| sufficiency | (noun) the quality of being sufficient for the end in view | Synonyms: adequacy |
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| (noun) an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose | Synonyms: enough |
| (noun) sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations | - |
| suffix | (noun) an affix that is added at the end of the word | Synonyms: postfix |
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| suffixation | (noun) formation of a word by means of a suffix | - |
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| suffocation | (noun) killing by depriving of oxygen | Synonyms: asphyxiation |
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| (noun) the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped) | Synonyms: asphyxiation |
| suffragan | (noun) an assistant or subordinate bishop of a diocese | Synonyms: suffragan bishop |
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| suffrage | (noun) a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment | Synonyms: right to vote, vote |
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| suffragette | (noun) a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century) | - |
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| suffragism | (noun) the belief that the right to vote should be extended (as to women) | - |
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| suffragist | (noun) an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women) | - |
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| suffrutex | (noun) low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base | Synonyms: subshrub |
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| suffusion | (noun) the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance | Synonyms: permeation, pervasion |
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| sugar | (noun) a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative | Synonyms: refined sugar |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, wampum |
| (noun) an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain | Synonyms: carbohydrate, saccharide |
| sugarberry | (noun) small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States | Synonyms: hackberry |
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| (noun) deciduous shade tree with small black berries; southern United States; yields soft yellowish wood | Synonyms: Celtis laevigata |
| sugarcane | (noun) tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar | Synonyms: Saccharum officinarum, sugar cane |
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| (noun) juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice | Synonyms: sugar cane |
| sugariness | (noun) the sweetness of sugar | - |
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| (noun) the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth | Synonyms: sweet, sweetness |
| sugarloaf | (noun) a large conical loaf of concentrated refined sugar | Synonyms: loaf sugar, sugar loaf |
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| sugarplum | (noun) any of various small sugary candies | - |
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| suggester | (noun) someone who advances a suggestion or proposal | Synonyms: proposer |
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| suggestibility | (noun) susceptibility or responsiveness to suggestion | - |
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| suggestion | (noun) the act of inducing hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotism, mesmerism |
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| (noun) an idea that is suggested | - |
| (noun) the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association | - |
| (noun) a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: proffer, proposition |
| (noun) persuasion formulated as a suggestion | Synonyms: prompting |
| (noun) a just detectable amount | Synonyms: hint, tint, trace |
| suggestiveness | (noun) The state or quality of being full of suggestions, of stimulating thought. | - |
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| sugi | (noun) tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood | Synonyms: Cryptomeria japonica, Japan cedar, Japanese cedar |
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| suicide | (noun) the act of killing yourself | Synonyms: self-annihilation, self-destruction |
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| (noun) a person who kills himself intentionally | Synonyms: felo-de-se |
| suit | (noun) a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy | Synonyms: case, causa, cause, lawsuit |
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| (noun) a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color | Synonyms: suit of clothes |
| (noun) playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color | - |
| (noun) a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank | - |
| (noun) a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage) | Synonyms: courting, courtship, wooing |
| (noun) (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit | - |
| suitability | (noun) the quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose | Synonyms: suitableness |
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| suitableness | (noun) the quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose | Synonyms: suitability |
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| suitcase | (noun) a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes | Synonyms: bag, grip, traveling bag, travelling bag |
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| suite | (noun) apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel) | Synonyms: rooms |
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| (noun) a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected | - |
| (noun) the group following and attending to some important person | Synonyms: cortege, entourage, retinue |
| (noun) a matching set of furniture | - |
| suiting | (noun) a fabric used for suits | - |
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| suitor | (noun) a man who courts a woman | Synonyms: suer, wooer |
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| sukiyaki | (noun) thin beef strips (or chicken or pork) cooked briefly at the table with onions and greens and soy sauce | - |
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| suksdorfia | (noun) any of several American plants of the genus Suksdorfia having orbicular to kidney-shaped somewhat succulent leaves and white or rose or violet flowers in terminal panicles | - |
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| sulcus | (noun) (anatomy) any of the narrow grooves in an organ or tissue especially those that mark the convolutions on the surface of the brain | - |
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| sulfa | (noun) antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA | Synonyms: sulfa drug, sulfonamide, sulpha |
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| sulfacetamide | (noun) a topical sulfonamide (trade name Sulamyd) used to treat eye infections | Synonyms: Sulamyd |
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| sulfadiazine | (noun) a sulfa drug used in treating meningitis and pneumonia and other infections | - |
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| sulfamethazine | (noun) a sulfa drug used like sulfadiazine and also in veterinary medicine | Synonyms: sulfamezathine |
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| sulfamethoxazole | (noun) a sulfonamide (trade name Gantanol) used to treat infections (especially infections of the urinary tract) | Synonyms: Gantanol |
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| sulfamezathine | (noun) a sulfa drug used like sulfadiazine and also in veterinary medicine | Synonyms: sulfamethazine |
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| sulfanilamide | (noun) a white odorless crystalline sulfa drug; the parent compound of most of the sulfa drugs | - |
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| sulfapyridine | (noun) sulfa drug derived from pyridine and sulfanilamide | - |
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| sulfate | (noun) a salt or ester of sulphuric acid | Synonyms: sulphate |
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| sulfide | (noun) a compound of sulphur and some other element that is more electropositive | Synonyms: sulphide |
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| sulfisoxazole | (noun) a sulfonamide (trade name Gantrisin) used to treat infections of the urinary tract | Synonyms: Gantrisin |
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| sulfonamide | (noun) antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA | Synonyms: sulfa, sulfa drug, sulpha |
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| sulfonate | (noun) a salt of sulphonic acid | - |
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| sulfonylurea | (noun) antidiabetic consisting of any of several drugs that reduce the level of glucose in the blood; used to treat diabetes mellitus | - |
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| sulfur | (noun) an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions) | Synonyms: atomic number 16, S, sulphur |
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| sulindac | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril) | Synonyms: Clinoril |
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| sulk | (noun) a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal | Synonyms: sulkiness |
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| sulkiness | (noun) a sullen moody resentful disposition | Synonyms: moroseness, sourness, sullenness |
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| (noun) a feeling of sulky resentment | Synonyms: huffishness |
| (noun) a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal | Synonyms: sulk |
| sulky | (noun) a light two-wheeled vehicle for one person; drawn by one horse | - |
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| sulla | (noun) perennial of southern Europe cultivated for forage and for its nectar-rich pink flowers that make it an important honey crop | Synonyms: French honeysuckle, Hedysarum coronarium |
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| sullenness | (noun) a sullen moody resentful disposition | Synonyms: moroseness, sourness, sulkiness |
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| (noun) a gloomy ill-tempered feeling | Synonyms: glumness, moroseness |
| sulpha | (noun) antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA | Synonyms: sulfa, sulfa drug, sulfonamide |
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| sulphate | (noun) a salt or ester of sulphuric acid | Synonyms: sulfate |
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| sulphide | (noun) a compound of sulphur and some other element that is more electropositive | Synonyms: sulfide |
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| sulphur | (noun) an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions) | Synonyms: atomic number 16, S, sulfur |
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| sultan | (noun) the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire) | Synonyms: grand Turk |
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| sultana | (noun) dried seedless grape | Synonyms: seedless raisin |
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| (noun) pale yellow seedless grape used for raisins and wine | - |
| sultanate | (noun) country or territory ruled by a sultan | - |
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| sultriness | (noun) the quality of expressing or arousing sexual desire | - |
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| (noun) oppressively hot and humid weather | - |
| sum | (noun) the whole amount | Synonyms: aggregate, total, totality |
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| (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance |
| (noun) a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers | Synonyms: amount, total |
| (noun) the final aggregate | Synonyms: sum total, summation |
| (noun) a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets | Synonyms: join, union |
| (noun) a quantity of money | Synonyms: amount, amount of money, sum of money |
| sumac | (noun) a shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus) | Synonyms: shumac, sumach |
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| (noun) wood of a sumac | - |
| sumach | (noun) a shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus) | Synonyms: shumac, sumac |
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| summarisation | (noun) the act of preparing a summary (or an instance thereof); stating briefly and succinctly | Synonyms: summarization |
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| summarization | (noun) the act of preparing a summary (or an instance thereof); stating briefly and succinctly | Synonyms: summarisation |
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| summary | (noun) a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form | Synonyms: sum-up |
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| summation | (noun) the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers | Synonyms: addition, plus |
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| (noun) a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court) | Synonyms: rundown, summing up |
| (noun) the final aggregate | Synonyms: sum, sum total |
| (noun) (physiology) the process whereby multiple stimuli can produce a response (in a muscle or nerve or other part) that one stimulus alone does not produce | - |
| summer | (noun) the warmest season of the year; in the Northern Hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox | Synonyms: summertime |
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| (noun) the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty | - |
| summercater | (noun) (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine | Synonyms: sport |
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| summercaters | (noun) (Maine colloquial) temporary summer residents of coastal Maine | - |
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| summerhouse | (noun) a small roofed building affording shade and rest | Synonyms: gazebo |
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| summersault | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somersaulting, somerset, summerset |
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| summerset | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somersaulting, somerset, summersault |
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| summertime | (noun) the warmest season of the year; in the Northern Hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox | Synonyms: summer |
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| summit | (noun) a meeting of heads of governments | Synonyms: summit meeting |
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| (noun) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) | Synonyms: crest, crown, peak, tip, top |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, superlative, tiptop, top |
| summoning | (noun) calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations | Synonyms: evocation |
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| summons | (noun) a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant | Synonyms: process |
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| (noun) a request to be present | Synonyms: bidding |
| (noun) an order to appear in person at a given place and time | - |
| sumo | (noun) a Japanese form of wrestling; you lose if you are forced out of a small ring or if any part of your body (other than your feet) touches the ground | - |
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| sump | (noun) a well or other hole in which water has collected | - |
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| (noun) an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine | - |
| (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspit, cesspool, sink |
| sumpsimus | (noun) a correct expression that takes the place of a popular but incorrect expression | - |
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| sumpter | (noun) an animal (such as a mule or burro or horse) used to carry loads | Synonyms: pack animal |
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| sumptuosity | (noun) the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | Synonyms: lavishness, luxury, sumptuousness |
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| sumptuousness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | Synonyms: lavishness, luxury, sumptuosity |
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| (noun) wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living | Synonyms: luxuriousness, luxury, opulence |
| sun | (noun) any star around which a planetary system revolves | - |
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| (noun) the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system | Synonyms: Sun |
| (noun) a person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc | - |
| (noun) the rays of the sun | Synonyms: sunlight, sunshine |
| sunbae | (noun) a female referring to an older male | - |
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| sunbather | (noun) someone who basks in the sunshine in order to get a suntan | - |
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| sunbeam | (noun) a ray of sunlight | Synonyms: sunray |
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| sunberry | (noun) improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries | Synonyms: garden huckleberry, Solanum burbankii, Solanum melanocerasum, Solanum nigrum guineese, wonderberry |
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| sunblind | (noun) a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun | Synonyms: awning, sunshade |
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| sunblock | (noun) a cream spread on the skin; contains a chemical (as PABA) to filter out ultraviolet light and so protect from sunburn | Synonyms: sun blocker, sunscreen |
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| sunbonnet | (noun) a large bonnet that shades the face; worn by girls and women | - |
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| sunburn | (noun) redness of the skin caused by exposure to the rays of the sun | Synonyms: erythema solare |
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| sunburst | (noun) a jeweled brooch with a pattern resembling the sun | - |
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| (noun) a design consisting of a central disk resembling the sun and rays emanating from it | - |
| (noun) a sudden emergence of the sun from behind clouds | - |
| sunchoke | (noun) sunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried as Saratoga chips | Synonyms: Jerusalem artichoke |
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| sundae | (noun) ice cream served with a topping | Synonyms: ice-cream sundae |
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| sundate | (noun) A date on a Sunday | - |
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| sundew | (noun) any of various bog plants of the genus Drosera having leaves covered with sticky hairs that trap and digest insects; cosmopolitan in distribution | Synonyms: daily dew, sundew plant |
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| sundial | (noun) timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial | - |
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