| substrate | (noun) an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population | Synonyms: substratum |
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| (noun) any stratum or layer lying underneath another | Synonyms: substratum |
| (noun) a surface on which an organism grows or is attached | Synonyms: substratum |
| (noun) the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment | - |
| substratum | (noun) an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population | Synonyms: substrate |
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| (noun) any stratum or layer lying underneath another | Synonyms: substrate |
| (noun) a surface on which an organism grows or is attached | Synonyms: substrate |
| substring | (noun) a string that is part of a longer string | - |
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| substructure | (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, understructure |
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| (noun) the basic structure or features of a system or organization | Synonyms: infrastructure |
| subsume | (verb) consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle | Synonyms: colligate |
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| (verb) contain or include | - |
| subsumption | (noun) incorporating something under a more general category | - |
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| (noun) the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion) | Synonyms: minor premise, minor premiss |
| subsurface | (adjective) beneath the surface | - |
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| subsystem | (noun) a system that is part of some larger system | - |
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| subtend | (verb) be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry | Synonyms: delimit |
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| subterfuge | (noun) something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity | Synonyms: blind |
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| subterminal | (adjective) near but not precisely at an end | - |
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| subterranean | (adjective) lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed) | Synonyms: subterraneous, ulterior |
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| (adjective) being or operating under the surface of the earth | Synonyms: subterraneous |
| subterraneous | (adjective) lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed) | Synonyms: subterranean, ulterior |
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| (adjective) being or operating under the surface of the earth | Synonyms: subterranean |
| subthalamus | (noun) the ventral part of the thalamus | - |
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| subtilin | (noun) a polypeptide antibiotic (similar to bacitracin) obtained from a soil bacterium | - |
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| subtilise | (verb) make (senses) more keen | Synonyms: subtilize |
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| subtilize | (verb) make more subtle or refined | Synonyms: rarefy, sublimate |
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| (verb) make (senses) more keen | Synonyms: subtilise |
| (verb) mark fine distinctions and subtleties, as among words | - |
| subtitle | (noun) secondary or explanatory title | - |
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| (noun) translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen | Synonyms: caption |
| (verb) supply (a movie) with subtitles | - |
| subtle | (adjective) working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way | Synonyms: insidious, pernicious |
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| (adjective) difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze | Synonyms: elusive |
| (adjective) able to make fine distinctions | - |
| subtlety | (noun) the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze | Synonyms: niceness |
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| (noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, nuance, refinement, shade |
| subtly | (adverb) in a subtle manner | - |
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| subtonic | (noun) (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale | Synonyms: leading tone |
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| subtopia | (noun) monotonous urban sprawl of standardized buildings | - |
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| subtotal | (noun) the sum of part of a group of numbers | - |
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| subtract | (verb) take off or away | - |
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| (verb) make a subtraction | Synonyms: deduct, take off |
| subtracter | (noun) a machine that subtracts numbers | - |
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| (noun) a person who subtracts numbers | - |
| subtraction | (noun) the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole) | Synonyms: deduction |
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| (noun) an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated | Synonyms: minus |
| subtractive | (adjective) constituting or involving subtraction | - |
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| subtractor | (noun) An electronic logic circuit for calculating the difference between two binary numbers. | - |
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| subtrahend | (noun) the number to be subtracted from the minuend | - |
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| subtreasury | (noun) a subordinate treasury or place of deposit | - |
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| subtropic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics | Synonyms: semitropic, semitropical, subtropical |
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| subtropical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics | Synonyms: semitropic, semitropical, subtropic |
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| subtropics | (noun) regions adjacent to the tropics | Synonyms: semitropics |
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| subtweeting | (noun) the act of tweeting without tagging a user so that they will not see the post | - |
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| subunit | (noun) a monetary unit that is valued at a fraction (usually one hundredth) of the basic monetary unit | Synonyms: fractional monetary unit |
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| suburb | (noun) a residential district located on the outskirts of a city | Synonyms: suburban area, suburbia |
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| suburban | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs | - |
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| suburbanise | (verb) make suburban in character | Synonyms: suburbanize |
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| (verb) take on suburban character | Synonyms: suburbanize |
| suburbanised | (adjective) surrounded by many suburbs | Synonyms: suburbanized |
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| suburbanite | (noun) a resident of a suburb | - |
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| suburbanize | (verb) make suburban in character | Synonyms: suburbanise |
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| (verb) take on suburban character | Synonyms: suburbanise |
| suburbanized | (adjective) surrounded by many suburbs | Synonyms: suburbanised |
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| suburbia | (noun) suburbanites considered as a cultural class or subculture | - |
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| (noun) a residential district located on the outskirts of a city | Synonyms: suburb, suburban area |
| subvent | (verb) guarantee financial support of | Synonyms: subvention, underwrite |
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| subvention | (noun) the act or process of providing aid or help of any sort | - |
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| (noun) grant of financial aid as from a government to an educational institution | - |
| (verb) guarantee financial support of | Synonyms: subvent, underwrite |
| subversion | (noun) destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity | Synonyms: corruption |
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| (noun) the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government | Synonyms: subversive activity |
| subversive | (adjective) in opposition to a civil authority or government | Synonyms: insurgent, seditious |
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| (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, revolutionist, subverter |
| subversiveness | (noun) disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior | Synonyms: traitorousness, treason |
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| subvert | (verb) to raze to the ground, also figuratively | - |
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| (verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overthrow, overturn |
| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, countermine, sabotage, undermine, weaken |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, vitiate |
| subverter | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, revolutionist, subversive |
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| subvocalise | (verb) articulate without making audible sounds | Synonyms: subvocalize |
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| subvocaliser | (noun) someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds | Synonyms: subvocalizer |
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| subvocalize | (verb) articulate without making audible sounds | Synonyms: subvocalise |
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| subvocalizer | (noun) someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds | Synonyms: subvocaliser |
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| subway | (noun) an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) | Synonyms: metro, subway system, tube, underground |
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| (noun) an underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway | Synonyms: underpass |
| subwoofer | (noun) a loudspeaker that is designed to reproduce very low bass frequencies | - |
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| succade | (noun) fruit cooked in sugar syrup and encrusted with a sugar crystals | Synonyms: candied fruit, crystallized fruit |
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| succedaneum | (noun) (medicine) something that can be used as a substitute (especially any medicine that may be taken in place of another) | - |
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| succeed | (verb) attain success or reach a desired goal | Synonyms: bring home the bacon, come through, deliver the goods, win |
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| (verb) be the successor (of) | Synonyms: come after, follow |
| succeeder | (noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: achiever, success, winner |
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| succeeding | (adjective) coming after or following | - |
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| (adjective) (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving | Synonyms: future, next |
| success | (noun) an attainment that is successful | - |
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| (noun) an event that accomplishes its intended purpose | - |
| (noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: achiever, succeeder, winner |
| (noun) a state of prosperity or fame | - |
| successful | (adjective) having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome | - |
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| successfully | (adverb) with success; in a successful manner | - |
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| successfulness | (noun) the condition of prospering; having good fortune | Synonyms: prosperity |
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| succession | (noun) the action of following in order | Synonyms: sequence |
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| (noun) acquisition of property by descent or by will | Synonyms: taking over |
| (noun) a following of one thing after another in time | Synonyms: chronological sequence, chronological succession, sequence, successiveness |
| (noun) a group of people or things arranged or following in order | - |
| (noun) (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established | Synonyms: ecological succession |
| successive | (adjective) in regular succession without gaps | Synonyms: consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial |
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| successively | (adverb) in proper order or sequence | Synonyms: in turn |
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| successiveness | (noun) a following of one thing after another in time | Synonyms: chronological sequence, chronological succession, sequence, succession |
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| successor | (noun) a thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone | - |
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| (noun) a person who inherits some title or office | Synonyms: heir |
| (noun) a person who follows next in order | Synonyms: replacement |
| succinct | (adjective) briefly giving the gist of something | Synonyms: compact, compendious, summary |
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| succinctly | (adverb) with concise and precise brevity; to the point | Synonyms: compactly |
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| succinctness | (noun) terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words | Synonyms: conciseness, concision, pithiness |
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| succinic | (adjective) of or relating to or obtained from amber | - |
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| succinylcholine | (noun) a muscle relaxant for striated muscle that is used as an adjunct to anesthesia during certain surgical procedures | - |
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| succor | (noun) assistance in time of difficulty | Synonyms: ministration, relief, succour |
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| (verb) help in a difficult situation | Synonyms: succour |
| succorer | (noun) someone who gives help in times of need or distress or difficulty | Synonyms: succourer |
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| succory | (noun) perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads | Synonyms: chicory, chicory plant, Cichorium intybus |
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| succotash | (noun) fresh corn and lima beans with butter or cream | - |
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| succour | (noun) assistance in time of difficulty | Synonyms: ministration, relief, succor |
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| (verb) help in a difficult situation | Synonyms: succor |
| succourer | (noun) someone who gives help in times of need or distress or difficulty | Synonyms: succorer |
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| succuba | (noun) a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men | Synonyms: succubus |
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| succubus | (noun) a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men | Synonyms: succuba |
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| succulence | (noun) a juicy appetizingness | Synonyms: juiciness, succulency |
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| succulency | (noun) a juicy appetizingness | Synonyms: juiciness, succulence |
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| succulent | (adjective) tender and full of juice | Synonyms: lush |
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| (noun) a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs | - |
| succumb | (verb) consent reluctantly | Synonyms: buckle under, give in, knuckle under, yield |
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| (verb) be fatally overwhelmed | Synonyms: yield |
| succus | (noun) any of several liquids of the body | Synonyms: juice |
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| succuss | (verb) shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body) | Synonyms: shake up |
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| succussion | (noun) shaking a person to determine whether a large amount of liquid is present in a body cavity | - |
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| such | (adjective) of so extreme a degree or extent; demonstrative, other pronoun; demonstrative determiner, kind | - |
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| (adverb) to so extreme a degree | - |
| suchlike | (adjective) of the same kind | - |
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| suck | (noun) the act of sucking | Synonyms: sucking, suction |
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| (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suckle, wet-nurse |
| (verb) draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth | - |
| (verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: absorb, draw, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, take in, take up |
| (verb) draw something in by or as if by a vacuum | - |
| (verb) provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation | Synonyms: blow, fellate, go down on |
| (verb) be inadequate or objectionable | Synonyms: blow |
| (verb) attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc. | Synonyms: suck in |
| sucker | (noun) mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps | - |
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| (noun) an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction | - |
| (noun) hard candy on a stick | Synonyms: all-day sucker, lollipop |
| (noun) flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws | - |
| (noun) a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw) | - |
| (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch |
| (noun) a shoot arising from a plant's roots | - |
| suckerfish | (noun) marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects | Synonyms: remora, sucking fish |
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| sucking | (noun) the act of sucking | Synonyms: suck, suction |
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| suckle | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, wet-nurse |
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| (verb) suck milk from the mother's breasts | - |
| suckled | (adjective) (of an infant) breast-fed | Synonyms: nursed |
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| suckling | (noun) feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast | Synonyms: lactation |
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| (noun) a young mammal that has not been weaned | - |
| (noun) an infant considered in relation to its nurse | Synonyms: nurseling, nursling |