English words: S

2316 words under S; 2001–2100 on this page.

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• subvert verbJewish tradition
  To overturn or ruin something, especially to twist a person's case so justice fails.
• subway noun (a subway, subways)
  In the USA and Canada, an underground railway in a city, like the New York subway.
• succeed verb (succeed, succeeds, succeeded, succeeding)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To succeed is to do what you tried or hoped to do.
• success noun (success, uncountable; a success, successes)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Success is doing what you wanted or tried to do.
• successful adjective (successful, more successful, most successful)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Achieving what you wanted or tried to do.
• successfully adverb
  Successfully means in a way that achieves what you wanted or planned.
• succession noun (a succession, successions; also uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A succession is a number of people or things that follow one after another.
• successive adjectiveeveryday · Jewish tradition
  Coming or happening one after another, in a row, without a break.
• successively adverb
  Successively means one after another, in order, without a break.
• successor noun (a successor, successors)
  A successor is a person who takes over a job, title or position after someone else leaves it, like the next king or the next head teacher.
• succoth nounJewish tradition
  A place name meaning "booths" or "huts.".
• succour noun (no plural); verb (succours, succoured, succouring)…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Succour is help given to someone in trouble or need.
• succumb verb (succumb, succumbs, succumbed, succumbing)
  To succumb is to stop resisting something and give in to it, like a temptation or pressure.
• such determiner, pronoun (such)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Such means of that kind or like the one just named: such boxes.
• suck verb (suck, sucks, sucked, sucking)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To suck is to pull liquid or air into your mouth by tightening your lips and cheeks, as through a straw.
• sucker noun (a sucker, suckers); verb phrase…
  A sucker is a part of an animal that can stick to things by suction, like the round pads on an octopus's arms.
• suckle verb (suckle, suckles, suckled, suckling)everyday · Jewish tradition
  When a mother mammal suckles her baby, she feeds it with milk from her body.
• suckling nounJewish tradition
  A baby or young animal that still drinks its mother's milk.
• sucre noun (Sucre, a city; a sucre, sucres — old money); word…
  Sucre is the constitutional capital city of Bolivia, in South America.
• suction noun (suction — uncountable)
  The pulling force made when air or liquid is removed from a space, so things are pulled in or held on: "A vacuum cleaner works by suction.".
• sudden adjectiveeveryday · Jewish tradition
  Sudden means happening quickly and without warning.
• suddenly adverb (suddenly); adjective suddeneveryday · Jewish tradition
  Suddenly means quickly and without warning, when you didn't expect it.
• suddenness noun (no plural)
  The suddenness of something is how quickly and unexpectedly it happens, without warning.
• sue verb (sue, sues, sued, suing); name (Sue, short for Susan)
  To sue someone is to go to a court of law to ask for money or justice because they harmed you or broke an agreement.
• suet noun (suet — uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Suet is hard white fat from around the kidneys of cows and sheep, used in cooking.
• suffer verb (suffer, suffers, suffered, suffering)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To suffer is to feel pain, illness, sadness or other bad things.
• sufferer noun (sufferers)
  A sufferer is a person who feels pain, trouble or harm, often for a long time.
• suffering noun (suffering, sufferings); verb (-ing form of suffer)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Pain, sadness or difficulty that a person or animal feels.
• suffice verb (suffice, suffices, sufficed, sufficing)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To suffice is to be enough.
• sufficiency nounJewish tradition
  Having enough, or a great abundance.
• sufficient adjective (sufficient); adverb sufficiently; noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Enough; as much as is needed for a purpose.
• sufficiently adverb (sufficiently); adjective sufficient; noun…
  Sufficiently means enough, as much as is needed: the water was sufficiently warm to swim.
• suffix noun (a suffix, suffixes)
  A suffix is a group of letters added to the end of a word to make a new word or change how it is used, like -ful in «hopeful», -ness in…
• suffixation noun (suffixation — uncountable)
  Suffixation is making a new word or a new form of a word by adding a suffix (a word ending) such as -ness, -ful, -ly, -ed or -s to the end…
• suffocate verb (suffocate, suffocates, suffocated, suffocating)
  To suffocate is to be unable to breathe because there is not enough air, which can make a person or animal very ill or die.
• suffocation noun (no plural)
  Suffocation is being unable to breathe properly, or the feeling of being choked by heat, smoke or a crowd.
• suffrage noun (suffrage — uncountable)
  Suffrage is the right to vote in elections.
• suffragette noun (a suffragette, suffragettes)
  A suffragette was a woman, especially in Britain about a hundred years ago, who campaigned, often with bold protests, for women to have…
• suffragist noun (a suffragist, suffragists); related: suffrage…
  A suffragist was a person who campaigned for the right to vote (suffrage), especially for women, using peaceful and lawful methods such as…
• sugar noun (sugar; sugars in science); verb (sugar — to add sugar)
  Sugar is a sweet food made into grains, white or brown, used in cakes and drinks; it comes from sugar cane or sugar beet.
• sugary adjective (sugary, more sugary, most sugary; also sugarier)
  Containing a lot of sugar, or tasting very sweet: sugary drinks, sugary cereal.
• suggest verb (suggest, suggests, suggested, suggesting)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To suggest is to give an idea or a plan for others to think about.
• suggestion noun (a suggestion, suggestions)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A suggestion is an idea or plan that you offer for others to think about, like «Let's play outside».
• suggestive adjective (suggestive, more suggestive, most suggestive)
  If something is suggestive of something else, it makes you think of it or hints at it: «clouds suggestive of rain».
• suicide noun (suicide; a suicide, suicides)
  The act of deliberately ending your own life.
• suit noun (suit, suits); verb (suit, suits, suited, suiting)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A suit is a set of clothes made of the same cloth, usually a jacket with trousers or a skirt.
• suitability noun (suitability — uncountable)
  Suitability is how right or appropriate something or someone is for a purpose, person or situation.
• suitable adjective (suitable, more suitable, most suitable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Right or good for a person, a purpose or a situation: "suitable clothes for the rain".
• suitably adverb (suitably)
  Suitably means in a way that is right or proper for the situation: «suitably dressed for the rain».
• suitcase noun (a suitcase, suitcases)
  A large case with a handle, and often wheels, for carrying clothes and other things when you travel.
• suite noun (a suite, suites)
  A suite is a set of rooms that go together, especially in a hotel, like a bedroom with its own sitting room.
• suitor noun (suitors)
  A suitor is a man who wants to marry a particular woman and pays her attention to win her.
• sulfide noun (a sulfide, sulfides; UK spelling also sulphide)
  A sulfide is a chemical compound made of sulfur joined with another element, often a metal, such as iron sulfide or hydrogen sulfide.
• sulfur noun (sulfur — uncountable; UK also sulphur); adjective…
  Sulfur is a chemical element, a yellow non-metal with the symbol S and atomic number 16.
• sulk verb (sulk, sulks, sulked, sulking); noun (a sulk, sulks)
  To stay silent and bad-tempered because you are annoyed or did not get what you wanted.
• sulkily adverb (sulkily)
  In a sulky way: quiet, cross and unwilling to be friendly because you are upset or did not get your way.
• sulky adjective (sulky, sulkier, sulkiest); verb related: sulk…
  Sulky means bad-tempered and silent because you are upset or annoyed, and you want others to notice: «a sulky face».
• sullen adjective (sullen, sullener, sullenest)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Sullen means quiet and bad-tempered, not wanting to talk or smile.
• sullenly adverb
  Sullenly means in a bad-tempered, silent and unfriendly way, as when someone is sulking.
• sulphide noun (a sulphide, sulphides); (US spelling: sulfide)
  A sulphide is a chemical compound made of sulphur joined with another element, often a metal.
• sulphur noun (sulphur, uncountable; US and science spelling sulfur)
  Sulphur is a yellow chemical element, a solid that is not a metal; its symbol is S.
• sulphuric adjective (sulphuric; US and science standard: sulfuric)
  Sulphuric means containing or made from sulphur.
• sulphurous adjective
  Sulphurous means smelling of sulphur, a yellow substance with a strong, rotten-egg smell, or full of its fumes.
• sultan noun (a sultan, sultans)
  A sultan is a king or ruler in some Muslim countries, both in history and today, such as the Sultan of Brunei or the Sultan of Oman.
• sultana noun (a sultana, sultanas); proper noun use…
  A sultana is a dried, light-golden seedless grape, like a raisin but paler and sweeter.
• sultanate noun (a sultanate, sultanates)
  A sultanate is a country or land ruled by a sultan, a Muslim king or ruler.
• sultry adjective (sultrier, sultriest)
  Sultry means very hot and damp, still and close, with no breeze.
• sum noun, verb (sum, sums, summed, summing)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The sum is the answer you get when you add numbers together: the sum of 3 and 4 is 7.
• sumatran adjective (Sumatran); noun (a Sumatran, Sumatrans)
  Sumatran means from or to do with Sumatra, a large island of Indonesia in South-East Asia.
• sumerian adjective (Sumerian); noun…
  Sumerian means from or to do with Sumer, one of the world's first civilisations, in southern Mesopotamia (now southern Iraq), about 5,000…
• summarise verb (summarise, summarises, summarised, summarising)
  To give the main points of something in a few words, leaving out the details.
• summary noun (a summary, summaries); adjective (summary — formal)
  A summary is a short version of something longer, giving only the main points.
• summer noun (summer, summers)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Summer is the warmest season of the year, between spring and autumn (fall).
• summit noun (a summit, summits); verb (summit — climbers)
  A summit is the highest point or top of a mountain or hill.
• summon verb (summon, summons, summoned, summoning)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To officially order someone to come: summoned to the head teacher's office.
• sumptuous adjective (more sumptuous, most sumptuous)
  Sumptuous means very rich, costly and grand, with the best of everything: a sumptuous feast.
• sun noun (the sun, suns; sun — sunshine); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  The star that our Earth goes around; it gives us light and heat.
• sunbathe verb (sunbathe, sunbathes, sunbathed, sunbathing)
  To sunbathe is to sit or lie in the sunshine, usually to relax or to get a tan.
• sunbeam noun (a sunbeam, sunbeams)
  A sunbeam is a ray or narrow beam of sunlight, especially one you can see shining through a gap, a window or clouds.
• sunbonnet noun (sunbonnets)
  A sunbonnet is a bonnet with a wide brim and a flap at the back, worn to keep the sun off the face and neck.
• sunburn noun…
  Sunburn is red, sore, hot skin caused by staying in strong sunlight too long.
• sunburnt adjective (sunburnt — also sunburned)
  If you are sunburnt, your skin is red, sore and hot because you stayed in strong sunshine too long.
• sundae noun (a sundae, sundaes)
  A sundae is a dessert of ice cream topped with sauce, such as chocolate or strawberry, and often with whipped cream, nuts, sprinkles and a…
• sunday noun (Sunday, Sundays)
  Sunday is a day of the week.
• sunder verbJewish tradition
  To break or split something apart, or to cut it in two.
• sundew noun (a sundew, sundews)
  A small meat-eating plant that grows in boggy places and has leaves covered in sticky, shining hairs that trap and digest insects.
• sundial noun (a sundial, sundials)
  An old instrument that shows the time of day by the shadow that a pointer (the gnomon) casts on a flat dial marked with hours.
• sundown noun (sundowns)
  Sundown is the time when the sun goes down; sunset.
• sundry adjective (no change in form); noun (sundries)
  Sundry means various or several different ones, not named one by one: sundry other articles.
• sunflower noun (a sunflower, sunflowers)
  A very tall plant with a large flower that has a brown centre and yellow petals.
• sung verb (past participle of sing: sung)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Sung is the form of "sing" used after have, has, had and be: "I have sung", "It was sung".
• sunglasses noun, plural only (sunglasses; a pair of sunglasses)
  Sunglasses are glasses with dark or tinted lenses that protect your eyes from bright sunlight.
• sunk verb form — past participle of sink…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Sunk is a form of sink: gone down under water or below a surface, as in the ship had sunk.
• sunken adjective (sunken); old past participle of sink
  Sunken means lying at the bottom of the sea, a lake or a river after sinking: a sunken ship, sunken treasure.
• sunless adjective (sunless)
  Without sunlight; dark or dull: a sunless day; the sunless depths of the sea.
• sunlight noun (sunlight — uncountable)
  The light that comes from the Sun.
• sunlit adjective (sunlit)
  Sunlit means lit by the sun, bright with sunshine.
• sunni noun (a Sunni, Sunnis); adjective (Sunni)
  Sunni (Sunni Islam) is the largest branch, or group, of Islam; most Muslims in the world are Sunni.
• sunny adjective (sunny, sunnier, sunniest)
  Sunny means full of bright light from the Sun, with no or few clouds.
• sunrise noun (a sunrise, sunrises; sunrise)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Sunrise is the time in the morning when the sun first appears above the horizon.

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