7 Letter Words That Start With S

snicker

Noun : A stifled or broken laugh.

Verb : (intransitive) To emit a snicker, a stifled or broken laugh.

Verb : (transitive) To utter through a laugh of this kind.

salient

Adjective : Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.

Adjective : Prominent; conspicuous.

Adjective : (heraldry, usually of a quadruped) Depicted in a leaping posture.

saunter

Verb : (intransitive) To stroll, or walk at a leisurely pace.

Noun : A leisurely walk or stroll.

Noun : A leisurely pace.

stygian

Adjective : (literary) Dark and gloomy.

Adjective : (literary) Infernal or hellish.

Adjective : (vision, of a perceived color) Having a luminosity below 0%.

subdued

Adjective : Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive.

Adjective : Not glaring in color; soft and light in tone.

Adjective : Reduced in intensity or strength; toned down.

snigger

Noun : (chiefly UK, Ireland) A partly suppressed or broken laugh.

Noun : (chiefly UK, Ireland) A sly or snide laugh.

Verb : (intransitive, chiefly UK, Ireland) To emit a snigger.

surmise

Noun : Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.

Noun : Reflection; thought; posit.

Verb : (intransitive) To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises.

scourge

Noun : (weaponry, chiefly historical) A whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash.

Noun : (figurative)

Noun : A person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment.

sustain

Verb : (transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.

Verb : (transitive) To provide for or nourish.

Verb : (transitive) To encourage or sanction (something).

steward

Noun : A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity.

Noun : (historical) A chief administrator of a medieval manor.

Noun : (nautical) A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.

specter

Noun : A ghostly apparition, a phantom. [from 17th c.]

Noun : (figuratively) A threatening mental image; an unpleasant prospect [from 18th c.]

Noun : (entomology) Any of certain species of dragonfly of the genus Boyeria, family Aeshnidae. [from 20th c.]

support

Verb : (transitive) To help keep from falling.

Verb : (transitive) To back or favor a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.

Verb : (transitive) To help, particularly financially; to subsidize.

smitten

Adjective : Affected by an act of smiting.

Adjective : Made irrationally enthusiastic.

Adjective : In love.

sublime

Verb : (transitive)

Verb : (chemistry) Synonym of sublimate

Verb : To heat (a substance) in a container so as to convert it into a gas which then condenses in solid form on cooler parts of the container; (generally) to change (a solid substance) into a gas without breaking down or passing through the liquid state by heating it gently.

synergy

Noun : (systems theory) A synonym of binding energy.

Noun : (physiology) The cooperation of two or more nerves, muscles, organs, etc.

Noun : (pharmacology) The combined action of two or more drugs where the effects are stronger than their mere sum.

subject

Adjective : Likely to be affected by or to experience something.

Adjective : Conditional upon something; used with to.

Adjective : Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.

staunch

Adjective : Not permitting water or some other liquid to escape or penetrate; watertight.

Adjective : (by extension) Impermeable to air or other gases; airtight.

Adjective : Strongly built; also, in good or strong condition.

shuffle

Noun : The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.

Noun : The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.

Noun : An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.

stellar

Adjective : (astronomy, not comparable) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of stars.

Adjective : Heavenly.

Adjective : (by extension) Exceptional, exceptionally good.

stagger

Noun : An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.

Noun : (veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.

Noun : Bewilderment; perplexity.

sensual

Adjective : Inducing pleasurable or erotic sensations.

Adjective : Of or pertaining to the physical senses; sensory.

Adjective : Provoking or exciting a strong response in the senses.

solicit

Verb : (transitive) To persistently endeavor to obtain an object, or bring about an event.

Verb : (transitive) To woo; to court.

Verb : (transitive) To persuade or incite one to commit some act, especially illegal or sexual behavior.

sojourn

Noun : A short stay somewhere.

Noun : A temporary residence.

Verb : (intransitive) To reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.

sapless

Adjective : (of a plant) Lacking in sap.

Adjective : (figuratively, of a person etc.) Lacking vivacity.

serious

Adjective : Without humor or expression of happiness; grave in manner or disposition

Adjective : Important; weighty; not insignificant

Adjective : Really intending what is said (or planned, etc); in earnest; not jocular or deceiving

strange

Adjective : Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.

Adjective : Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.

Adjective : (slang, of sex, genitals, etc) Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar.

sincere

Adjective : Genuine; meaning what one says or does; heartfelt.

Adjective : Meant truly or earnestly.

Adjective : (archaic) clean; pure

stunned

Adjective : Unable to act or respond; dazed; shocked.

succour

Noun : (uncountable) Aid, assistance, or relief given to one in distress; ministration.

Noun : (uncountable, military) Aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers, especially reinforcements sent to support military action.

Noun : (uncountable, obsolete except dialectal) Protection, refuge, shelter; (countable) a place providing such protection, refuge or shelter.

stumble

Noun : A fall, trip or substantial misstep.

Noun : An error or blunder.

Noun : A clumsy walk.

squelch

Verb : (transitive, US) To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force.

Verb : (transitive, radio technology) To suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength.

Verb : (intransitive, British) To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.

skilled

Adjective : Having or showing skill; skillful.

Adjective : Requiring special abilities or training.

slender

Adjective : Thin; slim.

Adjective : (figurative) meagre; deficient

Adjective : (Gaelic languages) Palatalized.

sapient

Adjective : Attempting to appear wise or discerning.

Adjective : (dated) Possessing wisdom and discernment; wise, learned.

Adjective : (chiefly science fiction) Of a species or life-form, possessing intelligence or a high degree of self-awareness.

stately

Adjective : (of people) Worthy of respect; dignified, regal.

Adjective : (of movement) Deliberate, unhurried; dignified.

Adjective : Grand; impressive; imposing.

swiftly

Verb : In a swift manner; quickly; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly.

shallow

Adjective : Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.

Adjective : Extending not far downward.

Adjective : Concerned mainly with superficial matters.

surfeit

Adjective : (archaic) Sated; surfeited; filled.

Noun : (countable) An excessive amount of something.

Noun : (uncountable) Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.

somatic

Adjective : Part of, or relating to the body of an organism.

Adjective : Pertaining, and restricted, to an individual; not inheritable.

Adjective : Of or relating to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal.

scamper

Noun : A quick, light run.

Verb : (intransitive) To run lightly and quickly, especially in a playful or undignified manner.

Noun : One who skimps or does slipshod work.

spectre

Noun : British standard spelling of specter.

subvert

Verb : (transitive) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.

Verb : (transitive) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.

Verb : (transitive) To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).

scowled

Noun : The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.

Noun : (by extension) Gloom; dark or threatening aspect.

Verb : (intransitive) To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.

scuttle

Noun : A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).

Noun : A broad, shallow basket.

Noun : (obsolete, Northern England and Scotland) A dish, platter or a trencher.

scholar

Noun : A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.

Noun : A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.

Noun : A learned person; a bookman.

subsist

Verb : To survive on a minimum of resources.

Verb : (chiefly philosophy) To have ontological reality; to exist.

Verb : To retain a certain state; to continue.

skitter

Verb : (intransitive) To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry; to scuttle.

Verb : (intransitive) To make a scratching or scuttling noise while, or as if, skittering.

Verb : (transitive) To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip, to skite.

spurred

Adjective : Wearing spurs.

Adjective : Furnished with a spur or spurs; having shoots like spurs.

Adjective : Affected with spur, or ergot.

sullied

Adjective : defiled or tainted, soiled or stained.

society

Noun : (countable) A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.

Noun : (countable) A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization.

Noun : (countable) The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals.

sterile

Adjective : (not comparable) Unable to reproduce (or procreate).

Adjective : (figurative) Terse; lacking sentiment or emotional stimulation, as in a manner of speaking.

Adjective : (figurative) Fruitless, uninspiring, or unproductive.

scuffle

Noun : A rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters.

Noun : (slang) Poverty; struggle.

Noun : (archaic) A child's pinafore or bib.

sinuous

Adjective : Having curves in alternate directions; meandering.

Adjective : Moving gracefully and in a supple manner.

Adjective : (figurative) Morally crooked; shifty.

succumb

Verb : (intransitive) To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.

Verb : (intransitive) To give up, or give in.

Verb : (intransitive, euphemistic) To die.

sputter

Noun : Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles.

Noun : Confused and hasty speech.

Verb : (intransitive) To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.

salvage

Noun : The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation.

Noun : The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.

Noun : The compensation paid to the rescuers.

slander

Noun : A false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken, not written), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement.

Verb : To utter a slanderous statement about; baselessly speak ill of; to wrong.

suspect

Verb : (transitive) To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.

Verb : (transitive) To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).

Verb : (transitive) To believe (someone) to be guilty.

shudder

Verb : (intransitive) To shake nervously, often from fear or horror.

Verb : (intransitive) To vibrate jerkily.

Noun : A shivering tremor, often from fear or horror.

servile

Adjective : Excessively eager to please; obsequious.

Adjective : Slavish or submissive.

Adjective : Of or pertaining to a slave.

swarthy

Adjective : Tawny, dusky, dark.

Adjective : (somewhat derogatory) Dark-skinned; black.

Adjective : Darker-skinned than white, but lighter-skinned than tawny; tan.

scumbag

Noun : (slang, vulgar, dated) A condom.

Noun : (informal, mildly vulgar) A sleazy, disreputable or despicable person; lowlife.

sneered

Verb : (intransitive) To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn.

Verb : (transitive) To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to say sneeringly.

Noun : A facial expression where one slightly raises one corner of the upper lip, generally indicating scorn.

squeeze

Verb : (transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.

Verb : (transitive) To embrace closely; to give a tight hug to.

Verb : (ambitransitive) To fit into a tight place.

swagger

Verb : To behave (especially to walk or carry oneself) in a pompous, superior manner.

Verb : To boast or brag noisily; to bluster; to bully.

Verb : To walk with a swaying motion.

sanctum

Noun : A place set apart, as with a sanctum sanctorum; a sacred or private place; a private retreat or workroom.

shadowy

Adjective : In shadow; darkened by shadows.

Adjective : (of character) Dark, obscure.

Adjective : (figurative) Vague, dim, unclear, faint of an image.

surreal

Adjective : Resembling a dream: fantastic and incongruous.

Noun : (mathematics) surreal number

scorned

Adjective : Hated, despised, or avoided.

secular

Adjective : Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical; profane.

Adjective : Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.

Adjective : (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.

spartan

Adjective : Austere, frugal, characterized by self-denial.

Adjective : Resolute in the face of danger or adversity.

Adjective : Lacking in decoration and luxury.

snarled

Adjective : tangled in knots or snarl

surplus

Noun : That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus; overage.

Noun : Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.

Noun : (law) The remainder of a fund appropriated for a particular purpose.

stammer

Verb : (intransitive) To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech.

Verb : (transitive) To utter with a stammer, or with timid hesitancy.

Noun : The involuntary repetition of a sound in speech.

special

Adjective : Distinguished by a unique or unusual quality.

Adjective : Of particular value or interest; dear; beloved.

Adjective : (euphemistic) Of or related to disabilities, especially learning or intellectual disabilities.

syncope

Noun : (linguistics, phonology, prosody) The elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable.

Noun : (biology, medicine) A loss of consciousness when someone faints.

Noun : (music) A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.

seminal

Adjective : Of or relating to seed or semen.

Adjective : Creative or having the power to originate.

Adjective : Highly influential, especially in some original way, and providing a basis for future development or research.

several

Adjective : (obsolete) Separate, distinct; particular.

Adjective : A number of different; various.

Adjective : (law) Separable, capable of being treated separately.

scandal

Noun : An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.

Noun : Damage to one's reputation.

Noun : Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.

satiate

Verb : (transitive) To fill to satisfaction; to satisfy.

Verb : (transitive) To satisfy to excess. To fill to satiety.

Adjective : (rare) Filled to satisfaction or to excess; satiated, satisfied.

swindle

Verb : (transitive) To defraud.

Verb : (ambitransitive) To obtain (money or property) by fraudulent or deceitful methods.

Verb : (chess) For a player in a losing position to play a clever move that provokes an error from the opponent, thus achieving a win or a draw.

surpass

Verb : (transitive) To go beyond or exceed (something) in an adjudicative or literal sense.

searing

Adjective : very hot; blistering or boiling

Adjective : (of a pain) having a sensation of intense sudden heat

Adjective : (figuratively) unbearably intense or emotionally powerful

snickle

Noun : (dialect) Suppressed or sly laughter; snigger.

Verb : (intransitive, dialect) To laugh at someone or something

Noun : (dialect) A noose or snare made using a slip knot.

spindle

Noun : (spinning) A rod used for spinning and then winding fibres (especially wool), usually consisting of a shaft and a circular whorl positioned at either the upper or lower end of the shaft when suspended vertically from the forming thread.

Noun : A rod which turns, or on which something turns.

Noun : A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.

setback

Noun : An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, or blow (an adverse event which slows down, or prevents progress towards a desired outcome).

Noun : (by extension) Any adverse event, defeat, or impediment of progress.

Noun : (US) The required distance between a structure and a road.

stridor

Noun : A harsh, shrill, unpleasant noise.

Noun : (medicine) A high-pitched sound heard on inspiration resulting from turbulent air flow in the upper airway usually indicative of serious airway obstruction.

squinch

Noun : (architecture) A structure constructed between two adjacent walls to aid in the transition from a polygonal to a circular structure, as when a dome is constructed on top of a square room.

Verb : (transitive) To scrunch up (one's face, etc.).

stylish

Adjective : Having style.

Adjective : Having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress.

Adjective : (film) Having a particular directing style or cinematography.

scraggy

Adjective : Rough and irregular; jagged.

Adjective : Lean or thin, scrawny.

snapped

Noun : an American true crime television series produced by Jupiter Entertainment which depicts high profile or bizarre cases of women accused of murder.

service

Noun : An act of being of assistance to someone.

Noun : The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group.

Noun : (elliptical, uncountable) Work as a member of the military.

soldier

Noun : A member of a ground-based army, of any rank, but especially an enlisted member.

Noun : (by extension, nonstandard) Any member of a military, regardless of specialty.

Noun : An enlisted member of a military service, as distinguished from a commissioned officer.

summary

Adjective : Concise, brief, or presented in a condensed form; presenting information in such a form.

Adjective : Performed speedily, without formal ceremony, and (especially) without regard to legality.

Adjective : (law) Performed by omitting the procedures of a full trial, but within a legally valid framework.

similar

Adjective : Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, allied, comparable.

Adjective : (mathematics) Having the same shape, in particular, having corresponding angles equal and corresponding line segments proportional.

Adjective : (mathematics, linear algebra) Of two square matrices; being such that a conjugation sends one matrix to the other.

succeed

Verb : (transitive) To follow something in sequence or time.

Verb : (transitive) To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title.

Verb : (intransitive) To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; (often with to).

shelter

Noun : A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.

Noun : An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women, etc.

Verb : (transitive) To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.

supreme

Adjective : Dominant, having power over all others.

Adjective : (sometimes postpositive) Greatest, most excellent, extreme, most superior, highest, or utmost.

Adjective : (botany) Situated at the highest part or point.

startle

Verb : (intransitive) To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.

Verb : (transitive) To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To deter; to cause to deviate.

sophist

Noun : One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece.

Noun : (figurative) A teacher who uses plausible but fallacious reasoning.

Noun : (figurative, by extension) One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument.

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