| solicit | (verb) make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently | Synonyms: beg, tap |
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| (verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors | Synonyms: accost, hook |
| (verb) incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination | - |
| (verb) make a solicitation or petition for something desired | - |
| (verb) make amorous advances towards | Synonyms: court, romance, woo |
| solicitation | (noun) the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money) | Synonyms: allurement |
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| (noun) an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status | - |
| (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, collection, ingathering |
| solicitor | (noun) a British lawyer who gives legal advice and prepares legal documents | - |
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| (noun) a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes | Synonyms: canvasser |
| solicitorship | (noun) the position of solicitor | - |
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| solicitous | (adjective) showing hovering attentiveness | - |
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| (adjective) full of anxiety and concern | - |
| solicitously | (adverb) in a concerned and solicitous manner | - |
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| solicitousness | (noun) a feeling of excessive concern | Synonyms: solicitude |
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| solicitude | (noun) a feeling of excessive concern | Synonyms: solicitousness |
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| solid | (adjective) of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous | - |
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| (adjective) entirely of one substance with no holes inside | - |
| (adjective) having length, breadth and thickness | - |
| (adjective) characterized by good substantial quality | - |
| (adjective) not soft or yielding to pressure | Synonyms: firm |
| (adjective) of one substance or character throughout | - |
| (adjective) impenetrable for the eye | - |
| (adjective) meriting respect or esteem | Synonyms: upstanding |
| (adjective) of a substantial character and not frivolous or superficial | - |
| (adjective) financially dependable | - |
| (adjective) of good quality and condition; solidly built | Synonyms: strong, substantial |
| (adjective) uninterrupted in space; having no gaps or breaks | - |
| (adjective) acting together as a single undiversified whole | Synonyms: unanimous, whole |
| (adjective) providing abundant nourishment | Synonyms: hearty, satisfying, square, substantial |
| (adjective) of the same color throughout | Synonyms: self-colored, self-coloured |
| (noun) a three-dimensional object, structurally rigid, usually resistant to changes of shape or volume | - |
| (noun) the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape | Synonyms: solid state, solidness |
| (noun) matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure | - |
| solidarity | (noun) a union of interests or purposes or sympathies among members of a group | - |
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| solidification | (noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: curing, hardening, set, solidifying |
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| solidified | (adjective) changed into a solid mass | Synonyms: coagulated |
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| solidify | (verb) become solid | - |
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| (verb) make solid or more solid; cause to solidify | - |
| solidifying | (noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: curing, hardening, set, solidification |
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| solidity | (noun) the quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally | Synonyms: solidness |
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| (noun) the consistency of a solid | Synonyms: solidness |
| (noun) state of having the interior filled with matter | - |
| solidly | (adverb) with strength and soundness | - |
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| (adverb) as an undiversified whole | - |
| solidness | (noun) the quality of being substantial or having substance | Synonyms: substantiality, substantialness |
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| (noun) the quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally | Synonyms: solidity |
| (noun) the consistency of a solid | Synonyms: solidity |
| (noun) the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape | Synonyms: solid, solid state |
| solidus | (noun) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information | Synonyms: diagonal, separatrix, slash, stroke, virgule |
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| (noun) a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: bezant, bezzant, byzant |
| soliloquise | (verb) talk to oneself | Synonyms: monologuise, monologuize, soliloquize |
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| soliloquize | (verb) talk to oneself | Synonyms: monologuise, monologuize, soliloquise |
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| soliloquy | (noun) speech you make to yourself | Synonyms: monologue |
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| (noun) a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections | - |
| solipsism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist | - |
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| solitaire | (noun) a card game played by one person | Synonyms: patience |
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| (noun) a dull grey North American thrush noted for its beautiful song | - |
| (noun) extinct flightless bird related to the dodo | Synonyms: Pezophaps solitaria |
| (noun) a gem (usually a diamond) in a setting by itself | - |
| solitarily | (adverb) in solitude | - |
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| solitariness | (noun) a disposition toward being alone | Synonyms: aloneness, loneliness, lonesomeness |
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| (noun) the state of being alone in solitary isolation | Synonyms: loneliness |
| solitary | (adjective) being the only one; single and isolated from others | Synonyms: lone, lonesome, only, sole |
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| (adjective) lacking companions or companionship | Synonyms: alone, lone, lonely |
| (adjective) of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies | Synonyms: nongregarious, nonsocial |
| (adjective) devoid of creatures | Synonyms: lonely, unfrequented |
| (adjective) characterized by or preferring solitude | Synonyms: lone, lonely |
| (noun) one who lives in solitude | Synonyms: hermit, recluse, solitudinarian, troglodyte |
| (noun) confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners | Synonyms: solitary confinement |
| soliton | (noun) (physics) a quantum of energy or quasiparticle that can be propagated as a traveling wave in nonlinear systems and is neither preceded nor followed by another such disturbance; does not obey the superposition principle and does not dissipate | Synonyms: solitary wave, soliton wave |
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| solitude | (noun) a solitary place | - |
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| (noun) a state of social isolation | Synonyms: purdah |
| (noun) the state or situation of being alone | - |
| solitudinarian | (noun) one who lives in solitude | Synonyms: hermit, recluse, solitary, troglodyte |
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