| slub | (noun) soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design | Synonyms: burl, knot |
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| slubbed | (adjective) of textiles; having a rough surface | Synonyms: homespun, nubbly, nubby, tweedy |
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| sludge | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, gook, goop, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, slime |
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| (noun) the precipitate produced by sewage treatment | - |
| slue | (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slew, swerve, trend, veer |
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| (verb) move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: skid, slew, slide, slip |
| slug | (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: biff, clout, lick, poke, punch |
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| (noun) any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell | - |
| (noun) a projectile that is fired from a gun | Synonyms: bullet |
| (noun) a strip of type metal used for spacing | Synonyms: type slug |
| (noun) an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped | - |
| (noun) an idle slothful person | Synonyms: sluggard |
| (noun) a counterfeit coin | - |
| (noun) a unit of mass equal to the mass that accelerates at 1 foot/sec/sec when acted upon by a force of 1 pound; approximately 14.5939 kilograms | - |
| (verb) strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat | Synonyms: slog, swig |
| (verb) be idle; exist in a changeless situation | Synonyms: idle, laze, stagnate |
| slugabed | (noun) a person who stays in bed until a relatively late hour | Synonyms: lie-abed |
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| slugfest | (noun) a fight with bare fists | Synonyms: fistfight, fisticuffs |
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| sluggard | (noun) an idle slothful person | Synonyms: slug |
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| slugger | (noun) (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting | Synonyms: batsman, batter, hitter |
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| (noun) a boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches | Synonyms: slogger |
| sluggish | (adjective) slow and apathetic | Synonyms: inert, soggy, torpid |
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| (adjective) (of business) not active or brisk | Synonyms: dull, slow |
| (adjective) slow or slothful | Synonyms: sulky |
| sluggishly | (adverb) in a sluggish manner | - |
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| sluggishness | (noun) inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy | Synonyms: flatness, languor, lethargy, phlegm |
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| (noun) the pace of things that move relatively slowly | - |
| (noun) a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness) | Synonyms: lassitude, lethargy |
| sluice | (noun) conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate | Synonyms: penstock, sluiceway |
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| (verb) irrigate with water from a sluice | Synonyms: flush |
| (verb) draw through a sluice | - |
| (verb) transport in or send down a sluice | - |
| (verb) pour as if from a sluice | Synonyms: sluice down |
| sluicegate | (noun) regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice | Synonyms: floodgate, head gate, penstock, sluice valve, water gate |
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| sluiceway | (noun) conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate | Synonyms: penstock, sluice |
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| sluicing | (adjective) pouring from or as if from a sluice | - |
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| slum | (noun) a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions | Synonyms: slum area |
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| (verb) spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive | - |
| slumber | (noun) a dormant or quiescent state | - |
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| (noun) a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended | Synonyms: sleep |
| (verb) be asleep | Synonyms: catch some Z's, kip, log Z's, sleep |
| slumberer | (noun) a rester who is sleeping | Synonyms: sleeper |
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| slumberous | (adjective) inclined to or marked by drowsiness | Synonyms: slumbery, slumbrous, somnolent |
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| (adjective) quiet and tranquil | Synonyms: slumbrous |
| slumbery | (adjective) inclined to or marked by drowsiness | Synonyms: slumberous, slumbrous, somnolent |
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| slumbrous | (adjective) inclined to or marked by drowsiness | Synonyms: slumberous, slumbery, somnolent |
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| (adjective) quiet and tranquil | Synonyms: slumberous |
| slumgullion | (noun) a thin stew of meat and vegetables | - |
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| slummy | (adjective) (of housing or residential areas) indicative of poverty | - |
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| slump | (noun) a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality | Synonyms: drop-off, falling off, falloff, slack |
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| (noun) a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment | Synonyms: depression, economic crisis |
| (verb) fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly | Synonyms: fall off, sink |
| (verb) fall or sink heavily | Synonyms: sink, slide down |
| (verb) assume a drooping posture or carriage | Synonyms: slouch |
| (verb) fall in value | Synonyms: correct, decline |
| slumpflation | (noun) a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation. | - |
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| slur | (noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, daub, smear, smirch, smudge, spot |
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| (noun) a disparaging remark | Synonyms: aspersion |
| (noun) (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato | - |
| (verb) become vague or indistinct | Synonyms: blur, dim |
| (verb) utter indistinctly | - |
| (verb) speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur | - |
| (verb) play smoothly or legato | - |
| slurp | (verb) eat noisily | - |
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| slurred | (adjective) spoken as if with a thick tongue | Synonyms: thick |
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| slurry | (noun) a suspension of insoluble particles (as plaster of Paris or lime or clay etc.) usually in water | - |
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| slush | (noun) partially melted snow | - |
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| (verb) spill or splash copiously or clumsily | Synonyms: slosh, slosh around, slush around |
| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slosh, splash, splosh |
| slushy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy |
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| (adjective) being or resembling melting snow | - |
| slut | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, strumpet, trollop |
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| (noun) a dirty untidy woman | Synonyms: slattern, slovenly woman, trollop |
| (noun) A sexually loose woman | Synonyms: ho, hoe, hussy, trollop |
| sluttish | (adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: easy, light, loose, promiscuous, wanton |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowsy, blowzy, slatternly |
| sluttishness | (noun) in the manner of a slattern | Synonyms: slatternliness |
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