| slab | (noun) block consisting of a thick piece of something | - |
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| slabber | (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool, slaver, slobber |
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| slack | (adjective) not tense or taut | Synonyms: loose |
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| (adjective) lacking in rigor or strictness | Synonyms: lax |
| (adjective) flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide | - |
| (noun) a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely | - |
| (noun) the quality of being loose (not taut) | Synonyms: slackness |
| (noun) a stretch of water without current or movement | Synonyms: slack water |
| (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | Synonyms: mire, morass, quag, quagmire |
| (noun) a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality | Synonyms: drop-off, falling off, falloff, slump |
| (noun) dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve | - |
| (verb) release tension on | - |
| (verb) make less active or fast | Synonyms: relax, slack up, slacken |
| (verb) make less active or intense | Synonyms: abate, slake |
| (verb) become slow or slower | Synonyms: slacken, slow, slow down, slow up |
| (verb) cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water | Synonyms: slake |
| (verb) become less in amount or intensity | Synonyms: abate, die away, let up, slack off |
| (verb) be inattentive to, or neglect | - |
| (verb) avoid responsibilities and work, be idle | - |
| slacken | (verb) become looser or slack | - |
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| (verb) make slack as by lessening tension or firmness | Synonyms: remit |
| (verb) become slow or slower | Synonyms: slack, slow, slow down, slow up |
| (verb) make less active or fast | Synonyms: relax, slack, slack up |
| slackening | (noun) an occurrence of control or strength weakening | Synonyms: loosening, relaxation |
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| slacker | (noun) a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) | Synonyms: shirker |
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| slacking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, shirking, soldiering |
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| slackline | (noun) a partially tensioned line for balance or walking | - |
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| slackly | (adverb) in a relaxed manner; not rigid | Synonyms: loosely |
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| slackness | (noun) the quality of being loose (not taut) | Synonyms: slack |
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| (noun) the quality of being lax and neglectful | Synonyms: laxity, laxness, remissness |
| (noun) weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy | Synonyms: inanition, lassitude, lethargy |
| slacks | (noun) (used in the plural) pants for casual wear | - |
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| slag | (noun) the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals | Synonyms: dross, scoria |
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| (verb) convert into slag | - |
| slagheap | (noun) pile of waste matter from coal mining etc | - |
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| slain | (adjective) killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors" | - |
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| (noun) people who have been slain (as in battle) | - |
| slake | (verb) make less active or intense | Synonyms: abate, slack |
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| (verb) cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water | Synonyms: slack |
| (verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: allay, assuage, quench |
| slaked | (adjective) allayed | Synonyms: quenched, satisfied |
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| slalom | (noun) a downhill race over a winding course defined by upright poles | - |
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| (verb) race on skis around obstacles | - |
| slam | (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot |
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| (noun) winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge | Synonyms: sweep |
| (noun) a forceful impact that makes a loud noise | - |
| (noun) the noise made by the forceful impact of two objects | - |
| (verb) strike violently | Synonyms: bang |
| (verb) close violently | Synonyms: bang |
| (verb) throw violently | Synonyms: flap down |
| (verb) dance the slam dance | Synonyms: mosh, slam dance, thrash |
| slammer | (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: clink, gaol, jail, jailhouse, pokey, poky |
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| (noun) a person who closes things violently | - |
| slander | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, calumny, defamation, denigration |
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| (noun) words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another | - |
| (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, smear, smirch, sully |
| slanderer | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, maligner, traducer, vilifier |
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| slanderous | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous |
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| slanderously | (adverb) in a false and slanderous and defamatory manner; with slander or calumny | Synonyms: calumniously |
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| slanderousness | (noun) The property of being both untrue and harmful to a reputation. | - |
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| slang | (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, vernacular |
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| (noun) informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar | Synonyms: slang expression, slang term |
| (verb) abuse with coarse language | - |
| (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: befool, cod, dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, take in |
| (verb) use slang or vulgar language | - |
| slangily | (adverb) with slang; in a slangy manner | - |
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| slanginess | (noun) casualness in use of language | - |
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| slanguage | (noun) language characterized by excessive use of slang or cant | - |
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| slangy | (adjective) constituting or expressed in slang or given to the use of slang | - |
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| slant | (noun) degree of deviation from a horizontal plane | Synonyms: pitch, rake |
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| (noun) a biased way of looking at or presenting something | Synonyms: angle |
| (verb) present with a bias | Synonyms: angle, weight |
| (verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: angle, lean, tilt, tip |
| (verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant, cant over, pitch, tilt |
| (verb) lie obliquely | - |
| slanted | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanting, sloped, sloping |
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| (adjective) favoring one person or side over another | Synonyms: biased, colored, coloured, one-sided |
| slanting | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, sloped, sloping |
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| slantingly | (adverb) with a slant | Synonyms: slopingly |
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| slantways | (adverb) at a slant; moving or directed in a slantwise position or direction | Synonyms: slantwise |
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| slantwise | (adverb) at a slant; moving or directed in a slantwise position or direction | Synonyms: slantways |
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| slap | (noun) the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand | Synonyms: smack, smacking |
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| (noun) a blow from a flat object (as an open hand) | Synonyms: smack |
| (adverb) directly | Synonyms: bang, bolt, slapdash, smack |
| (verb) hit with something flat, like a paddle or the open hand | - |
| (verb) to play music at loud volume | Synonyms: bump |
| slapdash | (adjective) marked by great carelessness | Synonyms: haphazard, slipshod, sloppy |
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| (adverb) in a careless or reckless manner | Synonyms: slam-bang |
| (adverb) directly | Synonyms: bang, bolt, slap, smack |
| slaphappy | (adjective) dazed from or as if from repeated blows | Synonyms: punch-drunk, silly |
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| (adjective) cheerfully irresponsible | Synonyms: carefree, devil-may-care, freewheeling, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum |
| slapper | (noun) a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand | Synonyms: spanker |
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| slapshot | (noun) a fast shot made with a short powerful swing of the hockey stick | - |
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| slapstick | (adjective) characterized by horseplay and physical action | - |
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| (noun) acoustic device consisting of two paddles hinged together; used by an actor to make a loud noise without inflicting injury when striking someone | - |
| (noun) a boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes | - |
| slash | (noun) a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument | Synonyms: gash |
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| (noun) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information | Synonyms: diagonal, separatrix, solidus, stroke, virgule |
| (noun) an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind) | - |
| (noun) a wound made by cutting | Synonyms: cut, gash, slice |
| (verb) cut drastically | - |
| (verb) cut open | Synonyms: gash |
| (verb) cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete | Synonyms: cut down |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
| slashed | (adjective) having long and narrow ornamental cuts showing an underlying fabric | - |
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| (adjective) (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply | Synonyms: cut |
| (adjective) patterned by having color applied with sweeping strokes | - |
| slasher | (noun) a weapon (a sword or dagger) used for slashing | - |
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| (noun) someone who slashes another person | - |
| slashing | (adjective) as if striking with slashing blows | - |
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| slat | (noun) a thin strip (wood or metal) | Synonyms: spline |
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| (verb) close the slats of (windows) | - |
| (verb) equip or bar with slats | - |
| slate | (noun) (formerly) a writing tablet made of slate | - |
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| (noun) a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices | Synonyms: ticket |
| (noun) a fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers | - |
| (noun) thin layers of rock used for roofing | Synonyms: slating |
| (verb) designate or schedule | - |
| (verb) cover with slate | - |
| (verb) enter on a list or slate for an election | - |
| slater | (noun) any of various small terrestrial isopods having a flat elliptical segmented body; found in damp habitats | Synonyms: wood louse, woodlouse |
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| slatey | (adjective) of the color of slate or granite | Synonyms: slate-gray, slate-grey, slaty-gray, slaty-grey, slaty, stone-gray, stone-grey |
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| slather | (verb) spread thickly | - |
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| slatiness | (noun) The state or quality of being of or resembling the mineral slate. | - |
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| slating | (noun) the act of laying slates for a roof | - |
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| (noun) a severely critical attack | - |
| (noun) thin layers of rock used for roofing | Synonyms: slate |
| slattern | (noun) a dirty untidy woman | Synonyms: slovenly woman, slut, trollop |
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| (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, street girl, streetwalker |
| slatternliness | (noun) in the manner of a slattern | Synonyms: sluttishness |
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| slatternly | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowsy, blowzy, sluttish |
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| slaty | (adjective) of the color of slate or granite | Synonyms: slate-gray, slate-grey, slatey, slaty-gray, slaty-grey, stone-gray, stone-grey |
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| slaughter | (noun) the killing of animals (as for food) | - |
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| (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: butchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre |
| (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
| (verb) kill a large number of people indiscriminately | Synonyms: massacre, mow down |
| (verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption | Synonyms: butcher |
| slaughterer | (noun) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | Synonyms: butcher |
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| slaughterhouse | (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, butchery, shambles |
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| slaughterous | (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, gory, sanguinary, sanguineous |
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| slave | (noun) a person who is owned by someone | - |
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| (noun) someone who works as hard as a slave | Synonyms: hard worker, striver |
| (noun) someone entirely dominated by some influence or person | - |
| (verb) work very hard, like a slave | Synonyms: break one's back, buckle down, knuckle down |
| slaveholder | (noun) someone who holds slaves | Synonyms: slave owner, slaver |
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| slaveholding | (adjective) allowing slavery | - |
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| (noun) the practice of owning slaves | Synonyms: slavery |
| slaveless | (adjective) where slavery was prohibited | Synonyms: free-soil, non-slave |
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| slavelike | (adjective) suitable for a slave or servant | - |
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| slaver | (noun) a person engaged in slave trade | Synonyms: slave dealer, slave trader |
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| (noun) someone who holds slaves | Synonyms: slave owner, slaveholder |
| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool, slabber, slobber |
| 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 |
| slavey | (noun) a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work | Synonyms: skivvy |
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| slavish | (adjective) abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant | Synonyms: submissive, subservient |
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| (adjective) blindly imitative | - |
| slavishly | (adverb) in a slavish manner | - |
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| slaw | (noun) basically shredded cabbage | Synonyms: coleslaw |
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| slay | (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, murder, off, polish off, remove |
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| (verb) to succeed greatly | - |
| slayer | (noun) someone who causes the death of a person or animal | Synonyms: killer |
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| slaying | (noun) unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being | Synonyms: execution, murder |
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| sleaze | (noun) tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar | Synonyms: cheapness, tackiness, tat |
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| sleaziness | (noun) a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing | Synonyms: manginess, seediness, shabbiness |
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| (noun) morally dishonorable | - |
| sleazy | (adjective) morally degraded | Synonyms: seamy, seedy, sordid, squalid |
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| (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, tinny |
| (adjective) of cloth; thin and loosely woven | - |
| sled | (noun) a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow | Synonyms: sledge, sleigh |
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| (verb) ride (on) a sled | Synonyms: sleigh |
| sledder | (noun) someone who rides a sled | - |
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| sledding | (noun) the sport of riding on a sled or sleigh | - |
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| (noun) advancing toward a goal | Synonyms: going |
| sledge | (noun) a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges | Synonyms: maul, sledgehammer |
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| (noun) a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow | Synonyms: sled, sleigh |
| (verb) beat with a sledgehammer | Synonyms: sledgehammer |
| (verb) transport in a sleigh | - |
| (verb) ride in or travel with a sledge | - |
| sledgehammer | (noun) a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges | Synonyms: maul, sledge |
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| (verb) beat with a sledgehammer | Synonyms: sledge |
| sleek | (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silken, silklike, silky, slick |
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| (adjective) well-groomed and neatly tailored; especially too well-groomed | - |
| (adjective) designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow | Synonyms: aerodynamic, flowing, streamlined |
| (verb) make slick or smooth | Synonyms: slick |
| sleekly | (adverb) in a sleek glossy manner | - |
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| sleekness | (noun) the smooth feel of silk fabric | Synonyms: silkiness |
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| (noun) the quality of being well-groomed and neatly tailored | - |
| sleep | (noun) a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended | Synonyms: slumber |
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| (noun) euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb) | Synonyms: eternal rest, eternal sleep, quietus, rest |
| (noun) a torpid state resembling deep sleep | Synonyms: sopor |
| (noun) a period of time spent sleeping | Synonyms: nap |
| (verb) be asleep | Synonyms: catch some Z's, kip, log Z's, slumber |
| (verb) be able to accommodate for sleeping | - |
| sleeper | (noun) an unexpected hit | - |
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| (noun) tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water | Synonyms: sleeper goby |
| (noun) a passenger car that has berths for sleeping | Synonyms: sleeping car, wagon-lit |
| (noun) one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track | Synonyms: crosstie, railroad tie, tie |
| (noun) a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed | - |
| (noun) pajamas with feet; worn by children | - |
| (noun) a rester who is sleeping | Synonyms: slumberer |
| (noun) an unexpected achiever of success | - |
| (noun) a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal | - |
| sleepily | (adverb) in a sleepy manner | - |
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| sleepiness | (noun) a very sleepy state | Synonyms: drowsiness, somnolence |
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| sleeping | (adjective) lying with head on paws as if sleeping | Synonyms: dormant |
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| (noun) the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate | - |
| (noun) quiet and inactive restfulness | Synonyms: dormancy, quiescence, quiescency |
| (noun) the state of being asleep | - |
| sleepless | (adjective) always watchful | Synonyms: lidless |
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| (adjective) experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness | Synonyms: insomniac, watchful |
| sleeplessly | (adverb) without sleep; in a sleepless manner | - |
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| sleeplessness | (noun) a temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep | Synonyms: wakefulness |
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| sleepover | (noun) an occasion of spending a night away from home or having a guest spend the night in your home (especially as a party for children) | - |
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| sleepwalk | (verb) walk in one's sleep | Synonyms: somnambulate |
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| sleepwalker | (noun) someone who walks about in their sleep | Synonyms: noctambulist, somnambulist |
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| sleepwalking | (noun) walking by a person who is asleep | Synonyms: noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulation, somnambulism |
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| sleepwear | (noun) garments designed to be worn in bed | Synonyms: nightclothes, nightwear |
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| sleepy | (adjective) ready to fall asleep | Synonyms: sleepy-eyed, sleepyheaded |
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| sleepyhead | (noun) a sleepy person | - |
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