14-letter words starting with sa
- saphenous vein — either of two large veins near the surface of the foot, leg, and thigh, one on the inner side and the other on the outer and posterior sides.
- saponification — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
- saratoga trunk — a type of large traveling trunk used mainly by women during the 19th century.
- sarcocarcinoma — carcinosarcoma.
- sarit thanarat — 1908–63, Thai statesman: premier 1952–63.
- sat-cit-ananda — reality, seen through the discovery of Brahman as sat or ultimate being, cit or pure consciousness, and ananda or perfect bliss.
- satellite city — new town.
- satellite dish — dish (def 8).
- satellite link — a link between a transmitting station and a receiving station via an artificial satellite
- satisfactional — an act of satisfying; fulfillment; gratification.
- satisfactorily — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
- saturated fats — a type of single-bond animal or vegetable fat, as that found in butter, meat, egg yolks, and coconut or palm oil, that in humans tends to increase cholesterol levels in the blood. Compare saturated (def 3).
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- saut de basque — a jump in which the dancer turns in the air while keeping the foot of one leg drawn up to the knee of the other.
- sauve qui peut — a state of panic or disorder; rout
- savanna monkey — any of several common, closely allied long-tailed monkeys of African savannas ranging from Senegal to South Africa, including the green monkey, grivet, tantalus, and vervet, which are sometimes considered subspecies and classified together as Cercopithecus aethiops.
- savi's warbler — a type of warbler; Locustella luscinioides.
- saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
- saxe-meiningen — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
- saxifragaceous — belonging to the plant family Saxifragaceae.