| abomasum | (noun) the fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the one where digestion takes place | Synonyms: fourth stomach |
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| alyssum | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Alyssum having clusters of small yellow or white flowers | Synonyms: madwort |
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| assume | (verb) put clothing on one's body | Synonyms: don, get into, put on, wear |
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| (verb) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect | Synonyms: acquire, adopt, take, take on |
| (verb) take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof | Synonyms: presume, take for granted |
| (verb) take up someone's soul into heaven | - |
| (verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: feign, sham, simulate |
| (verb) occupy or take on | Synonyms: strike, take, take up |
| (verb) seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession | Synonyms: arrogate, seize, take over, usurp |
| (verb) take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person | Synonyms: accept, bear, take over |
| (verb) take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities | Synonyms: adopt, take on, take over |
| assumed | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham |
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| assuming | (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assumptive, presumptuous |
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| assumption | (noun) the act of taking possession of or power over something | Synonyms: laying claim |
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| (noun) the act of assuming or taking for granted | - |
| (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: effrontery, presumption, presumptuousness |
| (noun) a hypothesis that is taken for granted | Synonyms: supposal, supposition |
| (noun) a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn | Synonyms: premise, premiss |
| assumptive | (adjective) accepted as real or true without proof | - |
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| (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assuming, presumptuous |
| checksum | (noun) a digit representing the sum of the digits in an instance of digital data; used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storage | - |
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| consumable | (adjective) may be used up | - |
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| consume | (verb) engage fully | - |
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| (verb) serve oneself to, or consume regularly | Synonyms: have, ingest, take, take in |
| (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, expend, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
| (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: squander, ware, waste |
| (verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: demolish, devour, down, go through |
| (verb) destroy completely | - |
| consumer | (noun) a person who uses goods or services | - |
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| consumerism | (noun) a movement advocating greater protection of the interests of consumers | - |
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| (noun) the theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically beneficial | - |
| consuming | (adjective) very strong; urgently felt | Synonyms: overwhelming |
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| consummate | (adjective) perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities | Synonyms: complete |
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| (adjective) having or revealing supreme mastery or skill | Synonyms: masterful, masterly, virtuoso |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| (verb) make perfect; bring to perfection | - |
| (verb) fulfill sexually | - |
| consummated | (adjective) brought to completion | - |
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| consummation | (noun) the act of bringing to completion or fruition | - |
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| (noun) the completion of marriage by sexual intercourse | - |
| consumption | (noun) the act of consuming something | Synonyms: expenditure, using up |
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| (noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | Synonyms: ingestion, intake, uptake |
| (noun) (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing | Synonyms: economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services |
| (noun) involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body | Synonyms: phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease, white plague |
| consumptive | (adjective) tending to consume or use often wastefully | - |
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| (adjective) afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis | - |
| (noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: lunger, tubercular |
| dorsum | (noun) the back of the body of a vertebrate or any analogous surface (as the upper or outer surface of an organ or appendage or part) | - |
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| (noun) the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine | Synonyms: back |
| gypsum | (noun) a common white or colorless mineral (hydrated calcium sulphate) used to make cements and plasters (especially plaster of Paris) | - |
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| midsummer | (noun) June 21, when the sun is at its northernmost point | Synonyms: June 21, summer solstice |
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| odontoglossum | (noun) any of numerous and diverse orchids of the genus Odontoglossum having racemes of few to many showy usually large flowers in many colors | - |
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| omasum | (noun) the third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant | Synonyms: psalterium, third stomach |
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| opossum | (noun) nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America | Synonyms: possum |
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| (noun) small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails | Synonyms: phalanger, possum |
| possum | (noun) nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America | Synonyms: opossum |
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| (noun) small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails | Synonyms: opossum, phalanger |
| possumwood | (noun) medium-sized tree of dry woodlands in the southern and eastern United States bearing yellow or orange very astringent fruit that is edible when fully ripe | Synonyms: American persimmon, Diospyros virginiana |
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| presumable | (adjective) capable of being inferred on slight grounds | Synonyms: supposable, surmisable |
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| presumably | (adverb) by reasonable assumption | Synonyms: presumptively |
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| presume | (verb) take liberties or act with too much confidence | - |
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| (verb) take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof | Synonyms: assume, take for granted |
| (verb) constitute reasonable evidence for | - |
| (verb) take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission | Synonyms: dare, make bold |
| presumption | (noun) a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming | - |
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| (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: assumption, effrontery, presumptuousness |
| (noun) an assumption that is taken for granted | Synonyms: given, precondition |
| (noun) (law) an inference of the truth of a fact from other facts proved or admitted or judicially noticed | - |
| presumptive | (adjective) affording reasonable grounds for belief or acceptance | - |
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| (adjective) having a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance | - |
| presumptively | (adverb) by reasonable assumption | Synonyms: presumably |
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| presumptuous | (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assuming, assumptive |
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| presumptuously | (adverb) in a presumptuous manner | - |
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| presumptuousness | (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: assumption, effrontery, presumption |
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| resume | (noun) short descriptive summary (of events) | Synonyms: sketch, survey |
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| (noun) a summary of your academic and work history | Synonyms: curriculum vitae, CV |
| (verb) take up or begin anew | Synonyms: re-start, restart |
| (verb) return to a previous location or condition | Synonyms: take up |
| (verb) give a summary (of) | Synonyms: sum up, summarise, summarize |
| (verb) assume anew | - |
| resumption | (noun) beginning again | Synonyms: recommencement |
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| sargassum | (noun) brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea | Synonyms: gulfweed, sargasso, Sargassum bacciferum |
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| satsuma | (noun) medium-sized largely seedless mandarin orange with thin smooth skin | - |
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| (noun) a variety of mandarin orange, known commonly as cold hardy mandarin, Christmas orange, or tangerine | Synonyms: satsuma tree |
| 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 |
| sum | (noun) the whole amount | Synonyms: aggregate, total, totality |
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| (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance |
| (noun) a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers | Synonyms: amount, total |
| (noun) the final aggregate | Synonyms: sum total, summation |
| (noun) a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets | Synonyms: join, union |
| (noun) a quantity of money | Synonyms: amount, amount of money, sum of money |
| (verb) determine the sum of | Synonyms: add, add together, add up, sum up, summate, tally, tot, tot up, total, tote up |
| (verb) be a summary of | Synonyms: sum up, summarise, summarize |
| sumac | (noun) a shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus) | Synonyms: shumac, sumach |
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| (noun) wood of a sumac | - |
| sumach | (noun) a shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus) | Synonyms: shumac, sumac |
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| summarily | (adverb) without delay; in a summary manner | - |
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| summarisation | (noun) the act of preparing a summary (or an instance thereof); stating briefly and succinctly | Synonyms: summarization |
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| summarise | (verb) give a summary (of) | Synonyms: resume, sum up, summarize |
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| (verb) be a summary of | Synonyms: sum, sum up, summarize |
| summarization | (noun) the act of preparing a summary (or an instance thereof); stating briefly and succinctly | Synonyms: summarisation |
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| summarize | (verb) give a summary (of) | Synonyms: resume, sum up, summarise |
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| (verb) be a summary of | Synonyms: sum, sum up, summarise |
| summary | (adjective) briefly giving the gist of something | Synonyms: compact, compendious, succinct |
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| (adjective) performed speedily and without formality | Synonyms: drumhead |
| (noun) a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form | Synonyms: sum-up |
| summate | (verb) determine the sum of | Synonyms: add, add together, add up, sum, sum up, tally, tot, tot up, total, tote up |
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| (verb) form or constitute a cumulative effect | - |
| summation | (noun) the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers | Synonyms: addition, plus |
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| (noun) a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court) | Synonyms: rundown, summing up |
| (noun) the final aggregate | Synonyms: sum, sum total |
| (noun) (physiology) the process whereby multiple stimuli can produce a response (in a muscle or nerve or other part) that one stimulus alone does not produce | - |
| summational | (adjective) of or relating to a summation or produced by summation | Synonyms: summative |
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| summative | (adjective) of or relating to a summation or produced by summation | Synonyms: summational |
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| summer | (noun) the warmest season of the year; in the Northern Hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox | Synonyms: summertime |
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| (noun) the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty | - |
| (verb) spend the summer | - |
| summercater | (noun) (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine | Synonyms: sport |
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| summercaters | (noun) (Maine colloquial) temporary summer residents of coastal Maine | - |
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| summerhouse | (noun) a small roofed building affording shade and rest | Synonyms: gazebo |
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| summerise | (verb) prepare for summer | Synonyms: summerize |
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| summerize | (verb) prepare for summer | Synonyms: summerise |
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| summersault | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somersaulting, somerset, summerset |
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| summerset | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somersaulting, somerset, summersault |
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| summertime | (noun) the warmest season of the year; in the Northern Hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox | Synonyms: summer |
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| summery | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of or occurring in summer | - |
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| summit | (noun) a meeting of heads of governments | Synonyms: summit meeting |
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| (noun) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) | Synonyms: crest, crown, peak, tip, top |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, superlative, tiptop, top |
| (verb) reach the summit (of a mountain) | Synonyms: breast |
| summon | (verb) make ready for action or use | Synonyms: marshal, mobilise, mobilize |
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| (verb) call in an official matter, such as to attend court | Synonyms: cite, summons |
| (verb) ask to come | - |
| (verb) gather or bring together | Synonyms: come up, muster, muster up, rally |
| (verb) cause to become available for use, either literally or figuratively | Synonyms: call up |
| summoning | (noun) calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations | Synonyms: evocation |
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| summons | (noun) a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant | Synonyms: process |
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| (noun) a request to be present | Synonyms: bidding |
| (noun) an order to appear in person at a given place and time | - |
| (verb) call in an official matter, such as to attend court | Synonyms: cite, summon |
| sumo | (noun) a Japanese form of wrestling; you lose if you are forced out of a small ring or if any part of your body (other than your feet) touches the ground | - |
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| sump | (noun) a well or other hole in which water has collected | - |
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| (noun) an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine | - |
| (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspit, cesspool, sink |
| sumpsimus | (noun) a correct expression that takes the place of a popular but incorrect expression | - |
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| sumpter | (noun) an animal (such as a mule or burro or horse) used to carry loads | Synonyms: pack animal |
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| sumptuary | (adjective) regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior | - |
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| sumptuosity | (noun) the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | Synonyms: lavishness, luxury, sumptuousness |
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| sumptuous | (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, gilded, grand, lush, luxurious, opulent, princely |
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| sumptuously | (adverb) in a sumptuous and opulent manner | Synonyms: opulently |
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| sumptuousness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | Synonyms: lavishness, luxury, sumptuosity |
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| (noun) wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living | Synonyms: luxuriousness, luxury, opulence |
| unassuming | (adjective) not arrogant or presuming | Synonyms: retiring |
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| unassumingly | (adverb) in an unassuming manner | - |
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| unassumingness | (noun) a quality of naturalness and simplicity | Synonyms: sincerity |
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| unconsumed | (adjective) not consumed | - |
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| unconsummated | (adjective) not consummated (especially of a marriage) | - |
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