| slob | (noun) a coarse obnoxious person | Synonyms: pig, sloven, slovenly person |
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| slobber | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool |
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| slobberer | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, driveller, drooler |
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| sloe | (noun) small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush | - |
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| (noun) a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits | Synonyms: blackthorn, Prunus spinosa |
| (noun) wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh | Synonyms: Alleghany plum, Allegheny plum, Prunus alleghaniensis |
| slogan | (noun) a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual | Synonyms: catchword, motto, shibboleth |
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| sloganeer | (noun) someone who coins and uses slogans to promote a cause | - |
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| sloganeering | (noun) persuasion by means of empty slogans | - |
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| slogger | (noun) a boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches | Synonyms: slugger |
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| (noun) someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours | Synonyms: plodder |
| (noun) someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner | Synonyms: plodder, trudger |
| sloop | (noun) a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow | - |
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| slop | (noun) writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental | Synonyms: glop, mush, treacle |
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| (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigswill, pigwash, slops, swill |
| (noun) (usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink | - |
| (noun) deep soft mud in water or slush | Synonyms: mire |
| (noun) (usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand | - |
| slope | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal | Synonyms: gradient |
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| (noun) an elevated geological formation | Synonyms: incline, side |
| sloppiness | (noun) the quality of not being careful or taking pains | Synonyms: carelessness |
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| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, sentimentality, soupiness |
| (noun) a lack of order and tidiness; not cared for | Synonyms: slovenliness, unkemptness |
| (noun) the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water | Synonyms: muddiness, wateriness |
| slops | (noun) cheap clothing (as formerly issued to sailors in Britain) | - |
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| (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigswill, pigwash, slop, swill |
| slopseller | (noun) a dealer in cheap ready-made clothing | Synonyms: slop-seller |
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| slopshop | (noun) a store that sells cheap ready-made clothing | Synonyms: slopseller's shop |
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| slot | (noun) a small slit (as for inserting a coin or depositing mail) | - |
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| (noun) a slot machine that is used for gambling | Synonyms: one-armed bandit |
| (noun) (computer) a socket in a microcomputer that will accept a plug-in circuit board | Synonyms: expansion slot |
| (noun) a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable | - |
| (noun) the trail of an animal (especially a deer) | - |
| (noun) a position in a hierarchy or organization | - |
| (noun) a time assigned on a schedule or agenda | Synonyms: time slot |
| sloth | (noun) apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: acedia, laziness |
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| (noun) any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits | Synonyms: tree sloth |
| (noun) a disinclination to work or exert yourself | Synonyms: slothfulness |
| slothfulness | (noun) a disinclination to work or exert yourself | Synonyms: sloth |
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| slouch | (noun) a stooping carriage in standing and walking | - |
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| (noun) an incompetent person; usually used in negative constructions | - |
| sloucher | (noun) a person who slouches; someone with a drooping carriage | - |
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| slough | (noun) any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake) | - |
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| (noun) necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass | Synonyms: gangrene, sphacelus |
| (noun) a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou) | - |
| (noun) a hollow filled with mud | - |
| sloughing | (noun) the process whereby something is shed | Synonyms: shedding |
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| sloven | (noun) a coarse obnoxious person | Synonyms: pig, slob, slovenly person |
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| slovenliness | (noun) habitual uncleanliness | - |
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| (noun) a lack of order and tidiness; not cared for | Synonyms: sloppiness, unkemptness |
| slowcoach | (noun) someone who moves slowly | Synonyms: plodder, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud |
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| slowdown | (noun) the act of slowing down or falling behind | Synonyms: lag, retardation |
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| slowing | (noun) a decrease in rate of change | Synonyms: deceleration, retardation |
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| slowness | (noun) a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry | Synonyms: deliberateness, deliberation, unhurriedness |
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| (noun) lack of normal development of intellectual capacities | Synonyms: backwardness, mental retardation, retardation, subnormality |
| (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness |
| slowpoke | (noun) someone who moves slowly | Synonyms: plodder, slowcoach, stick-in-the-mud |
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| slowworm | (noun) small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind | Synonyms: Anguis fragilis, blindworm |
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