| sauerkraut | (noun) shredded cabbage fermented in brine | - |
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| sauna | (noun) a Finnish steam bath; steam is produced by pouring water over heated rocks | Synonyms: sweat room |
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| saunter | (noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) | Synonyms: amble, perambulation, promenade, stroll |
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| (noun) a careless leisurely gait | - |
| saunterer | (noun) someone who walks at a leisurely pace | Synonyms: ambler, stroller |
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| saurel | (noun) large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe | Synonyms: horse mackerel, Trachurus trachurus |
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| (noun) a California food fish | Synonyms: horse mackerel, jack mackerel, Spanish mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus |
| saurian | (noun) any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards; in former classifications included also the crocodiles and dinosaurs | - |
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| saurischian | (noun) herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur having a three-pronged pelvis like that of a crocodile | Synonyms: saurischian dinosaur |
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| sauropod | (noun) very large herbivorous dinosaur of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a small head on a long neck and tail and five-toed limbs; largest known land animal | Synonyms: sauropod dinosaur |
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| saury | (noun) slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters | Synonyms: billfish, Scomberesox saurus |
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| sausage | (noun) a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon | Synonyms: blimp, sausage balloon |
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| (noun) highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings | - |
| saute | (noun) a dish of sauteed food | - |
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| sauteing | (noun) cooking in fat or oil in a pan or griddle | Synonyms: frying |
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| savage | (noun) a member of an uncivilized people | Synonyms: barbarian |
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| (noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: beast, brute, wildcat, wolf |
| savageness | (noun) the property of being untamed and ferocious | Synonyms: savagery |
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| savagery | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarism, barbarity, brutality |
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| (noun) the trait of extreme cruelty | Synonyms: brutality, ferociousness, viciousness |
| (noun) the property of being untamed and ferocious | Synonyms: savageness |
| savanna | (noun) a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | Synonyms: savannah |
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| savannah | (noun) a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | Synonyms: savanna |
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| savant | (noun) someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field | Synonyms: initiate, learned person, pundit |
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| savarin | (noun) a sponge cake baked in a ring mold | - |
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| save | (noun) (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring | - |
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| saveloy | (noun) a ready-cooked and highly seasoned pork sausage | - |
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| saver | (noun) someone who saves (especially money) | - |
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| (noun) someone who saves something from danger or violence | Synonyms: recoverer, rescuer |
| savin | (noun) procumbent or spreading juniper | Synonyms: dwarf juniper, Juniperus sabina |
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| saving | (noun) an act of economizing; reduction in cost | Synonyms: economy |
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| (noun) the activity of protecting something from loss or danger | Synonyms: preservation |
| (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: deliverance, delivery, rescue |
| savings | (noun) a fund of money put by as a reserve | Synonyms: nest egg |
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| savior | (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | Synonyms: deliverer, rescuer, saviour |
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| saviour | (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | Synonyms: deliverer, rescuer, savior |
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| savor | (noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: flavor, flavour, nip, relish, sapidity, savour, smack, tang |
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| savoriness | (noun) having an appetizing flavor | Synonyms: flavorsomeness, flavoursomeness |
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| savoring | (noun) taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | Synonyms: degustation, relishing, savouring, tasting |
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| savorlessness | (noun) the property of having no flavor | Synonyms: flavorlessness, flavourlessness, savourlessness, tastelessness |
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| savory | (noun) either of two aromatic herbs of the mint family | Synonyms: savoury |
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| (noun) an aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre | Synonyms: savoury |
| (noun) any of several aromatic herbs or subshrubs of the genus Satureja having spikes of flowers attractive to bees | - |
| (noun) dwarf aromatic shrub of Mediterranean regions | Synonyms: Micromeria juliana |
| savour | (noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: flavor, flavour, nip, relish, sapidity, savor, smack, tang |
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| savouring | (noun) taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | Synonyms: degustation, relishing, savoring, tasting |
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| savourlessness | (noun) the property of having no flavor | Synonyms: flavorlessness, flavourlessness, savorlessness, tastelessness |
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| savoury | (noun) either of two aromatic herbs of the mint family | Synonyms: savory |
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| (noun) an aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre | Synonyms: savory |
| savoy | (noun) head of soft crinkly leaves | Synonyms: savoy cabbage |
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| savvy | (noun) the cognitive condition of someone who understands | Synonyms: apprehension, discernment, understanding |
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| saw | (noun) hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting | - |
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| (noun) a power tool for cutting wood | Synonyms: power saw, sawing machine |
| (noun) a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people | Synonyms: adage, byword, proverb |
| sawbill | (noun) large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | Synonyms: fish duck, merganser, sheldrake |
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| sawbones | (noun) a physician who specializes in surgery | Synonyms: operating surgeon, surgeon |
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| sawbuck | (noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: buck, horse, sawhorse |
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| sawdust | (noun) fine particles of wood made by sawing wood | - |
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| sawfish | (noun) primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long flattened snout | - |
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| sawfly | (noun) insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant | - |
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| sawhorse | (noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: buck, horse, sawbuck |
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| sawm | (noun) the third pillar of Islam is fasting (primarily during the month of Ramadan); Muslims abstain from food and drink and gambling and all sensuous pleasures from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan | - |
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| sawmill | (noun) a mill for dressing logs and lumber | Synonyms: lumbermill |
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| (noun) a large sawing machine | - |
| sawpit | (noun) a pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawed by two men with a long two-handed saw | - |
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| sawtooth | (noun) a serration on a saw blade | - |
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| sawwort | (noun) European perennial whose serrate leaves yield a yellow dye | Synonyms: Serratula tinctoria |
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| sawyer | (noun) any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers | Synonyms: sawyer beetle |
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| (noun) one who is employed to saw wood | - |
| sax | (noun) a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore | Synonyms: saxophone |
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| saxhorn | (noun) any of a family of brass wind instruments that resemble a bugle with valves | - |
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| saxifrage | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga | Synonyms: breakstone, rockfoil |
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| saxist | (noun) a musician who plays the saxophone | Synonyms: saxophonist |
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| saxitoxin | (noun) a powerful neurotoxin produced by certain dinoflagellates found in red tides; it can accumulate in mollusks that feed on the dinoflagellates and cause food poisoning to humans | - |
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| saxophone | (noun) a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore | Synonyms: sax |
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| saxophonist | (noun) a musician who plays the saxophone | Synonyms: saxist |
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| say | (noun) the chance to speak | - |
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| sayeret | (noun) Israel's elite secret commando unit responsible for counterterrorist and top secret intelligence gathering and hostage rescue missions | Synonyms: Sayeret Mat'kal, Sayeret Matkal |
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| saying | (noun) a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations | Synonyms: expression, locution |
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| sayonara | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, so long |
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| scab | (noun) the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion | - |
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| (noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: blackleg, rat, strikebreaker |
| scabbard | (noun) a sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet | - |
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| scabicide | (noun) a drug that destroys the itch mite that causes scabies | - |
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| scabies | (noun) a contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation | Synonyms: itch |
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| scabiosa | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa | Synonyms: scabious |
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| scabious | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa | Synonyms: scabiosa |
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| scablands | (noun) (geology) flat elevated land with poor soil and little vegetation that is scarred by dry channels of glacial origin (especially in eastern Washington) | - |
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| scad | (noun) any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae | - |
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| scads | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| scaffold | (noun) a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers | - |
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| (noun) a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded) | - |
| scaffolding | (noun) a system of scaffolds | Synonyms: staging |
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| scag | (noun) street names for heroin | Synonyms: big H, hell dust, nose drops, skag, smack, thunder |
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| scalability | (noun) the quality of being scalable | - |
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| scalage | (noun) the act of scaling in weight or quantity or dimension | - |
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| (noun) estimation of the amount of lumber in a log | - |
| scalar | (noun) a variable quantity that cannot be resolved into components | - |
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| scalawag | (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scallywag, scamp |
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| (noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scallywag, varlet |
| (noun) a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest) | Synonyms: scallywag |
| scald | (noun) the act of burning with steam or hot water | - |
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| (noun) a burn cause by hot liquid or steam | - |
| scale | (noun) a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals | - |
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| (noun) an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks | - |
| (noun) a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass | Synonyms: weighing machine |
| (noun) a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) | Synonyms: plate, shell |
| (noun) (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave) | Synonyms: musical scale |
| (noun) a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin | Synonyms: exfoliation, scurf |
| (noun) a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin | Synonyms: scale leaf |
| (noun) relative magnitude | - |
| (noun) the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it | - |
| (noun) an ordered reference standard | Synonyms: graduated table, ordered series, scale of measurement |
| scalenus | (noun) any of four pairs of muscles extending from the cervical vertebrae to the second rib; involved in moving the neck and in breathing | Synonyms: musculus scalenus, scalene muscle |
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| scaler | (noun) an electronic pulse counter used to count pulses that occur too rapidly to be recorded individually | - |
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| scaliness | (noun) the property of being scaly | - |
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| scaling | (noun) act of measuring or arranging or adjusting according to a scale | - |
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| (noun) the act of arranging in a graduated series | Synonyms: grading |
| (noun) ascent by or as if by a ladder | - |
| scallion | (noun) a young onion before the bulb has enlarged; eaten in salads | Synonyms: green onion, spring onion |
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| (noun) plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum | Synonyms: Allium porrum, leek |
| scallop | (noun) edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions | Synonyms: escallop, scollop |
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| (noun) edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces | Synonyms: escallop, scollop |
| (noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: cutlet, escallop, scollop |
| (noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenature, crenel, crenelle |
| scallopine | (noun) sauteed cutlets (usually veal or poultry) that have been pounded thin and coated with flour | Synonyms: scallopini |
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| scallopini | (noun) sauteed cutlets (usually veal or poultry) that have been pounded thin and coated with flour | Synonyms: scallopine |
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| scallywag | (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scamp |
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| (noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scalawag, varlet |
| (noun) a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest) | Synonyms: scalawag |
| scalp | (noun) the skin that covers the top of the head | - |
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| scalpel | (noun) a thin straight surgical knife used in dissection and surgery | - |
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| scalper | (noun) someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost | - |
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| scam | (noun) a fraudulent business scheme | Synonyms: cozenage |
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| scammer | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, swindler |
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| scammony | (noun) twining plant of Asia Minor having cream-colored to purple flowers and long thick roots yielding a cathartic resin | Synonyms: Convolvulus scammonia |
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| (noun) resin from the root of Convolvulus scammonia | - |
| (noun) tropical American morning glory | Synonyms: Ipomoea orizabensis |
| scammonyroot | (noun) tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato | Synonyms: Ipomoea fastigiata, Ipomoea panurata, man-of-the-earth, manroot, wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine |
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| scamp | (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag |
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| scamper | (noun) rushing about hastily in an undignified way | Synonyms: scramble, scurry |
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| scampi | (noun) large shrimp sauteed in oil or butter and garlic | - |
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