| sizzling | (adjective) hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement | Synonyms: red-hot |
| skirting | (adjective) being all around the edges; enclosing | Synonyms: encircling |
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| slanting | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, sloped, sloping |
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| slashing | (adjective) as if striking with slashing blows | - |
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| slaveholding | (adjective) allowing slavery | - |
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| sleeping | (adjective) lying with head on paws as if sleeping | Synonyms: dormant |
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| sliding | (adjective) being a smooth continuous motion | - |
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| slighting | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory |
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| slipping | (adjective) moving as on a slippery surface | Synonyms: slithering |
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| slithering | (adjective) moving as on a slippery surface | Synonyms: slipping |
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| sloping | (adjective) having a slanting form or direction | - |
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| (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped |
| slowgoing | (adjective) not inclined to be enterprising | Synonyms: unenergetic |
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| sluicing | (adjective) pouring from or as if from a sluice | - |
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| smashing | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, swell |
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| smelling | (adjective) (used with `of' or `with') noticeably odorous | Synonyms: redolent |
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| smiling | (adjective) smiling with happiness or optimism | Synonyms: beamish, twinkly |
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| smoking | (adjective) emitting smoke in great volume | - |
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| smoldering | (adjective) showing scarcely suppressed anger | Synonyms: smouldering |
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| smothering | (adjective) causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat | Synonyms: choking, suffocating, suffocative |
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| smouldering | (adjective) showing scarcely suppressed anger | Synonyms: smoldering |
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| sneaking | (adjective) not openly expressed | Synonyms: unavowed |
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| sneering | (adjective) expressive of contempt | Synonyms: snide, supercilious |
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| snuffling | (adjective) liable to sniffle | Synonyms: sniffly, snuffly |
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| soaring | (adjective) of imposing height; especially standing out above others | Synonyms: eminent, lofty, towering |
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| (adjective) ascending to a level markedly higher than the usual | - |
| sobering | (adjective) tending to make sober or more serious | - |
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| sodding | (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
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| softening | (adjective) having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin | Synonyms: demulcent, emollient, salving |
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| soothing | (adjective) affording physical relief | - |
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| (adjective) freeing from fear and anxiety | Synonyms: assuasive |
| sorrowing | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning |
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| soughing | (adjective) characterized by soft sounds | Synonyms: murmurous, rustling, susurrous |
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| sounding | (adjective) making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form | - |
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| (adjective) having volume or deepness | - |
| (adjective) appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms | Synonyms: looking |
| spanking | (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, zippy |
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| sparing | (adjective) avoiding waste | Synonyms: economical, frugal, scotch, stinting |
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| sparkling | (adjective) used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: effervescent |
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| (adjective) shining with brilliant points of light like stars | - |
| speaking | (adjective) capable of or involving speech or speaking | - |
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| (adjective) capable of speech | Synonyms: speech-endowed |
| spellbinding | (adjective) attracting and holding interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: hypnotic, mesmeric, mesmerizing |
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| spiffing | (adjective) excellent or splendid | - |
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| spiraling | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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| spiralling | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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| splitting | (adjective) resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree | Synonyms: rending, ripping |
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| sporting | (adjective) relating to or used in sports | - |
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| (adjective) involving risk or willingness to take a risk | - |
| (adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | Synonyms: clean, sportsmanlike, sporty |
| (adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: betting, card-playing, dissipated, gambling |
| spouting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: jetting, spurting, squirting |
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| sprawling | (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: rambling, straggling, straggly |
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| spurting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: jetting, spouting, squirting |
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| squalling | (adjective) characterized by short periods of noisy commotion | Synonyms: squally |
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| squeaking | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screaky, screechy, squeaky, squealing |
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| squealing | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screaky, screechy, squeaking, squeaky |
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| squinting | (adjective) having eyes half closed in order to see better | Synonyms: squinched |
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| squirting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: jetting, spouting, spurting |
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| stabbing | (adjective) causing physical or especially psychological injury | Synonyms: wounding |
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| (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing |
| stabilising | (adjective) causing to become stable | Synonyms: stabilizing |
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| stabilizing | (adjective) causing to become stable | Synonyms: stabilising |
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| staggering | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astonishing, astounding, stupefying |
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| standing | (adjective) (of persons) on the feet; having the torso in an erect position supported by straight legs | - |
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| (adjective) executed in or initiated from a standing position | - |
| (adjective) (of fluids) not moving or flowing | - |
| (adjective) having a supporting base | - |
| (adjective) not created for a particular occasion | - |
| (adjective) permanent | - |
| staring | (adjective) (used of eyes) open and fixed as if in fear or wonder | Synonyms: agaze |
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| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| starring | (adjective) indicating the most important performer or role | Synonyms: leading, prima, star, stellar |
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| starting | (adjective) appropriate to the beginning or start of an event | - |
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| (adjective) (especially of eyes) bulging or protruding as with fear | - |
| startling | (adjective) so remarkably different or sudden as to cause momentary shock or alarm | - |
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| starving | (adjective) suffering from lack of food | Synonyms: starved |
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| steadying | (adjective) causing to become steady | - |
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| steaming | (adjective) filled with steam or emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist | Synonyms: steamy |
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| sterling | (adjective) highest in quality | Synonyms: greatest, superlative |
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| sticking | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking out |
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| stifling | (adjective) characterized by oppressive heat and humidity | Synonyms: sulfurous, sulphurous, sultry |
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| stimulating | (adjective) rousing or quickening activity or the senses | - |
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| (adjective) making lively and cheerful | Synonyms: exhilarating |
| (adjective) that stimulates | Synonyms: stimulant |
| stinging | (adjective) (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character | Synonyms: cutting, edged |
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| stinking | (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinky |
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| (adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, foul, funky, ill-scented, noisome, smelly |
| stinting | (adjective) avoiding waste | Synonyms: economical, frugal, scotch, sparing |
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| stirring | (adjective) exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions | Synonyms: soul-stirring |
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| (adjective) capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement | Synonyms: rousing |
| stooping | (adjective) having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect | Synonyms: crooked, hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped |
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| straggling | (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: rambling, sprawling, straggly |
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| straining | (adjective) taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance | Synonyms: arduous, strenuous |
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| strapping | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, burly, husky |
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| straying | (adjective) unable to find your way | - |
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| streaming | (adjective) exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts | - |
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| (adjective) (computer science) using or relating to a form of continuous tape transport; used mainly to provide backup storage of unedited data; data that is transmitted and loaded continuously as earlier parts are being accessed/processed/displayed | - |
| striking | (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular |
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| (adjective) sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect | Synonyms: dramatic, spectacular |
| strong | (adjective) having strength or power greater than average or expected | - |
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| (adjective) having a strong physiological or chemical effect | Synonyms: potent, stiff |
| (adjective) being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content | Synonyms: hard |
| (adjective) strong and sure | Synonyms: firm |
| (adjective) freshly made or left | Synonyms: warm |
| (adjective) not faint or feeble | - |
| (adjective) immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with | Synonyms: impregnable, inviolable, secure, unassailable, unattackable |
| (adjective) of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection | - |
| (adjective) having or wielding force or authority | Synonyms: potent |
| (adjective) of good quality and condition; solidly built | Synonyms: solid, substantial |
| struggling | (adjective) engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity | - |
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| strung | (adjective) that is on a string | - |
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| stung | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed |
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| stunning | (adjective) strikingly beautiful or attractive | - |
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| (adjective) causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility | - |
| (adjective) commanding attention | Synonyms: arresting, sensational |
| (adjective) causing great astonishment and consternation | - |
| stupefying | (adjective) shocking with surprise and consternation | - |
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| (adjective) making physically stupid or dull or insensible | - |
| (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astonishing, astounding, staggering |
| subordinating | (adjective) serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause | Synonyms: subordinative |
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| substantiating | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| succeeding | (adjective) coming after or following | - |
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| (adjective) (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving | Synonyms: future, next |
| suffering | (adjective) troubled by pain or loss | - |
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| (adjective) very unhappy; full of misery | Synonyms: miserable, wretched |
| suffocating | (adjective) causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat | Synonyms: choking, smothering, suffocative |
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| supporting | (adjective) capable of bearing a structural load | Synonyms: load-bearing |
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| (adjective) furnishing support and encouragement | Synonyms: encouraging |
| surging | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowing, billowy |
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| surpassing | (adjective) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree | Synonyms: exceeding, exceptional, olympian, prodigious |
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| (adjective) exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence | Synonyms: transcendent |
| surprising | (adjective) causing surprise or wonder or amazement | - |
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| surrounding | (adjective) closely encircling | Synonyms: circumferent, encompassing |
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| surviving | (adjective) still in existence | Synonyms: living |
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| swaggering | (adjective) flamboyantly adventurous | Synonyms: swashbuckling |
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| (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious |
| swashbuckling | (adjective) flamboyantly adventurous | Synonyms: swaggering |
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| sweeping | (adjective) ignoring distinctions | Synonyms: wholesale |
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| (adjective) taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination | - |
| sweltering | (adjective) excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness | Synonyms: sweltry |
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| sweptwing | (adjective) (of an aircraft) having sweptback wings | - |
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| swimming | (adjective) applied to a fish depicted horizontally | Synonyms: naiant |
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| (adjective) filled or brimming with tears | Synonyms: liquid |
| swingeing | (adjective) severe; punishingly bad | - |
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