Word origins

• sumpsimusAdherence to or persistence in using a strictly correct term in rejection of a more common (but technically incorrect) form.
• sumptuaryRelating to expenditure or expense, especially on luxury goods.
• sumptuosityThe state or quality of being sumptuous; wealth; high price
• superableCapable of being overcome or surmounted; surmountable or conquerable.
• superbineA toxic alkaloid found in Gloriosa superba.
• superceeFaster-than-light travelling speed.
• supercrescentGrowing on some other growing thing.
• supereminenceThe quality of being supereminent.
• supererogatoryPertaining to supererogation; doing more than is required.
• superessiveOf or relating to the superessive case.
• superfetateTo conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring.
• superfetationThe formation of a fetus while another fetus is already present in the uterus.
• superfluencesuperfluity
• superfluxAn overabundance; a great amount
• supergressionexcess, exaltation
• superincumbentLying or resting on something else; overlying.
• superinduceTo replace (someone) with someone else; to bring into another's position; especially, to take (a second wife) quickly after the death of a first, or while she is still alive.
• superjacentPositioned immediately above or on top of something else; overlying.
• superlationexcessive exaltation.
• superlucrationExcessive or extraordinary gain.
• superregnumA rank in the classification of organisms: a superkingdom or domain.
• supersalientExtremely salient.
• superscribeto write on the exterior of, the surface of, or above.
• supersessorSomeone or something that supersedes another.
• superstructTo build over or upon (another structure); to erect upon (a foundation).
• supersubstantialMore than substantial, transcending all substance; spiritual.
• supervacaneousAdded above what is needed or necessary; superfluous, redundant.
• supervacuoussuperfluous, more than needed
• superviveTo survive; to outlive.
• supervoluteHaving a plaited and convolute arrangement in the bud, as in the morning glory.
• supinateTo twist the forearm so as to turn the palm of the hand backwards if the forearm is pointing up, upwards if the forearm is horizontal, or forwards if the arm is pointing down; to twist the forearm by contracting the biceps brachii; to twist the right forearm clockwise or the left forearm counterclockwise.
• supinityThe quality of being supine; negligence; laziness; heedlessness.
• suppedaneousBeneath the feet, or supporting the feet.
• suppeditateTo supply; to furnish.
• suppeditationsupply, or aid given.
• suppositumSomething supposed to be true; an assumption
• suppurantA suppurative.
• suppurateTo form or discharge pus.
• suppureTo suppurate.
• supremitySupremacy.
• surculoseProducing suckers or sucker-like shoots.
• surdityDeafness
• surgationAn erect penis; an erection.
• surgentSurging; rising.
• surreptionThe obtaining of something in a surreptitious manner, or by craft or stealth.
• sursum-In an upwards direction.
• susceptionThe act of taking, or taking up; reception.
• susceptorOne who undertakes anything; specifically, a godfather; a sponsor; a guardian.
• suscipientReceiving; admitting.
• suscitateTo rouse; to excite; to call into life and action.
• suscitationThe act of raising or exciting.
• suspicableLiable to suspicion; suspicious or suspected.
• suspireTo breathe, especially to exhale
• sustentaclesustenance or substance.
• susurranceA murmur or whisper.
• susurrantMurmured, soft.
• susurrationA low and indistinct whispering sound; a murmur.
• susurrousHaving whispering or rustling sounds.
• sutileDone by stitching.
• s.v.Used to refer to an entry in a dictionary or encyclopedia: under the word(s) [X]; at headword [X]; at entry [X].
• swainmoteA court held before the verderers of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, three times a year, the swains or freeholders of the forest composing the jury.
• sycamineA tree, mentioned in Luke's Gospel, and thought to be the black mulberry.
• syllabationsyllabification
• syllogismusOmission of the conclusion of a syllogistic argument.
• sylvicolineOf or relating to the Sylvicolinae or Sylvicolidae, former names for the family Parulidae, the New World warblers.
• symmetralcommensurable; symmetrical
• sympoticalSynonym of sympotic.
• syntagmatarchyA square formation of 256 soldiers arranged into sixteen files, sixteen ranks deep, led by a syntagmatarch; a syntagma.
• SyriarchThe chief priest in the Roman province of Syria.
• syringo-syrinx: Of or pertaining to a tube or tuboid structure, such as a fistula.
• syrtA kind of elevated flatland in Russia and Central Asia.
• systalticCapable of, or taking place by, alternate contraction and dilatation.
• systasisThe combination of different elements; synthesis.
• systyleHaving a space equal to two diameters or four modules between two columns; said of a portico or building.
• tabanidOf or pertaining to species of the horsefly family, Tabanidae.
• tabernacularPertaining to a tabernacle.
• tabescentWasting away, or becoming emaciated.
• tabulatophobiaAn irrational or intense fear of walking on, standing on, or being near floors.
• tacendaThings that are not to be spoken about or made public.
• TaciteanOf, pertaining to, or characteristic of Tacitus (Publius Cornelius Tacitus)
• taciturnousTaciturn.
• tacnodeA point of a curve where two or more osculating circles to the curve at that point are tangent, so that two branches of the curve have ordinary tangency at the double point.
• tactionThe act of touching; touch; contact.
• tactorA tactile end-organ.
• taeniasisAn infection of tapeworms of the genus Taenia that does not usually cause any disease.
• taenidiumThe chitinous fibre forming the spiral thread of the tracheae of insects
• taeniolaOne of the radial partitions which separate the internal cavities of certain medusae.
• talalgiaPain in the ankle or heel.
• taligradeWalking on the edge of its feet.
• talipesClubfoot; the condition of having a clubfoot.
• talis qualissuch as it is; as such; just as they come
• talpidA member of the family Talpidae, comprising moles.
• tamaricA shrub or tree, perhaps the tamarisk or some kind of heath.
• tardationThe act of slowing down or delaying.
• Tarentineof or pertaining to Tarentum
• tarsiidAny primate in the family Tarsiidae; a tarsier.
• tarsioidA tarsier or extinct relative; any member of the infraorder Tarsiiformes
• TartareanOf or relating to Tartarus.
• tauricOf or relating to the constellation Taurus.
• tauricornousHaving horns like those of a bull.