| sacrificeable | (adjective) may be deliberately sacrificed to achieve an objective | - |
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| sacrificer | (noun) a religious person who offers up a sacrifice | - |
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| sacrificial | (adjective) used in or connected with a sacrifice | - |
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| salvific | (adjective) pertaining to the power of salvation or redemption | - |
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| sanctification | (noun) a religious ceremony in which something is made holy | - |
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| sanguification | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis |
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| saponification | (noun) a chemical reaction in which an ester is heated with an alkali (especially the alkaline hydrolysis of a fat or oil to make soap) | - |
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| satisfice | (verb) decide on and pursue a course of action satisfying the minimum requirements to achieve a goal | Synonyms: satisfise |
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| scientific | (adjective) conforming with the principles or methods used in science | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the practice of science | - |
| scientifically | (adverb) with respect to science; in a scientific way | - |
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| semiofficial | (adjective) having some official authority or sanction | - |
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| significance | (noun) the quality of being significant | - |
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| (noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | Synonyms: implication, import |
| (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, meaning, signification |
| significant | (adjective) important in effect or meaning | Synonyms: important |
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| (adjective) too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation | - |
| (adjective) of considerable importance, size, or worth | Synonyms: substantial |
| (adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: meaning, pregnant |
| significantly | (adverb) in an important way or to an important degree | Synonyms: importantly |
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| (adverb) in a significant manner | - |
| (adverb) in a statistically significant way | - |
| signification | (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, meaning, significance |
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| significative | (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, indicatory, revelatory, suggestive |
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| simplification | (noun) elimination of superfluous details | - |
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| (noun) the act of reducing complexity | Synonyms: reduction |
| (noun) an explanation that omits superfluous details and reduces complexity | - |
| sissification | (noun) Sexual act where a male is forced to act effeminately and dress like a woman | - |
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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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| somnific | (adjective) sleep inducing | Synonyms: hypnagogic, hypnogogic, somniferous, soporiferous, soporific |
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| soporific | (adjective) sleep inducing | Synonyms: hypnagogic, hypnogogic, somniferous, somnific, soporiferous |
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| (adjective) inducing mental lethargy | Synonyms: narcotic, soporiferous |
| (noun) a drug that induces sleep | Synonyms: hypnotic |
| specific | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique | - |
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| (adjective) being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides | - |
| (adjective) relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic species | - |
| (adjective) stated explicitly or in detail | - |
| (noun) a medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease | - |
| (noun) a fact about some part (as opposed to general) | Synonyms: particular |
| specifically | (adverb) in distinction from others | - |
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| specification | (noun) a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement | Synonyms: stipulation |
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| (noun) a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work | Synonyms: spec |
| (noun) naming explicitly | - |
| (noun) (patent law) a document drawn up by the applicant for a patent of invention that provides an explicit and detailed description of the nature and use of an invention | - |
| specificity | (noun) the quality of being specific rather than general | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being specific to a particular organism | - |
| stratification | (noun) the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata | - |
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| (noun) the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination | - |
| (noun) a layered configuration | - |
| (noun) forming or depositing in layers | - |
| (noun) the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group | Synonyms: social stratification |
| stultification | (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, deadening, impairment |
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| (noun) derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent | Synonyms: befooling |
| sudorific | (adjective) inducing perspiration | Synonyms: diaphoretic |
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| (noun) a medicine that causes or increases sweating | Synonyms: sudatory |
| suffice | (verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: answer, do, serve |
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| 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 | - |
| sufficient | (adjective) of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant | - |
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| sufficiently | (adverb) to a sufficient degree | - |
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| superficial | (adjective) concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually | - |
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| (adjective) of, affecting, or being on or near the surface | - |
| (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, cursory, passing, perfunctory |
| (adjective) of little substance or significance | Synonyms: trivial |
| (adjective) occurring on or near the surface of the skin | - |
| superficiality | (noun) lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling | Synonyms: shallowness |
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| (noun) shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something | - |
| superficially | (adverb) in a superficial manner | - |
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| superficies | (noun) outer surface of an area or a body | - |
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| (noun) the purely external aspect of a thing; superficial appearance | - |
| surficial | (adjective) pertaining to or occurring on or near the earth's surface | - |
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| syllabification | (noun) forming or dividing words into syllables | Synonyms: syllabication |
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| tenebrific | (adjective) dark and gloomy | Synonyms: tenebrious, tenebrous |
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| terrific | (adjective) causing extreme terror | Synonyms: terrifying |
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| (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
| (adjective) very great or intense | - |
| terrifically | (adverb) (used as an intensifier) excellently | Synonyms: marvellously, marvelously, superbly, toppingly, wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously |
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| traffic | (noun) buying and selling; especially illicit trade | - |
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| (noun) social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') | Synonyms: dealings |
| (noun) the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time | - |
| (noun) the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time | - |
| (verb) deal illegally | - |
| (verb) trade or deal a commodity | - |
| trafficator | (noun) a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn | Synonyms: blinker, turn indicator, turn signal |
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| trafficker | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, seller, vender, vendor |
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| transmogrification | (noun) the act of changing into a different form or appearance (especially a fantastic or grotesque one) | - |
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| typification | (noun) the act of representing by a type or symbol; the action of typifying | - |
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| (noun) a representational or typifying form or model | Synonyms: exemplification |
| unbeneficed | (adjective) not having a benefice | - |
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| unification | (noun) the act of making or becoming a single unit | Synonyms: conjugation, jointure, union, uniting |
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| (noun) an occurrence that involves the production of a union | Synonyms: fusion, merger |
| (noun) the state of being joined or united or linked | Synonyms: union |
| unofficial | (adjective) not having official authority or sanction | - |
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| (adjective) not officially established | - |
| unofficially | (adverb) not in an official capacity | - |
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| (adverb) without official approval | Synonyms: on the side |
| unsanctification | (noun) unholiness by virtue of being profane | Synonyms: profaneness |
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| unscientific | (adjective) not consistent with the methods or principles of science | - |
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| unscientifically | (adverb) in an unscientific way; not according to the principles of science | - |
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| unspecific | (adjective) not detailed or specific | Synonyms: broad |
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| vaporific | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of vapor | Synonyms: vaporish, vaporous, vapourific, vapourish, vapourous |
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| (adjective) (used of substances) capable of being volatilized | Synonyms: evaporable, vaporizable, vapourific, vapourisable, volatilisable, volatilizable |
| vapourific | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of vapor | Synonyms: vaporific, vaporish, vaporous, vapourish, vapourous |
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| (adjective) (used of substances) capable of being volatilized | Synonyms: evaporable, vaporific, vaporizable, vapourisable, volatilisable, volatilizable |
| verification | (noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: check, confirmation, substantiation |
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| (noun) (law) an affidavit attached to a statement confirming the truth of that statement | - |
| verificatory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verifying |
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| versification | (noun) the art or practice of writing verse | - |
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| (noun) the form or metrical composition of a poem | - |
| (noun) a metrical adaptation of something (e.g., of a prose text) | - |
| vilification | (noun) slanderous defamation | Synonyms: malignment, smear |
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| (noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt | Synonyms: abuse, contumely, insult, revilement |
| vinification | (noun) the process whereby fermentation changes grape juice into wine | - |
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| vitrification | (noun) the process of becoming vitreous | - |
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| (noun) a vitrified substance; the glassy result of being vitrified | - |
| vivification | (noun) the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something | Synonyms: animation, invigoration |
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| (noun) quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous | Synonyms: animation, brio, invigoration, spiritedness |