6 Letter Words That Start With S

system

Noun : A collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members.

Noun : (derogatory) Preceded by the word the: the mainstream culture, controlled by the elites or government of a state, or a combination of them, seen as oppressive to the individual.

Noun : (computing) A set of hardware and software operating in a computer.

school

Noun : (Canada, US) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.

Noun : (Britain) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).

Noun : (UK) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.

strike

Verb : (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.

Verb : (physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.

Verb : (transitive) To hit.

search

Noun : An attempt to find something.

Noun : The act of searching in general.

Verb : (transitive) To look in (a place) for something.

spring

Verb : (intransitive) To move or burst forth.

Verb : To appear.

Verb : To grow, to sprout.

spirit

Noun : The soul of a person or other creature.

Noun : A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.

Noun : Enthusiasm.

spread

Verb : (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.

Verb : (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.

Verb : (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.

strive

Verb : To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.

Verb : To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest.

Verb : To vie; to compete as a rival.

subtle

Adjective : Hard to grasp; not obvious or easily understood.

Adjective : Barely noticeable, not obvious, indistinct.

Adjective : (of a thing) Cleverly contrived.

square

Noun : (geometry) A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.

Noun : Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.

Noun : A cell in a grid.

strain

Noun : (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.

Noun : (biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.

Noun : (figurative) Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.

strife

Noun : Striving; earnest endeavor; hard work.

Noun : Exertion or contention for superiority, either by physical or intellectual means.

Noun : Bitter conflict, sometimes violent.

stroke

Noun : An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.

Noun : An act of striking with a weapon; a blow.

Noun : A single movement with a tool; also, an impact of a tool on an object.

street

Noun : A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.

Noun : A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.

Noun : (specifically, US) The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.

series

Noun : A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.

Noun : (broadcasting) A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals

Noun : (mathematics) The sequence of partial sums ∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿa_i of a given sequence aᵢ.

status

Noun : A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.

Noun : Prestige or high standing.

Noun : A situation or state of affairs.

source

Noun : The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

Noun : Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.

Noun : A reporter's informant.

stream

Noun : A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.

Noun : A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).

Noun : Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.

screen

Noun : A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.

Noun : A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.

Noun : (mining, quarrying) A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.

switch

Noun : A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.

Noun : A change or exchange.

Noun : (rail transport, US) A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.

strole

Noun : A surname from German.

smight

Verb : Obsolete form of smite. [(archaic) To hit; to strike.]

stress

Noun : (biology) A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.

Noun : (biology) Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.

Noun : (countable, physics) The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ.

string

Noun : (countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.

Noun : (uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.

Noun : (countable) A thread.

stride

Verb : (intransitive) To walk with long steps.

Verb : To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.

Verb : To pass over at a step; to step over.

survey

Noun : The act of surveying; a general view.

Noun : A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of a particular group of items, in order to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality.

Noun : The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of any part of the Earth's surface.

scheme

Noun : (rhetoric, obsolete) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.

Noun : (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.

Noun : A systematic plan of future action.

supply

Verb : (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.

Verb : (transitive) To furnish or equip with.

Verb : (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.

stitch

Noun : A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.

Noun : An arrangement of stitches in sewing, or method of stitching in some particular way or style.

Noun : (countable and uncountable) An intense stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage, brought on by exercise or laughing.

screed

Noun : (chiefly Ireland, Newfoundland, Scotland, dated) A piece or narrow strip cut or torn off from a larger whole; a shred.

Noun : (chiefly regional Britain, Scotland, dated) A piece of land, especially one that is narrow.

Noun : (chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, dated) A rent, a tear.

solace

Noun : Comfort or consolation in a time of loneliness or distress.

Noun : A source of comfort or consolation.

Verb : (transitive) To give solace to; comfort; cheer; console.

strong

Adjective : Capable of producing great physical force.

Adjective : Capable of withstanding great physical force.

Adjective : (broadly) Possessing power, might, or strength.

secure

Adjective : Free from attack or danger; protected.

Adjective : Free from the danger of theft; safe.

Adjective : Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.

second

Adjective : Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.

Adjective : Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.

Adjective : Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.

settle

Verb : To conclude or resolve (something):

Verb : (transitive) To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).

Verb : (transitive) To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.

shadow

Noun : A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.

Noun : Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom; obscurity.

Noun : An area protected by an obstacle (likened to an object blocking out sunlight).

should

Verb : (auxiliary) Ought to; indicating opinion, advice, or instruction, about what is required or desirable.

Verb : Used to issue an instruction (traditionally seen as carrying less force of authority than alternatives such as 'shall' or 'must').

Verb : Used to give advice or opinion that an action is, or would have been, beneficial or desirable.

speech

Noun : (uncountable) The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.

Noun : (uncountable) The act of speaking, a certain style of it.

Noun : (countable) A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.

simple

Adjective : Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.

Adjective : Easy; not difficult.

Adjective : Without ornamentation; plain.

squash

Noun : (uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.

Noun : (UK) A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.

Noun : A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.

spider

Noun : Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.

Noun : (Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

Noun : (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).

strand

Noun : The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.

Noun : (poetic, archaic or regional) The shore or beach of a lake or river.

Noun : A small brook or rivulet.

staple

Noun : (now historical) A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group.

Noun : (by extension) Place of supply; source.

Noun : The principal commodity produced in a town or region.

syntax

Noun : A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.

Noun : (computing, countable) The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.

Noun : (linguistics) The study of the structure of phrases, sentences, and language.

secret

Noun : (countable) A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.

Noun : The key or principle by which something is made clear; the knack.

Noun : Something not understood or known.

shrink

Verb : (transitive) To cause to become smaller.

Verb : (intransitive) To become smaller; to contract.

Verb : (intransitive) To cower or flinch.

submit

Verb : (intransitive) To yield or give way to another.

Verb : (transitive) To yield (something) to another, as when defeated.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.

severe

Adjective : Very bad or intense.

Adjective : Strict or harsh.

Adjective : Sober, plain in appearance, austere.

slough

Noun : The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.

Noun : Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.

Verb : (transitive) To shed skin or outer layers.

shrewd

Adjective : Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters.

Adjective : Artful, tricky or cunning.

Adjective : (informal) streetwise, street-smart.

stigma

Noun : A mark of infamy or disgrace.

Noun : Discriminatory attitudes.

Noun : A scar or birthmark.

smooth

Adjective : Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough.

Adjective : Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents.

Adjective : Bland; glib.

script

Noun : (countable, obsolete) A writing; a written document.

Noun : Written characters; style of writing.

Noun : (typography) Type made in imitation of handwriting.

scopic

savage

Adjective : Wild; not cultivated or tamed.

Adjective : Barbaric; not civilized.

Adjective : Primitive; lacking complexity or sophistication.

social

Adjective : Being extroverted or outgoing.

Adjective : Of or relating to society.

Adjective : (Internet) Relating to social media or social networks.

signal

Noun : A sequence of states representing an encoded message in a communication channel.

Noun : Any variation of a quantity or change in an entity over time that conveys information upon detection.

Noun : A sign made to give notice of some occurrence, command, or danger, or to indicate the start of a concerted action.

stupid

Adjective : Without intelligence.

Adjective : (of animates) Lacking in intelligence.

Adjective : Exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.

supine

Adjective : Lying on its back.

Adjective : (of the hand, forearm or foot) Turned facing toward the body or upward: with the thumb outward (palm up), or with the big toe raised relative to the little toe.

Adjective : (figuratively) Reluctant to take action due to indifference or moral weakness; apathetic or passive towards something.

steady

Adjective : Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm.

Adjective : Constant in feeling, purpose, or pursuit; not fickle, changeable, or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded to alter a purpose; resolute.

Adjective : Smooth and not bumpy or with obstructions.

season

Noun : Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter

Noun : A part of a year when something particular happens.

Noun : A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.

streak

Noun : An irregular line left from smearing or motion.

Noun : A continuous series of like events.

Noun : A consistent facet of somebody's personality.

snarky

Adjective : (informal, often humorous) Snide and sarcastic; usually out of irritation.

Adjective : (obsolete) Irritable, irritated.

studio

Noun : An artist’s or photographer’s workshop or the room in which an artist works.

Noun : An establishment where an art is taught.

Noun : A place where radio or television programs, records or films are made.

savant

Noun : A person of learning, especially one who is versed in literature or science.

Noun : A person who is considered eminent because of their achievements.

Noun : A person with significant mental disabilities who is very gifted in one area of activity, such as playing the piano or mental arithmetic.

salmon

Noun : One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.

Noun : A meal or dish made from this fish.

Noun : (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.

solemn

Adjective : (religion, specifically Christianity) Of or pertaining to religious ceremonies and rites; (generally) religious in nature; sacred.

Adjective : (by extension)

Adjective : Characterized by or performed with appropriate or great ceremony or formality.

sacred

Adjective : Characterized by solemn religious ceremony or religious use, especially, in a positive sense; consecrated, made holy.

Adjective : Religious; relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular

Adjective : Spiritual; concerned with metaphysics.

stance

Noun : The manner, pose, or posture in which one stands.

Noun : One's opinion or point of view.

Noun : A place to stand; a position, a site, a station.

satire

Noun : (uncountable) A literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change or highlighting a shortcoming in the work of another. Imitation, humor, irony, and exaggeration are often used to aid this.

Noun : (countable) A satirical work.

Noun : (uncountable, dated) Severity of remark.

sordid

Adjective : Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible.

Adjective : Dirty or squalid.

Adjective : Morally degrading.

scrape

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.

Verb : (transitive) To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.

Verb : (transitive) To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.

symbol

Noun : A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.

Noun : A thing considered the embodiment or cardinal exemplar of a concept, theme, or other thing.

Noun : (linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index.

serene

Adjective : Calm, peaceful, unruffled.

Adjective : Without worry or anxiety; unaffected by disturbance.

Adjective : (archaic) Fair and unclouded (as of the sky); clear; unobscured.

shroud

Noun : That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

Noun : Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

Noun : That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

static

Adjective : Unchanging; that cannot or does not change.

Adjective : Making no progress; stalled, without movement or advancement.

Adjective : Immobile; fixed in place; having no motion.

summit

Noun : The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak.

Noun : The highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature.

Noun : (mathematics) A vertex of a polygon or polyhedron.

slight

Adjective : Small.

Adjective : Gentle or weak, not aggressive or powerful.

Adjective : Not thorough; superficial.

silver

Noun : (uncountable) A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag.

Noun : (collectively) Coins made from silver or any similar white metal.

Noun : (collectively) Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal.

stable

Noun : A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.

Noun : (metonymically) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.

Noun : (Scotland) A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.

shield

Noun : Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.

Noun : A broad piece of defensive armor, held in hand, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body.

Noun : (figurative) One who protects or defends.

scarce

Adjective : Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.

Adjective : Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.

Verb : (archaic, literary) Scarcely, only just.

safety

Noun : The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.

Noun : (mechanics) A mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing.

Noun : (American football) An instance of a player being sacked or tackled in the end zone, or stepping out of the end zone and off the field, resulting in two points to the opposite team.

suffer

Verb : (intransitive) To undergo hardship.

Verb : (intransitive) To feel pain.

Verb : (intransitive) To become worse.

simile

Noun : A figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, using e.g. like or as.

strait

Adjective : (archaic) Narrow; restricted as to space or room; close.

Adjective : (archaic) Righteous, strict.

Adjective : (obsolete) Tight; close; tight-fitting.

sullen

Adjective : Having a brooding ill temper; sulky.

Adjective : Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.

Adjective : Sluggish; slow.

shower

Noun : A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade).

Noun : A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.

Noun : An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.

stifle

Verb : (transitive, also figuratively) To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) death by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.

Verb : (transitive, hyperbolic) To cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling.

Verb : (transitive, also figuratively) To prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat.

segway

Noun : A motorised vehicle for one person, ridden while standing, and having two wheels on one axle that balances itself using gyroscopes and tilt sensors.

Verb : To travel by Segway.

Verb : Alternative letter-case form of Segway [To travel by Segway.]

sphere

Noun : (mathematics) A regular three-dimensional object in which every cross-section is a circle; the figure described by the revolution of a circle about its diameter .

Noun : A spherical physical object; a globe or ball.

Noun : (astronomy, now rare) The celestial sphere: the edge of the heavens, imagined as a hollow globe within which celestial bodies appear to be embedded.

sought

Adjective : being searched fo

Adjective : that is looked fo

splash

Noun : (onomatopoeia) The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.

Noun : A small amount of liquid.

Noun : A small amount (of color).

sample

Noun : A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen.

Noun : (statistics) A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.

Noun : (cooking) A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.

stolid

Adjective : Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; dully or heavily stupid.

sequel

Noun : (dated) The events, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event; the aftermath.

Noun : (narratology) A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own.

Noun : (mathematics) The remainder of the text; what follows. Used exclusively in the set phrase "in the sequel".

sundry

Adjective : More than one or two but not very many; a number of, several.

Adjective : Of various types, especially when numerous; diverse, varied.

Adjective : Consisting of an assortment of different kinds; miscellaneous.

stasis

Noun : (pathology) A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.

Noun : (figurative) Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.

Noun : (science fiction) A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.

suffix

Noun : (grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.

Noun : (mathematics) A subscript.

Noun : (computing) A final segment of a string of characters.

summer

Noun : One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as being from June 21 to September 22 or 23 in parts of the USA, the months of June, July and August in the United Kingdom and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.

Noun : (poetic or humorous) year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one.

Noun : (figuratively) Most flourishing, happy, or beautiful period; golden age, prime.

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