| surrogate | (adjective) providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties | Synonyms: foster |
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| (noun) a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others | Synonyms: deputy |
| (noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: alternate, replacement |
| surround | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environment, environs, surroundings |
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| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, circumvent, hem in |
| (verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify | Synonyms: fence, fence in, palisade, wall |
| (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, environ, ring, skirt |
| (verb) envelop completely | Synonyms: smother |
| surrounded | (adjective) confined on all sides | Synonyms: encircled |
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| surrounding | (adjective) closely encircling | Synonyms: circumferent, encompassing |
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| surroundings | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environment, environs, surround |
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| (noun) the environmental condition | Synonyms: milieu |
| surtax | (noun) an additional tax on certain kinds of income that has already been taxed | Synonyms: supertax |
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| (verb) levy an extra tax on | - |
| surtitle | (noun) translation of the words of a foreign opera (or choral work) projected on a screen above the stage | Synonyms: supertitle |
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| surtout | (noun) a man's overcoat in the style of a frock coat | - |
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| surveil | (verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: follow, survey |
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| surveillance | (noun) close observation of a person or group (usually by the police) | - |
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| survey | (noun) the act of looking or seeing or observing | Synonyms: sight, view |
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| (noun) a detailed critical inspection | Synonyms: study |
| (noun) short descriptive summary (of events) | Synonyms: resume, sketch |
| (verb) consider in a comprehensive way | Synonyms: appraise |
| (verb) plot a map of (land) | - |
| (verb) make a survey of; for statistical purposes | - |
| (verb) hold a review (of troops) | Synonyms: go over, review |
| (verb) look over carefully or inspect | - |
| (verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: follow, surveil |
| surveying | (noun) the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map | - |
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| surveyor | (noun) an engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures | - |
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| (noun) someone who conducts a statistical survey | - |
| survival | (noun) something that survives | - |
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| (noun) a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment | Synonyms: natural selection, selection, survival of the fittest |
| (noun) a state of surviving; remaining alive | Synonyms: endurance |
| survivalist | (noun) someone who tries to insure their personal survival or the survival of their group or nation | - |
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| survive | (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: exist, live, subsist |
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| (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on |
| (verb) continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.) | Synonyms: come through, make it, pull round, pull through |
| (verb) live longer than | Synonyms: outlast, outlive |
| surviving | (adjective) still in existence | Synonyms: living |
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| survivor | (noun) an animal that survives in spite of adversity | - |
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| (noun) one who outlives another | - |
| (noun) one who lives through affliction | Synonyms: subsister |
| susceptibility | (noun) the state of being susceptible; easily affected | Synonyms: susceptibleness |
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| susceptible | (adjective) (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of | - |
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| (adjective) easily impressed emotionally | - |
| susceptibleness | (noun) the state of being susceptible; easily affected | Synonyms: susceptibility |
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| sushi | (noun) rice (with raw fish) wrapped in seaweed | - |
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| suslik | (noun) rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel | Synonyms: Citellus citellus, souslik |
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| suspect | (adjective) not as expected | Synonyms: fishy, funny, shady, suspicious |
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| (noun) someone who is under suspicion | - |
| (noun) a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused | Synonyms: defendant |
| (verb) regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in | Synonyms: distrust, mistrust |
| (verb) imagine to be the case or true or probable | Synonyms: surmise |
| (verb) hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty | - |
| suspected | (adjective) believed likely | - |
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| suspend | (verb) stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it | Synonyms: freeze |
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| (verb) cause to be held in suspension in a fluid | - |
| (verb) make inoperative or stop | Synonyms: set aside |
| (verb) hang freely | - |
| (verb) bar temporarily; from school, office, etc. | Synonyms: debar |
| (verb) render temporarily ineffective | - |
| suspended | (adjective) (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment | - |
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| suspender | (noun) elastic straps that hold trousers up | Synonyms: brace, gallus |
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| suspense | (noun) an uncertain cognitive state | - |
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| (noun) excited anticipation of an approaching climax | - |
| (noun) apprehension about what is going to happen | - |
| suspenseful | (adjective) (of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense | Synonyms: cliff-hanging, nail-biting, suspensive |
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| suspension | (noun) the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) | Synonyms: dangling, hanging |
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| (noun) a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc) | Synonyms: temporary removal |
| (noun) a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle | Synonyms: suspension system |
| (noun) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | Synonyms: abatement, hiatus, reprieve, respite |
| (noun) temporary cessation or suspension | Synonyms: abeyance |
| (noun) a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy | - |
| (noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something | Synonyms: break, intermission, interruption, pause |
| suspensive | (adjective) undecided or characterized by indecisiveness | - |
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| (adjective) (of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense | Synonyms: cliff-hanging, nail-biting, suspenseful |
| suspensor | (noun) a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise | Synonyms: athletic supporter, jock, jockstrap, supporter |
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| suspensory | (noun) a bandage of elastic fabric applied to uplift a dependant part (as the scrotum or a pendulous breast) | Synonyms: suspensory bandage |
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| suspicion | (noun) being of a suspicious nature | Synonyms: suspiciousness |
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| (noun) doubt about someone's honesty | Synonyms: distrust, misgiving, mistrust |
| (noun) an impression that something might be the case | Synonyms: hunch, intuition |
| (noun) the state of being suspected | - |
| suspicious | (adjective) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide | Synonyms: leery, mistrustful, untrusting, wary |
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| (adjective) not as expected | Synonyms: fishy, funny, shady, suspect |
| suspiciously | (adverb) with suspicion | - |
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| suspiciousness | (noun) being of a suspicious nature | Synonyms: suspicion |
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| suspiration | (noun) an utterance made by exhaling audibly | Synonyms: sigh |
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| suspire | (verb) draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs | Synonyms: breathe, respire, take a breath |
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| (verb) heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily | Synonyms: sigh |
| sustain | (verb) undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) | Synonyms: get, have, suffer |
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| (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, corroborate, substantiate, support |
| (verb) admit as valid | - |
| (verb) supply with necessities and support | Synonyms: keep, maintain |
| (verb) provide with nourishment | Synonyms: nourish, nurture |
| (verb) be the physical support of; carry the weight of | Synonyms: hold, hold up, support |
| (verb) lengthen or extend in duration or space | Synonyms: keep up, prolong |
| sustainability | (noun) the property of being sustainable | - |
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| sustainable | (adjective) capable of being sustained | - |
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| sustained | (adjective) maintained at length without interruption or weakening | - |
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| (adjective) (of an electric arc) continuous | Synonyms: free burning |
| sustainer | (noun) someone who upholds or maintains | Synonyms: maintainer, upholder |
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| sustainment | (noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: maintenance, sustenance, sustentation, upkeep |
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| sustenance | (noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: maintenance, sustainment, sustentation, upkeep |
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| (noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, victuals |
| (noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, support |
| sustentacular | (adjective) serving to sustain or support | - |
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| sustentation | (noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: maintenance, sustainment, sustenance, upkeep |
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| susurrant | (adjective) making a low continuous indistinct sound | Synonyms: murmuring, whispering |
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| susurrate | (verb) issue soft noises | - |
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| susurration | (noun) speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: voicelessness, whisper, whispering |
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| (noun) the indistinct sound of people whispering | Synonyms: susurrus |
| susurrous | (adjective) characterized by soft sounds | Synonyms: murmurous, rustling, soughing |
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| susurrus | (noun) the indistinct sound of people whispering | Synonyms: susurration |
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| sutler | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: provisioner, victualer, victualler |
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| sutra | (noun) a rule or aphorism in Sanskrit literature or a group of aphoristic doctrinal summaries prepared for memorization | - |
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| suttee | (noun) the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband | - |
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| sutura | (noun) an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull) | Synonyms: fibrous joint, suture |
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| suture | (noun) thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together | - |
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| (noun) a seam used in surgery | Synonyms: surgical seam |
| (noun) an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull) | Synonyms: fibrous joint, sutura |
| (verb) join with a suture | - |
| suturing | (noun) surgical joining of two surfaces | - |
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| suzerain | (noun) a state exercising a degree of dominion over a dependent state especially in its foreign affairs | - |
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| suzerainty | (noun) the domain of a suzerain | - |
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| (noun) the position or authority of a suzerain | - |