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface; a place of seeping. | [noun] Moisture, liquid, gas, etc. that seeps out; a seepage. | [noun] The seeping away of a liquid, etc. SEEPY (10) SEERS (5) [noun] One who sees something; an eyewitness. | [noun] One who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner. | [noun] Unit of mass or volume in the Middle East and Indian subcontinent. SEGNI (6) SEGNO (6) SEGOS (6) [noun] A perennial bulb lily found in Western North America, the Calochortus nuttallii, which has trumpet-shaped flowers. SEGUE (6) [noun] An instance of segueing, a transition. | [verb] To move smoothly from one state or subject to another. | [verb] To make a smooth transition from one theme to another. SEIFS (8) [noun] A sand dune that elongates parallel to the prevailing wind. SEINE (5) [noun] A long net having floats attached at the top and sinkers (weights) at the bottom, used in shallow water for catching fish. | [verb] To use a seine, to fish with a seine. SEISE (5) [verb] To vest ownership of a freehold estate in (someone). | [verb] (with of) To put in possession. | [verb] To seize. SEISM (7) SEIZE (14) [verb] To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture. | [verb] To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance). | [verb] To take possession of (by force, law etc.). SELAH (8) [noun] A pause or rest of a contemplative nature. | [interjection] A word occurring between verses or paragraphs in parts of the Hebrew Bible, namely in Habakkuk and the Psalms; perhaps indicating a pause, either for contemplation or for the singer to clear his or her throat. SELFS (8) [noun] One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition. | [noun] The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts. | [noun] An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness (plural selves). SELLE (5) SELLS (5) [noun] An act of selling. | [noun] An easy task. | [noun] An imposition, a cheat; a hoax; a disappointment; anything occasioning a loss of pride or dignity. SELVA (8) [noun] Heavily forested ground in the Amazon basin. SEMEN (7) [noun] A sticky, milky fluid produced in male reproductive organs that contains the reproductive cells. SEMES (7) [noun] A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric. | [noun] A suture. | [noun] A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral. | [verb] To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as. SEMIS (7) [noun] A semi-detached house. | [noun] A semitrailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler; an artic. | [noun] A semifinal. | [noun] A small bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic, valued at half an as. SENDS (6) [verb] To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another. | [verb] To excite, delight, or thrill (someone). | [verb] To bring to a certain condition. SENGI (6) SENNA (5) [noun] Any of several plants of the tribe Cassieae, especially those of the genera Cassia and Senna, whose leaves and pods are used as a purgative and laxative. | [noun] The dried leaves or pods of these plants (especially of Senna alexandrina, syn. Cassia angustifolia or Cassia acutifolia), used medicinally. | [noun] Senna glycoside, a laxative. SENOR (5) [noun] A Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or an older man. SENSA (5) SENSE (5) [noun] Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste. | [noun] Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness. | [noun] Sound practical or moral judgment. SENTE (5) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Lesotho loti. | [noun] (Go) first move, initiative SENTI (5) SEPAL (7) [noun] One of the component parts of the calyx, particularly when the sepals in a plant's calyx are not fused into a single structure. SEPIA (7) [noun] A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish. | [noun] A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour. | [noun] (by extension) A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph. SEPIC (9) SEPOY (10) [noun] A native soldier of the East Indies, employed in the service of a European colonial power, notably the British India army (first under the British-chartered East India Company, later in the crown colony), but also France and Portugal. SEPTA (7) [noun] A wall separating two cavities; a partition | [noun] A partition that separates the cells of a fruit. | [noun] A partition that separates the cells of a (septated) fungus. SEPTS (7) [noun] A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor (used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland). | [noun] An enclosure; a railing. SERAC (7) [noun] Often sérac: a hard, cone-shaped, pale green, strongly flavoured cheese from Switzerland made from skimmed cowmilk and blue fenugreek (Trigonella caerulea); Schabziger, Sapsago. It is usually eaten grated, mixed with butter, or in a fondue. | [noun] (glaciology) A sharp tower of ice formed by intersecting crevasses of a glacier. SERAI (5) [noun] (In Turkish or Muslim Asian contexts) A palace. | [noun] A seraglio. | [noun] A caravanserai; an inn. SERAL (5) SERED (6) SERER (5) SERES (5) [noun] A natural succession of animal or plant communities in an ecosystem, especially a series of communities succeeding one another from the time a habitat is unoccupied to the point when a climax community is achieved. | [noun] A claw, a talon. SERFS (8) [noun] A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights | [noun] A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe | [noun] (strategy games) a worker unit SERGE (6) [noun] A type of worsted cloth. | [noun] (by metonymy) A garment made of this fabric. | [verb] To overlock. | [noun] A large wax candle used in some church ceremonies. SERIF (8) [noun] A short line added to the end of a stroke in traditional typefaces, such as Times New Roman. | [adjective] Of a typeface, provided with serifs. SERIN (5) [noun] Any of various small finches in the genus Serinus, with largely yellow plumage. SEROW (8) [noun] Any of several species of Asian ungulates of the genus Capricornis. SERRY (8) SERUM (7) [noun] The clear yellowish liquid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components after it has been allowed to clot. | [noun] Blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals, containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual, called antiserum. | [noun] A watery liquid from animal tissue, especially one that moistens the surface of serous membranes or that is exuded by such membranes when they become inflamed, such as in edema or a blister. SERVE (8) [noun] An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games. | [noun] A portion of food or drink, a serving. | [verb] (personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink). SERVO (8) [noun] A servomechanism or servomotor. | [verb] To control by means of a servocontrol | [noun] A service station, being a place to buy petrol for cars etc., as well as various convenience items, with or without actual car service facilities. SETAE (5) [noun] A bristle or hair | [noun] The stalk of a moss sporangium, or occasionally in a liverwort. SETAL (5) SETON (5) [noun] A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen etc., introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to induce suppuration; also, the issue so formed. SETTS (5) [noun] The system of tunnels that is the home of a badger. | [noun] The pattern of distinctive threads and yarns that make up the plaid of a Scottish tartan. | [noun] A small, square-cut piece of quarried stone used for paving and edging. SETUP (7) [noun] Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus. | [noun] The fashion in which something is organized or arranged. | [noun] A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody. SEVEN (8) [noun] The digit/figure 7 or an occurrence thereof. | [noun] A card bearing seven pips. | [numeral] A numerical value equal to 7; the number following six and preceding eight. This many dots: (•••••••). SEVER (8) [verb] To cut free. | [verb] To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated. | [verb] To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish. SEWAN (8) SEWAR (8) SEWED (9) [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together. | [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together. | [verb] Followed by into: to enclose by sewing. SEWER (8) [noun] A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage. | [verb] To provide (a place) with a system of sewers. | [noun] A servant attending at a meal who is responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes, etc. | [noun] One who sews. SEXED (13) [verb] To determine the sex of an animal. | [verb] To have sex with. | [adjective] Having a sex; being male or female. SEXES (12) [noun] An offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs. | [noun] A group following a specific ideal or a leader. | [noun] A cutting; a scion. SEXTO (12) SEXTS (12) [noun] Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight. | [noun] The service appointed for this hour. | [noun] A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees. SHACK (14) [noun] A crude, roughly built hut or cabin. | [noun] Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building. | [noun] The room from which a ham radio operator transmits. | [noun] Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest. SHADE (9) [noun] Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked. | [noun] Something that blocks light, particularly in a window. | [noun] A variety of a colour/color, in particular one obtained by adding black (compare tint). | [verb] To shield from light. SHADS (9) [noun] Any one of several species of food fishes that make up the genus Alosa in the family Clupeidae, to which the herrings also belong; river herring. | [noun] The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix). SHADY (12) [adjective] Abounding in shades. | [adjective] Causing shade. | [adjective] Overspread with shade; sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat. SHAFT (11) [noun] The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow. | [noun] The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin. | [noun] (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin. SHAGS (9) [noun] Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc. | [noun] Coarse shredded tobacco. | [noun] A type of rough carpet pile. SHAHS (11) [noun] A king of Persia or Iran. | [noun] A supreme ruler in some Middle Eastern or South Asian nations. | [noun] A Ukrainian monetary unit. SHAKE (12) [noun] The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion. | [noun] A milkshake. | [noun] A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float. SHAKO (12) [noun] A stiff, cylindrical military dress hat with a metal plate in front, a short visor, and a plume. | [noun] A bearskin or busby. | [noun] The squilla or mantis shrimp. SHAKY (15) [adjective] Shaking or trembling. | [adjective] Nervous, anxious. | [adjective] (of wood) Full of shakes or cracks; cracked. SHALE (8) [noun] A shell or husk; a cod or pod. | [noun] A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. | [verb] To take off the shell or coat of. SHALL (8) [verb] (modal, auxiliary verb, defective) Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first person singular or plural. | [verb] Used similarly to indicate determination or obligation in the second and third persons singular or plural. | [verb] Used in questions with the first person singular or plural to suggest a possible future action. SHALT (8) [verb] (modal, auxiliary verb, defective) Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first person singular or plural. | [verb] Used similarly to indicate determination or obligation in the second and third persons singular or plural. | [verb] Used in questions with the first person singular or plural to suggest a possible future action. SHALY (11) SHAME (10) [noun] Uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of one's own impropriety or dishonor or something being exposed that should have been kept private. | [noun] Something to regret. | [noun] Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonour; ignominy; derision. | [verb] To cause to feel shame. SHAMS (10) [noun] A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine. | [noun] Trickery, hoaxing. | [noun] A false front, or removable ornamental covering. SHANK (12) [noun] The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle. | [noun] Meat from that part of an animal. | [noun] A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs. SHAPE (10) [noun] The status or condition of something | [noun] Condition of personal health, especially muscular health. | [noun] The appearance of something in terms of its arrangement in space, especially its outline; often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure. SHARD (9) [noun] A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig. | [noun] (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery. | [noun] A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle. | [noun] The plant chard. SHARE (8) [noun] A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone. | [noun] A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability. | [noun] A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network. | [noun] The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine. SHARK (12) [noun] A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head. | [verb] To fish for sharks. | [noun] Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion. | [verb] To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly. SHARN (8) SHARP (10) [noun] The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played a semitone higher. | [noun] A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯. | [noun] A note that is sharp in a particular key. SHAUL (8) SHAVE (11) [verb] To make bald or shorter by using a tool such as a razor or pair of electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin. | [verb] To cut anything in this fashion. | [verb] To remove hair from one's face by this means. | [noun] An instance of shaving. SHAWL (11) [noun] A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women. | [noun] A fold of wrinkled flesh under the lips and neck of a bloodhound, used in scenting. | [verb] To wrap in a shawl. SHAWM (13) [noun] A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body. SHAWN (11) SHAWS (11) [noun] A thicket; a small wood or grove. | [noun] The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips. SHAYS (11) [noun] A chaise. SHEAF (11) [noun] A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw. | [noun] Any collection of things bound together; a bundle. | [noun] A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer. SHEAL (8) SHEAR (8) [noun] A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger. | [noun] The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing. | [noun] Forces that push in opposite directions. SHEAS (8) SHEDS (9) [verb] To part, separate or divide. | [verb] To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of. | [verb] To pour; to make flow. SHEEN (8) [noun] Splendor; radiance; shininess. | [noun] A thin layer of a substance (such as oil) spread on a solid or liquid surface. | [verb] To shine; to glisten. | [noun] The letter ش in the Arabic script. SHEEP (10) [noun] A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis. | [noun] A timid, shy person who is easily led by others. | [noun] (chiefly plural) A religious adherent, a member of a congregation or religious community (compare flock). | [noun] A sheep; specifically singular form of sheep. SHEER (8) [noun] A sheer curtain or fabric. | [adjective] Very thin or transparent. | [adjective] Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated. | [noun] The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern. SHEET (8) [noun] A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper. | [noun] A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping, manufacture of packaging (boxes, envelopes, etc.), and for other uses. The word does not include scraps and irregular small pieces destined to be recycled, used for stuffing or cushioning or paper mache, etc. | [noun] A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking. SHEIK (12) [noun] The leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe. | [noun] An Islamic religious cleric; the leader of an Islamic religious order. | [noun] (some Arab Gulf countries) An official title for members of the royal family as well as some prominent families. SHELF (11) [noun] A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk etc., and used to support, store or display objects. | [noun] The capacity of such an object | [noun] A projecting ledge that resembles such an object. SHELL (8) [noun] A hard external covering of an animal. | [noun] The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg. | [noun] One of the outer layers of skin of an onion. SHEND (9) SHENT (8) SHEOL (8) SHERD (9) [noun] A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig. | [noun] (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery. | [noun] A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle. SHEWN (11) SHEWS (11) [noun] A play, dance, or other entertainment. | [noun] An exhibition of items. | [noun] A broadcast program/programme. SHIED (9) [verb] To avoid due to timidness or caution. | [verb] To jump back in fear. | [verb] To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling SHIEL (8) SHIER (8) SHIES (8) [noun] An act of throwing. | [noun] A place for throwing. | [noun] A sudden start aside, as by a horse. SHIFT (11) [noun] A modifier key whose main function is shifting between two or more functions of any of certain other keys (usually by pressing Shift and the other button simultaneously). | [noun] A type of women's undergarment, a slip. | [noun] A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time. SHILL (8) [noun] A person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial. | [noun] An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game. | [noun] A house player in a casino. SHILY (11) SHIMS (10) [noun] A wedge. | [noun] A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support. | [noun] A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes. SHINE (8) [noun] Brightness from a source of light. | [noun] Brightness from reflected light. | [noun] Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour. | [verb] To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something). SHINS (8) [noun] The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone | [noun] A fishplate for a railway. | [verb] (as "shin up") To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like. SHINY (11) [noun] Anything shiny; a trinket. | [noun] Contraction of disparaging term "shiny arses", originating during World War Two, to describe a desk worker.https//books.google.co.uk/books?id=mAdUqLrKw4YC&pg=PA1717 | [adjective] Reflecting light. SHIPS (10) [noun] A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat. | [noun] (chiefly in combination) A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship. | [noun] A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts. SHIRE (8) [noun] Physical area administered by a sheriff. | [noun] Former administrative area of Britain; a county. | [noun] The general area in which a person lives or comes from, used in the context of travel within the United Kingdom. SHIRK (12) [noun] One who shirks, who avoids a duty or responsibility. | [verb] To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from. | [verb] To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away. | [noun] The unforgivable sin of idolatry. SHIRR (8) [noun] A shirring. | [verb] To make gathers in textiles by drawing together parallel threads. | [verb] To bake (a raw egg removed from its shell) in a baking dish. SHIRT (8) [noun] An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms. | [noun] An interior lining in a blast furnace. | [noun] A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game. | [verb] To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt. SHIST (8) SHITS (8) [noun] A gastrointestinal disorder characterized by frequent and very fluid or watery bowel movements. | [noun] The watery or very soft excrement that comes from such bowel movements. | [noun] Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces. SHIVA (11) [noun] A weeklong period of formal mourning for a close relative. SHIVE (11) [noun] A slice, especially of bread. | [noun] A sheave. | [noun] A beam or plank of split wood. | [noun] A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching | [noun] A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush). | [noun] A weeklong period of formal mourning for a close relative. SHIVS (11) [noun] A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush). | [noun] A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp. | [verb] To stab someone with a shiv. SHLEP (10) [noun] A long or burdensome journey. | [noun] A boring person, a drag; a good-for-nothing person. | [noun] A sloppy or slovenly person. SHOAL (8) [noun] A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow. | [noun] A shallow in a body of water. | [verb] To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area. | [noun] Any large number of persons or things. SHOAT (8) [noun] A young, newly-weaned pig. | [noun] A geep, a sheep-goat hybrid (whether artificially produced or the result of animals from these species naturally intermating). SHOCK (14) [noun] A sudden, heavy impact. | [noun] A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation. | [verb] To cause to be emotionally shocked, to cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset. | [noun] An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook. SHOED (9) SHOER (8) SHOES (8) [noun] A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of leather or synthetic material. Shoes generally do not extend above the ankle, as opposed to boots, which do. | [noun] A piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse's foot as a means of protection; a horseshoe. | [noun] A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles. SHOGS (9) SHOJI (15) [noun] A door or partition consisting of a wooden frame covered in rice paper. SHONE (8) [verb] To emit light. | [verb] To reflect light. | [verb] To distinguish oneself; to excel. SHOOK (12) [noun] A set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood. | [noun] The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together. | [verb] To pack (staves, etc.) in a shook. | [verb] To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly. SHOOL (8) SHOON (8) SHOOS (8) [verb] To induce someone or something to leave. | [verb] To leave under inducement. | [verb] To usher someone. SHOOT (8) [noun] The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant. | [noun] A photography session. | [noun] A hunt or shooting competition. | [interjection] A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain SHOPS (10) [noun] An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well. | [noun] A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop. | [noun] A large garage where vehicle mechanics work. SHORE (8) [noun] Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond. | [noun] (from the perspective of one on a body of water) Land, usually near a port. | [verb] To set on shore. | [noun] A prop or strut supporting the weight or flooring above it. | [verb] To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears. | [noun] (Obsolete except in Hiberno-English) A sewer. | [verb] To warn or threaten. SHORL (8) SHORN (8) [verb] To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears. | [verb] To remove the fleece from a sheep etc by clipping. | [verb] To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions. SHORT (8) [noun] A short circuit. | [noun] A short film. | [noun] A short version of a garment in a particular size. SHOTE (8) [noun] A young, newly-weaned pig. | [noun] A fish resembling the trout, the grayling (Thymallus thymallus). SHOTS (8) [noun] The result of launching a projectile or bullet. | [noun] The act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal. | [noun] The heavy iron ball used for the shot put. SHOTT (8) SHOUT (8) [noun] A loud burst of voice or voices; a violent and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing joy, triumph, exultation, anger, or animated courage. | [noun] A round of drinks in a pub; the turn to pay the shot or scot; an act of paying for a round of drinks. | [noun] A call-out for an emergency services team. | [noun] A light flat-bottomed boat used in duck-shooting. SHOVE (11) [noun] A rough push. | [noun] An all-in bet. | [noun] A forward movement of packed river-ice. SHOWN (11) [verb] To display, to have somebody see (something). | [verb] To bestow; to confer. | [verb] To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate. SHOWS (11) [noun] A play, dance, or other entertainment. | [noun] An exhibition of items. | [noun] A broadcast program/programme. SHOWY (14) [adjective] (sometimes derogatory) calling attention; flashy; standing out to the eye SHOYU (11) [noun] A dark form of soy sauce SHRED (9) [noun] A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip. | [noun] In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle; a very small amount. | [verb] To cut or tear into narrow and long pieces or strips. SHREW (11) [noun] Any of numerous small, mouselike, chiefly nocturnal, mammals of the family Soricidae (order Soricomorpha). | [noun] Certain other small mammals that resemble true shrews (order Soricomorpha). | [noun] An ill-tempered, nagging woman: a scold. | [verb] To beshrew; to curse. SHRIS (8) SHRUB (10) [noun] A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base. | [verb] To lop; to prune. | [verb] (Kenyan English) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or others of a similar place of articulation. | [noun] A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur. SHRUG (9) [noun] A lifting of the shoulders to signal indifference or a casual lack of knowledge. | [noun] A cropped, cardigan-like garment with short or long sleeves, typically knitted. | [verb] To raise (the shoulders) to express uncertainty, lack of concern, (formerly) dread, etc. SHTIK (12) SHUCK (14) [noun] The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts). | [noun] A fraud; a scam. | [noun] A phony. SHULN (8) SHULS (8) [noun] The synagogue. SHUNS (8) [verb] To avoid, especially persistently. | [verb] To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc). | [verb] To screen, hide. SHUNT (8) [noun] An act of moving (suddenly), as due to a push or shove. | [noun] A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electrical circuit. | [noun] The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun. SHUSH (11) [verb] To be quiet; to keep quiet. | [verb] To ask someone to be quiet, especially by saying shh. SHUTE (8) SHUTS (8) [noun] The act or time of shutting; close. | [noun] A door or cover; a shutter. | [noun] The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together. SHYER (11) [adjective] Easily frightened; timid. | [adjective] Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach. | [adjective] Cautious; wary; suspicious. SHYLY (14) [adverb] In a shy manner. SIALS (5) SIBBS (9) SIBYL (10) [noun] A pagan female oracle or prophetess, especially the Cumaean sibyl. SICES (7) [noun] A groom, or servant with responsibility for the horses. | [noun] (Malaya) usually syce: chauffeur, driver. | [noun] The number six in a game of dice. SICKO (11) [noun] A person with unpleasant tastes, views or habits. | [noun] A mentally ill person. | [noun] A physically ill person. SICKS (11) [verb] To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs. | [verb] To set upon; to chase; to attack. | [verb] To vomit. SIDED (7) [verb] To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with" | [verb] To lean on one side. | [verb] To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward. SIDES (6) [noun] A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape. | [noun] A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face. | [noun] One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone. SIDLE (6) [noun] An act of sidling. | [verb] To (cause something to) move sideways. | [verb] In the intransitive sense often followed by up: to (cause something to) advance in a coy, furtive, or unobtrusive manner. SIEGE (6) [noun] (heading) Military action. | [noun] (heading) A seat. | [noun] A place with a toilet seat: an outhouse; a lavatory. SIEUR (5) SIEVE (8) [noun] A device with a mesh bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid. | [noun] A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input. | [noun] A kind of coarse basket. SIFTS (8) SIGHS (9) [noun] A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing. | [noun] Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lament. | [noun] A person who is bored. SIGHT (9) [noun] (in the singular) The ability to see. | [noun] The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view. | [noun] Something seen. SIGIL (6) [noun] A seal, signature or signet. | [noun] An occult or magical sign, image or symbol. | [noun] A nonalphanumeric character affixed to a symbol (e.g. variable) to indicate a property such as type or scope. SIGMA (8) [noun] The eighteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets, the twentieth letter of Old and Ancient. | [noun] The symbol Σ, used to indicate summation of a set or series. | [noun] The symbol σ, used to indicate one standard deviation from the mean, particularly in a normal distribution. SIGNS (6) [noun] (sometimes also used uncountably) A visible indication. | [noun] Physical evidence left by an animal. | [noun] A clearly visible object, generally flat, bearing a short message in words or pictures. SIKER (9) SIKES (9) [noun] A gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer. | [noun] A sigh. | [verb] To sigh or sob. SILDS (6) SILEX (12) [noun] Flint. | [noun] A finely ground relatively pure form of silicas used as a paint filler etc. SILKS (9) [noun] A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider). | [noun] A fine, soft cloth woven from silk fibers. | [noun] Anything which resembles silk, such as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize, or the seed covering of bombaxes. SILKY (12) [noun] A seal which can magically transform into a human by shedding its skin. | [noun] A chicken of a certain breed with very fine, silk-like feathers. | [adjective] Similar in appearance or texture (especially in softness and smoothness) to silk. SILLS (5) [noun] (also window sill) A horizontal slat which forms the base of a window. | [noun] A horizontal, structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings or lying on the ground in earth-fast construction and bearing the upright portion of a frame. Also called a ground plate, groundsill, sole, sole-plate, mudsill. An interrupted sill fits between posts instead of being below and supporting the posts in timber framing. | [noun] A horizontal layer of igneous rock between older rock beds. SILLY (8) [noun] A silly person. | [noun] A term of address. | [noun] A mistake. SILOS (5) [noun] A vertical building, usually cylindrical, used for the production of silage. | [noun] From the shape, a building used for the storage of grain. | [noun] An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched. SILTS (5) [verb] To clog or fill with silt. | [verb] To become clogged with silt. | [verb] To flow through crevices; to percolate. SILTY (8) SILVA (8) SIMAR (7) SIMAS (7) SIMPS (9) [noun] A simple person lacking common sense; a fool or simpleton. | [noun] A man who foolishly overvalues and defers to a woman, putting her on a pedestal. | [noun] (by extension) Someone who foolishly overvalues someone else and defers to them, putting them on a pedestal. SINCE (7) [adverb] From a specified time in the past. | [preposition] From: referring to a period of time ending in the present and defining it by the point in time at which it started, or the period in which its starting point occurred. | [conjunction] From the time that. SINES (5) [noun] In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length of the hypotenuse. SINEW (8) [noun] A cord or tendon of the body. | [noun] A cord or string, particularly as of a musical instrument. | [noun] Muscular power, muscle; nerve, nervous energy; vigor, vigorous strength. SINGE (6) [noun] A burning of the surface; a slight burn. | [verb] To burn slightly. | [verb] To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it. SINGS (6) [noun] A gathering at which people sing songs. | [verb] To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice. | [verb] To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization. SINHS (8) SINKS (9) [noun] A basin used for holding water for washing. | [noun] A drain for carrying off wastewater. | [noun] A sinkhole. SINUS (5) [noun] A pouch or cavity in any organ or tissue, especially the paranasal sinus. | [noun] A channel for transmitting venous blood. | [noun] A notch or depression between two lobes or teeth in the margin of an organ. SIPED (8) SIPES (7) [noun] Slit in a tire to drain away surface water and improve traction. | [noun] A drain. SIRED (6) [verb] (of a male) to procreate; to father, beget, impregnate. SIREE (5) [noun] (used as an intensifier, emphatically, after yes or no) Sir. SIREN (5) [noun] One of a group of nymphs who lured mariners to their death on the rocks. | [noun] One who sings sweetly and charms. | [noun] A dangerously seductive woman. SIRES (5) [noun] A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign. | [noun] A male animal; a stud, especially a horse or dog, that has fathered another. | [noun] A father; the head of a family; the husband. SIRRA (5) SIRUP (7) [noun] Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavouring. | [noun] (by extension) Any viscous liquid. | [noun] (shortened from "syrup of figs") A wig. SISAL (5) [noun] A Central American plant, Agave sisalana, cultivated for its sword-shaped leaves that yield fibers used for rope. | [noun] The fibre of the plant. | [noun] A sisal mat. SISES (5) SISSY (8) [noun] An effeminate boy or man. | [noun] A timid, unassertive or cowardly person. | [noun] (BDSM) A male crossdresser who adopts feminine behaviours. | [noun] Urination; urine. SITAR (5) [noun] A Hindustani/Indian classical stringed instrument, typically having a gourd as its resonating chamber. SITED (6) [verb] To situate or place a building. SITES (5) [noun] Sorrow, grief. | [noun] The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position | [noun] A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation SITUP (7) SITUS (5) [noun] The position, especially the usual, normal position, of a body part or part of a plant. | [noun] The method in which the parts of a plant are arranged. | [noun] The location of a property as used for taxation or other legal purposes. SIVER (8) SIXES (12) [noun] The digit or figure 6. | [noun] (by ellipsis of six o'clock) Rear, behind (rear side of something). | [noun] An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which does not bounce before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 6 runs for the batting team. SIXMO (14) SIXTE (12) [noun] The sixth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at eye level. SIXTH (15) [noun] (not used in the plural) The person or thing in the sixth position. | [noun] One of six equal parts of a whole. | [noun] The interval between one note and another, five notes higher in the scale, for example C to A, a major sixth, or C to A flat, a minor sixth. (Note that the interval covers six notes counting inclusively, for example C-D-E-F-G-A.) SIXTY (15) [numeral] The cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60. SIZAR (14) [noun] At certain universities, e.g. Cambridge and Dublin, a student who receives an allowance for his college expenses (a study grant), originally in return for serving other (paying) students. SIZED (15) [verb] To adjust the size of; to make a certain size. | [verb] To classify or arrange by size. | [verb] To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of. SIZER (14) SIZES (14) [noun] (obsolete outside dialectal) An assize. | [noun] A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc. | [noun] A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink. SKAGS (10) [noun] Heroin. | [noun] (originally African American Vernacular English) A woman of loose morals. | [noun] A cigarette. SKALD (10) [noun] A Nordic poet of the Viking Age SKATE (9) [noun] A light boot, fitted with a blade, used for ice skating. | [noun] A boot having small wheels or casters attached to its sole; used for roller skating | [noun] A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice. | [noun] A fish of the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea (rays) which inhabit most seas. Skates generally have small heads with protruding muzzles, and wide fins attached to a flat body. | [noun] A worn-out horse. SKATS (9) SKEAN (9) [noun] A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel. | [noun] A web, a weave, a tangle. | [noun] The membrane of a fish ovary. | [noun] A double-edged, leaf-shaped, typically bronze dagger formerly used in Ireland and Scotland. SKEED (10) SKEEN (9) SKEES (9) SKEET (9) [noun] A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight. | [noun] A hand consisting of a 9, a 5, a 2, and two other cards lower than 9. | [noun] The ejaculation of semen. | [noun] (Manx) news or gossip SKEGS (10) [noun] A fin-like structure to the rear of the keel of a vessel that supports the rudder and protects a propeller. | [noun] A similar construction on a boat that acts as a keel. | [noun] A fin that serves to stabilize a surfboard. SKEIN (9) [noun] A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel. | [noun] A web, a weave, a tangle. | [noun] The membrane of a fish ovary. SKELM (11) SKELP (11) [noun] A blow; a smart stroke. | [noun] A squall; a heavy fall of rain. | [noun] A large portion. | [noun] A narrow strip of rolled or forged metal, ready to be bent and welded to form a pipe. SKENE (9) [noun] An element of ancient Greek theater: the structure at the back of the stage. | [noun] A double-edged, leaf-shaped, typically bronze dagger formerly used in Ireland and Scotland. | [noun] A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel. SKEPS (11) [noun] A basket. | [noun] A beehive made of straw or wicker. SKEWS (12) [noun] Something that has an oblique or slanted position. | [noun] An oblique or sideways movement. | [noun] A bias or distortion in a particular direction. SKIDS (10) [noun] An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car. | [noun] A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a skidpan. | [noun] (by extension) A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose. SKIED (10) [verb] To move on skis | [verb] To travel over (a slope etc.) on skis; to travel on skis at (a place), (especially as a sport) | [verb] To hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high. SKIER (9) [noun] One who skis. | [noun] A ball hit high in the air, often leading to a catch. SKIES (9) [noun] The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the ground during the day. | [noun] The part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its condition, climate etc. | [noun] Heaven. | [verb] To move on skis SKIEY (12) SKIFF (15) [noun] Term used in tea gardens and denotes the act of cutting/pruning the bushes as per the specific norms. Various types of skiff are used viz Light Skiff (LS), Medium Skiff (MS), Deep Skiff (DS) and Level Of Skiff (LOS). | [noun] A small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern. | [noun] Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person. | [noun] (Nova Scotia) a deep blanket of snow covering the ground SKILL (9) [noun] Capacity to do something well; technique, ability. Skills are usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often thought of as innate. | [noun] Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause. | [noun] Knowledge; understanding. | [verb] To set apart; separate. SKIMO (11) SKIMP (13) [verb] To mock, deride, scorn, scold, make fun of. | [noun] A skimpy or insubstantial thing, especially a piece of clothing. | [noun] (in the plural) Underwear. SKIMS (11) [verb] To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface. | [verb] To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of. | [verb] To hasten along with superficial attention. SKINK (13) [noun] A shin of beef. | [noun] A soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef. | [noun] (by extension) Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients. | [noun] A lizard of the family Scincidae, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed. | [noun] A drink. SKINS (9) [noun] The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human. | [noun] The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant. | [noun] The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc. SKINT (9) [adjective] Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke. | [adjective] Skinned SKIPS (11) [noun] A leaping, jumping or skipping movement. | [noun] The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part. | [noun] A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once. SKIRL (9) [noun] A shrill sound, as of bagpipes. | [verb] To make a shrill sound, as of bagpipes. SKIRR (9) [noun] A tern. | [verb] To leave hastily; to flee, especially with a whirring sound | [verb] To make a whirring sound. SKIRT (9) [noun] An article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower part of the body. | [noun] The part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist. | [noun] A loose edging to any part of a dress. SKITE (9) [noun] A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow. | [noun] A trick. | [noun] A contemptible person. | [noun] A kind of hermitage SKITS (9) [noun] A short comic performance. | [noun] A jeer or sally; a brief satire. | [noun] A wanton girl; a wench. SKIVE (12) [noun] Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty. | [noun] An act of avoiding lessons or work. | [verb] To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk. | [noun] A rotating iron disk coated with oil and diamond dust used to polish the facets of a diamond. SKOAL (9) [verb] To make such a toast. | [interjection] A toast when drinking, roughly equivalent to cheers. SKOSH (12) [noun] A tiny amount; a little bit; tad; smidgen; jot. SKUAS (9) [noun] Any of various predatory seabirds of the family Stercorariidae that often chase other seabirds to steal their catches. SKULK (13) [noun] A group of foxes. | [noun] A group of people seen as being fox-like (e.g. cunning, dishonest, or having nefarious plans). | [noun] The act of skulking. SKULL (9) [noun] The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible. | [noun] A symbol for death; death's-head | [noun] The mind or brain. | [noun] (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales. SKUNK (13) [noun] Any of various small mammals, of the family Mephitidae, native to North and Central America, having a glossy black with a white coat and two musk glands at the base of the tail for emitting a noxious smell as a defensive measure. | [noun] A despicable person. | [noun] A walkover victory in sports or board games, as when the opposing side is unable to score. Compare shutout. | [noun] A member of a hybrid skinhead and punk subculture. | [noun] Any of the strains of hybrids of Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica that may have THC levels exceeding those of typical hashish. SKYED (13) SKYEY (15) [adjective] Resembling the sky. | [adjective] Of or relating to the sky. | [adjective] In the sky. SLABS (7) [noun] A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat. | [noun] A paving stone; a flagstone. | [noun] A carton containing 24 cans of beer. SLACK (11) [noun] The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it. | [noun] A tidal marsh or shallow that periodically fills and drains. | [adjective] (normally said of a rope) Lax; not tense; not firmly extended. | [verb] To slacken. | [noun] A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place. | [noun] A valley, or small, shallow dell. | [noun] Small coal; coal dust. SLAGS (6) [noun] Waste material from a coal mine | [noun] Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal | [noun] Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders SLAIN (5) [noun] (with "the") Those who have been killed. | [verb] To kill, murder. | [verb] To eradicate or stamp out. SLAKE (9) [verb] To satisfy (thirst, or other desires). | [verb] To cool (something) with water or another liquid. | [verb] To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place. | [noun] A sloppy mess. SLAMS (7) [verb] To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise. | [verb] To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.) | [verb] To strike forcefully with some implement. SLANG (6) [noun] Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register. | [noun] Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon. | [noun] The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those not members of the group; cant. | [verb] To throw with a circular or arcing motion. | [noun] Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory. | [noun] A fetter worn on the leg by a convict. | [verb] To sell (especially illegal drugs). SLANK (9) SLANT (5) [noun] A slope; an incline, inclination. | [noun] A sloped surface or line. | [noun] A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam. SLAPS (7) [noun] A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat. | [noun] The sound of such a blow. | [noun] Makeup; cosmetics. SLASH (8) [noun] A slashing action or motion, particularly: | [noun] A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly: | [noun] Something resembling such a mark, particularly: | [noun] A drink of something; a draft. | [noun] A swampy area; a swamp. | [noun] The period of a transitory breeze. SLATE (5) [noun] A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers. | [noun] The bluish-grey colour of most slate. | [noun] A chalkboard, sheet of slate for writing on with chalk or with a thin rod of slate (a slate pencil) formerly commonly used by both students and teachers in schools | [verb] To cover with slate. SLATS (5) [noun] A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath) or metal. | [noun] (aeronautical) A movable control surface at the leading edge of a wing that when moved, changes the chord line of the airfoil, affecting the angle of attack. Employed in conjunction with flaps to allow for a lower stall speed in the landing attitude, facilitating slow flight. | [noun] A ski. SLATY (8) SLAVE (8) [noun] A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control. | [noun] A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant. | [noun] An abject person. SLAWS (8) SLAYS (8) [verb] To kill, murder. | [verb] To eradicate or stamp out. | [verb] (by extension) To defeat, overcome (in a competition or contest). SLEDS (6) [noun] A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills. (A "sled" in this sense is not pulled by an animal as a "sleigh" is.) | [noun] A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice. (contrast "sleigh", which is larger) | [noun] A snowmobile. SLEEK (9) [noun] That which makes smooth; varnish. | [verb] To make smooth or glossy; to polish or cause to be attractive. | [adjective] Having an even, smooth surface; smooth SLEEP (7) [verb] To rest in a state of reduced consciousness. | [verb] (of a spinning top or yo-yo) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion. | [verb] To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion. | [noun] The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm. SLEET (5) [noun] Pellets of ice made of mostly frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes. | [noun] A mixture of rain and snow. | [noun] A smooth coating of ice formed on ground or other objects by freezing rain. SLEPT (7) [verb] To rest in a state of reduced consciousness. | [verb] (of a spinning top or yo-yo) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion. | [verb] To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion. SLEWS (8) [verb] To rotate or turn something about its axis. | [verb] To veer a vehicle. | [verb] To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time. SLICE (7) [noun] That which is thin and broad. | [noun] A thin, broad piece cut off. | [noun] An amount of anything. SLICK (11) [noun] A covering of liquid, particularly oil. | [noun] Someone who is clever and untrustworthy. | [noun] A tool used to make something smooth or even. | [noun] The finer portion of crushed ore, as of gold, lead, or tin, separated by the water in certain wet processes. SLIDE (6) [noun] An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again. | [noun] A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke. | [noun] The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche. SLIER (5) SLILY (8) [adverb] In a sly manner, cunningly. SLIME (7) [noun] Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing. | [noun] Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs. | [noun] A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball. SLIMS (7) [noun] A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes. | [noun] A potato farl. | [noun] AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages. SLIMY (10) [noun] A ponyfish. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to slime | [adjective] Resembling, of the nature of, covered or daubed with, or abounding in slime SLING (6) [noun] An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other. | [noun] A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported. | [noun] A loop of cloth, worn around the neck, for supporting a baby or other such load. | [noun] A young or infant spider, such as one raised in captivity. SLINK (9) [noun] A furtive sneaking motion. | [noun] The young of an animal when born prematurely, especially a calf. | [noun] The meat of such a prematurely born animal. SLIPE (7) SLIPS (7) [noun] A thin, slippery mix of clay and water. | [noun] Mud, slime. | [noun] A twig or shoot; a cutting. SLIPT (7) SLITS (5) [noun] A narrow cut or opening; a slot. | [noun] The opening of the vagina. | [noun] A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute. SLOBS (7) [noun] A lazy and slovenly person. | [noun] A lazy and obese person. SLOES (5) [noun] The small, bitter, wild fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa). | [noun] The tree Prunus spinosa. | [noun] Any of various other plants of the genus Prunus, as a shrub or small tree, Prunus alleghaniensis, bearing dark-purple fruit. SLOGS (6) [noun] A long, tedious walk, or session of work. | [noun] An aggressive shot played with little skill. SLOID (6) SLOJD (13) SLOOP (7) [noun] A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail. | [noun] A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck. | [noun] A sloop-of-war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette. SLOPE (7) [noun] An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward. | [noun] The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward. | [noun] The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical. SLOPS (7) [noun] A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A rubber thong sandal. | [noun] (in the plural) See slops. | [noun] A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall. SLOSH (8) [noun] A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash. | [noun] A sloshing sound or motion. | [noun] Slush. | [noun] Backslash, the character \. SLOTH (8) [noun] Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour. | [noun] A herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity. | [noun] A collective term for a group of bears. SLOTS (5) [noun] A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc. | [noun] A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece. | [noun] An implement for baring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like. SLOWS (8) [verb] To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of. | [verb] To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of. | [verb] To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate. SLOYD (9) SLUBS (7) [noun] A small thickened portion or knot found on linen yarn, caused by defects. | [noun] Fabric fiber produced by slubbing. | [verb] To draw and twist fibers in order to prepare them for spinning. SLUED (6) [adjective] Somewhat drunk; tipsy. | [verb] To rotate something on an axis. | [verb] To turn something sharply. SLUES (5) [noun] The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued. | [noun] A slough; a run or wet place. SLUFF (11) SLUGS (6) [noun] Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. | [noun] A slow, lazy person; a sluggard. | [noun] A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug. SLUMP (9) [noun] A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period. | [noun] A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed. | [noun] A boggy place. SLUMS (7) [noun] A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty. | [noun] Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game. | [verb] To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own. SLUNG (6) [verb] To throw with a circular or arcing motion. | [verb] To throw with a sling. | [verb] To pass a rope around (a cask, gun, etc.) preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle. SLUNK (9) [verb] To sneak about furtively. | [verb] To give birth to an animal prematurely. | [noun] An animal, especially a calf, born prematurely or abortively. SLURB (7) SLURP (7) [noun] A loud sucking noise made in eating or drinking | [noun] A mouthful of liquid | [verb] To eat or drink noisily. SLURS (5) [noun] An insult or slight. | [noun] A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation. | [noun] The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie). SLUSH (8) [noun] Half-melted snow or ice. | [noun] Liquid mud or mire. | [noun] Flavored shaved ice served as a drink. SLUTS (5) [noun] A sexually promiscuous woman or girl. | [noun] Any sexually promiscuous person, often a gay man. | [noun] Someone who seeks attention through inappropriate means or to an excessive degree. SLYER (8) [adjective] Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily. | [adjective] (having a positive sense) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice | [adjective] Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle SLYLY (11) [adverb] In a sly manner, cunningly. SLYPE (10) [noun] A covered passageway, especially one connecting the transept of a cathedral or monastery to the chapter house. SMACK (13) [noun] A distinct flavor, especially if slight. | [noun] A slight trace of something; a smattering. | [noun] Heroin. | [noun] A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack | [noun] A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank. SMALL (7) [noun] Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back. | [verb] To make little or less. | [verb] To become small; to dwindle. SMALT (7) [noun] A deep blue pigment made from powdered glass mixed with cobalt oxide SMARM (9) [noun] Smarmy language or behavior. | [noun] A style of fan fiction in which characters are warm and caring toward each other but without sexual overtones. | [verb] To fawn, to be unctuous. SMART (7) [verb] To hurt or sting. | [verb] To cause a smart or sting in. | [verb] To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil. | [adjective] Exhibiting social ability or cleverness. | [noun] A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting. SMASH (10) [noun] The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together. | [noun] A traffic collision. | [noun] Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc); a hit. SMAZE (16) [noun] Smoky haze in the air. SMEAR (7) [noun] A mark made by smearing. | [noun] Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear. | [noun] A Pap smear. SMEEK (11) SMELL (7) [noun] A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance. | [noun] The sense that detects odours. | [noun] A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate. SMELT (7) [noun] Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe. | [noun] A fool; a simpleton. | [verb] To sense a smell or smells. | [noun] Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves melting and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal. SMERK (11) SMEWS (10) [noun] A small compact diving duck, Mergus albellus, that breeds in the northern taiga of Europe and Asia and winters on sheltered coasts or inland lakes. SMILE (7) [noun] A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement or anxiety. | [noun] Favour; propitious regard. | [noun] A drink bought by one person for another. SMIRK (11) [noun] An uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied or scornful | [noun] A forced or affected smile; a simper | [verb] To smile in a way that is affected, smug, insolent or contemptuous. SMITE (7) [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To strike down or kill with godly force. | [verb] To injure with divine power. SMITH (10) [noun] A craftsperson who works metal into desired forms using a hammer and other tools, sometimes heating the metal to make it more workable, especially a blacksmith. | [noun] (by extension) One who makes anything; wright. | [noun] An artist. | [verb] To forge, to form, usually on an anvil; by heating and pounding. SMOCK (13) [noun] A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip. | [noun] A blouse; a smock frock. | [noun] A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc. SMOGS (8) [noun] A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution. | [verb] To get a smog check; to check a vehicle or have it checked for emissions. SMOKE (11) [noun] The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material. | [noun] A cigarette. | [noun] Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.) | [verb] To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc. SMOKY (14) [adjective] Filled with smoke. | [adjective] Giving off smoke. | [adjective] Of a colour or colour pattern similar to that of smoke. SMOLT (7) [adjective] Bright; serene. | [adjective] (of weather) Calm; fine; fair. | [adjective] Smooth and shining. | [noun] A young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color. SMOTE (7) [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To strike down or kill with godly force. | [verb] To injure with divine power. SMUTS (7) [noun] Soot. | [noun] A flake of ash or soot. | [noun] Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material. SNACK (11) [noun] A light meal. | [noun] An item of food eaten between meals. | [noun] A very sexy and attractive person. | [noun] A share; a part or portion. SNAFU (8) [noun] A ridiculously chaotic situation. | [noun] A major glitch or breakdown. | [verb] To screw up or foul up. SNAGS (6) [noun] A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch. | [noun] A dead tree that remains standing. | [noun] A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk. SNAIL (5) [noun] Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell. | [noun] (by extension) A slow person; a sluggard. | [noun] A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock. SNAKE (9) [noun] A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue. | [noun] A treacherous person. | [noun] Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain. SNAKY (12) [adjective] Resembling or relating to snakes. | [adjective] Windy; winding; twisty; sinuous, wavy. | [adjective] Sly; cunning; deceitful. SNAPS (7) [noun] A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound. | [noun] A sudden break. | [noun] An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab. SNARE (5) [noun] A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather). | [noun] A mental or psychological trap. | [noun] A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal. SNARK (9) [noun] Snide remarks. | [verb] To express oneself in a snarky fashion. | [verb] To snort. | [noun] A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point. SNARL (5) [noun] A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle. | [noun] An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation. | [noun] A slow-moving traffic jam. | [noun] The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention. SNASH (8) [noun] Verbal abuse; insolence; guff. | [verb] To talk impudently. SNATH (8) SNAWS (8) SNEAK (9) [noun] One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information. | [noun] A cheat; a con artist. | [noun] An informer; a tell-tale. SNEAP (7) SNECK (11) [noun] A latch or catch. | [noun] The nose. | [noun] A cut. SNEDS (6) [verb] To lop. SNEER (5) [noun] A facial expression where one slightly raises one corner of the upper lip, generally indicating scorn. | [noun] A display of contempt; scorn. | [verb] To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn SNELL (5) [adjective] Quick, smart; sharp, active, brisk or nimble; lively. | [adjective] Quick-witted; witty. | [adjective] Harsh; severe. | [noun] A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook or lure is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line. SNIBS (7) [noun] A latch or fastening for a door, window etc. | [noun] A reprimand; a snub. SNICK (11) [noun] A small deflection of the ball off the side of the bat; often carries to the wicketkeeper for a catch | [noun] A small cut or mark. | [noun] A knot or irregularity in yarn. | [noun] A sharp clicking sound. | [verb] To latch, to lock. SNIDE (6) [noun] An underhanded, tricky person given to sharp practise; a sharper; a cheat. | [noun] Counterfeit money | [adjective] Disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way. SNIFF (11) [noun] An instance of sniffing. | [noun] A quantity of something that is inhaled through the nose | [noun] A brief perception, or tiny amount. SNIPE (7) [noun] Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak. | [noun] A fool; a blockhead. | [noun] A shot fired from a concealed place. | [noun] A cigarette butt. | [noun] A sharp, clever answer; sarcasm. SNIPS (7) [noun] The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something. | [noun] A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool. | [noun] Something acquired for a low price; a bargain. SNITS (5) [noun] A temper; a lack of patience; a bad mood. | [noun] A U.S. unit of volume for liquor equal to 2 jiggers, 3 U.S. fluid ounces, or 88.7 milliliters. | [noun] A beer chaser commonly served in three-ounce servings in highball or juice glasses with a Bloody Mary cocktail in the upper midwest states of United States including Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, and Illinois. SNOBS (7) [noun] A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes. | [noun] A cobbler or shoemaker. | [noun] A member of the lower classes; a commoner. SNOGS (6) [noun] A passionate kiss. | [verb] To kiss passionately. SNOOD (6) [noun] A band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place, including the hair-band formerly worn in Scotland and northern England by young unmarried women. | [noun] A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place. | [noun] The flap of erectile red skin on the beak of a male turkey. SNOOK (9) [noun] A freshwater and marine fish of the family Centropomidae in the order Perciformes. | [noun] Any of various other ray-finned fishes in several families. | [verb] To fish for snook. | [noun] (as a gesture) A disrespectful gesture, performed by placing the tip of a thumb on one's nose with the fingers spread, and typically while wiggling the fingers back and forth. SNOOL (5) [noun] An abject, cowardly person who submits tamely to others. | [verb] To submit tamely to others. SNOOP (7) [noun] The act of snooping | [noun] One who snoops | [noun] A private detective SNOOT (5) [noun] An elitist individual; one who looks down upon lower social classes. | [noun] A language pedant or snob; one who practices linguistic elitism. | [noun] A nose or snout, especially in derogatory use. SNORE (5) [noun] The act of snoring, and the noise produced. | [noun] An extremely boring person or event. | [verb] To breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate. SNORT (5) [noun] The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose. | [noun] A dose of a drug to be snorted. Here, "drug" includes snuff (i.e., pulverized tobacco). | [noun] A consumed portion of alcoholic drink. SNOTS (5) [noun] Mucus, especially mucus from the nose. | [noun] A contemptible child. | [noun] A mean fellow. SNOUT (5) [noun] The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs. | [noun] The front of the prow of a ship or boat. | [noun] A person's nose. SNOWS (8) [noun] The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation. | [noun] Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid. | [noun] A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water. SNOWY (11) [adjective] Marked by snow, characterized by snow. | [adjective] Covered with snow, snow-covered, besnowed. | [adjective] Snow-white in color, white as snow. SNUBS (7) [noun] A deliberate affront or slight. | [noun] A sudden checking of a cable or rope. | [noun] A knot; a protuberance; a snag. SNUCK (11) [verb] To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen. | [verb] To take something stealthily without permission. | [verb] (ditransitive) To stealthily bring someone something. SNUFF (11) [noun] Finely ground or pulverized tobacco intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose. | [noun] Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue; see also snus. | [noun] A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco. | [noun] The burning part of a candle wick, or the black, burnt remains of a wick (which must be periodically removed). | [verb] To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of the wick until the flame is suffocated. SNUGS (6) [noun] A small, comfortable back room in a pub. | [noun] A lug. | [verb] To make secure or snug. SNYES (8) SOAKS (9) [noun] An immersion in water etc. | [noun] A drunkard. | [noun] A carouse; a drinking session. SOAPS (7) [noun] A substance able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning, often in the form of a solid bar or in liquid form, derived from fats or made synthetically. | [noun] A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid | [noun] Flattery or excessively complacent conversation. SOAPY (10) [adjective] Resembling soap. | [adjective] Resembling a soap opera. | [adjective] Full of soap. SOARS (5) [noun] The act of soaring. | [noun] An upward flight. | [verb] To fly high with little effort, like a bird. SOAVE (8) SOBER (7) [verb] (often with up) To make or become sober. | [verb] (often with up) To overcome or lose a state of intoxication. | [verb] To moderate one's feelings SOCKO (11) [adjective] Superb, excellent, stunning. SOCKS (11) [noun] A knitted or woven covering for the foot. | [noun] A shoe worn by Greco-Roman comedy actors. | [noun] A color pattern (usually white) on a cat's or dog's lower leg that is different from the color pattern on the rest of the animal. SOCLE (7) [noun] A low plinth or pedestal used to display a statue or other artwork. | [noun] A plain face or plinth at the foot of a wall. | [noun] The sum of the minimal normal submodules of a given R-module of a given ring R. SODAS (6) [noun] Sodium bicarbonate (usually baking soda). | [noun] Sodium carbonate (usually washing soda). | [noun] Sodium in chemical combination. SODDY (10) SODIC (8) [adjective] Of, relating to, or containing sodium. SODOM (8) SOFAR (8) [noun] A system for determining the position of vessels lost at sea by means of explosive sounds. SOFAS (8) [noun] A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting. | [noun] (furniture) An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people. | [verb] To furnish with one or more sofas. SOFTA (8) [noun] A religious student, especially in Turkey | [noun] (by extension) A fanatic adherent, blind follower SOFTS (8) SOFTY (11) [noun] A weak or sentimental person. | [noun] Somebody who finds it difficult to scold or punish. | [noun] A software expert who is ignorant of the workings of hardware. SOGGY (10) [adjective] Soaked with moisture or other liquid. SOILS (5) [noun] A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth. | [noun] The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants. | [noun] The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics. SOJAS (12) SOKES (9) [noun] Any of several medieval rights, either to hold a court, or to receive fines. | [noun] A district under a particular jurisdiction. SOKOL (9) SOLAN (5) [noun] Solan goose SOLAR (5) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun | [adjective] Born under the predominant influence of the sun. | [adjective] Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year. | [noun] A loft or upper chamber forming the private accommodation of the head of the household in a medieval hall; a garret room. SOLDI (6) [noun] An Italian coin, formerly one-twentieth of a lira. SOLDO (6) [noun] An Italian coin, formerly one-twentieth of a lira. SOLED (6) [verb] To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug. | [verb] To put a sole on (a shoe or boot) | [adjective] (in combination) Having a specified kind of sole. SOLEI (5) [noun] A broad, flat muscle that extends behind the gastrocnemius along the back of the calf. SOLES (5) [noun] A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall. | [noun] A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water. | [noun] The bottom or plantar surface of the foot. SOLID (6) [noun] A substance in the fundamental state of matter that retains its size and shape without need of a container (as opposed to a liquid or gas). | [noun] A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve). | [noun] A favor. SOLON (5) SOLOS (5) [noun] A piece of music for one performer. | [noun] A job or performance done by one person alone. | [noun] (games) A card game similar to whist in which each player plays against the others in turn without a partner SOLUM (7) SOLUS (5) [adjective] Alone, unaccompanied (as a stage direction) SOLVE (8) [noun] (chiefly law enforcement) A solution; an explanation. | [verb] To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out. | [verb] To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities. SOMAS (7) [noun] The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail. | [noun] The corporeal body, as distinguished from the psyche or soul and the pneuma or spirit. | [noun] The bulbous part of a neuron, containing the cell nucleus. SONAR (5) [noun] Echolocation | [noun] A device that uses hydrophones (in the same manner as radar) to locate objects underwater. SONDE (6) [noun] Probe; sound. | [noun] (physical sciences) Any of various devices for testing physical conditions, often for remote or underwater locations. SONES (5) [noun] (acoustics) a subjective unit of loudness for an average listener equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz sound that has an intensity 40 decibels above the listener's own threshold of hearing SONGS (6) [noun] A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing. | [noun] (by extension) Any musical composition. | [noun] Poetical composition; poetry; verse. SONIC (7) [adjective] Of or relating to sound. | [adjective] Having a speed approaching that of the speed of sound in air. SONLY (8) SONNY (8) [noun] A familiar form of address for a boy | [noun] Form of address to a boy or man, to express contempt, warning etc. SONSY (8) [adjective] Lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump SOOEY (8) SOOKS (9) [noun] Familiar name for a calf. | [noun] Familiar name for a cow. | [noun] A cow or sheep. SOOTH (8) [noun] Truth. | [noun] Augury; prognostication. | [noun] Blandishment; cajolery. SOOTS (5) [noun] Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc. | [verb] To cover or dress with soot. SOOTY (8) [verb] To blacken or make dirty with soot. | [adjective] Of, relating to, or producing soot. | [adjective] Soiled with soot SOPHS (10) SOPHY (13) [noun] Wisdom, knowledge, learning | [noun] A title of a Safavid dynasty shah. | [noun] A wise man; a sage or wite. | [noun] A mystic Muslim; a Muslim ascetic | [noun] Any one of the various fields of study whose names end in -sophy. SOPOR (7) [noun] An unnaturally deep sleep. SOPPY (12) [adjective] Very wet; sodden, soaked. | [adjective] Sentimental, maudlin, schmaltzy. SORAS (5) [noun] A rail (Porzana carolina) of North, Central, and northern South America. SORBS (7) [noun] The service tree, Sorbus domestica. | [noun] Any of various related trees, including the wild service tree, S. torminalis, and the rowan, S. aucuparia. | [noun] The fruit of any of these trees, especially of the service tree. SORDS (6) [noun] A flock of mallards | [noun] A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod. | [noun] An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow. SOREL (5) [noun] A young buck (deer) in the third year. | [noun] A yellowish or reddish brown color; sorrel. | [noun] Any of various plants with acidic leaves, especially SORER (5) [adjective] Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive. | [adjective] Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation. | [adjective] Dire; distressing. SORES (5) [noun] An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin. | [noun] Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty. | [noun] A group of ducks on land. SORGO (6) SORNS (5) SORRY (8) [noun] The act of saying sorry; an apology. | [adjective] (of a person) Regretful for an action; grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone. | [adjective] Poor, pitifully sad or regrettable. SORTS (5) [noun] A general type. | [noun] Manner; form of being or acting. | [noun] Condition above the vulgar; rank. SORUS (5) [noun] Any reproductive structure, in some lichens and fungi, that produces spores. | [noun] A cluster of sporangia on the edge or underside of a fern frond. SOTHS (8) SOTOL (5) [noun] Any of several species of North American desert plants of the genus Dasylirion, of the asparagus family. | [noun] A distilled spirit made from the sap of some of these plants, especially Dasylirion wheeleri. SOUGH (9) [noun] A murmuring sound; rushing, rustling, or whistling sound. | [noun] A gentle breeze; a waft; a breath. | [noun] A (deep) sigh. | [noun] A small drain; an adit. SOUKS (9) [noun] A street market, particularly in Arabic- and Somali-speaking countries; a place where people buy and sell goods. SOULS (5) [noun] The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death. | [noun] The spirit or essence of anything. | [noun] Life, energy, vigor. SOUND (6) [adjective] Healthy. | [adjective] Complete, solid, or secure. | [adjective] Having the property of soundness. | [noun] A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium. | [noun] A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean. | [noun] An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde. SOUPS (7) [noun] Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute flavor and texture. | [noun] Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency. | [verb] To feed: to provide with soup or a meal. SOUPY (10) [adjective] Resembling soup; creamy. | [adjective] Extravagant sentimental; slushy. SOURS (5) [noun] The sensation of a sour taste. | [noun] A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar. | [noun] (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice. SOUSE (5) [noun] Something kept or steeped in brine | [noun] The act of sousing; a plunging into water. | [noun] A person suffering from alcoholism. | [noun] The act of sousing, or swooping. | [noun] A sou (the French coin). SOUTH (8) [noun] One of the four major compass points, specifically 180°, directed toward the South Pole, and conventionally downwards on a map, abbreviated as S. | [noun] The side of a church on the right hand of a person facing the altar. | [verb] To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south. SOWAR (8) SOWED (9) [verb] To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds). | [verb] To spread abroad; to propagate. | [verb] To scatter over; to besprinkle. SOWER (8) SOYAS (8) SOYUZ (17) SOZIN (14) SPACE (9) [noun] (heading) Of time. | [noun] (heading) Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise. | [noun] (heading) A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise. SPACY (12) [adjective] Spaced-out | [adjective] Eccentric | [adjective] Having much space SPADE (8) [noun] A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials. | [noun] A playing card marked with the symbol ♠. | [noun] A black person. | [noun] A hart or stag three years old. SPADO (8) SPAED (8) [verb] To divine; foretell SPAES (7) [verb] To divine; foretell SPAHI (10) [noun] (history) An Ottoman (Turkish empire) cavalryman, especially as recruited under a land-based system. | [noun] (history) A soldier in a mainly Arab-recruited cavalry (originally horse, later light armored) regiment in French colonial service in (former/ in name still) Ottoman North African provinces SPAIL (7) SPAIT (7) SPAKE (11) [adjective] Quiet; tame. | [adjective] Ready; prompt. | [verb] To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud. SPALE (7) SPALL (7) [noun] A splinter, fragment or chip, especially of stone. | [verb] To break into fragments or small pieces. | [verb] To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering. | [noun] The shoulder. SPANG (8) [noun] A shiny ornament or object; a spangle | [verb] To set with bright points: star or spangle. | [verb] To hitch; fasten. | [verb] (of a flying object such as a bullet) To strike or ricochet with a loud report | [noun] A bound or spring; a leap. | [noun] A span. SPANK (11) [noun] An instance of spanking, separately or part of a multiple blows-beating; a smack, swat, or slap. | [noun] A slapping sound, as produced by spanking. | [verb] To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, gesture, or form of sexual interaction. SPANS (7) [noun] The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; an eighth of a fathom. | [noun] (by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time. | [noun] A portion of something by length; a subsequence. SPARE (7) [noun] The act of sparing; moderation; restraint. | [noun] Parsimony; frugal use. | [noun] An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket. | [verb] To show mercy. SPARK (11) [noun] A small particle of glowing matter, either molten or on fire. | [noun] A short or small burst of electrical discharge. | [noun] A small, shining body, or transient light; a sparkle. | [noun] A gallant; a foppish young man. SPARS (7) [noun] A rafter of a roof. | [noun] A thick pole or piece of wood. | [noun] A bar of wood used to fasten a door. SPASM (9) [noun] A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ. | [noun] A violent, excruciating seizure of pain. | [noun] A sudden and temporary burst of energy, activity, or emotion. SPATE (7) [noun] A river flood; an overflow or inundation. | [noun] (by extension) A sudden rush or increase. SPATS (7) [noun] (often in the plural) A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe. | [noun] A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car. | [noun] A brief argument, falling out, quarrel. SPAWN (10) [verb] To produce or deposit (eggs) in water. | [verb] To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers. | [verb] To bring forth in general. | [noun] The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism. SPAYS (10) [verb] To divine; foretell | [verb] To remove or destroy the ovaries (of an animal) so that it cannot become pregnant. SPEAK (11) [noun] A low class bar, a speakeasy. | [noun] Language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group. | [noun] Speech, conversation. SPEAN (7) SPEAR (7) [noun] A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion. | [noun] A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman. | [noun] A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish. SPECK (13) [noun] A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc. | [noun] A very small thing; a particle; a whit. | [noun] A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States. | [noun] Fat; lard; fat meat. SPECS (9) [noun] Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of. | [noun] Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship. | [noun] Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts) SPEED (8) [noun] The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion; rapidity. | [noun] The rate of motion or action, specifically / the magnitude of the velocity; the rate distance is traversed in a given time. | [noun] The sensitivity to light of film, plates or sensor. | [verb] To succeed; to prosper, be lucky. SPEEL (7) SPEER (7) SPEIL (7) SPEIR (7) SPELL (7) [noun] Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers. | [noun] A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula. | [noun] Speech, discourse. | [verb] To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort. | [noun] A shift (of work); a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour. | [noun] A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk. SPELT (7) [verb] To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort. | [verb] (sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word. | [verb] To be able to write or say the letters that form words. | [noun] A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta or Triticum dicoccon. | [noun] A thin piece of wood or metal; a splinter. SPEND (8) [noun] Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure. | [noun] (in the plural) Expenditures; money or pocket money. | [noun] Discharged semen. SPENT (7) [verb] To pay out (money). | [verb] To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon. | [verb] To squander. SPERM (9) [noun] The reproductive cell or gamete of the male; a spermatozoon. | [noun] Semen; the generative substance of male animals. | [noun] Sperm oil; whale oil from a sperm whale; spermaceti. SPEWS (10) [verb] To eject forcibly and in a stream | [verb] To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading. | [verb] To vomit SPICA (9) [noun] A spike. | [noun] A spur. | [noun] A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; a spiral bandage with reversed turns. SPICE (9) [noun] Aromatic or pungent plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food. | [noun] Appeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting, or engaging. | [noun] A synthetic cannabinoid drug. SPICK (13) SPICS (9) [noun] A Spanish-speaking person, someone with a Central American or Latino accent. SPICY (12) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or containing spice. | [adjective] (of flavors) Provoking a burning sensation due to the presence of chilis or similar hot spices | [adjective] (of flavors or odors) Tangy, zesty, or pungent. SPIED (8) [verb] To act as a spy. | [verb] To spot; to catch sight of. | [verb] To search narrowly; to scrutinize. SPIEL (7) [noun] A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade. | [noun] An early form of rap music. | [verb] To talk at length. | [noun] A game of curling. SPIER (7) SPIES (7) [noun] A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage). | [verb] To act as a spy. | [verb] To spot; to catch sight of. SPIFF (13) [noun] Attractiveness or charm in dress, appearance, or manner. | [noun] A well-dressed man. | [noun] A bonus or other remuneration, given for reaching a sales goal or promoting the goods of a particular manufacturer. Originally from textile retailing, a percentage given for selling off surplus or out-of-fashion stock, of which the sales person could offer part as a discount to a customer. SPIKE (11) [noun] In a violin-family instrument, the carved wooden plug which sits in the bottom block of the instrument. | [noun] The spike of a cello or double bass that makes contact with the floor and supports the weight of the instrument. | [noun] A sort of very large nail. SPIKS (11) SPIKY (14) [adjective] Having spikes, spiny. | [adjective] Hostile; standoffish | [adjective] Of hair, erect, resembling spikes. SPILE (7) [noun] A splinter. | [noun] A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask. | [noun] A spout inserted in a maple (or other tree) to draw off sap. | [noun] A pile; a post or girder. | [verb] Spoil. SPILL (7) [noun] A mess of something that has been dropped. | [noun] A fall or stumble. | [noun] A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire. SPILT (7) [verb] To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour. | [verb] To spread out or fall out, as above. | [verb] To drop something that was intended to be caught. SPINE (7) [noun] The series of bones situated at the back from the head to the pelvis of a person, or from the head to the tail of an animal; backbone, vertebral column. | [noun] Something resembling a backbone, such as a ridge, or a long, central structure from which other structures radiate. | [noun] A pointed, fairly rigid protuberance or needle-like structure on an animal, shell, or plant. SPINS (7) [noun] Rapid circular motion. | [noun] A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment. | [noun] A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation. SPINY (10) SPIRE (7) [noun] The stalk or stem of a plant. | [noun] A young shoot of a plant; a spear. | [noun] Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc. | [verb] To breathe. | [noun] One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil. SPIRT (7) [verb] To cause to gush out suddenly or violently in a stream or jet. | [verb] To rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet. | [verb] To make a strong effort for a short period of time. SPIRY (10) SPITE (7) [noun] Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice | [noun] Vexation; chagrin; mortification. | [verb] To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart. | [preposition] Notwithstanding; despite. SPITS (7) [noun] A sudden impact or blow. | [noun] The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object. | [noun] A slam dunk. SPITZ (16) [noun] Any of several Nordic breeds of dog such as the Pomeranian or Samoyed SPIVS (10) [noun] A smartly dressed person who trades in illicit, black-market or stolen goods. | [noun] A flashy con artist, often homeless, who lives by his wits. | [noun] In Scotland Yard usage, a low and common thief. SPLAT (7) [noun] The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back. | [noun] The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface. | [noun] The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface. SPLAY (10) [noun] A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them. | [verb] To spread; spread out. | [verb] To dislocate, as a shoulder bone. SPLIT (7) [noun] A crack or longitudinal fissure. | [noun] A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division. | [noun] A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment. SPODE (8) SPOIL (7) [noun] (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim. | [noun] Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. | [verb] To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour. SPOKE (11) [noun] A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim. | [noun] A projecting handle of a steering wheel. | [noun] A rung of a ladder. | [verb] To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud. SPOOF (10) [noun] An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank. | [noun] A light parody. | [noun] A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held. | [noun] Semen. SPOOK (11) [noun] A ghost or phantom. | [noun] A hobgoblin. | [noun] A scare or fright. SPOOL (7) [noun] A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle. | [noun] A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc. | [verb] To wind on a spool or spools. | [noun] A small swimming pool that can be used also as a spa. SPOON (7) [noun] An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle. | [noun] An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon. | [noun] A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful. | [verb] To sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted. SPOOR (7) [noun] The track, trail, droppings or scent of an animal | [verb] To track an animal by following its spoor SPORE (7) [noun] A reproductive particle, usually a single cell, released by a fungus, alga, or plant that may germinate into another. | [noun] A thick resistant particle produced by a bacterium or protist to survive in harsh or unfavorable conditions. | [verb] To produce spores. SPORT (7) [noun] Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics. | [noun] Something done for fun, regardless of its design or intended purpose. | [noun] A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship. SPOTS (7) [noun] A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape. | [noun] A stain or disfiguring mark. | [noun] A pimple, papule or pustule. SPOUT (7) [noun] A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged. | [noun] A stream of liquid. | [noun] The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale. SPRAG (8) [adjective] Lively, full of energy | [noun] A billet of wood; a piece of timber, a similar solid object or constructed unit used as a prop. | [verb] To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep slope, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel. | [noun] A young salmon. SPRAT (7) [noun] Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus Sprattus, in the family Clupeidae. SPRAY (10) [noun] A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid. | [noun] A pressurized container; an atomizer. | [noun] Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner. | [noun] A small branch of flowers or berries. SPREE (7) [noun] A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic. | [noun] Uninhibited activity. | [verb] To engage in a spree. SPRIG (8) [noun] A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray. | [noun] An ornament resembling a small shoot or twig. | [noun] One of the separate pieces of lace fastened on a ground in applique lace. SPRIT (7) [noun] A spar between mast and upper outer corner of a spritsail on sailing boats. | [noun] A shoot; a sprout. | [verb] To sprout; to bud; to germinate, as barley steeped for malt. | [verb] To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out. SPRUE (7) [noun] A tropical disease causing a sore throat and tongue, and disturbed digestion; psilosis. | [noun] (founding) The hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold. | [noun] (founding) Material that cools in the feed channels to a mold. SPRUG (8) SPUDS (8) [noun] A potato. | [noun] A hole in a sock. | [noun] A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends. SPUED (8) [verb] To eject forcibly and in a stream | [verb] To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading. | [verb] To vomit SPUES (7) [verb] To eject forcibly and in a stream | [verb] To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading. | [verb] To vomit SPUME (9) [noun] Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater. | [verb] To froth. SPUMY (12) SPUNK (11) [noun] A spark. | [noun] Touchwood; tinder. | [noun] A piece of tinder, sometimes impregnated with sulphur; a match. SPURN (7) [noun] An act of spurning; a scornful rejection. | [noun] A kick; a blow with the foot. | [noun] Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment. SPURS (7) [verb] To ask, to inquire | [noun] A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight. | [noun] A jab given with the spurs. SPURT (7) [noun] A brief gush, as of liquid spurting from an orifice or a cut/wound. | [noun] Ejaculation of semen. | [noun] A shoot; a bud. | [noun] A moment, a short period of time. SPUTA (7) SQUAB (16) [noun] (sometimes attributive) A baby pigeon, dove, or chicken. | [noun] The meat of such a baby bird used as food. | [noun] A baby rook. SQUAD (15) [noun] A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members. | [noun] One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps. | [verb] To act as part of, or on behalf of, a squad. | [noun] Sloppy mud. SQUAT (14) [noun] Nothing; nothing whatsoever. | [noun] A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet. | [noun] (exercise) Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee. | [noun] The angel shark (genus Squatina). SQUAW (17) [noun] A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman. SQUEG (15) SQUIB (16) [noun] A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode. | [noun] A similar device used to ignite an explosive or launch a rocket, etc. | [noun] A kind of slow match or safety fuse. SQUID (15) [noun] Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles | [noun] A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid. | [noun] (mildly) A sailor in the Navy. | [noun] A motorcyclist, especially a sport biker, characterized by reckless riding and lack of protective gear. STABS (7) [noun] An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object. | [noun] A wound made by stabbing. | [noun] Pain inflicted on a person's feelings. STACK (11) [noun] (heading) A pile. | [noun] A smokestack. | [noun] (heading) In computing. STADE (6) STAFF (11) [noun] (plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking. | [noun] (plural staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave. | [noun] (plural staff or staffs) The employees of a business. STAGE (6) [noun] A phase. | [noun] A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given. | [noun] A floor or storey of a house. STAGS (6) [noun] An adult male deer. | [noun] A colt, or filly. | [noun] (by extension) A romping girl; a tomboy. STAGY (9) [adjective] Theatrical | [adjective] Unnaturally showy | [adjective] Melodramatic; sensationalized STAID (6) [adjective] Not capricious or impulsive; sedate, serious, sober. | [adjective] Always fixed in the same location; stationary. STAIG (6) STAIN (5) [noun] A discoloured spot or area. | [noun] A blemish on one's character or reputation. | [noun] A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it. STAIR (5) [noun] A single step in a staircase. | [noun] A series of steps; a staircase. STAKE (9) [noun] A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay. | [noun] A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet. | [noun] A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off. STALE (5) [noun] Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh. | [verb] (of alcohol) To make stale; to age in order to clear and strengthen (a drink, especially beer). | [verb] To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption. | [noun] A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.) | [noun] A fixed position, particularly a soldier's in a battle-line. | [noun] (livestock) Urine, especially used of horses and cattle. | [noun] A live bird to lure birds of prey or others of its kind into a trap. STALK (9) [noun] The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts. | [noun] The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant. | [noun] Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill. | [noun] A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone. | [noun] A haughty style of walking. STALL (5) [noun] A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed. | [noun] A stable; a place for cattle. | [noun] A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale. | [noun] An action that is intended to cause or actually causes delay. STAMP (9) [noun] An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof. | [noun] An indentation, imprint, or mark made by stamping. | [noun] A device for stamping designs. STAND (6) [noun] The act of standing. | [noun] A defensive position or effort. | [noun] A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition. STANE (5) STANG (6) STANK (9) [verb] To have a strong bad smell. | [verb] To be greatly inferior; to perform badly. | [verb] To give an impression of dishonesty or untruth. | [adjective] Foul-smelling, stinking, unclean. | [noun] Water retained by an embankment; a pool of water. | [adjective] Weak; worn out | [verb] To sigh. STAPH (10) [noun] Staphylococcus bacteria and the infection it causes. STARE (5) [noun] A persistent gaze. | [verb] (construed with at) To look fixedly (at something). | [verb] To influence in some way by looking fixedly. | [noun] A starling. STARK (9) [adjective] Hard, firm; obdurate. | [adjective] Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather). | [adjective] Strong; vigorous; powerful. | [verb] To stiffen. STARS (5) [noun] Any small luminous dot appearing in the cloudless portion of the night sky, especially with a fixed location relative to other such dots. | [noun] A luminous celestial body, made up of plasma (particularly hydrogen and helium) and having a spherical shape. Depending on context the sun may or may not be included. | [noun] A concave polygon with regular, pointy protrusions and indentations, generally with five or six points. START (5) [noun] The beginning of an activity. | [noun] A sudden involuntary movement. | [noun] The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc. | [verb] To begin, commence, initiate. | [noun] A tail, or anything projecting like a tail. STASH (8) [noun] A collection, sometimes hidden; a reserve. | [noun] A place where drugs are stored. | [verb] To hide or store away for later use. | [noun] Mustache STATE (5) [noun] A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time. | [noun] High social standing or circumstance. | [noun] A polity. STATS (5) [noun] A mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation. | [noun] A systematic collection of data on measurements or observations, often related to demographic information such as population counts, incomes, population counts at different ages, etc. | [noun] Attributes of a unit in a game (e.g. health, damage output) STAVE (8) [noun] One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc. | [noun] One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel | [noun] A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff. STAYS (8) [noun] Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time; sojourn. | [noun] A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment. | [noun] A stop; a halt; a break or cessation of action, motion, or progress. STEAD (6) [noun] A place, or spot, in general. | [noun] A place where a person normally rests; a seat. | [noun] An inhabited place; a settlement, city, town etc. | [noun] One's partner in a romantic relationship. STEAK (9) [noun] Beefsteak, a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling. | [noun] (by extension) A relatively large, thick slice or slab cut from another animal, a vegetable, etc. | [noun] (seafood) A slice of meat cut across the grain (perpendicular to the spine) from a fish. STEAL (5) [noun] The act of stealing. | [noun] A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price. | [noun] A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team. STEAM (7) [noun] The vapor formed when water changes from liquid phase to gas phase. | [noun] Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy. | [noun] Internal energy for motive power. STEED (6) [noun] A stallion, especially in the sense of mount. | [noun] A bicycle. STEEK (9) STEEL (5) [noun] An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness. | [noun] Any item made of this metal, particularly including: | [noun] Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment. | [proper noun] Coldbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877. STEEP (7) [noun] The steep side of a mountain etc.; a slope or acclivity. | [adjective] Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical. | [adjective] Expensive | [noun] A liquid used in a steeping process STEER (5) [noun] A suggestion about a course of action. | [noun] A helmsman; a pilot. | [verb] To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel). | [noun] The castrated male of cattle, especially one raised for beef production. STEIN (5) [noun] A beer mug, usually made of ceramic or glass. STELA (5) [noun] An obelisk or upright stone pillar, usually as a primitive commemoration or gravestone STELE (5) [noun] Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh. | [noun] A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.) | [noun] The posts and rungs composing a ladder. | [noun] An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela. | [noun] The central core of a plant's root and stem system, especially including the vascular tissue and developed from the plerome. STEMS (7) [noun] Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics. | [noun] An electron microscope that transmits a very narrow beam of electrons through a sample; it can detect individual large or heavy atoms. | [noun] A gleam of light; a flame. STENO (5) [noun] A stenographer, someone whose job is to take dictation in shorthand | [noun] Stenography STEPS (7) [noun] An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace. | [noun] A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder. | [noun] A distinct part of a process; stage; phase. STERE (5) [noun] A measure of volume used e.g. for cut wood, equal to one cubic metre. STERN (5) [adjective] Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner. | [adjective] Grim and forbidding in appearance. | [noun] The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel. | [noun] A bird, the black tern. STETS (5) [verb] To let (edited material) stand, or remain as it was. STEWS (8) [noun] A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron. | [noun] A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath. | [noun] A brothel. STICH (10) STICK (11) [noun] An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton. | [noun] Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance. | [noun] Material or objects attached to a stick or the like. | [noun] The traction of tires on the road surface. | [noun] Criticism or ridicule. STIED (6) [verb] To place in, or as if in, a sty | [verb] To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place | [verb] To ascend, rise up, climb. STIES (5) [noun] A pen or enclosure for swine. | [noun] A messy, dirty or debauched place. | [verb] To place in, or as if in, a sty STIFF (11) [noun] An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education, often a working stiff or lucky stiff. | [noun] A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle. | [noun] A cadaver; a dead person. STILE (5) [noun] A set of one or more steps surmounting a fence or wall, or a narrow gate or contrived passage through a fence or wall, which in either case allows people but not livestock to pass. | [noun] A vertical component of a frame or panel, such as that of a door, window, or ladder. | [noun] Senses relating to a thin, pointed object. STILL (5) [noun] A period of calm or silence. | [noun] A photograph, as opposed to movie footage. | [noun] A resident of the Falkland Islands. | [noun] A device for distilling liquids. | [verb] To calm down, to quiet | [verb] To trickle, drip. STILT (5) [noun] Either of two poles with footrests that allow someone to stand or walk above the ground; used mostly by entertainers. | [noun] A tall pillar or post used to support some structure; often above water. | [noun] Any of various wading birds of the genera Himantopus and Cladorhynchus, related to the avocet, that have extremely long legs and long thin bills. STIME (7) STIMY (10) STING (6) [noun] A bump left on the skin after having been stung. | [noun] A bite by an insect. | [noun] A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack. | [verb] To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both. STINK (9) [noun] A strong bad smell. | [noun] A complaint or objection. | [verb] To have a strong bad smell. STINT (5) [noun] A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell. | [noun] Limit; bound; restraint; extent. | [noun] Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted. | [noun] Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling. STIPE (7) [noun] The stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc. | [noun] The trunk of a tree. | [noun] The caudicle within the pollinarium of an orchid flower STIRK (9) [noun] A yearling cow; a young bullock or heifer. STIRP (7) STIRS (5) [noun] The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.) | [noun] Agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements. | [noun] Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar. STOAE (5) STOAI (5) STOAS (5) [noun] In Ancient Greece, a walkway with a roof supported by colonnades, often with a wall on one side; specifically, the Great Hall in Athens. STOAT (5) [noun] Mustela erminea, the ermine or short-tailed weasel, a mustelid native to Eurasia and North America, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip. STOBS (7) [noun] A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting. | [noun] A small post for supporting paling. | [noun] A wedge in coal-mining. STOCK (11) [noun] A store or supply. | [noun] The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder. | [noun] The raw material from which things are made; feedstock. | [noun] A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado. STOGY (9) [noun] A type of sturdy work boot; a brogan. STOIC (7) [noun] Proponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 B.C.E. up to about the time of Marcus Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law, one can be free of suffering. | [noun] A person indifferent to pleasure or pain. | [adjective] Of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas. STOKE (9) [verb] To poke, pierce, thrust. | [verb] To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace. | [verb] (by extension) To encourage a behavior or emotion. | [noun] A unit of kinematic viscosity in the CGS system of units. 1 stokes = 1 cm2/s STOLE (5) [verb] To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else. | [verb] (of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement. | [verb] To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully. | [noun] An ecclesiastical garment consisting of a decorated band worn on the back of the neck with each end hanging over the chest. | [noun] A stolon. STOMA (7) [noun] One of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass. | [noun] A small opening in a membrane; a surgically constructed opening, especially one in the abdominal wall that permits the passage of waste after a colostomy or ileostomy. | [noun] A mouthlike opening, such as the oral cavity of a nematode. STOMP (9) [noun] A deliberate heavy footfall; a stamp. | [noun] A dance having a heavy, rhythmic step. | [noun] The jazz music for this dance. STONE (5) [noun] A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks. | [noun] A small piece of stone, a pebble. | [noun] A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond. STONY (8) [adjective] As hard as stone. | [adjective] Containing or made up of stones. | [adjective] Of a person, lacking warmth and emotion. STOOD (6) [verb] (heading) To position or be positioned physically. | [verb] (heading) To position or be positioned mentally. | [verb] (heading) To position or be positioned socially. STOOK (9) [noun] A pile or bundle, especially of straw. | [noun] (specifically) A group of 6 or 8 sheaves of grain stacked to dry vertically in a rectangular arrangement at harvest time, obsolete since the advent of the combine harvester (mid 20th century). | [verb] To make stooks. STOOL (5) [noun] A seat, especially for one person and without armrests. | [noun] A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet. | [noun] A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth. | [noun] A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil. STOOP (7) [noun] The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence. | [noun] The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep. | [noun] A stooping, bent position of the body. | [noun] A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine. | [noun] A vessel for holding liquids; a flagon. STOPE (7) [noun] A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps. | [verb] To excavate in the form of stopes. | [verb] To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out. STOPS (7) [noun] A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station. | [noun] An action of stopping; interruption of travel. | [noun] That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment. STOPT (7) STORE (5) [noun] A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept. | [noun] A supply held in storage. | [noun] (mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop. STORK (9) [noun] A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family Ciconiidae. | [noun] (children's folklore) The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news. | [noun] The seventeenth Lenormand card. STORM (7) [noun] Any disturbed state of the atmosphere, especially as affecting the earth's surface, and strongly implying destructive or unpleasant weather. | [noun] A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; violent outbreak. | [noun] A wind scale for very strong wind, stronger than a gale, less than a hurricane (10 or higher on the Beaufort scale). | [verb] (with adverbial of direction) To move quickly and noisily like a storm, usually in a state of uproar or anger. STORY (8) [noun] A sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence. | [noun] A lie, fiction. | [noun] (usually pluralized) A soap opera. | [noun] A building; an edifice. STOSS (5) STOUP (7) [noun] A bucket. | [noun] A mug or drinking vessel. | [noun] A receptacle for holy water, especially a basin set at the entrance of a church. STOUR (5) [adjective] (now rare outside dialectal) Tall; large; stout. | [adjective] (now rare outside dialectal) Strong; powerful; hardy; robust; sturdy. | [adjective] (now rare outside dialectal) Bold; audacious. | [noun] A stake. | [verb] To move; stir. STOUT (5) [noun] A dark and strong malt brew made with toasted grain. | [noun] An obese person. | [noun] A large clothing size. | [noun] Gnat. STOVE (8) [noun] A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room. | [noun] A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker. | [noun] A hothouse (heated greenhouse). | [verb] To fit or furnish with staves or rundles. STOWP (10) STOWS (8) [verb] To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place. | [verb] To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time. | [verb] To arrange, pack, or fill something tightly or closely. STRAP (7) [noun] A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like. | [noun] A strip of thick leather used in flogging. | [noun] Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use. STRAW (8) [noun] A dried stalk of a cereal plant. | [noun] Such dried stalks considered collectively. | [noun] A drinking straw. STRAY (8) [noun] Any domestic animal that has no enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. | [noun] One who is lost, either literally or metaphorically. | [noun] The act of wandering or going astray. | [verb] To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way. | [adjective] Having gone astray; strayed; wandering STREP (7) [noun] A strep throat. | [noun] A streptococcus. | [noun] Any of several plants of the genus Streptocarpus. the Cape primroses. STREW (8) [verb] (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. | [verb] (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. | [verb] To spread abroad; to disseminate. STRIA (5) [noun] A stripe, usually one of a set of parallel stripes. | [noun] One of the fillets between the flutes of columns, etc. | [noun] A stretch mark. STRIP (7) [noun] A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area. | [noun] (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively. | [noun] A comic strip. | [noun] The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease. STROP (7) [noun] A strap; more specifically a piece of leather or a substitute (notably canvas), or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for honing a razor, in this sense also called razor strop. | [noun] A bad mood or temper (see stroppy.) | [noun] A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it. | [verb] To mark a sequence of letters syntactically as having a special property, such as being a keyword, e.g. by enclosing in apostrophes as in 'foo' or writing in uppercase as in FOO. | [noun] A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond. STROW (8) [verb] (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. | [verb] (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. | [verb] To spread abroad; to disseminate. STROY (8) STRUM (7) [noun] The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously. | [noun] The act of strumming. | [verb] To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) using various strings simultaneously. STRUT (5) [noun] Protuberance, air pressure | [verb] To swell; protuberate; bulge or spread out. | [verb] (originally said of fowl) To stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out. | [noun] A proud step or walk, with the head erect; affected dignity in walking. | [adjective] Swelling out; protuberant; bulging. | [noun] A support rod. STUBS (7) [noun] Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump. | [noun] A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes. | [noun] A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior. STUCK (11) [verb] To become or remain attached; to adhere. | [verb] To jam; to stop moving. | [verb] To tolerate, to endure, to stick with. | [noun] A thrust. STUDS (6) [noun] A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding. | [noun] A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding. | [noun] (also by extension) A group of such animals. STUDY (9) [verb] (usually academic) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination. | [verb] (academic) To take a course or courses on a subject. | [verb] To acquire knowledge on a subject with the intention of applying it in practice. | [noun] Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning. STUFF (11) [noun] Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects. | [noun] Unspecified things or matters. | [noun] The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object. STULL (5) STUMP (9) [noun] The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb. | [noun] The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting. | [noun] A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration. STUMS (7) [noun] Unfermented grape juice; must. | [noun] Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must. | [verb] To ferment. STUNG (6) [verb] To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both. | [verb] (of an insect) To bite. | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To hurt, to be in pain. STUNK (9) [verb] To have a strong bad smell. | [verb] To be greatly inferior; to perform badly. | [verb] To give an impression of dishonesty or untruth. STUNS (5) [noun] The condition of being stunned. | [noun] That which stuns; a shock; a stupefying blow. | [noun] A person who lacks intelligence. STUNT (5) [noun] A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills. | [noun] Skill | [noun] A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line. | [noun] A check in growth. STUPA (7) [noun] A dome-shaped Buddhist monument, used to house relics of the Lord Buddha. | [noun] A stupe (medicated cloth or sponge). STUPE (7) [noun] A stupid person or (rarely) thing. | [noun] A hot, wet medicated cloth or sponge applied externally. | [verb] To foment with such a cloth or sponge. STURT (5) STYED (9) STYES (8) [noun] A ladder. | [noun] An inflammation of the eyelid. | [noun] A bacterial infection in the eyelash or eyelid. STYLE (8) [noun] Senses relating to a thin, pointed object. | [noun] (by extension from sense 1.1) A particular manner of expression in writing or speech, especially one regarded as good. | [noun] A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art. STYLI (8) [noun] Senses relating to a thin, pointed object. | [noun] (by extension from sense 1.1) A particular manner of expression in writing or speech, especially one regarded as good. | [noun] A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art. STYMY (13) SUAVE (8) [noun] Sweet talk. | [adjective] Charming, confident and elegant. SUBAH (10) SUBAS (7) SUBER (7) SUCKS (11) [noun] An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling. | [noun] Milk drawn from the breast. | [noun] A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser. SUCRE (7) [noun] The former currency of Ecuador, divided into 100 centavos. SUDDS (7) SUDOR (6) SUDSY (9) SUEDE (6) [noun] A type of soft leather, made from calfskin, with a brushed texture to resemble fabric, often used to make boots, clothing and fashion accessories. | [verb] To make (leather) into suede. | [adjective] Made of suede SUERS (5) SUETS (5) SUETY (8) SUGAR (6) [noun] Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink. | [noun] A specific variety of sugar. | [noun] Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy. SUGHS (9) SUING (6) [verb] To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action. | [verb] To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead. | [verb] (of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.). | [noun] The act of one who sues for something. SUINT (5) [noun] A substance obtained from the wool of sheep, consisting largely of potash mixed with fatty and earthy matters. SUITE (5) [noun] A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage | [noun] A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together | [noun] A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access. SUITS (5) [noun] A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman. | [noun] (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit. | [noun] (metonym) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor. SULCI (7) [noun] A furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue. | [noun] Any of the grooves that mark the convolutions of the surface of the brain. | [noun] A region of subparallel grooves or ditches formed by a geological process. SULFA (8) [noun] A sulfonamide or sulfanilamide. | [adjective] Of or containing sulfonamide or sulfanilamide. SULFO (8) SULKS (9) [noun] A state of sulking. | [verb] To express ill humor or offence by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn. | [noun] A furrow. SULKY (12) [noun] A low two-wheeled cart, used in harness racing. | [noun] Any carriage seating only the driver. | [adjective] Silent and withdrawn after being upset SULLY (8) [noun] A blemish. | [verb] To soil or stain; to dirty. | [verb] To corrupt or damage. SULUS (5) [noun] An all-purpose skirt-like garment worn by men and women in Fiji. SUMAC (9) [noun] Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus and other genera in Anacardiaceae, particularly the elm-leaved sumac, Sicilian sumac, or tanner's sumac (Rhus coriaria). | [noun] Dried and chopped-up leaves and stems of a plant of the genus Rhus, particularly the tanner's sumac (see sense 1), used for dyeing and tanning leather or for medicinal purposes. | [noun] A sour spice popular in the Eastern Mediterranean, made from the berries of tanner's sumac. SUMMA (9) [noun] A comprehensive summary of, or treatise on a subject, especially theology or philosophy. SUMOS (7) [noun] A stylised Japanese form of wrestling in which a wrestler loses if he is forced from the ring, or if any part of his body except the soles of his feet touches the ground. | [noun] A rikishi (sumo wrestler) SUMPS (9) [noun] A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink. | [noun] The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains. | [noun] A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving. SUNNA (5) SUNNS (5) SUNNY (8) [noun] A sunfish. | [adjective] (of weather or a day) Featuring a lot of sunshine. | [adjective] (of a place) Receiving a lot of sunshine. SUNUP (7) [noun] The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon. | [noun] The change in color of the sky at sunup. SUPER (7) [adjective] Of excellent quality, superfine. | [adjective] Better than average, better than usual; wonderful. | [adverb] Very; extremely (used like the prefix super-). | [noun] Short for superannuation. SUPES (7) SUPRA (7) [adverb] Used to indicate that the current citation is from the same source as the previous one. | [noun] A traditional Georgian feast. SURAH (8) [noun] Any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an. | [noun] Soft twilled silk SURAL (5) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the calf of the leg. SURAS (5) [noun] Any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an. SURDS (6) [noun] An irrational number, especially one expressed using the √ symbol. | [noun] A voiceless consonant. SURER (5) [adjective] Physically secure and certain, non-failing, reliable. | [adjective] Certain in one's knowledge or belief. | [adjective] Certain to act or be a specified way. SURFS (8) [noun] Waves that break on an ocean shoreline. | [noun] An instance or session of riding a surfboard in the surf. | [noun] The bottom of a drain. SURFY (11) SURGE (6) [noun] A sudden transient rush, flood or increase. | [noun] The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation | [noun] A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current. SURGY (9) SURLY (8) [adjective] Irritated, bad-tempered, unfriendly. | [adjective] Threatening, menacing, gloomy. | [adjective] Lordly, arrogant, supercilious. SURRA (5) [noun] A disease of vertebrate animals caused by protozoan trypanosomes, involving fever, weakness, and lethargy. SUSHI (8) [noun] A Japanese dish made of small portions of sticky white rice flavored with vinegar, usually wrapped in seaweed and filled or topped with fish, vegetables or meat. | [noun] Raw fish, especially as a Japanese dish. SUTRA (5) [noun] A rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy. | [noun] A scriptural narrative, especially a discourse of the Buddha. SUTTA (5) [noun] A rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy. | [noun] A scriptural narrative, especially a discourse of the Buddha. SWABS (10) [noun] A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access. | [noun] A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material). | [noun] A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns. SWAGE (9) [noun] A tool, used by blacksmiths and other metalworkers, for cold shaping of a metal item. | [verb] To bend or shape through use of a swage. | [verb] To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.). SWAGS (9) [noun] Initialism of scientific/speculative/sophisticated/stupid wild-ass guess. | [noun] (window coverings) A loop of draped fabric. | [noun] A low point or depression in land; especially, a place where water collects. SWAIL (8) SWAIN (8) [noun] A young man or boy in service; a servant. | [noun] A knight's servant; an attendant. | [noun] A country labourer; a countryman, a rustic. SWALE (8) [noun] A low tract of moist or marshy land. | [noun] A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline. | [noun] A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch. | [noun] A gutter in a candle. SWAMI (10) [noun] (used as a title) A Hindu ascetic or religious teacher. SWAMP (12) [noun] A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes. | [noun] A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment. | [noun] A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult. SWAMY (13) SWANG (9) SWANK (12) [noun] A fashionably elegant person. | [noun] Ostentation; bravado. | [verb] To swagger, to show off. SWANS (8) [noun] Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage. | [noun] One whose grace etc. suggests a swan. | [noun] This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms of Buckinghamshire). SWAPS (10) [verb] To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else). | [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap. SWARD (9) [noun] A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod. | [noun] An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow. | [noun] Skin; covering. | [noun] A homosexual man. SWARE (8) [verb] To take an oath, to promise. | [verb] To use offensive, profane, or obscene language. | [noun] A swear word. SWARF (11) [noun] The waste chips or shavings from an abrasive activity, such as metalworking, a saw cutting wood, or the use of a grindstone or whetstone. | [noun] A particular waste chip or shaving. | [verb] To grind down. | [noun] A faint or swoon. SWARM (10) [noun] A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony. | [noun] A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil. | [noun] A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network. SWART (8) [noun] Black or dark dyestuff; something of a certain swart; something of a certain ocker. | [adjective] Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny. | [adjective] Black. | [verb] To make swart or tawny; blacken; tan. | [noun] A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod. SWASH (11) [noun] The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken | [noun] A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy. | [noun] A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes. SWATH (11) [noun] The track cut out by a scythe in mowing. | [noun] A broad sweep or expanse, such as of land or of people. SWATS (8) [noun] A hard stroke, hit or blow, e.g., as part of a spanking. | [noun] Alternate spelling of swot: vigorous study at an educational institution. | [verb] To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit. SWAYS (11) [noun] The act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon. | [noun] A rocking or swinging motion. | [noun] Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side SWEAR (8) [verb] To take an oath, to promise. | [verb] To use offensive, profane, or obscene language. | [noun] A swear word. | [verb] To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours. SWEAT (8) [noun] Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation. | [noun] The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis. | [noun] (especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced). | [verb] To emit sweat. SWEDE (9) [noun] The fleshy yellow root of a variety of rape, Brassica napus var. napobrassica, resembling a large turnip, grown as a vegetable. | [noun] The plant from which this is obtained. | [noun] The turnip. | [verb] To produce a low-budget remake of a film without the use of professional actors or filming techniques. SWEEP (10) [noun] A single action of sweeping. | [noun] The person who steers a dragon boat. | [noun] A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew. SWEER (8) SWEET (8) [noun] The basic taste sensation induced by sugar. | [noun] A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy. | [noun] A food eaten for dessert. SWELL (8) [verb] To become bigger, especially due to being engorged. | [verb] To cause to become bigger. | [verb] To grow gradually in force or loudness. | [noun] The act of swelling; increase in size. | [adjective] Fashionable, like a swell or dandy. SWEPT (10) [verb] To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush. | [verb] To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke. | [verb] To search (a place) methodically. SWIFT (11) [noun] A small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight. | [noun] Any of certain lizards of the genus Sceloporus. | [noun] A moth of the family Hepialidae, swift moth, ghost moth. SWIGS (9) [noun] Drink, liquor. | [noun] (by extension) A long draught from a drink. | [noun] A person who drinks deeply. SWILL (8) [noun] (collective) A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose. | [noun] (by extension) Any disgusting or distasteful liquid. | [noun] (by extension) Anything disgusting or worthless. SWIMS (10) [noun] An act or instance of swimming. | [noun] The sound, or air bladder, of a fish. | [noun] A part of a stream much frequented by fish. SWINE (8) [noun] (plural swine) A pig (the animal). | [noun] A contemptible person (plural swines). | [noun] A police officer; a "pig". | [noun] A female pig. SWING (9) [noun] The manner in which something is swung. | [noun] The sweep or compass of a swinging body. | [noun] A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing. SWINK (12) SWIPE (10) [noun] A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; a sweep. | [noun] A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club. | [noun] An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it. SWIRL (8) [noun] A whirling eddy. | [noun] A twist or coil of something. | [noun] The upward rushing of a fish through the water to take the bait. SWISH (11) [noun] A short rustling, hissing or whistling sound, often made by friction. | [noun] A hissing, sweeping movement through the air, as of an animal's tail. | [noun] A sound of liquid flowing inside a container. SWISS (8) [verb] To prepare (meat, fabric, etc.) by rolling or pounding in order to soften it. SWITH (11) SWIVE (11) [verb] To copulate with (a woman). | [verb] To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest. SWOBS (10) [noun] A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access. | [noun] A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material). | [noun] A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns. SWOON (8) [noun] A faint. | [noun] An infatuation. | [verb] To faint, to lose consciousness. SWOOP (10) [noun] An instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward. | [noun] A sudden act of seizing. | [noun] A quick passage from one note to the next. SWOPS (10) [verb] To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else). | [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap. SWORD (9) [noun] A long-bladed weapon with a hilt, and usually a pommel and cross-guard, which is designed to stab, slash, and/or hack. | [noun] A suit in the minor arcana in tarot. | [noun] A card of this suit. SWORE (8) [verb] To take an oath, to promise. | [verb] To use offensive, profane, or obscene language. SWORN (8) [verb] To take an oath, to promise. | [verb] To use offensive, profane, or obscene language. | [adjective] Given or declared under oath. SWOTS (8) [noun] One who swots. | [noun] Work. | [noun] Vigorous study at an educational institution. SWOUN (8) SWUNG (9) [verb] To rotate about an off-centre fixed point. | [verb] To dance. | [verb] To ride on a swing. SYCEE (10) SYCES (10) [noun] A groom, or servant with responsibility for the horses. | [noun] (Malaya) usually syce: chauffeur, driver. SYKES (12) SYLIS (8) SYLPH (13) [noun] An invisible being of the air. | [noun] The elemental being of air, usually female. | [noun] (by extension) A slender woman or girl, usually graceful and sometimes with the implication of sublime station over everyday people. SYLVA (11) SYNCH (13) [noun] Harmony. | [noun] A music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films. | [verb] To synchronize, especially in the senses of data synchronization, time synchronization, or synchronizing music with video. SYNCS (10) [noun] Harmony. | [noun] A music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films. | [verb] To synchronize, especially in the senses of data synchronization, time synchronization, or synchronizing music with video. SYNOD (9) [noun] An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters. | [noun] An administrative division of churches, either the entire denomination, as in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, or a mid-level division (middle judicatory, district) as in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | [noun] An assembly or council having civil authority; a legislative body. SYNTH (11) [noun] A musical synthesizer. | [verb] To play on a musical synthesizer. SYPHS (13) SYREN (8) SYRUP (10) [noun] Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavouring. | [noun] (by extension) Any viscous liquid. | [noun] (shortened from "syrup of figs") A wig. SYSOP (10) [noun] A system operator, especially someone who administers an online communications system or bulletin board. | [noun] (WMF jargon) An administrator on a wiki. | [verb] To work as a sysop.

SABBAT (10) [noun] Witches' Sabbath SABBED (11) [verb] To sabotage, especially fox hunts in opposition to blood sports. SABERS (8) [noun] A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point. | [noun] A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre. | [verb] To strike or kill with a sabre. SABINE (8) [noun] The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil. | [noun] The poisonous dried tips of this plant, with anthelmintic properties, used as a drug. | [noun] The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, of eastern North America. SABINS (8) SABIRS (8) SABLES (8) [noun] A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur (Wikipedia). | [noun] The marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana). | [noun] The fur or pelt of the sable or other species of martens; a coat made from this fur. SABOTS (8) [noun] A wooden shoe. | [noun] A carrier around projectile(s) in firearms, cannons and artillery which holds the projectile in precision within the barrel SABRAS (8) [noun] A native-born Israeli. SABRED (9) [verb] To strike or kill with a sabre. | [adjective] Equipped with a sabre or sabres. SABRES (8) [noun] A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point. | [noun] A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre. SACBUT (10) SACHEM (13) [noun] The chief of a Native American tribe; a sagamore. | [noun] A leader in the Tammany Hall society. SACHET (11) [noun] A small scented cloth bag filled with fragrant material such as herbs or potpourri. | [noun] A cheesecloth bag of herbs and/or spices added during cooking and then removed before serving. | [noun] A small, sealed packet containing a single-use quantity of any material. SACKED (13) [verb] (games) To sacrifice. | [verb] To put in a sack or sacks. | [verb] To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders. SACKER (12) SACQUE (17) SACRAL (8) [noun] Any of the sacral bones that make up the sacrum. | [adjective] Of the sacrum. | [adjective] Sacred. SACRED (9) [adjective] Characterized by solemn religious ceremony or religious use, especially, in a positive sense; consecrated, made holy. | [adjective] Religious; relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular | [adjective] Spiritual; concerned with metaphysics. | [verb] To consecrate SACRUM (10) [noun] A large triangular bone at the base of the spine, located between the two ilia (wings of the pelvis) and formed from vertebrae that fuse in adulthood. SADDEN (8) [verb] To make sad or unhappy. | [verb] To become sad or unhappy. | [verb] To darken a color during dyeing. SADDER (8) [adjective] (heading) Emotionally negative. | [adjective] Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary. | [adjective] Steadfast, valiant. SADDHU (11) SADDLE (8) [noun] A seat (tack) for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal. | [noun] An item of harness (harness saddle) placed on the back of a horse or other animal. | [noun] A seat on a bicycle, motorcycle, etc. | [verb] To put a saddle on (an animal). SADHES (10) SADHUS (10) [noun] An ascetic or practitioner of yoga (yogi) who has given up pursuit of the first three Hindu goals of life: kama (enjoyment), artha (practical objectives) and even dharma (duty). SADISM (9) [noun] The enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation without pity. | [noun] Achievement of sexual gratification by inflicting pain or humiliation on others, or watching pain or humiliation inflicted on others. | [noun] (in general) Deliberate cruelty, either mental or physical, to other people, or to animals, regardless of whether for (sexual) gratification. SADIST (7) [noun] One who derives pleasure through cruelty or pain to others. SAFARI (9) [noun] A trip into any undeveloped area to see, photograph or hunt wild animals in their own environment. | [noun] A caravan going on a safari. | [verb] To take part in a safari. SAFELY (12) [adverb] In a safe manner; without risk; using caution above all else. | [adverb] In a secure manner; without the possibility of injury or harm resulting. SAFEST (9) [adjective] Not in danger; out of harm's reach. | [adjective] Free from risk. | [adjective] Providing protection from danger; providing shelter. SAFETY (12) [noun] The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty. | [noun] A mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing. | [noun] An instance of a player being sacked or tackled in the end zone, or stepping out of the end zone and off the field, resulting in two points to the opposite team. SAFROL (9) SAGBUT (9) SAGELY (10) [adverb] In the manner of a sage, with wisdom, wisely. SAGEST (7) SAGGAR (8) [noun] A ceramic container used inside a fuel-fired kiln to protect pots from the flame. | [noun] Fireclay used to make ceramic casings. SAGGED (9) [verb] To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane. | [verb] (by extension) To lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position. | [verb] To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced. SAGGER (8) [noun] A ceramic container used inside a fuel-fired kiln to protect pots from the flame. | [noun] Fireclay used to make ceramic casings. | [verb] Alternative form of saggar | [noun] A young male who wears trousers very low on his hips, exposing underwear and/or his buttocks or lower abdominals. SAGIER (7) SAHIBS (11) [noun] A term of respect for a white European or other person of rank in colonial India. SAICES (8) SAIGAS (7) [noun] Saiga tatarica, an antelope which inhabits a vast area between Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia. SAILED (7) [verb] To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power. | [verb] To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl. | [verb] To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat. SAILER (6) [noun] That which sails; a boat. | [noun] A fastball that skims through the air. | [noun] A person in the business of navigating ships or other vessels SAILOR (6) [noun] A person in the business of navigating ships or other vessels | [noun] Someone knowledgeable in the practical management of ships. | [noun] A member of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman. SAIMIN (8) SAINED (7) SAINTS (6) [noun] A person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly; one eminent for piety and virtue. | [noun] (by extension) A person with positive qualities; one who does good. | [noun] One of the blessed in heaven. SAITHE (9) [noun] The pollock or coalfish or coley (Pollachius virens). SAIYID (10) SAJOUS (13) SAKERS (10) [noun] A falcon (Falco cherrug) native of Southern Europe and Asia. | [noun] A medium cannon slightly smaller than a culverin developed during the early 17th century. SALAAM (8) [noun] A low bow as a ceremonial act of deference. | [verb] To perform a salaam (to someone). | [interjection] A respectful ceremonial greeting performed mostly in Islamic countries. SALADS (7) [noun] A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise. | [noun] A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads. SALALS (6) [noun] A leathery-leaved North American shrub, Gaultheria shallon, with edible sepals and leaves. SALAMI (8) [noun] A large cured meat sausage of Italian origin, served in slices. | [noun] A grand slam. | [noun] A penis. SALARY (9) [noun] A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy. | [verb] To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation. | [adjective] Saline. SALEPS (8) SALIFY (12) SALINA (6) [noun] A salt marsh, or salt pond, enclosed from the sea. SALINE (6) [noun] Water containing dissolved salt. | [noun] A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth. | [adjective] Containing salt; salty. SALIVA (9) [noun] A clear, slightly alkaline liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands, consisting of water, mucin, protein, and enzymes. It moistens the mouth, lubricates ingested food, and begins the breakdown of starches. SALLET (6) [noun] A type of light spherical helmet | [noun] A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise. | [noun] A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads. SALLOW (9) [verb] To become sallow. | [verb] To cause (someone or something) to become sallow. | [adjective] (of skin) Yellowish. | [noun] A European willow, Salix caprea, that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood. SALMIS (8) [noun] A rich stew or ragout, especially of game. SALMON (8) [noun] One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn. | [noun] (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon. | [noun] The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat. SALOLS (6) SALONS (6) [noun] A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests. | [noun] A gathering of people for a social or intellectual meeting. | [noun] An art gallery or exhibition; especially the Paris salon or autumn salon. SALOON (6) [noun] A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests. | [noun] A gathering of people for a social or intellectual meeting. | [noun] An art gallery or exhibition; especially the Paris salon or autumn salon. SALOOP (8) SALPAE (8) SALPAS (8) SALPID (9) SALSAS (6) [noun] A spicy tomato sauce, often including onions and hot peppers. | [noun] A style of urban music originally from New York heavily influenced by Cuban dance music, jazz and rock. | [noun] Any of several dances performed to salsa music. SALTED (7) [verb] To add salt to. | [verb] To deposit salt as a saline solution. | [verb] To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber. SALTER (6) [noun] One who makes, sells, or applies salt. | [noun] A trout leaving salt water to ascend a stream. SALTIE (6) [noun] A salt-water crocodile (or estuarine crocodile). | [noun] An ocean-going ship that enters the Great Lakes via the St. Lawrence Seaway. | [noun] The saltwater fluke or dab. SALUKI (10) SALUTE (6) [noun] An utterance or gesture expressing greeting or honor towards someone, now especially a formal, non-verbal gesture made with the arms or hands in any of various specific positions. | [noun] A kiss, offered in salutation. | [noun] A discharge of cannon or similar arms, as a mark of honour or respect. SALVED (10) [verb] To calm or assuage. | [verb] To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint. | [verb] To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good. SALVER (9) [noun] One who salves or cures. | [noun] One who pretends to cure; a quacksalver. | [noun] One who salves or saves goods, etc. from destruction or loss. | [noun] A tray used to display or serve food or other items (such as a visiting card). SALVES (9) [noun] An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects. | [noun] Any remedy or action that soothes or heals. SALVIA (9) [noun] A plant in the genus Salvia, such as sage. SALVOR (9) [noun] One who salvages; especially, one who voluntarily assists in saving a distressed ship or its goods at sea. SALVOS (9) [noun] An exception; a reservation; an excuse. | [noun] A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley. | [noun] A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon. SAMARA (8) [noun] The winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple SAMBAR (10) [noun] A Southeast Asian deer, Cervus unicolor. | [noun] A food preparation common in southern India and Sri Lanka, made of vegetables and lentils (usually pigeon peas, also called toor dal) in a spicy tamarind and lentil flour soup base. SAMBAS (10) [noun] A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style. | [noun] A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade. | [verb] To dance the samba. SAMBOS (10) [noun] A sandwich. SAMBUR (10) SAMECH (13) SAMEKH (15) SAMEKS (12) SAMIEL (8) SAMITE (8) [noun] A material of rich silk, sometimes with gold threads, especially prized during the Middle Ages. SAMLET (8) SAMOSA (8) [noun] A snack, of Indian origin, consisting of a deep-fried triangular turnover filled with vegetables (especially potatoes) or meat. SAMPAN (10) [noun] A flat-bottomed Chinese wooden boat propelled by two oars. SAMPLE (10) [noun] A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen. | [noun] A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population. | [noun] A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free. SAMSHU (11) SANCTA (8) SANDAL (7) [noun] A type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot | [noun] Sandalwood | [noun] A long narrow boat used on the Barbary coast. SANDED (8) [verb] To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it. | [verb] To cover with sand. | [verb] To blot ink using sand. SANDER (7) [noun] A person employed to sand wood. | [noun] A machine to mechanize the process of sanding. | [noun] A device which spreads sand on the rails in wet, snowy or icy conditions to improve traction. SANDHI (10) [noun] Any of a wide variety of phonological processes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries, such as the fusion of sounds across word boundaries and the alteration of sounds due to neighboring sounds or due to the grammatical function of adjacent words. SANELY (9) SANEST (6) [adjective] Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; thinking rationally. | [adjective] Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge the effect of one's actions in an ordinary manner. | [adjective] Rational; reasonable; sensible. SANGAR (7) [noun] A stone breastwork; a fortified niche or look-out post. SANGAS (7) [noun] Sandwich. SANGER (7) [noun] A sandwich. | [noun] A stone breastwork; a fortified niche or look-out post. SANGHS (10) SANIES (6) [noun] A thin mixture of pus and blood serum discharged from a wound; ichor SANING (7) SANITY (9) [noun] The condition of being sane. | [noun] Reasonable and rational behaviour. SANJAK (17) [noun] An administrative region under the Ottoman Empire, a subdivision of a vilayet. | [noun] The governor of a sanjak; a sanjakbeg. SANNOP (8) SANNUP (8) SANSAR (6) SANSEI (6) [noun] A US- or Canadian-born grandchild of a Japanese immigrant to America. SANTIR (6) SANTOL (6) SANTOS (6) SANTUR (6) SAPORS (8) SAPOTA (8) SAPOTE (8) SAPOUR (8) SAPPED (11) [verb] To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.). | [verb] To exhaust the vitality of. | [verb] To strike with a sap (with a blackjack). SAPPER (10) [noun] One who saps; specifically, one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like. Often known as a combat engineer or military engineer. | [noun] An officer or private of the Royal Engineers. SARANS (6) SARAPE (8) [noun] A type of blanket worn as a cloak, especially by Spanish-Americans, or used as a saddle blanket. SARDAR (7) SAREES (6) [noun] The traditional dress of women in the Indian Subcontinent; an outer garment consisting of a single length of cotton or silk, most often with one end wrapped around the waist to form a skirt, the other draped over the shoulder or head. SARGES (7) SARINS (6) SARODE (7) SARODS (7) [noun] A fretless string instrument used mainly in Indian classical music. SARONG (7) [noun] A garment made of a length of printed cloth wrapped about the waist that is commonly worn by men and women in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, and the Pacific islands. SARSAR (6) SARSEN (6) [noun] Any of various blocks of sandstone found in various locations in southern England. SARTOR (6) SASHAY (12) [noun] A chassé. | [noun] A sequence of sideways steps in a circle in square dancing. | [verb] To walk casually, showily or in a flirty manner; to strut, swagger or flounce. SASHED (10) SASHES (9) [noun] A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist. | [noun] A decorative length of cloth worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip, often for ceremonial or other formal occasions. | [noun] The opening part (casement) of a window usually containing the glass panes, hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as in a sash window. SASINS (6) [noun] Indian antelope; blackbuck SASSED (7) [verb] To talk, to talk back. | [verb] To speak insolently to. SASSES (6) [verb] To talk, to talk back. | [verb] To speak insolently to. SATANG (7) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Thai baht. SATARA (6) SATAYS (9) [noun] A dish made from small pieces of meat or fish grilled on a skewer and served with a spicy peanut sauce, originating from Indonesia and Malaysia. SATEEN (6) [noun] A type of cotton cloth with a shiny surface and dull back, woven using the technique that, when applied to silk or nylon, results in cloth called satin. SATING (7) [verb] To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up. SATINS (6) SATINY (9) [adjective] Like satin, smooth and shiny, glossy. SATIRE (6) [noun] A literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. Humor, irony, and exaggeration are often used to aid this. | [noun] A satirical work. | [noun] Severity of remark. SATORI (6) [noun] A sudden inexpressible feeling of inner understanding or enlightenment. SATRAP (8) [noun] A governor of a Persian province. | [noun] A subordinate ruler. SATYRS (9) [noun] A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis. | [noun] A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness, sometimes pictured with a perpetual erection. SAUCED (9) [verb] To add sauce to; to season. | [verb] To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate. | [verb] To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive. SAUCER (8) [noun] A small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips. | [noun] An object round and gently curved (shaped like a saucer). | [noun] A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table. SAUCES (8) [noun] A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food. | [noun] Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in: | [noun] (usually “the”) Alcohol, booze. SAUCHS (11) SAUGER (7) [noun] A freshwater perciform fish, Sander canadensis SAUGHS (10) SAUGHY (13) SAULTS (6) SAUNAS (6) [noun] A room or a house designed for heat sessions. | [noun] The act of using a sauna. | [noun] A public sauna; a front for a brothel in some countries. SAUREL (6) SAUTED (7) SAUTES (6) SAVAGE (10) [noun] An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian. | [noun] A defiant person. | [verb] To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint. SAVANT (9) [noun] A person of learning, especially one who is versed in literature or science. | [noun] A person who is considered eminent because of their achievements. | [noun] A person with significant mental disabilities who is very gifted in one area of activity, such as playing the piano or mental arithmetic. SAVATE (9) [noun] A form of French martial art that involves combinations of punching and kicking moves SAVERS (9) [noun] One who saves. | [noun] One who keeps savings more than usual. SAVINE (9) [noun] The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil. | [noun] The poisonous dried tips of this plant, with anthelmintic properties, used as a drug. | [noun] The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, of eastern North America. SAVING (10) [verb] To prevent harm or difficulty. | [verb] To put aside, to avoid. | [noun] A reduction in cost or expenditure. SAVINS (9) [noun] The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil. | [noun] The poisonous dried tips of this plant, with anthelmintic properties, used as a drug. | [noun] The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, of eastern North America. SAVIOR (9) [noun] A person who saves someone, rescues another from harm. | [noun] A child who is born to provide an organ or cell transplant to a sibling who has an otherwise fatal disease (used in combination, with "sibling", "baby", "child", "brother", "sister", etc.) SAVORS (9) [noun] The specific taste or smell of something. | [noun] A distinctive sensation. | [noun] Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent. SAVORY (12) [noun] A savory snack. | [adjective] Tasty, attractive to the palate. | [adjective] Salty and/or spicy, but not sweet. | [noun] Any of several Mediterranean herbs, of the genus Satureja, grown as culinary flavourings. SAVOUR (9) [noun] The specific taste or smell of something. | [noun] A distinctive sensation. | [noun] Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent. | [verb] To possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality. SAVOYS (12) [noun] Savoy cabbage | [noun] An Italian noble family, which became the ruling (hereditary) dynasty of Sardinia and later of Italy | [noun] A member of the Savoy noble family SAWERS (9) SAWFLY (15) [noun] Any of various flying insects of the suborder Symphyta whose ovipositor is long and often serrated and is used to cut into plants to lay eggs. SAWING (10) [verb] To cut (something) with a saw. | [verb] To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw. | [verb] To be cut with a saw. SAWLOG (10) [noun] The part of a tree stem that will be processed at a sawmill, rather than becoming pulpwood. SAWNEY (12) SAWYER (12) [noun] One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit. | [noun] A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current | [noun] A beetle, mostly in the genus Monochamus, that lives and feeds on trees, including timber. SAXONY (16) SAYERS (9) SAYEST (9) SAYIDS (10) SAYING (10) [verb] To pronounce. | [verb] To recite. | [verb] To tell, either verbally or in writing. SAYYID (13) SCABBY (15) [adjective] Affected with scabs; full of scabs. | [adjective] Diseased with the scab, or mange; mangy. | [adjective] Having a blotched, uneven appearance. SCALAR (8) [noun] A quantity that has magnitude but not direction; compare vector | [noun] An amplifier whose output is a constant multiple of its input | [adjective] Having magnitude but not direction SCALDS (9) [verb] To burn with hot liquid. | [verb] To heat almost to boiling. SCALED (9) [verb] To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product. | [verb] To climb to the top of. | [verb] To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors. SCALER (8) SCALES (8) [noun] A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending. | [noun] An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude. | [noun] Size; scope. SCALLS (8) SCALPS (10) [noun] The top of the head; the skull. | [noun] The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from. | [noun] A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory. SCAMPI (12) [noun] A Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus). | [noun] Any similar species of genus Nephrops or similar prawns. SCAMPS (12) [noun] A rascal, swindler, or rogue; a ne'er-do-well. | [noun] A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster. | [verb] To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion. SCANTS (8) [noun] A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level. | [noun] A sheet of stone. | [noun] (wood) A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size. SCANTY (11) [adjective] Somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent. | [adjective] Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious; stingy. SCAPED (11) SCAPES (10) [noun] A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root. | [noun] The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body). | [noun] The basal part of the ovipositor of an insect, more specifically known as the oviscape. SCARAB (10) [noun] A beetle of the species Scarabaeus sacer, sacred to the ancient Egyptians. | [noun] Any species of beetle belonging to the family Scarabaeidae. | [noun] A symbol, seal, amulet, or gem fashioned to resemble the sacred beetle. SCARCE (10) [adjective] Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand. | [adjective] Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of. | [adverb] Scarcely, only just. SCARED (9) [verb] To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way. | [adjective] Feeling fear; afraid, frightened. SCARER (8) SCARES (8) [noun] A minor fright. | [noun] A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread. | [noun] A device or object used to frighten. SCAREY (11) SCARFS (11) [noun] A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck. | [noun] A headscarf. | [noun] A neckcloth or cravat. SCARPH (13) SCARPS (10) [noun] The steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet | [noun] A cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge caused by erosion or faulting; the steeper side of an escarpment | [verb] (earth science) to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment SCARRY (11) SCARTS (8) [noun] A slight wound. | [noun] A dash or stroke. | [noun] A niggard. SCATHE (11) [noun] Harm; damage; injury; hurt; misfortune; waste. | [verb] To injure or harm. | [verb] To blast; scorch; wither. SCATTS (8) SCATTY (11) [adjective] Scatterbrained; flighty. | [adjective] Showery; rainy SCAUPS (10) [noun] The top of the head; the skull. | [noun] The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from. | [noun] A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory. SCAURS (8) [noun] A steep cliff or bank. SCENAS (8) [noun] A scene in an opera. | [noun] An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria. | [noun] The stage of an ancient theatre. SCENDS (9) [noun] The rising motion of water as a wave passes; a surge; the upward angular displacement of a vessel, opposed to pitch, the correlative downward movement. SCENES (8) [noun] The location of an event that attracts attention. | [noun] The stage. | [noun] The decorations; furnishings and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set SCENIC (10) [noun] A depiction of scenery | [noun] A scenic artist; a person employed to design backgrounds for theatre etc. | [adjective] Having beautiful scenery; picturesque SCENTS (8) [noun] A distinctive odour or smell. | [noun] An odour left by an animal that may be used for tracing. | [noun] The sense of smell. SCHAVS (14) SCHEMA (13) [noun] An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind (for example, a body schema). | [noun] A formal description of the structure of a database: the names of the tables, the names of the columns of each table, and the data type and other attributes of each column. | [noun] (markup languages) A formal description of data, data types, and data file structures, such as XML schemas for XML files. SCHEME (13) [noun] A systematic plan of future action. | [noun] A plot or secret, devious plan. | [noun] An orderly combination of related parts. SCHISM (13) [noun] A split or separation within a group or organization, typically caused by discord. | [noun] A formal division or split within a religious body. | [noun] A split within Christianity whereby a group no longer recognizes the Bishop of Rome as the head of the Church, but shares essentially the same beliefs with the Church of Rome. In other words, a political split without the introduction of heresy. SCHIST (11) [noun] Any of a variety of coarse-grained crystalline metamorphic rocks with a foliated structure that allows easy division into slabs or slates. SCHIZO (20) [noun] Schizophrenic. SCHIZY (23) SCHLEP (13) [noun] A long or burdensome journey. | [noun] A boring person, a drag; a good-for-nothing person. | [noun] A sloppy or slovenly person. SCHMOE (13) SCHMOS (13) SCHNOZ (20) [noun] Nose. SCHOOL (11) [noun] (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales. | [noun] A multitude. | [verb] (of fish) To form into, or travel in a school. | [noun] An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution. SCHORL (11) [noun] The most common variety of tourmaline. SCHRIK (15) SCHROD (12) SCHTIK (15) SCHUIT (11) SCHULN (11) SCHUSS (11) [noun] A straight run downhill | [verb] To ski a schuss. SCHWAS (14) [noun] An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA. | [noun] The character ə. SCILLA (8) [noun] A plant of the genus Scilla; a squill. | [noun] A bulb of Urginea scilla. SCIONS (8) [noun] A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family. | [noun] The heir to a throne. | [noun] A guardian. SCLAFF (14) SCLERA (8) [noun] The white of the eye. It is the tough outer coat of the eye that covers the eyeball except for the cornea. SCOFFS (14) [noun] Derision; ridicule; a derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach. | [noun] An object of scorn, mockery, or derision. | [verb] To jeer; to laugh with contempt and derision. SCOLDS (9) [noun] A person who habitually scolds, in particular a troublesome and angry woman. SCOLEX (15) [noun] The structure at the front end of a tapeworm which, in the adult, has suckers and hooks by which it attaches itself to a host. SCONCE (10) [noun] A fixture for a light. | [noun] A head or a skull. | [noun] A poll tax; a mulct or fine. | [noun] A type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford. SCONES (8) [noun] A small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle. | [noun] (Utah) Frybread served with honey butter spread on it. | [noun] The head. SCOOPS (10) [noun] Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material. | [noun] The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop. | [noun] The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling. SCOOTS (8) [noun] A dollar. | [noun] A scooter. | [noun] A sideways shuffling or sliding motion. SCOPED (11) [verb] To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out. | [verb] To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc. | [verb] To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code. SCOPES (10) [noun] The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain. | [noun] A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target. | [noun] Opportunity; broad range; degree of freedom. SCORCH (13) [noun] A slight or surface burn. | [noun] A discolouration caused by heat. | [noun] Brown discoloration on the leaves of plants caused by heat, lack of water or by fungi. SCORED (9) [verb] To cut a notch or a groove in a surface. | [verb] To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination. | [verb] To obtain something desired. SCORER (8) [noun] One who scores. | [noun] One who keeps track of scores in a game; a scorekeeper. | [noun] Either of a pair of people, one provided by each side, who record in a specially formatted book, every ball bowled, every run scored, and every wicket that falls SCORES (8) [noun] The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game. | [noun] The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers. | [noun] The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade. SCORIA (8) [noun] The slag or dross that remains after the smelting of metal from an ore. | [noun] Rough masses of rock formed by solidified lava, and which can be found around a volcano's crater. SCORNS (8) [verb] To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise. | [verb] To reject, turn down. | [verb] To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself. SCOTCH (13) [noun] A surface cut or abrasion. | [noun] A line drawn on the ground, as one used in playing hopscotch. | [noun] A block for a wheel or other round object; a chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping. | [noun] (as a plural noun, the Scotch) The people of Scotland. | [noun] Scotch tape SCOTER (8) [noun] Any one of several species of northern sea ducks of the genus Melanitta. SCOTIA (8) [noun] A concave molding with a lower edge projecting beyond the top. SCOURS (8) [verb] To clean, polish, or wash something by rubbing and scrubbing it vigorously, frequently with an abrasive or cleaning agent. | [verb] To remove debris and dirt by purging; to sweep along or off (by a current of water). | [verb] To clear the digestive tract by administering medication that induces defecation or vomiting; to purge. SCOUSE (8) [noun] A stew associated with the Liverpool area, usually containing (at least) meat, onions, carrots and potatoes. SCOUTH (11) SCOUTS (8) [noun] A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground. | [noun] An act of scouting or reconnoitering. | [noun] A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States. SCOWED (12) SCOWLS (11) [noun] The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown. | [noun] (by extension) Gloom; dark or threatening aspect. | [verb] To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry. SCRAGS (9) [noun] A thin or scrawny person or animal. | [noun] The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end. | [noun] The neck, especially of a sheep. SCRAMS (10) [verb] To use the shutdown or safety device of a nuclear reactor. | [verb] (by extension) To use any emergency shutdown. | [verb] Leave in a hurry, go away. SCRAPE (10) [noun] A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch). | [noun] A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons. | [noun] An awkward set of circumstances. SCRAPS (10) [noun] A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Leftover food. | [noun] The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat. SCRAWL (11) [noun] Irregular, possibly illegible handwriting. | [noun] A hastily or carelessly written note etc. | [noun] Writing that lacks literary merit. | [verb] To creep; crawl; (by extension) to swarm with crawling things SCREAK (12) SCREAM (10) [noun] A loud, emphatic, exclamation of extreme emotion, especially horror, fear, excitement, or anger; it may comprise a word or a sustained, high-pitched vowel sound. | [noun] A form of singing associated with the metal and screamo styles of music. It is a loud, rough, distorted version of the voice; rather than the normal voice of the singer. | [noun] Used as an intensifier SCREED (9) [noun] A piece or narrow strip cut or torn off from a larger whole; a shred. | [noun] A piece of land, especially one that is narrow. | [noun] A rent, a tear. | [verb] To rend, to shred, to tear. | [noun] A (discordant) sound or tune played on bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe. | [adjective] Strewn with scree. SCREEN (8) [noun] A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous. | [noun] A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass. | [noun] (by analogy) Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening SCREES (8) [noun] Loose stony debris on a slope. | [noun] (by extension) Similar debris made up of broken building material such as bricks, concrete, etc. | [noun] A slope made up of loose stony debris at the base of a cliff, mountain, etc. SCREWS (11) [noun] A device that has a helical function. | [noun] The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side. | [noun] A prison guard. SCREWY (14) [adjective] Crazy; silly; ridiculous | [adjective] Tipsy; slightly drunk. | [adjective] Exacting; extortionate; close. SCRIBE (10) [noun] Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary or copyist. | [noun] A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people. | [noun] A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber. SCRIED (9) [verb] To predict the future using crystal balls or other objects. | [verb] To descry; to see. | [verb] To proclaim. SCRIES (8) [verb] To predict the future using crystal balls or other objects. | [verb] To descry; to see. | [verb] To proclaim. SCRIMP (12) [noun] A pinching miser; a niggard. | [verb] To make too small or short. | [verb] To limit or straiten; to put on short allowance. SCRIMS (10) [noun] A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, -- used for curtains, etc,. | [noun] A large military scarf, usually camouflage coloured and used for concealment when not used as a scarf. | [noun] A woven, nonwoven or knitted fabric composed of continuous strands of material used for reinforcing or strengthening membranes. SCRIPS (10) [noun] A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc. | [noun] Small change. | [noun] A scrap of paper. SCRIPT (10) [noun] A writing; a written document. | [noun] Written characters; style of writing. | [noun] Type made in imitation of handwriting. SCRIVE (11) SCRODS (9) [noun] (sometimes New York) Any cod, pollock, haddock, or other whitefish. SCROLL (8) [noun] A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll. | [noun] An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern. | [noun] Spirals or sprays in the shape of an actual plant. SCROOP (10) SCROTA (8) [noun] The bag of skin and muscle that contains the testicles in mammals. SCRUBS (10) [noun] One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. | [noun] One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks. | [noun] A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant SCRUFF (14) [noun] Someone with an untidy appearance. | [noun] Stubble, facial hair (on males). | [noun] Crust. | [noun] The loose skin at the back of the neck of some animals. SCRUMS (10) [noun] A tightly-packed and disorderly crowd of people. | [noun] Specifically used in the Canadian media to describe a tightly-packed group of reporters surrounding a member of the Canadian House of Commons while in the Parliament Buildings. | [noun] In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way. Also known as a scrummage. SCUBAS (10) [noun] (underwater diving) An apparatus carried by a diver, which includes a tank holding compressed, filtered air and a regulator which delivers the air to the diver at ambient pressure which can be used underwater. SCUFFS (14) [verb] To scrape the feet while walking. | [verb] To hit lightly, to brush against. | [verb] To mishit (a shot on a ball) due to poor contact with the ball. SCULKS (12) SCULLS (8) [noun] A single oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward. | [noun] One of a pair of oars handled by a single rower. | [noun] A small rowing boat, for one person. SCULPS (10) [verb] (sometimes humorous) To sculpture; to carve or engrave. | [verb] To flay. SCULPT (10) [noun] A modification that can be applied to an object, like a texture, but changes the object's shape rather than its appearance. | [verb] To form by sculpture. | [verb] To work as a sculptor. SCUMMY (15) SCURFS (11) SCURFY (14) SCURRY (11) [noun] A dash. | [verb] To run with quick light steps, to scamper. SCURVY (14) [noun] A disease caused by insufficient intake of vitamin C leading to the formation of livid spots on the skin, spongy gums, loosening of the teeth and bleeding into the skin and from almost all mucous membranes. | [adjective] Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy. | [adjective] Contemptible, despicable, low, disgustingly mean. SCUTCH (13) [noun] An implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them. | [noun] The woody fibre of flax; the refuse of scutched flax. | [verb] To beat or whip; to drub. | [noun] A tuft or clump of grass. SCUTES (8) [noun] A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles. | [noun] A proneural gene, often associated with achaete, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs | [noun] A small shield. SCUTUM (10) [noun] An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry of the Roman army. | [noun] A scute. | [noun] A shield-like protection, such as the scutum protecting the back of a hard tick (cf. alloscutum, conscutum) SCUZZY (29) [adjective] Dirty or grimy. | [adjective] Disreputable; sleazy. SCYPHI (16) SCYTHE (14) [noun] An instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath. | [noun] A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots. | [noun] The tenth Lenormand card. SEABAG (9) [noun] A duffel bag used by sailors or marines. SEABED (9) [noun] The floor or bottom of the sea or ocean. SEADOG (8) [noun] A sailor accustomed to the sea. | [noun] A pirate. | [noun] A seal. (marine mammal) SEALED (7) [verb] To hunt seals. | [verb] To place a seal on (a document). | [verb] To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality. SEALER (6) [noun] A tool used to seal something. | [noun] A person who is employed to seal things. | [noun] A coating designed to prevent excessive absorption of finish coats into porous surfaces; a coating designed to prevent bleeding. | [noun] A person who hunts seals. SEAMAN (8) [noun] A mariner or sailor, one who mans a ship. Opposed to landman or landsman. | [noun] A person of the lowest rank in the Navy, below able seaman. | [noun] An enlisted rate in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking below petty officer third class and above seaman apprentice. SEAMED (9) [adjective] Having or furnished with seams. | [verb] To put together with a seam. | [verb] To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting. | [adjective] (of a hawk) Out of condition; not in good condition. SEAMEN (8) [noun] A mariner or sailor, one who mans a ship. Opposed to landman or landsman. | [noun] A person of the lowest rank in the Navy, below able seaman. | [noun] An enlisted rate in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking below petty officer third class and above seaman apprentice. SEAMER (8) [noun] A person who sews seams. | [noun] Part of a sewing machine that creates seams. | [noun] A bowler skilled at making the ball seam. SEANCE (8) [noun] A ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits of dead people, usually led by a medium. | [noun] The sitting of an assembly to discuss a matter. | [verb] To hold a séance (communication with spirits). SEARCH (11) [noun] An attempt to find something. | [noun] The act of searching in general. | [verb] To look in (a place) for something. SEARED (7) [verb] To char, scorch, or burn the surface of (something) with a hot instrument. | [verb] To wither; to dry up. | [verb] To make callous or insensible. SEARER (6) SEASON (6) [noun] Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter | [noun] A part of a year when something particular happens | [noun] That which gives relish; seasoning. | [verb] To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt. SEATED (7) [verb] To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm. | [verb] To provide with places to sit. | [verb] To request or direct one or more persons to sit. SEATER (6) [noun] (in combination) A vehicle or item of furniture that has a specified seating capacity SEAWAN (9) SEAWAY (12) [noun] A lane or route at sea that is regularly used by ships; a sea lane or trade route | [noun] An inland waterway used by seagoing shipping | [noun] The headway of a vessel SEBUMS (10) SECANT (8) [noun] A straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points. | [noun] In a right triangle, the reciprocal of the cosine of an angle. Symbol: sec | [adjective] That cuts or divides. SECCOS (10) SECEDE (9) [verb] To split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation. | [verb] To split or to withdraw one or more constituent entities from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation. SECERN (8) SECOND (9) [noun] Something that is number two in a series. | [noun] Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority. | [noun] The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest. | [noun] One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest. | [noun] One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant. SECPAR (10) SECRET (8) [noun] A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden. | [noun] The key or principle by which something is made clear; the knack. | [noun] Something not understood or known. SECTOR (8) [noun] Section | [noun] Zone (designated area). | [noun] Part of a circle, extending to the center SECUND (9) [adjective] Arranged on one side only, as flowers or leaves on a stalk; unilateral. SECURE (8) [verb] To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect. | [verb] To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of. | [verb] To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping. SEDANS (7) [noun] An enclosed windowed chair suitable for a single occupant, carried by at least two porters, in equal numbers in front and behind, using wooden rails that passed through metal brackets on the sides of the chair. | [noun] An automobile designed in a configuration with separate compartments for engine space, driver/passenger space and luggage space. | [noun] A handbarrow for transporting fish. SEDATE (7) [verb] To calm or put (a person) to sleep using a sedative drug. | [verb] To make tranquil. | [adjective] (of a person or their behaviour) Remaining composed and dignified, and avoiding too much activity or excitement. SEDERS (7) [noun] The ceremonial meal held on the first night or two nights of Passover. | [noun] One of the 54 parts into which the Torah is divided. SEDGES (8) [noun] Any plant of the genus Carex, the true sedge, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species. | [noun] Any plant of the family Cyperaceae. | [noun] Certain other plants resembling sedges, such as Gentiana rubricaulis and Andropogon virginicus. SEDILE (7) [noun] One of a row of seats in an Ancient Roman amphitheatre. | [noun] A seat in the chancel of a church near the altar, for the officiating clergyman. SEDUCE (9) [verb] To beguile or lure (someone) away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct; to lead astray. | [verb] To entice or induce (someone) to engage in a sexual relationship. | [verb] (by extension) To have sexual intercourse with. SEDUMS (9) [noun] Any of various succulent plants, of the genus Sedum, native to temperate zones; the stonecrop SEEDED (8) [verb] To plant or sow an area with seeds. | [verb] To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations. | [verb] To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of. SEEDER (7) [noun] A device used to plant seeds; a seed drill | [noun] An implement used to remove the seeds from fruit etc. | [noun] A person who seeds clouds in order to make it rain SEEING (7) [verb] (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight. | [verb] To form a mental picture of. | [verb] (social) To meet, to visit. | [conjunction] Inasmuch as; in view of the fact that. SEEKER (10) [noun] One who seeks. | [noun] Especially, a religious seeker: a pilgrim, or one who aspires to enlightenment or salvation. SEELED (7) [verb] To sew together the eyes of a young hawk. | [verb] (by extension) To blind. | [verb] (of a ship) To roll on the waves in a storm. SEEMED (9) [verb] To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as. | [verb] To befit; to beseem. SEEMER (8) SEEMLY (11) [adjective] (of behavior) Appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming. | [adverb] Appropriately, fittingly. SEEPED (9) [verb] To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc. | [verb] To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse. | [verb] To diminish or wane away slowly. SEESAW (9) [noun] A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down. | [noun] A series of up-and-down movements. | [noun] A series of alternating movements or feelings. SEETHE (9) [verb] To boil. | [verb] (of a liquid) To boil vigorously. | [verb] (of a liquid) To foam in an agitated manner, as if boiling. SEGGAR (8) SEGNOS (7) SEGUED (8) [verb] To move smoothly from one state or subject to another. | [verb] To make a smooth transition from one theme to another. | [verb] (of a disk jockey) To play a sequence of records with no talk between them. SEGUES (7) [noun] An instance of segueing, a transition. | [verb] To move smoothly from one state or subject to another. | [verb] To make a smooth transition from one theme to another. SEICHE (11) [noun] A short-term standing wave oscillation of the water level in a lake, characteristic of its geometry SEIDEL (7) [noun] A large beer mug or tankard, especially one with a lid. SEINED (7) [verb] To use a seine, to fish with a seine. SEINER (6) SEINES (6) [noun] A long net having floats attached at the top and sinkers (weights) at the bottom, used in shallow water for catching fish. | [verb] To use a seine, to fish with a seine. SEISED (7) [verb] To vest ownership of a freehold estate in (someone). | [verb] (with of) To put in possession. | [verb] To seize. SEISER (6) SEISES (6) [verb] To vest ownership of a freehold estate in (someone). | [verb] (with of) To put in possession. | [verb] To seize. SEISIN (6) [noun] (common law) An entitlement to a freehold estate with a right to immediate possession; dates from feudal times but is still used in technical discussions of real property law today. | [noun] The act of taking possession. | [noun] The thing possessed; property. SEISMS (8) SEISOR (6) SEIZED (16) [verb] To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture. | [verb] To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance). | [verb] To take possession of (by force, law etc.). SEIZER (15) SEIZES (15) [verb] To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture. | [verb] To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance). | [verb] To take possession of (by force, law etc.). SEIZIN (15) [noun] (common law) An entitlement to a freehold estate with a right to immediate possession; dates from feudal times but is still used in technical discussions of real property law today. | [noun] The act of taking possession. | [noun] The thing possessed; property. SEIZOR (15) SEJANT (13) [adjective] Seated, sitting. SELAHS (9) SELDOM (9) [adjective] Rare; infrequent. | [adverb] Infrequently, rarely. SELECT (8) [verb] To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options. | [verb] To obtain a set of data from a database using a query. | [adjective] Privileged, specially selected. SELFED (10) [adjective] Produced by vegetative propagation | [adjective] Produced by self-pollination SELLER (6) [noun] Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk. | [noun] Something which sells. | [noun] An enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter. SELLES (6) SELSYN (9) SELVAS (9) [noun] Heavily forested ground in the Amazon basin. SELVES (9) [noun] One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition. | [noun] The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts. | [noun] An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness (plural selves). SEMEME (10) [noun] The smallest unit of meaning; especially the meaning expressed by a morpheme. SEMENS (8) SEMINA (8) SEMPLE (10) SEMPRE (10) [adverb] (as a qualifier) always, still; maintaining the same style SENARY (9) [noun] The numeral system which uses six as the base. | [adjective] Of sixth rank or order. | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or based on six. SENATE (6) [noun] In some bicameral legislative systems, the upper house or chamber. | [noun] A group of experienced, respected, wise individuals serving as decision makers or advisors in a political system or in institutional governance, as in a university, and traditionally of advanced age and male. SENDAL (7) [noun] A light silk cloth. SENDED (8) SENDER (7) [noun] Someone who sends. | [noun] A device or component that transmits, as in telegraphy or computer networks. SENDUP (9) [noun] A satirical imitation of a work of art or a genre. SENECA (8) SENEGA (7) SENHOR (9) [noun] A Portuguese gentleman. | [noun] A Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or an older man. SENILE (6) [noun] A person who is senile. | [adjective] Of, or relating to old age. | [adjective] Exhibiting the deterioration in mind and body often accompanying old age; doddering. SENIOR (6) [noun] An old person. | [noun] Someone older than someone else (with possessive). | [noun] Someone seen as deserving respect or reverence because of their age. SENITI (6) [noun] A Tongan unit of currency equivalent to a hundredth of a pa'anga. SENNAS (6) [noun] Any of several plants of the tribe Cassieae, especially those of the genera Cassia and Senna, whose leaves and pods are used as a purgative and laxative. | [noun] The dried leaves or pods of these plants (especially of Senna alexandrina, syn. Cassia angustifolia or Cassia acutifolia), used medicinally. | [noun] Senna glycoside, a laxative. SENNET (6) [noun] A signal call given on a cornet or trumpet for entrance or exit on a theatrical stage | [noun] The barracuda. | [noun] Braided cord or fabric of such small stuff as plaited rope yarns SENNIT (6) [noun] Braided cord or fabric of such small stuff as plaited rope yarns | [noun] Plaited or braided straw or grass which is used for making hats and for a variety of ornamental crafts SENORA (6) [noun] A Spanish term of address equivalent to Mrs., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married, divorced or widowed woman SENORS (6) SENRYU (9) SENSED (7) [verb] To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel. | [verb] To instinctively be aware. | [verb] To comprehend. SENSES (6) [noun] Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste. | [noun] Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness. | [noun] Sound practical or moral judgment. SENSOR (6) [noun] A device or organ that detects certain external stimuli and responds in a distinctive manner. SENSUM (8) SENTRY (9) [noun] A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base. | [noun] Sentry duty; time spent being a sentry. | [noun] A form of drag to be towed underwater, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface. SEPALS (8) [noun] One of the component parts of the calyx, particularly when the sepals in a plant's calyx are not fused into a single structure. SEPIAS (8) [noun] A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish. | [noun] A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour. | [noun] (by extension) A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph. SEPOYS (11) [noun] A native soldier of the East Indies, employed in the service of a European colonial power, notably the British India army (first under the British-chartered East India Company, later in the crown colony), but also France and Portugal. SEPSES (8) [noun] A serious medical condition in which the whole body is inflamed, causing injury to its own tissues and organs as a response to infection. SEPSIS (8) [noun] A serious medical condition in which the whole body is inflamed, causing injury to its own tissues and organs as a response to infection. SEPTAL (8) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the septum. | [adjective] Relating to an Irish clan or sept. SEPTET (8) [noun] A group of seven, often a musical group of seven performers. | [noun] A musical composition for seven instruments or seven voices. SEPTIC (10) [noun] A substance that causes sepsis or putrefaction. | [noun] A septic tank; a system for the disposal of sewage into a septic tank, a septic system. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to sepsis. | [noun] A mathematical object (function, curve, surface, etc.) of degree seven. | [noun] An American, a Yank. SEPTUM (10) [noun] A wall separating two cavities; a partition | [noun] A partition that separates the cells of a fruit. | [noun] A partition that separates the cells of a (septated) fungus. SEQUEL (15) [noun] The events, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event; the aftermath. | [noun] A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own. | [noun] Thirlage. SEQUIN (15) [noun] Any of various small gold coins minted in Italy and Turkey. | [noun] A sparkling spangle used for the decoration of ornate clothing. SERACS (8) [noun] Often sérac: a hard, cone-shaped, pale green, strongly flavoured cheese from Switzerland made from skimmed cowmilk and blue fenugreek (Trigonella caerulea); Schabziger, Sapsago. It is usually eaten grated, mixed with butter, or in a fondue. | [noun] (glaciology) A sharp tower of ice formed by intersecting crevasses of a glacier. SERAIL (6) SERAIS (6) [noun] (In Turkish or Muslim Asian contexts) A palace. | [noun] A seraglio. | [noun] A caravanserai; an inn. SERAPE (8) [noun] A type of blanket worn as a cloak, especially by Spanish-Americans, or used as a saddle blanket. SERAPH (11) [noun] A six-winged angel; the highest choir or order of angels in Christian angelology, ranked above cherubim, and below God. They are the 5th highest order of angels in Jewish angelology. A detailed description can be found at the beginning of Isaiah chapter 6 SERDAB (9) SEREIN (6) SERENE (6) [noun] Serenity; clearness; calmness. | [noun] Evening air; night chill. | [verb] To make serene. | [noun] A fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset. SEREST (6) SERGES (7) SERIAL (6) [noun] A work, such as a work of fiction, published in installments, often numbered and without a specified end. | [noun] A publication issued in successive parts, often numbered and with no predetermined end. | [noun] A serial number, esp. one required to activate software. SERIES (6) [noun] A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other. | [noun] A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals | [noun] The sequence of partial sums \sum_{i=1}^n{a_i} of a given sequence ai. SERIFS (9) [noun] A short line added to the end of a stroke in traditional typefaces, such as Times New Roman. SERINE (6) [noun] A nonessential amino acid, CH2OH.CH(NH2)COOH, found in most animal proteins, especially silk. SERING (7) SERINS (6) [noun] Any of various small finches in the genus Serinus, with largely yellow plumage. SERMON (8) [noun] Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter. | [noun] A lengthy speech of reproval. | [verb] To discourse to or of, as in a sermon. SEROSA (6) [noun] A membrane which lines an internal cavity to protect the contents and which secretes serum. SEROUS (6) [adjective] Containing, secreting, or resembling serum; watery; a fluid or discharge that is pale yellow and transparent, usually representing something of a benign nature. (This contrasts with the term sanguine, which means blood-tinged and usually harmful.) SEROWS (9) [noun] Any of several species of Asian ungulates of the genus Capricornis. SERUMS (8) [noun] The clear yellowish liquid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components after it has been allowed to clot. | [noun] Blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals, containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual, called antiserum. | [noun] A watery liquid from animal tissue, especially one that moistens the surface of serous membranes or that is exuded by such membranes when they become inflamed, such as in edema or a blister. SERVAL (9) [noun] A medium-sized African wild cat, Leptailurus serval, formerly Felis serval. SERVED (10) [verb] (personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink). | [verb] To treat (someone) in a given manner. | [verb] To be suitor to; to be the lover of. SERVER (9) [noun] A program that provides services to other programs or devices, either in the same computer or over a computer network. | [noun] A computer dedicated to running such programs. | [noun] One who serves. SERVES (9) [noun] An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games. | [noun] A portion of food or drink, a serving. | [verb] (personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink). SERVOS (9) [noun] A servomechanism or servomotor. | [noun] A service station, being a place to buy petrol for cars etc., as well as various convenience items, with or without actual car service facilities. SESAME (8) [noun] A tropical Asian plant (Sesamum indicum) bearing small flat seeds used as food and as a source of oil. | [noun] The seed of this plant. SESTET (6) [noun] A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor. | [noun] The last six lines of a sonnet, forming two stanzas of three lines each. SETOFF (12) [noun] The situation where a bank or similar organisation repays itself money owed by an accountholder out of his or her account. SETONS (6) [noun] A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen etc., introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to induce suppuration; also, the issue so formed. SETOSE (6) [adjective] Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs. SETOUS (6) SETOUT (6) SETTEE (6) [noun] A long seat with a back, made to accommodate several persons at once; a sofa. | [noun] A vessel with a very long, sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with lateen sails, used in the Mediterranean. SETTER (6) [noun] One who sets something, especially a typesetter. | [noun] A long-haired breed of gundog (Wikipedia). | [noun] The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack. | [verb] To cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue. SETTLE (6) [verb] To conclude or resolve (something): | [verb] To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something). | [verb] To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated. | [noun] A seat of any kind. SETUPS (8) [noun] Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus. | [noun] The fashion in which something is organized or arranged. | [noun] A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody. SEVENS (9) [noun] The digit/figure 7 or an occurrence thereof. | [noun] A card bearing seven pips. | [noun] Rugby sevens. SEVERE (9) [adjective] Very bad or intense. | [adjective] Strict or harsh. | [adjective] Sober, plain in appearance, austere. SEVERS (9) [verb] To cut free. | [verb] To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated. | [verb] To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish. SEWAGE (10) [noun] A suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed. | [noun] Sewerage. SEWANS (9) SEWARS (9) SEWERS (9) [noun] A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage. | [noun] A servant attending at a meal who is responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes, etc. | [noun] One who sews. SEWING (10) [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together. | [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together. | [verb] Followed by into: to enclose by sewing. | [noun] The action of the verb to sew. SEXIER (13) [adjective] (of a person) Having sex appeal; suggestive of sex. | [adjective] That can sexually attract or arouse. | [adjective] (of a thing or concept) interesting, attractive, intriguing, or appealing. SEXILY (16) SEXING (14) [verb] To determine the sex of an animal. | [verb] To have sex with. | [noun] The determination of the sex of a young bird (typically poultry) SEXISM (15) [noun] The belief that people of one sex or gender are inherently superior to others. | [noun] Discrimination or different treatment (e.g. in job opportunities) based on sex or gender. | [noun] Attitudes or actions that are based on or promote the expectation that people adhere to stereotypical social roles (gender roles) based on sex. SEXIST (13) [noun] A person who discriminates on grounds of sex; someone who practises sexism. | [adjective] Unfairly discriminatory against one sex in favour of the other. SEXPOT (15) [noun] A sexy person. SEXTAN (13) SEXTET (13) [noun] Any group of six people or things. | [noun] A composition for six voices or instruments. | [noun] A group of six singers or instrumentalists. SEXTON (13) [noun] A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell-ringer. | [noun] A sexton beetle. SEXTOS (13) SEXUAL (13) [noun] A species which reproduces by sexual rather than asexual reproduction, or a member of such a species. | [noun] A person who experiences sexual attraction, a person who has interest in or desire for sex (especially as contrasted with an asexual). | [adjective] Arising from the fact of being male or female; pertaining to sex or gender, or to the social relations between the sexes. SHABBY (16) [adjective] Torn or worn; unkempt. | [adjective] Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments. | [adjective] Mean; paltry; despicable. SHACKO (15) SHACKS (15) [noun] A crude, roughly built hut or cabin. | [noun] Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building. | [noun] The room from which a ham radio operator transmits. SHADED (11) [verb] To shield from light. | [verb] To alter slightly. | [verb] To vary or approach something slightly, particularly in color. SHADER (10) SHADES (10) [noun] Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked. | [noun] Something that blocks light, particularly in a window. | [noun] A variety of a colour/color, in particular one obtained by adding black (compare tint). SHADOW (13) [noun] A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object. | [noun] Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom, obscurity. | [noun] A area protected by an obstacle (likened to an object blocking out sunlight). SHADUF (13) SHAFTS (12) [noun] The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow. | [noun] The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin. | [noun] (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin. SHAGGY (14) [adjective] With long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur or wool. | [adjective] With a surface like shaggy hair; rough nap. SHAIRD (10) SHAIRN (9) SHAKEN (13) [verb] To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly. | [verb] To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance or disapproval. | [verb] To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion. SHAKER (13) [noun] A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken. | [noun] A variety of pigeon. | [noun] One who holds railroad spikes while they are hammered. SHAKES (13) [noun] The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion. | [noun] A milkshake. | [noun] A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float. SHAKOS (13) [noun] A stiff, cylindrical military dress hat with a metal plate in front, a short visor, and a plume. | [noun] A bearskin or busby. | [noun] The squilla or mantis shrimp. SHALED (10) SHALES (9) [noun] A shell or husk; a cod or pod. | [noun] A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. | [verb] To take off the shell or coat of. SHALEY (12) SHALOM (11) [noun] Peace | [interjection] A traditional Jewish greeting or farewell. SHAMAN (11) [noun] A traditional (prescientific) faith healer. | [noun] A member of certain tribal societies who acts as a religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds. SHAMAS (11) [noun] Copsychus malabaricus (white-rumped shama), a saxicoline songbird of India, glossy black with a white rump and brown underparts, and six other species in genus Copsychus. SHAMED (12) [verb] To cause to feel shame. | [verb] To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace. | [verb] To drive or compel by shame. SHAMES (11) [noun] Uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of one's own impropriety or dishonor or something being exposed that should have been kept private. | [noun] Something to regret. | [noun] Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonour; ignominy; derision. | [noun] A sexton in a synagogue. SHAMMY (16) [noun] Chamois leather. | [noun] A cloth made of this leather. | [verb] To clean with a chamois leather cloth. SHAMOS (11) SHAMOY (14) SHAMUS (11) [noun] A private detective; originally, a policeman or police detective. SHANDY (13) [noun] A drink made by mixing beer and lemonade. | [noun] A glass of this drink. | [adjective] Wild, energetic, romping, boisterous, rambunctious SHANKS (13) [noun] The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle. | [noun] Meat from that part of an animal. | [noun] A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs. SHANNY (12) [noun] A fish, the prickleback. SHANTI (9) SHANTY (12) [noun] A roughly-built hut or cabin. | [noun] A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned. | [noun] An unlicensed pub. | [noun] A song a sailor sings, especially in rhythm to his work. | [adjective] Jaunty; showy. SHAPED (12) [verb] To create or make. | [verb] To give something a shape and definition. | [verb] To form or manipulate something into a certain shape. SHAPEN (11) SHAPER (11) SHAPES (11) [noun] The status or condition of something | [noun] Condition of personal health, especially muscular health. | [noun] The appearance of something in terms of its arrangement in space, especially its outline; often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure. SHARDS (10) [noun] A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig. | [noun] (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery. | [noun] A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle. SHARED (10) [verb] To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume. | [verb] To have or use in common. | [verb] To divide and distribute. SHARER (9) SHARES (9) [noun] A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone. | [noun] A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability. | [noun] A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network. SHARIF (12) [noun] A traditional Arab tribal title given to those who serve as the protector of the tribe and all tribal assets. SHARKS (13) [noun] A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head. | [verb] To fish for sharks. | [noun] Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion. SHARNS (9) SHARNY (12) SHARPS (11) [noun] The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played a semitone higher. | [noun] A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯. | [noun] A note that is sharp in a particular key. SHARPY (14) SHAUGH (13) SHAULS (9) SHAVED (13) [verb] To make bald or shorter by using a tool such as a razor or pair of electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin. | [verb] To cut anything in this fashion. | [verb] To remove hair from one's face by this means. SHAVEN (12) [verb] To make bald or shorter by using a tool such as a razor or pair of electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin. | [verb] To cut anything in this fashion. | [verb] To remove hair from one's face by this means. SHAVER (12) [noun] One who shaves. | [noun] A barber, one whose occupation is to shave. | [noun] A tool or machine for shaving; an electric razor. SHAVES (12) [verb] To make bald or shorter by using a tool such as a razor or pair of electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin. | [verb] To cut anything in this fashion. | [verb] To remove hair from one's face by this means. SHAVIE (12) SHAWED (13) SHAWLS (12) [noun] A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women. | [noun] A fold of wrinkled flesh under the lips and neck of a bloodhound, used in scenting. SHAWMS (14) [noun] A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body. SHEAFS (12) [noun] A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw. | [noun] Any collection of things bound together; a bundle. | [noun] A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer. SHEALS (9) SHEARS (9) [noun] A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger. | [noun] The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing. | [noun] Forces that push in opposite directions. SHEATH (12) [noun] A holster for a sword; a scabbard. | [noun] (by extension) Anything that has a similar shape to a scabbard that is used to hold an object that is longer than it is wide. | [noun] The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a branch or stem, as in grasses. | [verb] To put (something such as a knife or sword) into a sheath. SHEAVE (12) [noun] A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or similar; the wheel of a pulley. | [noun] A sliding scutcheon for covering a keyhole. | [verb] To gather and bind into a sheaf. SHEENS (9) [verb] To shine; to glisten. SHEENY (12) [noun] A Jew. | [noun] A cheat or fraudster. | [adjective] Having a sheen; glossy SHEERS (9) [noun] A sheer curtain or fabric. | [noun] The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern. | [noun] An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship. SHEETS (9) [noun] A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper. | [noun] A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping, manufacture of packaging (boxes, envelopes, etc.), and for other uses. The word does not include scraps and irregular small pieces destined to be recycled, used for stuffing or cushioning or paper mache, etc. | [noun] A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking. SHEEVE (12) SHEIKH (16) [noun] The leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe. | [noun] An Islamic religious cleric; the leader of an Islamic religious order. | [noun] (some Arab Gulf countries) An official title for members of the royal family as well as some prominent families. SHEIKS (13) [noun] The leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe. | [noun] An Islamic religious cleric; the leader of an Islamic religious order. | [noun] (some Arab Gulf countries) An official title for members of the royal family as well as some prominent families. SHEILA (9) [noun] A woman. | [noun] A shayla, a headscarf worn by Muslim women. SHEKEL (13) [noun] A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel. | [noun] (often antisemitic) Money, especially that purportedly owned or distributed as bribes by Jewish elites. | [noun] An ancient unit of weight equivalent to one-fiftieth of a mina. SHELLS (9) [noun] A hard external covering of an animal. | [noun] The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg. | [noun] One of the outer layers of skin of an onion. SHELLY (12) SHELTA (9) SHELTY (12) [noun] A Shetland pony; any small pony. | [noun] Sheepdog. | [noun] A Shetlander. SHELVE (12) [noun] A rocky ledge or shelf. | [verb] To place on a shelf. | [verb] To set aside; to quit or postpone. SHELVY (15) SHENDS (10) SHEOLS (9) SHEQEL (18) SHERDS (10) [noun] A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig. | [noun] (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery. | [noun] A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle. SHERIF (12) [noun] A member of an Arab princely family descended from Muhammad through his son-in-law Ali and daughter Fatima, the "Grand Shereef" being the governor of Mecca. SHERPA (11) [noun] A mountain guide or porter, particularly a male of the Sherpa people so employed. | [noun] An expert sent by a country’s leader to a summit meeting. | [noun] A synthetic fabric with a long, thick pile, similar to faux fur, imitation lamb wool or fleece. SHERRY (12) [noun] A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere. | [noun] A variety of sherry. | [noun] A glass of sherry. SHEUCH (14) SHEUGH (13) [noun] A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries. | [noun] The space between the buttocks. | [noun] The Atlantic ocean, the sea. SHEWED (13) [verb] To display, to have somebody see (something). | [verb] To bestow; to confer. | [verb] To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate. SHEWER (12) SHIBAH (14) SHIELD (10) [noun] Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection. | [noun] A shape like that of a shield; usually, an inverted triangle with sides that curve inward to form a pointed bottom, commonly used for police identifications and company logos. | [noun] A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock. | [verb] To protect, to defend. SHIELS (9) SHIERS (9) SHIEST (9) SHIFTS (12) [noun] A modifier key whose main function is shifting between two or more functions of any of certain other keys (usually by pressing Shift and the other button simultaneously). | [noun] A type of women's undergarment, a slip. | [noun] A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time. SHIFTY (15) [adjective] Subject to frequent changes in direction. | [adjective] (of a person's eyes) Moving from one object to another, not looking directly and steadily at the person with whom one is speaking. | [adjective] Having the appearance of being dishonest, criminal or unreliable. SHIKAR (13) [noun] Hunting, sport; a hunting expedition. | [noun] Hunting guide (elsewhere besides India, e.g. Australia) SHIKSA (13) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A non-Jewish girl, especially one who is attractive and young. SHIKSE (13) SHILLS (9) [noun] A person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial. | [noun] An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game. | [noun] A house player in a casino. SHIMMY (16) [noun] A dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately. | [noun] A dance that was popular in the 1920s. | [noun] An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle. SHINDY (13) [noun] A shindig. | [noun] An uproar or disturbance; a spree; a row; a riot. | [noun] Hockey; shinney SHINED (10) [verb] To emit light. | [verb] To reflect light. | [verb] To distinguish oneself; to excel. SHINER (9) [noun] One who shines; a luminary. | [noun] One who causes things to shine; a polisher. | [noun] A black eye. SHINES (9) [noun] Brightness from a source of light. | [noun] Brightness from reflected light. | [noun] Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour. SHINNY (12) [verb] To climb in an awkward manner. | [noun] An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball. | [noun] Street hockey. | [noun] Moonshine (illegal alcohol) SHIRES (9) [noun] Physical area administered by a sheriff. | [noun] Former administrative area of Britain; a county. | [noun] The general area in which a person lives or comes from, used in the context of travel within the United Kingdom. SHIRKS (13) [verb] To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from. | [verb] To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away. | [verb] To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation. SHIRRS (9) [verb] To make gathers in textiles by drawing together parallel threads. | [verb] To bake (a raw egg removed from its shell) in a baking dish. SHIRTS (9) [noun] An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms. | [noun] An interior lining in a blast furnace. | [noun] A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game. SHIRTY (12) [adjective] Ill-tempered or annoyed. SHISTS (9) SHITTY (12) [adjective] Very bad; unpleasant; miserable; insignificant. | [adjective] Under the influence of illicit drugs or alcohol; drunk; high. | [adjective] Annoyed. SHIVAH (15) [noun] A weeklong period of formal mourning for a close relative. SHIVAS (12) SHIVER (12) [noun] The act of shivering. | [noun] A bodily response to early hypothermia.Wp | [verb] To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened. | [noun] A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone. SHIVES (12) [noun] A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush). | [noun] A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp. | [noun] A slice, especially of bread. SHLEPP (13) SHLEPS (11) [noun] A long or burdensome journey. | [noun] A boring person, a drag; a good-for-nothing person. | [noun] A sloppy or slovenly person. SHLOCK (15) [noun] Commodity that is shoddy or inferior. SHLUMP (13) [noun] Someone who is lazy, slovenly or dull-looking. SHMEAR (11) [noun] A spread that goes on a bagel. | [noun] A batch of things that go together. | [noun] An aggregate. SHMOES (11) [noun] A stupid or obnoxious person. SHMUCK (17) [noun] A jerk; a person who is unlikable, detestable, or contemptible because he or she is stupid, foolish, clumsy, oafish, inept, malicious, or unpleasant. | [noun] A deplorable, pitiful person; often in the form poor schmuck. SHNAPS (11) SHNOOK (13) [noun] A person who is easily taken advantage of. SHOALS (9) [noun] A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow. | [noun] A shallow in a body of water. | [verb] To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area. SHOALY (12) SHOATS (9) [noun] A young, newly-weaned pig. | [noun] A geep, a sheep-goat hybrid (whether artificially produced or the result of animals from these species naturally intermating). SHOCKS (15) [noun] A sudden, heavy impact. | [noun] A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation. | [verb] To cause to be emotionally shocked, to cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset. SHODDY (14) [noun] A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool. | [noun] Worthless goods. | [noun] Vulgar pretence or sham. SHOERS (9) SHOFAR (12) [noun] A ram’s-horn trumpet SHOGUN (10) [noun] The supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan. SHOJIS (16) [noun] A door or partition consisting of a wooden frame covered in rice paper. SHOLOM (11) SHOOED (10) [verb] To induce someone or something to leave. | [verb] To leave under inducement. | [verb] To usher someone. SHOOKS (13) [noun] A set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood. | [noun] The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together. SHOOLS (9) SHOOTS (9) [noun] The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant. | [noun] A photography session. | [noun] A hunt or shooting competition. SHOPPE (13) [noun] (sometimes capitalized) A fanciful spelling of shop, chiefly used in the names of businesses to give an air of old-fashionedness. SHORAN (9) SHORED (10) [adjective] Having a shore, often one of a specified type. | [verb] To set on shore. | [verb] (without up) To provide with support. SHORES (9) [noun] Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond. | [noun] (from the perspective of one on a body of water) Land, usually near a port. | [verb] To set on shore. SHORLS (9) SHORTS (9) [noun] A short circuit. | [noun] A short film. | [noun] A short version of a garment in a particular size. SHORTY (12) [noun] A short person. | [noun] A term of endearment for a child, younger sibling, shorter person, etc. | [noun] A child. SHOTES (9) [noun] A young, newly-weaned pig. | [noun] A fish resembling the trout, the grayling (Thymallus thymallus). SHOTTS (9) SHOULD (10) [verb] (modal, auxiliary verb, defective) Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first person singular or plural. | [verb] Used similarly to indicate determination or obligation in the second and third persons singular or plural. | [verb] Used in questions with the first person singular or plural to suggest a possible future action. SHOUTS (9) [noun] A loud burst of voice or voices; a violent and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing joy, triumph, exultation, anger, or animated courage. | [noun] A round of drinks in a pub; the turn to pay the shot or scot; an act of paying for a round of drinks. | [noun] A call-out for an emergency services team. SHOVED (13) [verb] To push, especially roughly or with force. | [verb] To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off. | [verb] (by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet. SHOVEL (12) [noun] A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. Not to be confused with a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots. | [noun] A spade. | [verb] To move materials with a shovel. SHOVER (12) SHOVES (12) [noun] A rough push. | [noun] An all-in bet. | [noun] A forward movement of packed river-ice. SHOWED (13) [verb] To display, to have somebody see (something). | [verb] To bestow; to confer. | [verb] To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate. SHOWER (12) [noun] A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade). | [noun] A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump. | [noun] An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself. | [noun] One who shows. SHOYUS (12) SHRANK (13) [verb] To cause to become smaller. | [verb] To become smaller; to contract. | [verb] To cower or flinch. | [noun] (Pennsylvania Dutch English) A large highly decorative German/Dutch-style piece of furniture, which combines aspects of a clothing wardrobe, curio, and cabinet. SHREDS (10) [noun] A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip. | [noun] In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle; a very small amount. SHREWD (13) [adjective] Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters. | [adjective] Artful, tricky or cunning. | [adjective] Streetwise. SHREWS (12) [noun] Any of numerous small, mouselike, chiefly nocturnal, mammals of the family Soricidae (order Soricomorpha). | [noun] Certain other small mammals that resemble true shrews (order Soricomorpha). | [noun] An ill-tempered, nagging woman: a scold. SHRIEK (13) [noun] A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like. | [noun] An exclamation mark. | [verb] To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish. SHRIFT (12) [noun] The act of going to or hearing a religious confession. | [noun] Confession to a priest. | [noun] Forgiveness given by a priest after confession; remission. SHRIKE (13) [noun] Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae which are known for their habit of catching other birds and small animals and impaling the uneaten portions of their bodies on thorns. SHRILL (9) [noun] A shrill sound. | [verb] To make a shrill noise. | [adjective] High-pitched and piercing. SHRIMP (13) [noun] Any of many swimming, often edible crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen. | [noun] The flesh of such crustaceans. | [noun] A small, puny or unimportant person. SHRINE (9) [noun] A holy or sacred place dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, or similar figure of awe and respect, at which said figure is venerated or worshipped. | [noun] A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint. | [noun] A place or object hallowed from its history or associations. SHRINK (13) [noun] Shrinkage; contraction; recoil. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A psychiatrist or psychotherapist. | [noun] Loss of inventory, for example due to shoplifting or not selling items before their expiration date. SHRIVE (12) [verb] To hear or receive a confession (of sins etc.) | [verb] To prescribe penance or absolution. | [verb] To confess, and receive absolution. SHROFF (15) [noun] A provider of financial services, especially a small-scale independent banker or money changer or a local expert at detecting bad coin. | [noun] A cashier, especially for a carpark. | [noun] Short for shroff office: the office of a shroff at a carpark, etc. SHROUD (10) [noun] That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment. | [noun] Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet. | [noun] That which covers or shelters like a shroud. | [verb] To cover with a shroud. | [noun] The branching top of a tree; foliage. SHROVE (12) [verb] To hear or receive a confession (of sins etc.) | [verb] To prescribe penance or absolution. | [verb] To confess, and receive absolution. SHRUBS (11) [noun] A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base. | [noun] A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur. SHRUGS (10) [noun] A lifting of the shoulders to signal indifference or a casual lack of knowledge. | [noun] A cropped, cardigan-like garment with short or long sleeves, typically knitted. SHRUNK (13) [verb] To cause to become smaller. | [verb] To become smaller; to contract. | [verb] To cower or flinch. SHTETL (9) [noun] A Jewish village or small town, especially one in Eastern Europe. SHTICK (15) [noun] A generally humorous routine | [noun] A characteristic trait or theme, especially in the way people or media present themselves. | [noun] A gimmick. SHTIKS (13) SHUCKS (15) [noun] The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts). | [noun] A fraud; a scam. | [noun] A phony. SHUNTS (9) [noun] An act of moving (suddenly), as due to a push or shove. | [noun] A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electrical circuit. | [noun] The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun. SHUTED (10) SHUTES (9) SHYERS (12) SHYEST (12) [adjective] Easily frightened; timid. | [adjective] Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach. | [adjective] Cautious; wary; suspicious. SHYING (13) [verb] To avoid due to timidness or caution. | [verb] To jump back in fear. | [verb] To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling SIALIC (8) SIALID (7) SIBYLS (11) [noun] A pagan female oracle or prophetess, especially the Cumaean sibyl. SICCAN (10) SICCED (11) [verb] To mark with a bracketed sic. | [verb] To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs. | [verb] To set upon; to chase; to attack. SICKED (13) [verb] To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs. | [verb] To set upon; to chase; to attack. | [verb] To vomit. SICKEE (12) SICKEN (12) [verb] To make ill. | [verb] To become ill. | [verb] To fill with disgust or abhorrence. SICKER (12) [adjective] Having an urge to vomit. | [adjective] In poor health. | [adjective] Mentally unstable, disturbed. | [adjective] (obsolete outside dialectal) Certain. | [verb] To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack. SICKIE (12) [noun] A day, or time, off work due to (supposed) illness. SICKLE (12) [noun] An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops. | [noun] Any of the sickle-shaped middle feathers of the domestic cock. | [verb] To cut with a sickle. SICKLY (15) [verb] To make (something) sickly. | [verb] To become sickly. | [adjective] Frequently ill or in poor health. SICKOS (12) [noun] A person with unpleasant tastes, views or habits. | [noun] A mentally ill person. | [noun] A physically ill person. SIDDUR (8) [noun] A prayer book containing a set order of daily prayers. SIDING (8) [noun] A building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building. | [verb] To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with" | [verb] To lean on one side. | [noun] A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for loading or unloading freight, storing trains or other rail vehicles; or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction) (the latter sense is probably an American definition). SIDLED (8) [verb] To (cause something to) move sideways. | [verb] In the intransitive sense often followed by up: to (cause something to) advance in a coy, furtive, or unobtrusive manner. SIDLER (7) SIDLES (7) [noun] An act of sidling. | [verb] To (cause something to) move sideways. | [verb] In the intransitive sense often followed by up: to (cause something to) advance in a coy, furtive, or unobtrusive manner. SIEGED (8) SIEGES (7) [noun] (heading) Military action. | [noun] (heading) A seat. | [noun] A place with a toilet seat: an outhouse; a lavatory. SIENNA (6) [noun] A form of clay containing iron and manganese. | [noun] A pigment with a reddish-brown colour. | [noun] A light reddish-brown colour. SIERRA (6) [noun] A rugged range of mountains. | [noun] The letter S in the ICAO spelling alphabet. | [noun] A scombroid fish. SIESTA (6) [noun] A nap, especially an afternoon one taken after lunch in some cultures. | [verb] To take a siesta; to nap. SIEURS (6) SIEVED (10) [verb] To strain, sift or sort using a sieve. | [verb] To concede; let in | [adjective] Passed through a sieve. SIEVES (9) [noun] A device with a mesh bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid. | [noun] A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input. | [noun] A kind of coarse basket. SIFAKA (13) [noun] A medium-sized lemur of the genus Propithecus. SIFTED (10) [adjective] Having undergone sifting. SIFTER (9) SIGHED (11) [verb] To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like. | [verb] To lament; to grieve. | [verb] To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over. SIGHER (10) SIGHTS (10) [noun] (in the singular) The ability to see. | [noun] The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view. | [noun] Something seen. SIGILS (7) [noun] A seal, signature or signet. | [noun] An occult or magical sign, image or symbol. | [noun] A nonalphanumeric character affixed to a symbol (e.g. variable) to indicate a property such as type or scope. SIGLOI (7) SIGLOS (7) SIGMAS (9) [noun] The eighteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets, the twentieth letter of Old and Ancient. | [noun] The symbol Σ, used to indicate summation of a set or series. | [noun] The symbol σ, used to indicate one standard deviation from the mean, particularly in a normal distribution. SIGNAL (7) [noun] A sequence of states representing an encoded message in a communication channel. | [noun] Any variation of a quantity or change in an entity over time that conveys information upon detection. | [noun] A sign made to give notice of some occurrence, command, or danger, or to indicate the start of a concerted action. SIGNED (8) [verb] To make a mark | [verb] To make the sign of the cross | [verb] To indicate SIGNEE (7) [noun] One who signs a contract, especially in athletic contexts SIGNER (7) SIGNET (7) [noun] An object (especially a ring) formerly used to impress a picture into the sealing wax of a document as a proof of its origin SIGNOR (7) [noun] A courtesy title for a man of Italian origin. SILAGE (7) [noun] Fermented green forage fodder stored in a silo. | [verb] To ensilage. SILANE (6) [noun] Any of a group of silicon hydrides that are analogous to alkanes (the paraffin hydrocarbons); especially the parent compound SiH4 | [noun] Monosilane (SiH₄) | [noun] Any organic derivative of monosilane SILENI (6) SILENT (6) [noun] That which is silent; a time of silence. | [noun] A silent movie | [adjective] Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet. SILICA (8) [noun] Silicon dioxide. | [noun] Any of the silica group of the silicate minerals. SILKED (11) SILKEN (10) [verb] To render silken or silklike. | [adjective] Made of silk. | [adjective] Having a smooth, soft, or light texture, like that of silk; suggestive of silk. SILLER (6) SILOED (7) [verb] To store in a silo. | [adjective] Pertaining to silos (stored in silos; separated apart; not connected;) SILTED (7) [verb] To clog or fill with silt. | [verb] To become clogged with silt. | [verb] To flow through crevices; to percolate. SILVAE (9) SILVAN (9) [adjective] Pertaining to the forest, or woodlands. | [adjective] Residing in a forest or wood. | [adjective] Wooded, or covered in forest. | [noun] Tellurium SILVAS (9) SILVER (9) [noun] A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag. | [noun] (collectively) Coins made from silver or any similar white metal. | [noun] (collectively) Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal. SILVEX (16) SIMARS (8) SIMIAN (8) [noun] An ape or monkey, especially an anthropoid. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to apes; apelike. | [adjective] Bearing resemblance to an ape. SIMILE (8) [noun] A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another, in the case of English generally using like or as. SIMLIN (8) SIMMER (10) [noun] The state or process of simmering. | [verb] To cook or undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point. | [verb] To cause to cook or to cause to undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point. | [noun] Someone who plays a sim (a simulation game), particularly The Sims. SIMNEL (8) SIMONY (11) [noun] The buying or selling of spiritual or sacred things, such as ecclesiastical offices, pardons, or consecrated objects. SIMOOM (10) [noun] A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind of the desert, particularly of Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains. SIMOON (8) [noun] A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind of the desert, particularly of Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains. SIMPER (10) [noun] A foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, or affected smile; a smirk. | [verb] To smile in a foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, coy, or smug manner. | [verb] To glimmer; to twinkle. SIMPLE (10) [noun] A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant. | [noun] (by extension) A physician. | [noun] A simple or atomic proposition. SIMPLY (13) [adverb] (manner) In a simple way or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; alone. | [adverb] (manner) Plainly; without art or subtlety | [adverb] (manner) Weakly; foolishly; stupidly. SINEWS (9) [noun] A cord or tendon of the body. | [noun] A cord or string, particularly as of a musical instrument. | [noun] Muscular power, muscle; nerve, nervous energy; vigor, vigorous strength. SINEWY (12) [adjective] Tough; having strong sinews. | [adjective] Having or showing nervous strength. | [adjective] (of a person or animal) Possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful. SINFUL (9) [adjective] Constituting a sin; being morally or religiously wrong; wicked; evil | [adjective] Decadent (luxuriously self-indulgent) SINGED (8) [verb] To burn slightly. | [verb] To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it. | [verb] To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken, etc.) by passing it over a flame. SINGER (7) [noun] A person who sings, often professionally. | [noun] (square dance) dance figure with a fixed structure, sung by a caller, or a piece of music with that structure. | [noun] A person who, or device which, singes. SINGES (7) [noun] A burning of the surface; a slight burn. | [verb] To burn slightly. | [verb] To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it. SINGLE (7) [noun] A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B. | [noun] A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track. | [noun] One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner. SINGLY (10) [adverb] In a single or unaccompanied manner; without a companion. | [adverb] Individually; particularly; severally. | [adverb] Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed. SINKER (10) [noun] One who sinks something. | [noun] A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink. | [noun] Any of several high speed pitches that have a downward motion near the plate; a two-seam fastball, a split-finger fastball, or a forkball. SINNED (7) [verb] To commit a sin. SINNER (6) [noun] A person who sins or has sinned. | [noun] A person who sins or has sinned by the action or identity indicated or previously mentioned | [noun] An unregenerate person. SINTER (6) [noun] An alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring. | [noun] A mass formed by sintering. | [noun] A mixture of iron ore and fluxes added to a blast furnace. SIPHON (11) [noun] A bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other, in which hydrostatic pressure exerted due to the force of gravity moves liquid from one reservoir to another. | [noun] A soda siphon. | [noun] A tubelike organ found in animals or elongated cell found in plants. SIPING (9) SIPPED (11) [verb] To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc. | [verb] To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse. | [verb] To diminish or wane away slowly. SIPPER (10) SIPPET (10) [noun] A small piece of something, especially a piece of toast or fried bean eaten with soup or gravy. SIRDAR (7) [noun] A high-ranking person in India and other areas of west-central Asia; a chief, a headman. | [noun] The leader of a group of Sherpa mountain guides. SIREES (6) SIRENS (6) [noun] One of a group of nymphs who lured mariners to their death on the rocks. | [noun] One who sings sweetly and charms. | [noun] A dangerously seductive woman. SIRING (7) [verb] (of a male) to procreate; to father, beget, impregnate. | [noun] An act of procreation, especially between animals. SIRRAH (9) [noun] A term of address to an inferior male or more commonly a child. A modern day equivalent would be "little man". SIRRAS (6) SIRREE (6) [noun] (used as an intensifier, emphatically, after yes or no) Sir. SIRUPS (8) [noun] Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavouring. | [noun] (by extension) Any viscous liquid. | [noun] (shortened from "syrup of figs") A wig. SIRUPY (11) [adjective] Having the taste or consistency of syrup. | [adjective] Overly sweet. | [adjective] Overly sentimental. SISALS (6) SISKIN (10) [noun] A small green and yellow European finch, Carduelis spinus spinus or Carduelis spinus, now Spinus spinus. | [noun] Any of various similar birds in subfamily Carduelinae, principally in the genus Spinus. SISTER (6) [noun] A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling. | [noun] A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informally) a nun. | [noun] Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns. SISTRA (6) [noun] An ancient Egyptian musical instrument, to be shaken, consisting of a metal frame holding percussive metal beads. SITARS (6) [noun] A Hindustani/Indian classical stringed instrument, typically having a gourd as its resonating chamber. SITCOM (10) [noun] An episodic comedy television program with a plot or storyline based around a particular humorous situation. | [noun] Acronym of single income, two children, oppressive/outrageous mortgage. SITING (7) [verb] To situate or place a building. | [noun] The act of finding a site for something. SITTEN (6) SITTER (6) [noun] Someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait. | [noun] One employed to watch or tend something; a babysitter, housesitter, petsitter, etc. | [noun] A participant in a séance. SITUPS (8) SIVERS (9) SIXMOS (15) SIXTES (13) SIXTHS (16) [noun] (not used in the plural) The person or thing in the sixth position. | [noun] One of six equal parts of a whole. | [noun] The interval between one note and another, five notes higher in the scale, for example C to A, a major sixth, or C to A flat, a minor sixth. (Note that the interval covers six notes counting inclusively, for example C-D-E-F-G-A.) SIZARS (15) [noun] At certain universities, e.g. Cambridge and Dublin, a student who receives an allowance for his college expenses (a study grant), originally in return for serving other (paying) students. SIZERS (15) SIZIER (15) SIZING (16) [verb] To adjust the size of; to make a certain size. | [verb] To classify or arrange by size. | [verb] To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of. SIZZLE (24) [noun] The sound of water hitting a hot surface | [noun] Zing, zip, or pizazz; excitement. | [verb] To make the sound of water hitting a hot surface. SKALDS (11) [noun] A Nordic poet of the Viking Age SKATED (11) [verb] To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates. | [verb] To skateboard | [verb] To use the skating technique. SKATER (10) [noun] A person who skates. | [noun] A member of skateboarding subculture, characterized by dingy and baggy clothes, and often wallet chains. | [noun] A player who is not a goaltender. SKATES (10) [noun] A light boot, fitted with a blade, used for ice skating. | [noun] A boot having small wheels or casters attached to its sole; used for roller skating | [noun] A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice. SKATOL (10) SKEANE (10) SKEANS (10) [noun] A double-edged, leaf-shaped, typically bronze dagger formerly used in Ireland and Scotland. | [noun] A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel. | [noun] A web, a weave, a tangle. SKEENS (10) SKEETS (10) SKEIGH (14) SKEINS (10) [noun] A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel. | [noun] A web, a weave, a tangle. | [noun] The membrane of a fish ovary. SKELMS (12) SKELPS (12) [verb] To beat or slap. | [verb] To move briskly along. | [verb] To form (a plate or bar of metal, etc.) into a skelp. SKENES (10) SKERRY (13) [noun] A small rocky island which may be covered by the sea at high tide or during storms. SKETCH (15) [noun] A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines. | [noun] A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book. | [noun] A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline. SKEWED (14) [verb] To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position. | [verb] To bias or distort in a particular direction. | [verb] To hurl or throw. SKEWER (13) [noun] A long pin, normally made of metal or wood, used to secure food during cooking. | [noun] Food served on a skewer | [noun] A scenario in which a piece attacks a more valuable piece which, if it moves aside, reveals a less valuable piece. Compare pin.W | [adjective] Neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line; askew. SKIBOB (14) SKIDDY (15) SKIDOO (11) [verb] To depart, especially to depart quickly | [verb] A nonsense word, often an expression of disrespect | [verb] A light that flashes on and off to make it more eye-catching. | [noun] A snowmobile. SKIERS (10) [noun] One who skis. | [noun] A ball hit high in the air, often leading to a catch. SKIFFS (16) [noun] Term used in tea gardens and denotes the act of cutting/pruning the bushes as per the specific norms. Various types of skiff are used viz Light Skiff (LS), Medium Skiff (MS), Deep Skiff (DS) and Level Of Skiff (LOS). | [noun] A small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern. | [noun] Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person. SKIING (11) [verb] To move on skis | [verb] To travel over (a slope etc.) on skis; to travel on skis at (a place), (especially as a sport) | [noun] A group of sports utilizing skis as primary equipment. SKILLS (10) [verb] To set apart; separate. | [verb] To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to). | [verb] To know; to understand. | [noun] Capacity to do something well; technique, ability. Skills are usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often thought of as innate. SKIMOS (12) SKIMPS (14) [verb] To mock, deride, scorn, scold, make fun of. | [verb] To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp. | [verb] To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp. SKIMPY (17) [noun] (Western Australia) A barmaid who wears little clothing. | [adjective] Small or inadequate; not generous, or of a garment, very small, light, or revealing. SKINKS (14) [noun] A shin of beef. | [noun] A soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef. | [noun] (by extension) Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients. SKINNY (13) [noun] The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor. | [noun] A state of nakedness; nudity. | [noun] A low-fat serving of coffee. SKIRLS (10) [noun] A shrill sound, as of bagpipes. | [verb] To make a shrill sound, as of bagpipes. SKIRRS (10) [verb] To leave hastily; to flee, especially with a whirring sound | [verb] To make a whirring sound. | [verb] To search about in, scour SKIRTS (10) [noun] An article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower part of the body. | [noun] The part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist. | [noun] A loose edging to any part of a dress. SKITED (11) [verb] To boast. | [verb] To skim or slide along a surface. | [verb] To slip, such as on ice. SKITES (10) [verb] To boast. | [verb] To skim or slide along a surface. | [verb] To slip, such as on ice. SKIVED (14) [verb] To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk. | [verb] To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of. SKIVER (13) SKIVES (13) [noun] Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty. | [noun] An act of avoiding lessons or work. | [verb] To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk. SKIVVY (19) [noun] A female domestic servant, especially one employed for menial work. | [noun] (Vietnam War) A prostitute. | [noun] A close-fitting, long-sleeved T-shirt with a rolled collar. SKLENT (10) SKOALS (10) SKULKS (14) [verb] To stay where one cannot be seen, conceal oneself (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm). | [verb] To move in a stealthy or furtive way; to come or go while trying to avoid detection. | [verb] To avoid an obligation or responsibility. SKULLS (10) [noun] (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales. | [noun] A multitude. | [noun] The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible. SKUNKS (14) [noun] Any of various small mammals, of the family Mephitidae, native to North and Central America, having a glossy black with a white coat and two musk glands at the base of the tail for emitting a noxious smell as a defensive measure. | [noun] A despicable person. | [noun] A walkover victory in sports or board games, as when the opposing side is unable to score. Compare shutout. SKYBOX (22) [noun] A seating area for VIPs in a stadium. | [noun] A cube with textures on its inner faces, used to simulate the sky or similar backdrop around a three-dimensional playfield. SKYCAP (17) [noun] A porter at an airport. SKYING (14) [verb] To hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high. | [verb] To clear (a hurdle, high jump bar, etc.) by a large margin. | [verb] To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot be well seen. SKYLIT (13) [adjective] Receiving all or most light from the sky | [adjective] Furnished with one or more skylights. SKYMAN (15) SKYMEN (15) SKYWAY (19) [noun] A walkway connecting buildings at a significant height above ground level. | [noun] An airplane route. | [noun] An elevated road. SLACKS (12) [noun] The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it. | [noun] A tidal marsh or shallow that periodically fills and drains. | [verb] To slacken. SLAGGY (11) SLAKED (11) [verb] To satisfy (thirst, or other desires). | [verb] To cool (something) with water or another liquid. | [verb] To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place. SLAKER (10) SLAKES (10) [verb] To satisfy (thirst, or other desires). | [verb] To cool (something) with water or another liquid. | [verb] To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place. SLALOM (8) [noun] The sport of skiing in a zigzag course through gates. (Often used attributively) | [noun] Any similar activity on other vehicles, including canoes and water skis. | [noun] A course used for the sport of slalom. SLANGS (7) [noun] Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register. | [noun] Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon. | [noun] The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those not members of the group; cant. SLANGY (10) [adjective] Including or given to slang. SLANTS (6) [noun] A slope; an incline, inclination. | [noun] A sloped surface or line. | [noun] A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam. SLANTY (9) SLATCH (11) SLATED (7) [verb] To cover with slate. | [verb] To criticise harshly. | [verb] To schedule. SLATER (6) [noun] One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings. | [noun] Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a woodlouse. | [noun] A harsh critic; one who slates or denigrates something. SLATES (6) [noun] A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers. | [noun] The bluish-grey colour of most slate. | [noun] A chalkboard, sheet of slate for writing on with chalk or with a thin rod of slate (a slate pencil) formerly commonly used by both students and teachers in schools SLATEY (9) SLAVED (10) [verb] To work as a slaver, to enslave people. | [verb] To work hard. | [verb] To place a device under the control of another. SLAVER (9) [noun] Saliva running from the mouth; drool. | [verb] To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber. | [verb] To fawn. | [noun] A person engaged in the slave trade. SLAVES (9) [noun] A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control. | [noun] A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant. | [noun] An abject person. SLAVEY (12) [noun] A male servant. | [noun] A maid, maidservant. SLAYED (10) [verb] To kill, murder. | [verb] To eradicate or stamp out. | [verb] (by extension) To defeat, overcome (in a competition or contest). SLAYER (9) [noun] A killer; a murderer; someone who slays SLEAVE (9) SLEAZE (15) [noun] Low moral standards. | [noun] A person of low moral standards. | [noun] A man who is sexually aggressive or forward with women to the point of causing disgust. SLEAZO (15) [noun] A sleazy person. SLEAZY (18) [adjective] Marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate. | [adjective] Raunchy or perverted in nature; tastelessly sexual | [adjective] Untrustworthy SLEDGE (8) [noun] A heavy, long handled maul or hammer used to drive stakes, wedges, etc. | [verb] To hit with a sledgehammer. | [noun] A low sled drawn by animals, typically on snow, ice or grass. | [verb] To verbally insult or abuse an opponent in order to distract them (considered unsportsmanlike). SLEEKS (10) [verb] To make smooth or glossy; to polish or cause to be attractive. SLEEKY (13) SLEEPS (8) [verb] To rest in a state of reduced consciousness. | [verb] (of a spinning top or yo-yo) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion. | [verb] To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion. SLEEPY (11) [noun] The gum that builds up in the eye; sleep, gound. | [adjective] Tired; feeling the need for sleep. | [adjective] Suggesting tiredness. SLEETS (6) [verb] (of the weather) To be in a state in which sleet is falling. SLEETY (9) SLEEVE (9) [noun] The part of a garment that covers the arm. | [noun] A (usually tubular) covering or lining to protect a piece of machinery etc. | [noun] A protective jacket or case, especially for a record, containing art and information about the contents; also the analogous leaflet found in a packaged CD. SLEIGH (10) [noun] A vehicle, generally pulled by an animal, which moves over snow or ice on runners, used for transporting persons or goods. (contrast "sled", which is smaller) | [verb] To ride or drive a sleigh. | [adjective] Sly. SLEUTH (9) [noun] A detective. | [noun] A sleuth-hound; a bloodhound. | [noun] An animal’s trail or track. | [noun] Slowness; laziness, sloth. SLEWED (10) [verb] To rotate or turn something about its axis. | [verb] To veer a vehicle. | [verb] To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time. SLICED (9) [verb] To cut into slices. | [verb] To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion. | [verb] To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar. SLICER (8) SLICES (8) [noun] That which is thin and broad. | [noun] A thin, broad piece cut off. | [noun] An amount of anything. SLICKS (12) [noun] A covering of liquid, particularly oil. | [noun] Someone who is clever and untrustworthy. | [noun] A tool used to make something smooth or even. SLIDER (7) [noun] An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again. | [noun] A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke. | [noun] The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche. SLIDES (7) [noun] An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again. | [noun] A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke. | [noun] The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche. SLIEST (6) SLIGHT (10) [noun] The act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy. | [noun] Sleight. | [verb] To treat as unimportant or not worthy of attention; to make light of. SLIMED (9) [verb] To coat with slime. | [verb] To besmirch or disparage. | [verb] To carve (fish), removing the offal. SLIMES (8) [noun] Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing. | [noun] Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs. | [noun] A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball. SLIMLY (11) SLIMSY (11) SLINGS (7) [noun] An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other. | [noun] A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported. | [noun] A loop of cloth, worn around the neck, for supporting a baby or other such load. SLINKS (10) [verb] To sneak about furtively. | [verb] To give birth to an animal prematurely. SLINKY (13) [noun] A three-dimensional curve — a spiral wound around a helix. | [adjective] Furtive, stealthy or catlike. | [adjective] Thin; lank; lean. SLIPED (9) SLIPES (8) SLIPPY (13) [adjective] (slightly informal) Slippery. | [adjective] Spry, nimble. SLIPUP (10) [noun] A (small) error or mistake; a (minor) misstep. SLIVER (9) [noun] A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter. | [noun] A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning. | [noun] Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings. SLOBBY (13) [adjective] Slobbish. | [adjective] Slobbery. | [adjective] Slushy, like slob ice. SLOGAN (7) [noun] A catch phrase associated with the product or service being advertised. | [noun] A distinctive phrase of a person or group of people. | [noun] A battle cry among the ancient highlanders of Scotland. SLOIDS (7) SLOJDS (14) SLOOPS (8) [noun] A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail. | [noun] A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck. | [noun] A sloop-of-war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette. SLOPED (9) [verb] To tend steadily upward or downward. | [verb] To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant. | [verb] (usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously. SLOPER (8) SLOPES (8) [noun] An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward. | [noun] The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward. | [noun] The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical. SLOPPY (13) [adjective] Very wet; covered in or composed of slop. | [adjective] Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful. | [adjective] Imprecise or loose. SLOSHY (12) [adjective] That sloshes or splashes SLOTHS (9) [noun] Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour. | [noun] A herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity. | [noun] A collective term for a group of bears. SLOUCH (11) [noun] A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance | [noun] Any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim. | [noun] Someone who is slow to act. SLOUGH (10) [noun] The skin shed by a snake or other reptile. | [noun] Dead skin on a sore or ulcer. | [verb] To shed (skin). | [noun] A muddy or marshy area. SLOVEN (9) [noun] A habitually dirty or untidy man or boy; the male equivalent of slattern, or slut. | [noun] A low, base, lewd person. | [noun] An immoral woman. SLOWED (10) [verb] To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of. | [verb] To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of. | [verb] To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate. SLOWER (9) [adjective] Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed. | [adjective] Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time. | [adjective] Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend. | [noun] That which slows. SLOWLY (12) [adverb] (manner) At a slow pace. SLOYDS (10) SLUDGE (8) [noun] Solids separated from suspension in a liquid. | [noun] A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes. | [noun] A sediment of accumulated minerals in a steam boiler. SLUDGY (11) SLUFFS (12) SLUICE (8) [noun] An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow. | [noun] A water gate or floodgate. | [noun] Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply. SLUICY (11) SLUING (7) [verb] To rotate something on an axis. | [verb] To turn something sharply. | [verb] To rotate on an axis; to pivot. SLUMMY (13) [adjective] Like a slum; run-down, dirty, decrepit. SLUMPS (10) [noun] A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period. | [noun] A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed. | [noun] A boggy place. SLURBS (8) SLURPS (8) [noun] A loud sucking noise made in eating or drinking | [noun] A mouthful of liquid | [verb] To eat or drink noisily. SLURRY (9) [noun] Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid. | [noun] Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams. | [noun] A mixture of animal waste, other organic material and sometimes water, stored in a slurry pit and used as fertilizer; also used in combination, as pig slurry, etc. | [adjective] Slurred, tending to slur. SLUSHY (12) [noun] A flavoured frozen drink made with ice crystals. | [noun] A kitchen helper. | [adjective] Covered in slush. SLUTTY (9) [adjective] Of or resembling a slut. SLYEST (9) [adjective] Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily. | [adjective] (having a positive sense) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice | [adjective] Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle SLYPES (11) [noun] A covered passageway, especially one connecting the transept of a cathedral or monastery to the chapter house. SMACKS (14) [noun] A distinct flavor, especially if slight. | [noun] A slight trace of something; a smattering. | [noun] Heroin. SMALLS (8) [noun] Underwear. | [noun] Small goods. | [noun] (Oxford University slang) The preliminary examination for a degree. | [noun] Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back. SMALTI (8) SMALTO (8) SMALTS (8) SMARMS (10) [noun] Smarmy language or behavior. | [noun] A style of fan fiction in which characters are warm and caring toward each other but without sexual overtones. | [verb] To fawn, to be unctuous. SMARMY (13) [adjective] Falsely earnest, smug, or ingratiating. | [adjective] Unctuous, greasy, as hair from pomade SMARTS (8) [verb] To hurt or sting. | [verb] To cause a smart or sting in. | [verb] To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil. SMARTY (11) [noun] An obnoxiously clever or quick-witted person. SMAZES (17) SMEARS (8) [verb] To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing. | [verb] To have a substance smeared on (a surface). | [verb] To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about an individual, their statements, or their actions. SMEARY (11) SMEEKS (12) SMEGMA (11) [noun] A whitish sebaceous secretion that collects between the glans penis and foreskin or in the vulva. SMELLS (8) [noun] A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance. | [noun] The sense that detects odours. | [noun] A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate. SMELLY (11) [adjective] Having a bad smell. | [adjective] Having a quality that arouses suspicion. | [adjective] (in extreme programming) Having signs that suggest a design problem; having a code smell. | [noun] A Short Magazine Lee Enfield rifle or one of its derivatives. SMELTS (8) [noun] Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe. | [noun] A fool; a simpleton. | [noun] Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves melting and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal. SMERKS (12) SMIDGE (10) [noun] A very small quantity or amount. SMILAX (15) [noun] Any member of the Smilax genus of greenbriers. SMILED (9) [verb] To have (a smile) on one's face. | [verb] To express by smiling. | [verb] To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness. SMILER (8) SMILES (8) [noun] A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement or anxiety. | [noun] Favour; propitious regard. | [noun] A drink bought by one person for another. SMILEY (11) [noun] A simplified representation of a smiling face. | [noun] A sequence of keyboard characters used to represent a happy mood, especially :) or :-) or other depiction of smiling. | [noun] An improvised street weapon consisting of a length of chain with padlocks and other heavy objects affixed to one end. SMIRCH (13) [noun] Dirt, or a stain. | [noun] A stain on somebody's reputation. | [verb] To dirty; to make dirty. | [noun] A chirp of radiation power from an astronomical body that has a smeared appearance on its plot in the time-frequency plane (usually associated with massive bodies orbiting supermassive black holes) SMIRKS (12) [noun] An uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied or scornful | [noun] A forced or affected smile; a simper | [verb] To smile in a way that is affected, smug, insolent or contemptuous. SMIRKY (15) [adjective] Smirking, or as if smirking | [adjective] Smart; spruce. SMITER (8) SMITES (8) [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To strike down or kill with godly force. | [verb] To injure with divine power. SMITHS (11) [noun] A craftsperson who works metal into desired forms using a hammer and other tools, sometimes heating the metal to make it more workable, especially a blacksmith. | [noun] (by extension) One who makes anything; wright. | [noun] An artist. SMITHY (14) [noun] The location where a smith (particularly a blacksmith) works, a forge. | [verb] To forge, especially by hand SMOCKS (14) [noun] A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip. | [noun] A blouse; a smock frock. | [noun] A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc. SMOGGY (13) SMOKED (13) [adjective] Of food, preserved by treatment with smoke. | [adjective] Of glass, tinted. | [verb] To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc. SMOKER (12) [noun] A person who smokes tobacco habitually. | [noun] A smoking car on a train. | [noun] An informal social gathering for men only, at which smoking tobacco is allowed. SMOKES (12) [noun] The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material. | [noun] A cigarette. | [noun] Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.) SMOKEY (15) [noun] A state trooper. | [adjective] Filled with smoke. | [adjective] Giving off smoke. SMOLTS (8) [noun] A young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color. SMOOCH (13) [noun] A kiss. | [verb] To kiss. | [verb] To soil, stain or smudge. SMOOTH (11) [noun] Something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily. | [noun] A smoothing action. | [noun] A domestic animal having a smooth coat. SMUDGE (10) [noun] A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one. | [noun] Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation. | [noun] A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects. | [verb] To obscure by blurring; to smear. SMUDGY (13) [adjective] Marked with smudges. | [adjective] Like a thick smoke (such as is emitted by a smudge pot). SMUGLY (12) [adverb] In a self-satisfied manner. SMUTCH (13) SMUTTY (11) [verb] To make dirty; to soil. | [adjective] Soiled with smut; blackened, dirty. | [adjective] Obscene, indecent. SNACKS (12) [noun] A light meal. | [noun] An item of food eaten between meals. | [noun] A very sexy and attractive person. SNAFUS (9) [noun] A ridiculously chaotic situation. | [noun] A major glitch or breakdown. SNAGGY (11) [adjective] Covered in snags, or similar sharp projections. SNAILS (6) [noun] Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell. | [noun] (by extension) A slow person; a sluggard. | [noun] A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock. SNAKED (11) [verb] To follow or move in a winding route. | [verb] To steal slyly. | [verb] To clean using a plumbing snake. SNAKES (10) [noun] A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue. | [noun] A treacherous person. | [noun] Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain. SNAKEY (13) [adjective] Resembling or relating to snakes. | [adjective] Windy; winding; twisty; sinuous, wavy. | [adjective] Sly; cunning; deceitful. SNAPPY (13) [adjective] Rapid and without delay. | [adjective] Irritable. | [adjective] Tidy; well-dressed; sharp. SNARED (7) [verb] To catch or hold, especially with a loop. | [verb] To ensnare. SNARER (6) SNARES (6) [noun] A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather). | [noun] A mental or psychological trap. | [noun] A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal. SNARKS (10) [noun] A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point. | [noun] A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment. SNARKY (13) [adjective] Snide and sarcastic; usually out of irritation, often humorously. | [adjective] Irritable, irritated. SNARLS (6) [noun] A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle. | [noun] An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation. | [noun] A slow-moving traffic jam. SNARLY (9) [adjective] Given to snarling or growling. | [adjective] Full of snarls. SNATCH (11) [noun] A quick grab or catch. | [noun] A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement. | [noun] A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation. SNATHE (9) SNATHS (9) SNAWED (10) SNAZZY (27) [adjective] Elegant in manner of dress; stylish, modern or appealing in appearance; flashy. | [adjective] Excellent; clever, ingenious, or adept in behavior, operation, or execution. SNEAKS (10) [noun] One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information. | [noun] A cheat; a con artist. | [noun] An informer; a tell-tale. SNEAKY (13) [noun] Any device used for covert surveillance. | [adjective] Difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries | [adjective] Dishonest; deceitful. SNEAPS (8) SNECKS (12) [noun] A latch or catch. | [noun] The nose. | [noun] A cut. SNEERS (6) [verb] To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn | [verb] To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to say sneeringly. SNEESH (9) SNEEZE (15) [noun] An act of sneezing. | [verb] To expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose. | [verb] To expel air as if the nose were irritated. SNEEZY (18) SNELLS (6) [noun] A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook or lure is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line. SNICKS (12) [noun] A small deflection of the ball off the side of the bat; often carries to the wicketkeeper for a catch | [noun] A small cut or mark. | [noun] A knot or irregularity in yarn. SNIDER (7) SNIFFS (12) [noun] An instance of sniffing. | [noun] A quantity of something that is inhaled through the nose | [noun] A brief perception, or tiny amount. SNIFFY (15) [adjective] Disdainful; haughty. | [adjective] Characterised by sniffing. SNIPED (9) [verb] To hunt snipe. | [verb] To shoot at individuals from a concealed place. | [verb] (by extension) To shoot with a sniper rifle. SNIPER (8) [noun] A person using long-range small arms for precise attacks from a concealed position. | [noun] Any attacker using a non-contact weapon against a specific target from a concealed position. | [noun] One who shoots from a concealed position. SNIPES (8) [noun] Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak. | [noun] A fool; a blockhead. | [noun] A shot fired from a concealed place. SNIPPY (13) [adjective] Fragmentary; snipped. | [adjective] Irritable; impatient; short-tempered. | [adjective] Stingy. SNITCH (11) [noun] A thief. | [noun] An informer, usually one who betrays his group. | [noun] A nose. SNIVEL (9) [noun] The act of snivelling. | [noun] Nasal mucus; snot. | [verb] To breathe heavily through the nose while it is congested with nasal mucus. SNOBBY (13) [adjective] Characteristic of a snob. SNOODS (7) [noun] A band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place, including the hair-band formerly worn in Scotland and northern England by young unmarried women. | [noun] A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place. | [noun] The flap of erectile red skin on the beak of a male turkey. SNOOKS (10) [noun] A freshwater and marine fish of the family Centropomidae in the order Perciformes. | [noun] Any of various other ray-finned fishes in several families. | [noun] (as a gesture) A disrespectful gesture, performed by placing the tip of a thumb on one's nose with the fingers spread, and typically while wiggling the fingers back and forth. SNOOLS (6) [noun] An abject, cowardly person who submits tamely to others. SNOOPS (8) [noun] The act of snooping | [noun] One who snoops | [noun] A private detective SNOOPY (11) SNOOTS (6) [noun] An elitist individual; one who looks down upon lower social classes. | [noun] A language pedant or snob; one who practices linguistic elitism. | [noun] A nose or snout, especially in derogatory use. SNOOTY (9) [adjective] Pompous; snobbish; inclined to turn up one's nose | [adjective] Elite; exclusive SNOOZE (15) [noun] A brief period of sleep; a nap. | [noun] The snooze button on an alarm clock. | [noun] Something boring. SNOOZY (18) SNORED (7) [verb] To breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate. SNORER (6) SNORES (6) [noun] The act of snoring, and the noise produced. | [noun] An extremely boring person or event. | [verb] To breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate. SNORTS (6) [noun] The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose. | [noun] A dose of a drug to be snorted. Here, "drug" includes snuff (i.e., pulverized tobacco). | [noun] A consumed portion of alcoholic drink. SNOTTY (9) [noun] The lion's mane jellyfish, which secretes a mucus that can foul fishing nets. | [adjective] Running or dirtied with snot. | [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of snot, especially in texture. SNOUTS (6) [noun] The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs. | [noun] The front of the prow of a ship or boat. | [noun] A person's nose. SNOUTY (9) SNOWED (10) [verb] To have snow fall from the sky. | [verb] To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information. | [verb] To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards. SNUBBY (13) SNUFFS (12) [verb] To inhale through the nose. | [verb] To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offence. | [verb] To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of the wick until the flame is suffocated. SNUFFY (15) [adjective] Soiled with snuff. | [adjective] Sulky; angry; vexed. SNUGLY (10) [adverb] Tightly, with limited space to move, in a snug manner. SOAKED (11) [verb] To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it. | [verb] To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation. | [verb] To penetrate or permeate by saturation. SOAKER (10) SOAPED (9) [verb] To apply soap to in washing. | [verb] To cover, lather or in any other form treat with soap, often as a prank. | [verb] To be discreet about (a topic). SOAPER (8) SOARED (7) [verb] To fly high with little effort, like a bird. | [verb] To mount upward on wings, or as on wings. | [verb] To remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft. SOARER (6) SOAVES (9) SOBBED (11) [verb] To weep with convulsive gasps. | [verb] To say (something) while sobbing. | [verb] To soak. SOBBER (10) SOBEIT (8) SOBERS (8) [verb] (often with up) To make or become sober. | [verb] (often with up) To overcome or lose a state of intoxication. | [verb] To moderate one's feelings SOBFUL (11) SOCAGE (9) [noun] In the Middle Ages (and chiefly but not exclusively medieval England), a legal system whereby a tenant would pay a rent or do some agricultural work for the landlord. SOCCER (10) [noun] Association football | [verb] To kick the football directly off the ground, without using one's hands. SOCIAL (8) [noun] A festive gathering to foster introductions. | [noun] A dance held to raise money for a couple to be married. | [noun] A dinner dance event, usually held annually by a company or sporting club. SOCKED (13) [verb] To hit or strike violently; to deliver a blow to. | [verb] To throw. SOCKET (12) [noun] An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket). | [noun] A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint. | [noun] One endpoint of a two-way communication link, used for interprocess communication across a network. SOCLES (8) [noun] A low plinth or pedestal used to display a statue or other artwork. | [noun] A plain face or plinth at the foot of a wall. | [noun] The sum of the minimal normal submodules of a given R-module of a given ring R. SOCMAN (10) SOCMEN (10) SODDED (9) [verb] To cover with sod. | [verb] Bugger; sodomize. | [verb] Damn, curse, confound. SODDEN (8) [verb] To drench, soak or saturate. | [verb] To become soaked. | [adjective] Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated. SODIUM (9) [noun] The chemical element (symbol Na) with an atomic number of 11 and atomic weight of 22.98977. It is a soft, waxy, silvery, reactive alkali metal that is never found unbound in nature. SODOMS (9) SODOMY (12) [noun] Any of several forms of sexual intercourse held to be unnatural, particularly bestiality or historically homosexuality, but also (sometimes) anal or oral sex. | [noun] (in particular) Anal sex. SOEVER (9) [adverb] In any fashion, of any kind; used for emphasis after words such as how, what, which etc. SOFARS (9) SOFFIT (12) [noun] The visible underside of an arch, balcony, beam, cornice, staircase, vault or any other architectural element. | [noun] (pipe technology) The top point of the inside open section of a pipe or box conduit. SOFTAS (9) [noun] A religious student, especially in Turkey | [noun] (by extension) A fanatic adherent, blind follower SOFTEN (9) [verb] To make something soft or softer. | [verb] To undermine the morale of someone (often soften up). | [verb] To make less harsh SOFTER (9) [adjective] Easily giving way under pressure. | [adjective] (of cloth or similar material) Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh. | [adjective] (of a sound) Quiet. SOFTIE (9) [noun] A weak or sentimental person. | [noun] Somebody who finds it difficult to scold or punish. | [noun] A software expert who is ignorant of the workings of hardware. SOFTLY (12) [adverb] In a soft manner; gently. | [adverb] Not loudly; nearly inaudible. SOGGED (9) SOIGNE (7) [adjective] Fashionable and elegant, well-groomed. SOILED (7) [verb] To make dirty. | [verb] To become dirty or soiled. | [verb] To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully. SOIREE (6) [noun] A formal evening party. SOKOLS (10) SOLACE (8) [noun] Comfort or consolation in a time of loneliness or distress. | [noun] A source of comfort or consolation. | [verb] To give solace to; comfort; cheer; console. SOLAND (7) SOLANO (6) SOLANS (6) [noun] Solan goose SOLATE (6) SOLDAN (7) SOLDER (7) [noun] Any of various easily-melted alloys, commonly of tin and lead, that are used to mend, coat, or join metal objects, usually small. | [noun] Figuratively, circumstances or emotions that strongly bond things or persons together in analogy to solder that joins metals. | [verb] To join items together, or to coat them with solder SOLELY (9) [adverb] Alone; exclusively. SOLEMN (8) [adjective] Deeply serious and somber. | [adjective] Somberly impressive. | [adjective] Performed with great ceremony. SOLEUS (6) [noun] A broad, flat muscle that extends behind the gastrocnemius along the back of the calf. SOLGEL (7) SOLIDI (7) [noun] A slashing action or motion, particularly: | [noun] A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly: | [noun] Something resembling such a mark, particularly: SOLIDS (7) [noun] A substance in the fundamental state of matter that retains its size and shape without need of a container (as opposed to a liquid or gas). | [noun] A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve). | [noun] A favor. SOLING (7) [verb] To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug. | [verb] To put a sole on (a shoe or boot) SOLION (6) SOLOED (7) [verb] To perform a solo. | [verb] To perform something in the absence of anyone else. | [verb] To drop the ball and then toe-kick it upward into the hands. SOLONS (6) SOLUMS (8) SOLUTE (6) [noun] Any substance that is dissolved in a liquid solvent to create a solution | [verb] To dissolve. | [verb] To absolve. SOLVED (10) [verb] To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out. | [verb] To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities. | [verb] To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen variable on one side, so that the other side consists of an expression that may be used to generate solutions. SOLVER (9) SOLVES (9) [verb] To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out. | [verb] To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities. | [verb] To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen variable on one side, so that the other side consists of an expression that may be used to generate solutions. SOMATA (8) SOMBER (10) [verb] To make sombre or dark; to make shady. | [adjective] Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit. | [adjective] Dull or dark in colour or brightness. SOMBRE (10) [noun] Gloom; obscurity; duskiness. | [verb] To make sombre or dark; to make shady. | [adjective] Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit. SOMITE (8) [noun] One of the paired masses of mesoderm distributed along the sides of the neural tube that will eventually become dermis, skeletal muscle, or vertebrae. | [noun] A metamere, one of a series of segments, arranged longitudinally, of which some animals are composed. SONANT (6) SONARS (6) [noun] Echolocation | [noun] A device that uses hydrophones (in the same manner as radar) to locate objects underwater. SONATA (6) [noun] A musical composition for one or a few instruments, one of which is frequently a piano, in three or four movements that vary in key and tempo. SONDER (7) SONDES (7) [noun] Probe; sound. | [noun] (physical sciences) Any of various devices for testing physical conditions, often for remote or underwater locations. SONICS (8) [noun] The science and technology of sound. SONNET (6) [noun] A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes. | [verb] To compose sonnets. | [verb] To celebrate in sonnets; to write a sonnet about. SONSIE (6) [adjective] Lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump SOONER (6) [adjective] Short in length of time from the present. | [adjective] Early | [adverb] Immediately, instantly. SOOTED (7) [adjective] Stained or marked with soot SOOTHE (9) [verb] To restore to ease, comfort, or tranquility; relieve; calm; quiet; refresh. | [verb] To allay; assuage; mitigate; soften. | [verb] To smooth over; render less obnoxious. SOOTHS (9) SOPITE (8) SOPORS (8) SOPPED (11) [verb] To steep or dip in any liquid. | [verb] To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate. SORBED (9) SORBET (8) [noun] Frozen fruit juice, sometimes mixed with egg whites, used as dessert or between courses of a meal. SORBIC (10) SORDID (8) [adjective] Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible. | [adjective] Dirty or squalid. | [adjective] Morally degrading. SORDOR (7) [noun] Sordidness SORELS (6) [noun] A young buck (deer) in the third year. | [noun] A yellowish or reddish brown color; sorrel. | [noun] Any of various plants with acidic leaves, especially SORELY (9) [adverb] In a sore or desperate manner. SOREST (6) [adjective] Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive. | [adjective] Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation. | [adjective] Dire; distressing. SORGHO (10) SORGOS (7) SORING (7) SORNED (7) SORNER (6) SORREL (6) [noun] Any of various plants with acidic leaves, especially | [noun] A drink, consumed especially in the Caribbean around Christmas, made from the flowers of Hibiscus sabdariffa: hibiscus tea. | [noun] A brown colour, with a tint of red. SORROW (9) [noun] Unhappiness, woe | [noun] (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness. | [verb] To feel or express grief. SORTED (7) [verb] To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts. | [verb] To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically. | [verb] To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class. SORTER (6) SORTIE (6) [noun] An attack made by troops from a besieged position. | [noun] An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft. | [noun] An attacking move SOTOLS (6) SOTTED (7) [adjective] Stupefied, especially with liquor. SOUARI (6) SOUCAR (8) SOUDAN (7) SOUGHS (10) [verb] To make a soft rustling or murmuring sound. | [verb] To drain. SOUGHT (10) [verb] To try to find; to look for; to search for. | [verb] To ask for; to solicit; to beseech. | [verb] To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at. SOULED (7) SOUNDS (7) [noun] A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium. | [noun] A vibration capable of causing such sensations. | [noun] A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc SOUPED (9) [verb] To feed: to provide with soup or a meal. | [verb] To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution. | [verb] Alternative form of sup SOURCE (8) [noun] The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired. | [noun] Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates. | [noun] A reporter's informant. SOURED (7) [verb] To make sour. | [verb] To become sour. | [verb] To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted. SOURER (6) [adjective] Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste. | [adjective] Made rancid by fermentation, etc. | [adjective] Tasting or smelling rancid. SOURLY (9) SOUSED (7) [verb] To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench. | [verb] To steep in brine; to pickle. | [verb] To strike, beat. SOUSES (6) [verb] To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench. | [verb] To steep in brine; to pickle. | [verb] To strike, beat. SOUTER (6) [noun] A shoemaker or cobbler. SOUTHS (9) [verb] To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south. | [verb] To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line. SOVIET (9) [adjective] (history) Pertaining to the Soviet Union or its constituent republics. | [adjective] Supporting or representing the Soviet Union or Sovietism; Sovietist. | [noun] A workers' council, an institution first formed during the 1905 Russian Revolution and then instituted as the main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union; by extension, a similar organization in early Chinese communism and elsewhere. SOVRAN (9) SOWANS (9) SOWARS (9) SOWCAR (11) SOWENS (9) SOWERS (9) SOWING (10) [verb] To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds). | [verb] To spread abroad; to propagate. | [verb] To scatter over; to besprinkle. SOZINE (15) SOZINS (15) SPACED (11) [verb] To roam, walk, wander. | [verb] To set some distance apart. | [verb] To insert or utilise spaces in a written text. SPACER (10) SPACES (10) [noun] (heading) Of time. | [noun] (heading) Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise. | [noun] (heading) A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise. SPACEY (13) [adjective] Spaced-out | [adjective] Eccentric | [adjective] Having much space SPADED (10) [verb] To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting. SPADER (9) SPADES (9) [noun] A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials. | [noun] A playing card marked with the symbol ♠. | [noun] A black person. SPADIX (16) [noun] A fleshy spike (inflorescence) with reduced flowers, usually enclosed by a spathe, characteristic of aroids. | [noun] A male sexual organ of certain cephalopods and hydrozoans (especially the nautilus), used to transfer sperm. SPAHEE (11) SPAHIS (11) [noun] (history) An Ottoman (Turkish empire) cavalryman, especially as recruited under a land-based system. | [noun] (history) A soldier in a mainly Arab-recruited cavalry (originally horse, later light armored) regiment in French colonial service in (former/ in name still) Ottoman North African provinces SPAILS (8) SPAITS (8) SPALES (8) SPALLS (8) [noun] A splinter, fragment or chip, especially of stone. | [noun] The shoulder. SPANKS (12) [noun] An instance of spanking, separately or part of a multiple blows-beating; a smack, swat, or slap. | [noun] A slapping sound, as produced by spanking. | [verb] To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, gesture, or form of sexual interaction. SPARED (9) [verb] To show mercy. | [verb] To keep. | [verb] To give up To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with. SPARER (8) [adjective] Scant; not abundant or plentiful. | [adjective] Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money. | [adjective] Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous. SPARES (8) [noun] The act of sparing; moderation; restraint. | [noun] Parsimony; frugal use. | [noun] An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket. SPARGE (9) [noun] The step or process in brewing beer which separates the mash into clear liquid wort and grain. | [verb] To sprinkle or spray. | [verb] To introduce bubbles into (a liquid). SPARID (9) [noun] Any of several perciform fishes of the family Sparidae SPARKS (12) [noun] A small particle of glowing matter, either molten or on fire. | [noun] A short or small burst of electrical discharge. | [noun] A small, shining body, or transient light; a sparkle. SPARKY (15) [noun] A radio operator. | [noun] An electrician. | [adjective] Lively and animated. SPARRY (11) [adjective] Abundant in spar (the mineral) | [adjective] Resembling spar (the mineral) SPARSE (8) [verb] To scatter; to disperse. | [adjective] Having widely spaced intervals. | [adjective] Not dense; meager; scanty SPASMS (10) [noun] A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ. | [noun] A violent, excruciating seizure of pain. | [noun] A sudden and temporary burst of energy, activity, or emotion. SPATES (8) [noun] A river flood; an overflow or inundation. | [noun] (by extension) A sudden rush or increase. SPATHE (11) [noun] A large bract that envelops or subtends a whole inflorescence, typically a spadix. SPAVIE (11) SPAVIN (11) [noun] A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones. SPAWNS (11) [verb] To produce or deposit (eggs) in water. | [verb] To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers. | [verb] To bring forth in general. SPAYED (12) [verb] To divine; foretell | [verb] To remove or destroy the ovaries (of an animal) so that it cannot become pregnant. SPEAKS (12) [noun] A low class bar, a speakeasy. | [noun] Language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group. | [noun] Speech, conversation. SPEANS (8) SPEARS (8) [noun] A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion. | [noun] A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman. | [noun] A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish. SPECIE (10) [noun] Type or kind, in various uses of the phrase in specie. | [noun] Money, especially in the form of coins made from precious metal, that has an intrinsic value; coinage. SPECKS (14) [noun] A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc. | [noun] A very small thing; a particle; a whit. | [noun] A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States. SPEECH (13) [noun] The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations to communicate. | [noun] A session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person. | [noun] A style of speaking. SPEEDO (9) [noun] A speedometer, particularly one in a race car or other automobile. | [noun] A tight-fitting swimsuit, especially commonly worn by competitive swimmers and divers. Usually implies a brief or bikini style swimsuit. SPEEDS (9) [noun] The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion; rapidity. | [noun] The rate of motion or action, specifically / the magnitude of the velocity; the rate distance is traversed in a given time. | [noun] The sensitivity to light of film, plates or sensor. SPEEDY (12) [verb] To process in a faster than normal, accelerated way | [verb] (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) to apply the speedy rule in an online community (often the deletion rule); speedy delete | [adjective] Rapid; swift SPEELS (8) SPEERS (8) SPEILS (8) SPEIRS (8) SPEISE (8) SPEISS (8) [noun] A mixed arsenide of iron (and cobalt, nickel, and copper) produced during the smelting of lead SPELLS (8) [noun] Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers. | [noun] A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula. | [noun] Speech, discourse. SPELTS (8) SPELTZ (17) SPENCE (10) [noun] A buttery or pantry SPENDS (9) [noun] Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure. | [noun] (in the plural) Expenditures; money or pocket money. | [noun] Discharged semen. SPENSE (8) SPERMS (10) [noun] The reproductive cell or gamete of the male; a spermatozoon. | [noun] Semen; the generative substance of male animals. | [noun] Sperm oil; whale oil from a sperm whale; spermaceti. SPEWED (12) [verb] To eject forcibly and in a stream | [verb] To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading. | [verb] To vomit SPEWER (11) SPHENE (11) [noun] Titanite SPHERE (11) [noun] A regular three-dimensional object in which every cross-section is a circle; the figure described by the revolution of a circle about its diameter . | [noun] A spherical physical object; a globe or ball. | [noun] The apparent outer limit of space; the edge of the heavens, imagined as a hollow globe within which celestial bodies appear to be embedded. SPHERY (14) SPHINX (18) [noun] A creature with the head of a person and the body of an animal (commonly a lion). | [noun] A person who keeps his/her thoughts and intentions secret; an enigmatic person. | [noun] A mandrill, Mandrillus sphinx, formerly classified a baboon, and called sphinx baboon. SPICAE (10) SPICAS (10) [noun] A spike. | [noun] A spur. | [noun] A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; a spiral bandage with reversed turns. SPICED (11) [verb] To add spice or spices to; season. | [verb] To spice up. | [adjective] Having spice added, spicy. SPICER (10) SPICES (10) [noun] Aromatic or pungent plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food. | [noun] Appeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting, or engaging. | [noun] A synthetic cannabinoid drug. SPICEY (13) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or containing spice. | [adjective] (of flavors) Provoking a burning sensation due to the presence of chilis or similar hot spices | [adjective] (of flavors or odors) Tangy, zesty, or pungent. SPICKS (14) SPIDER (9) [noun] Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey. | [noun] A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information. | [noun] A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade). SPIELS (8) [noun] A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade. | [noun] An early form of rap music. | [verb] To talk at length. SPIERS (8) SPIFFS (14) [noun] Attractiveness or charm in dress, appearance, or manner. | [noun] A well-dressed man. | [noun] A bonus or other remuneration, given for reaching a sales goal or promoting the goods of a particular manufacturer. Originally from textile retailing, a percentage given for selling off surplus or out-of-fashion stock, of which the sales person could offer part as a discount to a customer. SPIFFY (17) [noun] A dapper person. | [adjective] Dapper; fine or neat, especially in style of clothing or other appearance. SPIGOT (9) [noun] A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask. | [noun] The plug of a faucet or cock. | [noun] A faucet. SPIKED (13) [verb] To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails. | [verb] To set or furnish with spikes. | [verb] To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people. SPIKER (12) SPIKES (12) [noun] In a violin-family instrument, the carved wooden plug which sits in the bottom block of the instrument. | [noun] The spike of a cello or double bass that makes contact with the floor and supports the weight of the instrument. | [noun] A sort of very large nail. SPIKEY (15) [adjective] Having spikes, spiny. | [adjective] Hostile; standoffish | [adjective] Of hair, erect, resembling spikes. SPILED (9) [verb] To plug (a hole) with a spile. | [verb] To draw off (a liquid) using a spile. | [verb] To provide (a barrel, tree etc.) with a spile. SPILES (8) [noun] A splinter. | [noun] A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask. | [noun] A spout inserted in a maple (or other tree) to draw off sap. SPILLS (8) [noun] A mess of something that has been dropped. | [noun] A fall or stumble. | [noun] A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire. SPILTH (11) [noun] A spillage; spilled material. SPINAL (8) [noun] A spinal anesthesia. | [adjective] Of or relating to the spine. | [adjective] (of a frog, or other experimental animal) Having a pithed brain, but an intact spinal cord. SPINED (9) SPINEL (8) [noun] Any of several hard minerals of cubic symmetry that are mixed oxides of magnesium and aluminium and are used as gemstones of various colours. | [noun] Any crystalline material, not necessarily an oxide, that possesses the same crystal structure as this mineral. | [noun] Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle. SPINES (8) [noun] The series of bones situated at the back from the head to the pelvis of a person, or from the head to the tail of an animal; backbone, vertebral column. | [noun] Something resembling a backbone, such as a ridge, or a long, central structure from which other structures radiate. | [noun] A pointed, fairly rigid protuberance or needle-like structure on an animal, shell, or plant. SPINET (8) [noun] A short, compact harpsichord or piano. | [noun] A spinney. SPINNY (11) [noun] A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds. | [adjective] Associated with spinning; moving with a spinning motion. | [adjective] Thin and long; slim; slender SPINOR (8) SPINTO (8) SPIRAL (8) [noun] A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point. | [noun] A helix. | [noun] A self-sustaining process with a lot of momentum involved, so it is difficult to accelerate or stop it at once. SPIREA (8) [noun] Any of many flowering shrubs, of the genus Spiraea, that have clusters of white or pink flowers | [noun] The Astilbe. SPIRED (9) SPIREM (10) SPIRES (8) [noun] The stalk or stem of a plant. | [noun] A young shoot of a plant; a spear. | [noun] Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc. SPIRIT (8) [noun] The soul of a person or other creature. What moves through experience into self-definition as souls purpose. | [noun] A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel. | [noun] Enthusiasm. SPIRTS (8) [verb] To cause to gush out suddenly or violently in a stream or jet. | [verb] To rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet. | [verb] To make a strong effort for a short period of time. SPITAL (8) SPITED (9) [verb] To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart. | [verb] To be angry at; to hate. | [verb] To fill with spite; to offend; to vex. SPITES (8) [verb] To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart. | [verb] To be angry at; to hate. | [verb] To fill with spite; to offend; to vex. SPLAKE (12) [noun] A hybrid fish derived from a male brook trout and a female lake trout SPLASH (11) [noun] The sound made by an object hitting a liquid. | [noun] A small amount of liquid. | [noun] A small amount (of color). SPLATS (8) [noun] The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back. | [noun] The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface. | [noun] The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface. SPLAYS (11) [noun] A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them. SPLEEN (8) [noun] In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes. | [noun] (except in the set phrase "to vent one's spleen") A bad mood; spitefulness. | [noun] A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim. SPLENT (8) SPLICE (10) [noun] A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together. | [noun] The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable. | [noun] That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade. SPLIFF (14) [noun] A cannabis cigarette. SPLINE (8) [noun] Long thin piece of metal or wood. | [noun] A rectangular piece that fits grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together. | [noun] A flexible strip of metal or other material, that may be bent into a curve and used in a similar manner to a ruler to draw smooth curves between points. SPLINT (8) [noun] An inferior kind of cannel coal from Scottish collieries, having a slaty structure. | [noun] A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece. | [noun] A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia. SPLITS (8) [noun] A crack or longitudinal fissure. | [noun] A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division. | [noun] A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment. SPLORE (8) SPLOSH (11) [noun] A heavy splashing sound. | [noun] Tea (the drink). | [verb] To make a heavy splashing sound. SPODES (9) SPOILS (8) [verb] To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour. | [verb] To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil. | [verb] To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.). SPOILT (8) [verb] To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour. | [verb] To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil. | [verb] To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.). SPOKED (13) SPOKEN (12) [verb] To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud. | [verb] To have a conversation. | [verb] (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions. SPOKES (12) [noun] A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim. | [noun] A projecting handle of a steering wheel. | [noun] A rung of a ladder. SPONGE (9) [noun] Any of various marine invertebrates, mostly of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica. | [noun] A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic). | [noun] A porous material such as sponges consist of. SPONGY (12) [adjective] Having the characteristics of a sponge, namely being absorbent, squishy or porous. | [adjective] Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy. | [adjective] Drunk. SPOOFS (11) [noun] An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank. | [noun] A light parody. | [noun] A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held. SPOOFY (14) SPOOKS (12) [noun] A ghost or phantom. | [noun] A hobgoblin. | [noun] A scare or fright. SPOOKY (15) [adjective] Eerie, or suggestive of ghosts or the supernatural. | [adjective] Spooked; afraid; frightened. | [adjective] Unpredictably excitable; skittish (used especially of horses). SPOOLS (8) [noun] A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle. | [noun] A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc. | [verb] To wind on a spool or spools. SPOONS (8) [verb] To sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted. | [noun] An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle. | [noun] An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon. SPOONY (11) [noun] A foolish, simple, or silly person. | [noun] A foolishly amorous person. | [adjective] Enamored in a silly or sentimental way. SPOORS (8) [verb] To track an animal by following its spoor SPORAL (8) SPORED (9) SPORES (8) [noun] A reproductive particle, usually a single cell, released by a fungus, alga, or plant that may germinate into another. | [noun] A thick resistant particle produced by a bacterium or protist to survive in harsh or unfavorable conditions. | [verb] To produce spores. SPORTS (8) [noun] Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics. | [noun] Something done for fun, regardless of its design or intended purpose. | [noun] A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship. SPORTY (11) [adjective] Favourable to sports | [adjective] Flashy in appearance. SPOTTY (11) [noun] A common New Zealand fish, Notolabrus celidotus | [adjective] Having spots; spotted. | [adjective] Of inconsistent quality SPOUSE (8) [noun] A person in a marriage or marital relationship. | [verb] To wed; to espouse. SPOUTS (8) [noun] A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged. | [noun] A stream of liquid. | [noun] The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale. SPRAGS (9) [noun] A billet of wood; a piece of timber, a similar solid object or constructed unit used as a prop. | [noun] A young salmon. SPRAIN (8) [noun] The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining | [verb] To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation SPRANG (9) [verb] To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation | [verb] To burst forth. | [verb] (of beards) To grow. SPRATS (8) [noun] Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus Sprattus, in the family Clupeidae. SPRAWL (11) [noun] An ungainly sprawling posture. | [noun] A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city. | [verb] To sit with the limbs spread out. SPRAYS (11) [noun] A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid. | [noun] A pressurized container; an atomizer. | [noun] Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner. SPREAD (9) [noun] The act of spreading. | [noun] Something that has been spread. | [noun] A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading. SPREES (8) [noun] A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic. | [noun] Uninhibited activity. SPRENT (8) SPRIER (8) SPRIGS (9) [noun] A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray. | [noun] An ornament resembling a small shoot or twig. | [noun] One of the separate pieces of lace fastened on a ground in applique lace. SPRING (9) [verb] To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation | [noun] An act of springing: a leap, a jump. | [noun] The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life, variously reckoned as SPRINT (8) [noun] A short race at top speed. | [noun] A burst of speed or activity. | [noun] In Agile software development, a period of development of a fixed time that is preceded and followed by meetings. SPRITE (8) [noun] Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood. | [noun] A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost. | [noun] A kind of short arrow. SPRITS (8) [noun] A spar between mast and upper outer corner of a spritsail on sailing boats. | [noun] A shoot; a sprout. SPRITZ (17) [noun] A sprinkling or spray of liquid; a small amount of liquid. | [verb] To spray, sprinkle, or squirt lightly. | [verb] To drizzle, to rain lightly. SPROUT (8) [noun] A new growth on a plant, whether from seed or other parts. | [noun] A child. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A Brussels sprout. SPRUCE (10) [noun] Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir. | [noun] The wood of a spruce. | [noun] (used attributively) Made of the wood of the spruce. SPRUCY (13) SPRUES (8) [noun] A tropical disease causing a sore throat and tongue, and disturbed digestion; psilosis. | [noun] (founding) The hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold. | [noun] (founding) Material that cools in the feed channels to a mold. SPRUGS (9) SPRUNG (9) [verb] To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation | [verb] To burst forth. | [verb] (of beards) To grow. SPRYER (11) SPRYLY (14) SPUING (9) SPUMED (11) [verb] To froth. SPUMES (10) [noun] Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater. | [verb] To froth. SPUNKS (12) [verb] To catch fire; flame up. | [verb] To ejaculate. SPUNKY (15) [adjective] Spirited or plucky. | [adjective] Pertaining to or like spunk (semen). | [adjective] Stained with semen. SPURGE (9) [noun] Any plant of the genus Euphorbia, a diverse genus of over 2,000 species. | [verb] To emit foam; to froth; said of the emission of yeast from beer during fermentation. SPURNS (8) [noun] An act of spurning; a scornful rejection. | [noun] A kick; a blow with the foot. | [noun] Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment. SPURRY (11) [noun] Any of several European annual herbs of the genus Spergula. SPURTS (8) [noun] A brief gush, as of liquid spurting from an orifice or a cut/wound. | [noun] Ejaculation of semen. | [noun] A shoot; a bud. SPUTUM (10) [noun] Matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth, composed of saliva and discharges from the respiratory passages such as mucus, phlegm or pus. SPYING (12) [verb] To act as a spy. | [verb] To spot; to catch sight of. | [verb] To search narrowly; to scrutinize. SQUABS (17) [noun] (sometimes attributive) A baby pigeon, dove, or chicken. | [noun] The meat of such a baby bird used as food. | [noun] A baby rook. SQUADS (16) [noun] A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members. | [noun] One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps. SQUALL (15) [noun] A squall line, multicell line, or part of a squall line. | [noun] A sudden storm, as found in a squall line. | [noun] A loud cry or wail. SQUAMA (17) SQUARE (15) [noun] A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral. | [noun] Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form. | [noun] An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles. SQUASH (18) [noun] A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets. | [noun] A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water. | [noun] A place or a situation where people have limited space to move. | [noun] A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind. | [noun] Muskrat. SQUATS (15) [noun] Nothing; nothing whatsoever. | [noun] A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet. | [noun] (exercise) Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee. SQUAWK (22) [noun] A shrill noise, especially made by a voice or bird; a yell, scream, or call. | [noun] A four-digit transponder code used by aircraft for identification or transmission of emergency signals. | [noun] An issue or complaint related to aircraft maintenance. SQUAWS (18) [noun] A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman. SQUEAK (19) [noun] A short, high-pitched sound, as of two objects rubbing together, or the calls of small animals. | [noun] (games) A card game similar to group solitaire. | [noun] A narrow squeak. SQUEAL (15) [noun] A high-pitched sound, such as the scream of a child, or noisy worn-down brake pads. | [noun] The cry of a pig. | [verb] To scream with a shrill, prolonged sound. SQUEGS (16) SQUIBS (17) [noun] A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode. | [noun] A similar device used to ignite an explosive or launch a rocket, etc. | [noun] A kind of slow match or safety fuse. SQUIDS (16) [noun] Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles | [noun] A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid. | [noun] (mildly) A sailor in the Navy. SQUILL (15) [noun] A European bulbous liliaceous plant, of the genus Scilla, used in medicine for its acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties | [noun] A sea onion (Drimia maritima) | [noun] A mantis shrimp, Squilla mantis, from the Mediterranean SQUINT (15) [noun] An expression in which the eyes are partly closed. | [noun] The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus. | [noun] A quick or sideways glance. SQUIRE (15) [noun] A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight. | [noun] A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire. | [noun] A male attendant on a great personage. | [noun] A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure. SQUIRM (17) [noun] A twisting, snakelike movement of the body. | [verb] To twist one's body with snakelike motions. | [verb] To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment. SQUIRT (15) [noun] An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream. | [noun] A small, quick stream; a jet. | [noun] (hydrodynamics) The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source. SQUISH (18) [noun] The sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed. | [noun] A political moderate. | [noun] Marmalade. | [noun] A non-romantic and generally non-sexual infatuation with somebody one is not dating, or the object of that infatuation; a platonic crush. SQUUSH (18) SRADHA (10) STABLE (8) [noun] A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses. | [noun] (metonymy) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner. | [noun] A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers. | [adjective] Relatively unchanging, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed. STABLY (11) [adverb] In a stable manner. | [noun] A medieval hunting practice in which a group of hunters and hounds stationed around the perimeter of a wood during a hunt to prevent the escape of the game. STACKS (12) [noun] (heading) A pile. | [noun] A smokestack. | [noun] (heading) In computing. STACTE (8) STADES (7) STADIA (7) [noun] A level staff or graduated rod used by surveyors to measure differences in level, or to measure horizontal distances by sighting the stadia hairs (graduations) through a telescope. | [noun] (historically) A graduated brass triangle used to measure the distance of a target by comparison of the graduations with the heights of soldiers or horses. | [noun] A Greek unit of measurement, equivalent to six plethra or six hundred podes, which, though varying in precise length, is generally accepted to be equivalent to approximately 185·4 metres. STAFFS (12) [noun] (plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking. | [noun] (plural staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave. | [noun] (plural staff or staffs) The employees of a business. STAGED (8) [verb] To produce on a stage, to perform a play. | [verb] To demonstrate in a deceptive manner. | [verb] To orchestrate; to carry out. STAGER (7) [noun] An actor on the stage. | [noun] One who stages a theatrical performance. | [noun] One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience. STAGES (7) [noun] A phase. | [noun] A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given. | [noun] A floor or storey of a house. STAGEY (10) [adjective] Theatrical | [adjective] Unnaturally showy | [adjective] Melodramatic; sensationalized STAGGY (11) STAIGS (7) STAINS (6) [noun] A discoloured spot or area. | [noun] A blemish on one's character or reputation. | [noun] A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it. STAIRS (6) [noun] A single step in a staircase. | [noun] A series of steps; a staircase. | [noun] A contiguous set of steps connecting two floors. STAKED (11) [verb] To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes. | [verb] To pierce or wound with a stake. | [verb] To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency. STAKES (10) [noun] A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay. | [noun] A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet. | [noun] A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off. STALAG (7) [noun] A German prisoner-of-war camp, especially in World War II. | [noun] A genre of Nazi exploitation Holocaust pornography in Israel that flourished in the 1950s and early 1960s. STALED (7) [verb] (of alcohol) To make stale; to age in order to clear and strengthen (a drink, especially beer). | [verb] To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption. | [verb] To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption. STALER (6) [adjective] (alcohol) Clear, free of dregs and lees; old and strong. | [adjective] No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc. | [adjective] No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; cliche, hackneyed, dated. STALES (6) [noun] Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh. | [verb] (of alcohol) To make stale; to age in order to clear and strengthen (a drink, especially beer). | [verb] To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption. STALKS (10) [noun] The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts. | [noun] The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant. | [noun] Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill. STALKY (13) STALLS (6) [noun] A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed. | [noun] A stable; a place for cattle. | [noun] A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale. STAMEN (8) [noun] In flowering plants, the structure in a flower that produces pollen, typically consisting of an anther and a filament. STAMPS (10) [noun] An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof. | [noun] An indentation, imprint, or mark made by stamping. | [noun] A device for stamping designs. STANCE (8) [noun] The manner, pose, or posture in which one stands. | [noun] One's opinion or point of view. | [noun] A place to stand; a position, a site, a station. STANCH (11) [noun] That which stanches or checks a flow. | [noun] A floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release. | [verb] To stop the flow of. STANDS (7) [noun] The act of standing. | [noun] A defensive position or effort. | [noun] A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition. STANED (7) STANES (6) STANGS (7) STANKS (10) STANZA (15) [noun] A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse. | [noun] An apartment or division in a building. | [noun] An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP. STAPES (8) [noun] A small stirrup-shaped bone of the middle ear. STAPHS (11) [noun] Staphylococcus bacteria and the infection it causes. STAPLE (8) [noun] A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group. | [noun] (by extension) Place of supply; source. | [noun] The principal commodity produced in a town or region. | [noun] A wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around. STARCH (11) [noun] A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc. | [noun] (nutrition) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods. | [noun] A stiff, formal manner; formality. STARED (7) [verb] (construed with at) To look fixedly (at something). | [verb] To influence in some way by looking fixedly. | [verb] To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy. STARER (6) STARES (6) [noun] A persistent gaze. | [verb] (construed with at) To look fixedly (at something). | [verb] To influence in some way by looking fixedly. STARRY (9) [adjective] Having stars visible. | [adjective] Resembling or shaped like a star. | [adjective] Full of stars or celebrities; star-studded. STARTS (6) [noun] The beginning of an activity. | [noun] A sudden involuntary movement. | [noun] The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc. STARVE (9) [verb] To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away. | [verb] To die because of lack of food or of not eating. | [verb] To be very hungry. STASES (6) [noun] A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. | [noun] Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness. | [noun] A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change. STASIS (6) [noun] A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. | [noun] Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness. | [noun] A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change. STATAL (6) STATED (7) [verb] To declare to be a fact. | [verb] To make known. | [adjective] Expressed in a statement; uttered or written. STATER (6) [noun] A gold, silver or electrum coin of ancient Greece. | [noun] One who states. | [noun] A citizen of the United States of America who is a confirmed or lifelong resident of one single state. STATES (6) [noun] A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time. | [noun] High social standing or circumstance. | [noun] A polity. STATIC (8) [noun] Interference on a broadcast signal caused by atmospheric disturbances; heard as crackles on radio, or seen as random specks on television. | [noun] (by extension) Interference or obstruction from people. | [noun] Static electricity. STATOR (6) [noun] The stationary part of a motor or other machine. STATUE (6) [noun] A three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting. | [noun] A portrait. | [verb] To form a statue of; to make into a statue. STATUS (6) [noun] A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others. | [noun] Prestige or high standing. | [noun] A situation or state of affairs. STAVED (10) [verb] To fit or furnish with staves or rundles. | [verb] (usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. | [verb] (with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff. STAVES (9) [noun] (plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking. | [noun] (plural staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave. | [noun] (plural staff or staffs) The employees of a business. | [noun] One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc. STAYED (10) [verb] To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady. | [verb] To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time. | [verb] To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder. STAYER (9) [noun] One who, or that which, upholds or supports; a prop. | [noun] One who, or that which, stays, stops, or restrains. | [noun] An athlete, horse, etc. with staying power. STEADS (7) [noun] A place, or spot, in general. | [noun] A place where a person normally rests; a seat. | [noun] An inhabited place; a settlement, city, town etc. STEADY (10) [noun] A rest or support, as for the hand, a tool, or a piece of work. | [noun] A regular boyfriend or girlfriend. | [noun] A prostitute's regular customer. STEAKS (10) [noun] Beefsteak, a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling. | [noun] (by extension) A relatively large, thick slice or slab cut from another animal, a vegetable, etc. | [noun] (seafood) A slice of meat cut across the grain (perpendicular to the spine) from a fish. STEALS (6) [verb] To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else. | [verb] (of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement. | [verb] To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully. STEAMS (8) [noun] The vapor formed when water changes from liquid phase to gas phase. | [noun] Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy. | [noun] Internal energy for motive power. STEAMY (11) [adjective] Warm and humid; full of steam | [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of steam | [adjective] Erotic STEEDS (7) [noun] A stallion, especially in the sense of mount. | [noun] A bicycle. STEEKS (10) STEELS (6) [noun] An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness. | [noun] Any item made of this metal, particularly including: | [noun] Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment. STEELY (9) [adjective] Having qualities resembling those of steel, especially hard and resolute. | [adjective] Made of steel. STEEPS (8) [verb] (middle voice) To soak or wet thoroughly. | [verb] To imbue with something; to be deeply immersed in. STEERS (6) [noun] A suggestion about a course of action. | [noun] A helmsman; a pilot. | [verb] To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel). STEEVE (9) [noun] The angle which a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel. | [noun] A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales and similar cargo needing to be packed tightly. | [verb] To project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel; said of the bowsprit, etc. STEINS (6) [noun] A beer mug, usually made of ceramic or glass. STELAE (6) [noun] An obelisk or upright stone pillar, usually as a primitive commemoration or gravestone STELAI (6) STELAR (6) [adjective] Of or relating to a stele. STELES (6) [noun] Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh. | [noun] A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.) | [noun] The posts and rungs composing a ladder. STELIC (8) STELLA (6) STEMMA (10) [noun] A family tree or recorded genealogy | [noun] In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts | [noun] One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods STEMMY (13) STENCH (11) [noun] A strong foul smell; a stink. | [noun] A foul quality. | [noun] A smell or odour, not necessarily bad. STENOS (6) [noun] A stenographer, someone whose job is to take dictation in shorthand | [noun] Stenography STEPPE (10) [noun] The grasslands of Eastern Europe and Asia. Similar to (North American) prairie and (African) savanna. | [noun] A vast cold, dry grass-plain. STEREO (6) [noun] A system of recording or reproducing sound that uses two channels, each playing a portion of the original sound in such a way as to create the illusion of locating the sound at a particular position, each offset from the other, thereby more accurately imitating the location of the original sound when the recorded or reproduced sound is heard. | [noun] (by extension) Any object or device equipped with audio components that reproduces sound in stereo, such as a stereo console in the home. | [noun] A stereotype. STERES (6) [noun] A measure of volume used e.g. for cut wood, equal to one cubic metre. STERIC (8) [adjective] Relating to or involving the arrangement of atoms in space. | [adjective] Of the repulsion of atoms due to closeness or arrangement STERNA (6) [noun] The breastbone | [noun] The sclerotized plate of spiders, between the coxae, marking the floor of the cephalothorax STERNS (6) [noun] The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel. | [noun] The post of management or direction. | [noun] The hinder part of anything. STEROL (6) [noun] Any steroid that contains a hydroxyl group in the 3-position of the A-ring. STEWED (10) [verb] To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering. | [verb] To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong. | [verb] To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions. STICHS (11) STICKS (12) [noun] An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton. | [noun] Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance. | [noun] Material or objects attached to a stick or the like. STICKY (15) [noun] A sticky note, such as a post-it note. | [noun] A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view. | [noun] A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper. STIFFS (12) [noun] An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education, often a working stiff or lucky stiff. | [noun] A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle. | [noun] A cadaver; a dead person. STIFLE (9) [noun] A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses. | [noun] A bone disease of this region. | [verb] To interrupt or cut off. STIGMA (9) [noun] A mark of infamy or disgrace. | [noun] A scar or birthmark. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural stigmata) A mark on the body corresponding to one of the wounds of the Crucifixion on Jesus' body, and sometimes reported to bleed periodically. | [noun] A ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau, (Ϛ/ϛ). STILES (6) [noun] A set of one or more steps surmounting a fence or wall, or a narrow gate or contrived passage through a fence or wall, which in either case allows people but not livestock to pass. | [noun] A vertical component of a frame or panel, such as that of a door, window, or ladder. | [noun] Senses relating to a thin, pointed object. STILLS (6) [noun] A period of calm or silence. | [noun] A photograph, as opposed to movie footage. | [noun] A resident of the Falkland Islands. STILLY (9) [adjective] Silent; calm | [adverb] While still and calm. STILTS (6) [noun] Either of two poles with footrests that allow someone to stand or walk above the ground; used mostly by entertainers. | [noun] A tall pillar or post used to support some structure; often above water. | [noun] Any of various wading birds of the genera Himantopus and Cladorhynchus, related to the avocet, that have extremely long legs and long thin bills. STIMES (8) STINGO (7) STINGS (7) [noun] A bump left on the skin after having been stung. | [noun] A bite by an insect. | [noun] A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack. STINGY (10) [adjective] Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean | [adjective] Small, scant, meager, insufficient | [adjective] Stinging; able to sting. STINKO (10) [adjective] Drunk STINKS (10) [noun] A strong bad smell. | [noun] A complaint or objection. | [verb] To have a strong bad smell. STINKY (13) [adjective] Having a strong, unpleasant smell; stinking. | [adjective] Bad, undesirable. STINTS (6) [noun] A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell. | [noun] Limit; bound; restraint; extent. | [noun] Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted. STIPED (9) STIPEL (8) STIPES (8) [noun] The vertical beam of a cross used for crucifixion. | [noun] The basal segment of the maxilla of an insect or a crustacean. | [noun] A stipe; a stalk or stem. STIRKS (10) [noun] A yearling cow; a young bullock or heifer. STIRPS (8) STITCH (11) [noun] A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made. | [noun] An arrangement of stitches in sewing, or method of stitching in some particular way or style. | [noun] An intense stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage, brought on by exercise. | [verb] To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches. STITHY (12) STIVER (9) [noun] (money) A small Dutch coin worth one twentieth of a guilder. | [noun] Anything of small value. STOATS (6) [noun] Mustela erminea, the ermine or short-tailed weasel, a mustelid native to Eurasia and North America, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip. STOCKS (12) [noun] A store or supply. | [noun] The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder. | [noun] The raw material from which things are made; feedstock. STOCKY (15) [adjective] (of a person or an animal) Sturdy; solidly built; heavy and compact. STODGE (8) [noun] Heavy, dull, often starchy food, such as a steamed pudding | [verb] To stuff; to cram. STODGY (11) [adjective] (of food) Having a thick, semi-solid consistency; glutinous; heavy on the stomach. | [adjective] Dull, old-fashioned. | [adjective] Badly put together. STOGEY (10) STOGIE (7) [noun] A cigar. | [noun] A type of sturdy work boot; a brogan. STOICS (8) [noun] Proponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 B.C.E. up to about the time of Marcus Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law, one can be free of suffering. | [noun] A person indifferent to pleasure or pain. STOKED (11) [verb] To poke, pierce, thrust. | [verb] To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace. | [verb] (by extension) To encourage a behavior or emotion. STOKER (10) [noun] A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship who stokes coal in the boilers. | [noun] A device for stoking a fire; a poker. | [noun] A device that feeds coal into a furnace etc automatically. STOKES (10) [verb] To poke, pierce, thrust. | [verb] To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace. | [verb] (by extension) To encourage a behavior or emotion. | [noun] A unit of kinematic viscosity in the CGS system of units. 1 stokes = 1 cm2/s STOLED (7) STOLEN (6) [verb] To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else. | [verb] (of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement. | [verb] To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully. STOLES (6) [noun] An ecclesiastical garment consisting of a decorated band worn on the back of the neck with each end hanging over the chest. | [noun] A scarf-like garment, often made of fur. | [noun] A stolon. STOLID (7) [adjective] Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; dully or heavily stupid. STOLON (6) [noun] A shoot that grows along the ground and produces roots at its nodes; a runner. | [noun] A structure formed by some colonial organisms from which offspring are produced by budding, found in bryozoans, pterobranchs, some corals, and other invertebrates. | [noun] A hypha that acts as a runner, connecting sporangiophores. STOMAL (8) [adjective] Of, or relating to a stoma. STOMAS (8) [noun] One of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass. | [noun] A small opening in a membrane; a surgically constructed opening, especially one in the abdominal wall that permits the passage of waste after a colostomy or ileostomy. | [noun] A mouthlike opening, such as the oral cavity of a nematode. STOMPS (10) [noun] A deliberate heavy footfall; a stamp. | [noun] A dance having a heavy, rhythmic step. | [noun] The jazz music for this dance. STONED (7) [verb] To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones. | [verb] To wall with stones. | [verb] To remove a stone from (fruit etc.). STONER (6) [noun] One who stones. | [noun] A machine to remove the stones (pits) from fruit. | [noun] A habitual user of cannabis. STONES (6) [noun] A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks. | [noun] A small piece of stone, a pebble. | [noun] A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond. STONEY (9) STOOGE (7) [noun] One who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit; a dupe. | [noun] A straight man. | [noun] A secret informant for police. STOOKS (10) [noun] A pile or bundle, especially of straw. | [noun] (specifically) A group of 6 or 8 sheaves of grain stacked to dry vertically in a rectangular arrangement at harvest time, obsolete since the advent of the combine harvester (mid 20th century). STOOLS (6) [noun] A seat, especially for one person and without armrests. | [noun] A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet. | [noun] A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth. STOOPS (8) [verb] To suck one's teeth, indicating disappointment, derision or disgust. | [noun] The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence. | [noun] The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep. STOPED (9) [verb] To excavate in the form of stopes. | [verb] To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out. STOPER (8) STOPES (8) [noun] A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps. STORAX (13) [noun] Any member of the genus Styrax of trees and shrubs. | [noun] The resin of the oriental sweetgum tree (Liquidambar orientalis), formerly used as a stimulating expectorant. STORED (7) [verb] To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose. | [verb] To write (something) into memory or registers. STORES (6) [noun] A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept. | [noun] A supply held in storage. | [noun] (mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop. STOREY (9) [noun] A building; an edifice. | [noun] A floor or level of a building or ship. | [noun] A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g. STORKS (10) [noun] A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family Ciconiidae. | [noun] (children's folklore) The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news. | [noun] The seventeenth Lenormand card. STORMS (8) [noun] Any disturbed state of the atmosphere, especially as affecting the earth's surface, and strongly implying destructive or unpleasant weather. | [noun] A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; violent outbreak. | [noun] A wind scale for very strong wind, stronger than a gale, less than a hurricane (10 or higher on the Beaufort scale). STORMY (11) [adjective] Of or pertaining to storms. | [adjective] Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with strong winds and heavy rain. | [adjective] Proceeding from violent agitation or fury. STOUND (7) STOUPS (8) [noun] A bucket. | [noun] A mug or drinking vessel. | [noun] A receptacle for holy water, especially a basin set at the entrance of a church. STOURE (6) STOURS (6) STOURY (9) STOUTS (6) [noun] A dark and strong malt brew made with toasted grain. | [noun] An obese person. | [noun] A large clothing size. STOVER (9) STOVES (9) [noun] A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room. | [noun] A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker. | [noun] A hothouse (heated greenhouse). STOWED (10) [verb] To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place. | [verb] To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time. | [verb] To arrange, pack, or fill something tightly or closely. STOWPS (11) STRAFE (9) [noun] An attack of machine-gun or cannon fire from a low-flying aircraft. | [noun] A sideways movement without turning. | [verb] To attack (ground targets) with automatic gunfire from a low-flying aircraft. STRAIN (6) [noun] Treasure. | [noun] The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg. | [noun] Race; lineage, pedigree. | [noun] The act of straining, or the state of being strained. | [verb] To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world. STRAIT (6) [noun] A narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water. | [noun] A narrow pass, passage or street. | [noun] A neck of land; an isthmus. STRAKE (10) [noun] An iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel. | [noun] A type of aerodynamic surface mounted on an aircraft fuselage to fine-tune the airflow. | [noun] A continuous line of plates or planks running from bow to stern that contributes to a vessel's skin. (FM 55-501). | [verb] (sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate. STRAND (7) [noun] The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach. | [noun] The shore or beach of a lake or river. | [noun] A small brook or rivulet. | [noun] Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord. STRANG (7) STRAPS (8) [noun] A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like. | [noun] A strip of thick leather used in flogging. | [noun] Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use. STRASS (6) STRATA (6) [noun] One of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another. | [noun] A layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout. | [noun] Any of the regions of the atmosphere, such as the stratosphere, that occur as layers. | [noun] Condominium unit, condominium building, condominium title STRATH (9) [noun] A wide, flat river valley. STRATI (6) STRAWS (9) [noun] A dried stalk of a cereal plant. | [noun] Such dried stalks considered collectively. | [noun] A drinking straw. STRAWY (12) STRAYS (9) [noun] Any domestic animal that has no enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. | [noun] One who is lost, either literally or metaphorically. | [noun] The act of wandering or going astray. STREAK (10) [noun] An irregular line left from smearing or motion. | [noun] A continuous series of like events. | [noun] The color of the powder of a mineral. So called, because a simple field test for a mineral is to streak it against unglazed white porcelain. STREAM (8) [noun] A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks. | [noun] A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air). | [noun] Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words. STREEK (10) STREEL (6) [noun] A disreputable woman, a slut. | [verb] To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion. STREET (6) [noun] A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town. | [noun] A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings. | [noun] The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood. STREPS (8) [noun] A strep throat. | [noun] A streptococcus. | [noun] Any of several plants of the genus Streptocarpus. the Cape primroses. STRESS (6) [noun] (Cause of) discomfort. | [noun] Serious danger. | [noun] An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt. STREWN (9) [verb] (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. | [verb] (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. | [verb] To spread abroad; to disseminate. STREWS (9) [verb] (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. | [verb] (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. | [verb] To spread abroad; to disseminate. STRIAE (6) [noun] A stripe, usually one of a set of parallel stripes. | [noun] One of the fillets between the flutes of columns, etc. | [noun] A stretch mark. STRICK (12) STRICT (8) [adjective] Strained; drawn close; tight. | [adjective] Tense; not relaxed. | [adjective] Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously particular. STRIDE (7) [verb] To walk with long steps. | [verb] To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle. | [verb] To pass over at a step; to step over. | [noun] A long step in walking. STRIFE (9) [noun] Striving; earnest endeavor; hard work. | [noun] Exertion or contention for superiority, either by physical or intellectual means. | [noun] Bitter conflict, sometimes violent. STRIKE (10) [noun] A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught. | [noun] The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame. | [noun] A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest. STRING (7) [noun] A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses. | [noun] (metonymy) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner. | [noun] A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers. STRIPE (8) [noun] A long, relatively straight region of a single colour. | [noun] (in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces. | [noun] Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort. STRIPS (8) [noun] The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease. | [noun] (of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes. | [verb] To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes. STRIPT (8) STRIPY (11) [adjective] Having stripes; striped. STRIVE (9) [noun] Striving; earnest endeavor; hard work. | [noun] Exertion or contention for superiority, either by physical or intellectual means. | [noun] Bitter conflict, sometimes violent. STROBE (8) [noun] A stroboscopic lamp: a device used to produce regular flashes of light. | [noun] An electronic signal in hardware indicating that a value is ready to be read. | [verb] To flash like a stroboscopic lamp. STRODE (7) [verb] To walk with long steps. | [verb] To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle. | [verb] To pass over at a step; to step over. STROKE (10) [noun] An act of stroking (moving one's hand over a surface). | [noun] A blow or hit. | [noun] A single movement with a tool. | [verb] To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction. STROLL (6) [noun] A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble. | [verb] To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove. | [verb] To go somewhere with ease. STROMA (8) [noun] The tissue structure of an organ, etc., that serves to support it. STRONG (7) [adjective] Capable of producing great physical force. | [adjective] Capable of withstanding great physical force. | [adjective] (of water, wind, etc.) Having a lot of power. STROOK (10) STROPS (8) [noun] A strap; more specifically a piece of leather or a substitute (notably canvas), or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for honing a razor, in this sense also called razor strop. | [noun] A bad mood or temper (see stroppy.) | [noun] A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it. STROUD (7) [noun] A kind of coarse wool used in blankets or for garment by Native Americans. STROVE (9) STROWN (9) [verb] (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. | [verb] (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. | [verb] To spread abroad; to disseminate. STROWS (9) [verb] (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. | [verb] (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. | [verb] To spread abroad; to disseminate. STROYS (9) STRUCK (12) [verb] (sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate. | [verb] (physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect. | [verb] To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate. STRUMA (8) [noun] Scrofula. | [noun] A scrofulous swelling; a tumour or goitre. STRUMS (8) [verb] To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) using various strings simultaneously. STRUNG (7) [verb] To put (items) on a string. | [verb] To put strings on (something). | [verb] To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc. STRUNT (6) STRUTS (6) [noun] Protuberance, air pressure | [verb] To swell; protuberate; bulge or spread out. | [verb] (originally said of fowl) To stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out. STUBBY (13) [noun] A small, squat beer bottle. | [adjective] Abounding with stubs. | [adjective] Like a stub; short, especially cut short, thick and stiff; stunted; stubbed. STUCCO (10) [noun] A plaster that is used to coat (interior or) exterior walls, or used for mouldings. | [noun] Work made of stucco; stuccowork. | [verb] To coat or decorate with stucco. STUDIO (7) [noun] An artist’s or photographer’s workshop or the room in which an artist works. | [noun] An establishment where an art is taught. | [noun] A place where radio or television programs, records or films are made. STUDLY (10) [adjective] Like a stud; being or relating to a sexually attractive male. STUFFS (12) [noun] Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects. | [noun] Unspecified things or matters. | [noun] The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object. STUFFY (15) [noun] A toy made of a soft material, usually stuffed with cotton, straw, beans, or other materials, and typically intended as a plaything for children. | [adjective] Poorly ventilated; partially plugged. | [adjective] Stout; mettlesome; resolute. STULLS (6) STUMPS (10) [noun] The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb. | [noun] The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting. | [noun] A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration. STUMPY (13) [noun] An amputee who has lost a leg. | [adjective] Like or resembling a stump; short and cut off. | [adjective] Full of stumps. STUNTS (6) [noun] A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills. | [noun] Skill | [noun] A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line. STUPAS (8) [noun] A dome-shaped Buddhist monument, used to house relics of the Lord Buddha. | [noun] A stupe (medicated cloth or sponge). STUPES (8) [noun] A stupid person or (rarely) thing. | [noun] A hot, wet medicated cloth or sponge applied externally. STUPID (9) [noun] A stupid person; a fool. | [noun] The state or condition of being stupid. | [adjective] Lacking in intelligence or exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence. STUPOR (8) [noun] A state of reduced consciousness or sensibility. | [noun] A state in which one has difficulty in thinking or using one’s senses. | [verb] To place into a stupor; to stupefy. STURDY (10) [noun] A disease in sheep and cattle, caused by a tapeworm and marked by great nervousness or by dullness and stupor. | [adjective] Of firm build; stiff; stout; strong. | [adjective] Solid in structure or person. STURTS (6) STYING (10) [verb] To place in, or as if in, a sty | [verb] To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place | [verb] To ascend, rise up, climb. STYLAR (9) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a stylus. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the style of a sundial. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to a style. STYLED (10) [verb] To design, fashion, make, or arrange in a certain way or form (style) | [verb] To call or give a name or title to. | [verb] To create for, or give to, someone a style, fashion, or image, particularly one which is regarded as attractive, tasteful, or trendy. STYLER (9) STYLES (9) [noun] Senses relating to a thin, pointed object. | [noun] (by extension from sense 1.1) A particular manner of expression in writing or speech, especially one regarded as good. | [noun] A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art. STYLET (9) [noun] An engraving tool, a stylus. | [noun] A style of a plant's flower. | [noun] A slender medical probe or device. STYLUS (9) [noun] Senses relating to a thin, pointed object. | [noun] (by extension from sense 1.1) A particular manner of expression in writing or speech, especially one regarded as good. | [noun] A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art. STYMIE (11) [noun] A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952). | [noun] (by extension) An obstacle or obstruction. | [verb] To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck. STYRAX (16) [noun] Any member of the genus Styrax of about 130 species of large shrubs or small trees, mostly native to temperate or tropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere. SUABLE (8) SUABLY (11) SUAVER (9) [adjective] Charming, confident and elegant. SUBAHS (11) SUBBED (11) [verb] To substitute for. | [verb] To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education. | [verb] To replace (a player) with a substitute. SUBDEB (11) SUBDUE (9) [verb] To overcome, quieten, or bring under control. | [verb] To bring (a country) under control by force. SUBERS (8) SUBFIX (18) SUBGUM (11) SUBITO (8) SUBLET (8) [noun] Property leased by one lessee to another. | [verb] To lease or rent all or part of (a property) (to another person). SUBLOT (8) SUBMIT (10) [verb] To yield or give way to another. | [verb] To yield (something) to another, as when defeated. | [verb] To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc. SUBNET (8) [noun] The abstraction of a sequence. | [noun] A portion of a network that shares a network address in which each component is identified by a number. | [verb] To break (a network) into subnets. SUBORN (8) [verb] To induce to commit an unlawful or malicious act, or to commit perjury | [verb] To procure privately, or by collusion; to incite secretly; to instigate. SUBPAR (10) SUBSEA (8) [adjective] Beneath the sea; submarine. SUBSET (8) [noun] (of a set S) A set A such that every element of A is also an element of S. | [noun] A group of things or people, all of which are in a specified larger group. | [verb] To take a subset of. SUBTLE (8) [adjective] Hard to grasp; not obvious or easily understood; barely noticeable. | [adjective] (of a thing) Cleverly contrived. | [adjective] (of a person or animal) Cunning, skillful. SUBTLY (11) [adverb] With subtleness, in a subtle manner; with cleverness rather than brute force. SUBURB (10) [noun] A residential area located on the outskirts of a city or large town that usually includes businesses that cater to its residents; such as schools, grocery stores, shopping centers, restaurants, convenience stores, etc. | [noun] (by extension) The outer part; the environment. | [noun] Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery. SUBWAY (14) [noun] An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas. | [noun] A train that runs on such an underground railway. | [noun] A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way. SUCCAH (13) [noun] A temporary dwelling or booth used by practising Jews during Tabernacles (Sukkot). SUCCOR (10) [noun] Aid, assistance, or relief given to one in distress; ministration. | [noun] Aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers, especially reinforcements sent to support military action. | [noun] (obsolete except dialectal) Protection, refuge, shelter; a place providing such protection, refuge or shelter. SUCKED (13) [verb] To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast). | [verb] To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat. | [verb] To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk. SUCKER (12) [noun] A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned. | [noun] An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree. | [noun] (by extension) A parasite; a sponger. | [noun] Any thing or object. SUCKLE (12) [noun] A teat. | [verb] To give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs. | [verb] To nurse; to suck milk from a nursing mother. SUCRES (8) [noun] The former currency of Ecuador, divided into 100 centavos. SUDARY (10) SUDDEN (8) [noun] An unexpected occurrence; a surprise. | [adjective] Happening quickly and with little or no warning. | [adjective] Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid. SUDORS (7) SUDSED (8) [verb] To cover with, or as if with, soapsuds. SUDSER (7) [noun] A foaming agent used in detergents etc. | [noun] (entertainment industry) A soap opera. SUDSES (7) [verb] To cover with, or as if with, soapsuds. SUEDED (8) SUEDES (7) SUFFER (12) [verb] To undergo hardship. | [verb] To feel pain. | [verb] To become worse. SUFFIX (19) [noun] (grammar) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning. | [noun] A subscript. | [noun] A final segment of a string of characters. SUGARS (7) [noun] Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink. | [noun] A specific variety of sugar. | [noun] Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy. SUGARY (10) [adjective] Of food, drink, etc, containing or covered with a large amount of sugar | [adjective] Of behavior, exaggeratedly sweet and pleasant, often to the point of aversion. | [adjective] Fond of sweets. SUGHED (11) SUINTS (6) SUITED (7) [verb] To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit. | [verb] (said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item) To be suitable or apt for one's image. | [verb] To be appropriate or apt for. SUITER (6) SUITES (6) [noun] A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage | [noun] A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together | [noun] A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access. SUITOR (6) [noun] One who pursues someone, especially a woman, for marriage; a wooer; one who courts someone. | [noun] A party to a suit or litigation. | [noun] One who sues, petitions, solicits, or entreats; a petitioner. SUKKAH (17) [noun] A temporary dwelling or booth used by practising Jews during Tabernacles (Sukkot). SUKKOT (14) [noun] A temporary dwelling or booth used by practising Jews during Tabernacles (Sukkot). SULCAL (8) SULCUS (8) [noun] A furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue. | [noun] Any of the grooves that mark the convolutions of the surface of the brain. | [noun] A region of subparallel grooves or ditches formed by a geological process. SULDAN (7) SULFAS (9) SULFID (10) SULFUR (9) [noun] A chemical element (symbol S) with an atomic number of 16. | [noun] A yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur. | [verb] To treat with sulfur, or a sulfur compound, especially to preserve or to counter agricultural pests. SULKED (11) [verb] To express ill humor or offence by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn. SULKER (10) SULLEN (6) [noun] One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit. | [noun] (chiefly in plural) Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness. | [adjective] Having a brooding ill temper; sulky. SULPHA (11) [noun] A sulphanilamide. | [adjective] Of or containing sulphanilamide. SULTAN (6) [noun] The holder of a secular office, formally subordinate to, but de facto the power behind the throne of, the caliph. | [noun] A hereditary ruler in various Muslim states (sultanate), varying from petty principalities (as in Indonesia and in Yemen), often vassal of a greater ruler, to independent realms, such as Oman, Brunei, or an empire such as the Turkish Ottoman Empire. | [noun] A variant of solitaire, played with two decks of cards. SULTRY (9) [adjective] Hot and humid. | [adjective] Very hot and dry; torrid. | [adjective] Sexually enthralling. SUMACH (13) [noun] Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus and other genera in Anacardiaceae, particularly the elm-leaved sumac, Sicilian sumac, or tanner's sumac (Rhus coriaria). | [noun] Dried and chopped-up leaves and stems of a plant of the genus Rhus, particularly the tanner's sumac (see sense 1), used for dyeing and tanning leather or for medicinal purposes. | [noun] A sour spice popular in the Eastern Mediterranean, made from the berries of tanner's sumac. SUMACS (10) [noun] Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus and other genera in Anacardiaceae, particularly the elm-leaved sumac, Sicilian sumac, or tanner's sumac (Rhus coriaria). | [noun] Dried and chopped-up leaves and stems of a plant of the genus Rhus, particularly the tanner's sumac (see sense 1), used for dyeing and tanning leather or for medicinal purposes. | [noun] A sour spice popular in the Eastern Mediterranean, made from the berries of tanner's sumac. SUMMAE (10) [noun] A comprehensive summary of, or treatise on a subject, especially theology or philosophy. SUMMAS (10) SUMMED (11) [verb] To add together. | [verb] To give a summary of. SUMMER (10) [noun] One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as being from June 21 to September 22 or 23 in parts of the USA, the months of June, July and August in the United Kingdom and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere. | [noun] Year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one. | [noun] Someone with light, pinkish skin that has a blue undertone, light hair and eyes, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing. | [noun] A pack-horse. | [noun] A person who sums. SUMMIT (10) [noun] A peak; the topmost point or surface, as of a mountain. | [noun] A gathering or assembly of leaders. | [verb] (hiking) To reach the summit of a mountain. | [pronoun] Something SUMMON (10) [noun] Call, command, order | [verb] To call people together; to convene. | [verb] To ask someone to come; to send for. SUNBOW (11) [noun] A bow or arc of prismatic colors like a rainbow, caused by refraction through a spray of water from a cataract, waterfall, fountain, etc., rather than through droplets of rain. SUNDAE (7) [noun] A dessert consisting of ice cream with various toppings. | [noun] A Korean dish made of the boiled or steamed intestines of a cow or pig, stuffed with various ingredients. SUNDER (7) [adjective] Sundry; separate; different. | [noun] A separation into parts; a division or severance | [verb] To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force. SUNDEW (10) [noun] Any of a group of insectivorous plants in the genus Drosera that catch insects by sticky droplets ("dew") at the end of hairs on the leafs and grow in boggy ground all over the world. SUNDOG (8) [noun] Either of two bright spots, caused by the refraction of sunlight through ice crystals, sometimes seen on the parhelic circle. SUNDRY (10) [noun] (usually in the plural) A minor miscellaneous item. | [noun] (in the plural) A category for irregular or miscellaneous items not otherwise classified. | [noun] (usually in the plural) An extra. SUNKEN (10) [verb] (heading, physical) To move or be moved into something. | [verb] (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished. | [verb] To conceal and appropriate. SUNKET (10) SUNLIT (6) [adjective] Illuminated by sunlight. SUNNAH (9) SUNNAS (6) SUNNED (7) [verb] To expose to the warmth and radiation of the sun. | [verb] To warm or dry in the sunshine. | [verb] To be exposed to the sun. SUNSET (6) [noun] The time of day when the sun disappears below the western horizon. | [noun] The changes in color of the sky at sunset. | [noun] The final period of the life of a person or thing. SUNTAN (6) [noun] In humans a brown or darkened coloration of the skin caused by exposure to ultraviolet light. | [verb] To obtain a suntan by exposure to ultraviolet light. | [verb] To attempt to obtain a suntan. SUNUPS (8) [noun] The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon. | [noun] The change in color of the sky at sunup. SUPERB (10) [adjective] First-rate; of the highest quality; exceptionally good. | [adjective] Grand; magnificent; august; stately. | [adjective] Haughty. SUPERS (8) [noun] Short for superannuation. | [noun] Short for supercomputer. | [noun] Short for superhero. SUPINE (8) [noun] (grammar) In Latin and other languages: a type of verbal noun used in the ablative and accusative cases, which shares the same stem as the passive participle. | [noun] (grammar) In Swedish: a verb form that combines with an inflection of ha to form the present perfect and pluperfect tenses. | [adjective] Lying on its back. SUPPED (11) [verb] To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon. | [verb] To take supper. SUPPER (10) [noun] Food consumed before going to bed. | [noun] Any meal eaten in the evening; dinner eaten in the evening, rather than at noon. | [noun] A meal from a chip shop consisting of a deep-fried food with chips. | [noun] A drinker, especially one who drinks slowly (i.e., one who sups). SUPPLE (10) [verb] To make or become supple. | [verb] To make compliant, submissive, or obedient. | [adjective] Pliant, flexible, easy to bend SUPPLY (13) [noun] The act of supplying. | [noun] An amount of something supplied. | [noun] (in the plural) provisions. | [adverb] Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness. SURAHS (9) [noun] Any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an. | [noun] Soft twilled silk SURELY (9) [adverb] Without fail. | [adverb] Certainly, undoubtedly. | [adverb] With confidence. SUREST (6) [adjective] Physically secure and certain, non-failing, reliable. | [adjective] Certain in one's knowledge or belief. | [adjective] Certain to act or be a specified way. SURETY (9) [noun] Certainty. | [noun] That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security. | [noun] A promise to pay a sum of money in the event that another person fails to fulfill an obligation. SURFED (10) [verb] To ride a wave, usually on a surfboard. | [verb] To browse the Internet, television, etc. SURFER (9) [noun] A person who rides a surfboard. | [noun] A person who surfs the Internet. | [noun] A duck, the surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata). SURGED (8) [verb] To rush, flood, or increase suddenly. | [verb] To accelerate forwards, particularly suddenly. | [verb] To slack off a line. SURGER (7) SURGES (7) [noun] A sudden transient rush, flood or increase. | [noun] The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation | [noun] A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current. SURIMI (8) [noun] A white paste, made from ground fish, that is used to make formed and textured food products. SURRAS (6) SURREY (9) [noun] A light horse-drawn carriage with forward-facing seats accommodating two or four people, popular in the United States; a motorized carriage of similar design. SURTAX (13) [noun] An additional or extra tax. | [verb] To impose a surtax upon. SURVEY (12) [noun] The act of surveying; a general view. | [noun] A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of a particular group of items, in order to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality. | [noun] The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of any part of the Earth's surface. SUSHIS (9) SUSLIK (10) [noun] Any of several large Eurasian squirrels, of the genera Citellus or Spermophilus | [noun] The fur of these animals SUSSED (7) [verb] To arrest for suspicious behaviour. | [verb] (often with "out") To discover, infer or figure out. | [verb] To study or size up, to check out (examine). SUSSES (6) [verb] To arrest for suspicious behaviour. | [verb] (often with "out") To discover, infer or figure out. | [verb] To study or size up, to check out (examine). SUTLER (6) [noun] A person who follows an army, selling provisions. SUTRAS (6) [noun] A rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy. | [noun] A scriptural narrative, especially a discourse of the Buddha. SUTTAS (6) [noun] A rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy. | [noun] A scriptural narrative, especially a discourse of the Buddha. SUTTEE (6) [noun] The traditional custom of a Hindu woman giving herself up to be cremated on her husband’s funeral pyre as a sign of her devotion. SUTURE (6) [noun] A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound. | [noun] Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together. | [noun] An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault. SVARAJ (16) SVELTE (9) [adjective] Attractively thin; gracefully slender. | [adjective] Refined, delicate. SWABBY (16) [noun] A sailor. SWAGED (11) [verb] To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.). | [verb] To pacify or soothe (someone). | [verb] To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate. SWAGER (10) SWAGES (10) [verb] To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.). | [verb] To pacify or soothe (someone). | [verb] To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate. SWAILS (9) SWAINS (9) [noun] A young man or boy in service; a servant. | [noun] A knight's servant; an attendant. | [noun] A country labourer; a countryman, a rustic. SWALES (9) [noun] A low tract of moist or marshy land. | [noun] A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline. | [noun] A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch. SWAMIS (11) [noun] (used as a title) A Hindu ascetic or religious teacher. SWAMPS (13) [noun] A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes. | [noun] A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment. | [noun] A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult. SWAMPY (16) [adjective] Soggy and marshy; wet like a swamp. | [adjective] Flowing smoothly with no harsh tones but possibly including muddy tones. SWANKS (13) [verb] To swagger, to show off. SWANKY (16) [noun] An active and clever young fellow. | [noun] Poor thin beer or any sloppy drink, even sweetened water and vinegar. | [adjective] Rather posh, elegant, ritzy. SWARAJ (16) [noun] Self-rule SWARDS (10) [noun] A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod. | [noun] An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow. | [noun] Skin; covering. SWARFS (12) SWARMS (11) [noun] A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony. | [noun] A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil. | [noun] A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network. SWARTH (12) SWARTY (12) SWATCH (14) [noun] A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material. | [noun] A selection of such samples bound together. | [noun] A clump or portion of something. | [noun] A channel or passage of water between sandbanks, or between a sandbank and a seashore. SWATHE (12) [noun] A bandage; a band | [verb] To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers | [noun] The track cut out by a scythe in mowing. SWATHS (12) [noun] The track cut out by a scythe in mowing. | [noun] A broad sweep or expanse, such as of land or of people. SWAYED (13) [verb] To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock. | [verb] To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield. | [verb] To influence or direct by power, authority, persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide. Compare persuade. SWAYER (12) SWEARS (9) [verb] To take an oath, to promise. | [verb] To use offensive, profane, or obscene language. | [noun] A swear word. SWEATS (9) [noun] Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation. | [noun] The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis. | [noun] (especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced). SWEATY (12) [noun] One who is sweaty. | [adjective] Covered in sweat. | [adjective] Having a tendency to sweat. | [noun] (sometimes humorous) A term of familiar address. SWEDES (10) [noun] The fleshy yellow root of a variety of rape, Brassica napus var. napobrassica, resembling a large turnip, grown as a vegetable. | [noun] The plant from which this is obtained. | [noun] The turnip. SWEENY (12) SWEEPS (11) [noun] A single action of sweeping. | [noun] The person who steers a dragon boat. | [noun] A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew. SWEEPY (14) SWEETS (9) [noun] The basic taste sensation induced by sugar. | [noun] A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy. | [noun] A food eaten for dessert. SWELLS (9) [verb] To become bigger, especially due to being engorged. | [verb] To cause to become bigger. | [verb] To grow gradually in force or loudness. | [noun] The act of swelling; increase in size. SWERVE (12) [noun] A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision. | [noun] A deviation from duty or custom. | [verb] To stray; to wander; to rove. SWEVEN (12) SWIFTS (12) [noun] A small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight. | [noun] Any of certain lizards of the genus Sceloporus. | [noun] A moth of the family Hepialidae, swift moth, ghost moth. SWILLS (9) [noun] (collective) A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose. | [noun] (by extension) Any disgusting or distasteful liquid. | [noun] (by extension) Anything disgusting or worthless. SWIMMY (16) SWINGE (10) [noun] A swinging blow. | [noun] Power; sway; influence. | [verb] To singe. SWINGS (10) [noun] The manner in which something is swung. | [noun] The sweep or compass of a swinging body. | [noun] A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing. SWINGY (13) [adjective] Having a swinging motion. | [adjective] Characteristic of swing music. | [adjective] Having many swing voters. SWINKS (13) SWIPED (12) [verb] To grab or bat quickly. | [verb] To strike with a strong blow in a sweeping motion. | [verb] To scan or register by sliding (a swipecard etc.) through a reader. SWIPES (11) [noun] A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; a sweep. | [noun] A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club. | [noun] An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it. SWIPLE (11) SWIRLS (9) [noun] A whirling eddy. | [noun] A twist or coil of something. | [noun] The upward rushing of a fish through the water to take the bait. SWIRLY (12) [noun] A school prank involving holding a person upside down over a toilet bowl, submerging their head, then flushing water. | [adjective] Having swirls; swirling. SWISHY (15) [adjective] Producing a swishing sound. | [adjective] Swish; fancy, posh, impressive. | [adjective] (of a man) Effeminate; gay SWITCH (14) [noun] A bundle of thin sticks, typically made of wood, sometimes bond in such a way that binding can be moved so that it varies the tightness of the binding. | [noun] A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow. | [noun] A change or exchange. SWITHE (12) SWIVED (13) [verb] To copulate with (a woman). | [verb] To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest. SWIVEL (12) [noun] A piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis. | [noun] A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; called also swivel gun. | [noun] Strength of mind or character that enables one to overcome adversity; confidence; force of will. SWIVES (12) SWIVET (12) [noun] A state or condition of haste, flutter; extreme discomposure or distress; irritation, exasperation, annoyance. SWOONS (9) [verb] To faint, to lose consciousness. | [verb] (by extension) To be overwhelmed by emotion, especially infatuation. | [verb] To make a moan, sigh, or some other sound expressing infatuation or affection. SWOOPS (11) [noun] An instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward. | [noun] A sudden act of seizing. | [noun] A quick passage from one note to the next. SWOOSH (12) [noun] A swooshing movement or sound | [noun] A pattern or logo suggesting a swooshing movement. | [verb] To move with a rushing or swirling sound SWORDS (10) [noun] A long-bladed weapon with a hilt, and usually a pommel and cross-guard, which is designed to stab, slash, and/or hack. | [noun] A suit in the minor arcana in tarot. | [noun] A card of this suit. SWOUND (10) SWOUNS (9) SYBOES (11) SYCEES (11) SYLPHS (14) [noun] An invisible being of the air. | [noun] The elemental being of air, usually female. | [noun] (by extension) A slender woman or girl, usually graceful and sometimes with the implication of sublime station over everyday people. SYLPHY (17) SYLVAE (12) SYLVAN (12) [noun] One who resides in the woods. | [noun] A fabled deity of the wood; a faun, a satyr. | [adjective] Pertaining to the forest, or woodlands. SYLVAS (12) SYLVIN (12) SYMBOL (13) [noun] A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object. | [noun] A thing considered the embodiment of a concept or object. | [noun] A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index. SYNCED (12) [verb] To synchronize, especially in the senses of data synchronization, time synchronization, or synchronizing music with video. | [verb] To flush all pending I/O operations to disk. SYNCHS (14) [noun] Harmony. | [noun] A music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films. | [noun] The state or property of being synchronized. SYNCOM (13) SYNDET (10) SYNDIC (12) [noun] A government official, a magistrate, especially one of the Chief Magistrates of Geneva. | [noun] An agent of a corporation, or of any body of people engaged in a business enterprise; an advocate or patron; an assignee. SYNGAS (10) [noun] Synthesis gas or coal gas SYNODS (10) [noun] An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters. | [noun] An administrative division of churches, either the entire denomination, as in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, or a mid-level division (middle judicatory, district) as in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | [noun] An assembly or council having civil authority; a legislative body. SYNTAX (16) [noun] A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences. | [noun] The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language. | [noun] The study of the structure of phrases, sentences and language. SYNTHS (12) [noun] A musical synthesizer. | [verb] To play on a musical synthesizer. SYNURA (9) SYPHER (14) SYPHON (14) [noun] A bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other, in which hydrostatic pressure exerted due to the force of gravity moves liquid from one reservoir to another. | [noun] A soda siphon. | [noun] A tubelike organ found in animals or elongated cell found in plants. SYRENS (9) SYRINX (16) [noun] A set of panpipes. | [noun] A narrow channel cut in rock, especially in ancient Egyptian tombs. | [noun] The voice organ in birds. SYRUPS (11) [noun] Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavouring. | [noun] (by extension) Any viscous liquid. | [noun] (shortened from "syrup of figs") A wig. SYRUPY (14) [adjective] Having the taste or consistency of syrup. | [adjective] Overly sweet. | [adjective] Overly sentimental. SYSOPS (11) [noun] A system operator, especially someone who administers an online communications system or bulletin board. | [noun] (WMF jargon) An administrator on a wiki. SYSTEM (11) [noun] A collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members. | [noun] A method or way of organizing or planning. SYZYGY (25) [noun] An alignment of three celestial bodies (for example, the Sun, Earth, and Moon) such that one body is directly between the other two, such as occurs at an eclipse. | [noun] An archetypal pairing of contrasexual opposites, symbolizing the communication of the conscious and unconscious minds. | [noun] A relation between generators of a module.