| synergist | (noun) a drug that augments the activity of another drug | - |
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| synergy | (noun) the working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects | Synonyms: synergism |
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| synesthesia | (noun) a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated | Synonyms: synaesthesia |
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| synezesis | (noun) the contraction of chromatin towards one side of the nucleus during the prophase of meiosis | Synonyms: synizesis |
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| synizesis | (noun) the contraction of chromatin towards one side of the nucleus during the prophase of meiosis | Synonyms: synezesis |
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| synod | (noun) a council convened to discuss ecclesiastical business | - |
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| synonym | (noun) two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context | Synonyms: equivalent word |
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| synonymist | (noun) a student of synonyms | - |
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| synonymity | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning | Synonyms: synonymousness, synonymy |
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| synonymousness | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning | Synonyms: synonymity, synonymy |
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| synonymy | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning | Synonyms: synonymity, synonymousness |
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| synopsis | (noun) a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory | Synonyms: abstract, outline, precis |
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| synovia | (noun) viscid lubricating fluid secreted by the membrane lining joints and tendon sheaths etc. | Synonyms: synovial fluid |
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| synovitis | (noun) inflammation of the synovial membrane that lines a synovial joint; results in pain and swelling | - |
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| synovium | (noun) a thin membrane in synovial (freely moving) joints that lines the joint capsule and secretes synovial fluid | Synonyms: synovial membrane |
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| synset | (noun) a set of one or more synonyms | - |
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| syntactician | (noun) a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax | Synonyms: grammarian |
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| syntagm | (noun) a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit | Synonyms: syntagma |
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| syntagma | (noun) a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit | Synonyms: syntagm |
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| syntax | (noun) studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences | - |
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| (noun) the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences | Synonyms: phrase structure, sentence structure |
| (noun) a systematic orderly arrangement | - |
| synthesis | (noun) the combination of ideas into a complex whole | Synonyms: synthetic thinking |
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| (noun) reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) | Synonyms: deduction, deductive reasoning |
| (noun) the process of producing a chemical compound (usually by the union of simpler chemical compounds) | - |
| synthesiser | (noun) (music) an electronic instrument (usually played with a keyboard) that generates and modifies sounds electronically and can imitate a variety of other musical instruments | Synonyms: synthesizer |
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| (noun) an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods | Synonyms: synthesist, synthesizer |
| synthesist | (noun) an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods | Synonyms: synthesiser, synthesizer |
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| synthesizer | (noun) (music) an electronic instrument (usually played with a keyboard) that generates and modifies sounds electronically and can imitate a variety of other musical instruments | Synonyms: synthesiser |
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| (noun) an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods | Synonyms: synthesiser, synthesist |
| synthetic | (noun) a compound made artificially by chemical reactions | Synonyms: synthetic substance |
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| synthetism | (noun) a genre of French painting characterized by bright flat shapes and symbolic treatments of abstract ideas | - |
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| syntony | (noun) the state of being normally responsive to and in harmony with the environment. | - |
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| syph | (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) | Synonyms: lues, lues venerea, pox, syphilis |
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| syphilis | (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) | Synonyms: lues, lues venerea, pox, syph |
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| syphilitic | (noun) a person suffering from syphilis | - |
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| syphon | (noun) a tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled | Synonyms: siphon |
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| (noun) a tube running from the liquid in a vessel to a lower level outside the vessel so that gravity forces the liquid through the tube | Synonyms: siphon |
| syringa | (noun) large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes | Synonyms: mock orange, Philadelphus coronarius |
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| syringe | (noun) a medical instrument used to inject or withdraw fluids | - |
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| syringeful | (noun) the quantity that a syringe will hold. | - |
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| syrinx | (noun) the vocal organ of a bird | - |
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| (noun) a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together | Synonyms: pandean pipe, panpipe |
| syrup | (noun) a thick sweet sticky liquid | Synonyms: sirup |
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| system | (noun) instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity | - |
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| (noun) an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized | Synonyms: organisation, organization |
| (noun) a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts | - |
| (noun) the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole | - |
| (noun) a complex of methods or rules governing behavior | Synonyms: system of rules |
| (noun) a procedure or process for obtaining an objective | - |
| (noun) an organized structure for arranging or classifying | Synonyms: arrangement, organisation, organization |
| (noun) a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole | Synonyms: scheme |
| (noun) (physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium | - |
| systematics | (noun) the science of systematic classification | - |
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| systematisation | (noun) systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale | Synonyms: rationalisation, rationalization, systematization |
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| systematiser | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematist, systematizer, systemiser, systemizer |
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| systematism | (noun) the habitual practice of systematization and classification | - |
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| systematist | (noun) a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior | Synonyms: taxonomer, taxonomist |
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| (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematiser, systematizer, systemiser, systemizer |
| systematization | (noun) systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale | Synonyms: rationalisation, rationalization, systematisation |
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| systematizer | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematiser, systematist, systemiser, systemizer |
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| systemiser | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematiser, systematist, systematizer, systemizer |
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| systemizer | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematiser, systematist, systematizer, systemiser |
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| systole | (noun) the contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery | - |
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| syzygy | (noun) the straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system | - |
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