Select a letter for some words
Sanitary
Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health; hygienic; . See the Note under .
Sapidity
The quality or state of being sapid; taste; savor; savoriness.
Sapiential
Having or affording wisdom.
Sate
of .
Scrambler
One who scrambles; one who climbs on all fours.
Scrawl
To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; .
Scurrile
Such as befits a buffoon or vulgar jester; grossly opprobrious or loudly jocose in language; scurrilous; .
Scythe
To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow.
Second
One who, or that which, follows, or comes after; one next and inferior in place, time, rank, importance, excellence, or power.
Secretory
Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office of secretion; secernent; .
Seismometry
The mensuration of such phenomena of earthquakes as can be expressed in numbers, or by their relation to the cordinates of space.
Sekes
A place in a pagan temple in which the images of the deities were inclosed.
Self-contradiction
The act of contradicting one's self or itself; repugnancy in conceptions or in terms; a proposition consisting of two members, one of which contradicts the other; .
Semaphorically
By means of a semaphore.
Semicentennial
A fiftieth anniversary.
Separatistic
Of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.
Septi-
A combining form meaning ; .
Serenade
To entertain with a serenade.
Serrifera
A division of Hymenoptera comprising the sawflies.
Sew
To unite or fasten together by stitches, as with a needle and thread.
Seynd
of , to singe.
Shag-haired
Having shaggy hair.
Sheathless
Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.
Singularity
The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity.
Singularly
In a singular manner; in a manner, or to a degree, not common to others; extraordinarily;
Siphonophora
An order of pelagic Hydrozoa including species which form complex free-swimming communities composed of numerous zooids of various kinds, some of which act as floats or as swimming organs, others as feeding or nutritive zooids, and others as reproductive zooids. See under , and .
Slight
To overthrow; to demolish.
Slotting
The act or process of making slots, or mortises.
Sminthurid
Any one of numerous small species of springtails, of the family , -- usually found on flowers. See under .
Soil
A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
Sollar
To cover, or provide with, a sollar.
Sorediate
Sorediiuml;ferous.
Soss
Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle.
Sotted
of . Befooled; deluded; besotted.
Sound
The peceived object occasioned by the impulse or vibration of a material substance affecting the ear; a sensation or perception of the mind received through the ear, and produced by the impulse or vibration of the air or other medium with which the ear is in contact; the effect of an impression made on the organs of hearing by an impulse or vibration of the air caused by a collision of bodies, or by other means; noise; report; .
Spat
A light blow with something flat.
Speckt
A woodpecker. See .
Spectatorship
The office or quality of a spectator.
Spial
A spy; a scout.
Spicular
Resembling a dart; having sharp points.
Spired
Having a spire; being in the form of a spire; .
Spiritualist
One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.
Spirituosity
The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness.
Springiness
The state or quality of being springy.
Squaller
One who squalls; a screamer.
Stalky
Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk.
Stamina
The fixed, firm part of a body, which supports it or gives it strength and solidity; .
Stanchless
Incapable of being stanched, or stopped.
Stargazer
One who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in derision or contempt, an astronomer.
Stepparent
Stepfather or stepmother.
Stern
Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh;
Strapper
One who uses strap.
Strong
Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.
Strowl
To stroll.
Stuccowork
Work done in stucco.
Studding
Material for studs, or joists; studs, or joists, collectively; studs.
Substylar
Pertaining to the substyle.
Suitress
A female supplicant.
Supersolar
Above the sun.
Suppeditate
To supply; to furnish.
Supralapsarian
Of or pertaining to the Supralapsarians, or their doctrine.
Supra-sophagal
See .
Surculation
Act of purning.
Swap
To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently.
Swat
a sharp blow, especially one made with an instrument in the hand.
Switch
To walk with a jerk.
Syllabically
In a syllabic manner.
Synchronal
Happening at, or belonging to, the same time; synchronous; simultaneous.
Synchronize
To agree in time; to be simultaneous.
Synonymal
Synonymous.
Synonyme
Same as .
Syrma
A long dress, trailing on the floor, worn by tragic actors in Greek and Roman theaters.