| sonneteer | (noun) a poet who writes sonnets | - |
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| sonny | (noun) a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) | Synonyms: cub, lad, laddie, sonny boy |
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| sonogram | (noun) an image of a structure that is produced by ultrasonography (reflections of high-frequency sound waves); used to observe fetal growth or to study bodily organs | Synonyms: echogram |
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| sonograph | (noun) an instrument that uses the differential transmission and reflection of ultrasonic waves in order to provide an image of a bodily organ | - |
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| sonography | (noun) using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs | Synonyms: echography, ultrasonography, ultrasound |
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| sonometer | (noun) an instrument used to measure the sensitivity of hearing | Synonyms: audiometer |
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| sonority | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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| sonorousness | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonority, vibrancy |
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| soochong | (noun) a fine quality of black tea native to China | Synonyms: souchong |
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| soot | (noun) a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink | Synonyms: carbon black, crock, lampblack, smut |
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| sooth | (noun) truth or reality | - |
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| soothsayer | (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: forecaster, predictor, prognosticator |
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| soothsaying | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: divination, foretelling, fortune telling |
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| sootiness | (noun) the state of being dirty with soot | Synonyms: smuttiness |
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| sop | (noun) a concession given to mollify or placate | - |
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| (noun) piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid | Synonyms: sops |
| soph | (noun) a second-year undergraduate | Synonyms: sophomore |
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| sophism | (noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | Synonyms: sophistication, sophistry |
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| sophist | (noun) someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious | Synonyms: casuist |
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| sophisticate | (noun) a worldly-wise person | Synonyms: man of the world |
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| sophistication | (noun) falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies | - |
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| (noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundaneness, mundanity, worldliness |
| (noun) uplifting enlightenment | Synonyms: edification |
| (noun) being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject | - |
| (noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | Synonyms: sophism, sophistry |
| sophistry | (noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | Synonyms: sophism, sophistication |
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| sophomore | (noun) a second-year undergraduate | Synonyms: soph |
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| sopor | (noun) a torpid state resembling deep sleep | Synonyms: sleep |
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| soporific | (noun) a drug that induces sleep | Synonyms: hypnotic |
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| soprano | (noun) the pitch range of the highest female voice | Synonyms: treble |
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| (noun) the highest female voice; the voice of a boy before puberty | - |
| (noun) a female singer with the highest vocal range of all the voice type | - |
| sops | (noun) piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid | Synonyms: sop |
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| sorb | (noun) acid gritty-textured fruit | Synonyms: sorb apple |
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| sorbate | (noun) a material that has been or is capable of being taken up by another substance by either absorption or adsorption | - |
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| sorbent | (noun) a material that sorbs another substance; i.e. that has the capacity or tendency to take it up by either absorption or adsorption | Synonyms: sorbent material |
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| sorbet | (noun) an ice containing no milk but having a mushy consistency; usually made from fruit juice | Synonyms: water ice |
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| sorcerer | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, necromancer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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| sorceress | (noun) a woman sorcerer | - |
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| sorcery | (noun) the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world | Synonyms: black art, black magic, necromancy |
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| sordidness | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicability, despicableness |
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| (noun) sordid dirtiness | Synonyms: squalidness, squalor |
| sordino | (noun) a mute for a violin | Synonyms: sourdine |
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| sore | (noun) an open skin infection | - |
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| sorehead | (noun) someone who is peevish or disgruntled | - |
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| soreness | (noun) an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | Synonyms: discomfort, irritation |
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| (noun) a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched) | Synonyms: rawness, tenderness |
| sorgho | (noun) any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup | Synonyms: sorgo, sugar sorghum, sweet sorghum |
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| sorghum | (noun) made from juice of sweet sorghum | Synonyms: sorghum molasses |
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| (noun) economically important Old World tropical cereal grass | - |
| sorgo | (noun) any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup | Synonyms: sorgho, sugar sorghum, sweet sorghum |
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| sorority | (noun) a social club for female undergraduates | - |
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| sorption | (noun) the process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption) | - |
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| sorrel | (noun) a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color | - |
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| (noun) large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces | Synonyms: common sorrel |
| (noun) any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine | Synonyms: dock, sour grass |
| (noun) any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis | Synonyms: oxalis, wood sorrel |
| (noun) East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber | Synonyms: Hibiscus sabdariffa, Jamaica sorrel, red sorrel, roselle, rozelle |
| sorriness | (noun) worthlessness due to insignificance | Synonyms: paltriness |
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| sorrow | (noun) something that causes great unhappiness | Synonyms: grief |
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| (noun) an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement | - |
| (noun) sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment | Synonyms: regret, rue, ruefulness |
| (noun) the state of being sad | Synonyms: sadness, sorrowfulness |
| sorrower | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: griever, lamenter, mourner |
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| sorrowfulness | (noun) a state of gloomy sorrow | Synonyms: mournfulness, ruthfulness |
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| (noun) the state of being sad | Synonyms: sadness, sorrow |
| sort | (noun) an approximate definition or example | - |
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| (noun) a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality | Synonyms: form, kind, variety |
| (noun) a person of a particular character or nature | - |
| (noun) an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion | Synonyms: sorting |
| sorter | (noun) a machine for sorting things (such as punched cards or letters) into classes | - |
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| (noun) a clerk who sorts things (as letters at the post office) | - |
| sortie | (noun) a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position | Synonyms: sally |
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| (noun) (military) an operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation) | - |
| sorting | (noun) grouping by class or kind or size | - |
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| (noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization, classification |
| (noun) an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion | Synonyms: sort |
| sortition | (noun) making a chance decision by using lots (straws or pebbles etc.) that are thrown or drawn | Synonyms: casting lots, drawing lots |
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| sorus | (noun) cluster of sporangia usually on underside of a fern frond | - |
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| (noun) a spore-producing structure in certain lichens and fungi | - |
| soshnik | (noun) an iron plowshare that is a part of a sokha. | - |
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| sot | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, drunkard, inebriate, rummy, wino |
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| soteriology | (noun) the branch of Christian theology that deals with salvation as the effect of a divine agency | - |
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| sottishness | (noun) lack of restraint in use of alcohol | - |
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| (noun) stupefaction from drink | - |
| sou | (noun) a former French coin of low denomination; often used of any small amount of money | - |
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| souari | (noun) large South American evergreen tree having trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil | Synonyms: Caryocar nuciferum, souari nut, souari tree |
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| soubrette | (noun) a minor female role as a pert flirtatious lady's maid in a comedy | - |
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| (noun) a pert or flirtatious young girl | - |
| soubriquet | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname, sobriquet |
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| souchong | (noun) a fine quality of black tea native to China | Synonyms: soochong |
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| souffle | (noun) light fluffy dish of egg yolks and stiffly beaten egg whites mixed with e.g. cheese or fish or fruit | - |
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| souk | (noun) an open-air market in an Arabian city | - |
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| soul | (noun) a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential | Synonyms: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone |
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| (noun) the human embodiment of something | - |
| (noun) a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s | - |
| (noun) deep feeling or emotion | Synonyms: soulfulness |
| (noun) the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life | Synonyms: psyche |
| soulfulness | (noun) deep feeling or emotion | Synonyms: soul |
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| sound | (noun) the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause | - |
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| (noun) the subjective sensation of hearing something | Synonyms: auditory sensation |
| (noun) the audible part of a transmitted signal | Synonyms: audio |
| (noun) (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language | Synonyms: phone, speech sound |
| (noun) the sudden occurrence of an audible event | - |
| (noun) a large ocean inlet or deep bay | - |
| (noun) a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water | Synonyms: strait |
| (noun) mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium | - |
| soundboard | (noun) (music) resonator consisting of a thin board whose vibrations reinforce the sound of the instrument | Synonyms: sounding board |
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| soundbox | (noun) a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin) | Synonyms: body |
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| sounder | (noun) a device for making soundings | - |
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| sounding | (noun) the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line) | - |
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| (noun) a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line | - |
| soundlessness | (noun) the property of making no sound | Synonyms: quietness |
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| soundman | (noun) a technician in charge of amplifying sound or producing sound effects (as for a TV or radio broadcast) | - |
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| soundness | (noun) the muscle tone of healthy tissue | Synonyms: firmness |
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| (noun) the quality of being prudent and sensible | Synonyms: wisdom, wiseness |
| (noun) a state or condition free from damage or decay | - |
| soundtrack | (noun) sound recording on a narrow strip of a motion picture film | - |
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| soup | (noun) liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food | - |
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| (noun) an unfortunate situation | - |
| (noun) any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup | - |
| soupcon | (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, pinch, speck, tinge, touch |
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| soupfin | (noun) Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A) | Synonyms: Galeorhinus zyopterus, soup-fin, soupfin shark |
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| soupiness | (noun) the property of having the thickness of heavy cream | Synonyms: creaminess |
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| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness |
| soupspoon | (noun) a spoon with a rounded bowl for eating soup | Synonyms: soup spoon |
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| sour | (noun) the property of being acidic | Synonyms: acidity, sourness |
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| (noun) the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: sourness, tartness |
| (noun) a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar | - |
| sourball | (noun) round piece of tart hard candy | - |
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| source | (noun) a facility where something is available | - |
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| (noun) anything that provides inspiration for later work | Synonyms: germ, seed |
| (noun) a document (or organization) from which information is obtained | - |
| (noun) a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to | Synonyms: reference |
| (noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: beginning, origin, root, rootage |
| (noun) anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies | Synonyms: reservoir |
| (noun) someone who originates or causes or initiates something | Synonyms: author, generator |
| (noun) a person who supplies information | Synonyms: informant |
| (noun) (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system | - |
| sourdine | (noun) an organ stop resulting in a soft muted sound | - |
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| (noun) a mute for a violin | Synonyms: sordino |
| sourdough | (noun) a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska) | - |
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| (noun) a leaven of dough in which fermentation is active; used by pioneers for making bread | - |
| souring | (noun) the process of becoming sour | - |
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| sourness | (noun) the property of being acidic | Synonyms: acidity, sour |
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| (noun) a sullen moody resentful disposition | Synonyms: moroseness, sulkiness, sullenness |
| (noun) the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: sour, tartness |
| sourpuss | (noun) someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression | Synonyms: gloomy Gus, picklepuss, pouter |
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| soursop | (noun) large spiny tropical fruit with tart pulp related to custard apples | Synonyms: guanabana |
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| (noun) small tropical American tree bearing large succulent slightly acid fruit | Synonyms: Annona muricata, prickly custard apple, soursop tree |
| sourwood | (noun) deciduous shrubby tree of eastern North America having deeply fissured bark and sprays of small fragrant white flowers and sour-tasting leaves | Synonyms: Oxydendrum arboreum, sorrel tree, titi |
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| sousaphone | (noun) the lowest brass wind instrument | Synonyms: bass horn, tuba |
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| souse | (noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: drenching, soaking, sousing |
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| (noun) pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled | - |
| (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker |
| sousing | (noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: drenching, soaking, souse |
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| souslik | (noun) rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel | Synonyms: Citellus citellus, suslik |
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| soutache | (noun) a narrow braid used as a decorative trimming | - |
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| soutane | (noun) a long cassock with buttons down the front; worn by Roman Catholic priests | - |
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| south | (noun) a location in the southern part of a country, region, or city | - |
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| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees | Synonyms: due south, S, southward |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southward cardinal compass point | - |
| southeast | (noun) a location in the southeastern part of a country, region, or city | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees | Synonyms: SE, sou'-east, southeastward |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southeastward compass point | - |
| southeaster | (noun) a strong wind from the southeast | Synonyms: sou'easter |
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