| desacralize | (verb) transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control | Synonyms: secularize |
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| lumbosacral | (adjective) of or relating to or near the small of the back and the back part of the pelvis between the hips | - |
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| massacre | (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: butchery, carnage, mass murder, slaughter |
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| (verb) kill a large number of people indiscriminately | Synonyms: mow down, slaughter |
| sacral | (adjective) of or relating to or near the sacrum | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to sacred rites | - |
| sacrament | (noun) a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction | - |
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| sacramental | (adjective) of or relating to or involving a sacrament | - |
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| sacred | (adjective) concerned with religion or religious purposes | - |
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| (adjective) (often followed by `to') devoted exclusively to a single use or purpose or person | - |
| (adjective) made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use | Synonyms: consecrated, sanctified |
| (adjective) worthy of respect or dedication | - |
| (adjective) worthy of religious veneration | Synonyms: hallowed |
| sacredly | (adverb) by religion | Synonyms: religiously |
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| sacredness | (noun) the quality of being sacred | - |
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| sacrifice | (noun) the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity | Synonyms: ritual killing |
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| (noun) the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc. | Synonyms: forfeit, forfeiture |
| (noun) (baseball) an out that advances the base runners | - |
| (noun) personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective) | - |
| (noun) a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value | - |
| (verb) kill or destroy | - |
| (verb) endure the loss of | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals | - |
| (verb) sell at a loss | - |
| 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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| sacrilege | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | Synonyms: blasphemy, desecration, profanation |
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| sacrilegious | (adjective) grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred | Synonyms: blasphemous, profane |
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| sacrilegiously | (adverb) in a sacrilegious manner | - |
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| sacrilegiousness | (noun) profaneness by virtue of committing sacrilege | - |
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| sacristan | (noun) an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects | Synonyms: sexton |
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| sacristy | (noun) a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held | Synonyms: vestry |
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| sacrosanct | (adjective) must be kept sacred | Synonyms: inviolable, inviolate |
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| sacrum | (noun) wedge-shaped bone consisting of five fused vertebrae forming the posterior part of the pelvis; its base connects with the lowest lumbar vertebra and its tip with the coccyx | - |
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