| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| sabaeanism | noun | Same as Sabianism. |
| sabbatical | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Sabbath; resembling the Sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor. |
| sabulosity | noun | The quality of being sabulous; sandiness; grittiness. |
| saccharate | noun | A salt of saccharic acid., In a wider sense, a compound of saccharose, or any similar carbohydrate, with such bases as the oxides of calcium, barium, or lead; a sucrate. |
| saccharify | verb t. | To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar. |
| saccharine | adjective | Of or pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; producing sugar; sweet; as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter., A trade name for benzoic sulphinide. |
| saccharize | verb t. | To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar. |
| saccharoid | adjective | Alt. of Saccharoidal |
| saccharone | noun | A white crystalline substance, C6H8O6, obtained by the oxidation of saccharin, and regarded as the lactone of saccharonic acid., An oily liquid, C6H10O2, obtained by the reduction of saccharin. |
| saccharose | noun | Cane sugar; sucrose; also, in general, any one of the group of which saccharose, or sucrose proper, is the type. See Sucrose. |
| saccharous | adjective | Saccharine. |
| sacchulmic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a dark amorphous substance by the long-continued boiling of sucrose with very dilute sulphuric acid. It resembles humic acid. |
| sacchulmin | noun | An amorphous huminlike substance resembling sacchulmic acid, and produced together with it. |
| sacculated | adjective | Furnished with little sacs. |
| sacerdotal | adjective | Of or pertaining to priests, or to the order of priests; relating to the priesthood; priesty; as, sacerdotal dignity; sacerdotal functions. |
| sachemship | noun | Office or condition of a sachem. |
| sacrifical | adjective | Employed in sacrifice. |
| sacrificed | imp. & past participle | of Sacrifice |
| sacrificer | noun | One who sacrifices. |
| sacristies | plural | of Sacristy |
| sacrosanct | adjective | Sacred; inviolable. |
| saddleback | adjective | Same as Saddle-backed., Anything saddle-backed; esp., a hill or ridge having a concave outline at the top., The harp seal., The great blackbacked gull (Larus marinus)., The larva of a bombycid moth (Empretia stimulea) which has a large, bright green, saddle-shaped patch of color on the back. |
| saddlebags | noun pl. | Bags, usually of leather, united by straps or a band, formerly much used by horseback riders to carry small articles, one bag hanging on each side. |
| saddletree | noun | The frame of a saddle. |
| sadducized | imp. & past participle | of Sadducize |
| sagination | noun | The act of fattening or pampering. |
| sagittated | adjective | Sagittal; sagittate. |
| salability | noun | The quality or condition of being salable; salableness. |
| salaeratus | noun | See Saleratus. |
| salamander | noun | Any one of numerous species of Urodela, belonging to Salamandra, Amblystoma, Plethodon, and various allied genera, especially those that are more or less terrestrial in their habits., The pouched gopher (Geomys tuza) of the Southern United States., A culinary utensil of metal with a plate or disk which is heated, and held over pastry, etc., to brown it., A large poker., Solidified material in a furnace hearth. |
| salamstone | noun | A kind of blue sapphire brought from Ceylon. |
| saleswomen | plural | of Saleswoman |
| saleswoman | noun | A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise. |
| salicylate | noun | A salt of salicylic acid. |
| salicylide | noun | A white crystalline substance obtained by dehydration of salicylic acid. |
| salicylite | noun | A compound of salicylal; — named after the analogy of a salt. |
| salicylous | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, a substance formerly called salicylous acid, and now salicylal. |
| saliferous | adjective | Producing, or impregnated with, salt. |
| salifiable | adjective | Capable of neutralizing an acid to form a salt; — said of bases; thus, ammonia is salifiable. |
| salination | noun | The act of washing with salt water. |
| salineness | noun | The quality or state of being salt; saltness. |
| saliniform | adjective | Having the form or the qualities of a salt, especially of common salt. |
| salisburia | noun | The ginkgo tree (Ginkgo biloba, or Salisburia adiantifolia). |
| salivating | present participle & vb. noun | of Salivate |
| salivation | noun | The act or process of salivating; an excessive secretion of saliva, often accompanied with soreness of the mouth and gums; ptyalism. |
| sallenders | noun pl. | An eruption on the hind leg of a horse. |
| sallowness | noun | The quality or condition of being sallow. |
| sally lunn | A tea cake slighty sweetened, and raised with yeast, baked in the form of biscuits or in a thin loaf, and eaten hot with butter. | |
| salmagundi | noun | A mixture of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions., Hence, a mixture of various ingredients; an olio or medley; a potpourri; a miscellany. |
| salso-acid | adjective | Having a taste compounded of saltness and acidity; both salt and acid. |
| saltarella | noun | See Saltarello. |
| saltarello | noun | A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella. |
| saltatoria | noun pl. | A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets. |
| saltcellar | noun | Formerly a large vessel, now a small vessel of glass or other material, used for holding salt on the table. |
| salt-green | adjective | Sea-green in color. |
| saltigrade | adjective | Having feet or legs formed for leaping., One of the Saltigradae, a tribe of spiders which leap to seize their prey. |
| salt rheum | A popular name, esp. in the United States, for various cutaneous eruptions, particularly for those of eczema. See Eczema. | |
| salubrious | adjective | Favorable to health; healthful; promoting health; as, salubrious air, water, or climate. |
| salutation | noun | The act of saluting, or paying respect or reverence, by the customary words or actions; the act of greeting, or expressing good will or courtesy; also, that which is uttered or done in saluting or greeting. |
| salutatory | adjective | Containing or expressing salutations; speaking a welcome; greeting; — applied especially to the oration which introduces the exercises of the Commencements, or similar public exhibitions, in American colleges., A place for saluting or greeting; a vestibule; a porch., The salutatory oration. |
| samarskite | adjective | A rare mineral having a velvet-black color and submetallic luster. It is a niobate of uranium, iron, and the yttrium and cerium metals. |
| sameliness | noun | Sameness, 2. |
| sanability | noun | The quality or state of being sanable; sanableness; curableness. |
| sanatorium | noun | An establishment for the treatment of the sick; a resort for invalids. See Sanitarium. |
| sance-bell | noun | Alt. of Sancte bell |
| sanctified | adjective | Made holy; also, made to have the air of sanctity; sanctimonious., of Sanctify |
| sanctifier | noun | One who sanctifies, or makes holy; specifically, the Holy Spirit. |
| sanctimony | noun | Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity; especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness. |
| sanctioned | imp. & past participle | of Sanction |
| sanctitude | noun | Holiness; sacredness; sanctity. |
| sanctities | plural | of Sanctity |
| sandalwood | noun | The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree (Santalum album), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and S. pyrularium, the Australian S. latifolium, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood., Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields sandalwood., The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus). |
| sandbagger | noun | An assaulter whose weapon is a sand bag. See Sand bag, under Sand. |
| sand-blind | adjective | Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind. |
| sanderling | noun | A small gray and brown sandpiper (Calidris arenaria) very common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover. |
| sandhiller | noun | A nickname given to any “poor white” living in the pine woods which cover the sandy hills in Georgia and South Carolina. |
| sandnecker | noun | A European flounder (Hippoglossoides limandoides); — called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker. |
| sandwiched | imp. & past participle | of Sandwich |
| sang-froid | noun | Freedom from agitation or excitement of mind; coolness in trying circumstances; indifference; calmness. |
| sanguifier | noun | A producer of blood. |
| sanguinary | adjective | Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; as, a sanguinary war, contest, or battle., Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood., The yarrow., The Sanguinaria. |
| sanguinely | adverb | In a sanguine manner. |
| sanguinity | noun | The quality of being sanguine; sanguineness. |
| sanguisuge | noun | A bloodsucker, or leech. |
| sanhedrist | noun | A member of the sanhedrin. |
| sanitarian | adjective | Of or pertaining to health, or the laws of health; sanitary., An advocate of sanitary measures; one especially interested or versed in sanitary measures. |
| sanitarist | noun | A sanitarian. |
| sanitarium | noun | A health station or retreat; a sanatorium. |
| sanitation | noun | The act of rendering sanitary; the science of sanitary conditions; the preservation of health; the use of sanitary measures; hygiene. |
| sanskritic | adjective | Sanskrit. |
| sans-souci | adverb | Without care; free and easy. |
| santoninic | adjective | Of or pertaining to santonin; — used specifically to designate an acid not known in the free state, but obtained in its salts. |
| sapan wood | A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood. | |
| sapiential | adjective | Having or affording wisdom. |
| sapientize | verb t. | To make sapient. |
| saponacity | noun | The quality or state of being saponaceous. |
| saponifier | noun | That which saponifies; any reagent used to cause saponification. |
| saponified | imp. & past participle | of Saponify |
| saporosity | noun | The quality of a body by which it excites the sensation of taste. |
| sapphirine | noun | Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire. |
| sappodilla | noun | See Sapodilla. |
| saprophyte | noun | Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe. |
| sarcasmous | adjective | Sarcastic. |
| sarcobases | plural | of Sarcobasis |
| sarcobasis | noun | A fruit consisting of many dry indehiscent cells, which contain but few seeds and cohere about a common style, as in the mallows. |
| sarcoblast | noun | A minute yellowish body present in the interior of certain rhizopods. |
| sarcocolla | noun | A gum resin obtained from certain shrubs of Africa (Penaea), — formerly thought to cause healing of wounds and ulcers. |
| sarcoderma | noun | A fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments., A sarcocarp. |
| sarcolemma | noun | The very thin transparent and apparently homogeneous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma. |
| sarcologic | adjective | Alt. of Sarcological |
| sarcophaga | noun pl. | A suborder of carnivorous and insectivorous marsupials including the dasyures and the opossums., A genus of Diptera, including the flesh flies. |
| sarcophagi | plural | of Sarcophagus |
| sarcophagy | noun | The practice of eating flesh. |
| sarcophile | noun | A flesh-eating animal, especially any one of the carnivorous marsupials. |
| sarcosepta | plural | of Sarcoseptum |
| sardachate | noun | A variety of agate containing sard. |
| sarmentose | adjective | Long and filiform, and almost naked, or having only leaves at the joints where it strikes root; as, a sarmentose stem., Bearing sarments; sarmentaceous. |
| sarmentous | adjective | Sarmentose. |
| sarracenia | noun | A genus of American perennial herbs growing in bogs; the American pitcher plant. |
| sassorolla | noun | The rock pigeon. See under Pigeon. |
| sassy bark | The bark of a West African leguminous tree (Erythrophlaeum Guineense, used by the natives as an ordeal poison, and also medicinally; — called also mancona bark. | |
| satirizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Satirize |
| satisfying | present participle & vb. noun | of Satisfy |
| satrapical | adjective | Satrapal. |
| saturating | present participle & vb. noun | of Saturate |
| saturation | noun | The act of saturating, or the state of being saturating; complete penetration or impregnation., The act, process, or result of saturating a substance, or of combining it to its fullest extent., Freedom from mixture or dilution with white; purity; — said of colors. |
| saturnalia | noun pl. | The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves., Hence: A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence. |
| satyriasis | noun | Immoderate venereal appetite in the male. |
| sauerkraut | noun | Cabbage cut fine and allowed to ferment in a brine made of its own juice with salt, — a German dish. |
| sauntering | present participle & vb. noun | of Saunter |
| sauropsida | noun pl. | A comprehensive group of vertebrates, comprising the reptiles and birds. |
| saussurite | noun | A tough, compact mineral, of a white, greenish, or grayish color. It is near zoisite in composition, and in part, at least, has been produced by the alteration of feldspar. |
| sauterelle | noun | An instrument used by masons and others to trace and form angles. |
| sauvegarde | noun | The monitor. |
| savageness | noun | The state or quality of being savage. |
| savingness | noun | The quality of being saving; carefulness not to expend money uselessly; frugality; parsimony., Tendency to promote salvation. |
| savoriness | noun | The quality of being savory. |
| saxicavous | adjective | Boring, or hollowing out, rocks; — said of certain mollusks which live in holes which they burrow in rocks. See Illust. of Lithodomus. |
| saxicoline | adjective | Stone-inhabiting; pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, the stonechats. |
| saxicolous | adjective | Growing on rocks. |