Word origins

• sharp sThe name of the Latin script letter ẞ/ß.
• ShartzerA surname from German.
• SheederA surname from German.
• ShelineA surname from German.
• ShelmanA surname from German.
• ShenefieldA surname from German.
• ShenemanA surname from German.
• ShertzerA surname from German.
• ShetterA surname from German.
• shicerA worthless thing or person, especially a swindler.
• shilfstraw or reeds.
• ShillingburgA surname from German.
• ShimmelA surname from German.
• ShingledeckerA surname from German.
• ShinholsterA surname from German.
• ship of foolsA country or organization that is poorly run by leaders who lack the expertise to cope with the problems that arise and equally inexpert subjects or members who attempt to influence those leaders.
• shizerScatological-type pornography, especially if it is produced in Germany.
• shock troopA military formation created to lead an attack.
• shoenA surname from German.
• shofulA Hansom cab.
• ShollyA surname from German.
• ShonkwilerA surname from German.
• ShontzA surname from German.
• ShounA surname from German.
• ShupertA surname from German.
• ShupingA surname from German.
• SickafooseA surname from German.
• SickingerA surname from German.
• sick-wagona covered wagon used to convey or transport those who are sick in a wagon train
• SidenerA surname from German.
• sideromelaneA basaltic glass often found in palagonite tuff.
• siebenbeinSynonym of heptad.
• Siebenbürgen SaxonA Transylvanian Saxon.
• SiefkerA surname from German.
• Sieg HeilThe greeting Sieg Heil, used by the Nazis, and by neo-Nazis and people comparing others to Nazis today.
• SielaffA surname from German.
• SigleyA surname from German.
• Silk RoadAn extensive interconnected network of trade routes across Asia, North and Northeast Africa, and Europe, historically used by silk traders.
• silver weddingThe silver anniversary of a wedding, the 25th anniversary of a marriage.
• SimlerA surname from German.
• SindtA surname from German.
• SineseThe Chinese people or a Chinese person, (particularly) with reference to the historical southern Chinese known to the Greeks and Romans as the Sinae.
• singspielAn early German form of opera consisting of spoken dialogue interspersed with song.
• SippenhaftThe principle of a family sharing the responsibility for a crime committed by one of its members.
• SippenhaftungSynonym of Sippenhaft.
• sister languageA cognate language; a language that is related to another by virtue of descending from a common ancestral language.
• sitzballA sport somewhat similar to volleyball but played sitting down (and thus suitable for people with disabilities or amputations that diminish their capacity to stand).
• sitzesA surname from German.
• SitzfleischThe ability to endure or carry on with an activity.
• Sitz im Lebensociological setting
• sitzkriegWarfare without any military operations or campaigns; a stalemate.
• SitzmannA surname from German.
• sitzmarkAn indentation in the snow made by a fallen skier.
• sitzprobeThe first run-through of an opera or musical in which the orchestra and singers rehearse together, covering only those portions of the piece in which the orchestra plays, and in which the singers sit or stand at microphones, but do not block out any action.
• skin wormA small worm or other parasite which infects the skin.
• SlappeyA surname from German.
• SlentzA surname from German.
• SlifeA surname from German.
• smouseTo feast (on something).
• snail kingA snail possessing a sinistral shell, from a species in which dextral shells are the norm.
• snow whiteA fairy tale, the best-known version of Schneewittchen collected by the Brothers Grimm, in which a beautiful young girl is targeted by a jealous queen and tended by dwarfs.
• social murderThe knowing causing of the inevitable premature death of members of an oppressed class by deliberately and structurally exposing them to potentially lethal conditions.
• SoederA surname.
• SonderbundThe Swiss cantons of Lucerne, Fribourg, Valais, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, and Zug, all predominantly Catholic and governed by conservative administrations, and the subject of the Sonderbund War of 1847.
• SonderwegThe supposed positively or negatively 'special' path German history took before 1945 (different from e.g. the democratic path of Western Europe and the autocracy of Eastern Europe), considered as a cause of the political structure that developed in Germany.
• songspielAn operatic musical drama in which spoken dialogue is interspersed with song.
• SonnenshineA surname from German.
• soteriologicalPertaining to soteriology.
• sound lawA rule that describes historical sound change (the change in pronunciation of a given sound or cluster of sounds) in the development of a language.
• sound shifta regular sound change, especially when several phonemes are synchronously affected in analogous ways, and/or when there are several interlinked phases
• source criticismThe critical evaluation of a source of information in terms of intent, date, bias, authenticity and reliability by means of the methodologies of the humanities.
• sourstuffOxygen.
• South West AfricaA former German colony (before World War I) and later a South African colony (from 1915 to 1990, illegally occupied after 1966 per United Nations stipulations) in Southern Africa; modern Namibia.
• SoziSynonym of socialist.
• SpanbauerA surname from German.
• spangenhelmA kind of medieval European combat helmet, constructed of several plates connected by bands into a conical covering for the top of the head, sometimes with a nasal, eye protection, or cheek plates.
• sparesomeeconomical; thrifty
• SpartacistA supporter of Spartacus, who led a slave rebellion against the ancient Roman Empire.
• SpartzA surname from German.
• SpaughA surname from German.
• SpaurA surname from German.
• special treatmentA form of exceptional handling or care that differs from the standard, often implying favoritism.
• specifickerA homoeopathic practitioner who sought to ascertain the aetiologies of diseases, focusing on the symptoms most regularly associated with their diagnosis (to the exclusion of peripheral and occasional symptoms), and who, for their treatment, selected remedies (administered in more-or-less undiluted form) on the basis of their general physiological effects, ignoring incidental and side-effects.
• speech communityA group of people sharing a language, or a particular way of using that language
• SpegalA surname from German.
• speiskobaltSynonym of smaltite.
• speissA mixed arsenide of iron (and cobalt, nickel, and copper) produced during the smelting of lead
• SperlichA surname from German.
• spiegeleisenA ferromanganese alloy containing approximately 15% manganese and small quantities of carbon and silicon.
• SpiegelmannA surname from German.
• spielfreakA fan of German games.
• spinnbarkeitThe stringy or stretchy property found to varying degrees in mucus, saliva, albumen and similar viscoelastic fluids.
• spiranAny of a class of bicyclic hydrocarbons in which a carbon atom has two single bonds in each of two rings; a form of spiro compound
• SpitzenkorperA region at the apex of the hyphae in certain fungi, which is refractive.
• SpitzleyA surname from German.
• SpodenA surname from German.
• SpoerlA surname from German.
• SpomerA surname from German.
• spooky action at a distanceSynonym of quantum entanglement.
• SporerA surname from German.