Words starting with s

Words, definitions, meanings and synonyms

sabahan means: of or pertaining to Sabah or its people

sabal means: American dwarf fan palms

sabal palmetto means: low-growing fan-leaved palm of coastal southern United States having edible leaf buds

sabaoth means: (plural) hosts or armies; used in the book of Romans in the New Testament

sabaton means: armor plate that protects the foot; consists of mail with a solid toe and heel

sabayon means: light foamy custard-like dessert served hot or chilled

sabbat means: a midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery; in the Middle Ages it was supposed to be a demonic orgy

sabbatarian means: one who observes Saturday as the Sabbath (as in Judaism)

sabbatarian means: pertaining to the Sabbath and its observance

sabbath means: a day of rest and worship: Sunday for most Christians; Saturday for the Jews and a few Christians; Friday for Muslims

Words, definitions, meanings and synonyms

acheronian means: dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades

amniota means: higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) possessing an amnion during development

andrei dimitrievich sakharov means: Soviet physicist and dissident; helped develop the first Russian hydrogen bomb; advocated nuclear disarmament and campaigned for human rights (1921-1989)

apios americana means: a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans

canvasback means: North American wild duck valued for sport and food

deep middle cerebral vein means: accompanies the middle cerebral artery deep in the Sylvian fissure; empties into the basal vein

emilia flammea means: tropical African annual having scarlet tassel-shaped flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Cacalia

family orycteropodidae means: aardvarks

gemmule means: the physically discrete element that Darwin proposed as responsible for heredity

genus appendicularia means: a genus of chordates in the class Larvacea

genus matteuccia means: small genus sometimes included in genus Onoclea; in some classifications both genera are placed in Polypodiaceae

george herbert walker bush means: vice president under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924)

lacuna means: a blank gap or missing part

lesser whitethroat means: Old World warbler similar to the greater whitethroat but smaller

monism means: the doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element

northern dune tansy means: lightly hairy rhizomatous perennial having aromatic feathery leaves and stems bearing open clusters of small buttonlike yellow flowers; sand dunes of Pacific coast of North America

pale coral root means: plant having clumps of nearly leafless pale yellowish to greenish stems bearing similarly colored flowers with white lower lips; northern New Mexico north through South Dakota and Washington to Alaska

salaciousness means: the trait of behaving in an obscene manner

sanctum means: a sacred place of pilgrimage

sanctum means: a place of inviolable privacy