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- SLANDERA false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken, not written), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement.
- SMARAGDAn emerald.
- SMARAGDINEEmerald.
- SMECTITEAny of many clay phyllosilicate minerals that have a relatively open structure.
- SMILAXAny member of the Smilax genus of greenbriers; usually vines.
- SOARTo fly high with little effort, like a bird.
- SOCKA knitted or woven covering for the foot.
- SODOMITEOne who practices sodomy; a sodomist.
- SOLECISMAn error or improper usage.
- SOLENOIDA coil of wire that acts as a magnet when an electric current flows through it. An electromechanical device consisting of such a coil containing a metal core, the movement of which
- SOLONA wise legislator or lawgiver.
- SOMAThe whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.
- SOMATICPart of, or relating to the body of an organism.
- SOMATOPLEUREA fold of tissue, in the embryo of a vertebrate, from which the walls of the body and the amnion develop.
- SOPHICTeaching, conveying, or related to wisdom.
- SOPHISTAlternative letter-case form of Sophist, certain teachers in Ancient Greece, particularly skilled orators.
- SOPHISTICSynonym of sophistical, of or related to the ancient Sophists, characterized by fallacious reasoning.
- SOPHYwisdom, knowledge, learning
- SORITESA series of propositions whereby each conclusion is taken as the subject of the next.
- SORUSAny reproductive structure, in some lichens and fungi, that produces spores.
- SPADIXA fleshy spike (inflorescence) with reduced flowers, usually enclosed by a spathe, characteristic of aroids.
- SPADOSomeone who has been castrated; a eunuch or castrato.
- SPAGHETTIA type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
- SPAGYRICPertaining to alchemy; alchemical, especially regarding medicine.
- SPATHAA type of straight sword originating from the first-century Roman Empire. It was worn typically by cavalry officers and is a long version of the left shaped gladius.
- SPATHEA large bract that envelops or subtends a whole inflorescence, typically a spadix.
- SPATHICHaving good cleavage.
- SPATULAA kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.
- SPELEOTHEMAny secondary mineral, deposited in a natural cave by the action of water. Includes formations such as stalactites, stalagmites, flowstones, and helictites.
- SPELUNKA cave, cavern or grotto.
- SPERMThe reproductive cell or gamete of the male; a spermatozoon.
- SPERMATICOf, pertaining to, or resembling sperm.
- SPHAGNUMAny of various widely distributed mosses, of genus Sphagnum, which slowly decompose to form peat.
- SPHALERITEA yellow, brown or black, sometimes red, green white or colorless mineral with cubic crystals, of a chemical formula (Zn,Fe)S, often containing also minor metals, such as cadmium,
- SPHENEtitanite
- SPHENICShaped like a wedge.
- SPHENOGRAMA cuneiform character/symbol.
- SPHENOIDHaving a wedge shape.
- SPHERICALShaped as a sphere; being a sphere.
- SPHINCTERA ringlike band of muscle that surrounds a bodily opening (such as the anus or the openings of the stomach), constricting and relaxing as required for normal physiological function
- SPHYGMICOf or pertaining to the circulatory pulse.
- SPIRALA curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point.
- SPIREAAny of the many flowering shrubs of the genus Spiraea, that have clusters of white or pink flowers.
- SPIREMEThe tangled mass of strands of chromatin seen in the early stages of mitosis, originally believed to be a single continuous strand (or two in a diploid cell, etc.)
- SPLEENIn vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the upper left abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodst
- SPLENECTOMYThe surgical removal of the spleen.
- SPLENICOf, related to, or located near the spleen.
- SPLENIUMThe thick posterior part of the corpus callosum of the brain.
- SPODOMANCYDivination by means of ashes.
- SPODUMENEThe mineral lithium aluminium inosilicate (LiAl(SiO3)2), a pyroxene and ore of lithium, sometimes regarded as a gemstone, which may be greenish, yellowish or pinkish in appearance.
- SPONDAICHaving or relating to spondees.
- SPONDEEA word or metrical foot of two syllables, either both long or both stressed.
- SPONGEAny of various marine invertebrates of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica.
- SPONGIFORMLike a sponge, porous, full of holes.
- SPORADIC(of diseases) occurring in isolated instances; not epidemic.
- SPORANGIUMA case, capsule, or container in which spores are produced by an organism.
- SPOREA reproductive particle, usually a single cell, released by a fungus, alga, or plant that may germinate into another.
- SPORIDIUMA secondary spore borne on a promycelium, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi.
- STACTEOne of the sweet spices used by the Jews in Biblical times for preparing incense; it is thought to have been an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax.
- STADESynonym of stadion (“former Greek unit of distance”).
- STAMENIn flowering plants, a male reproductive structure in a flower that produces pollen, typically consisting of an anther and a filament.
- STAMINODEAn abortive stamen, or any organ modified from an abortive stamen; a staminodium
- STAPHYLINEOf or pertaining to the uvula or the palate.
- STAPHYLOMAAn abnormal protrusion of the uveal tissue through the eyeball.
- STATICUnchanging; that cannot or does not change.
- STATICEPlants of the genus Limonium having spikes of white or mauve flowers.
- STEARINSolid fat.
- STEATITESoapstone. .
- STEGANOPODAny of the Steganopodes, a former suborder of birds having four toes webbed together.
- STEGODONAny member of the extinct genus †Stegodon, related to modern elephants; a stegodont.
- STELAAn obelisk or upright stone pillar, usually as a primitive commemoration or gravestone.
- STELAIplural of stele
- STELEAn upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela.
- STENTORA person with a powerful or stentorian voice.
- STEPHANEAn Ancient Greek headdress like a coronet.
- STEREA measure of volume used e.g. for cut wood, equal to one cubic metre.
- STEREOA system of recording or reproducing sound that uses two or more channels, each playing a portion of the original sound at different locations in order to simulate the separation o
- STERIGMAA slim projecting part of the basidium of some species of fungi that carries the basidiospore.
- STEWA cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.
- STHENICCharacterized by nervous energy; robust, strong.
- STIBNITEA grey mineral, Sb2S3, that is the main ore of antimony; in powdered form, used as the cosmetic called kohl.
- STICHA verse, of whatever measure or number of feet, especially a verse of Scripture.
- STICHERONA hymn, often written in cycles and sung in alternation with psalm verses, used in the Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite.
- STICHOSA line of ordinary length in a manuscript.
- STIGMAAn indication of infamy or disgrace. A permanent identity mark branded, cut or tattooed onto the skin, typically given to slaves, criminals and traitors. A negative and often unfai
- STILBa unit of luminance equal to one candela per square centimetre
- STILBENEEither of two isomeric hydrocarbons, diphenylethylene, but especially the trans isomer, used in the manufacture of dyes and many other compounds.
- STILBITEA tectosilicate zeolite mineral consisting of hydrated calcium aluminium silicate, common in volcanic rocks.
- STOAIn Ancient Greece, a walkway with a roof supported by colonnades, often with a wall on one side; specifically, the Great Hall in Athens.
- STOICProponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 B.C.E. up to about the time of Marcus Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law,
- STOICHIOMETRYThe study and calculation of quantitative (measurable) relationships of the reactants and products in chemical reactions (chemical equations).
- STOMAOne of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass.
- STORAXAny member of the genus Styrax of about 130 species of large shrubs or small trees, mostly native to temperate or tropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
- STOREYA floor or level of a building or ship.
- STORYAn account of real or fictional events.
- STOVEA heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
- STRANGLETo kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply.
- STRATEGICOf or pertaining to strategy.
- STRATEGYThe science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.
- STROBILAA jointed series of segments of an organism, as of the body of a tapeworm, posterior to the unjointed collum.