| salt | (adjective) (of speech) painful or bitter | - |
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| (noun) the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: salinity, saltiness |
| (noun) white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food | Synonyms: common salt, table salt |
| (noun) a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) | - |
| (verb) preserve with salt | - |
| (verb) add zest or liveliness to | - |
| (verb) sprinkle as if with salt | - |
| (verb) add salt to | - |
| saltate | (verb) leap or skip, often in dancing | - |
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| (verb) move by saltation | - |
| saltation | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, bound, leap, leaping, spring |
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| (noun) taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music | Synonyms: dance, dancing, terpsichore |
| (noun) (genetics) a mutation that drastically changes the phenotype of an organism or species | - |
| (noun) an abrupt transition | Synonyms: jump, leap |
| (noun) (geology) the leaping movement of sand or soil particles as they are transported in a fluid medium over an uneven surface | - |
| saltbox | (noun) a type of house built in New England; has two stories in front and one behind | - |
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| saltbush | (noun) any of various shrubby plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in dry alkaline soil | - |
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| saltcellar | (noun) a small container for holding salt at the dining table | - |
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| salted | (adjective) (used especially of meats) preserved in salt | Synonyms: brine-cured, salt-cured |
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| salter | (noun) someone who makes or deals in salt | Synonyms: salt merchant |
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| (noun) someone who uses salt to preserve meat or fish or other foods | - |
| saltine | (noun) a cracker sprinkled with salt before baking | - |
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| saltiness | (noun) the property of containing salt (as a compound or in solution) | - |
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| (noun) the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: salinity, salt |
| (noun) language or humor that is down-to-earth | Synonyms: coarseness |
| salting | (noun) the act of adding salt to food | - |
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| saltire | (noun) a cross resembling the letter x, with diagonal bars of equal length | Synonyms: St. Andrew's cross |
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| saltish | (adjective) somewhat salty | - |
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| saltlike | (adjective) resembling a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal | - |
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| saltpan | (noun) a shallow basin in a desert region; contains salt and gypsum that was deposited by an evaporated salt lake | - |
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| saltpeter | (noun) (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive | Synonyms: niter, nitre, potassium nitrate, saltpetre |
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| saltpetre | (noun) (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive | Synonyms: niter, nitre, potassium nitrate, saltpeter |
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| saltshaker | (noun) a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt | Synonyms: salt shaker |
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| saltwater | (noun) water containing salts | Synonyms: brine, seawater |
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| saltworks | (noun) a plant where salt is produced commercially | - |
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| saltwort | (noun) low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves | Synonyms: Batis maritima |
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| (noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: barilla, glasswort, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda |
| salty | (adjective) containing or filled with salt | - |
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| (adjective) engagingly stimulating or provocative | Synonyms: piquant |
| (adjective) one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water | - |