Collins American English Dictionary: American Words Starting With “S”
- -'s ... saber
- saber rattling ... sack
- sack coat ... saddle-backed
- saddleback ... sagacity
- sagamore ... Saint John
- Saint Martin's summer ... salariat
- salaried ... salivate
- Salk ... saltant
- saltarello ... Sam Hill
- samadhi ... San Diego
- San Fernando Valley ... sand trap
- sand verbena ... sangria
- sangui- ... Santa Fé
- Santa Fe Trail ... sapphire
- sapphirine ... sardine
- Sardinia ... sasquatch
- sass ... Saturday
- Saturday night special ... Savaii
- savanna ... saxicolous
- saxifrage ... scald
- scale ... scant
- scanties ... Scarron
- scarves ... schematism
- schematize ... schmo
- schmooze ... Schopenhauer
- schorl ... scintilla
- scintillate ... scollop
- scombroid ... scotia
- Scotism ... scrape
- scrapheap ... screwy
- Scriabin ... scry
- scuba ... scuttlebutt
- scutum ... sea legs
- sea lettuce ... seagoing
- seal ... seat-of-the-pants
- -seater ... second fiddle
- second floor ... secretive
- secretory ... sedum
- see ... seel
- seem ... seismoscope
- seize ... self-analysis
- self-annihilation ... self-examination
- self-excited ... self-possession
- self-preservation ... selfheal
- selfhood ... semi-staged
- semiabstract ... semiology
- semiotics ... senatorial district
- send ... sensational
- sensationalism ... separable
- separate ... sequel
- sequela ... sergeant-at-arms
- serger ... serpigo
- Serra ... sesqui-
- sesquicarbonate ... set to music
- set up ... seventy
- sever ... sexily
- sexiness ... Shache
- shack ... shakedown
- shaken ... Shangri-La
- shank ... shat
- Shatt-al-Arab ... Sheboygan
- shed ... shelf life
- shell ... Sherman
- Sherpa ... Shimonoseki
- shin ... shipwreck
- shipwright ... shock therapy
- shock troops ... shooter
- shooting ... short sale
- short short story ... shote
- shotgun ... showboat
- showbread ... Shropshire
- shroud ... shy
- Shylock ... sickle bar
- sickle cell anemia ... sidesaddle
- sideshow ... sighted
- sighting ... signifying
- signior ... silk
- silk cotton ... silver salmon
- silver screen ... Simon Legree
- Simon Magus ... Sinatra
- Sinbad the Sailor ... single-sideband
- single-space ... sinusoid
- sinusoidal projection ... Sisyphean
- Sisyphus ... sixpence
- sixpenny ... skellum
- skelp ... skimble-scamble
- skimmer ... Skr
- SKU ... slake
- slalom ... slave state
- slave trade ... sleeping sickness
- sleepless ... slingshot
- slink ... sloop
- sloop of war ... sludge
- sludgeworm ... small potatoes
- small screen ... smell
- smell a rat ... smoking room
- smoky ... snaggy
- snail ... snatch block
- snatchy ... snooze
- Snoqualmie Falls ... snowpack
- snowplow ... soapbox
- soapstone ... socialist realism
- socialite ... soda water
- sodalite ... soft palate
- soft pedal ... Sokotra
- sol ... solenoid
- Solent ... soluble glass
- solum ... -something
- something ... sonic
- sonic barrier ... soppy
- sopranino ... soteriology
- Sothic ... soup-to-nuts
- soupçon ... South Holland
- South Island ... southpaw
- Southport ... Space Age
- space bar ... span-new
- spanakopita ... spark chamber
- spark coil ... speak out
- speak the same (or someone's) language ... specification
- specificity ... speed brake
- speed bump ... sperm whale
- spermaceti ... spherical polygon
- spherical triangle ... spike
- spike lavender ... spininess
- spinnaker ... spirits of wine
- spiritual ... splayfoot
- spleen ... spoiler
- spoils system ... spore
- spore case ... spotter
- spotty ... springform pan
- springhalt ... spurt
- sputnik ... squash
- squash bug ... squirting cucumber
- squish ... St. James's Palace
- St. John ... stadium
- Staël ... staithe
- stake ... stanchion
- stand ... standing order
- standing ovation ... star thistle
- Star Wars ... starve
- starveling ... stationary wave
- stationer ... staying power
- staysail ... stearin
- stearoptene ... Stella
- stellar ... step up
- step- ... stereotaxis
- stereotaxy ... steward
- stewardess ... stickup
- stickweed ... stink up
- stinker ... stock certificate
- stock company ... stokehole
- stoker ... stoned
- stonefish ... storefront
- storehouse ... Strafford
- straggle ... strange quark
- strangeness ... straw-hat
- strawberry ... stress fracture
- stressed-out ... strikebound
- strikebreaker ... stroboscope
- strode ... structuralize
- structure ... stum
- stumble ... stylography
- styloid ... subbranch
- subcaliber ... subgroup
- subgum ... submission
- submissive ... subsoil
- subsolar ... subtrahend
- subtreasury ... suck up (to)
- sucker ... suffering
- suffice ... suicidology
- suint ... sulfuric acid
- sulfurize ... summer theater
- summer triangle ... Sunday punch
- Sunday school ... sunsuit
- suntan ... supererogatory
- superette ... supernova
- supernumerary ... supper
- supper club ... supreme sacrifice
- Supreme Soviet ... surg
- surge ... surveyor's measure
- survivable ... susurrant
- susurrate ... swam
- swami ... Swaziland
- SWbS ... sweet cicely
- sweet clover ... swig
- swill ... switchback
- switchblade (knife) ... syconium
- sycophancy ... sympathize
- sympatholytic ... synchrotron
- synchrotron radiation ... synovitis
- synsepalous ... systemize
- systems analysis ... Szold
