| snack | (noun) a light informal meal | Synonyms: bite, collation |
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| (verb) eat a snack; eat lightly | Synonyms: nosh |
| snacker | (noun) someone who eats lightly or eats snacks between meals | Synonyms: nosher |
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| snaffle | (noun) a simple jointed bit for a horse; without a curb | Synonyms: snaffle bit |
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| (verb) fit or restrain with a snaffle | - |
| (verb) get hold of or seize quickly and easily | Synonyms: grab, snap up |
| snafu | (adjective) snarled or stalled in complete confusion | Synonyms: fucked-up |
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| (noun) an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up | - |
| (verb) cause to be in a state of complete confusion | - |
| snag | (noun) an unforeseen obstacle | Synonyms: hang-up, hitch, rub |
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| (noun) an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart | Synonyms: rent, rip, split, tear |
| (noun) a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest | - |
| (noun) a sharp protuberance | - |
| (verb) catch on a snag | - |
| (verb) hew jaggedly | - |
| (verb) get by acting quickly and smartly | - |
| snail | (noun) freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell | - |
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| (noun) edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic | Synonyms: escargot |
| (verb) gather snails | - |
| snailfish | (noun) small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish | Synonyms: Liparis liparis, sea snail, seasnail |
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| snailflower | (noun) perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus | Synonyms: corkscrew flower, Phaseolus caracalla, snail-flower, snail bean, snail flower, Vigna caracalla |
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| snake | (noun) limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous | Synonyms: ophidian, serpent |
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| (noun) something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake | - |
| (noun) a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes | Synonyms: auger, plumber's snake |
| (noun) a deceitful or treacherous person | Synonyms: snake in the grass |
| (verb) move along a winding path | - |
| (verb) move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake | - |
| (verb) form a snake-like pattern | - |
| snakeberry | (noun) North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries | Synonyms: Actaea rubra, red-berry, red baneberry, redberry |
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| snakebird | (noun) fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill | Synonyms: anhinga, darter |
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| snakebite | (noun) a bite inflicted by a (venomous) snake | - |
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| snakeblenny | (noun) found in Arctic and northern Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Lumpenus lumpretaeformis |
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| snakefish | (noun) tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide | Synonyms: lizardfish, snake-fish |
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| snakefly | (noun) predatory insect of western North America having a long necklike prothorax | - |
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| snakehead | (noun) showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple | Synonyms: Chelone glabra, shell-flower, shellflower, snake-head, turtlehead |
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| snakelike | (adjective) resembling a serpent in form | Synonyms: serpentine, snaky |
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| snakeroot | (noun) a plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by bristly fruit; reputed to have healing powers | Synonyms: sanicle |
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| (noun) any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads | Synonyms: blazing star, button snakeroot, gay-feather, gayfeather |
| snakeweed | (noun) low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads | Synonyms: broom snakeroot, broom snakeweed, Gutierrezia sarothrae, rabbit-weed, rabbitweed, turpentine weed |
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| snakewood | (noun) East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents | Synonyms: Rauwolfia serpentina |
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| snaky | (adjective) resembling a serpent in form | Synonyms: serpentine, snakelike |
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| snap | (noun) the act of catching an object with the hands | Synonyms: catch, grab, snatch |
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| (noun) (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back | Synonyms: centering, centring |
| (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, walkover |
| (noun) the act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand | - |
| (noun) a fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound | Synonyms: press stud, snap fastener |
| (noun) an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera | Synonyms: shot, snapshot |
| (noun) the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed | Synonyms: elasticity |
| (noun) a sudden sharp noise | Synonyms: crack, cracking |
| (noun) a sudden breaking | - |
| (noun) the noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand | - |
| (noun) a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger | Synonyms: ginger nut, ginger snap, gingersnap |
| (noun) tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections | Synonyms: snap bean |
| (noun) a spell of cold weather | - |
| (verb) break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension | Synonyms: crack |
| (verb) close with a snapping motion | - |
| (verb) utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone | Synonyms: snarl |
| (verb) record on photographic film | Synonyms: photograph, shoot |
| (verb) to grasp hastily or eagerly | Synonyms: snatch, snatch up |
| (verb) separate or cause to separate abruptly | Synonyms: bust, rupture, tear |
| (verb) cause to make a snapping sound | Synonyms: click, flick |
| (verb) put in play with a snap | - |
| (verb) bring the jaws together | - |
| (verb) lose control of one's emotions | Synonyms: break down, lose it |
| (verb) move or strike with a noise | Synonyms: click |
| (verb) move with a snapping sound | - |
| (verb) make a sharp sound | Synonyms: crack |
| snapchat | (verb) To have a conversation on Snapchat | - |
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| snapdragon | (noun) a garden plant of the genus Antirrhinum having showy white or yellow or crimson flowers resembling the face of a dragon | - |
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| snapline | (noun) a chalked string used in the building trades to make a straight line on a vertical surface | Synonyms: chalk line, snap line |
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| snapper | (noun) large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite | Synonyms: Chelydra serpentina, common snapping turtle |
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| (noun) any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters | - |
| (noun) Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots | Synonyms: Chrysophrys auratus |
| (noun) a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends | Synonyms: cracker, cracker bonbon |
| (noun) flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas | - |
| (noun) (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback | Synonyms: center, centre |
| snappish | (adjective) apt to speak irritably | Synonyms: snappy |
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| snappishly | (adverb) in an ill-natured and snappish manner | - |
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| snappishness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, surliness, temper |
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| snappy | (adjective) pleasantly cold and invigorating | Synonyms: crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy |
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| (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, spanking, zippy |
| (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, spruce |
| (adjective) apt to speak irritably | Synonyms: snappish |
| (adjective) smart and fashionable | Synonyms: whipping |
| snapshot | (noun) an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera | Synonyms: shot, snap |
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| snare | (noun) a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose | Synonyms: gin, noose |
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| (noun) strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit | - |
| (noun) a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head | Synonyms: side drum, snare drum |
| (noun) a surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities | - |
| (noun) something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares | Synonyms: trap |
| (verb) entice and trap | Synonyms: hook |
| (verb) catch in or as if in a trap | Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, trammel, trap |
| snarer | (noun) someone who sets snares for birds or small animals | - |
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| snarf | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, sneak, swipe |
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| snarky | (adjective) disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking | Synonyms: sardonic |
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| snarl | (noun) something jumbled or confused | Synonyms: maze, tangle |
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| (noun) a vicious angry growl | - |
| (noun) an angry vicious expression | - |
| (verb) make more complicated or confused through entanglements | Synonyms: embrangle, snarl up |
| (verb) utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone | Synonyms: snap |
| (verb) make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise | - |
| (verb) twist together or entwine into a confusing mass | Synonyms: entangle, mat, tangle |
| snarled | (adjective) tangled in knots or snarls | Synonyms: knotty, snarly |
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| snarly | (adjective) tangled in knots or snarls | Synonyms: knotty, snarled |
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| snatch | (noun) the act of catching an object with the hands | Synonyms: catch, grab, snap |
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| (noun) a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted overhead in one rapid motion | - |
| (noun) (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment | Synonyms: kidnapping |
| (noun) obscene terms for female genitals | Synonyms: cunt, puss, pussy, slit, twat |
| (noun) a small fragment | Synonyms: bit |
| (verb) to grasp hastily or eagerly | Synonyms: snap, snatch up |
| (verb) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom | Synonyms: abduct, kidnap, nobble |
| (verb) to make grasping motions | - |
| snatcher | (noun) someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom) | Synonyms: abductor, kidnaper, kidnapper |
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| (noun) a thief who grabs and runs | - |
| snazzy | (adjective) flashily stylish | - |
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| sneak | (adjective) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed | Synonyms: furtive, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious |
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| (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
| (noun) someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions | Synonyms: prowler, stalker |
| (noun) a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible | - |
| (verb) to go stealthily or furtively | Synonyms: creep, mouse, pussyfoot |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, swipe |
| (verb) pass on stealthily | Synonyms: slip |
| (verb) put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner | - |
| sneaker | (noun) a canvas shoe with a pliable rubber sole | Synonyms: gym shoe, tennis shoe |
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| (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
| sneakily | (adverb) in a surreptitious manner | Synonyms: surreptitiously |
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| sneakiness | (noun) a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously | Synonyms: furtiveness, stealthiness |
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| sneaking | (adjective) not openly expressed | Synonyms: unavowed |
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| sneakingly | (adverb) in a sneaky manner | - |
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| sneaky | (adjective) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed | Synonyms: furtive, sneak, stealthy, surreptitious |
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| (adjective) marked by deception | Synonyms: underhand, underhanded |
| sneer | (noun) a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls | Synonyms: leer |
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| (noun) a contemptuous or scornful remark | - |
| (verb) smile contemptuously | - |
| (verb) express through a scornful smile | - |
| sneerer | (noun) a person who expresses contempt by remarks or facial expression | Synonyms: scorner |
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| sneering | (adjective) expressive of contempt | Synonyms: snide, supercilious |
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| sneeringly | (adverb) with a sneer; in an uncomplimentary sneering manner | Synonyms: snidely, superciliously |
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| sneeze | (noun) a symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose | Synonyms: sneezing, sternutation |
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| (verb) exhale spasmodically, as when an irritant entered one's nose | - |
| sneezer | (noun) a person who sneezes | - |
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| sneezeweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Helenium characteristically causing sneezing | - |
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| sneezewort | (noun) Eurasian herb having loose heads of button-shaped white flowers and long grey-green leaves that cause sneezing when powdered | Synonyms: Achillea ptarmica, sneezeweed yarrow |
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| sneezing | (noun) a symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose | Synonyms: sneeze, sternutation |
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| sneezy | (adjective) inclined to sneeze | - |
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| snick | (noun) a small cut | Synonyms: nick, notch |
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| (noun) a glancing contact with the ball off the edge of the cricket bat | - |
| (verb) cut slightly, with a razor | Synonyms: nick |
| (verb) hit a glancing blow with the edge of the bat | - |
| snicker | (noun) a disrespectful laugh | Synonyms: snigger, snort |
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| (verb) laugh quietly | Synonyms: snigger |
| snickersnee | (noun) fighting with knives | Synonyms: cut-and-thrust, knife fight |
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| snide | (adjective) expressive of contempt | Synonyms: sneering, supercilious |
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| snidely | (adverb) with a sneer; in an uncomplimentary sneering manner | Synonyms: sneeringly, superciliously |
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| sniff | (noun) sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose | Synonyms: snuff |
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| (verb) inhale audibly through the nose | Synonyms: sniffle |
| (verb) perceive by inhaling through the nose | Synonyms: whiff |
| sniffer | (noun) a person who sniffs | - |
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| sniffle | (noun) the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested) | Synonyms: snivel, snuffle |
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| (verb) inhale audibly through the nose | Synonyms: sniff |
| (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, blubber, snivel, snuffle |
| sniffler | (noun) a person who breathes audibly through a congested nose | Synonyms: sniveler |
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| sniffly | (adjective) liable to sniffle | Synonyms: snuffling, snuffly |
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| sniffy | (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, supercilious, swaggering |
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| snifter | (noun) a globular glass with a small top; used for serving brandy | Synonyms: brandy glass, brandy snifter |
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| snigger | (noun) a disrespectful laugh | Synonyms: snicker, snort |
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| (verb) laugh quietly | Synonyms: snicker |
| snip | (noun) the act of clipping or snipping | Synonyms: clip, clipping |
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| (noun) a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) | Synonyms: snippet, snipping |
| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, prune, trim |
| (verb) sever or remove by pinching or snipping | Synonyms: clip, nip, nip off, snip off |
| snipe | (noun) a gunshot from a concealed location | - |
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| (noun) Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks | - |
| (verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assail, assault, attack, lash out, round |
| (verb) aim and shoot with great precision | Synonyms: sharpshoot |
| (verb) hunt or shoot snipe | - |
| snipefish | (noun) small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth | Synonyms: bellows fish |
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| sniper | (noun) a marksman who shoots at people from a concealed place | - |
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| snippet | (noun) a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) | Synonyms: snip, snipping |
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| snipping | (noun) a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) | Synonyms: snip, snippet |
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| snips | (noun) (plural) hand shears for cutting sheet metal | Synonyms: tinsnips |
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| snit | (noun) a state of agitated irritation | - |
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| snitch | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, sneaker, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
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| (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, grass, rat, shit, shop, stag, tell on |
| (verb) take by theft | Synonyms: cop, glom, hook, knock off, thieve |
| snitcher | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
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| (noun) a thief who steals without using violence | Synonyms: pilferer, sneak thief |
| snivel | (noun) whining in a tearful manner | Synonyms: sniveling |
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| (noun) the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested) | Synonyms: sniffle, snuffle |
| (verb) snuff up mucus through the nose | Synonyms: snuffle |
| (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, blubber, sniffle, snuffle |
| (verb) talk in a tearful manner | Synonyms: whine |
| sniveler | (noun) a person who breathes audibly through a congested nose | Synonyms: sniffler |
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| sniveling | (noun) whining in a tearful manner | Synonyms: snivel |
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| sniveller | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, squawker, whiner |
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| snob | (noun) a person regarded as arrogant and annoying | Synonyms: prig, snoot, snot |
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| snobbery | (noun) the trait of condescending to those of lower social status | Synonyms: snobbishness, snobbism |
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| snobbish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobby |
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| snobbishly | (adverb) in a snobbish manner | Synonyms: snootily, uppishly |
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| snobbishness | (noun) the trait of condescending to those of lower social status | Synonyms: snobbery, snobbism |
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| snobbism | (noun) the trait of condescending to those of lower social status | Synonyms: snobbery, snobbishness |
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| snobby | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobbish |
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| snoek | (noun) a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa | Synonyms: barracouta |
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| snog | (verb) touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. | Synonyms: buss, kiss, osculate |
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| snogging | (noun) (British informal) cuddle and kiss | - |
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| snood | (noun) an ornamental net in the shape of a bag that confines a woman's hair; pins or ties at the back of the head | - |
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| snook | (noun) large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike | - |
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| snooker | (noun) a form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball | - |
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| (verb) leave one's opponent unable to take a direct shot | - |
| (verb) fool or dupe | - |
| snoop | (noun) a spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others | Synonyms: snooper |
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| (verb) watch, observe, or inquire secretly | Synonyms: sleuth, spy, stag |
| snooper | (noun) a spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others | Synonyms: snoop |
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