| secondary | (adjective) being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate | - |
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| (adjective) depending on or incidental to what is original or primary | - |
| (adjective) inferior in rank or status | Synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, subaltern |
| (adjective) not of major importance | - |
| (adjective) belonging to a lower class or rank | - |
| (noun) coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil | Synonyms: secondary coil, secondary winding |
| (noun) the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen | - |
| secretary | (noun) a desk used for writing | Synonyms: escritoire, secretaire, writing table |
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| (noun) an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization | Synonyms: secretarial assistant |
| (noun) a person who is head of an administrative department of government | - |
| (noun) a person to whom a secret is entrusted | Synonyms: repository |
| secretory | (adjective) of or relating to or producing a secretion | - |
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| sectary | (noun) a member of a sect | Synonyms: sectarian, sectarist |
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| sedentary | (adjective) requiring sitting or little activity | - |
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| sedimentary | (adjective) produced by the action of water | Synonyms: aqueous |
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| (adjective) resembling or containing or formed by the accumulation of sediment | - |
| seigneury | (noun) the position and authority of a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudal lordship, seigniory |
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| (noun) the estate of a seigneur | Synonyms: seigniory, signory |
| seigniory | (noun) the position and authority of a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudal lordship, seigneury |
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| (noun) the estate of a seigneur | Synonyms: seigneury, signory |
| selenolatry | (noun) the worship of the moon | Synonyms: moon-worship |
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| semicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or marking the 50th anniversary | Synonyms: semicentennial |
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| (noun) the 50th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: semicentennial |
| seminary | (noun) a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis | - |
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| (noun) a private place of education for the young | - |
| sensory | (adjective) involving or derived from the senses | Synonyms: sensorial |
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| (adjective) relating to or concerned in sensation | Synonyms: sensational |
| (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system | Synonyms: centripetal, receptive |
| sentry | (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, spotter, watch |
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| septenary | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one | Synonyms: 7, heptad, septet, seven, sevener, VII |
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| serictery | (noun) silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spiders | Synonyms: sericterium, silk gland |
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| serviceberry | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: juneberry, saskatoon, shadberry |
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| (noun) any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit | Synonyms: Juneberry, service tree, shadblow, shadbush |
| shadberry | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: juneberry, saskatoon, serviceberry |
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| sherry | (noun) dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif | - |
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| shimmery | (adjective) glistening tremulously | - |
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| shivery | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: chilling, scary, shuddery |
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| (adjective) cold enough to cause shivers | - |
| showery | (adjective) (of weather) wet by periods of rain | Synonyms: rainy |
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| shrubbery | (noun) a collection of shrubs growing together | - |
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| (noun) an area where a number of shrubs are planted | - |
| shuddery | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: chilling, scary, shivery |
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| signatory | (noun) someone who signs and is bound by a document | Synonyms: signer |
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| signory | (noun) the estate of a seigneur | Synonyms: seigneury, seigniory |
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| silverberry | (noun) deciduous unarmed North American shrub with silvery leaves and fruits | Synonyms: Elaeagnus commutata, silver-bush, silver berry, silverbush |
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| silvery | (adjective) of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver | Synonyms: argent, silver, silverish |
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| (adjective) having the white lustrous sheen of silver | Synonyms: silver, silvern |
| (adjective) resembling or reminiscent of silver | Synonyms: silvern |
| skulduggery | (noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery |
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| skullduggery | (noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, slickness, trickery |
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| slavery | (noun) work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay | - |
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| (noun) the practice of owning slaves | Synonyms: slaveholding |
| (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: bondage, thraldom, thrall, thralldom |
| slippery | (adjective) causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide | Synonyms: slippy |
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| (adjective) not to be trusted | Synonyms: tricky |
| slithery | (adjective) having a slippery surface or quality | - |
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| slivery | (adjective) resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points | Synonyms: splintery |
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| slumbery | (adjective) inclined to or marked by drowsiness | Synonyms: slumberous, slumbrous, somnolent |
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| slurry | (noun) a suspension of insoluble particles (as plaster of Paris or lime or clay etc.) usually in water | - |
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| smeltery | (noun) an industrial plant for smelting | Synonyms: smelter |
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| snakeberry | (noun) North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries | Synonyms: Actaea rubra, red-berry, red baneberry, redberry |
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| snobbery | (noun) the trait of condescending to those of lower social status | Synonyms: snobbishness, snobbism |
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| snowberry | (noun) deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries | Synonyms: common snowberry, Symphoricarpos alba, waxberry |
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| snuggery | (noun) a small secluded room | Synonyms: cubby, cubbyhole, snug |
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| soapberry | (noun) a tree of the genus Sapindus whose fruit is rich in saponin | Synonyms: soapberry tree |
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| sociometry | (noun) the quantitative study of social relationships | - |
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| soldiery | (noun) soldiers collectively | Synonyms: military personnel, troops |
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| solitary | (adjective) being the only one; single and isolated from others | Synonyms: lone, lonesome, only, sole |
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| (adjective) lacking companions or companionship | Synonyms: alone, lone, lonely |
| (adjective) of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies | Synonyms: nongregarious, nonsocial |
| (adjective) devoid of creatures | Synonyms: lonely, unfrequented |
| (adjective) characterized by or preferring solitude | Synonyms: lone, lonely |
| (noun) one who lives in solitude | Synonyms: hermit, recluse, solitudinarian, troglodyte |
| (noun) confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners | Synonyms: solitary confinement |
| somatosensory | (adjective) of or relating to the somatosenses | - |
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| sophistry | (noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | Synonyms: sophism, sophistication |
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| sorcery | (noun) the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world | Synonyms: black art, black magic, necromancy |
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| sorry | (adjective) feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone | Synonyms: bad, regretful |
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| (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad |
| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim |
| (adjective) without merit; of little or no value or use | Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good |
| sparkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: farkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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| spectrometry | (noun) the use of spectroscopes to analyze spectra | Synonyms: spectrographic analysis, spectroscopic analysis, spectroscopy, spectrum analysis |
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| spiceberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India | Synonyms: Ardisia crenata, coralberry |
| spicery | (noun) the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored | Synonyms: spice, spiciness |
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| spidery | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, arachnoid, spiderlike, spiderly |
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| spindleberry | (noun) any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries | Synonyms: spindle tree, spindleberry tree |
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| spirometry | (noun) the use of a spirometer to measure vital capacity | - |
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| splintery | (adjective) resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points | Synonyms: slivery |
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| (adjective) subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces | - |
| spry | (adjective) moving quickly and lightly | Synonyms: agile, nimble, quick |
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| stagflationary | (adjective) characteristic of or promoting stagflation | - |
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| starry | (adjective) abounding with or resembling stars | - |
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| stationary | (adjective) not capable of being moved | - |
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| (adjective) standing still | - |
| stationery | (noun) paper cut to an appropriate size for writing letters; usually with matching envelopes | Synonyms: letter paper |
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| statuary | (adjective) of or relating to or suitable for statues | - |
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| (noun) statues collectively | - |
| statutory | (adjective) relating to or created by statutes | - |
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| (adjective) prescribed or authorized by or punishable under a statute | - |
| sternutatory | (adjective) tending to cause sneezing | - |
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| (adjective) causing sneezing | Synonyms: sternutative |
| (noun) a chemical substance that causes sneezing and coughing and crying | Synonyms: sternutator |
| stipendiary | (adjective) pertaining to or of the nature of a stipend or allowance | - |
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| (adjective) for which money is paid | Synonyms: compensable, paying, remunerative, salaried |
| (adjective) receiving or eligible for compensation | Synonyms: compensated, remunerated, salaried |
| (noun) (United Kingdom) a paid magistrate (appointed by the Home Secretary) dealing with police cases | Synonyms: stipendiary magistrate |
| stipulatory | (adjective) constituted or contracted by stipulation or agreement | Synonyms: agreed upon |
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| stitchery | (noun) needlework on which you are working with needle and thread | Synonyms: sewing |
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| stoichiometry | (noun) (chemistry) the relation between the quantities of substances that take part in a reaction or form a compound (typically a ratio of whole integers) | - |
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| story | (noun) a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale | Synonyms: floor, level, storey |
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| (noun) a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events | - |
| (noun) a short account of the news | Synonyms: account, news report, report, write up |
| (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle |
| (noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narration, narrative, tale |
| (noun) a record or narrative description of past events | Synonyms: account, chronicle, history |
| strawberry | (noun) a soft red birthmark | Synonyms: hemangioma simplex, strawberry mark |
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| (noun) sweet fleshy red fruit | - |
| (noun) any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible fruits having many small achenes scattered on the surface of an enlarged red pulpy berry | - |
| subdirectory | (noun) (computer science) a directory that is listed in another directory | - |
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| subentry | (noun) An entry, such as one in an account or reference work, that is included within a main entry. | - |
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| subliterary | (adjective) not written as or intended to be literature | - |
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| sublunary | (adjective) situated between the earth and the moon | Synonyms: cislunar, sublunar |
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| (adjective) of this earth | Synonyms: sublunar, terrestrial |
| subsidiary | (adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity | Synonyms: auxiliary, supplemental, supplementary |
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| (noun) a company that is completely controlled by another company | Synonyms: subsidiary company |
| (noun) an assistant subject to the authority or control of another | Synonyms: foot soldier, subordinate, underling |
| subtreasury | (noun) a subordinate treasury or place of deposit | - |
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| succory | (noun) perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads | Synonyms: chicory, chicory plant, Cichorium intybus |
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| sudatory | (noun) a bathhouse for hot air baths or steam baths | Synonyms: sudatorium |
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| (noun) a medicine that causes or increases sweating | Synonyms: sudorific |
| sugarberry | (noun) small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States | Synonyms: hackberry |
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| (noun) deciduous shade tree with small black berries; southern United States; yields soft yellowish wood | Synonyms: Celtis laevigata |
| sugary | (adjective) containing sugar | - |
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| sultry | (adjective) characterized by oppressive heat and humidity | Synonyms: stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous |
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| (adjective) sexually exciting or gratifying | Synonyms: sensual |
| 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 |
| summery | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of or occurring in summer | - |
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| sumptuary | (adjective) regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior | - |
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| sunberry | (noun) improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries | Synonyms: garden huckleberry, Solanum burbankii, Solanum melanocerasum, Solanum nigrum guineese, wonderberry |
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| sundry | (adjective) consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds | Synonyms: assorted, miscellaneous, mixed, motley |
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| supererogatory | (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: excess, extra, redundant, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus |
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| superlunary | (adjective) situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth | Synonyms: superlunar, translunar, translunary |
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| (adjective) unworldly or ethereal | Synonyms: superlunar, translunar, translunary |
| supernumerary | (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, surplus |
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| (noun) a minor actor in crowd scenes | Synonyms: extra, spear carrier |
| (noun) a person serving no apparent function | - |
| supersymmetry | (noun) (physics) a theory that tries to link the four fundamental forces | - |
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| supervisory | (adjective) of or limited to or involving supervision | - |
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| supplementary | (adjective) added to complete or make up a deficiency | Synonyms: supplemental |
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| (adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity | Synonyms: auxiliary, subsidiary, supplemental |
| supplicatory | (adjective) humbly entreating | Synonyms: suppliant, supplicant |
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| suppository | (noun) a small plug of medication designed for insertion into the rectum or vagina where it melts | - |
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| surgery | (noun) a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Synonyms: operation, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process |
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| (noun) a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations | Synonyms: operating room, operating theater, operating theatre, OR |
| (noun) a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted | - |
| (noun) the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures | - |
| suspensory | (noun) a bandage of elastic fabric applied to uplift a dependant part (as the scrotum or a pendulous breast) | Synonyms: suspensory bandage |
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| sweltry | (adjective) excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness | Synonyms: sweltering |
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| syllabary | (noun) a writing system whose characters represent syllables | Synonyms: syllabic script |
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| symbolatry | (noun) the worship of symbols | Synonyms: symbol-worship, symbololatry |
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| symbololatry | (noun) the worship of symbols | Synonyms: symbol-worship, symbolatry |
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