Word origins

• suppurantA suppurative.
• suppurateTo form or discharge pus.
• suppureTo suppurate.
• supra-Above, over, on top; (anatomy, medicine) superior
• supracheliceralLocated above the chelicerae.
• supremitySupremacy.
• surcleA little shoot or branch; a twig; a sucker.
• surculoseProducing suckers or sucker-like shoots.
• surculusA shoot from a rootstock; a sucker.
• surdityDeafness
• surgationAn erect penis; an erection.
• surgentSurging; rising.
• surjectTo form or to undergo surjection
• surrectupright
• surrectionA 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.
• SusianaThe Greco-Roman name for the ancient state founded by the Elamite civilization, of which Susa became the capital around 2700 BC.
• susotoxinA toxic basic substance obtained from cultures of the swine fever bacillus.
• suspicableLiable to suspicion; suspicious or suspected.
• suspirationThe act of breathing, not necessarily for a sustained period (compare respiration, which is sustained).
• suspireTo breathe, especially to exhale
• suspiriousSuspiring; sighing.
• sustentaclesustenance or substance.
• sustentaculumA supporting structure, a body part that supports one or more other parts.
• sustentatioSuspense.
• susurranceA murmur or whisper.
• susurrantMurmured, soft.
• susurrateTo whisper.
• susurrationA low and indistinct whispering sound; a murmur.
• susurrousHaving whispering or rustling sounds.
• susurrusA whispering or rustling sound; a murmur.
• sutileDone by stitching.
• sutorialPertaining to shoemakers or shoemaking.
• 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.
• sybariticOf or having the qualities of a sybarite (“a person devoted to luxury and pleasure”); dedicated to excessive comfort and enjoyment; decadent, hedonistic, self-indulgent.
• sycamineA tree, mentioned in Luke's Gospel, and thought to be the black mulberry.
• syllabationsyllabification
• syllepsisA figure of speech in which one word simultaneously modifies two or more other words such that the modification must be understood differently with respect to each modified word; often causing humorous incongruity.
• syllogismusOmission of the conclusion of a syllogistic argument.
• sylvaticOf or pertaining to woods or woodland organisms; sylvan
• sylvicolineOf or relating to the Sylvicolinae or Sylvicolidae, former names for the family Parulidae, the New World warblers.
• SymaeanOf, belonging to, or pertaining to Syme.
• symmetralcommensurable; symmetrical
• SymplegadesA pair of rocks at the Bosphorus that clashed together whenever a vessel passed through.
• symposiacOf or pertaining to a symposium.
• sympoticOf or pertaining to the Ancient Greek symposium.
• sympoticalSynonym of sympotic.
• synaxisA congregation.
• syncellusOne who holds an office in an Eastern Catholic or Orthodox Church roughly equivalent to that of an episcopal vicar in the Roman Catholic Church.
• synchysisA complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries.
• syngraphA document signed by both or all of the parties to a contract or bond.
• synonymiaThe use of two or more synonyms together to amplify or explain a given subject or term. A kind of repetition that adds force.
• syntagmatarchyA square formation of 256 soldiers arranged into sixteen files, sixteen ranks deep, led by a syntagmatarch; a syntagma.
• SyrastreneSynonym of Saurashtra.
• Syria PalaestinaThe renamed Roman province formerly known as Judaea.
• SyriarchThe chief priest in the Roman province of Syria.
• syringo-syrinx: Of or pertaining to a tube or tuboid structure, such as a fistula.
• syrmaA long dress that trailed on the floor, worn by tragic actors.
• 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.
• tabellionAn official scribe who had some of the minor functions of a notary in the Roman Empire and pre-revolutionary France.
• tabernacularPertaining to a tabernacle.
• tabernariaeAncient Roman comedies dealing with the life of the lower classes.
• tabesA kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying a chronic disease.
• tabescentWasting away, or becoming emaciated.
• tablinumAn anteroom in a house of ancient Rome, opening out of the atrium opposite the main entry and often containing the family statues and archives.
• tabula rasaA mind, as of a newborn, free of any impressions, notions, ideas, etc.
• 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.
• tacetAn instruction indicating silence on the part of the performers of a piece.
• 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.
• tactusThe sense of touch.
• taedium vitaeProfound ennui or weariness of one's life.
• 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
• talo-talus
• talpidA member of the family Talpidae, comprising moles.
• tamaricA shrub or tree, perhaps the tamarisk or some kind of heath.
• tapetumA membranous layer of tissue.
• tapetum lucidumA layer of tissue in the eye of many vertebrate animals, immediately behind or sometimes within the retina, that reflects visible light so as to increase the light available to the photoreceptors.
• tapinosisA figure of speech whereby something is given less importance by the name given it than it merits.