Word origins

• salonnièreA woman who hosts a salon.
• saltimbanqueTumbler, street acrobat.
• salut des armesA sort of a choreographed demonstration of arms, consisting of sets of fencers saluting, attacking, parrying, drilling and performing set routines in chorus.
• SamothracianAn inhabitant or a resident of Samothrace.
• sand cookieName given to various types of shortbread.
• sandrezander, pikeperch (fish)
• san fairy annIt doesn't matter.
• sang de boeufA red glaze used in Chinese porcelain.
• sangfroidComposure, self-possession or imperturbability especially when in a dangerous situation.
• sanglierA full-grown wild boar.
• sanguetteA blood dish from rural Occitania made immediately upon exsanguination of livestock by collecting, preparing, and cooking the fresh blood; typically a crepe or pancake but varies by town across Occitania, including Spanish Occitania.
• San-LorenzoA village in Haute-Corse department, Corsica, France.
• sanquetteA female given name.
• sans-culotteA plebeian Parisian, especially a lower-class republican during the French Revolution.
• sans-culottideAny of the five (six in leap years) extra days added at the end of Fructidor in the French Republican Calendar.
• sans-culottismExtreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sans-culottes.
• sans douteSynonym of without a doubt.
• sans gêneLack of constraint; brazenness; unreservedness (unabashed behavior, disregard for societal constraints)
• sans nombreRepeated (as a charge like a billet or a division like paly) many times, covering the field with no set number (of the thing).
• sans souciCarefree; without worry
• SaôneA river in France that flows into the Rhone.
• sapajouAny of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Cebus, with long prehensile tails.
• sapeurA member of the social movement known as La Sape, who dress as dandies and put great emphasis on style and physical appearance.
• saponifyTo convert (a fat or oil) into soap.
• saponuleA soapy mixture obtained by treating an essential oil with an alkali; hence, any similar compound of an essential oil.
• sapparekyanite
• sarbacaneA blowgun.
• sarcelleAny of a number of teals (ducks)
• SarchetA surname from French.
• sarigueA small South American opossum (Philander opossum) with four white spots on the face.
• SarkozyismThe policies of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
• sarplierA coarse cloth made of hemp, used for packing goods, such as wool, hops etc.
• SarrauteA surname from French.
• SarroisA resident of the Saar Protectorate.
• satin de chineA napless worsted satin.
• satin de laineA thin glossy woolen fabric, a variety of cassimere.
• satinéA hard reddish wood of French Guiana, a kind of satinwood.
• saucisseA long and slender pipe or bag, made of cloth well pitched, or of leather, filled with powder, and used to communicate fire to mines, caissons, bomb chests, etc.
• saucissonA saucisse.
• saucisson secSynonym of saucisson.
• SaugeaisA self-proclaimed micronation (full name: the Republic of Saugeais) located in Doubs, eastern France.
• Saulteauxan indigenous nation from the northern Great Plains and southern Canadian Shield, the Westernmost branch of the Ojibwe or Anishnaabe
• Sault Ste. MarieA city, the seat of the Algoma District, Ontario, Canada.
• 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.
• SaurierA commune in the Puy-de-Dôme département in Auvergne, France
• Saut d'EauAn island of Trinidad and Tobago.
• saut de chatA jump similar to a grand jeté, differing in that the front leg extends through a développé instead of a grand battement.
• sautéTo cook (food) using a small amount of fat in an open pan over a relatively high heat, allowing the food to brown and form a crust stopping it from sticking to the pan as it cooks.
• sauterelleAn instrument used by masons and others to trace and form angles.
• sautilléA bow stroke played rapidly in the middle of the bow, one stroke per note, so that the bow bounces very slightly off the string.
• sautoirA ribbon, chain, scarf, or the like, tied around the neck in such a manner that the ends cross over each other (en sautoir).
• sautoireA heavy skillet with straight sides, used for sautéing food.
• SauvagnacA village in Charente department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
• SauvagnasA village in Lot-et-Garonne department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
• SauvéA surname from French, variant of Sauve
• sauve qui peutA case of every man for himself.
• SauvignacA village in Charente department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
• sauvignon blancA green-skinned variety of grape that originates from the Bordeaux region of France.
• saveloyA seasoned and smoked pork sausage, normally purchased ready-cooked.
• savoir-faireThe ability to do or say what is appropriate for the occasion.
• savoir-vivreFamiliarity with the customs of polite society.
• 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.
• scatchA kind of bit for the bridle of a horse.
• sceleratA criminal, a villain.
• scène à faireA scene which is demanded by the progression of the plot so far; an indispensable culminating scene.
• Schollaert ChannelA channel in Antarctica.
• 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.
• sciageA back-and-forth sawing movement of the hand in massage.
• scientific socialismSociety governed by science.
• 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
• scorbutscurvy
• scorpeneThe scorpionfish, a marine food fish of the genus Scorpaena.
• scurrileScurrilous.
• sea cucumberAn echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, with an elongated body and leathery skin.
• séanceA ritualistic ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits of dead people, usually led by a medium and often with the goal of getting the spirits cause physically observable phenomena.
• sea sorrelacidweed
• SechanA surname from French.
• secretageA process in which mercury, or some of its salts, is employed to impart the property of felting to certain kinds of furs.
• secretary generalThe chief administrator of an international body such as NATO or the United Nations.
• secret of PolichinelleA supposed secret known to everyone.
• sectaryA member of a particular sect, school of thought or practice, party, or profession; a sectarian.
• sectionaryA member of a French antiroyalist political party that was one of the driving forces of the French Revolution.
• SegouA city in south-central Mali, lying 235 kilometres (146 mi) northeast of Bamako on the River Niger
• SégouA 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.
• seigneuresseThe wife of a seigneur
• seigneurieAn area governed by a seigneur (French noble).
• Seine-Saint-DenisA department of Île-de-France, France. Capital: Bobigny.
• sejantSeated, sitting.
• sellandersAn eruption in the tarsus of the horse.
• Selles-sur-CherA cheese made from goat milk, produced in Selles-sur-Cher.
• seméSprinkled, sown, strewn: said of a field or charge when strewn with small (identical) charges.