| balsam | (noun) an ointment containing a fragrant resin | - |
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| (noun) any seed plant yielding balsam | - |
| (noun) any of various fragrant oleoresins used in medicines and perfumes | - |
| balsamic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing balsam | Synonyms: balsamy |
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| balsamroot | (noun) a plant of the genus Balsamorhiza having downy leaves in a basal rosette and yellow flowers and long balsam-scented taproots | - |
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| balsamy | (adjective) of or relating to or containing balsam | Synonyms: balsamic |
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| disambiguate | (verb) state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from | - |
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| disambiguation | (noun) clarification that follows from the removal of ambiguity | - |
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| disambiguator | (noun) (computer science) a natural language processing application that tries to determine the intended meaning of a word or phrase by examining the linguistic context in which it is used | - |
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| endopsammon | (noun) The microscopic fauna of sand and mud. | - |
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| epipsammon | (noun) Microscopic flora and fauna found on the surface of and/or attached to sand grains. | - |
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| flotsam | (noun) the floating wreckage of a ship | Synonyms: jetsam |
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| glucosamine | (noun) an amino derivative of glucose that is a component of many polysaccharides | - |
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| gossamer | (adjective) characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy | Synonyms: ethereal |
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| (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
| (noun) a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture | - |
| (noun) filaments from a web that was spun by a spider | Synonyms: cobweb |
| jessamine | (noun) a climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant white or yellow or red flowers used in perfume and to flavor tea | Synonyms: common jasmine, Jasminum officinale, true jasmine |
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| jetsam | (noun) the floating wreckage of a ship | Synonyms: flotsam |
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| (noun) the part of a ship's equipment or cargo that is thrown overboard to lighten the load in a storm | - |
| parosamia | (noun) a disorder in the sense of smell | Synonyms: dysosmia, olfactory impairment |
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| psammoma | (noun) a tumor derived from fibrous tissue of the meninges or choroid plexus or certain other structures associated with the brain; characterized by sandlike particles | Synonyms: sand tumor |
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| saman | (noun) large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle | Synonyms: Albizia saman, monkey pod, monkeypod, rain tree, zaman, zamang |
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| samara | (noun) a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple | Synonyms: key, key fruit |
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| samarium | (noun) a grey lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group; is used in special alloys; occurs in monazite and bastnasite | Synonyms: atomic number 62, Sm |
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| samarskite | (noun) a complex black mineral occurring in pegmatites | - |
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| samba | (noun) a lively dance from Brazil, with roots from Africa | - |
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| (noun) a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers | - |
| (noun) music composed for dancing the samba | - |
| (noun) large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood | Synonyms: arere, obeche, obechi, Triplochiton scleroxcylon |
| (verb) dance the samba | - |
| sambar | (noun) a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines | Synonyms: Cervus unicolor, sambur |
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| sambuca | (noun) an Italian liqueur made with elderberries and flavored with licorice | - |
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| sambur | (noun) a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines | Synonyms: Cervus unicolor, sambar |
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| same | (adjective) closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree | - |
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| (adjective) same in identity | - |
| (adjective) equal in amount or value | Synonyms: like |
| (adjective) unchanged in character or nature | - |
| samekh | (noun) the 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| sameness | (noun) the quality of being alike | - |
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| (noun) the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety | Synonyms: humdrum, monotony |
| samiel | (noun) a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa | Synonyms: simoom, simoon |
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| samisen | (noun) a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretless fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum | Synonyms: shamisen |
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| samite | (noun) a heavy silk fabric (often woven with silver or gold threads); used to make clothing in the Middle Ages | - |
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| samizdat | (noun) a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature | Synonyms: underground press |
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| samosa | (noun) small turnover of Indian origin filled with vegetables or meat and fried and served hot | - |
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| samovar | (noun) a metal urn with a spigot at the base; used in Russia to boil water for tea | - |
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| sampan | (noun) an Asian skiff usually propelled by two oars | - |
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| samphire | (noun) fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass | Synonyms: glasswort, Salicornia europaea |
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| sample | (noun) a small part of something intended as representative of the whole | - |
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| (noun) items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population | Synonyms: sample distribution, sampling |
| (noun) all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class | - |
| (verb) take a sample of | Synonyms: taste, try, try out |
| sampler | (noun) a piece of embroidery demonstrating skill with various stitches | - |
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| (noun) an observation station that is set up to make sample observations of something | Synonyms: sampling station |
| (noun) an assortment of various samples | - |
| (noun) someone who samples food or drink for its quality | Synonyms: taste-tester, taste tester, taster |
| sampling | (noun) (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study | - |
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| (noun) measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form) | - |
| (noun) items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population | Synonyms: sample, sample distribution |
| samsara | (noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the endless cycle of birth and suffering and death and rebirth | - |
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| samurai | (noun) feudal Japanese military aristocracy | - |
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| (noun) a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy | - |
| selfsame | (adjective) being the exact same one; not any other: | Synonyms: identical, very |
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| selfsameness | (noun) the quality of being identical with itself | - |
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| sesame | (noun) East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil | Synonyms: benne, benni, benny, Sesamum indicum |
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| sesamoid | (noun) any of several small round bones formed in a tendon where it passes over a joint | Synonyms: os sesamoideum, sesamoid bone |
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| transaminase | (noun) a class of transferases that catalyze transamination (that transfer an amino group from an amino acid to another compound) | Synonyms: aminopherase, aminotransferase |
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| transaminate | (verb) undergo transfer from one compound to another | - |
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| (verb) change (an amino group) by transferring it from one compound to another | - |
| transamination | (noun) the process of transferring an amino group from one compound to another | - |
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| (noun) the process of transposing an amino group within a chemical compound | - |