| salvor | (noun) someone who salvages | Synonyms: salvager |
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| salwar | (noun) a pair of light loose trousers with a tight fit around the ankles; worn by women from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a kameez) | Synonyms: shalwar |
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| saman | (noun) large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle | Synonyms: Albizia saman, monkey pod, monkeypod, rain tree, zaman, zamang |
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| samara | (noun) a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple | Synonyms: key, key fruit |
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| samarium | (noun) a grey lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group; is used in special alloys; occurs in monazite and bastnasite | Synonyms: atomic number 62, Sm |
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| samarskite | (noun) a complex black mineral occurring in pegmatites | - |
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| samba | (noun) a lively dance from Brazil, with roots from Africa | - |
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| (noun) a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers | - |
| (noun) music composed for dancing the samba | - |
| (noun) large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood | Synonyms: arere, obeche, obechi, Triplochiton scleroxcylon |
| sambar | (noun) a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines | Synonyms: Cervus unicolor, sambur |
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| sambuca | (noun) an Italian liqueur made with elderberries and flavored with licorice | - |
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| sambur | (noun) a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines | Synonyms: Cervus unicolor, sambar |
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| samekh | (noun) the 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| sameness | (noun) the quality of being alike | - |
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| (noun) the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety | Synonyms: humdrum, monotony |
| samiel | (noun) a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa | Synonyms: simoom, simoon |
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| samisen | (noun) a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretless fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum | Synonyms: shamisen |
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| samite | (noun) a heavy silk fabric (often woven with silver or gold threads); used to make clothing in the Middle Ages | - |
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| samizdat | (noun) a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature | Synonyms: underground press |
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| samosa | (noun) small turnover of Indian origin filled with vegetables or meat and fried and served hot | - |
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| samovar | (noun) a metal urn with a spigot at the base; used in Russia to boil water for tea | - |
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| sampan | (noun) an Asian skiff usually propelled by two oars | - |
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| samphire | (noun) fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass | Synonyms: glasswort, Salicornia europaea |
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| sample | (noun) a small part of something intended as representative of the whole | - |
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| (noun) items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population | Synonyms: sample distribution, sampling |
| (noun) all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class | - |
| sampler | (noun) a piece of embroidery demonstrating skill with various stitches | - |
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| (noun) an observation station that is set up to make sample observations of something | Synonyms: sampling station |
| (noun) an assortment of various samples | - |
| (noun) someone who samples food or drink for its quality | Synonyms: taste-tester, taste tester, taster |
| sampling | (noun) (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study | - |
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| (noun) measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form) | - |
| (noun) items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population | Synonyms: sample, sample distribution |
| samsara | (noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the endless cycle of birth and suffering and death and rebirth | - |
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| samurai | (noun) feudal Japanese military aristocracy | - |
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| (noun) a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy | - |
| sanatarium | (noun) a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases | Synonyms: sanatorium, sanitarium |
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| sanatorium | (noun) a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases | Synonyms: sanatarium, sanitarium |
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| (noun) pejorative terms for an insane asylum | Synonyms: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, snake pit |
| sanctification | (noun) a religious ceremony in which something is made holy | - |
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| sanctimoniousness | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimony |
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| sanctimony | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimoniousness |
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| sanction | (noun) the act of final authorization | - |
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| (noun) a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards | - |
| (noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, authorization |
| (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, indorsement, warrant |
| sanctitude | (noun) the quality of being holy | Synonyms: holiness, sanctity |
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| sanctity | (noun) the quality of being holy | Synonyms: holiness, sanctitude |
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| sanctuary | (noun) area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing | Synonyms: bema, chancel |
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| (noun) a shelter from danger or hardship | Synonyms: asylum, refuge |
| (noun) a consecrated place where sacred objects are kept | - |
| sanctum | (noun) a place of inviolable privacy | Synonyms: sanctum sanctorum |
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| (noun) a sacred place of pilgrimage | Synonyms: holy, holy place |
| sand | (noun) fortitude and determination | Synonyms: backbone, grit, gumption, guts, moxie |
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| (noun) a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral | - |
| sandal | (noun) a shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot | - |
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| sandalwood | (noun) close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood; has insect repelling properties and is used for carving and cabinetwork | - |
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| sandarac | (noun) a brittle and faintly aromatic translucent resin used in varnishes | Synonyms: sandarach |
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| (noun) large coniferous evergreen tree of North Africa and Spain having flattened branches and scalelike leaves yielding a hard fragrant wood; bark yields a resin used in varnishes | Synonyms: Callitris quadrivalvis, sandarac tree, Tetraclinis articulata |
| (noun) durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain) | Synonyms: citronwood |
| sandarach | (noun) a brittle and faintly aromatic translucent resin used in varnishes | Synonyms: sandarac |
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| sandbag | (noun) a bag filled with sand; used as a weapon or to build walls or as ballast | - |
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| sandbagger | (noun) someone who deceives you about his true nature or intent in order to take advantage of you | - |
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| sandbank | (noun) a submerged bank of sand near a shore or in a river; can be exposed at low tide | - |
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| sandbar | (noun) a bar of sand | Synonyms: sand bar |
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| sandberry | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, creashak, hog cranberry, mealberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, wild cranberry |
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| sandblast | (noun) a blast of wind laden with sand | - |
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| sandblaster | (noun) a tool that throws out a blast of steam laden with sand; used to clean or grind hard surfaces | - |
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| sandbox | (noun) a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in | Synonyms: sandpile, sandpit |
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| (noun) mold consisting of a box with sand shaped to mold metal | - |
| sandboy | (noun) a young peddler of sand; used now only to express great happiness in `happy as a sandboy' | - |
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| sandbur | (noun) grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs | Synonyms: Cenchrus tribuloides, field sandbur, sandspur |
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| sander | (noun) a power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor | Synonyms: drum sander, electric sander, smoother |
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| sanderling | (noun) small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world | Synonyms: Crocethia alba |
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| sandfish | (noun) either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand | - |
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| (noun) fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand | Synonyms: beaked salmon, Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus |
| sandfly | (noun) any of various small dipterous flies; bloodsucking females can transmit sandfly fever and leishmaniasis | Synonyms: Phlebotomus papatasii, sand fly |
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| sandglass | (noun) timepiece in which the passage of time is indicated by the flow of sand from one transparent container to another through a narrow passage | - |
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| sandgrouse | (noun) pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young | Synonyms: sand grouse |
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| sandhi | (noun) the articulatory process whereby the pronunciation of a word or morpheme changes when it is followed immediately by another (especially in fluent speech) | - |
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| sandhopper | (noun) small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches | Synonyms: beach flea, sand flea, sand hopper |
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| sandiness | (noun) a texture resembling that of sand | - |
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| (noun) The property of containing sand. | - |
| sandlot | (noun) a vacant lot used by city boys to play games | - |
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| sandman | (noun) an elf in fairy stories who sprinkles sand in children's eyes to make them sleepy | - |
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| sandpaper | (noun) stiff paper coated with powdered emery or sand | Synonyms: emery paper |
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| sandpile | (noun) a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in | Synonyms: sandbox, sandpit |
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| sandpiper | (noun) any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers | - |
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| sandpit | (noun) a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in | Synonyms: sandbox, sandpile |
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| (noun) a large pit in sandy ground from which sand is dug | - |
| sands | (noun) the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean | Synonyms: litoral, littoral, littoral zone |
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| sandspur | (noun) grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs | Synonyms: Cenchrus tribuloides, field sandbur, sandbur |
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| sandstone | (noun) a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.) | - |
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| sandstorm | (noun) a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand | Synonyms: dust storm, duster, sirocco |
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| sandwich | (noun) two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them | - |
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| sandwichman | (noun) a person with advertising boards hanging from the shoulders | - |
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| sandwort | (noun) low-growing chiefly perennial plant usually with small white flowers suitable for e.g. rock gardens | - |
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| (noun) low-growing herb having clusters of small white four-petaled flowers | Synonyms: Moehringia lateriflora |
| (noun) loosely matted plant with moss-like foliage studded with tiny starry four-petaled white blossoms; mountains of central and southern Europe | Synonyms: Moehringia mucosa |
| saneness | (noun) normal or sound powers of mind | Synonyms: sanity |
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| sanfoin | (noun) Eurasian perennial herb having pale pink flowers and curved pods; naturalized in Britain and North America grasslands on calcareous soils; important forage crop and source of honey in Britain | Synonyms: esparcet, holy clover, Onobrychis viciaefolia, Onobrychis viciifolia, sainfoin |
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| sang | (noun) North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng | Synonyms: American ginseng, Panax quinquefolius |
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| sangapenum | (noun) a variety of gum | Synonyms: gum sangapenum |
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| sangaree | (noun) sweetened red wine and orange or lemon juice with soda water | Synonyms: sangria |
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| sangoma | (noun) a traditional Zulu healer and respected elder | - |
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| sangria | (noun) sweetened red wine and orange or lemon juice with soda water | Synonyms: sangaree |
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| sanguification | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis |
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| sanguine | (noun) chalk of a reddish-brown colour that resembles dried blood | Synonyms: red chalk |
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| (noun) a blood-red color | - |
| sanguineness | (noun) feeling sanguine; optimistically cheerful and confident | Synonyms: sanguinity |
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| sanguinity | (noun) feeling sanguine; optimistically cheerful and confident | Synonyms: sanguineness |
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| sanicle | (noun) a plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by bristly fruit; reputed to have healing powers | Synonyms: snakeroot |
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| sanies | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: festering, ichor, purulence, pus, suppuration |
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| sanitariness | (noun) the state of being conducive to health | - |
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| sanitarium | (noun) a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases | Synonyms: sanatarium, sanatorium |
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| sanitation | (noun) making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing | Synonyms: sanitisation, sanitization |
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| (noun) the state of being clean and conducive to health | - |
| sanitisation | (noun) making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing | Synonyms: sanitation, sanitization |
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| sanitization | (noun) making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing | Synonyms: sanitation, sanitisation |
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| sanity | (noun) normal or sound powers of mind | Synonyms: saneness |
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| sannup | (noun) a married male American Indian | - |
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| sannyasi | (noun) a Hindu religious mendicant | Synonyms: sannyasin, sanyasi |
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| sannyasin | (noun) a Hindu religious mendicant | Synonyms: sannyasi, sanyasi |
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| sansevieria | (noun) grown as a houseplant for its mottled fleshy sword-shaped leaves or as a source of fiber | Synonyms: bowstring hemp |
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| santims | (noun) 100 santimi equal 1 lats in Latvia | - |
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| sanyasi | (noun) a Hindu religious mendicant | Synonyms: sannyasi, sannyasin |
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| sap | (noun) a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people | Synonyms: blackjack, cosh |
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| (noun) a person who lacks good judgment | Synonyms: fool, muggins, saphead, tomfool |
| (noun) a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant | - |
| saphead | (noun) a person who lacks good judgment | Synonyms: fool, muggins, sap, tomfool |
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| sapidity | (noun) a pleasant flavor | Synonyms: sapidness |
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| (noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: flavor, flavour, nip, relish, savor, savour, smack, tang |