| sarcocystieian | (noun) parasite of the muscles of vertebrates | Synonyms: sarcocystidean, sarcosporidian |
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| sarcodinian | (noun) protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopods | Synonyms: sarcodine |
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| sarcosporidian | (noun) parasite of the muscles of vertebrates | Synonyms: sarcocystidean, sarcocystieian |
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| saurian | (adjective) of or relating to lizards | Synonyms: lacertilian |
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| (noun) any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards; in former classifications included also the crocodiles and dinosaurs | - |
| saurischian | (noun) herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur having a three-pronged pelvis like that of a crocodile | Synonyms: saurischian dinosaur |
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| sectarian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects | - |
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| (noun) a member of a sect | Synonyms: sectarist, sectary |
| sectarianism | (noun) a narrow-minded adherence to a particular sect or party or denomination | Synonyms: denominationalism |
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| selachian | (noun) any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks, rays, skates | Synonyms: elasmobranch |
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| semiannual | (adjective) occurring or payable twice each year | Synonyms: biannual, biyearly, half-yearly |
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| semiannually | (adverb) twice a year | Synonyms: biyearly |
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| seminarian | (noun) a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary) | Synonyms: seminarist |
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| semiotician | (noun) a specialist in the study of meaning | Synonyms: semanticist |
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| septuagenarian | (noun) someone whose age is in the seventies | - |
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| sertularian | (noun) feathery colony of long-branched stems bearing stalkless paired polyps | - |
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| sesquipedalian | (adjective) (of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables | Synonyms: polysyllabic |
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| (adjective) given to the overuse of long words | - |
| (noun) a very long word (a foot and a half long) | Synonyms: sesquipedalia |
| sexagenarian | (adjective) being from 60 to 69 years old | - |
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| (noun) someone whose age is in the sixties | - |
| simian | (adjective) relating to or resembling an ape | - |
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| (noun) an ape or monkey | - |
| sirenian | (noun) any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs | Synonyms: sea cow, sirenian mammal |
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| solitudinarian | (noun) one who lives in solitude | Synonyms: hermit, recluse, solitary, troglodyte |
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| statistician | (noun) someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums) | Synonyms: actuary |
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| (noun) a mathematician who specializes in statistics | Synonyms: mathematical statistician |
| stentorian | (adjective) (used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant | Synonyms: booming |
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| steradian | (noun) the unit of solid angle adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: sr |
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| strategian | (noun) an expert in strategy (especially in warfare) | Synonyms: strategist |
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| strontianite | (noun) a mineral consisting of strontium carbonate | - |
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| subartesian | (adjective) (of water) rising naturally in a well to a height appreciably above that of the surrounding water table but not flowing out of the well | - |
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| subclavian | (adjective) situated beneath the clavicle | - |
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| submediant | (noun) (music) the sixth note of a major or minor scale (or the third below the tonic) | - |
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| supergiant | (noun) an extremely bright star of very large diameter and low density | - |
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| suppliant | (adjective) humbly entreating | Synonyms: supplicant, supplicatory |
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| (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: petitioner, requester, supplicant |
| syntactician | (noun) a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax | Synonyms: grammarian |
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| tactician | (noun) a person who is skilled at planning tactics | - |
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| tarriance | (noun) the act of tarrying | Synonyms: lingering |
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| technician | (noun) someone whose occupation involves training in a specific technical process | - |
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| (noun) someone known for high skill in some intellectual or artistic technique | - |
| tellurian | (adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | Synonyms: telluric, terrene, terrestrial |
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| (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthling, earthman, worldling |
| tertian | (adjective) relating to symptoms (especially malarial fever) that appear every other day | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds | - |
| theologian | (noun) someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology | Synonyms: theologiser, theologist, theologizer |
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| theoretician | (noun) someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) | Synonyms: idealogue, theoriser, theorist, theorizer |
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| thespian | (adjective) of or relating to drama | - |
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| (noun) a theatrical performer | Synonyms: actor, histrion, player, role player |
| titanosaurian | (noun) amphibious quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur with a long thin neck and whiplike tail; of the Cretaceous mostly in the Southern Hemisphere | Synonyms: titanosaur |
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| totalitarian | (adjective) of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life | Synonyms: totalistic |
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| (adjective) characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control | - |
| (noun) an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government | - |
| totalitarianism | (noun) an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government. | Synonyms: absolutism, totalism |
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| (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, tyranny |
| tragedian | (noun) an actor who specializes in tragic roles | - |
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| (noun) a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies | - |
| triangle | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle | - |
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| (noun) any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles | - |
| (noun) a three-sided polygon | Synonyms: trigon, trilateral |
| (noun) something approximating the shape of a triangle | - |
| triangular | (adjective) having three angles; forming or shaped like a triangle | - |
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| (adjective) having three sides | Synonyms: three-sided, trilateral |
| triangularity | (noun) the property of being shaped like a triangle | - |
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| triangulate | (adjective) composed of or marked with triangles | - |
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| (verb) survey by triangulation | - |
| (verb) measure by using trigonometry | - |
| (verb) divide into triangles or give a triangular form to | - |
| triangulation | (noun) a method of surveying; the area is divided into triangles and the length of one side and its angles with the other two are measured, then the lengths of the other sides can be calculated | - |
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| (noun) a trigonometric method of determining the position of a fixed point from the angles to it from two fixed points of a known distance apart; useful in navigation | - |
| trigonometrician | (noun) a mathematician specializing in trigonometry | - |
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| unchristian | (adjective) not of a Christian faith | - |
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| unchristianly | (adjective) not becoming to or like a Christian | Synonyms: unchristlike |
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| unsectarian | (adjective) not restricted to one sect or school or party | Synonyms: nonsectarian |
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| utilitarian | (adjective) having a useful function | Synonyms: useful |
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| (adjective) having utility often to the exclusion of values | - |
| (noun) someone who believes that the value of a thing depends on its utility | - |
| utilitarianism | (noun) doctrine that the useful is the good; especially as elaborated by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill; the aim was said to be the greatest happiness for the greatest number | - |
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| utopian | (adjective) characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia | Synonyms: Utopian |
| valedictorian | (noun) the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement | Synonyms: valedictory speaker |
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| valerian | (noun) a plant of the genus Valeriana having lobed or dissected leaves and cymose white or pink flowers | - |
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| valetudinarian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a person who is a valetudinarian | Synonyms: valetudinary |
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| (noun) weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health | - |
| valetudinarianism | (noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) | Synonyms: debility, feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity |
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| valiance | (noun) the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle) | Synonyms: gallantry, heroism, valiancy, valor, valorousness, valour |
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| valiancy | (noun) the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle) | Synonyms: gallantry, heroism, valiance, valor, valorousness, valour |
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| valiant | (adjective) having or showing valor | Synonyms: valorous |
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| valiantly | (adverb) with valor; in a valiant manner | Synonyms: valorously |
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| variance | (noun) an activity that varies from a norm or standard | Synonyms: variation |
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| (noun) an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation) | - |
| (noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: disagreement, discrepancy, divergence |
| (noun) the quality of being subject to variation | Synonyms: variability, variableness |
| (noun) the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value | - |
| (noun) discord that splits a group | Synonyms: division |
| (noun) an event that departs from expectations | Synonyms: discrepancy, variant |
| variant | (adjective) differing from a norm or standard | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting variation and change | - |
| (noun) a variable quantity that is random | Synonyms: chance variable, random variable, stochastic variable, variate |
| (noun) something a little different from others of the same type | Synonyms: edition, variation, version |
| (noun) an event that departs from expectations | Synonyms: discrepancy, variance |
| (noun) (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups | Synonyms: form, strain, var. |
| vaudevillian | (noun) a performer who works in vaudeville | - |
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| vegetarian | (noun) eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products | - |
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| vegetarianism | (noun) a diet excluding all meat and fish | - |
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| vesuvian | (noun) a green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone | Synonyms: idocrase, vesuvianite |
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| vesuvianite | (noun) a green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone | Synonyms: idocrase, vesuvian |
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| veterinarian | (noun) a doctor who practices veterinary medicine | Synonyms: vet, veterinary, veterinary surgeon |
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| viand | (noun) a choice or delicious dish | - |
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| viands | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provender, provisions, victuals |
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| victorian | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced |
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| vulgarian | (noun) a vulgar person (especially someone who makes a vulgar display of wealth) | - |
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