sabaton | (noun) armor plate that protects the foot; consists of mail with a solid toe and heel | Synonyms: solleret |
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sabayon | (noun) light foamy custard-like dessert served hot or chilled | Synonyms: zabaglione |
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sabbat | (noun) a midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery; in the Middle Ages it was supposed to be a demonic orgy | Synonyms: witches' Sabbath |
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sabbatia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers; occur from acid bogs to brackish marshes | - |
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sabbatical | (noun) a leave usually taken every seventh year | Synonyms: sabbatical leave |
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saber | (noun) a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back | Synonyms: cavalry sword, sabre |
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(noun) a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle | Synonyms: sabre |
sabertooth | (noun) any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene | Synonyms: saber-toothed tiger |
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sabianism | (noun) the religion of a group mentioned in the Koran as entitled to Muslim religious toleration along with Jews and Christians and usually identified with the Mandaeans or the Elkesaites. | - |
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sabicu | (noun) West Indian tree yielding a hard dark brown wood resembling mahogany in texture and value | Synonyms: Lysiloma sabicu |
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(noun) the wood of the sabicu which resembles mahogany | Synonyms: sabicu wood |
sabin | (noun) a unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound | - |
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sable | (noun) marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur | Synonyms: Martes zibellina |
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(noun) a scarf (or trimming) made of sable | - |
(noun) an artist's brush made of sable hairs | Synonyms: sable's hair pencil, sable brush |
(noun) a very dark black | Synonyms: coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, soot black |
(noun) the expensive dark brown fur of the marten | - |
sabot | (noun) footwear usually with wooden soles | Synonyms: clog, geta, patten |
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(noun) a shoe carved from a single block of wood | Synonyms: wooden shoe |
sabotage | (noun) a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged | - |
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saboteur | (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: diversionist, wrecker |
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(noun) a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader | Synonyms: fifth columnist |
sabra | (noun) a native-born Israeli | - |
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sabre | (noun) a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back | Synonyms: cavalry sword, saber |
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(noun) a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle | Synonyms: saber |