| substantialness | (noun) the quality of being substantial or having substance | Synonyms: solidness, substantiality |
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| substantiate | (verb) solidify, firm, or strengthen | - |
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| (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, corroborate, support, sustain |
| (verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualise, actualize, realise, realize |
| (verb) represent in bodily form | Synonyms: body forth, embody, incarnate |
| substantiating | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| substantiation | (noun) the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something | Synonyms: proof, validation |
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| (noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: check, confirmation, verification |
| substantiative | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| substantival | (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature or function of a substantive (i.e. a noun or noun equivalent) | - |
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| substantive | (adjective) defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established | Synonyms: essential |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something | Synonyms: substantial |
| (adjective) being on topic and prompting thought | Synonyms: meaty |
| (noun) any word or group of words functioning as a noun | - |
| substation | (noun) a subsidiary station where electricity is transformed for distribution by a low-voltage network | - |
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| substitutability | (noun) exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable | Synonyms: commutability, replaceability |
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| substitutable | (adjective) capable of being exchanged for another or for something else that is equivalent | Synonyms: commutable |
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| (adjective) (of words) interchangeable in a given context without changing the import of the expression | - |
| substitute | (adjective) artificial and inferior | Synonyms: ersatz |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternate, alternative |
| (adjective) capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team | Synonyms: utility |
| (noun) a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another | Synonyms: replacement |
| (noun) someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Synonyms: backup, backup man, fill-in, relief, reliever, stand-in |
| (noun) an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced | Synonyms: reserve, second-stringer |
| (verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items | Synonyms: exchange, interchange, replace |
| (verb) be a substitute | Synonyms: fill in, stand in, sub |
| (verb) act as a substitute | Synonyms: deputise, deputize, step in |
| substituting | (noun) working as a substitute for someone who is ill or on leave of absence | Synonyms: subbing |
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| substitution | (noun) the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: | Synonyms: commutation, exchange |
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| (noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: permutation, replacement, switch, transposition |
| substrate | (noun) an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population | Synonyms: substratum |
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| (noun) any stratum or layer lying underneath another | Synonyms: substratum |
| (noun) a surface on which an organism grows or is attached | Synonyms: substratum |
| (noun) the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment | - |
| substratum | (noun) an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population | Synonyms: substrate |
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| (noun) any stratum or layer lying underneath another | Synonyms: substrate |
| (noun) a surface on which an organism grows or is attached | Synonyms: substrate |
| substring | (noun) a string that is part of a longer string | - |
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| substructure | (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, understructure |
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| (noun) the basic structure or features of a system or organization | Synonyms: infrastructure |
| subsume | (verb) consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle | Synonyms: colligate |
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| (verb) contain or include | - |
| subsumption | (noun) incorporating something under a more general category | - |
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| (noun) the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion) | Synonyms: minor premise, minor premiss |
| subsurface | (adjective) beneath the surface | - |
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| subsystem | (noun) a system that is part of some larger system | - |
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| subtend | (verb) be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry | Synonyms: delimit |
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| subterfuge | (noun) something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity | Synonyms: blind |
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| subterminal | (adjective) near but not precisely at an end | - |
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| subterranean | (adjective) lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed) | Synonyms: subterraneous, ulterior |
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| (adjective) being or operating under the surface of the earth | Synonyms: subterraneous |
| subterraneous | (adjective) lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed) | Synonyms: subterranean, ulterior |
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| (adjective) being or operating under the surface of the earth | Synonyms: subterranean |
| subthalamus | (noun) the ventral part of the thalamus | - |
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| subtilin | (noun) a polypeptide antibiotic (similar to bacitracin) obtained from a soil bacterium | - |
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| subtilise | (verb) make (senses) more keen | Synonyms: subtilize |
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| subtilize | (verb) make more subtle or refined | Synonyms: rarefy, sublimate |
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| (verb) make (senses) more keen | Synonyms: subtilise |
| (verb) mark fine distinctions and subtleties, as among words | - |
| subtitle | (noun) secondary or explanatory title | - |
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| (noun) translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen | Synonyms: caption |
| (verb) supply (a movie) with subtitles | - |
| subtle | (adjective) working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way | Synonyms: insidious, pernicious |
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| (adjective) difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze | Synonyms: elusive |
| (adjective) able to make fine distinctions | - |
| subtlety | (noun) the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze | Synonyms: niceness |
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| (noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, nuance, refinement, shade |
| subtly | (adverb) in a subtle manner | - |
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| subtonic | (noun) (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale | Synonyms: leading tone |
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| subtopia | (noun) monotonous urban sprawl of standardized buildings | - |
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| subtotal | (noun) the sum of part of a group of numbers | - |
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| subtract | (verb) take off or away | - |
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| (verb) make a subtraction | Synonyms: deduct, take off |
| subtracter | (noun) a machine that subtracts numbers | - |
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| (noun) a person who subtracts numbers | - |
| subtraction | (noun) the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole) | Synonyms: deduction |
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| (noun) an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated | Synonyms: minus |
| subtractive | (adjective) constituting or involving subtraction | - |
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| subtractor | (noun) An electronic logic circuit for calculating the difference between two binary numbers. | - |
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| subtrahend | (noun) the number to be subtracted from the minuend | - |
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| subtreasury | (noun) a subordinate treasury or place of deposit | - |
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| subtropic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics | Synonyms: semitropic, semitropical, subtropical |
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| subtropical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics | Synonyms: semitropic, semitropical, subtropic |
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| subtropics | (noun) regions adjacent to the tropics | Synonyms: semitropics |
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| subtweeting | (noun) the act of tweeting without tagging a user so that they will not see the post | - |
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| subunit | (noun) a monetary unit that is valued at a fraction (usually one hundredth) of the basic monetary unit | Synonyms: fractional monetary unit |
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| suburb | (noun) a residential district located on the outskirts of a city | Synonyms: suburban area, suburbia |
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| suburban | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs | - |
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| suburbanise | (verb) make suburban in character | Synonyms: suburbanize |
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| (verb) take on suburban character | Synonyms: suburbanize |
| suburbanised | (adjective) surrounded by many suburbs | Synonyms: suburbanized |
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| suburbanite | (noun) a resident of a suburb | - |
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| suburbanize | (verb) make suburban in character | Synonyms: suburbanise |
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| (verb) take on suburban character | Synonyms: suburbanise |
| suburbanized | (adjective) surrounded by many suburbs | Synonyms: suburbanised |
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| suburbia | (noun) suburbanites considered as a cultural class or subculture | - |
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| (noun) a residential district located on the outskirts of a city | Synonyms: suburb, suburban area |
| subvent | (verb) guarantee financial support of | Synonyms: subvention, underwrite |
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| subvention | (noun) the act or process of providing aid or help of any sort | - |
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| (noun) grant of financial aid as from a government to an educational institution | - |
| (verb) guarantee financial support of | Synonyms: subvent, underwrite |
| subversion | (noun) destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity | Synonyms: corruption |
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| (noun) the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government | Synonyms: subversive activity |
| subversive | (adjective) in opposition to a civil authority or government | Synonyms: insurgent, seditious |
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| (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, revolutionist, subverter |
| subversiveness | (noun) disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior | Synonyms: traitorousness, treason |
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| subvert | (verb) to raze to the ground, also figuratively | - |
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| (verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overthrow, overturn |
| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, countermine, sabotage, undermine, weaken |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, vitiate |
| subverter | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, revolutionist, subversive |
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| subvocalise | (verb) articulate without making audible sounds | Synonyms: subvocalize |
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| subvocaliser | (noun) someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds | Synonyms: subvocalizer |
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| subvocalize | (verb) articulate without making audible sounds | Synonyms: subvocalise |
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| subvocalizer | (noun) someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds | Synonyms: subvocaliser |
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| subway | (noun) an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) | Synonyms: metro, subway system, tube, underground |
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| (noun) an underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway | Synonyms: underpass |
| subwoofer | (noun) a loudspeaker that is designed to reproduce very low bass frequencies | - |
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| transubstantiate | (verb) change or alter in form, appearance, or nature | Synonyms: transform, transmute |
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| (verb) change (the Eucharist bread and wine) into the body and blood of Christ | - |
| transubstantiation | (noun) an act that changes the form or character or substance of something | Synonyms: transmutation |
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| (noun) the Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and the wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ when consecrated in the Eucharist | - |
| unsubdivided | (adjective) (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions | Synonyms: simple |
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| unsubduable | (adjective) impossible to subdue | Synonyms: indomitable, never-say-die |
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| unsubdued | (adjective) not brought under control | - |
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| unsubmissive | (adjective) not servile or submissive | Synonyms: unservile |
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| unsubstantial | (adjective) lacking material form or substance; unreal | Synonyms: insubstantial, unreal |
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| unsubstantialise | (verb) render immaterial or incorporeal | Synonyms: immaterialise, immaterialize, unsubstantialize |
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| unsubstantialize | (verb) render immaterial or incorporeal | Synonyms: immaterialise, immaterialize, unsubstantialise |
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| unsubstantiated | (adjective) unsupported by other evidence | Synonyms: uncorroborated |
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| unsubtle | (adjective) lacking subtlety; obvious | Synonyms: broad |
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