| search | (noun) the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone | Synonyms: hunt, hunting |
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| (noun) boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas | - |
| (noun) an investigation seeking answers | - |
| (noun) the examination of alternative hypotheses | - |
| (noun) an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property | Synonyms: lookup |
| searcher | (noun) large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America | Synonyms: Calosoma scrutator, searcher beetle |
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| (noun) someone making a search or inquiry | Synonyms: quester, seeker |
| (noun) a customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items | - |
| searchlight | (noun) a light source with reflectors that projects a beam of light in a particular direction | - |
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| squirearchy | (noun) the gentry who own land (considered as a class) | Synonyms: landed gentry |
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| starch | (noun) a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles | Synonyms: amylum |
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| (noun) a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering | - |
| starches | (noun) foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread) | - |
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| sugarcane | (noun) tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar | Synonyms: Saccharum officinarum, sugar cane |
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| (noun) juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice | Synonyms: sugar cane |
| symposiarch | (noun) the person who proposes toasts and introduces speakers at a banquet | Synonyms: toastmaster |
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| thelarche | (noun) the start of breast development in a woman at the beginning of puberty | - |
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| tragifarce | (noun) an extreme form of tragicomedy. | - |
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