6-letter words starting with s
- sateen — a strong cotton fabric constructed in satin weave and having a lustrous face.
- sather — (language) /Say-ther/ (Named after the Sather Tower at UCB, as opposed to the Eiffel Tower). An interactive object-oriented language designed by Steve M. Omohundro at ICSI in 1991. Sather has simple syntax, similar to Eiffel, but it is non-proprietary and faster. Sather 0.2 was nearly a subset of Eiffel 2.0, but Sather 1.0 adds many distinctive features: parameterised classes, multiple inheritance, statically-checked strong typing, garbage collection. The compiler generates C as an intermediate language. There are versions for most workstations. Sather attempts to retain much of Eiffel's theoretical cleanliness and simplicity while achieving the efficiency of C++. The compiler generates efficient and portable C code which is easily integrated with existing code. A variety of development tools including a debugger and browser based on gdb and a GNU Emacs development environment have also been written. There is also a class library with several hundred classes that implement a variety of basic data structures and numerical, geometric, connectionist, statistical, and graphical abstractions. The authors would like to encourage contributions to the library and hope to build a large collection of efficient, well-written, well-tested classes in a variety of areas of computer science. Sather runs on Sun-4, HP9000/300, Decstation 5000, MIPS, Sony News 3000, Sequent/Dynix, SCO SysVR3.2, NeXT, Linux. See also dpSather, pSather, Sather-K. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Mailing list: [email protected]
- sating — to satisfy (any appetite or desire) fully.
- satiny — satinlike; smooth; glossy.
- satire — the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
- sative — cultivated or sown as opposed to wild
- satnav — Satnav is a system that uses information from satellites to find the best way of getting to a place. It is often found in cars. Satnav is an abbreviation for 'satellite navigation'.
- satori — sudden enlightenment.
- satrap — a governor of a province under the ancient Persian monarchy.
- sattva — (in Sankhya and Vedantic philosophy) one of the three qualities of prakriti, or nature, which are passion (rajas) dullness or inertia (tamas) and goodness or purity (sattva)
- saturn — an ancient Roman god of agriculture, the consort of Ops, believed to have ruled the earth during an age of happiness and virtue, identified with the Greek god Cronus.
- satyra — a female satyr
- sauced — intoxicated; drunk.
- saucer — a small, round, shallow dish to hold a cup.
- sauger — a freshwater, North American pikeperch, Stizostedion canadense.
- saughy — made of willow; full of willows
- saugus — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- saulie — a hired professional mourner at a funeral
- sauncy — sonsy.
- saurel — any of several elongated marine fishes of the genus Trachurus, having bony plates along each side.
- sauro- — lizard
- savage — fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed: savage beasts.
- savaii — an island in Western Samoa: largest of the Samoa group. 703 sq. mi. (1821 sq. km).
- savant — a person of profound or extensive learning; learned scholar.
- savate — a sport resembling boxing but permitting blows to be delivered with the feet as well as the hands.
- savery — Thomas. ?1650–1715, English engineer, who built (1698) the first practical steam engine, used to pump water from mines
- savine — a juniper, Juniperus sabina, of Europe and Asia.
- saving — tending or serving to save; rescuing; preserving.
- savior — a person who saves, rescues, or delivers: the savior of the country.
- savoie — a department in E France. 2389 sq. mi. (6185 sq. km). Capital: Chambéry.
- savona — a city in N Italy on the Mediterranean.
- savors — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell.
- savory — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
- savour — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell.
- sawder — flattery; compliments (esp in the phrase soft sawder)
- sawfly — any of numerous hymenopterous insects of the family Tenthredinidae, the female of which has a sawlike ovipositor for inserting the eggs in the tissues of a host plant.
- sawing — a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth.
- sawlog — a log large enough to be suitable for sawing or making into lumber
- sawney — a fool
- sawyer — a person who saws wood, especially as an occupation.
- saxaul — an Asian shrub with spongy bark and small leaves, Holoxylon Ammodendron
- saxony — a state in E central Germany. 6561 sq. mi. (16,990 sq. km). Capital: Dresden.
- say-so — one's personal statement or assertion.
- sayers — Dorothy L(eigh) 1893–1957, English novelist, essayist, and dramatist.
- sayest — 2nd person singular of say1 .
- saying — what a person says or has to say.
- sayyid — (in Islamic countries) a supposed descendant of Muhammad through his grandson Hussein, the second son of his daughter Fatima.
- sazhen — an obsolete Russian measure of length equivalent to 7 feet or 2.1336 m
- sbirro — a police officer in Italy
- scabby — covered with scabs; having many scabs.