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# English words: S

[A](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/a/) · [B](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/b/) · [C](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/c/) · [D](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/d/) · [E](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/e/) · [F](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/f/) · [G](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/g/) · [H](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/h/) · [I](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/i/) · [J](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/j/) · [K](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/k/) · [L](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/l/) · [M](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/m/) · [N](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/n/) · [O](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/o/) · [P](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/p/) · [Q](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/q/) · [R](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/r/) · **S** · [T](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/t/) · [U](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/u/) · [V](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/v/) · [W](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/w/) · [X](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/x/) · [Y](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/y/) · [Z](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/z/)

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

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- [subvert](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/subvert/) — To overturn or ruin something, especially to twist a person's case so justice fails. — Jewish tradition
- [subway](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/subway/) — In the USA and Canada, an underground railway in a city, like the New York subway.
- [succeed](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/succeed/) — To succeed is to do what you tried or hoped to do. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [success](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/success/) — Success is doing what you wanted or tried to do. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [successful](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/successful/) — Achieving what you wanted or tried to do. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [successfully](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/successfully/) — Successfully means in a way that achieves what you wanted or planned.
- [succession](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/succession/) — A succession is a number of people or things that follow one after another. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [successive](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/successive/) — Coming or happening one after another, in a row, without a break. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [successively](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/successively/) — Successively means one after another, in order, without a break.
- [successor](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/successor/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/succoth/) — A place name meaning "booths" or "huts.". — Jewish tradition
- [succour](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/succour/) — Succour is help given to someone in trouble or need. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [succumb](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/succumb/) — To succumb is to stop resisting something and give in to it, like a temptation or pressure.
- [such](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/such/) — Such means of that kind or like the one just named: such boxes. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [suck](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suck/) — To suck is to pull liquid or air into your mouth by tightening your lips and cheeks, as through a straw. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [sucker](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sucker/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suckle/) — When a mother mammal suckles her baby, she feeds it with milk from her body. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [suckling](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suckling/) — A baby or young animal that still drinks its mother's milk. — Jewish tradition
- [sucre](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sucre/) — Sucre is the constitutional capital city of Bolivia, in South America.
- [suction](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suction/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sudden/) — Sudden means happening quickly and without warning. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [suddenly](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suddenly/) — Suddenly means quickly and without warning, when you didn't expect it. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [suddenness](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suddenness/) — The suddenness of something is how quickly and unexpectedly it happens, without warning.
- [sue](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sue/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suet/) — Suet is hard white fat from around the kidneys of cows and sheep, used in cooking. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [suffer](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suffer/) — To suffer is to feel pain, illness, sadness or other bad things. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [sufferer](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sufferer/) — A sufferer is a person who feels pain, trouble or harm, often for a long time.
- [suffering](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suffering/) — Pain, sadness or difficulty that a person or animal feels. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [suffice](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suffice/) — To suffice is to be enough. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [sufficiency](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sufficiency/) — Having enough, or a great abundance. — Jewish tradition
- [sufficient](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sufficient/) — Enough; as much as is needed for a purpose. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [sufficiently](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sufficiently/) — Sufficiently means enough, as much as is needed: the water was sufficiently warm to swim.
- [suffix](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suffix/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suffixation/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suffocate/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suffocation/) — Suffocation is being unable to breathe properly, or the feeling of being choked by heat, smoke or a crowd.
- [suffrage](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suffrage/) — Suffrage is the right to vote in elections.
- [suffragette](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suffragette/) — A suffragette was a woman, especially in Britain about a hundred years ago, who campaigned, often with bold protests, for women to have…
- [suffragist](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suffragist/) — A suffragist was a person who campaigned for the right to vote (suffrage), especially for women, using peaceful and lawful methods such as…
- [sugar](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sugary/) — Containing a lot of sugar, or tasting very sweet: sugary drinks, sugary cereal.
- [suggest](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suggest/) — To suggest is to give an idea or a plan for others to think about. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [suggestion](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suggestion/) — A suggestion is an idea or plan that you offer for others to think about, like «Let's play outside». — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [suggestive](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suggestive/) — If something is suggestive of something else, it makes you think of it or hints at it: «clouds suggestive of rain».
- [suicide](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suicide/) — The act of deliberately ending your own life.
- [suit](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suit/) — A suit is a set of clothes made of the same cloth, usually a jacket with trousers or a skirt. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [suitability](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suitability/) — Suitability is how right or appropriate something or someone is for a purpose, person or situation.
- [suitable](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suitable/) — Right or good for a person, a purpose or a situation: "suitable clothes for the rain". — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [suitably](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suitably/) — Suitably means in a way that is right or proper for the situation: «suitably dressed for the rain».
- [suitcase](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suitcase/) — A large case with a handle, and often wheels, for carrying clothes and other things when you travel.
- [suite](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suite/) — A suite is a set of rooms that go together, especially in a hotel, like a bedroom with its own sitting room.
- [suitor](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/suitor/) — A suitor is a man who wants to marry a particular woman and pays her attention to win her.
- [sulfide](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sulfide/) — A sulfide is a chemical compound made of sulfur joined with another element, often a metal, such as iron sulfide or hydrogen sulfide.
- [sulfur](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sulfur/) — Sulfur is a chemical element, a yellow non-metal with the symbol S and atomic number 16.
- [sulk](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sulk/) — To stay silent and bad-tempered because you are annoyed or did not get what you wanted.
- [sulkily](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sulkily/) — In a sulky way: quiet, cross and unwilling to be friendly because you are upset or did not get your way.
- [sulky](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sulky/) — Sulky means bad-tempered and silent because you are upset or annoyed, and you want others to notice: «a sulky face».
- [sullen](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sullen/) — Sullen means quiet and bad-tempered, not wanting to talk or smile. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [sullenly](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sullenly/) — Sullenly means in a bad-tempered, silent and unfriendly way, as when someone is sulking.
- [sulphide](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sulphide/) — A sulphide is a chemical compound made of sulphur joined with another element, often a metal.
- [sulphur](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sulphur/) — Sulphur is a yellow chemical element, a solid that is not a metal; its symbol is S.
- [sulphuric](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sulphuric/) — Sulphuric means containing or made from sulphur.
- [sulphurous](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sulphurous/) — Sulphurous means smelling of sulphur, a yellow substance with a strong, rotten-egg smell, or full of its fumes.
- [sultan](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sultan/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sultana/) — A sultana is a dried, light-golden seedless grape, like a raisin but paler and sweeter.
- [sultanate](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sultanate/) — A sultanate is a country or land ruled by a sultan, a Muslim king or ruler.
- [sultry](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sultry/) — Sultry means very hot and damp, still and close, with no breeze.
- [sum](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sum/) — The sum is the answer you get when you add numbers together: the sum of 3 and 4 is 7. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [sumatran](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sumatran/) — Sumatran means from or to do with Sumatra, a large island of Indonesia in South-East Asia.
- [sumerian](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sumerian/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/summarise/) — To give the main points of something in a few words, leaving out the details.
- [summary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/summary/) — A summary is a short version of something longer, giving only the main points.
- [summer](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/summer/) — Summer is the warmest season of the year, between spring and autumn (fall). — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [summit](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/summit/) — A summit is the highest point or top of a mountain or hill.
- [summon](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/summon/) — To officially order someone to come: summoned to the head teacher's office. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [sumptuous](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sumptuous/) — Sumptuous means very rich, costly and grand, with the best of everything: a sumptuous feast.
- [sun](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sun/) — The star that our Earth goes around; it gives us light and heat. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [sunbathe](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sunbathe/) — To sunbathe is to sit or lie in the sunshine, usually to relax or to get a tan.
- [sunbeam](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sunbeam/) — A sunbeam is a ray or narrow beam of sunlight, especially one you can see shining through a gap, a window or clouds.
- [sunbonnet](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sunbonnet/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sunburn/) — Sunburn is red, sore, hot skin caused by staying in strong sunlight too long.
- [sunburnt](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sunburnt/) — If you are sunburnt, your skin is red, sore and hot because you stayed in strong sunshine too long.
- [sundae](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sundae/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sunday/) — Sunday is a day of the week.
- [sunder](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sunder/) — To break or split something apart, or to cut it in two. — Jewish tradition
- [sundew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sundew/) — A small meat-eating plant that grows in boggy places and has leaves covered in sticky, shining hairs that trap and digest insects.
- [sundial](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sundial/) — 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](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sundown/) — Sundown is the time when the sun goes down; sunset.
- [sundry](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sundry/) — Sundry means various or several different ones, not named one by one: sundry other articles.
- [sunflower](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sunflower/) — A very tall plant with a large flower that has a brown centre and yellow petals.
- [sung](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sung/) — Sung is the form of "sing" used after have, has, had and be: "I have sung", "It was sung". — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [sunglasses](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sunglasses/) — Sunglasses are glasses with dark or tinted lenses that protect your eyes from bright sunlight.
- [sunk](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sunk/) — Sunk is a form of sink: gone down under water or below a surface, as in the ship had sunk. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [sunken](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sunken/) — Sunken means lying at the bottom of the sea, a lake or a river after sinking: a sunken ship, sunken treasure.
- [sunless](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sunless/) — Without sunlight; dark or dull: a sunless day; the sunless depths of the sea.
- [sunlight](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sunlight/) — The light that comes from the Sun.
- [sunlit](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sunlit/) — Sunlit means lit by the sun, bright with sunshine.
- [sunni](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sunni/) — Sunni (Sunni Islam) is the largest branch, or group, of Islam; most Muslims in the world are Sunni.
- [sunny](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sunny/) — Sunny means full of bright light from the Sun, with no or few clouds.
- [sunrise](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sunrise/) — Sunrise is the time in the morning when the sun first appears above the horizon. — everyday · Jewish tradition