| sin | (noun) an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will | Synonyms: sinning |
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| (noun) estrangement from god | Synonyms: sinfulness, wickedness |
| (noun) the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
| (noun) ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: sine |
| (verb) commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law | Synonyms: transgress, trespass |
| (verb) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake | Synonyms: blunder, boob, drop the ball, goof |
| sinapism | (noun) a plaster containing powdered black mustard; applied to the skin as a counterirritant or rubefacient | Synonyms: mustard plaster |
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| sincere | (adjective) open and genuine; not deceitful | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions | Synonyms: earnest, solemn |
| sincerely | (adverb) with sincerity; without pretense | Synonyms: truly, unfeignedly |
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| (adverb) written formula for ending a letter | Synonyms: sincerely yours |
| sincerity | (noun) the quality of being open and truthful; not deceitful or hypocritical | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being serious | Synonyms: earnestness, serious-mindedness, seriousness |
| (noun) a quality of naturalness and simplicity | Synonyms: unassumingness |
| (noun) an earnest and sincere feeling | Synonyms: earnestness, seriousness |
| sinciput | (noun) the front part of the head or skull (including the forehead) | - |
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| sine | (noun) ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: sin |
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| sinecure | (noun) an office that involves minimal duties | - |
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| (noun) a benefice to which no spiritual or pastoral duties are attached | - |
| sinew | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscle, muscularity |
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| (noun) a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment | Synonyms: tendon |
| sinewy | (adjective) consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon | Synonyms: tendinous |
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| (adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: brawny, hefty, muscular, powerful |
| (adjective) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew | Synonyms: fibrous, stringy, unchewable |
| sinful | (adjective) far more than usual or expected | Synonyms: extraordinary, over-the-top |
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| (adjective) having committed unrighteous acts | Synonyms: unholy, wicked |
| (adjective) characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin | Synonyms: iniquitous, ungodly |
| sinfulness | (noun) estrangement from god | Synonyms: sin, wickedness |
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| sing | (verb) make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound | Synonyms: whistle |
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| (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
| (verb) to make melodious sounds | - |
| (verb) produce tones with the voice | - |
| (verb) deliver by singing | - |
| singable | (adjective) suitable for singing | - |
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| singalong | (noun) informal group singing of popular songs | Synonyms: singsong |
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| singe | (noun) a surface burn | Synonyms: scorch |
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| (verb) burn superficially or lightly | Synonyms: swinge |
| (verb) become superficially burned | Synonyms: scorch, sear |
| singer | (noun) a person who sings | Synonyms: vocaliser, vocalist, vocalizer |
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| singing | (adjective) smooth and flowing | Synonyms: cantabile |
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| (noun) the act of singing vocal music | Synonyms: vocalizing |
| (noun) disclosing information or giving evidence about another | Synonyms: tattle, telling |
| single | (adjective) being or characteristic of a single thing or person | Synonyms: individual |
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| (adjective) not married or related to the unmarried state | Synonyms: unmarried |
| (adjective) used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals | - |
| (adjective) existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual | - |
| (adjective) not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective | Synonyms: exclusive, undivided |
| (adjective) having uniform application | - |
| (adjective) characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing | Synonyms: individual |
| (noun) a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base | Synonyms: bingle |
| (noun) the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number | Synonyms: 1, ace, I, one, unity |
| (verb) hit a single | - |
| singleness | (noun) the quality of concentrating on one central objective | - |
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| (noun) without hypocrisy | Synonyms: straightforwardness |
| singles | (noun) tennis played with one person on each side | - |
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| (noun) badminton played with one person on each side | - |
| singlestick | (noun) a stick used instead of a sword for fencing | Synonyms: backsword, fencing stick |
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| singlet | (noun) a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body | Synonyms: undershirt, vest |
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| singleton | (noun) the playing card that is the only card in a suit held in a bridge hand as initially dealt | - |
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| (noun) a set containing a single member | - |
| (noun) a single object (as distinguished from a pair) | - |
| singly | (adverb) one by one; one at a time | - |
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| (adverb) apart from others | Synonyms: individually, on an individual basis, one by one, separately, severally |
| singsong | (adjective) uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting | Synonyms: chantlike, intoned |
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| (noun) informal group singing of popular songs | Synonyms: singalong |
| (noun) a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation | - |
| (verb) speak, chant, or declaim in a singsong | - |
| (verb) move as if accompanied by a singsong | - |
| singular | (adjective) grammatical number category referring to a single item or unit | - |
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| (adjective) composed of one member, set, or kind | - |
| (adjective) unusual or striking | Synonyms: remarkable |
| (adjective) being a single and separate person or thing | - |
| (adjective) the single one of its kind | Synonyms: unique |
| (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy |
| (noun) the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton | Synonyms: singular form |
| singularise | (verb) distinguish as singular | Synonyms: singularize |
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| singularity | (noun) the quality of being one of a kind | Synonyms: uniqueness |
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| (noun) strangeness by virtue of being remarkable or unusual | - |
| singularize | (verb) distinguish as singular | Synonyms: singularise |
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| singularly | (adverb) in a singular manner or to a singular degree | - |
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| singultus | (noun) (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion | Synonyms: hiccough, hiccup |
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| sinister | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, threatening |
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| (adjective) stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable | Synonyms: black, dark |
| (adjective) on or starting from the wearer's left | - |
| sinistral | (adjective) of or on the left | - |
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| (adjective) preferring to use left foot or hand or eye | - |
| sinistrality | (noun) preference for using the left hand | Synonyms: left-handedness |
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| sinistrorsal | (adjective) spiraling upward from right to left | Synonyms: sinistrorse |
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| sinistrorse | (adjective) spiraling upward from right to left | Synonyms: sinistrorsal |
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| sink | (noun) plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe | - |
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| (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspit, cesspool, sump |
| (noun) a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof | Synonyms: sinkhole, swallow hole |
| (noun) (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system | - |
| (verb) fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly | Synonyms: fall off, slump |
| (verb) embed deeply | Synonyms: bury |
| (verb) go under | Synonyms: go down, go under, settle |
| (verb) fall or descend to a lower place or level | Synonyms: drop, drop down |
| (verb) cause to sink | - |
| (verb) fall or sink heavily | Synonyms: slide down, slump |
| (verb) appear to move downward | Synonyms: dip |
| (verb) descend into or as if into some soft substance or place | Synonyms: subside |
| (verb) pass into a specified state or condition; sink into | Synonyms: lapse, pass |
| sinkable | (adjective) capable of being sunk | - |
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| sinker | (noun) a pitch that curves downward rapidly as it approaches the plate | - |
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| (noun) a weight that sinks (as to hold nets or fishing lines under water) | - |
| (noun) a small ring-shaped friedcake | Synonyms: donut, doughnut |
| sinkhole | (noun) a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof | Synonyms: sink, swallow hole |
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| sinking | (noun) a descent as through liquid (especially through water) | - |
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| (noun) a slow fall or decline (as for lack of strength) | - |
| (noun) a feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension | Synonyms: sinking feeling |
| sinless | (adjective) free from sin | Synonyms: impeccant, innocent |
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| sinlessness | (noun) the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil | Synonyms: innocence, pureness, purity, whiteness |
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| sinner | (noun) a person who sins (without repenting) | Synonyms: evildoer |
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| sinning | (adjective) transgressing a moral or divine law | - |
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| (noun) an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will | Synonyms: sin |
| sinoper | (noun) a red ocher formerly used as a pigment | Synonyms: sinopia, sinopis |
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| sinopia | (noun) a red ocher formerly used as a pigment | Synonyms: sinoper, sinopis |
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| sinopis | (noun) a red ocher formerly used as a pigment | Synonyms: sinoper, sinopia |
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| sinter | (verb) cause (ores or powdery metals) to become a coherent mass by heating without melting | - |
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| sintered | (adjective) formed into a mass by heat and pressure | - |
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| sinuate | (adjective) curved or curving in and out | Synonyms: sinuous, wiggly |
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| (adjective) having a strongly waved margin alternately concave and convex | - |
| sinuosity | (noun) having bends (especially of streams and roads) | Synonyms: sinuousness |
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| sinuous | (adjective) curved or curving in and out | Synonyms: sinuate, wiggly |
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| (adjective) gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease | Synonyms: lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, supple |
| sinuously | (adverb) in a sinuous manner | - |
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| sinuousness | (noun) having bends (especially of streams and roads) | Synonyms: sinuosity |
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| sinus | (noun) a wide channel containing blood; does not have the coating of an ordinary blood vessel | Synonyms: venous sinus |
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| (noun) any of various air-filled cavities especially in the bones of the skull | - |
| (noun) an abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface | Synonyms: fistula |
| sinusitis | (noun) inflammation of one of the paranasal sinuses | - |
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| sinusoid | (noun) tiny endothelium-lined passages for blood in the tissue of an organ | - |
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| (noun) the curve of y=sin x | Synonyms: sine curve |
| sinusoidal | (adjective) having a succession of waves or curves | - |
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| sinusoidally | (adverb) in a sinusoidal manner | - |
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