| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| sabaeism | noun | Alt. of Sabaism |
| sabbatic | adjective | Alt. of Sabbatical |
| sabbaton | noun | A round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress. |
| sabering | present participle & vb. noun | of Sabre |
| sabulose | adjective | Growing in sandy places. |
| sabulous | adjective | Sandy; gritty. |
| sacalait | noun | A kind of fresh-water bass; the crappie. |
| saccular | adjective | Like a sac; sacciform. |
| sacculus | noun | A little sac; esp., a part of the membranous labyrinth of the ear. |
| sacellum | noun | An unroofed space consecrated to a divinity., A small monumental chapel in a church. |
| sackfuls | plural | of Sackful |
| sackless | adjective | Quiet; peaceable; harmless; innocent. |
| sacrific | adjective | Alt. of Sacrifical |
| sacristy | noun | An apartment in a church where the sacred utensils, vestments, etc., are kept; a vestry. |
| saddened | imp. & past participle | of Sadden |
| saddling | present participle & vb. noun | of Saddle |
| saddlery | noun | The materials for making saddles and harnesses; the articles usually offered for sale in a saddler’s shop., The trade or employment of a saddler. |
| sadducee | noun | One of a sect among the ancient Jews, who denied the resurrection, a future state, and the existence of angels. |
| safeness | noun | The quality or state of being safe; freedom from hazard, danger, harm, or loss; safety; security; as the safeness of an experiment, of a journey, or of a possession. |
| saffrony | adjective | Having a color somewhat like saffron; yellowish. |
| safranin | noun | An orange-red dyestuff extracted from the saffron., A red dyestuff extracted from the safflower, and formerly used in dyeing wool, silk, and cotton pink and scarlet; — called also Spanish red, China lake, and carthamin., An orange-red dyestuff prepared from certain nitro compounds of creosol, and used as a substitute for the safflower dye. |
| sagacity | noun | The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness. |
| sagamore | noun | The head of a tribe among the American Indians; a chief; — generally used as synonymous with sachem, but some writters distinguished between them, making the sachem a chief of the first rank, and a sagamore one of the second rank., A juice used in medicine. |
| sageness | noun | The quality or state of being sage; wisdom; sagacity; prudence; gravity. |
| sagenite | noun | Acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms imbedded in quartz. |
| saginate | verb t. | To make fat; to pamper. |
| sagittal | adjective | Of or pertaining to an arrow; resembling an arrow; furnished with an arrowlike appendage., Of or pertaining to the sagittal suture; in the region of the sagittal suture; rabdoidal; as, the sagittal furrow, or groove, on the inner surface of the roof of the skull., In the mesial plane; mesial; as, a sagittal section of an animal. |
| saibling | noun | A European mountain trout (Salvelinus alpinus); — called also Bavarian charr. |
| sailable | adjective | Capable of being sailed over; navigable; as, a sailable river. |
| sailboat | noun | A boat propelled by a sail or sails. |
| sailfish | noun | The banner fish, or spikefish (Histiophorus.), The basking, or liver, shark., The quillback. |
| sailless | adjective | Destitute of sails. |
| sainfoin | noun | A leguminous plant (Onobrychis sativa) cultivated for fodder., A kind of tick trefoil (Desmodium Canadense). |
| sainting | present participle & vb. noun | of Saint |
| saintdom | noun | The state or character of a saint. |
| saintess | noun | A female saint. |
| saintish | adjective | Somewhat saintlike; — used ironically. |
| saintism | noun | The character or quality of saints; also, hypocritical pretense of holiness. |
| salacity | noun | Strong propensity to venery; lust; lecherousness. |
| salading | noun | Vegetables for salad. |
| salagane | noun | The esculent swallow. See under Esculent. |
| salaried | adjective | Receiving a salary; paid by a salary; having a salary attached; as, a salaried officer; a salaried office., of Salary |
| salaries | plural | of Salary |
| saleable | adverb | Alt. of Saleably |
| saleably | adverb | See Salable, Salably, etc. |
| salesmen | plural | of Salesman |
| salesman | noun | One who sells anything; one whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise. |
| salework | noun | Work or things made for sale; hence, work done carelessly or slightingly. |
| salience | noun | The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting., The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion. |
| saliency | noun | Quality of being salient; hence, vigor. |
| salified | imp. & past participle | of Salify |
| salinity | noun | Salineness. |
| salinous | adjective | Saline. |
| salivant | adjective | Producing salivation., That which produces salivation. |
| salivary | adjective | Of or pertaining to saliva; producing or carrying saliva; as, the salivary ferment; the salivary glands; the salivary ducts, etc. |
| salivate | verb t. | To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury., To produce saliva, esp. in excess. |
| salivous | adjective | Pertaining to saliva; of the nature of saliva. |
| sallying | present participle & vb. noun | of Sally |
| sallyman | noun | The velella; — called also saleeman. |
| salmonet | noun | A salmon of small size; a samlet. |
| salomtry | noun | Salimetry. |
| salpicon | noun | Chopped meat, bread, etc., used to stuff legs of veal or other joints; stuffing; farce. |
| saltbush | noun | An Australian plant (Atriplex nummularia) of the Goosefoot family. |
| saltfoot | noun | A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot. |
| saltless | adjective | Destitute of salt; insipid. |
| saltness | noun | The quality or state of being salt, or state of being salt, or impregnated with salt; salt taste; as, the saltness of sea water. |
| saltwort | noun | A name given to several plants which grow on the seashore, as the Batis maritima, and the glasswort. See Glasswort. |
| salutary | adjective | Wholesome; healthful; promoting health; as, salutary exercise., Promotive of, or contributing to, some beneficial purpose; beneficial; advantageous; as, a salutary design. |
| saluting | present participle & vb. noun | of Salute |
| salvable | adjective | Capable of being saved; admitting of salvation. |
| salvific | adjective | Tending to save or secure safety. |
| samarium | noun | A rare metallic element of doubtful identity. |
| samaroid | adjective | Resembling a samara, or winged seed vessel. |
| sambucus | noun | A genus of shrubs and trees; the elder. |
| sameness | noun | The state of being the same; identity; absence of difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as, a sameness of person, of manner, of sound, of appearance, and the like., Hence, want of variety; tedious monotony. |
| samphire | noun | A fleshy, suffrutescent, umbelliferous European plant (Crithmum maritimum). It grows among rocks and on cliffs along the seacoast, and is used for pickles., The species of glasswort (Salicornia herbacea); — called in England marsh samphire., A seashore shrub (Borrichia arborescens) of the West Indies. |
| sanation | noun | The act of healing or curing. |
| sanative | adjective | Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal; sanatory. |
| sanatory | adjective | Conducive to health; tending to cure; healing; curative; sanative. |
| sanctify | verb t. | To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow., To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify., To make efficient as the means of holiness; to render productive of holiness or piety., To impart or impute sacredness, venerableness, inviolability, title to reverence and respect, or the like, to; to secure from violation; to give sanction to. |
| sanction | noun | Solemn or ceremonious ratification; an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or body; establishment or furtherance of anything by giving authority to it; confirmation; approbation., Anything done or said to enforce the will, law, or authority of another; as, legal sanctions., To give sanction to; to ratify; to confirm; to approve. |
| sanctity | noun | The state or quality of being sacred or holy; holiness; saintliness; moral purity; godliness., Sacredness; solemnity; inviolability; religious binding force; as, the sanctity of an oath., A saint or holy being. |
| sandaled | adjective | Wearing sandals., Made like a sandal. |
| sandarac | noun | Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic., A white or yellow resin obtained from a Barbary tree (Callitris quadrivalvis or Thuya articulata), and pulverized for pounce; — probably so called from a resemblance to the mineral. |
| sandever | noun | See Sandiver. |
| sandfish | noun | A small marine fish of the Pacific coast of North America (Trichodon trichodon) which buries itself in the sand. |
| sandiver | noun | A whitish substance which is cast up, as a scum, from the materials of glass in fusion, and, floating on the top, is skimmed off; — called also glass gall. |
| sandwich | noun | Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them., To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard. |
| sandworm | noun | Any one of numerous species of annelids which burrow in the sand of the seashore., Any species of annelids of the genus Sabellaria. They construct firm tubes of agglutinated sand on rocks and shells, and are sometimes destructive to oysters., The chigoe, a species of flea. |
| sandwort | noun | Any plant of the genus Arenaria, low, tufted herbs (order Caryophyllaceae.) |
| saneness | noun | The state of being sane; sanity. |
| sangaree | noun | Wine and water sweetened and spiced, — a favorite West Indian drink. |
| sangraal | noun | Alt. of Sangreal |
| sangreal | noun | See Holy Grail, under Grail. |
| sanguify | verb t. | To produce blood from. |
| sanguine | adjective | Having the color of blood; red., Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament., Warm; ardent; as, a sanguine temper., Anticipating the best; not desponding; confident; full of hope; as, sanguine of success., Blood color; red., Anything of a blood-red color, as cloth., Bloodstone., Red crayon. See the Note under Crayon, 1., To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine. |
| sanidine | noun | A variety of orthoclase feldspar common in certain eruptive rocks, as trachyte; — called also glassy feldspar. |
| sanitary | adjective | Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health; hygienic; as, sanitary regulations. See the Note under Sanatory. |
| sanscrit | noun | See Sanskrit. |
| sanskrit | noun | The ancient language of the Hindoos, long since obsolete in vernacular use, but preserved to the present day as the literary and sacred dialect of India. It is nearly allied to the Persian, and to the principal languages of Europe, classical and modern, and by its more perfect preservation of the roots and forms of the primitive language from which they are all descended, is a most important assistance in determining their history and relations. Cf. Prakrit, and Veda., Of or pertaining to Sanskrit; written in Sanskrit; as, a Sanskrit dictionary or inscription. |
| santalic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sandalwood (Santalum); — used specifically to designate an acid obtained as a resinous or red crystalline dyestuff, which is called also santalin. |
| santalin | noun | Santalic acid. See Santalic. |
| santalum | noun | A genus of trees with entire opposite leaves and small apetalous flowers. There are less than a dozen species, occurring from India to Australia and the Pacific Islands. See Sandalwood. |
| santonic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid (distinct from santoninic acid) obtained from santonin as a white crystalline substance. |
| santonin | noun | A white crystalline substance having a bitter taste, extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic. It occassions a peculiar temporary color blindness, causing objects to appear as if seen through a yellow glass. |
| sapidity | noun | The quality or state of being sapid; taste; savor; savoriness. |
| sapience | noun | The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge. |
| sapindus | noun | A genus of tropical and subtropical trees with pinnate leaves and panicled flowers. The fruits of some species are used instead of soap, and their round black seeds are made into necklaces. |
| saponary | adjective | Saponaceous. |
| saponify | verb t. | To convert into soap, as tallow or any fat; hence (Chem.), to subject to any similar process, as that which ethereal salts undergo in decomposition; as, to saponify ethyl acetate. |
| saponite | noun | A hydrous silicate of magnesia and alumina. It occurs in soft, soapy, amorphous masses, filling veins in serpentine and cavities in trap rock. |
| saporous | adjective | Having flavor or taste; yielding a taste. |
| sapphire | noun | Native alumina or aluminium sesquioxide, Al2O3; corundum; esp., the blue transparent variety of corundum, highly prized as a gem., The color of the gem; bright blue., Any humming bird of the genus Hylocharis, native of South America. The throat and breast are usually bright blue., Of or resembling sapphire; sapphirine; blue. |
| sapskull | noun | A saphead. |
| sapucaia | noun | A Brazilian tree. See Lecythis, and Monkey-pot. |
| saraband | noun | A slow Spanish dance of Saracenic origin, to an air in triple time; also, the air itself. |
| sarceled | adjective | Cut through the middle. |
| sarcelle | noun | The old squaw, or long-tailed duck. |
| sarcenet | noun | A species of fine thin silk fabric, used for linings, etc. |
| sarcocol | noun | Alt. of Sarcocolla |
| sarcodic | adjective | Of or pertaining to sarcode. |
| sarcomas | plural | of Sarcoma |
| sarcosin | noun | A crystalline nitrogenous substance, formed in the decomposition of creatin (one of the constituents of muscle tissue). Chemically, it is methyl glycocoll. |
| sarcosis | noun | Abnormal formation of flesh., Sarcoma. |
| sarcotic | adjective | Producing or promoting the growth of flesh., A sarcotic medicine. |
| sardonic | adjective | Forced; unnatural; insincere; hence, derisive, mocking, malignant, or bitterly sarcastic; — applied only to a laugh, smile, or some facial semblance of gayety., Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a kind of linen made at Colchis. |
| sardonyx | noun | A variety of onyx consisting of sard and white chalcedony in alternate layers. |
| sargasso | noun | The gulf weed. See under Gulf. |
| sarmatic | adjective | Of or pertaining to Sarmatia, or its inhabitants, the ancestors of the Russians and the Poles. |
| sarplier | noun | A coarse cloth made of hemp, and used for packing goods, etc. |
| sarrasin | noun | Alt. of Sarrasine |
| sarsenet | noun | See Sarcenet. |
| sassabye | noun | A large African antelope (Alcelaphus lunata), similar to the hartbeest, but having its horns regularly curved. |
| sassolin | noun | Alt. of Sassoline |
| sassorol | noun | Alt. of Sassorolla |
| satanism | noun | The evil and malicious disposition of Satan; a diabolical spirit. |
| satanist | noun | A very wicked person. |
| sateless | adjective | Insatiable. |
| sathanas | noun | Satan. |
| satiated | imp. & past participle | of Satiate |
| satirist | noun | One who satirizes; especially, one who writes satire. |
| satirize | verb t. | To make the object of satire; to attack with satire; to censure with keenness or severe sarcasm. |
| satrapal | adjective | Of or pertaining to a satrap, or a satrapy. |
| saturant | adjective | Impregnating to the full; saturating., A substance used to neutralize or saturate the affinity of another substance., An antacid, as magnesia, used to correct acidity of the stomach. |
| saturate | verb t. | To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate., To satisfy the affinity of; to cause to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold; as, to saturate phosphorus with chlorine., Filled to repletion; saturated; soaked. |
| saturday | noun | The seventh or last day of the week; the day following Friday and preceding Sunday. |
| saturity | noun | The state of being saturated; fullness of supply. |
| satyrion | noun | Any one of several kinds of orchids. |
| saucebox | noun | A saucy, impudent person; especially, a pert child. |
| saucepan | noun | A small pan with a handle, in which sauce is prepared over a fire; a stewpan. |
| saucisse | noun | A long and slender pipe or bag, made of cloth well pitched, or of leather, filled with powder, and used to communicate fire to mines, caissons, bomb chests, etc., A fascine of more than ordinary length. |
| saunders | noun | See Sandress. |
| saurioid | adjective | Same as Sauroid. |
| saururae | noun pl. | An extinct order of birds having a long vertebrated tail with quills along each side of it. Archaeopteryx is the type. See Archaeopteryx, and Odontornithes. |
| sauterne | noun | A white wine made in the district of Sauterne, France. |
| savagely | adverb | In a savage manner. |
| savagery | noun | The state of being savage; savageness; savagism., An act of cruelty; barbarity., Wild growth, as of plants. |
| savagism | noun | The state of being savage; the state of rude, uncivilized men, or of men in their native wildness and rudeness. |
| saveable | adjective | See Savable. |
| save-all | noun | Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss., A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned., A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it. |
| savement | noun | The act of saving. |
| savingly | adverb | In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony., So as to be finally saved from eternal death. |
| savoring | present participle & vb. noun | of Savor |
| savorily | adverb | In a savory manner. |
| savorous | noun | Having a savor; savory. |
| savoyard | noun | A native or inhabitant of Savoy. |
| sawbelly | noun | The alewife. |
| sawbones | noun | A nickname for a surgeon. |
| sawhorse | noun | A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew’s cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; — called also buck, and sawbuck. |
| sawtooth | noun | An arctic seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), having the molars serrated; — called also crab-eating seal. |
| saw-whet | noun | A small North American owl (Nyctale Acadica), destitute of ear tufts and having feathered toes; — called also Acadian owl. |
| saw-wort | noun | Any plant of the composite genus Serratula; — so named from the serrated leaves of most of the species. |
| saxatile | adjective | Of or pertaining to rocks; living among rocks; as, a saxatile plant. |
| saxicava | noun | Any species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Saxicava. Some of the species are noted for their power of boring holes in limestone and similar rocks. |
| saxonism | noun | An idiom of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language. |
| saxonist | noun | One versed in the Saxon language. |
| saxonite | noun | See Mountain soap, under Mountain. |
| sax-tuba | noun | A powerful instrument of brass, curved somewhat like the Roman buccina, or tuba. |
| sarpened | imp. & past participle | of Sharpen |