| sucralfate | (noun) medicine consisting of a tablet (trade name Carafate) used to treat peptic ulcers; said to bind to the ulcer site and coat it | Synonyms: Carafate |
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| sucrase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of sucrose into glucose and fructose | Synonyms: invertase, saccharase |
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| sucre | (noun) the basic unit of money in Ecuador; equal to 100 centavos | - |
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| sucrose | (noun) a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent | Synonyms: saccharose |
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| suction | (noun) the act of sucking | Synonyms: suck, sucking |
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| (noun) a force over an area produced by a pressure difference | - |
| (verb) empty or clean (a body cavity) by the force of suction | - |
| (verb) remove or draw away by the force of suction | - |
| suctorial | (adjective) adapted for sucking or clinging by suction | - |
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| sudate | (verb) excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin | Synonyms: perspire, sweat |
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| sudation | (noun) the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid | Synonyms: diaphoresis, hidrosis, perspiration, sweating |
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| sudatorium | (noun) a bathhouse for hot air baths or steam baths | Synonyms: sudatory |
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| sudatory | (noun) a bathhouse for hot air baths or steam baths | Synonyms: sudatorium |
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| (noun) a medicine that causes or increases sweating | Synonyms: sudorific |
| sudden | (adjective) happening without warning or in a short space of time | - |
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| suddenly | (adverb) quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation | Synonyms: abruptly, all of a sudden, dead, of a sudden, on the spur of the moment, short |
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| suddenness | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness |
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| sudoku | (noun) a number puzzle in which the numbers 1 through 9 must be placed into a grid of cells so that each row or column contains only one of each number | - |
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| sudor | (noun) salty fluid secreted by sweat glands | Synonyms: perspiration, sweat |
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| sudorific | (adjective) inducing perspiration | Synonyms: diaphoretic |
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| (noun) a medicine that causes or increases sweating | Synonyms: sudatory |
| sudra | (noun) the lowest of the four varnas: the servants and workers of low status | Synonyms: shudra |
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| suds | (noun) a dysphemism for beer (especially for lager that effervesces) | - |
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| (noun) the froth produced by soaps or detergents | Synonyms: lather, soapsuds |
| (verb) make froth or foam and become bubbly | Synonyms: froth, spume |
| (verb) wash in suds | - |
| sudsy | (adjective) resembling lather or covered with lather | Synonyms: lathery |
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| sue | (verb) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against | Synonyms: action, litigate, process |
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| suede | (noun) a fabric made to resemble suede leather | Synonyms: suede cloth |
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| (noun) leather with a napped surface | Synonyms: suede leather |
| suer | (noun) someone who petitions a court for redress of a grievance or recovery of a right | Synonyms: petitioner |
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| (noun) a man who courts a woman | Synonyms: suitor, wooer |
| suet | (noun) hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and sheep | - |
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| suety | (adjective) like or full of suet | - |
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| suffer | (verb) be in pain | Synonyms: hurt |
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| (verb) undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) | Synonyms: get, have, sustain |
| (verb) feel unwell or uncomfortable | - |
| (verb) get worse in quality | - |
| (verb) be set at a disadvantage | Synonyms: lose |
| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, support, tolerate |
| (verb) experience (emotional) pain | - |
| (verb) feel physical pain | Synonyms: ache, hurt |
| (verb) undergo or be subjected to | Synonyms: endure |
| (verb) undergo or suffer | Synonyms: meet |
| (verb) be given to | - |
| sufferable | (adjective) capable of being borne though unpleasant | Synonyms: bearable, endurable, supportable |
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| sufferance | (noun) patient endurance especially of pain or distress | - |
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| (noun) a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations | Synonyms: acceptance, toleration |
| sufferer | (noun) a person suffering from an illness | Synonyms: diseased person, sick person |
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| (noun) one who suffers for the sake of principle | Synonyms: martyr |
| suffering | (adjective) troubled by pain or loss | - |
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| (adjective) very unhappy; full of misery | Synonyms: miserable, wretched |
| (noun) feelings of mental or physical pain | Synonyms: hurt |
| (noun) psychological suffering | Synonyms: distress, hurt |
| (noun) a state of acute pain | Synonyms: agony, excruciation |
| (noun) misery resulting from affliction | Synonyms: woe |
| suffice | (verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: answer, do, serve |
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| sufficiency | (noun) the quality of being sufficient for the end in view | Synonyms: adequacy |
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| (noun) an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose | Synonyms: enough |
| (noun) sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations | - |
| sufficient | (adjective) of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant | - |
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| sufficiently | (adverb) to a sufficient degree | - |
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| suffix | (noun) an affix that is added at the end of the word | Synonyms: postfix |
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| (verb) attach a suffix to | - |
| suffixation | (noun) formation of a word by means of a suffix | - |
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| suffocate | (verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: choke, gag, strangle |
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| (verb) feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air | - |
| (verb) be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen | Synonyms: asphyxiate, stifle |
| (verb) suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of | Synonyms: choke |
| (verb) become stultified, suppressed, or stifled | Synonyms: choke |
| (verb) deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing | Synonyms: asphyxiate, smother |
| (verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: asphyxiate, choke, stifle |
| suffocating | (adjective) causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat | Synonyms: choking, smothering, suffocative |
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| suffocation | (noun) killing by depriving of oxygen | Synonyms: asphyxiation |
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| (noun) the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped) | Synonyms: asphyxiation |
| suffocative | (adjective) causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat | Synonyms: choking, smothering, suffocating |
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| suffragan | (noun) an assistant or subordinate bishop of a diocese | Synonyms: suffragan bishop |
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| suffrage | (noun) a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment | Synonyms: right to vote, vote |
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| suffragette | (noun) a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century) | - |
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| suffragism | (noun) the belief that the right to vote should be extended (as to women) | - |
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| suffragist | (noun) an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women) | - |
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| suffrutescent | (adjective) of a plant; having a woody base that does not die down each year | - |
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| suffrutex | (noun) low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base | Synonyms: subshrub |
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| suffuse | (verb) to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light | - |
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| (verb) cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across | Synonyms: perfuse |
| suffusion | (noun) the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance | Synonyms: permeation, pervasion |
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| suffusive | (adjective) spreading through | - |
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| sugar | (noun) a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative | Synonyms: refined sugar |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, wampum |
| (noun) an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain | Synonyms: carbohydrate, saccharide |
| (verb) sweeten with sugar | Synonyms: saccharify |
| sugarberry | (noun) small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States | Synonyms: hackberry |
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| (noun) deciduous shade tree with small black berries; southern United States; yields soft yellowish wood | Synonyms: Celtis laevigata |
| sugarcane | (noun) tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar | Synonyms: Saccharum officinarum, sugar cane |
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| (noun) juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice | Synonyms: sugar cane |
| sugarcoat | (verb) cause to appear more pleasant or appealing | - |
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| (verb) coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze | Synonyms: candy, glaze |
| sugared | (adjective) with sweetening added | Synonyms: sweet-flavored, sweet, sweetened |
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| sugariness | (noun) the sweetness of sugar | - |
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| (noun) the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth | Synonyms: sweet, sweetness |
| sugarless | (adjective) not containing sugar | Synonyms: nonsweet |
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| sugarloaf | (noun) a large conical loaf of concentrated refined sugar | Synonyms: loaf sugar, sugar loaf |
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| sugarplum | (noun) any of various small sugary candies | - |
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| sugary | (adjective) containing sugar | - |
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| suggest | (verb) make a proposal, declare a plan for something | Synonyms: advise, propose |
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| (verb) call to mind | Synonyms: evoke, paint a picture |
| (verb) imply as a possibility | Synonyms: intimate |
| (verb) drop a hint; intimate by a hint | Synonyms: hint |
| suggester | (noun) someone who advances a suggestion or proposal | Synonyms: proposer |
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| suggestibility | (noun) susceptibility or responsiveness to suggestion | - |
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| suggestible | (adjective) susceptible or responsive to suggestion | - |
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| suggestion | (noun) the act of inducing hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotism, mesmerism |
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| (noun) an idea that is suggested | - |
| (noun) the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association | - |
| (noun) a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: proffer, proposition |
| (noun) persuasion formulated as a suggestion | Synonyms: prompting |
| (noun) a just detectable amount | Synonyms: hint, tint, trace |
| suggestive | (adjective) tending to suggest or imply | Synonyms: implicative |
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| (adjective) tending to suggest something improper or indecent | - |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, indicatory, revelatory, significative |
| suggestively | (adverb) in a suggestive manner | - |
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| suggestiveness | (noun) The state or quality of being full of suggestions, of stimulating thought. | - |
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| sugi | (noun) tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood | Synonyms: Cryptomeria japonica, Japan cedar, Japanese cedar |
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| suicidal | (adjective) dangerous to yourself or your interests | Synonyms: self-destructive |
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| suicide | (noun) the act of killing yourself | Synonyms: self-annihilation, self-destruction |
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| (noun) a person who kills himself intentionally | Synonyms: felo-de-se |
| suit | (noun) a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy | Synonyms: case, causa, cause, lawsuit |
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| (noun) a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color | Synonyms: suit of clothes |
| (noun) playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color | - |
| (noun) a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank | - |
| (noun) a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage) | Synonyms: courting, courtship, wooing |
| (noun) (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit | - |
| (verb) accord or comport with | Synonyms: befit, beseem |
| (verb) enhance the appearance of | Synonyms: become |
| (verb) be agreeable or acceptable | - |
| (verb) be agreeable or acceptable to | Synonyms: accommodate, fit |
| suitability | (noun) the quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose | Synonyms: suitableness |
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| suitable | (adjective) worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse | Synonyms: desirable, worthy |
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| (adjective) meant or adapted for an occasion or use | Synonyms: appropriate, suited |
| suitableness | (noun) the quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose | Synonyms: suitability |
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| suitably | (adverb) in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances | Synonyms: appropriately, befittingly, duly, fitly, fittingly, properly |
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| suitcase | (noun) a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes | Synonyms: bag, grip, traveling bag, travelling bag |
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| suite | (noun) apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel) | Synonyms: rooms |
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| (noun) a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected | - |
| (noun) the group following and attending to some important person | Synonyms: cortege, entourage, retinue |
| (noun) a matching set of furniture | - |
| suited | (adjective) outfitted or supplied with clothing | - |
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| (adjective) meant or adapted for an occasion or use | Synonyms: appropriate, suitable |
| suiting | (noun) a fabric used for suits | - |
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| suitor | (noun) a man who courts a woman | Synonyms: suer, wooer |
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| sukiyaki | (noun) thin beef strips (or chicken or pork) cooked briefly at the table with onions and greens and soy sauce | - |
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| suksdorfia | (noun) any of several American plants of the genus Suksdorfia having orbicular to kidney-shaped somewhat succulent leaves and white or rose or violet flowers in terminal panicles | - |
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| sulcate | (adjective) having deep narrow furrows or grooves | - |
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| sulcus | (noun) (anatomy) any of the narrow grooves in an organ or tissue especially those that mark the convolutions on the surface of the brain | - |
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| sulfa | (noun) antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA | Synonyms: sulfa drug, sulfonamide, sulpha |
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| sulfacetamide | (noun) a topical sulfonamide (trade name Sulamyd) used to treat eye infections | Synonyms: Sulamyd |
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| sulfadiazine | (noun) a sulfa drug used in treating meningitis and pneumonia and other infections | - |
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| sulfamethazine | (noun) a sulfa drug used like sulfadiazine and also in veterinary medicine | Synonyms: sulfamezathine |
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| sulfamethoxazole | (noun) a sulfonamide (trade name Gantanol) used to treat infections (especially infections of the urinary tract) | Synonyms: Gantanol |
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| sulfamezathine | (noun) a sulfa drug used like sulfadiazine and also in veterinary medicine | Synonyms: sulfamethazine |
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| sulfanilamide | (noun) a white odorless crystalline sulfa drug; the parent compound of most of the sulfa drugs | - |
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| sulfapyridine | (noun) sulfa drug derived from pyridine and sulfanilamide | - |
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| sulfate | (noun) a salt or ester of sulphuric acid | Synonyms: sulphate |
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| (verb) convert into a sulfate | - |
| sulfide | (noun) a compound of sulphur and some other element that is more electropositive | Synonyms: sulphide |
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| sulfisoxazole | (noun) a sulfonamide (trade name Gantrisin) used to treat infections of the urinary tract | Synonyms: Gantrisin |
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| sulfonamide | (noun) antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA | Synonyms: sulfa, sulfa drug, sulpha |
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| sulfonate | (noun) a salt of sulphonic acid | - |
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| sulfonylurea | (noun) antidiabetic consisting of any of several drugs that reduce the level of glucose in the blood; used to treat diabetes mellitus | - |
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| sulfur | (noun) an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions) | Synonyms: atomic number 16, S, sulphur |
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| (verb) treat with sulphur in order to preserve | Synonyms: sulphur |
| sulfurette | (verb) combine with sulfur | Synonyms: sulphurette |
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