| sap | (noun) a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people | Synonyms: blackjack, cosh |
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| (noun) a person who lacks good judgment | Synonyms: fool, muggins, saphead, tomfool |
| (noun) a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant | - |
| (verb) excavate the earth beneath | - |
| (verb) deplete | Synonyms: exhaust, play out, run down, tire |
| saphead | (noun) a person who lacks good judgment | Synonyms: fool, muggins, sap, tomfool |
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| sapid | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, flavourful, flavourous, flavoursome, saporous |
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| sapidity | (noun) a pleasant flavor | Synonyms: sapidness |
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| (noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: flavor, flavour, nip, relish, savor, savour, smack, tang |
| sapidness | (noun) a pleasant flavor | Synonyms: sapidity |
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| sapience | (noun) ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight | Synonyms: wisdom |
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| sapiens | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Homo sapiens | - |
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| sapient | (adjective) acutely insightful and wise | Synonyms: perspicacious, sagacious |
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| sapiential | (adjective) characterized by wisdom, especially the wisdom of God | - |
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| sapiently | (adverb) in a shrewd manner | Synonyms: acutely, astutely, sagaciously, shrewdly |
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| sapless | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, weak, weakly |
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| (adjective) destitute of sap and other vital juices; dry | - |
| sapling | (noun) young tree | - |
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| sapodilla | (noun) tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp | Synonyms: sapodilla plum, sapota |
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| (noun) large tropical American evergreen yielding chicle gum and edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Achras | Synonyms: Achras zapota, Manilkara zapota, sapodilla tree |
| saponaceous | (adjective) resembling or having the qualities of soap | Synonyms: soapy |
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| saponification | (noun) a chemical reaction in which an ester is heated with an alkali (especially the alkaline hydrolysis of a fat or oil to make soap) | - |
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| saponified | (adjective) converted into soap | - |
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| saponify | (verb) convert into soap by hydrolizing an ester into an acid and alcohol as a result of treating it with an alkali | - |
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| (verb) become converted into soap by being hydrolized into an acid and alcohol as a result of being treated with an alkali | - |
| saponin | (noun) any of various plant glucosides that form soapy lathers when mixed and agitated with water; used in detergents and foaming agents and emulsifiers | - |
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| saporous | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, flavourful, flavourous, flavoursome, sapid |
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| sapota | (noun) tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp | Synonyms: sapodilla, sapodilla plum |
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| sapote | (noun) brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet | Synonyms: mammee, marmalade plum |
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| (noun) tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum | Synonyms: Calocarpum zapota, mammee, marmalade tree, Pouteria zapota |
| sapper | (noun) a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications) | - |
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| sapphic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by homosexual relations between woman | Synonyms: lesbian |
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| sapphire | (adjective) of something having the color of a blue sapphire | - |
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| (noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: azure, cerulean, lazuline, sky-blue |
| (noun) a transparent piece of sapphire that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
| (noun) a precious transparent stone of rich blue corundum valued as a gemstone | - |
| sapphirine | (adjective) made of or resembling sapphire | - |
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| (noun) a rare light blue or green mineral; consists of aluminum and magnesium silicate and occurs as small grains in some metamorphic rocks | - |
| sapphism | (noun) female homosexuality | Synonyms: lesbianism |
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| sappy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| (adjective) abounding in sap | - |
| sapraemia | (noun) blood poisoning caused by putrefactive bacteria; results from eating putrefied matter | Synonyms: sapremia |
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| sapremia | (noun) blood poisoning caused by putrefactive bacteria; results from eating putrefied matter | Synonyms: sapraemia |
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| saprobe | (noun) an organism that lives in and derives its nourishment from organic matter in stagnant or foul water | - |
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| saprobic | (adjective) living in or being an environment rich in organic matter but lacking oxygen | - |
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| saprolite | (noun) a deposit of clay and disintegrating rock that is found in its original place | - |
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| sapropel | (noun) sludge (rich in organic matter) that accumulates at the bottom of lakes or oceans | - |
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| saprophagous | (adjective) (of certain animals) feeding on dead or decaying animal matter | Synonyms: saprozoic |
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| saprophyte | (noun) an organism that feeds on dead organic matter especially a fungus or bacterium | Synonyms: saprophytic organism |
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| saprophytic | (adjective) obtaining food osmotically from dissolved organic material | - |
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| (adjective) (of some plants or fungi) feeding on dead or decaying organic matter | - |
| saprozoic | (adjective) (of certain animals) feeding on dead or decaying animal matter | Synonyms: saprophagous |
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| sapsago | (noun) a hard green Swiss cheese made with skim-milk curd and flavored with clover | - |
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| sapsucker | (noun) small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees | - |
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| sapwood | (noun) newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant; usually light colored; active in water conduction | - |
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