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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