Word origins

• suaviloquysweetness of speech
• sub-Under, beneath.
• subactTo reduce or subdue.
• subactionThe act of reducing to any state, such as of mixing two bodies completely.
• subarrhationThe ancient custom of betrothal by gift of pledges.
• subaudiMentally supply (something which has not been expressed); scilicet.
• subauditeMentally supply (something which has not been expressed); scilicet.
• subauditionThe act of understanding, or supplying, something not expressed.
• subcinctoriumAn ornamental vestment reserved for the pope, resembling a maniple and worn at a solemn pontifical Mass.
• subcostalisAny of a group of muscular and aponeurotic fasciculi, usually well-developed only in the lower part of the thorax; each originates from the inner surface of one rib, and is inserted into the inner surface of the second or third rib below, near its angle.
• subdititiousPut secretly in the place of something else; of the result of a switcheroo.
• subdolousSly; crafty; cunning.
• subduceTo withdraw; to take away.
• subductTo push under or below.
• subereousOf or relating to cork; of the nature of cork; suberose.
• suberineA substance obtained by treating cork filings with alcohol, ether, and dilute hydrochloric acid.
• subessiveIndicating position under or below something.
• subfuscHaving subdued colors.
• subfuscousDuskish; moderately dark; tawny.
• subglaucousHaving a colour between glaucous and green.
• subincusationA slight charge or accusation.
• subintelligiturSomething that is implied even though not expressed
• subitaneousSudden; suddenly done or made.
• subitiveCharacterizing verbs or verbal affixes denoting actions that occur suddenly or sharply.
• subjiciblesubjectable, capable of being subjected.
• subjunctive moodMood expressing an action or state which is hypothetical or anticipated rather than actual, including wishes and commands.
• sublateTo negate, deny or contradict.
• sublationA flotation method in which the material to be separated is adsorbed on the surface of gas bubbles in a liquid and is collected on an upper layer of an immiscible liquid
• sublevationThe act of raising on high; elevation.
• subligationThe act of binding underneath.
• sublimificationThe act of making sublime
• submerseTo submerge.
• subministerto supply; to administer
• subministrantsubordinate or subservient
• submissSubmissive.
• submonishTo suggest; to prompt.
• submonitionsuggestion; prompting
• subnascentGrowing underneath.
• subnectTo (literally) tie or fasten beneath, or to (figuratively) join beneath, i.e. as an addendum.
• sub nom.Used in case citations to designate a case that has a different name before one court than it did before a previous court.
• subnotationA rescript
• subreptionUnder Roman law, the act of giving false testimony.
• subreptiveSurreptitious.
• subsannationderision; mockery
• subscapularisA certain large, triangular muscle near the shoulder that plays a key role in rotating the arm
• subscriptiveOf or pertaining to a subscription, or signature.
• subseciveRemaining; extra; spare.
• subsumptiveRelating to, or containing, a subsumption.
• subterfluentRunning under or beneath.
• subtiliateTo make thin or rare; to rarefy.
• subtrahendA number or quantity to be subtracted from another.
• subtrudeTo place under; to insert below.
• subulateAwl-shaped; tapering into a sharp point from a broader base.
• suburbanityThe quality of being suburban.
• subveneTo arrive or happen so as to help or support.
• subventaneousunfertilized (thought to be produced by the wind).
• subverseTo subvert.
• succedaneumA substitute, replacement for something else, particularly of a medicine used in place of another.
• succenturiateDescribing a small lobe that is sometimes attached to a placenta
• succin-Relating to or derived from succinic acid.
• succrescenceAn outward growth from underneath.
• succrescentGrowing out from underneath.
• succulaA bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum.
• succumbentsubmissive; yielding
• succussTo shake with vigor.
• succussationViolent shaking or jolting.
• suckitudinalOf or pertaining to suckitude.
• suctorialAdapted for sucking; living by sucking.
• sudamenA small blister beneath the skin due to retention of fluid in a sweat follicle, or in the epidermis
• sudaryA napkin or handkerchief.
• sudatoryA sudatorium; a hot room used to induce sweating.
• sudomotorRelating to stimulation of the sweat glands.
• sudoralOf or pertaining to sweat; caused by sweat; characterised by the production of sweat.
• sudoriferousBearing sweat; sweating, sweaty.
• sudoriparoussudoriferous
• sudorousConsisting of, or relating to, sweat.
• Sueco-pertaining to Sweden or Swedish
• suffectAn additional Roman consul elected during the official year, especially in order to replace a retiring one
• suffeteOne of the chief magistrates who ruled ancient Carthage.
• sufflaminateTo obstruct.
• sufflateTo inflate; to blow up.
• suffossionInternal erosion by liquid percolating through clay, sand, or silt.
• suffragateTo vote.
• suffraginousOf or relating to the hock of an animal.
• suffrutexA subshrub.
• suffultedGradually blending into another colour.
• suffumigateTo fumigate from below.
• suffumigeA medical fume.
• sugescentOf or relating to sucking.
• suggilateTo beat until bruised.
• suggillationA livid mark; a blow; a bruise.
• Suio-GothicThe language of the Goths of Götaland (Southern Sweden); Old Swedish.
• suistA selfish person
• suitheismThe belief that one is a god.
• sulcateHaving deep, narrow sulci, grooves or furrows.
• sulciformHaving the form of a sulcus.
• sulfuretA sulfide.
• sulphovinic acidethylsulphuric acid
• sulphureousSulphurous.
• summityThe height or top of anything.