Word origins

• slidderySlippery.
• slimishLike or resembling slime; slimy
• sloomA gentle sleep; slumber.
• slovenA habitually dirty or untidy man or boy; the male equivalent of slattern, or slut.
• slowthSlow economic growth.
• slowwormA small Old World lizard, Anguis fragilis, often mistaken for a snake, having no legs and small eyes.
• sluffAn avalanche, mudslide, or a like slumping of material or debris.
• slumbererOne who slumbers; a sleeper.
• slumberyInclined to sleep; sleepy or sleeping; (by extension) quiet and slow-paced.
• slynessThe state or quality of being sly.
• smallageCelery in its wild uncultivated form.
• small aleAle with little malt and unhopped.
• smatchA smack or taste.
• smatterTo make (someone or something) dirty; to bespatter, to soil.
• smearwortAristolochia rotunda, a herbaceous perennial plant native to Southern Europe.
• smearyHaving or showing smears.
• smeddumFine powder; flour.
• smickerElegant; fine; attractive, beautiful.
• smirchDirt, or a stain.
• smiterOne who smites.
• smithcraftThe art or occupation of a smith, especially a metalsmith.
• smittleTo infect.
• smocklessWithout a smock.
• smokishCharacteristic of or resembling smoke
• snathThe shaft of a scythe.
• sneckA latch or catch.
• snedA cut, a cutting; a slash, a slight wound; a lopping or pruning.
• snellyquickly; sharply; acutely; coldly
• snirtTo give a suppressed laugh or sharp intake of breath.
• sniteA snipe.
• snitheTo cut; to make an incision; to cut off; to lance or amputate; to cut up; to cut so as to kill; to slay an animal; to hew; to cut stone; to cut hair; to cut corn; to reap; to mow.
• snowishsnow-white
• sobernessThe state or quality of being sober.
• socageIn the Middle Ages (and chiefly but not exclusively medieval England), a legal system whereby a tenant would pay a rent or do some agricultural work for the landlord.
• solenessThe quality of being sole; unity, singleness.
• solwyDirty; soiled; sullied; defiled.
• -someCharacterized by some specific condition or quality, usually to a considerable degree.
• somedealSome part; a portion, something; some.
• someverSynonym of soever.
• somewhileSometimes; from time to time; at times
• somewhilessometimes; on occasion
• somewhitherTo some indeterminate place; to some place or other; to somewhere.
• -sonAdded to a stem (usually a given name or surname) to form a patronymic or matronymic surname.
• songfulDisposed or able to sing; melodious
• songlyOf, resembling, pertaining to, or expressed in song; songful; musical
• son-in-lawThe husband of one's child.
• sonlessWithout a son.
• sonlyOf, pertaining to, or characteristic of a son.
• Son of GodA man who is beloved of God; a righteous man.
• Son of ManA Christian title of Jesus Christ, referring to his status as a celestial being who presides as an eschatological judge.
• soothfastActual; real.
• soothfastlyActually; truthfully; honestly.
• soothlyTruly, verily.
• soothsawA true saying; truth.
• sophismThe school of the sophists in antiquity; their beliefs and method of teaching philosophy and rhetoric.
• sophisticallyIn a sophistical fashion.
• sordA flock of mallards.
• sorrilyIn a sorry manner; poorly.
• sorrinessThe state or quality of being sorry; regret.
• sorrowfulnessThe quality or state of sorrow; sadness.
• sorrowySorrowful.
• so-soNeither good nor bad; tolerable, passable, indifferent.
• so thatIndicates result; in order that, with the result that.
• soulscotA funeral payment, formerly made at the grave, usually to the parish priest in whose church service for the departed had been said; a mortuary.
• soundfulFull of sound; melodious
• sourdTo arise, issue or emerge; to give rise.
• sourishSomewhat sour.
• souseThe pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
• sovereignnessThe quality of being sovereign.
• sowlA dainty; a relish; a sauce; anything eaten with bread.
• spaciouslyIn a spacious manner.
• spakelyQuickly; speedily; nimbly.
• spaldTo split.
• spaleA chip or splinter of wood.
• spaneTo wean; to spean.
• span-newbrand new
• sparbleto scatter, disperse
• sparstoneSpar.
• sparthA battle-axe or halberd.
• SpartiateA Spartan, especially a full citizen.
• sparverA canopy for a bed.
• spatchcockPoultry which has been cut along the spine and spread out for more even cooking.
• spattleA spatula.
• spauldThe shoulder.
• spavinA bony swelling which develops in a horse's leg where the shank and splint bone meet, caused by inflammation of the cartilage connecting those bones; also, a similar swelling caused by inflammation of the hock bones.
• spavinedOf a horse: having spavin (“a disease of horses caused by a bony swelling which develops in a leg due to inflammation”).
• speakableThat can be spoken; utterable, verbalizable.
• speakinglyIn an expressive manner.
• speak ofTo bespeak; show; indicate; foretell; suggest; speak to.
• spearshaftThe shaft of a spear
• spearwortAny of various perennial herbaceous plants in the Ranunculus (buttercup) genus.
• specificalSynonym of specific.
• speciosityThe state or quality of being specious; speciousness.
• speckedHaving specks or spots, speckled.
• speechfulvoluble; loquacious
• speedfulSuccessful, effectual, efficient.
• speedinessThe property of being fast; swiftness.
• speedlessLacking success or prosperity; not prosperous; unfortunate; unsuccessful.
• spelchTo splinter while being crosscut.
• speldA chip of wood; a splinter.