| reinsurance | (noun) sharing the risk by insurance companies; part or all of the insurer's risk is assumed by other companies in return for part of the premium paid by the insured | - |
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| reissue | (noun) a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale | Synonyms: reprint, reprinting |
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| result | (noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: answer, resolution, solution, solvent |
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| (noun) the semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: resultant role |
| (noun) something that results | Synonyms: final result, outcome, resultant, termination |
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, upshot |
| resultant | (noun) a vector that is the sum of two or more other vectors | Synonyms: vector sum |
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| (noun) something that results | Synonyms: final result, outcome, result, termination |
| (noun) the final point in a process | Synonyms: end point |
| resume | (noun) short descriptive summary (of events) | Synonyms: sketch, survey |
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| (noun) a summary of your academic and work history | Synonyms: curriculum vitae, CV |
| resumption | (noun) beginning again | Synonyms: recommencement |
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| resurgence | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: revitalisation, revitalization, revival, revivification |
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| resurrection | (noun) a revival from inactivity and disuse | - |
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| resurvey | (noun) a new survey or study | - |
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| resuscitation | (noun) the act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness | - |
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| resuscitator | (noun) a breathing apparatus used for resuscitation by forcing oxygen into the lungs of a person who has undergone asphyxia or arrest of respiration | - |
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| resuspension | (noun) a renewed suspension of insoluble particles after they have been precipitated | - |
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| rhesus | (noun) of southern Asia; used in medical research | Synonyms: Macaca mulatta, rhesus monkey |
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| sapsucker | (noun) small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees | - |
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| sargassum | (noun) brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea | Synonyms: gulfweed, sargasso, Sargassum bacciferum |
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| satsuma | (noun) medium-sized largely seedless mandarin orange with thin smooth skin | - |
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| (noun) a variety of mandarin orange, known commonly as cold hardy mandarin, Christmas orange, or tangerine | Synonyms: satsuma tree |
| scissure | (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crack, crevice, fissure |
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| seersucker | (noun) a light puckered fabric (usually striped) | - |
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| sensualism | (noun) (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good | Synonyms: sensationalism |
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| (noun) desire for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: sensuality, sensualness |
| sensualist | (noun) a person who enjoys sensuality | - |
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| sensuality | (noun) desire for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: sensualism, sensualness |
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| sensualness | (noun) desire for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: sensualism, sensuality |
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| sensuousness | (noun) a sensuous feeling | - |
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| sharksucker | (noun) remoras found attached to sharks | Synonyms: Echeneis naucrates |
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| shiatsu | (noun) treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body | Synonyms: acupressure, G-Jo |
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| sissu | (noun) East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder; yields a compact dark brown durable timber used in shipbuilding and making railroad ties | Synonyms: Dalbergia sissoo, sisham, sissoo |
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| snowsuit | (noun) a child's overgarment for cold weather | - |
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| soapsuds | (noun) the froth produced by soaps or detergents | Synonyms: lather, suds |
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| spacesuit | (noun) a pressure suit worn by astronauts while in outer space | - |
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| suability | (noun) (law) liability to be sued. | - |
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| suasion | (noun) the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action | Synonyms: persuasion |
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| suaveness | (noun) the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner | Synonyms: blandness, smoothness, suavity |
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| suavity | (noun) the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner | Synonyms: blandness, smoothness, suaveness |
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| sub | (noun) a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes | Synonyms: pigboat, submarine |
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| (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
| subaltern | (noun) a British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain | - |
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| subbase | (noun) the lowest molding of an architectural base or of a baseboard | - |
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| subbing | (noun) working as a substitute for someone who is ill or on leave of absence | Synonyms: substituting |
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| subception | (noun) (psychology) perception of or reaction to a stimulus that occurs without awareness or consciousness. | Synonyms: subliminal perception |
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| subclass | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic category below a class and above an order | - |
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| subcommittee | (noun) a subset of committee members organized for a specific purpose | - |
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| subcompact | (noun) a car smaller than a compact car | Synonyms: subcompact car |
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| subconscious | (noun) psychic activity just below the level of awareness | Synonyms: subconscious mind |
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| subconsciousness | (noun) a state of mind not immediately available to consciousness | - |
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| subcontinent | (noun) a large and distinctive landmass (as India or Greenland) that is a distinct part of some continent | - |
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| subcontract | (noun) a contract assigning to another party some obligations of a prior contract | - |
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| subcontractor | (noun) someone who enters into a subcontract with the primary contractor | - |
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| subculture | (noun) a social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior and beliefs | - |
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| subdeacon | (noun) a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church | - |
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| subdimension | (noun) a partial dimension that constitutes the entire dimension of a given object. | - |
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| subdirectory | (noun) (computer science) a directory that is listed in another directory | - |
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| subdivider | (noun) someone who divides parts into smaller parts (especially a divider of land into building sites) | - |
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| subdivision | (noun) the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided | - |
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| (noun) a section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided | Synonyms: subsection |
| (noun) a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical) | Synonyms: section |
| (noun) a division of some larger or more complex organization | Synonyms: arm, branch |
| (noun) an area composed of subdivided lots | - |
| subdominant | (noun) (music) the fourth note of the diatonic scale | - |
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| subduction | (noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate | - |
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| subduedness | (noun) the property of lights or sounds that lack brilliance or are reduced in intensity | Synonyms: dimness |
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| (noun) a disposition to be patient and long suffering | Synonyms: meekness |
| subduer | (noun) someone who overcomes and establishes ascendancy and control by force or persuasion | Synonyms: overcomer, surmounter |
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| subeditor | (noun) an assistant editor | - |
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| subentry | (noun) An entry, such as one in an account or reference work, that is included within a main entry. | - |
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| subfamily | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic category below a family | - |
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| subfigure | (noun) a figure that is a part of another figure | - |
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| subgenus | (noun) (biology) taxonomic group between a genus and a species | - |
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| subgroup | (noun) (mathematics) a subset (that is not empty) of a mathematical group | - |
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| (noun) a distinct and often subordinate group within a group | - |
| subhead | (noun) a heading of a subdivision of a text | Synonyms: subheading |
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| subheading | (noun) a heading of a subdivision of a text | Synonyms: subhead |
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| subject | (noun) something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation | Synonyms: content, depicted object |
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| (noun) a branch of knowledge | Synonyms: bailiwick, discipline, field, field of study, study, subject area, subject field |
| (noun) some situation or event that is thought about | Synonyms: issue, matter, topic |
| (noun) the subject matter of a conversation or discussion | Synonyms: theme, topic |
| (noun) (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated | - |
| (noun) (logic) the first term of a proposition | - |
| (noun) a person who owes allegiance to that nation | Synonyms: national |
| (noun) a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation | Synonyms: case, guinea pig |
| subjection | (noun) the act of conquering | Synonyms: conquering, conquest, subjugation |
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| (noun) forced submission to control by others | Synonyms: subjugation |
| subjectiveness | (noun) judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings and opinions rather than external facts | Synonyms: subjectivity |
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| subjectivism | (noun) the quality of being subjective | - |
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| (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge and value are dependent on and limited by your subjective experience | - |
| subjectivist | (noun) a person who subscribes to subjectivism | - |
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| subjectivity | (noun) judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings and opinions rather than external facts | Synonyms: subjectiveness |
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| subjoining | (noun) the act of supplementing | Synonyms: subjunction, supplementation |
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| subjugation | (noun) the act of conquering | Synonyms: conquering, conquest, subjection |
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| (noun) the act of subjugating by cruelty | Synonyms: oppression |
| (noun) forced submission to control by others | Synonyms: subjection |
| subjugator | (noun) a conqueror who defeats and enslaves | - |
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| subjunction | (noun) the act of supplementing | Synonyms: subjoining, supplementation |
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| subjunctive | (noun) a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible | Synonyms: subjunctive mood |
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| subkingdom | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group comprising a major division of a kingdom | - |
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| sublease | (noun) a lease from one lessee to another | Synonyms: sublet |
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| sublet | (noun) a lease from one lessee to another | Synonyms: sublease |
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| sublieutenant | (noun) an officer ranking next below a lieutenant | - |
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| sublimate | (noun) the product of vaporization of a solid | - |
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| sublimation | (noun) (psychology) modifying the natural expression of an impulse or instinct (especially a sexual one) to one that is socially acceptable | - |
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| (noun) (chemistry) a change directly from the solid to the gaseous state without becoming liquid | - |
| sublimit | (noun) (insurance) a limitation in an amount of loss coverage. | - |
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| sublimity | (noun) nobility in thought or feeling or style | - |
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| subluxation | (noun) partial displacement of a joint or organ | - |
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| submarine | (noun) a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes | Synonyms: pigboat, sub |
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| (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
| submariner | (noun) a member of the crew of a submarine | - |
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| submaxilla | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth | Synonyms: jawbone, jowl, lower jaw, lower jawbone, mandible, mandibula, mandibular bone |
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| submediant | (noun) (music) the sixth note of a major or minor scale (or the third below the tonic) | - |
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| submenu | (noun) a secondary menu that appears while you are holding the cursor over an item on the primary menu | Synonyms: cascading menu, hierarchical menu |
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| submergence | (noun) sinking until covered completely with water | Synonyms: immersion, submerging, submersion |
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| submerging | (noun) sinking until covered completely with water | Synonyms: immersion, submergence, submersion |
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| submersible | (noun) a warship designed to operate under water | Synonyms: submersible warship |
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| (noun) an apparatus intended for use under water | - |
| submersion | (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: dousing, ducking, immersion |
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| (noun) sinking until covered completely with water | Synonyms: immersion, submergence, submerging |
| submission | (noun) the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another | Synonyms: compliance |
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| (noun) something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition) | Synonyms: entry |
| (noun) an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter | - |
| (noun) a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter | - |
| (noun) (law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case he is arguing | - |
| (noun) the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness | Synonyms: meekness |
| (noun) the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else | - |
| submissiveness | (noun) the trait of being willing to yield to the will of another person or a superior force etc. | - |
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| submitter | (noun) someone who submits something (as an application for a job or a manuscript for publication etc.) for the judgment of others | - |
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| (noun) someone who yields to the will of another person or force | - |
| submucosa | (noun) the connective tissue beneath mucous membrane | - |
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| subnormal | (noun) a person of less than normal intelligence | - |
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| subnormality | (noun) lack of normal development of intellectual capacities | Synonyms: backwardness, mental retardation, retardation, slowness |
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| (noun) the state of being less than normal (especially with respect to intelligence) | - |
| suborder | (noun) (biology) taxonomic group that is a subdivision of an order | - |
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