| satirize | (verb) ridicule with satire | Synonyms: lampoon, satirise |
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| satisfaction | (noun) act of fulfilling a desire or need or appetite | - |
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| (noun) the contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectation | - |
| (noun) compensation for a wrong | Synonyms: atonement, expiation |
| (noun) (law) the payment of a debt or fulfillment of an obligation | - |
| (noun) state of being gratified or satisfied | Synonyms: gratification |
| satisfactorily | (adverb) in a satisfactory manner | - |
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| satisfactoriness | (noun) the quality of giving satisfaction sufficient to meet a demand or requirement | - |
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| satisfactory | (adjective) giving satisfaction | - |
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| (adjective) meeting requirements | Synonyms: acceptable, decent |
| satisfiable | (adjective) capable of being sated | Synonyms: satiable |
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| satisfice | (verb) decide on and pursue a course of action satisfying the minimum requirements to achieve a goal | Synonyms: satisfise |
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| satisfied | (adjective) filled with satisfaction | - |
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| (adjective) allayed | Synonyms: quenched, slaked |
| satisfier | (noun) any agent capable of producing satisfaction | - |
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| satisfise | (verb) decide on and pursue a course of action satisfying the minimum requirements to achieve a goal | Synonyms: satisfice |
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| satisfy | (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fill, fit, fulfil, fulfill, meet |
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| (verb) make happy or satisfied | Synonyms: gratify |
| (verb) meet the requirements or expectations of | Synonyms: fulfil, fulfill, live up to |
| satisfying | (adjective) providing freedom from worry | Synonyms: cheering, comforting |
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| (adjective) providing abundant nourishment | Synonyms: hearty, solid, square, substantial |
| satisfyingly | (adverb) in a gratifying manner | Synonyms: gratifyingly |
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| satori | (noun) (Zen Buddhism) a state of sudden spiritual enlightenment | - |
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| satrap | (noun) a governor of a province in ancient Persia | - |
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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 |
| saturant | (noun) a substance which is used to saturate another. | - |
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| saturate | (verb) cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance | - |
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| (verb) infuse or fill completely | Synonyms: impregnate |
| saturated | (adjective) used especially of organic compounds; having all available valence bonds filled | - |
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| (adjective) being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance | Synonyms: concentrated |
| (adjective) (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black | Synonyms: pure |
| saturation | (noun) the act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid | - |
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| (noun) chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue | Synonyms: chroma, intensity, vividness |
| (noun) the process of totally saturating something with a substance | Synonyms: impregnation |
| (noun) a condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence | - |
| saturnalia | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot |
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| saturniid | (noun) large brightly colored and usually tropical moth; larvae spin silken cocoons | Synonyms: saturniid moth |
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| saturnine | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, sour, sullen |
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| (adjective) bitter or scornful | - |
| saturnism | (noun) toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system | Synonyms: lead poisoning, plumbism |
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| satyr | (noun) one of a class of woodland deities; attendant on Bacchus; identified with Roman fauns | Synonyms: forest god |
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| (noun) man with strong sexual desires | Synonyms: lech, lecher, letch |
| satyriasis | (noun) abnormally intense sexual desire in men | - |
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| satyric | (adjective) of or relating to or having the characteristics of a satyr | Synonyms: satyrical |
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| satyrical | (adjective) of or relating to or having the characteristics of a satyr | Synonyms: satyric |
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| sauce | (noun) flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food | - |
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| (verb) add zest or flavor to, make more interesting | - |
| (verb) dress (food) with a relish | - |
| (verb) behave saucily or impudently towards | - |
| sauceboat | (noun) a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce | Synonyms: boat, gravy boat, gravy holder |
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| saucepan | (noun) a deep pan with a handle; used for stewing or boiling | - |
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| saucepot | (noun) a cooking pot that has handles on either side and tight fitting lid; used for stewing or boiling | - |
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| saucer | (noun) a small shallow dish for holding a cup at the table | - |
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| (noun) a disk used in throwing competitions | Synonyms: discus |
| (noun) directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation | Synonyms: dish, dish aerial, dish antenna |
| (noun) something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate | Synonyms: disc, disk |
| saucily | (adverb) in an impudent or impertinent manner | Synonyms: freshly, impertinently, impudently, pertly |
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| sauciness | (noun) inappropriate playfulness | Synonyms: archness, impertinence, perkiness, pertness |
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| saucy | (adjective) improperly forward or bold | Synonyms: fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, sassy, smart, wise |
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| (adjective) characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality | Synonyms: impertinent, irreverent, pert |
| sauerbraten | (noun) pot roast marinated several days in seasoned vinegar before cooking; usually served with potato dumplings | - |
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| sauerkraut | (noun) shredded cabbage fermented in brine | - |
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| sauna | (noun) a Finnish steam bath; steam is produced by pouring water over heated rocks | Synonyms: sweat room |
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| saunter | (noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) | Synonyms: amble, perambulation, promenade, stroll |
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| (noun) a careless leisurely gait | - |
| (verb) walk leisurely and with no apparent aim | Synonyms: stroll |
| saunterer | (noun) someone who walks at a leisurely pace | Synonyms: ambler, stroller |
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| saurel | (noun) large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe | Synonyms: horse mackerel, Trachurus trachurus |
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| (noun) a California food fish | Synonyms: horse mackerel, jack mackerel, Spanish mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus |
| saurian | (adjective) of or relating to lizards | Synonyms: lacertilian |
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| (noun) any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards; in former classifications included also the crocodiles and dinosaurs | - |
| saurischian | (noun) herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur having a three-pronged pelvis like that of a crocodile | Synonyms: saurischian dinosaur |
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| sauropod | (noun) very large herbivorous dinosaur of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a small head on a long neck and tail and five-toed limbs; largest known land animal | Synonyms: sauropod dinosaur |
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| saury | (noun) slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters | Synonyms: billfish, Scomberesox saurus |
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| sausage | (noun) a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon | Synonyms: blimp, sausage balloon |
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| (noun) highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings | - |
| saute | (adjective) fried quickly in a little fat | Synonyms: sauteed |
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| (noun) a dish of sauteed food | - |
| (verb) fry briefly over high heat | - |
| sauteed | (adjective) fried quickly in a little fat | Synonyms: saute |
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| sauteing | (noun) cooking in fat or oil in a pan or griddle | Synonyms: frying |
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| savage | (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, vicious |
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| (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbarian, barbaric, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild |
| (adjective) marked by extreme and violent energy | Synonyms: ferocious, fierce, furious |
| (adjective) wild and menacing | Synonyms: feral, ferine |
| (noun) a member of an uncivilized people | Synonyms: barbarian |
| (noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: beast, brute, wildcat, wolf |
| (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: blast, crucify, pillory |
| (verb) attack brutally and fiercely | - |
| savagely | (adverb) in a vicious manner | Synonyms: brutally, viciously |
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| (adverb) wildly; like an animal | - |
| savageness | (noun) the property of being untamed and ferocious | Synonyms: savagery |
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| savagery | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarism, barbarity, brutality |
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| (noun) the trait of extreme cruelty | Synonyms: brutality, ferociousness, viciousness |
| (noun) the property of being untamed and ferocious | Synonyms: savageness |
| savanna | (noun) a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | Synonyms: savannah |
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| savannah | (noun) a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | Synonyms: savanna |
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| savant | (noun) someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field | Synonyms: initiate, learned person, pundit |
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| savarin | (noun) a sponge cake baked in a ring mold | - |
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| save | (noun) (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring | - |
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| (verb) make unnecessary an expenditure or effort | Synonyms: make unnecessary |
| (verb) record data on a computer | Synonyms: write |
| (verb) to keep up and reserve for personal or special use | Synonyms: preserve |
| (verb) accumulate money for future use | Synonyms: lay aside, save up |
| (verb) spend less; buy at a reduced price | - |
| (verb) retain rights to | Synonyms: hold open, keep, keep open |
| (verb) spend sparingly, avoid the waste of | Synonyms: economise, economize |
| (verb) bring into safety | Synonyms: bring through, carry through, pull through |
| (verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: relieve, salvage, salve |
| (verb) save from sins | Synonyms: deliver, redeem |
| (verb) refrain from harming | Synonyms: spare |
| saved | (adjective) rescued; especially from the power and consequences of sin | - |
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| (adjective) guarded from injury or destruction | Synonyms: protected |
| saveloy | (noun) a ready-cooked and highly seasoned pork sausage | - |
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| saver | (noun) someone who saves (especially money) | - |
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| (noun) someone who saves something from danger or violence | Synonyms: recoverer, rescuer |
| savin | (noun) procumbent or spreading juniper | Synonyms: dwarf juniper, Juniperus sabina |
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| saving | (adjective) bringing about salvation or redemption from sin | Synonyms: redeeming, redemptive |
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| (adjective) characterized by thriftiness | - |
| (noun) an act of economizing; reduction in cost | Synonyms: economy |
| (noun) the activity of protecting something from loss or danger | Synonyms: preservation |
| (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: deliverance, delivery, rescue |
| savings | (noun) a fund of money put by as a reserve | Synonyms: nest egg |
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| savior | (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | Synonyms: deliverer, rescuer, saviour |
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| saviour | (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | Synonyms: deliverer, rescuer, savior |
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| savor | (noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: flavor, flavour, nip, relish, sapidity, savour, smack, tang |
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| (verb) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in | Synonyms: bask, enjoy, relish, savour |
| (verb) taste appreciatively | Synonyms: savour |
| (verb) give taste to | Synonyms: savour |
| (verb) have flavor; taste of something | Synonyms: savour, taste |
| savoriness | (noun) having an appetizing flavor | Synonyms: flavorsomeness, flavoursomeness |
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| savoring | (noun) taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | Synonyms: degustation, relishing, savouring, tasting |
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| savorless | (adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang | Synonyms: bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savourless, vapid |
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| savorlessness | (noun) the property of having no flavor | Synonyms: flavorlessness, flavourlessness, savourlessness, tastelessness |
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| savory | (adjective) morally wholesome or acceptable | Synonyms: savoury |
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| (adjective) having a pleasant taste | Synonyms: mouth-watering, savoury |
| (adjective) having an agreeably pungent taste | Synonyms: piquant, savoury, zesty |
| (noun) either of two aromatic herbs of the mint family | Synonyms: savoury |
| (noun) an aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre | Synonyms: savoury |
| (noun) any of several aromatic herbs or subshrubs of the genus Satureja having spikes of flowers attractive to bees | - |
| (noun) dwarf aromatic shrub of Mediterranean regions | Synonyms: Micromeria juliana |
| savour | (noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: flavor, flavour, nip, relish, sapidity, savor, smack, tang |
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| (verb) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in | Synonyms: bask, enjoy, relish, savor |
| (verb) taste appreciatively | Synonyms: savor |
| (verb) give taste to | Synonyms: savor |
| (verb) have flavor; taste of something | Synonyms: savor, taste |
| savouring | (noun) taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | Synonyms: degustation, relishing, savoring, tasting |
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| savourless | (adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang | Synonyms: bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, vapid |
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| savourlessness | (noun) the property of having no flavor | Synonyms: flavorlessness, flavourlessness, savorlessness, tastelessness |
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| savoury | (adjective) morally wholesome or acceptable | Synonyms: savory |
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| (adjective) having a pleasant taste | Synonyms: mouth-watering, savory |
| (adjective) having an agreeably pungent taste | Synonyms: piquant, savory, zesty |
| (noun) either of two aromatic herbs of the mint family | Synonyms: savory |
| (noun) an aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre | Synonyms: savory |
| savoy | (noun) head of soft crinkly leaves | Synonyms: savoy cabbage |
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| savvy | (noun) the cognitive condition of someone who understands | Synonyms: apprehension, discernment, understanding |
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| (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok |
| saw | (noun) hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting | - |
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| (noun) a power tool for cutting wood | Synonyms: power saw, sawing machine |
| (noun) a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people | Synonyms: adage, byword, proverb |
| (verb) cut with a saw | - |
| sawbill | (noun) large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | Synonyms: fish duck, merganser, sheldrake |
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| sawbones | (noun) a physician who specializes in surgery | Synonyms: operating surgeon, surgeon |
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| sawbuck | (noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: buck, horse, sawhorse |
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| sawdust | (noun) fine particles of wood made by sawing wood | - |
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| sawfish | (noun) primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long flattened snout | - |
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| sawfly | (noun) insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant | - |
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| sawhorse | (noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: buck, horse, sawbuck |
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| sawm | (noun) the third pillar of Islam is fasting (primarily during the month of Ramadan); Muslims abstain from food and drink and gambling and all sensuous pleasures from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan | - |
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| sawmill | (noun) a mill for dressing logs and lumber | Synonyms: lumbermill |
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| (noun) a large sawing machine | - |
| sawpit | (noun) a pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawed by two men with a long two-handed saw | - |
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| sawtooth | (noun) a serration on a saw blade | - |
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| sawwort | (noun) European perennial whose serrate leaves yield a yellow dye | Synonyms: Serratula tinctoria |
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| sawyer | (noun) any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers | Synonyms: sawyer beetle |
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| (noun) one who is employed to saw wood | - |
| sax | (noun) a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore | Synonyms: saxophone |
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| saxatile | (adjective) growing on or living among rocks | Synonyms: saxicoline, saxicolous |
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| saxhorn | (noun) any of a family of brass wind instruments that resemble a bugle with valves | - |
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| saxicoline | (adjective) growing on or living among rocks | Synonyms: saxatile, saxicolous |
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| saxicolous | (adjective) growing on or living among rocks | Synonyms: saxatile, saxicoline |
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| saxifrage | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga | Synonyms: breakstone, rockfoil |
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