| soldiering | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, shirking, slacking |
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| (noun) skills that are required for the life of soldier | Synonyms: soldiership |
| soldiership | (noun) skills that are required for the life of soldier | Synonyms: soldiering |
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| soldiery | (noun) soldiers collectively | Synonyms: military personnel, troops |
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| sole | (noun) right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European | - |
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| (noun) the underside of footwear or a golf club | - |
| (noun) the underside of the foot | - |
| (noun) lean flesh of any of several flatfish | Synonyms: fillet of sole |
| solebar | (noun) one of the longitudinal beams running along either side of a railway vehicle, onto which the bodywork is mounted, in passenger-carrying vehicles usually forming the side or the base of the floor. | Synonyms: side sill |
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| solecism | (noun) a socially awkward or tactless act | Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, slip |
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| solemness | (noun) a trait of dignified seriousness | Synonyms: sedateness, solemnity, staidness |
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| solemnisation | (noun) the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual | Synonyms: celebration, solemnization |
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| solemnity | (noun) a trait of dignified seriousness | Synonyms: sedateness, solemness, staidness |
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| (noun) a solemn and dignified feeling | Synonyms: gravity |
| solemnization | (noun) the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual | Synonyms: celebration, solemnisation |
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| solenogaster | (noun) deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle | Synonyms: aplacophoran |
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| solenoid | (noun) a coil of wire around an iron core; becomes a magnet when current passes through the coil | - |
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| soleus | (noun) a broad flat muscle in the calf of the leg under the gastrocnemius muscle | Synonyms: soleus muscle |
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| solfa | (noun) a system of solmization using the solfa syllables: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti | Synonyms: tonic solfa |
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| solfege | (noun) a voice exercise; singing scales or runs to the same syllable | Synonyms: solfeggio |
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| (noun) singing using solfa syllables to denote the notes of the scale of C major | Synonyms: solfeggio, solmization |
| solfeggio | (noun) a voice exercise; singing scales or runs to the same syllable | Synonyms: solfege |
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| (noun) singing using solfa syllables to denote the notes of the scale of C major | Synonyms: solfege, solmization |
| solferino | (noun) a pink dye that was discovered in 1859, the year a battle was fought at Solferino | Synonyms: purplish pink |
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| solicitation | (noun) the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money) | Synonyms: allurement |
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| (noun) an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status | - |
| (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, collection, ingathering |
| solicitor | (noun) a British lawyer who gives legal advice and prepares legal documents | - |
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| (noun) a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes | Synonyms: canvasser |
| solicitorship | (noun) the position of solicitor | - |
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| solicitousness | (noun) a feeling of excessive concern | Synonyms: solicitude |
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| solicitude | (noun) a feeling of excessive concern | Synonyms: solicitousness |
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| solid | (noun) a three-dimensional object, structurally rigid, usually resistant to changes of shape or volume | - |
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| (noun) the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape | Synonyms: solid state, solidness |
| (noun) matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure | - |
| solidarity | (noun) a union of interests or purposes or sympathies among members of a group | - |
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| solidification | (noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: curing, hardening, set, solidifying |
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| solidifying | (noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: curing, hardening, set, solidification |
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| solidity | (noun) the quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally | Synonyms: solidness |
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| (noun) the consistency of a solid | Synonyms: solidness |
| (noun) state of having the interior filled with matter | - |
| solidness | (noun) the quality of being substantial or having substance | Synonyms: substantiality, substantialness |
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| (noun) the quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally | Synonyms: solidity |
| (noun) the consistency of a solid | Synonyms: solidity |
| (noun) the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape | Synonyms: solid, solid state |
| solidus | (noun) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information | Synonyms: diagonal, separatrix, slash, stroke, virgule |
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| (noun) a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: bezant, bezzant, byzant |
| soliloquy | (noun) speech you make to yourself | Synonyms: monologue |
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| (noun) a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections | - |
| solipsism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist | - |
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| solitaire | (noun) a card game played by one person | Synonyms: patience |
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| (noun) a dull grey North American thrush noted for its beautiful song | - |
| (noun) extinct flightless bird related to the dodo | Synonyms: Pezophaps solitaria |
| (noun) a gem (usually a diamond) in a setting by itself | - |
| solitariness | (noun) a disposition toward being alone | Synonyms: aloneness, loneliness, lonesomeness |
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| (noun) the state of being alone in solitary isolation | Synonyms: loneliness |
| solitary | (noun) one who lives in solitude | Synonyms: hermit, recluse, solitudinarian, troglodyte |
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| (noun) confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners | Synonyms: solitary confinement |
| soliton | (noun) (physics) a quantum of energy or quasiparticle that can be propagated as a traveling wave in nonlinear systems and is neither preceded nor followed by another such disturbance; does not obey the superposition principle and does not dissipate | Synonyms: solitary wave, soliton wave |
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| solitude | (noun) a solitary place | - |
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| (noun) a state of social isolation | Synonyms: purdah |
| (noun) the state or situation of being alone | - |
| solitudinarian | (noun) one who lives in solitude | Synonyms: hermit, recluse, solitary, troglodyte |
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| solleret | (noun) armor plate that protects the foot; consists of mail with a solid toe and heel | Synonyms: sabaton |
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| solmisation | (noun) a system of naming the notes of a musical scale by syllables instead of letters | Synonyms: solmization |
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| solmization | (noun) singing using solfa syllables to denote the notes of the scale of C major | Synonyms: solfege, solfeggio |
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| (noun) a system of naming the notes of a musical scale by syllables instead of letters | Synonyms: solmisation |
| solo | (noun) a flight in which the aircraft pilot is unaccompanied | - |
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| (noun) any activity that is performed alone without assistance | - |
| (noun) a musical composition for one voice or instrument (with or without accompaniment) | - |
| soloist | (noun) a musician who performs a solo | - |
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| solon | (noun) a person who is a respected leader in national or international affairs | Synonyms: national leader |
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| solstice | (noun) either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator | - |
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| solubility | (noun) the quality of being soluble and easily dissolved in liquid | - |
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| (noun) the property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it possible to solve | Synonyms: solvability |
| (noun) the quantity of a particular substance that can dissolve in a particular solvent (yielding a saturated solution) | - |
| solubleness | (noun) the property of being dissoluble | Synonyms: dissolubility |
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| solute | (noun) the dissolved matter in a solution; the component of a solution that changes its state | - |
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| solution | (noun) the successful action of solving a problem | - |
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| (noun) a method for solving a problem | - |
| (noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: answer, resolution, result, solvent |
| (noun) the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation | Synonyms: root |
| (noun) a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution | - |
| solvability | (noun) the property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it possible to solve | Synonyms: solubility |
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| solvate | (noun) a compound formed by solvation (the combination of solvent molecules with molecules or ions of the solute) | - |
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| solvation | (noun) a chemical process in which solvent molecules and molecules or ions of the solute combine to form a compound | - |
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| solvency | (noun) the ability to meet maturing obligations as they come due | - |
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| solvent | (noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: answer, resolution, result, solution |
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| (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent |
| solver | (noun) a thinker who focuses on the problem as stated and tries to synthesize information and knowledge to achieve a solution | Synonyms: convergent thinker, problem solver |
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| solving | (noun) finding a solution to a problem | Synonyms: resolution |
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| som | (noun) the basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan | - |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Uzbekistan | - |
| soma | (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape |
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| (noun) leafless East Indian vine; its sour milky juice formerly used to make an intoxicating drink | Synonyms: haoma, Sarcostemma acidum |
| somaesthesia | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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| (noun) the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations | Synonyms: somatesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia |
| somaesthesis | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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| soman | (noun) a nerve agent easily absorbed into the body; a lethal cholinesterase inhibitor that is highly toxic when inhaled | Synonyms: GD |
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| somataesthesis | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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| somatesthesia | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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| (noun) the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia |
| somatosense | (noun) any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain | - |
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| somatotrophin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; promotes growth in humans | Synonyms: growth hormone, human growth hormone, somatotrophic hormone, somatotropic hormone, somatotropin, STH |
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| somatotropin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; promotes growth in humans | Synonyms: growth hormone, human growth hormone, somatotrophic hormone, somatotrophin, somatotropic hormone, STH |
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| somatotype | (noun) a category of physique | Synonyms: body type |
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| somberness | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, gravity, soberness, sobriety, sombreness |
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| (noun) a feeling of melancholy apprehension | Synonyms: gloom, gloominess, sombreness |
| (noun) a state of partial or total darkness | Synonyms: gloom, sombreness |
| sombreness | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, gravity, soberness, sobriety, somberness |
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| (noun) a feeling of melancholy apprehension | Synonyms: gloom, gloominess, somberness |
| (noun) a state of partial or total darkness | Synonyms: gloom, somberness |
| sombrero | (noun) a straw hat with a tall crown and broad brim; worn in American southwest and in Mexico | - |
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| somebody | (noun) a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential | Synonyms: individual, mortal, person, someone, soul |
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| someone | (noun) a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential | Synonyms: individual, mortal, person, somebody, soul |
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| somersault | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersaulting, somerset, summersault, summerset |
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| somersaulting | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somerset, summersault, summerset |
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| somerset | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somersaulting, summersault, summerset |
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| somesthesia | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesis |
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| (noun) the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation |
| somesthesis | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia |
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| somewhere | (noun) an indefinite or unknown location | - |
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| somite | (noun) one of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally | Synonyms: metamere |
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| sommelier | (noun) a waiter who manages wine service in a hotel or restaurant | Synonyms: wine steward, wine waiter |
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| somnambulation | (noun) walking by a person who is asleep | Synonyms: noctambulation, noctambulism, sleepwalking, somnambulism |
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| somnambulism | (noun) walking by a person who is asleep | Synonyms: noctambulation, noctambulism, sleepwalking, somnambulation |
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| somnambulist | (noun) someone who walks about in their sleep | Synonyms: noctambulist, sleepwalker |
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| somniloquism | (noun) uttering speech while asleep | Synonyms: sleep talking, somniloquy |
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| somniloquist | (noun) someone who talks while asleep | - |
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| somniloquy | (noun) uttering speech while asleep | Synonyms: sleep talking, somniloquism |
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| somnolence | (noun) a very sleepy state | Synonyms: drowsiness, sleepiness |
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| son | (noun) a male human offspring | Synonyms: boy |
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| sonant | (noun) a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords | Synonyms: voiced sound |
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| sonar | (noun) a measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return | Synonyms: asdic, echo sounder |
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| sonata | (noun) a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms | - |
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| sonatina | (noun) a short and simple sonata | - |
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| sone | (noun) a unit of perceived loudness equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz tone at 40 dB above threshold | - |
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| song | (noun) the act of singing | Synonyms: strain |
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| (noun) a short musical composition with words | Synonyms: vocal |
| (noun) the characteristic sound produced by a bird | Synonyms: birdcall, birdsong, call |
| (noun) a distinctive or characteristic sound | - |
| (noun) a very small sum | - |
| songbird | (noun) any bird having a musical call | Synonyms: songster |
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| songbook | (noun) a book containing a collection of songs | - |
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| songfulness | (noun) the property of being suitable for singing | Synonyms: lyricality, lyricism |
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| songster | (noun) any bird having a musical call | Synonyms: songbird |
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| (noun) a person who sings with skill | - |
| (noun) a composer of words or music for popular songs | Synonyms: ballad maker, songwriter |
| songstress | (noun) a woman songster (especially of popular songs) | - |
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| songwriter | (noun) a composer of words or music for popular songs | Synonyms: ballad maker, songster |
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| sonnet | (noun) a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme | - |
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