7-letter words starting with s
- sauteed — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- sautoir — a ribbon, chain, scarf, or the like, tied around the neck in such a manner that the ends cross over each other.
- savable — to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.
- savages — fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed: savage beasts.
- savanna — a plain characterized by coarse grasses and scattered tree growth, especially on the margins of the tropics where the rainfall is seasonal, as in eastern Africa.
- savarin — a spongelike cake leavened with yeast, baked in a ring mold, and often soaked with a rum syrup.
- save as — (editor, programming, storage) A variant of save that saves the current document in an alternative format.
- save up — put money aside
- saveloy — a highly seasoned, dried sausage.
- savigny — Friedrich Karl von (ˈfridrɪç ˈkɑl fɔn). 1779–1861, German legal scholar, who pioneered the historical approach to jurisprudence, emphasizing custom and precedent
- savings — tending or serving to save; rescuing; preserving.
- saviour — a person who saves, rescues, or delivers: the savior of the country.
- savored — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell.
- savoury — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
- savvier — experienced, knowledgable, and well-informed; shrewd (often used in combination): consumers who are savvy about prices; a tech-savvy entrepreneur.
- savvies — experienced, knowledgable, and well-informed; shrewd (often used in combination): consumers who are savvy about prices; a tech-savvy entrepreneur.
- savvily — in a savvy manner
- saw log — a log large enough to saw into boards.
- saw off — to perceive with the eyes; look at.
- saw pit — a place for pit sawing.
- saw set — an instrument used to bend out slightly the point of each alternate tooth of a saw so that the kerf made by the saw will be wider than its blade.
- saw-off — to perceive with the eyes; look at.
- saw-pit — a place for pit sawing.
- sawatch — a mountain range in central Colorado: part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Elbert, 14,431 feet (4400 meters).
- sawbill — any of various hummingbirds of the genus Ramphodon
- sawbuck — a ten-dollar bill.
- sawdust — small particles of wood produced in sawing.
- sawfish — a large, elongated ray of the genus Pristis, living along tropical coasts and lowland rivers, with a bladelike snout bearing strong teeth on each side.
- sawmill — a place or building in which timber is sawed into planks, boards, etc., by machinery.
- saxhorn — any of a family of brass instruments close to the cornets and tubas.
- saxtuba — a large bass saxhorn.
- sayable — of the sort that can be said or spoken; utterable: He felt a great deal that was not sayable.
- sayings — something said, especially a proverb or apothegm.
- sazerac — a mixed drink of whisky, Pernod, syrup, bitters, and lemon
- scabbed — covered with or affected by scabs.
- scabble — to shape or dress (stone) roughly.
- scabies — a contagious skin disease occurring especially in sheep and cattle and also in humans, caused by the itch mite, Sarcoptes scabiei, which burrows under the skin. Compare itch (def 10), mange.
- scabrid — having a rough or scaly surface
- scaglia — a type of reddish limestone found in Italy
- scalade — escalade.
- scalage — an assessed percentage deduction, as in weight or price, granted in dealings with goods that are likely to shrink, leak, or otherwise vary in the amount or weight originally stated.
- scalare — any of three deep-bodied, cichlid fishes, Pterophyllum scalare, P. altum, and P. eimekei, inhabiting northern South American rivers, often kept in aquariums.
- scalene — Geometry. (of a cone or the like) having the axis inclined to the base. (of a triangle) having three unequal sides.
- scaleup — an increase in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaleup of an engineering design; a scaleup program of energy conservation.
- scaling — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- scallop — any of the bivalve mollusks of the genus Argopecten (Pecten) and related genera that swim by rapidly clapping the fluted shell valves together.
- scalped — the integument of the upper part of the head, usually including the associated subcutaneous structures.
- scalpel — a small, light, usually straight knife used in surgical and anatomical operations and dissections.
- scalper — the integument of the upper part of the head, usually including the associated subcutaneous structures.
- scamble — a long bench used in a farm kitchen