| singe | (noun) a surface burn | Synonyms: scorch |
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| singer | (noun) a person who sings | Synonyms: vocaliser, vocalist, vocalizer |
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| singing | (noun) the act of singing vocal music | Synonyms: vocalizing |
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| (noun) disclosing information or giving evidence about another | Synonyms: tattle, telling |
| single | (noun) a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base | Synonyms: bingle |
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| (noun) the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number | Synonyms: 1, ace, I, one, unity |
| singleness | (noun) the quality of concentrating on one central objective | - |
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| (noun) without hypocrisy | Synonyms: straightforwardness |
| singles | (noun) tennis played with one person on each side | - |
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| (noun) badminton played with one person on each side | - |
| singlestick | (noun) a stick used instead of a sword for fencing | Synonyms: backsword, fencing stick |
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| singlet | (noun) a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body | Synonyms: undershirt, vest |
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| singleton | (noun) the playing card that is the only card in a suit held in a bridge hand as initially dealt | - |
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| (noun) a set containing a single member | - |
| (noun) a single object (as distinguished from a pair) | - |
| singsong | (noun) informal group singing of popular songs | Synonyms: singalong |
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| (noun) a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation | - |
| singular | (noun) the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton | Synonyms: singular form |
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| singularity | (noun) the quality of being one of a kind | Synonyms: uniqueness |
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| (noun) strangeness by virtue of being remarkable or unusual | - |
| singultus | (noun) (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion | Synonyms: hiccough, hiccup |
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| sinistrality | (noun) preference for using the left hand | Synonyms: left-handedness |
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| sink | (noun) plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe | - |
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| (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspit, cesspool, sump |
| (noun) a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof | Synonyms: sinkhole, swallow hole |
| (noun) (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system | - |
| sinker | (noun) a pitch that curves downward rapidly as it approaches the plate | - |
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| (noun) a weight that sinks (as to hold nets or fishing lines under water) | - |
| (noun) a small ring-shaped friedcake | Synonyms: donut, doughnut |
| sinkhole | (noun) a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof | Synonyms: sink, swallow hole |
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| sinking | (noun) a descent as through liquid (especially through water) | - |
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| (noun) a slow fall or decline (as for lack of strength) | - |
| (noun) a feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension | Synonyms: sinking feeling |
| sinlessness | (noun) the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil | Synonyms: innocence, pureness, purity, whiteness |
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| sinner | (noun) a person who sins (without repenting) | Synonyms: evildoer |
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| sinning | (noun) an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will | Synonyms: sin |
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| sinoper | (noun) a red ocher formerly used as a pigment | Synonyms: sinopia, sinopis |
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| sinopia | (noun) a red ocher formerly used as a pigment | Synonyms: sinoper, sinopis |
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| sinopis | (noun) a red ocher formerly used as a pigment | Synonyms: sinoper, sinopia |
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| sinuosity | (noun) having bends (especially of streams and roads) | Synonyms: sinuousness |
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| sinuousness | (noun) having bends (especially of streams and roads) | Synonyms: sinuosity |
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| sinus | (noun) a wide channel containing blood; does not have the coating of an ordinary blood vessel | Synonyms: venous sinus |
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| (noun) any of various air-filled cavities especially in the bones of the skull | - |
| (noun) an abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface | Synonyms: fistula |
| sinusitis | (noun) inflammation of one of the paranasal sinuses | - |
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| sinusoid | (noun) tiny endothelium-lined passages for blood in the tissue of an organ | - |
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| (noun) the curve of y=sin x | Synonyms: sine curve |
| sip | (noun) a small drink | - |
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| siphon | (noun) a tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled | Synonyms: syphon |
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| (noun) a tube running from the liquid in a vessel to a lower level outside the vessel so that gravity forces the liquid through the tube | Synonyms: syphon |
| siphonophore | (noun) a floating or swimming oceanic colony of polyps often transparent or showily colored | - |
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| sipper | (noun) a drinker who sips | - |
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| sipunculid | (noun) small unsegmented marine worm that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body giving the appearance of a peanut | Synonyms: peanut worm |
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| sir | (noun) term of address for a man | - |
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| sirdar | (noun) an important person in India | - |
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| sire | (noun) male parent of an animal especially a domestic animal such as a horse | - |
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| (noun) the founder of a family | Synonyms: father, forefather |
| (noun) a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority | - |
| siren | (noun) eellike aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills | - |
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| (noun) an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning | - |
| (noun) a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound | - |
| (noun) a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive | Synonyms: Delilah, enchantress, femme fatale, temptress |
| sirenian | (noun) any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs | Synonyms: sea cow, sirenian mammal |
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| siriasis | (noun) sudden prostration due to exposure to the sun or excessive heat | Synonyms: insolation, sunstroke, thermic fever |
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| siris | (noun) large spreading Old World tree having large leaves and globose clusters of greenish-yellow flowers and long seed pods that clatter in the wind | Synonyms: Albizia lebbeck, Albizzia lebbeck, siris tree |
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| sirloin | (noun) the portion of the loin (especially of beef) just in front of the rump | - |
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| sirocco | (noun) a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand | Synonyms: dust storm, duster, sandstorm |
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| sirrah | (noun) formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy; often used in anger | - |
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| sirup | (noun) a thick sweet sticky liquid | Synonyms: syrup |
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| sis | (noun) a female person who has the same parents as another person | Synonyms: sister |
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| sisal | (noun) Mexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. rope | Synonyms: Agave sisalana |
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| (noun) a plant fiber used for making rope | Synonyms: sisal hemp |
| sise | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sestet, sextet, sextuplet, six, sixer, VI |
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| sisham | (noun) East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder; yields a compact dark brown durable timber used in shipbuilding and making railroad ties | Synonyms: Dalbergia sissoo, sissoo, sissu |
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| siskin | (noun) small yellow-and-black Eurasian finch with a sharp beak | Synonyms: Carduelis spinus |
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| sissification | (noun) Sexual act where a male is forced to act effeminately and dress like a woman | - |
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| sissiness | (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminacy, effeminateness, softness, unmanliness, womanishness |
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| sissoo | (noun) East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder; yields a compact dark brown durable timber used in shipbuilding and making railroad ties | Synonyms: Dalbergia sissoo, sisham, sissu |
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| sissu | (noun) East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder; yields a compact dark brown durable timber used in shipbuilding and making railroad ties | Synonyms: Dalbergia sissoo, sisham, sissoo |
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| sissy | (noun) a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive | Synonyms: milksop, Milquetoast, pansy, pantywaist |
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| sister | (noun) a female person who has the same parents as another person | Synonyms: sis |
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| (noun) a female person who is a fellow member of a sorority or labor union or other group | - |
| sisterhood | (noun) a religious society of women who live together as sisters (especially an order of nuns) | - |
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| (noun) an association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest | Synonyms: sistership |
| (noun) the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings | Synonyms: sistership |
| sistership | (noun) an association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest | Synonyms: sisterhood |
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| (noun) the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings | Synonyms: sisterhood |
| sitar | (noun) a stringed instrument of India; has a long neck and movable frets; has 6 or 7 metal strings for playing and usually 13 resonating strings | - |
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| sitcom | (noun) a humorous television program based on situations that could arise in everyday life | Synonyms: situation comedy |
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| (noun) a humorous drama based on situations that might arise in day-to-day life | Synonyms: situation comedy |
| site | (noun) a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web; a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web | Synonyms: internet site, web site, website |
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| (noun) the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located) | Synonyms: land site |
| (noun) physical position in relation to the surroundings | Synonyms: situation |
| sitter | (noun) a domestic hen ready to brood | Synonyms: brood hen, broody, broody hen, setting hen |
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| (noun) a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home | Synonyms: baby-sitter, babysitter |
| (noun) an organism (person or animal) that sits | - |
| (noun) a person who poses for a painter or sculptor | Synonyms: artist's model |
| sitting | (noun) the act of assuming or maintaining a seated position | - |
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| (noun) (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait) | Synonyms: posing |
| (noun) a session as of a legislature or court | - |
| (noun) a meeting of spiritualists | Synonyms: seance, session |
| situation | (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, office, place, position, post |
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| (noun) physical position in relation to the surroundings | Synonyms: site |
| (noun) the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time | Synonyms: state of affairs |
| (noun) a condition or position in which you find yourself | Synonyms: position |
| (noun) a complex or critical or unusual difficulty | - |
| six | (noun) a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows six pips | Synonyms: six-spot |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sestet, sextet, sextuplet, sise, sixer, VI |
| sixer | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sestet, sextet, sextuplet, sise, six, VI |
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| sixpack | (noun) a carton containing six bottles or cans | Synonyms: six-pack, six pack |
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| sixpence | (noun) a small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970 | Synonyms: tanner |
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| sixsome | (noun) six people considered as a unit | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
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| sixteen | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one | Synonyms: 16, XVI |
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| sixteenth | (noun) one part in sixteen equal parts | Synonyms: one-sixteenth, sixteenth part |
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| (noun) position 16 in a countable series of things | - |
| sixth | (noun) the musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it | - |
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| (noun) one part in six equal parts | Synonyms: one-sixth |
| (noun) position six in a countable series of things | - |
| sixties | (noun) the time of life between 60 and 70 | Synonyms: mid-sixties |
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| (noun) the decade from 1960 to 1969 | Synonyms: 1960s |
| sixtieth | (noun) one part in sixty equal parts | Synonyms: one-sixtieth |
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| (noun) position 60 in a countable series of things | - |
| sixty | (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and six | Synonyms: 60, LX |
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| size | (noun) the physical magnitude of something (how big it is) | - |
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| (noun) the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing) | - |
| (noun) a large magnitude | - |
| (noun) the actual state of affairs | Synonyms: size of it |
| (noun) any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics | Synonyms: sizing |
| sizeableness | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, vastness, wideness |
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| sizing | (noun) any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics | Synonyms: size |
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| sizzle | (noun) a sizzling noise | - |
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