sfogliatellaA Neapolitan pastry made from puff pastry with a sweet filling.
sforzandoA mark that indicates that a note is to be played with a strong initial attack.
sfumatoA painting technique, prominent during the Italian Renaissance, involving the application of subtle layers of translucent paint, blurring the transition between colors, tones and often objects and creating the illusion of depth.
sgabelloA kind of stool typical of the Italian Renaissance, typically made of walnut and having a variety of carvings and turned elements.
SGCAPSA Windows keyboard feature that strictly produces an uppercase version of a letter on certain keys whereas Shift produces an unrelated symbol.
ShaanxiA province of China, including the Wei River valley and the fertile southern half of the Ordos Loop, comprising much of the Loess Plateau. Capital: Xi'an.
ShabakA member of an ethnic group native to parts of Iraq which predominantly speaks an Iranic language called Shabaki and historically practices a religion similar to Alevism called Shabakism.
ShabakiThe native language of the Shabak people, part of the Gorani languages of the Iranic branch of the Indo-European language family.
ShabakismThe historical religious tradition of the Shabak people, now practiced only by a small minority, showing significant influence from or similarity to Alevism, Yezidism, Yarsanism, and some Ghulat sects of Shia Islam.
shabbificationThe process of becoming shabby; one whereby something, such as clothing or a place, becomes scruffy or otherwise falls into poor condition due to age or neglect.
shabyniteA monoclinic snow white mineral containing boron, chlorine, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.
shachaA savory, slightly spicy Chinese condiment used in Minnan cuisine, made from soybean oil, garlic, shallots, chili, Chinese brill, and dried shrimp.
ShacheSynonym of Yarkant: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
ShachiThe queen of the gods and the wife of Lord Indra.
ShachtmanismA Marxist school of thought associated with Max Shachtman, developing out of Trotskyism but taking a more critical view of the Soviet Union.
ShachtmaniteFollowing, characteristic of, or pertaining to Shachtmanism.
shadeDarkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
ShadeanA proponent of an interpretation of Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel Pale Fire according to which the character John Shade wrote not only the poem, but the commentary as well, having invented his own death and the character of Kinbote as a literary device.
shadebobA type of bob (graphical sprite-like element) rendered additively on the display, so that it blends with others but can be easily removed again by decrementing the colour value at each pixel.
shadoofA device used since ancient times in the Middle East to raise water from a well or other low point, consisting of a pivoted rod with a bucket on one end and a counterweight on the other.
ShadougeThe ship of the characters Shadow the Hedgehog and Rouge the Bat from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.
shadowA dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.