Word origins

• sacrificatorsacrificant, sacrificer
• sacrificatoryof or relating to sacrifice
• sad treeThe night-blooming jasmine.
• saeculumAny of a sequence of ages (periods of time) such that each age ends with the death of the last person remaining alive since its beginning, and the end of an age marks the beginning of the next.
• sagapenumA yellow to brown bitter gum that derives from plants of the genus Ferula.
• saginaAny herb of the genus Sagina.
• saginationThe act of saginating; fattening.
• sagittaryA centaur, half-human and half-horse.
• sagittateShaped like an arrowhead, with one point at one end, and two points at the other.
• sagumA cloak, worn in ancient times by the Gauls, early Germans, and Roman soldiers, made of a rectangular piece of (usually red) coarse cloth and fastened on the right shoulder.
• SaguntineAn inhabitant of Saguntum.
• Saint ClareSt Clare of Assisi (1194–1253).
• salacityThe state or quality of being salacious; lewdness, obscenity, bawdiness.
• salebrousrough; rugged
• SalianA member of the Salii, the chief priests of Mars in ancient Rome.
• SalicSynonym of Salian, particularly in reference to the Salic law.
• salicaceousBelonging or relating to the species in family Salicaceae of willows.
• salicetA pipe organ stop of 4-foot or 2-foot pitch.
• salicetumA group of willow trees.
• salicinA glucoside derivative of salicylic acid; the active principle of willow bark, once used medicinally.
• salicylolsalicylic acid
• salitedsalted
• salivantA drug or agent that induces salivation.
• salogenA halogen.
• salsuginousGrowing in brackish places or in salt marshes.
• saltantLeaping; jumping; dancing.
• saltatorialRelating to leaping; moving by leaps; saltatory.
• saltatoryOf or pertaining to leaps or leaping.
• salutatoriumA porch or room in a monastery or church serving as a meeting or almsgiving place for monks or priests and the laity.
• salutatoryCharacteristic of or relating to a salutation or greeting.
• salutiferousConducive to good health; healthy.
• salvableSalvageable, recoverable; allowing for recovery.
• salvatoryA place where things are preserved; a repository.
• salva veritateThe logical condition by which two expressions may be interchanged without altering the truth value of statements in which they occur.
• Salve ReginaA hymn to the Virgin Mary, one of the Marian antiphons, also prayed as part of the rosary.
• sal volatileAmmonium carbonate; especially a solution of this used to restore someone from a faint.
• sambocadeA kind of cheesecake made with elderflower and rose water.
• SamianOf or pertaining to the island of Samos.
• SamogitiaAn ethnographic region of Lithuania, located in the north-west of the country.
• SamosataFormer name of Samsat: a city in southeastern Turkey.
• sanableCapable of being healed or cured; remediable.
• sance bellA sacring-bell.
• SanchuniathonA Phoenician author.
• sanctanimityholiness of mind
• sanctificateTo sanctify.
• sanctimonialsanctimonious
• sanctitudeholiness; sacredness; sanctity
• sanctum sanctorumSynonym of garbhagriha.
• sanctus bellA sacring-bell.
• sandaracRealgar; red sulphide of arsenic.
• sandixA kind of minium, or red lead, made by calcining lead carbonate, but inferior to true minium.
• sangui-Relating to blood.
• sanguiferousConveying blood.
• sanguifluousFlowing with blood or bloodshed.
• sanguifyTo produce blood (from).
• sanguigenousProducing blood, or conducive to creation of blood.
• sanguinarianA person who consumes human blood as part of the vampiroid subculture.
• sanguisugentbloodsucking
• sanguisugousbloodsucking
• sanicleAny of several plants, of the genus Sanicula, having palmate compound leaves and small flowers arranged in umbels; the snakeroot.
• saniesA thin mixture of pus and blood serum discharged from a wound; ichor.
• sanitateTo sanitize.
• sanquetteA female given name.
• santonicaAn Asian plant (Seriphidium cinum, syn. Artemisia cina), related to wormwood, which has been used since ancient times as a vermifuge due to its santonin content.
• sapiophileA person who is attracted, whether it be sexually, romantically, or otherwise, to intelligence or intelligent people rather than to the physical appearance.
• sapioromanticRomantically attracted to intellectual or mental qualities over appearance.
• sapiosexualSexually attracted to intellectual or mental qualities over appearance.
• sapiosexualityThe state of being sexually attracted to intelligence or the human mind.
• sapo-Used to form adjectives, nouns, and verbs used in the chemistry of soap-like materials
• saponaceousResembling soap; having the qualities of soap; soapy.
• saporifictaste-giving, or tasteful.
• saporousHaving flavour or taste
• sarcocollaA shrub of species Astragalus sarcocolla, native to Iran.
• sarculationA raking away of weeds.
• sardachateA variety of agate containing sard.
• SardanapalusA semi-legendary king of Assyria, as portrayed in Greek and later European art and literature.
• SardonianSardonic.
• SarmatiaAn ill-defined ancient geographic region of Eastern Europe occupied by the nomadic Sarmatians, generally considered to include modern Ukraine, southern Russia, Belarus, parts of Lithuania as well as Poland as far west as the Vistula River.
• sarmentA long slender prostrate stem or runner, such as that of the strawberry.
• sarmentoseHaving long, slender, prostrate stolons (runners)
• sarmentumSynonym of sarment.
• SarmizegetusaThe capital and the military, religious and political centre of the Dacians prior to the wars with the Roman Empire, located among the Orăştie Mountains in present-day Romania.
• SatannianiA heretical sect which was named after its founder, Satannius, which shared some tenets of belief with the Æternales.
• satispassionAtonement by suffering to an adequate degree.
• sativeSown or planted; propagated by seed, shoot, or root; cultivated, not wild.
• saturityThe state of being satiated; fullness, repletion.
• saturnalOf or pertaining to the Ancient Roman god Saturn or to the corresponding planetary entity in astrology.
• saxatileLiving among rocks.
• saxicavousBoring or hollowing out rocks.
• saxicolousGrowing on, or living among, rocks or stones.
• saxifragousDissolving bladder stones.
• SaxonicalPertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or the Old English language.
• scabellumA kind of percussion instrument played by the foot, used in dramatic performances.
• scabredityRoughness (of a surface).
• scabruleShort, stiff projections or hairs which give a stem or leaf a rough texture, at least in one direction.
• scaevityunluckiness
• scalariformHaving the form of a ladder
• scalaryLike a ladder; formed with steps.
• scalpellumOne of the four filamentous organs in the proboscis of hemipterous insects.
• scalpriformShaped like a chisel.