Word origins

• roynishMangy; scabby.
• royteletA little king.
• rubifyto make red; to cause to redden
• rudistAny of many box-, tube- or ring-shaped marine heterodont bivalves from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
• rugineAn instrument for scraping the periosteum from bones; a raspatory.
• RumelangeA municipality with city status of Esch-sur-Alzette canton, in southern Luxembourg.
• RussawA surname from French.
• rustreA lozenge with a smaller round hole in the centre, showing the field (rarely used).
• ruttierA chart of a course, especially at sea.
• Sable IslandAn island of Nova Scotia, Canada. A small island and sand bar of Canada in the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and in its jurisdiction.
• Sables-d'Or-les-PinsA coastal settlement in Fréhel commune, Côtes-d'Armor department, Brittany, France.
• sabotiereThe inner of two buckets used in the production of ice cream; the bucket which contained the ice cream and sat inside the larger bucket of ice which froze the ice cream.
• saccholacticDesignating a kind of acid (saccholactic acid) prepared from sugar of milk.
• sackbutA brass instrument from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras, and an ancestor of the modern trombone. It was derived from the medieval slide trumpet.
• sadetA type of spiritual leader or witch doctor among the Jarai people of Southeast Asia.
• sadicSadistic.
• sagathya fine twilled worsted fabric which was used formerly for clothes and curtains and is similar to serge
• sageniteacicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms embedded in quartz
• Saguenay–Lac-Saint-JeanA region of Quebec, Canada.
• Saint CroixAn island and district of the United States Virgin Islands.
• Saint-YbarsA village and commune of Ariège department, Occitania, France.
• sajouA spider monkey or capuchin.
• salifyTo react so as to form a salt
• salle d'armesA hall or room used for fencing.
• sallendersAn eruption on the hind leg of a horse.
• salonnièreA woman who hosts a salon.
• sans-culottismExtreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sans-culottes.
• saponifyTo convert (a fat or oil) into soap.
• SarkozyismThe policies of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
• sarplierA coarse cloth made of hemp, used for packing goods, such as wool, hops etc.
• Saulteauxan indigenous nation from the northern Great Plains and southern Canadian Shield, the Westernmost branch of the Ojibwe or Anishnaabe
• Saunders blueA pigment prepared from calcined lapis lazuli; ultramarine.
• saurelAny carangoid fish of the genus Trachurus, especially Trachurus trachurus, of Europe and America, and Trachurus picturatus of California; the skipjack, scad or horse mackerel.
• Saut d'EauAn island of Trinidad and Tobago.
• saveloyA seasoned and smoked pork sausage, normally purchased ready-cooked.
• saxe blueA light blue color, with a tint of grey.
• sayettesagathy
• scarifyTo remove thatch (build-up of organic matter on the soil) from a lawn, to dethatch.
• scariousthin, dry, membranous, and not green
• scarpinesAn instrument of torture resembling the boot.
• School Sister of Notre DameA member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, a worldwide religious institute of Roman Catholic sisters, founded in Bavaria in 1833 and devoted to education.
• ScioneauxA surname from French.
• scisselMetal scraps or clippings; especially the remains of fillets from which coin blanks have been cut.
• SclaviaA former continent on Earth. A proposed ancient continent that would later merge together with the continents of Vaalbara and Superia to form the supercontinent Kenorland. It is observable as a former supercraton composed of the cratons of Slave, Wyoming, Dharwar, Zimbabwe
• scorpeneThe scorpionfish, a marine food fish of the genus Scorpaena.
• scurrileScurrilous.
• secretageA process in which mercury, or some of its salts, is employed to impart the property of felting to certain kinds of furs.
• sectaryA member of a particular sect, school of thought or practice, party, or profession; a sectarian.
• SegouA city in south-central Mali, lying 235 kilometres (146 mi) northeast of Bamako on the River Niger
• segregeeA person who has been segregated.
• seicheA short-term standing wave oscillation of the water level in a lake, or other confined body of water such as a fjord, characteristic of its geometry.
• sejantSeated, sitting.
• sellandersAn eruption in the tarsus of the horse.
• semiurgyThe production of new meanings by the creation of new signs; the expansion of the semiosphere.
• seneschaltyThe office of seneschal.
• sennitbraided cord or fabric of such small stuff as plaited rope yarns
• SeptembristAn participant in the September Massacres.
• septembrizeTo motivate the common people to overthrow a ruling class by force, and to execute its leaders.
• septennateA period of seven years.
• Sept-ÎlesA city in the Côte-Nord region of eastern Quebec, Canada.
• seranditeAn often reddish mineral of the wollastonite group. It is the manganese analogue of pectolite.
• sergedusoySilk serge.
• se-tenantA set of postage stamps with differing values, colours, etc, but printed on the same sheet.
• ShadoanA surname from French.
• shamboA style of music made by the Ovambo people of Namibia, influenced by reggae.
• ShinaultA surname from French.
• sillionThe thick, voluminous, and shiny soil turned over by a plow.
• simagreA grimace.
• similorAn alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, but of a golden color.
• simplesssimplicity or silliness
• SinaicSynonym of Sinaitic, of or related to Mount Sinai, Egypt.
• sinopitesinopia (clay)
• sirocSynonym of sirocco.
• siscowetA freshwater fish from Lake Superior in the Great Lakes, a variety of the lake trout.
• SisyphismInfinite labor that produces nothing.
• sixty-elevenVery many; too many to count; quite a lot.
• skiverA slacker.
• Slave LakeFormer name of Great Slave Lake: a lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada.
• slaveyA male servant.
• small finalThe secondary final to determine rankings of competitors from the semifinals that did not make the big final.
• sodalityA fraternity, a society or association.
• solleretA flexible armor shoe (usually steel) made of multiple hinged plates, worn with mediaeval armour.
• sombrousGloomy; sombre.
• somnialPertaining to dreams.
• SorbonistA student or teacher at the Sorbonne.
• sordiditySordidness.
• sortilegiousPertaining to sortilege, sorcerous
• SothicOf or relating to the star Sirius, particularly in Egyptian or ancient Greek contexts.
• SoufrièreA village in Dominica.
• soupe maigreA soup made chiefly from vegetables or fish with a little butter and a few condiments.
• souplesseAs articulated by Daryl Copeland: in guerrilla diplomacy, the ability to connect with the global political economy of knowledge for the remedial application of scientific and technological capacity in order to engage specific threats and challenges, typically in support of security and regional development.
• sourdineA muted trumpet.
• sousveillanceThe recording of an activity from the perspective of participant in the activity.
• sparterieArticles made from esparto.
• spasmophiliaA condition of increased electrical and mechanical excitability in babies.
• spiritual naturalismA worldview that reveres nature, without belief in the supernatural.
• squinanceThe quinsy.
• St. AnthonyA town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• St ClairA seaside suburb of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
• St. ClairA township in Lambton County, Ontario, Canada.