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7-letter words starting with s

  • safrole — a colorless or faintly yellow liquid, C 1 0 H 1 0 O 2 , obtained from sassafras oil or the like: used chiefly in perfumery, for flavoring, and in the manufacture of soaps.
  • sag rod — (in a roof) a rod for preventing the sagging of an open-web steel joist that is used as a purlin with its depth at right angles to a roof slope.
  • sagaman — someone who recites sagas
  • sagathy — a type of light, woollen fabric
  • saggard — someone who hangs helplessly
  • saggier — sagging or tending to sag: a saggy roof.
  • sagging — to sink or bend downward by weight or pressure, especially in the middle: The roof sags.
  • saginaw — a port in E Michigan, on the Saginaw River.
  • sagitta — a small constellation in the N hemisphere lying between Cygnus and Aquila and crossed by the Milky Way
  • saguaro — a tall, horizontally branched cactus, Carnegiea (or Cereus) gigantea, of Arizona and neighboring regions, yielding a useful wood and bearing an edible fruit: still locally common, though some populations have been reduced.
  • sagunto — a city in E Spain, N of Valencia: besieged by Hannibal 219–218 b.c.
  • saharan — a desert in N Africa, extending from the Atlantic to the Nile valley. About 3,500,000 sq. mi. (9,065,000 sq. km).
  • sahiwal — a breed of cattle in India
  • sail in — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
  • sailing — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
  • saimiri — a small South American squirrel-monkey of the genus Chrysothrix (formerly Saimiris)
  • sainted — enrolled among the saints.
  • saintlo — a department in NW France. 2476 sq. mi. (6413 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Lô.
  • saintly — pertaining to, like, or befitting a saint: saintly lives.
  • saionji — Kimmochi [keem-maw-chee] /ˈkim mɔˌtʃi/ (Show IPA), 1849–1940, Japanese statesman.
  • sakeret — the male saker
  • sakkara — a village in S Egypt, S of Cairo: site of the necropolis of ancient Memphis; step pyramids; mastabas.
  • sakmann — Bert(old) [ber-tawlt] /ˈbɛr tɔlt/ (Show IPA), born 1942, German physiologist: Nobel prize 1991.
  • saktism — Shaktism.
  • salable — subject to or suitable for sale; readily sold: The books were sent back by the store in salable condition.
  • saladin — (Salāh-ed-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb) 1137–93, sultan of Egypt and Syria 1175–93: opponent of Crusaders.
  • salamis — a kind of sausage, originally Italian, often flavored with garlic.
  • salamon — a word used in taking oaths
  • salavat — a city in the Bashkir Autonomous Republic, in the SW Russian Federation in Asia, S of Ufa.
  • salazar — Antonio de Oliveira [ahn-taw-nyoo duh aw-lee-vey-ruh] /ɑ̃ˈtɔ nyʊ də ˌɔ liˈveɪ rə/ (Show IPA), 1889–1970, premier of Portugal 1933–68.
  • salband — a coating of a mineral
  • salchow — a jump in which the skater leaps from the back inside edge of one skate, making one full rotation of the body in the air, and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate.
  • salerno — a seaport in SW Italy: taken by U.S. forces September 1943.
  • salfern — a European branching plant of the borage family
  • salford — a city in Greater Manchester, in N England.
  • salicin — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble glucoside, C 1 3 H 1 8 O 7 , obtained from the bark of the American aspen: used in medicine chiefly as an antipyretic and analgesic.
  • salient — prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.
  • salieri — Antonio [an-toh-nee-oh;; Italian ahn-taw-nyaw] /ænˈtoʊ ni oʊ;; Italian ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1750–1825, Italian composer and conductor.
  • saligot — the water chestnut, Trapa natans
  • salinas — a city in central Kansas.
  • salique — Salic.
  • salival — salivary
  • sallied — a sortie of troops from a besieged place upon an enemy.
  • sallowy — full of sallows: a sallowy glade.
  • sallust — (Caius Sallustius Crispus) 86–34 b.c, Roman historian.
  • salmond — Alex(ander Elliot Anderson). born 1954, Scottish Nationalist politician; first minister of the Scottish Parliament (2007–2014)
  • salmony — like salmon
  • salomon — Haym [hahym] /haɪm/ (Show IPA), 1740?–85, American financier and patriot, born in Poland.
  • salpinx — a trumpet-shaped tube, as a Fallopian or Eustachian tube.
  • salsify — a purple-flowered, composite plant, Tragopogon porrifolius, whose root has an oyster-like flavor and is used as a culinary vegetable.
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