| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| sought | imp. & past participle | of Seek, imp. & p. p. of Seek. |
| sodden | of Seethe, of Sod, Boiled; seethed; also, soaked; heavy with moisture; saturated; as, sodden beef; sodden bread; sodden fields., To be seethed; to become sodden., To soak; to make heavy with water. | |
| soaked | imp. & past participle | of Soak |
| soaker | noun | One who, or that which, soaks., A hard drinker. |
| soaped | imp. & past participle | of Soap |
| soared | imp. & past participle | of Soar |
| sobbed | imp. & past participle | of Sob |
| socage | noun | A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight’s service, in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent. |
| social | adjective | Of or pertaining to society; relating to men living in society, or to the public as an aggregate body; as, social interest or concerns; social pleasure; social benefits; social happiness; social duties., Ready or disposed to mix in friendly converse; companionable; sociable; as, a social person., Consisting in union or mutual intercourse., Naturally growing in groups or masses; — said of many individual plants of the same species., Living in communities consisting of males, females, and neuters, as do ants and most bees., Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians. |
| socket | noun | An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth., Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick. |
| socmen | plural | of Socman |
| socman | noun | One who holds lands or tenements by socage; a socager. |
| socome | noun | A custom of tenants to grind corn at the lord’s mill. |
| sodaic | adjective | Pertaining to, or containing, soda. |
| sodio- | A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting the presence of sodium or one of its compounds. | |
| sodium | noun | A common metallic element of the alkali group, in nature always occuring combined, as in common salt, in albite, etc. It is isolated as a soft, waxy, white, unstable metal, so readily oxidized that it combines violently with water, and to be preserved must be kept under petroleum or some similar liquid. Sodium is used combined in many salts, in the free state as a reducer, and as a means of obtaining other metals (as magnesium and aluminium) is an important commercial product. Symbol Na (Natrium). Atomic weight 23. Specific gravity 0.97. |
| sodomy | noun | Carnal copulation in a manner against nature; buggery. |
| soever | A word compounded of so and ever, used in composition with who, what, where, when, how, etc., and indicating any out of all possible or supposable persons, things, places, times, ways, etc. It is sometimes used separate from the pronoun or adverb. | |
| soffit | noun | The under side of the subordinate parts and members of buildings, such as staircases, entablatures, archways, cornices, or the like. See Illust. of Lintel. |
| sofism | noun | Same as Sufism. |
| soften | verb t. | To make soft or more soft., To render less hard; — said of matter., To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable., To palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault., To compose; to mitigate; to assuage., To make less harsh, less rude, less offensive, or less violent, or to render of an opposite quality., To make less glaring; to tone down; as, to soften the coloring of a picture., To make tender; to make effeminate; to enervate; as, troops softened by luxury., To make less harsh or grating, or of a quality the opposite; as, to soften the voice., To become soft or softened, or less rude, harsh, severe, or obdurate. |
| softly | adverb | In a soft manner. |
| soiled | imp. & past participle | of Soil |
| soiree | noun | An evening party; — distinguished from levee, and matinee. |
| solace | verb t. | Comfort in grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety; also, that which relieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; relief., Rest; relaxation; ease., To cheer in grief or under calamity; to comfort; to relieve in affliction, solitude, or discomfort; to console; — applied to persons; as, to solace one with the hope of future reward., To allay; to assuage; to soothe; as, to solace grief., To take comfort; to be cheered. |
| soland | noun | A solan goose. |
| solano | A hot, oppressive wind which sometimes blows in the Mediterranean, particularly on the eastern coast of Spain. | |
| solary | adjective | Solar. |
| soldan | noun | A sultan. |
| solder | noun | A metal or metallic alloy used when melted for uniting adjacent metallic edges or surfaces; a metallic cement., anything which unites or cements., To unite (metallic surfaces or edges) by the intervention of a more fusible metal or metallic alloy applied when melted; to join by means of metallic cement., To mend; to patch up. |
| soling | present participle & vb. noun | of Sole |
| solely | adverb | Singly; alone; only; without another; as, to rest a cause solely one argument; to rely solelyn one’s own strength. |
| solemn | adjective | Marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or connected with, religion; sacred., Pertaining to a festival; festive; festal., Stately; ceremonious; grand., Fitted to awaken or express serious reflections; marked by seriousness; serious; grave; devout; as, a solemn promise; solemn earnestness., Real; earnest; downright., Affectedly grave or serious; as, to put on a solemn face., Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form. |
| solere | noun | A loft or garret. See Solar, n. |
| solert | adjective | Skillful; clever; crafty. |
| sol-fa | verb i. | To sing the notes of the gamut, ascending or descending; as, do or ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do, or the same in reverse order., The gamut, or musical scale. See Tonic sol-fa, under Tonic, n. |
| sollar | noun | See Solar, n., A platform in a shaft, especially one of those between the series of ladders in a shaft., To cover, or provide with, a sollar. |
| solute | adjective | Loose; free; liberal; as, a solute interpretation., Relaxed; hence; merry; cheerful., Soluble; as, a solute salt., Not adhering; loose; — opposed to adnate; as, a solute stipule., To dissolve; to resolve., To absolve; as, to solute sin. |
| solved | imp. & past participle | of Solve |
| solver | noun | One who, or that which, solves. |
| somali | noun | Alt. of Somal |
| somber | adjective | Alt. of Sombre, Alt. of Sombre, Alt. of Sombre |
| sombre | adjective | Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a somber house., Melancholy; sad; grave; depressing; as, a somber person; somber reflections., To make somber, or dark; to make shady., Gloom; obscurity; duskiness; somberness. |
| somite | noun | One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is is composed; somatome; metamere. |
| somner | noun | A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court. |
| sompne | verb t. | To summon; to cite. |
| sonant | adjective | Of or pertaining to sound; sounding., Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; — sid of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate., A sonant letter. |
| sonata | noun | An extended composition for one or two instruments, consisting usually of three or four movements; as, Beethoven’s sonatas for the piano, for the violin and piano, etc. |
| sonnet | noun | A short poem, — usually amatory., A poem of fourteen lines, — two stanzas, called the octave, being of four verses each, and two stanzas, called the sestet, of three verses each, the rhymes being adjusted by a particular rule., To compose sonnets. |
| sontag | noun | A knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman’s dress. |
| soodra | Same as Sudra. | |
| soofee | Alt. of Soofeeism | |
| soojee | noun | Same as Suji. |
| soonee | noun | See Sunnite. |
| soonly | adverb | Soon. |
| soorma | noun | A preparation of antimony with which Mohammedan men anoint their eyelids. |
| soosoo | noun | A kind of dolphin (Platanista Gangeticus) native of the river Ganges; the Gangetic dolphin. It has a long, slender, somewhat spatulate beak. |
| sooted | imp. & past participle | of Soot |
| soothe | adjective | To assent to as true., To assent to; to comply with; to gratify; to humor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter., To assuage; to mollify; to calm; to comfort; as, to soothe a crying child; to soothe one’s sorrows. |
| sopped | imp. & past participle | of Sop |
| sophis | plural | of Sophi |
| sophic | adjective | Alt. of Sophical |
| sophta | noun | See Softa. |
| sopite | verb t. | To lay asleep; to put to sleep; to quiet. |
| sopper | noun | One who sops. |
| sorbet | noun | A kind of beverage; sherbet. |
| sorbic | adjective | Pertaining to, or obtained from, the rowan tree, or sorb; specifically, designating an acid, C/H/CO/H, of the acetylene series, found in the unripe berries of this tree, and extracted as a white crystalline substance. |
| sorbin | noun | An unfermentable sugar, isomeric with glucose, found in the ripe berries of the rowan tree, or sorb, and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance; — called also mountain-ash sugar. |
| sordes | noun | Foul matter; excretion; dregs; filthy, useless, or rejected matter of any kind; specifically (Med.), the foul matter that collects on the teeth and tongue in low fevers and other conditions attended with great vital depression. |
| sordet | noun | A sordine. |
| sordid | adjective | Filthy; foul; dirty., Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals., Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly. |
| sorely | adverb | In a sore manner; grievously; painfully; as, to be sorely afflicted. |
| sorema | noun | A heap of carpels belonging to one flower. |
| sorgne | noun | The three-beared rocking, or whistlefish. |
| sorner | noun | One who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board. |
| sorrel | adjective | Of a yellowish or redish brown color; as, a sorrel horse., A yellowish or redish brown color., One of various plants having a sour juice; especially, a plant of the genus Rumex, as Rumex Acetosa, Rumex Acetosella, etc. |
| sorrow | noun | The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness., To feel pain of mind in consequence of evil experienced, feared, or done; to grieve; to be sad; to be sorry. |
| sortes | plural | of Sors, pl. of Sors. |
| sorted | imp. & past participle | of Sort |
| sortal | adjective | Pertaining to a sort. |
| sorter | noun | One who, or that which, sorts. |
| sortie | noun | The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from a besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally. |
| sothic | adjective | Of or pertaining to Sothis, the Egyptian name for the Dog Star; taking its name from the Dog Star; canicular. |
| sotted | a. & p. p. of Sot. Befooled; deluded; besotted. | |
| soubah | noun | See Subah. |
| soudan | noun | A sultan. |
| souded | adjective | Alt. of Soudet |
| soudet | adjective | United; consolidated; made firm; strengthened. |
| souled | adjective | Furnished with a soul; possessing soul and feeling; — used chiefly in composition; as, great-souled Hector. |
| sounst | adjective | Soused. See Souse. |
| souple | noun | That part of a flail which strikes the grain. |
| soured | imp. & past participle | of Sour |
| source | noun | The act of rising; a rise; an ascent., The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain., That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause. |
| sourde | verb i. | To have origin or source; to rise; to spring. |
| sourly | adverb | In a sour manner; with sourness. |
| soused | imp. & past participle | of Souse |
| souter | noun | A shoemaker; a cobbler. |
| sovran | adjective | A variant of Sovereign. |
| sowing | present participle & vb. noun | of Sow |
| sowans | noun pl. | See Sowens. |
| sowdan | noun | Sultan. |
| sowens | noun pl. | A nutritious article of food, much used in Scotland, made from the husk of the oat by a process not unlike that by which common starch is made; — called flummery in England. |
| sowins | noun pl. | See Sowens. |
| sowter | noun | See Souter. |
| soyned | adjective | Filled with care; anxious. |
| sozzle | verb t. | To splash or wet carelessly; as, to sozzle the feet in water., To heap up in confusion., One who spills water or other liquids carelessly; specifically, a sluttish woman., A mass, or heap, confusedly mingled. |