| sorbate | (noun) a material that has been or is capable of being taken up by another substance by either absorption or adsorption | - |
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| soubrette | (noun) a minor female role as a pert flirtatious lady's maid in a comedy | - |
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| (noun) a pert or flirtatious young girl | - |
| spate | (noun) the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow | Synonyms: freshet |
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| (noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: rush, surge, upsurge |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| spermatocyte | (noun) a male gametocyte that develops into four spermatids | - |
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| spermatophyte | (noun) plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores | Synonyms: phanerogam, seed plant |
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| sphalerite | (noun) an ore that is the chief source of zinc; consists largely of zinc sulfide in crystalline form | Synonyms: blende, zinc blende |
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| spherocyte | (noun) an abnormal spherical red blood cell | - |
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| spirochaete | (noun) parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals | Synonyms: spirochete |
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| spirochete | (noun) parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals | Synonyms: spirochaete |
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| spite | (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: bitchiness, cattiness, nastiness, spitefulness |
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| (noun) feeling a need to see others suffer | Synonyms: malice, maliciousness, spitefulness, venom |
| sporophyte | (noun) the spore-producing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations | - |
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| sporozoite | (noun) one of the minute active bodies into which sporozoans divide in one stage of their life cycle | - |
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| sprite | (noun) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers | Synonyms: faerie, faery, fairy, fay |
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| stablemate | (noun) a horse stabled with another or one of several horses owned by the same person | Synonyms: stable companion |
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| stacte | (noun) (Old Testament) one of several sweet-smelling spices used in incense | - |
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| stalactite | (noun) a cylinder of calcium carbonate hanging from the roof of a limestone cave | - |
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| stalagmite | (noun) a cylinder of calcium carbonate projecting upward from the floor of a limestone cave | - |
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| stalemate | (noun) drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check | - |
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| (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, deadlock, impasse, standstill |
| stannite | (noun) a dark grey mineral with a metallic luster that is a source of tin | Synonyms: tin pyrites |
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| state | (noun) the way something is with respect to its main attributes | - |
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| (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, commonwealth, country, land, nation, res publica |
| (noun) the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state | - |
| (noun) the territory occupied by a nation | Synonyms: country, land |
| (noun) the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation | Synonyms: province |
| (noun) a state of depression or agitation | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container) | Synonyms: state of matter |
| statuette | (noun) a small carved or molded figure | Synonyms: figurine |
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| statute | (noun) an act passed by a legislative body | Synonyms: legislative act |
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| stearate | (noun) an ester of stearic acid. | - |
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| (noun) a salt of stearic acid. | - |
| steatite | (noun) a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments | Synonyms: soap-rock, soaprock, soapstone |
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| stibnite | (noun) a soft grey mineral; the chief ore of antimony | - |
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| stockinette | (noun) knit used especially for infants' wear and undergarments | Synonyms: stockinet |
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| stomate | (noun) a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass | Synonyms: pore, stoma |
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| strontianite | (noun) a mineral consisting of strontium carbonate | - |
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| stylite | (noun) an early Christian ascetic who lived on top of high pillars | - |
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| sublimate | (noun) the product of vaporization of a solid | - |
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| subordinate | (noun) a word that is more specific than a given word | Synonyms: hyponym, subordinate word |
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| (noun) an assistant subject to the authority or control of another | Synonyms: foot soldier, subsidiary, underling |
| substitute | (noun) a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another | Synonyms: replacement |
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| (noun) someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Synonyms: backup, backup man, fill-in, relief, reliever, stand-in |
| (noun) an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced | Synonyms: reserve, second-stringer |
| substrate | (noun) an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population | Synonyms: substratum |
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| (noun) any stratum or layer lying underneath another | Synonyms: substratum |
| (noun) a surface on which an organism grows or is attached | Synonyms: substratum |
| (noun) the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment | - |
| suburbanite | (noun) a resident of a suburb | - |
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| sucralfate | (noun) medicine consisting of a tablet (trade name Carafate) used to treat peptic ulcers; said to bind to the ulcer site and coat it | Synonyms: Carafate |
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| suffragette | (noun) a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century) | - |
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| suite | (noun) apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel) | Synonyms: rooms |
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| (noun) a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected | - |
| (noun) the group following and attending to some important person | Synonyms: cortege, entourage, retinue |
| (noun) a matching set of furniture | - |
| sulfate | (noun) a salt or ester of sulphuric acid | Synonyms: sulphate |
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| sulfonate | (noun) a salt of sulphonic acid | - |
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| sulphate | (noun) a salt or ester of sulphuric acid | Synonyms: sulfate |
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| sultanate | (noun) country or territory ruled by a sultan | - |
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| sundate | (noun) A date on a Sunday | - |
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| superordinate | (noun) a word that is more generic than a given word | Synonyms: hypernym, superordinate word |
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| (noun) one of greater rank or station or quality | Synonyms: higher-up, superior |
| superstrate | (noun) the language of a later invading people that is imposed on an indigenous population and contributes features to their language | Synonyms: superstratum |
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| (noun) any stratum or layer superimposed on another | Synonyms: superstratum |
| suricate | (noun) burrowing diurnal meerkat of southern Africa; often kept as a pet | Synonyms: Suricata tetradactyla |
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| surrogate | (noun) a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others | Synonyms: deputy |
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| (noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: alternate, replacement |
| sybarite | (noun) a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses | Synonyms: voluptuary |
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| sylvanite | (noun) a silver-white mineral consisting of silver gold telluride; a source of gold in Australia and America | Synonyms: graphic tellurium |
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| sylvite | (noun) a mineral consisting of native potassium chloride; an important ore of potassium that is found in sedimentary beds | Synonyms: sylvine |
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| syndicate | (noun) an association of companies for some definite purpose | Synonyms: consortium, pool |
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| (noun) a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities | Synonyms: crime syndicate, family, mob |
| (noun) a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication | - |
| tablemate | (noun) someone you dine with | Synonyms: dining companion |
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| tachylite | (noun) a basic or basalt glass | - |
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| taconite | (noun) a variety of chert containing magnetite and hematite; mined as a low-grade iron ore | - |
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| tagasaste | (noun) shrub of Canary Islands having bristle-tipped oblanceolate leaves; used as cattle fodder | Synonyms: Chamaecytisus palmensis, Cytesis proliferus |
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| tailgate | (noun) a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading | Synonyms: tailboard |
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| tantalite | (noun) a mineral consisting of tantalum oxide of iron and manganese that occurs with niobite or in coarse granite; an ore of tantalum | - |
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| tartrate | (noun) a salt or ester of tartaric acid | - |
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| taste | (noun) a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds | Synonyms: tasting |
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| (noun) delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | Synonyms: appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness |
| (noun) the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus | Synonyms: gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste perception, taste sensation |
| (noun) the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth | Synonyms: gustation, gustatory modality, sense of taste |
| (noun) a brief experience of something | - |
| (noun) a strong liking | Synonyms: penchant, predilection, preference |
| (noun) a small amount eaten or drunk | Synonyms: mouthful |
| te | (noun) the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization | Synonyms: si, ti |
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| teammate | (noun) a fellow member of a team | Synonyms: mate |
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| tebibyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes | Synonyms: TB, terabyte, TiB |
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| tektite | (noun) thought to derive from meteorites | - |
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| template | (noun) a model or standard for making comparisons | Synonyms: guide, templet |
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| terabyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes | Synonyms: TB, tebibyte, TiB |
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| (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bytes | Synonyms: TB |
| termite | (noun) whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood | Synonyms: white ant |
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| testate | (noun) a person who makes a will | Synonyms: testator |
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| textolite | (noun) a laminated composite material used for electrotechnical components, inserts and bearings. | - |
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| thallophyte | (noun) any of a group of cryptogamic organisms consisting principally of a thallus and thus showing no differentiation into stem and root and leaf | - |
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| theodolite | (noun) a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod | Synonyms: transit |
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| thiocyanate | (noun) a salt of thiocyanic acid; formed when alkaline cyanides are fused with sulfur | - |
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| thorite | (noun) a radioactive mineral consisting of thorium silicate; it is a source of thorium that is found in coarse granite | - |
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| thortveitite | (noun) a mineral consisting of scandium yttrium silicate; a source of scandium | - |
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| thrombocyte | (noun) tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting | Synonyms: blood platelet, platelet |
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| tinplate | (noun) a thin sheet of metal (iron or steel) coated with tin to prevent rusting; used especially for cans, pots, and tins | Synonyms: tin plate |
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| toilette | (noun) the act of dressing and preparing yourself | Synonyms: toilet |
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| tollgate | (noun) a gate or bar across a toll bridge or toll road which is lifted when the toll is paid | Synonyms: tollbar |
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| tomtate | (noun) found off the West Indies and Florida | Synonyms: Haemulon aurolineatum |
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| toothpaste | (noun) a dentifrice in the form of a paste | - |
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| torte | (noun) rich cake usually covered with cream and fruit or nuts; originated in Austria | - |
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| tote | (noun) a capacious bag or basket | Synonyms: carryall, holdall, tote bag |
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| tracheophyte | (noun) green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms | Synonyms: vascular plant |
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| transmigrante | (noun) a Latin American who buys used goods in the United States and takes them to Latin America to sell | - |
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| transudate | (noun) a substance that transudes | Synonyms: transudation |
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| transvestite | (noun) someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: cross-dresser |
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| tremolite | (noun) a white or pale green mineral (calcium magnesium silicate) of the amphibole group used as a form of asbestos | - |
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| triacetate | (noun) cellulose acetate that is relatively slow to burn; used instead of celluloid for motion-picture film | Synonyms: cellulose triacetate |
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| tribute | (noun) payment by one nation for protection by another | - |
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| (noun) payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence | Synonyms: protection |
| (noun) something given or done as an expression of esteem | Synonyms: testimonial |
| tridymite | (noun) a mineral form of silica | - |
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| trilobite | (noun) an extinct arthropod that was abundant in Paleozoic times; had an exoskeleton divided into three parts | - |
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| triplicate | (noun) one of three copies; any of three things that correspond to one another exactly | - |
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| triumvirate | (noun) a group of three men responsible for public administration or civil authority | - |
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| troglodyte | (noun) someone who lives in a cave | Synonyms: cave dweller, cave man, caveman |
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| (noun) one who lives in solitude | Synonyms: hermit, recluse, solitary, solitudinarian |
| trophozoite | (noun) a sporozoan in the active feeding stage of its life cycle | - |
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| tungstate | (noun) a salt of tungstic acid | - |
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| tunicate | (noun) primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva | Synonyms: urochord, urochordate |
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| turbinate | (noun) any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates | Synonyms: turbinal, turbinate bone |
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| ultimate | (noun) the finest or most superior quality of its kind | - |
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| underestimate | (noun) an estimation that is too low; an estimate that is less than the true or actual value | Synonyms: underestimation, underrating, underreckoning |
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| undergraduate | (noun) a university student who has not yet received a first degree | Synonyms: undergrad |
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| unfortunate | (noun) a person who suffers misfortune | Synonyms: unfortunate person |
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