| sou | (noun) a former French coin of low denomination; often used of any small amount of money | - |
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| souari | (noun) large South American evergreen tree having trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil | Synonyms: Caryocar nuciferum, souari nut, souari tree |
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| soubrette | (noun) a minor female role as a pert flirtatious lady's maid in a comedy | - |
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| (noun) a pert or flirtatious young girl | - |
| soubriquet | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname, sobriquet |
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| souchong | (noun) a fine quality of black tea native to China | Synonyms: soochong |
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| souffle | (noun) light fluffy dish of egg yolks and stiffly beaten egg whites mixed with e.g. cheese or fish or fruit | - |
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| sough | (verb) make a murmuring sound | Synonyms: purl |
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| soughing | (adjective) characterized by soft sounds | Synonyms: murmurous, rustling, susurrous |
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| soughingly | (adverb) with a soft sound | - |
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| sought | (adjective) that is looked for | - |
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| (adjective) being searched for | Synonyms: sought-after |
| souk | (noun) an open-air market in an Arabian city | - |
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| soul | (noun) a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential | Synonyms: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone |
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| (noun) the human embodiment of something | - |
| (noun) a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s | - |
| (noun) deep feeling or emotion | Synonyms: soulfulness |
| (noun) the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life | Synonyms: psyche |
| soulful | (adjective) full of or expressing deep emotion | - |
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| soulfully | (adverb) in a soulful manner | - |
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| soulfulness | (noun) deep feeling or emotion | Synonyms: soul |
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| soulless | (adjective) lacking sensitivity or the capacity for deep feeling | - |
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| soullessly | (adverb) in a soulless manner | - |
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| sound | (adjective) financially secure and safe | - |
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| (adjective) in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay | - |
| (adjective) complete; thorough | - |
| (adjective) (of sleep) deep and complete | Synonyms: heavy, profound, wakeless |
| (adjective) in excellent physical condition | Synonyms: good |
| (adjective) exercising or showing good judgment | Synonyms: healthy, intelligent, level-headed, levelheaded |
| (adjective) free from moral defect | - |
| (adjective) vigorous or severe | - |
| (adjective) having legal efficacy or force | Synonyms: effectual, legal |
| (adjective) logically valid | Synonyms: reasoned, well-grounded |
| (noun) the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause | - |
| (noun) the subjective sensation of hearing something | Synonyms: auditory sensation |
| (noun) the audible part of a transmitted signal | Synonyms: audio |
| (noun) (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language | Synonyms: phone, speech sound |
| (noun) the sudden occurrence of an audible event | - |
| (noun) a large ocean inlet or deep bay | - |
| (noun) a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water | Synonyms: strait |
| (noun) mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium | - |
| (verb) measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line | Synonyms: fathom |
| (verb) utter with vibrating vocal chords | Synonyms: vocalise, vocalize, voice |
| (verb) make a certain noise or sound | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) cause to sound | - |
| (verb) announce by means of a sound | - |
| (verb) give off a certain sound or sounds | - |
| (verb) appear in a certain way | - |
| soundable | (adjective) (of depth) capable of being sounded or measured for depth | Synonyms: fathomable, plumbable |
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| soundboard | (noun) (music) resonator consisting of a thin board whose vibrations reinforce the sound of the instrument | Synonyms: sounding board |
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| soundbox | (noun) a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin) | Synonyms: body |
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| sounder | (noun) a device for making soundings | - |
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| sounding | (adjective) making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form | - |
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| (adjective) having volume or deepness | - |
| (adjective) appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms | Synonyms: looking |
| (noun) the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line) | - |
| (noun) a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line | - |
| soundless | (adjective) marked by absence of sound | Synonyms: silent, still |
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| soundlessly | (adverb) without a sound | Synonyms: noiselessly |
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| soundlessness | (noun) the property of making no sound | Synonyms: quietness |
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| soundly | (adverb) completely and absolutely (`good' is sometimes used informally for `thoroughly') | Synonyms: good, thoroughly |
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| (adverb) deeply or completely | - |
| soundman | (noun) a technician in charge of amplifying sound or producing sound effects (as for a TV or radio broadcast) | - |
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| soundness | (noun) the muscle tone of healthy tissue | Synonyms: firmness |
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| (noun) the quality of being prudent and sensible | Synonyms: wisdom, wiseness |
| (noun) a state or condition free from damage or decay | - |
| soundproof | (adjective) impervious to, or not penetrable by, sound | - |
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| (verb) insulate against noise | - |
| soundtrack | (noun) sound recording on a narrow strip of a motion picture film | - |
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| soup | (noun) liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food | - |
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| (noun) an unfortunate situation | - |
| (noun) any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup | - |
| (verb) dope (a racehorse) | - |
| soupcon | (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, pinch, speck, tinge, touch |
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| soupfin | (noun) Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A) | Synonyms: Galeorhinus zyopterus, soup-fin, soupfin shark |
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| soupiness | (noun) the property of having the thickness of heavy cream | Synonyms: creaminess |
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| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness |
| soupspoon | (noun) a spoon with a rounded bowl for eating soup | Synonyms: soup spoon |
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| soupy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy |
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| (adjective) having the consistency and appearance of soup | - |
| sour | (adjective) having a sharp biting taste | - |
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| (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sullen |
| (adjective) inaccurate in pitch | Synonyms: false, off-key |
| (adjective) smelling of fermentation or staleness | Synonyms: rancid |
| (adjective) in an unpalatable state | Synonyms: off, turned |
| (adjective) one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons | - |
| (noun) the property of being acidic | Synonyms: acidity, sourness |
| (noun) the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: sourness, tartness |
| (noun) a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar | - |
| (verb) go sour or spoil | Synonyms: ferment, turn, work |
| (verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidify, acidulate |
| sourball | (noun) round piece of tart hard candy | - |
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| source | (noun) a facility where something is available | - |
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| (noun) anything that provides inspiration for later work | Synonyms: germ, seed |
| (noun) a document (or organization) from which information is obtained | - |
| (noun) a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to | Synonyms: reference |
| (noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: beginning, origin, root, rootage |
| (noun) anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies | Synonyms: reservoir |
| (noun) someone who originates or causes or initiates something | Synonyms: author, generator |
| (noun) a person who supplies information | Synonyms: informant |
| (noun) (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system | - |
| (verb) specify the origin of | - |
| (verb) get (a product) from another country or business | - |
| sourdine | (noun) an organ stop resulting in a soft muted sound | - |
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| (noun) a mute for a violin | Synonyms: sordino |
| sourdough | (noun) a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska) | - |
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| (noun) a leaven of dough in which fermentation is active; used by pioneers for making bread | - |
| soured | (adjective) having turned bad | - |
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| souring | (noun) the process of becoming sour | - |
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| sourish | (adjective) tasting sour like a lemon | Synonyms: lemonlike, lemony, tangy, tart |
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| sourly | (adverb) in a sour manner | - |
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| sourness | (noun) the property of being acidic | Synonyms: acidity, sour |
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| (noun) a sullen moody resentful disposition | Synonyms: moroseness, sulkiness, sullenness |
| (noun) the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: sour, tartness |
| sourpuss | (noun) someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression | Synonyms: gloomy Gus, picklepuss, pouter |
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| soursop | (noun) large spiny tropical fruit with tart pulp related to custard apples | Synonyms: guanabana |
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| (noun) small tropical American tree bearing large succulent slightly acid fruit | Synonyms: Annona muricata, prickly custard apple, soursop tree |
| sourwood | (noun) deciduous shrubby tree of eastern North America having deeply fissured bark and sprays of small fragrant white flowers and sour-tasting leaves | Synonyms: Oxydendrum arboreum, sorrel tree, titi |
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| sousaphone | (noun) the lowest brass wind instrument | Synonyms: bass horn, tuba |
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| souse | (noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: drenching, soaking, sousing |
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| (noun) pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled | - |
| (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker |
| (verb) cook in a marinade | - |
| (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, dowse, drench, soak, sop |
| (verb) become drunk or drink excessively | Synonyms: hit it up, inebriate, soak |
| (verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, douse, dunk, plunge |
| soused | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| sousing | (noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: drenching, soaking, souse |
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| souslik | (noun) rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel | Synonyms: Citellus citellus, suslik |
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| soutache | (noun) a narrow braid used as a decorative trimming | - |
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| soutane | (noun) a long cassock with buttons down the front; worn by Roman Catholic priests | - |
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| south | (adjective) situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south | - |
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| (noun) a location in the southern part of a country, region, or city | - |
| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees | Synonyms: due south, S, southward |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southward cardinal compass point | - |
| (adverb) in a southern direction | Synonyms: in the south, to the south |
| southbound | (adjective) moving toward the south | Synonyms: southward |
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| southeast | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southeast | Synonyms: southeasterly, southeastern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southeast | Synonyms: southeasterly |
| (noun) a location in the southeastern part of a country, region, or city | - |
| (noun) the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees | Synonyms: SE, sou'-east, southeastward |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southeastward compass point | - |
| (adverb) to, toward, or in the southeast | Synonyms: sou'-east, south-east |
| southeaster | (noun) a strong wind from the southeast | Synonyms: sou'easter |
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| southeasterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southeast | Synonyms: southeast, southeastern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southeast | Synonyms: southeast |
| southeastern | (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including Alabama; Georgia; Florida; Tennessee; South Carolina; North Carolina | - |
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| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southeast | Synonyms: southeast, southeasterly |
| southeastward | (adjective) toward the southeast | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees | Synonyms: SE, sou'-east, southeast |
| (adverb) in a southeastward direction | Synonyms: southeastwardly |
| southeastwardly | (adverb) in a southeastward direction | Synonyms: southeastward |
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| souther | (noun) a wind from the south | Synonyms: south wind, southerly |
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| southerly | (adjective) from the south; used especially of wind | Synonyms: southern |
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| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the south | Synonyms: southern |
| (noun) a wind from the south | Synonyms: south wind, souther |
| (adverb) from the south | - |
| (adverb) toward the south | Synonyms: southward, southwards |
| southern | (adjective) situated in or coming from regions of the south | - |
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| (adjective) in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line | - |
| (adjective) from the south; used especially of wind | Synonyms: southerly |
| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the south | Synonyms: southerly |
| southernism | (noun) an attitude characteristic of Southerners (especially in the US) | - |
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| (noun) a locution or pronunciation peculiar to the southern United States | - |
| southernmost | (adjective) situated farthest south | Synonyms: southmost |
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| southernness | (noun) the property of being to the south | - |
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| southernwood | (noun) shrubby European wormwood naturalized in North America; sometimes used in brewing beer | Synonyms: Artemisia abrotanum |
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| southland | (noun) any region lying in or toward the south | - |
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| southmost | (adjective) situated farthest south | Synonyms: southernmost |
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| southpaw | (noun) a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right | Synonyms: left-hander, lefty |
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| (noun) a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand | Synonyms: left-handed pitcher, left-hander, left hander, lefthander, lefty |
| southward | (adjective) moving toward the south | Synonyms: southbound |
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| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees | Synonyms: due south, S, south |
| (adverb) toward the south | Synonyms: southerly, southwards |
| southwards | (adverb) toward the south | Synonyms: southerly, southward |
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| southwest | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwesterly, southwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southwest | Synonyms: southwesterly |
| (noun) a location in the southwestern part of a country, region, or city | - |
| (noun) the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees | Synonyms: sou'-west, southwestward, SW |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southwestward compass point | - |
| (adverb) to, toward, or in the southwest | Synonyms: sou'west, south-west |
| southwester | (noun) a strong wind from the southwest | Synonyms: sou'wester |
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| southwesterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwest, southwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southwest | Synonyms: southwest |
| southwestern | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwest, southwesterly |
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| (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California, and sometimes Nevada, Utah, Colorado | - |
| southwestward | (adjective) toward the southwest | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees | Synonyms: sou'-west, southwest, SW |
| (adverb) in a southwestward direction | Synonyms: southwestwardly |
| southwestwardly | (adverb) in a southwestward direction | Synonyms: southwestward |
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| souvenir | (noun) something of sentimental value | Synonyms: keepsake, relic, token |
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| (noun) a reminder of past events | Synonyms: memento |
| souvlaki | (noun) made of lamb | Synonyms: souvlakia |
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| souvlakia | (noun) made of lamb | Synonyms: souvlaki |
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