| slab | (noun) block consisting of a thick piece of something | - |
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| slack | (noun) a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being loose (not taut) | Synonyms: slackness |
| (noun) a stretch of water without current or movement | Synonyms: slack water |
| (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | Synonyms: mire, morass, quag, quagmire |
| (noun) a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality | Synonyms: drop-off, falling off, falloff, slump |
| (noun) dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve | - |
| slackening | (noun) an occurrence of control or strength weakening | Synonyms: loosening, relaxation |
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| slacker | (noun) a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) | Synonyms: shirker |
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| slacking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, shirking, soldiering |
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| slackline | (noun) a partially tensioned line for balance or walking | - |
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| slackness | (noun) the quality of being loose (not taut) | Synonyms: slack |
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| (noun) the quality of being lax and neglectful | Synonyms: laxity, laxness, remissness |
| (noun) weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy | Synonyms: inanition, lassitude, lethargy |
| slacks | (noun) (used in the plural) pants for casual wear | - |
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| slag | (noun) the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals | Synonyms: dross, scoria |
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| slagheap | (noun) pile of waste matter from coal mining etc | - |
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| slain | (noun) people who have been slain (as in battle) | - |
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| slalom | (noun) a downhill race over a winding course defined by upright poles | - |
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| slam | (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot |
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| (noun) winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge | Synonyms: sweep |
| (noun) a forceful impact that makes a loud noise | - |
| (noun) the noise made by the forceful impact of two objects | - |
| slammer | (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: clink, gaol, jail, jailhouse, pokey, poky |
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| (noun) a person who closes things violently | - |
| slander | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, calumny, defamation, denigration |
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| (noun) words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another | - |
| slanderer | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, maligner, traducer, vilifier |
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| slanderousness | (noun) The property of being both untrue and harmful to a reputation. | - |
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| slang | (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, vernacular |
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| (noun) informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar | Synonyms: slang expression, slang term |
| slanginess | (noun) casualness in use of language | - |
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| slanguage | (noun) language characterized by excessive use of slang or cant | - |
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| slant | (noun) degree of deviation from a horizontal plane | Synonyms: pitch, rake |
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| (noun) a biased way of looking at or presenting something | Synonyms: angle |
| slap | (noun) the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand | Synonyms: smack, smacking |
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| (noun) a blow from a flat object (as an open hand) | Synonyms: smack |
| slapper | (noun) a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand | Synonyms: spanker |
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| slapshot | (noun) a fast shot made with a short powerful swing of the hockey stick | - |
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| slapstick | (noun) acoustic device consisting of two paddles hinged together; used by an actor to make a loud noise without inflicting injury when striking someone | - |
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| (noun) a boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes | - |
| slash | (noun) a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument | Synonyms: gash |
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| (noun) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information | Synonyms: diagonal, separatrix, solidus, stroke, virgule |
| (noun) an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind) | - |
| (noun) a wound made by cutting | Synonyms: cut, gash, slice |
| slasher | (noun) a weapon (a sword or dagger) used for slashing | - |
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| (noun) someone who slashes another person | - |
| slat | (noun) a thin strip (wood or metal) | Synonyms: spline |
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| slate | (noun) (formerly) a writing tablet made of slate | - |
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| (noun) a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices | Synonyms: ticket |
| (noun) a fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers | - |
| (noun) thin layers of rock used for roofing | Synonyms: slating |
| slater | (noun) any of various small terrestrial isopods having a flat elliptical segmented body; found in damp habitats | Synonyms: wood louse, woodlouse |
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| slatiness | (noun) The state or quality of being of or resembling the mineral slate. | - |
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| slating | (noun) the act of laying slates for a roof | - |
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| (noun) a severely critical attack | - |
| (noun) thin layers of rock used for roofing | Synonyms: slate |
| slattern | (noun) a dirty untidy woman | Synonyms: slovenly woman, slut, trollop |
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| (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, street girl, streetwalker |
| slatternliness | (noun) in the manner of a slattern | Synonyms: sluttishness |
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| slaughter | (noun) the killing of animals (as for food) | - |
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| (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: butchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre |
| (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
| slaughterer | (noun) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | Synonyms: butcher |
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| slaughterhouse | (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, butchery, shambles |
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| slave | (noun) a person who is owned by someone | - |
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| (noun) someone who works as hard as a slave | Synonyms: hard worker, striver |
| (noun) someone entirely dominated by some influence or person | - |
| slaveholder | (noun) someone who holds slaves | Synonyms: slave owner, slaver |
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| slaveholding | (noun) the practice of owning slaves | Synonyms: slavery |
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| slaver | (noun) a person engaged in slave trade | Synonyms: slave dealer, slave trader |
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| (noun) someone who holds slaves | Synonyms: slave owner, slaveholder |
| slavery | (noun) work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay | - |
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| (noun) the practice of owning slaves | Synonyms: slaveholding |
| (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: bondage, thraldom, thrall, thralldom |
| slavey | (noun) a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work | Synonyms: skivvy |
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| slaw | (noun) basically shredded cabbage | Synonyms: coleslaw |
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| slayer | (noun) someone who causes the death of a person or animal | Synonyms: killer |
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| slaying | (noun) unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being | Synonyms: execution, murder |
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