| synthesis | (noun) the combination of ideas into a complex whole | Synonyms: synthetic thinking |
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| (noun) reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) | Synonyms: deduction, deductive reasoning |
| (noun) the process of producing a chemical compound (usually by the union of simpler chemical compounds) | - |
| synthesise | (verb) combine so as to form a more complex, product | Synonyms: synthesize |
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| synthesiser | (noun) (music) an electronic instrument (usually played with a keyboard) that generates and modifies sounds electronically and can imitate a variety of other musical instruments | Synonyms: synthesizer |
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| (noun) an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods | Synonyms: synthesist, synthesizer |
| synthesist | (noun) an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods | Synonyms: synthesiser, synthesizer |
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| synthesize | (verb) combine so as to form a more complex, product | Synonyms: synthesise |
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| (verb) combine and form a synthesis | - |
| synthesizer | (noun) (music) an electronic instrument (usually played with a keyboard) that generates and modifies sounds electronically and can imitate a variety of other musical instruments | Synonyms: synthesiser |
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| (noun) an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods | Synonyms: synthesiser, synthesist |
| synthetic | (adjective) of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts | Synonyms: synthetical |
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| (adjective) systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words | - |
| (adjective) involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis | Synonyms: synthetical |
| (adjective) not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially | Synonyms: man-made, semisynthetic |
| (adjective) not genuine or natural | - |
| (adjective) artificial as if portrayed in a film | Synonyms: celluloid |
| (noun) a compound made artificially by chemical reactions | Synonyms: synthetic substance |
| synthetical | (adjective) involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis | Synonyms: synthetic |
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| (adjective) of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts | Synonyms: synthetic |
| synthetically | (adverb) by synthesis; in a synthetic manner | - |
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| synthetism | (noun) a genre of French painting characterized by bright flat shapes and symbolic treatments of abstract ideas | - |
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| syntony | (noun) the state of being normally responsive to and in harmony with the environment. | - |
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| syph | (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) | Synonyms: lues, lues venerea, pox, syphilis |
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| syphilis | (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) | Synonyms: lues, lues venerea, pox, syph |
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| syphilitic | (adjective) of or relating to or infected with syphilis | - |
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| (noun) a person suffering from syphilis | - |
| syphon | (noun) a tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled | Synonyms: siphon |
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| (noun) a tube running from the liquid in a vessel to a lower level outside the vessel so that gravity forces the liquid through the tube | Synonyms: siphon |
| (verb) convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon | Synonyms: siphon, siphon off |
| syringa | (noun) large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes | Synonyms: mock orange, Philadelphus coronarius |
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| syringe | (noun) a medical instrument used to inject or withdraw fluids | - |
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| (verb) spray or irrigate (a body part) with a syringe | - |
| syringeful | (noun) the quantity that a syringe will hold. | - |
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| syrinx | (noun) the vocal organ of a bird | - |
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| (noun) a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together | Synonyms: pandean pipe, panpipe |
| syrup | (noun) a thick sweet sticky liquid | Synonyms: sirup |
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| syrupy | (adjective) with honey added | Synonyms: honeyed, honied |
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| (adjective) overly sweet | Synonyms: cloying, saccharine, treacly |
| (adjective) having a relatively high resistance to flow | Synonyms: viscous |
| system | (noun) instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity | - |
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| (noun) an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized | Synonyms: organisation, organization |
| (noun) a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts | - |
| (noun) the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole | - |
| (noun) a complex of methods or rules governing behavior | Synonyms: system of rules |
| (noun) a procedure or process for obtaining an objective | - |
| (noun) an organized structure for arranging or classifying | Synonyms: arrangement, organisation, organization |
| (noun) a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole | Synonyms: scheme |
| (noun) (physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium | - |
| systematic | (adjective) characterized by order and planning | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to taxonomy | Synonyms: taxonomic, taxonomical |
| systematically | (adverb) in a systematic or consistent manner | Synonyms: consistently |
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| systematics | (noun) the science of systematic classification | - |
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| systematisation | (noun) systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale | Synonyms: rationalisation, rationalization, systematization |
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| systematise | (verb) arrange according to a system or reduce to a system | Synonyms: systematize, systemise, systemize |
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| systematiser | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematist, systematizer, systemiser, systemizer |
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| systematism | (noun) the habitual practice of systematization and classification | - |
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| systematist | (noun) a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior | Synonyms: taxonomer, taxonomist |
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| (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematiser, systematizer, systemiser, systemizer |
| systematization | (noun) systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale | Synonyms: rationalisation, rationalization, systematisation |
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| systematize | (verb) arrange according to a system or reduce to a system | Synonyms: systematise, systemise, systemize |
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| systematizer | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematiser, systematist, systemiser, systemizer |
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| systemic | (adjective) affecting an entire system | - |
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| systemise | (verb) arrange according to a system or reduce to a system | Synonyms: systematise, systematize, systemize |
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| systemiser | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematiser, systematist, systematizer, systemizer |
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| systemize | (verb) arrange according to a system or reduce to a system | Synonyms: systematise, systematize, systemise |
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| systemizer | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematiser, systematist, systematizer, systemiser |
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| systole | (noun) the contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery | - |
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| systolic | (adjective) of or relating to a systole or happening during a systole | - |
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| syzygy | (noun) the straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system | - |
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