English words: S

2316 words under S; 901–1000 on this page.

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• singular adjective (singular); noun (the singular)everyday · Jewish tradition
  In grammar, singular means one: «cat» is singular and «cats» is plural.
• singularly adverb
  Singularly means very, unusually or especially, often in a surprising way.
• sink verb (sink, sinks, sank, sunk, sinking); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To go down below the top of water or another liquid: «The stone sank».
• sinner noun (a sinner, sinners)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A sinner is a person who has done something wrong according to a religion's rules.
• sinning nounJewish tradition
  Sinning means doing wrong against God's rules or against other people.
• sinuous adjective (sinuous, more sinuous, most sinuous)
  Curving and winding, with many bends, like a snake or a river.
• sion fragment; proper noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  «-sion» is a word ending that makes nouns, as in «television», «decision», «explosion»; it often sounds like «zhun» or «shun».
• sip verb (sip, sips, sipped, sipping); noun (a sip, sips)
  To drink slowly, taking only a small amount at a time.
• siphon noun (a siphon, siphons; also syphon); verb…
  A siphon is a bent tube that moves liquid from a higher container to a lower one, over an edge, without a pump, once the tube is full.
• siphonophore noun (a siphonophore, siphonophores)
  A siphonophore is a strange sea animal, related to jellyfish, that is really a colony of many tiny animal parts joined together and…
• sipper nounJewish tradition
  Sipper is the Hebrew word for "he told," from the same root as number and book.
• sir noun (sir, sirs); also a title (Sir)
  A polite way to speak to a man whose name you do not know, or to a man in charge: "Can I help you, sir?".
• sire noun (a sire, sires; Sire — a title); verb…
  Sire was a way of speaking to a king, like «Your Majesty»: «Yes, sire.».
• siren noun (a siren, sirens)
  A device that makes a loud wailing or rising-and-falling sound to warn people, used on ambulances, fire engines and police cars, and for…
• sis noun (informal)
  Short for "sister", used when talking to or about your sister.
• sister noun (sister, sisters)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A sister is a girl or woman who has the same parents as you.
• sit verb (sit, sits, sat, sitting)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To sit is to rest your body on a seat or on the ground, with your weight on your bottom.
• sitar noun (a sitar, sitars)
  A sitar is a musical instrument from India with a long wooden neck, a round body made from a gourd, and many strings, played by plucking.
• sitcom noun (a sitcom, sitcoms)
  A sitcom is a funny TV or radio series about the same characters in everyday situations, like a family or friends at work.
• site noun (a site, sites); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A site is a place where something is, was, or will be, like a building site or a picnic site.
• sitter noun (a sitter, sitters)
  A sitter is a babysitter: someone who looks after children while their parents are out.
• sittest verb, old form used with thou
  «sittest» means «you sit», a form of «sit»: To sit is to rest your body on a seat or on the ground, with your weight on your bottom.
• sitteth verb, old form of «sits» (he, she, it)
  «sitteth» means «sits», a form of «sit»: To sit is to rest your body on a seat or on the ground, with your weight on your bottom.
• sitting verb form (-ing form of sit: sit, sits, sat, sitting); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Sitting means resting your bottom on a chair, the floor or another seat, with your back up.
• situate adjectiveJewish tradition
  Placed or lying in a certain spot.
• situated adjective (situated)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Situated means placed or found in a certain place: The school is situated near the river.
• situation noun (a situation, situations)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A situation is everything that is happening at a certain time and place, and how things are.
• sivan nounJewish tradition
  Sivan is the name of a Hebrew month, usually in late spring.
• siwan nounJewish tradition
  The name of the third month of the Hebrew calendar, usually in late spring (May or June).
• six number (six, sixes); noun (a six)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Six is the number 6, one more than five.
• sixpence noun (a sixpence, sixpences)
  A sixpence was a small British coin worth six old pennies, used until Britain changed to decimal money and kept for a while after.
• sixteen number (sixteen)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Sixteen is the number 16, one more than fifteen.
• sixteenth adjective, noun (sixteenth, sixteenths)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Sixteenth means number 16 in order.
• sixth adjective, noun (sixth, sixths)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Sixth means number 6 in order, after the fifth.
• sixty number (sixty)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Sixty is the number 60, which is six tens.
• size noun (size, sizes); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Size is how big or how small something is: the size of an elephant.
• sizzle verb (sizzle, sizzles, sizzled, sizzling); noun (a sizzle)
  To make a hissing, spitting sound like food frying in hot fat: The sausages sizzled in the pan.
• skate verb (skate, skates, skated, skating); noun…
  To skate means to glide on ice with ice skates or on the ground with roller skates or a skateboard.
• skateboard noun (a skateboard, skateboards); verb…
  A skateboard is a narrow board with four small wheels, which you stand on and ride by pushing with one foot.
• skateboarder noun (a skateboarder, skateboarders)
  A person who rides a skateboard, a short board on four small wheels, often doing tricks.
• skater noun (a skater, skaters)
  A skater is a person who moves on skates: ice skates, roller skates or inline skates.
• skedaddle verb (skedaddle, skedaddles, skedaddled, skedaddling)
  To skedaddle is to run away quickly, often because you are frightened or caught.
• skeletal adjective (skeletal)
  Skeletal means to do with the skeleton, the frame of bones inside a body: the skeletal system.
• skeleton noun (a skeleton, skeletons); adjective…
  The frame of bones that supports and protects the body of a human or an animal.
• sketch noun (a sketch, sketches); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A quick drawing that shows the main shapes without much detail.
• sketchbook noun (a sketchbook, sketchbooks)
  A book of plain, often thick, paper for drawing sketches and quick pictures.
• sketchy adjective (sketchy, sketchier, sketchiest)
  Not complete or detailed; giving only the main points.
• ski noun (a ski, skis); verb (ski, skis, skied, skiing)
  A ski is one of a pair of long narrow flat boards fixed to boots for sliding over snow.
• skid verb (skid, skids, skidded, skidding); noun (a skid, skids)
  To skid is to slide sideways or forwards out of control, especially on ice, water or a smooth surface.
• skier noun (a skier, skiers)
  A skier is a person who moves over snow on skis, for sport or for fun.
• skilful adjective…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Skilful means very good at doing something because of practice and ability.
• skilfully adverb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  In a way that shows skill and good ability; cleverly and well.
• skill noun (a skill, skills; skill — uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A skill is something you can do well because you have learned and practised it.
• skillful adjective…
  Skillful means very good at doing something with the hands or the mind, because you have practised or have a gift for it.
• skillfully adverb (skillfully)
  In a way that shows skill; doing a task well, with care and talent.
• skim verb (skim, skims, skimmed, skimming)
  To skim a text is to read it quickly to get the main idea, without reading every word.
• skimmed verb, past form of skim (skim, skims, skimmed, skimming)…
  Skimmed is the past of skim: read quickly, moved just over the top of something, or took the top layer off.
• skimmer noun (a skimmer, skimmers)
  A flat spoon or ladle with holes, used to lift things off the top of a liquid, like foam from soup.
• skimming verb form (skim, skims, skimmed, skimming); noun (skimming)
  Skimming means reading something quickly to get the main idea, without reading every word.
• skin noun (skin, skins); verb (skin, skins, skinned, skinning)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The outer covering of a person's or animal's body.
• skinflint noun (skinflint, skinflints)
  A person who hates spending money and is mean with it; a miser.
• skinful noun (a skinful)
  A large amount of alcohol, enough to make someone drunk: «He'd had a skinful.».
• skinned verb form (skin, skins, skinned, skinning); adjective…
  Skinned is the past of «to skin»: to take the skin off an animal or fruit.
• skinny adjective (skinny, skinnier, skinniest); noun…
  Skinny means very thin, sometimes too thin.
• skint adjective…
  Having no money at all; broke.
• skip verb, noun (skip, skips, skipped, skipping)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To skip is to move along with little hops and jumps.
• skipjack noun (skipjack, skipjacks)
  A small fish that leaps out of the water, a kind of tuna.
• skipper noun (a skipper, skippers); verb…
  The captain of a ship or boat, especially a small one.
• skirl noun or verb (skirl, skirls, skirled, skirling); old or…
  A loud, shrill cry or high sound, such as the sound of bagpipes; to make such a cry.
• skirt noun (a skirt, skirts); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A skirt is a piece of clothing worn by women and girls that hangs from the waist and has no separate legs.
• skittish adjective (skittish, more skittish, most skittish)
  Easily frightened, nervous and jumpy, ready to run off at any noise.
• skittle noun (a skittle, skittles); skittles (the game)
  A wooden or plastic bottle-shaped piece that players try to knock down with a ball.
• skittles noun…
  A game in which you roll a ball to knock down wooden pins; like bowling.
• skua noun (a skua, skuas)
  A large brown seabird of cold northern and southern seas that often chases other seabirds to make them drop or bring up their food, and…
• skull noun (a skull, skulls)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The skull is the hard bony frame of the head that protects the brain.
• skunk noun (a skunk, skunks)
  A small black-and-white animal of North America with a bushy tail, which sprays a very bad-smelling liquid when it is frightened.
• sky noun (the sky, skies)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The space above the Earth where you see clouds, the Sun, the Moon and the stars.
• skydiver noun (a skydiver, skydivers)
  A skydiver is a person who jumps out of an aeroplane high up, falls through the air, and then opens a parachute to land safely.
• skylight noun (a skylight, skylights)
  A skylight is a window in a roof or ceiling that lets daylight in from above.
• skyscraper noun (a skyscraper, skyscrapers)
  A skyscraper is a very tall building with many floors, in a city.
• skyward adverb or adjective (skyward, skywards)
  Upward, towards the sky.
• slab noun (a slab, slabs)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A slab is a thick, flat piece of something hard, like stone, concrete or wood.
• slack adjective (slack, slacker, slackest); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Slack means loose, not pulled tight: a slack rope.
• slacken verb (slacken, slackens, slackened, slackening)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To make something less tight, or to become less tight: slacken a rope.
• slacking verb form — -ing form of slack…
  Slacking means being lazy and not doing work you should be doing.
• slag noun (slag — uncountable; a slag, slags — rude); verb…
  Rocky waste left over when metal is taken from ore.
• slain verb, past participle of «slay»…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Killed violently, especially in battle or in stories: "The dragon was slain.".
• slam verb (slam, slams, slammed, slamming); noun (a slam, slams)
  To slam a door, window or lid is to shut it hard and loudly.
• slander noun or verb (slander, slanders, slandered, slandering)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Untrue spoken words that harm someone's good name.
• slang noun (uncountable; a slang word); verb…
  Very informal words and phrases used in casual talk, often by a group such as young people, and not used in formal writing.
• slangy adjective (slangy, slangier, slangiest)
  Using a lot of slang: very informal, everyday words and phrases, like «gonna», «cool» or «mate».
• slant noun (a slant, slants); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A slant is a line or surface that slopes, not straight up or flat.
• slap verb (slap, slaps, slapped, slapping); noun…
  To hit someone or something with an open hand.
• slapstick noun (slapstick — uncountable); adjective (slapstick comedy)
  A kind of comedy with funny falls, crashes, chases, custard pies and silly fights where nobody is really hurt.
• slash verb (slash, slashes, slashed, slashing); noun…
  To cut something with a long, quick, violent stroke of a blade.
• slat noun (a slat, slats)
  A long, thin, flat strip of wood, metal or plastic, usually one of a row with gaps between, as in a fence, bed, bench or blind.
• slate noun (slate, a slate, slates); verb…
  Slate is a hard dark grey rock that splits into thin flat sheets.
• slaughter verb (slaughter, slaughters, slaughtered, slaughtering)…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To slaughter animals means to kill them for food.
• slaughterhouse noun (a slaughterhouse, slaughterhouses)
  A place where farm animals such as cows, pigs, sheep and chickens are killed for their meat.
• slave noun (a slave, slaves); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A slave is a person who is owned by another person and forced to work without pay or freedom.

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